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Collected Writings of Friends House Residents

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-225

Scope and Contents

Contains writings of residents of Friends House, a Quaker retirement home in Sandy Spring, Md., and Haviland Hall, its nursing home extension. The majority were typed and collected between 1980 and 1994 by Margaret P. Apgar who was a resident of the House, and most of the authors represented were Quakers.

Organization: Three series: 1. Gleanings, published in-house, 2, Margaret Apgar’s notebooks with additional miscellaneous writing; 3. Other writings and collected works by residents, arranged alphabetically.

Dates

  • 1980-1995

Creator

Limitations on Accessing the Collection

Collection is open for research.

Copyright and Rights Information

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Biographical / Historical

Friends House is a Quaker retirement home in Sandy Spring, Md., which opened in 1961 under the sponsorship of Baltimore Yearly Meeting. Friends Nursing Home, Inc., was established as an extension of the retirement home; Haviland Hall is the assisted living facility of the Nursing Home.

Margaret P. Apgar was a resident Friends House. She co-edited the Friends House Newsletter and typed and edited writings of residents. A selection were published in-house in six volumes under the title of Gleanings. The writings were initiated by a Friends House Writers Workshop held in 1980 which in turn inspired a Writers Group wherein residents shared more of their memories and writings.

Margaret Apgar left Friends House in 1991 after sixteen years, and returned in 2001. Her notebooks include additional works by the residents of Friends House and Haviland Hall, including works by Grace Yaukey who published under the name of Cornelia Spencer, Margaret Wells Steer, Grace Nesbitt, and Margaret Birckhead.

Extent

1 Linear Feet (2 boxes)

Language

English

Overview

Contains collected writings of residents of Friends House, a Quaker retirement home in Sandy Spring, Md., and Haviland Hall, its nursing home extension. Margaret P. Apgar collected, typed and edited the writings between 1980 and 1994. The collection includes Gleanings, the published collection of residents’ work in six volumes, and additional writings by individuals including by Grace Yaukey who published under the name of Cornelia Spencer, Margaret Wells Steer, Grace Nesbitt, and Margaret Birckhead.

Physical Location

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Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gift, Margaret P. Apgar, 1996

Gift, Pamela Apgar, 1999

Immediate Source of Acquisition

This collection was assembled by Margaret Apgar, editor of the newsletter of Friends House, Maryland, and of Gleanings, six volumes of collected writings of the residents of the retirement home. In December, 1999, Pamela Apgar, Margaret's daughter, donated additional works of Mary Birckhead which were collected by her mother.

Related Materials

Birckhead, Mary B., Papers, 1959-1991, 1985-1991, SC 163

Steer, Margery Wells, Dear grandparents : letters from around the world. Ardmore, Pa. : Dorrance, c1981.

Steer, Margery Wells, The View in Winter. Southbound Press, 1992.

Nesbitt, Martha C., Chronicles of Sandy Spring Friends meeting and environs / by Martha C. Nesbitt and Mary Reading Miller, et al. ; drawings and maps by John Weske. Sandy Spring, Md. : Sandy Spring Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends, 1987.

Separated Materials

Steer, Margery Wells, The View in Winter. Southbound Press, 1992. Transferred to FHL books.

Friends House Letter, Vols. 1-15, transferred to FHL Serial Group 1.

Processing Information

Duplicates were removed and the full set of Friends House Newsletter transferred to FHL Serial Group 1. Writings by individual authors arranged alphabetically. Individual manuscript items sent by Mary Birckhead to Larry and Margaret Apgar and received from Martha Nesbitt (1999) added to the other papers by Mary Birckhead.

Title
Margaret P. Apgar. Collected Writings of Friends House Residents, 1980-1995
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin
Language of description note
English

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