George Fox papers

This collection includes letters (letters, manuscript copies, facsimiles, photocopies), portraits, photographs, illustrations, articles, clippings, pamphlets, and a map concerning the life and times of George Fox. It includes an autographed copy of Epistle to the King (1660) and Epistle to King and Parliament (1661); manuscript copies (some contemporary) of other Fox letters includes Epistle (1675) to Friends in America, letters (1679, 1683) to Peter Hendricks (1683 letter in hand of scribe, Mark Swanner), Epistles (1667, 1669) to Friends, and Epistle (1673) to Women's Meetings; and manuscript copies of Sermon of 1680. Other manuscript material includes a manuscript copy of an undated Epistle apparently challenging all dissenting bodies to submit their claims to Quaker test, and fragments of Fox's handwriting including lines written in Hebrew. Topics covered include Fox's itinerary of his trip to America, the Dutch Bible Fox carried with him on his trip to Holland in 1677, pictures of places associated with Fox, birthplace, funeral, and grave of Fox. Includes material from the George Fox tercentenary of 1924 (on the 300th anniversary of his birth).