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manuscripts (documents)

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus

Found in 245 Collections and/or Records:

"An Account of a Religious Visit, Made by Hannah Hall"

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-07-133
Overview

This manuscript, written by Joshua Maule, describes Hannah Hall's religious visit to England, Scotland, and Ireland. The manuscript describes her trip, including details of her travel, meetings attended, and Quaker families visited. The volume includes extracts of some of Hall's letters.

Dates: 1872-1873
Found in: Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections

Stephen Meader manuscripts

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-950-126
Overview

The collection includes three unpublished stories: "The Fight for the Marsh," "The Freedom Trail," and "The Hawley House Mystery."

Dates: 1972, undated
Found in: Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections

“The Quakers and the American Revolution”

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-07-112
Overview Arthur Mekeel's manuscript includes the following chapters: The Quakers in America in the eighteenth Century, The Problems of empire, The Quakers Take Alarm, The Breakdown of Non-Importation and the Challenge to Quaker Policy, The Tea Crisis and Its Sequel, The Quakers Cast Their Lot, Conciliation Efforts of the British Quakers, The First Year of War, the Quakers under the New Order, Suspicion of Quaker Treachery and the Virginia Exiles, The Later Years of the War in Pennsylvania, New Jersey...
Dates: Undated.
Found in: Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections

Machteld J. Mellink papers

 Collection
Identifier: BMC-2010-01
Overview Machteld Johanna Mellink, celebrated archaeologist and professor of archaeology at Bryn Mawr College from 1949 to 1988, was born in Amsterdam, Holland in 1917. She received her BA in 1938 and MA in 1941 from the University of Amsterdam, and her PhD from the University of Utrecht in 1943. The Machteld Mellink papers cover Professor Mellink’s academic and archaeological career from the late 1950s to the early 2000s. Included in the collection are her writings and notes,...
Dates: 1938 - 2006; Majority of material found within 1958 - 2001
Found in: Bryn Mawr College

"Some Memorandums respecting my beloved wife Margery Mickle"

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-07-065
Overview The memorandum written by Margery Mickle's husband (name unknown) recounts Mickle's illness with "tumorous pollypus" in the corner of her right eye and her nose. Her husband writes about the series of operations she underwent to remove the tumors, the re-emergence of the tumors after a number of operations, and the doctor's recommendation that they remove her right eye. The manuscript describes Mickle's decision not to undergo the operation to remove her eye, and recounts her final days,...
Dates: 1809
Found in: Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections

Miscellaneous

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-951-09
Overview

This collection is comprised of single folder collections of miscellaneous Quaker materials from the Haverford College Quaker collection.

Dates: 1657-1969, undated
Found in: Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections

"The Literature of the American Quaker before 1825"

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-07-066
Overview

Robert H. Morgan's dissertation focuses on Quaker ideals and principles, as well as Quakers' reactions to contemporary life as exhibited through Quaker literature prior to 1825.

Dates: 1939
Found in: Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections

Morley-Cain papers

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-809
Overview This collection includes correspondence and manuscripts.The correspondence consists of two series: one business, the other personal. The former series is composed chiefly of letters from Christopher Morley. Many are letters of thanks for correspondence as well as about manuscripts sent to him for publishing in his "Bowling Green" column or other publications. The business correspondence was on acidic, crumbling paper and has been photocopied onto acid-free paper.The...
Dates: 1935 - 1957
Found in: Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections

Morris Family papers

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1008
Overview

The papers of two prominent Philadelphia Quaker families, Morris and Sansom, spanning more than two centuries, from the colonial period into the 20th century. Topics include cultural and religious life and social and economic development.

Dates: 1715-1925
Found in: Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections

"Essays in Prose and Verse"

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-07-068
Overview According to the note on the inside cover of "Essays in Prose and Verse," the essays and poetry inside were written by Samuel Morris when he was 13, and again later when he was a student at Haverford College in 1843. This volume is a copy of the original, and is copied by Beulah S. Morris, who wrote this copy as a gift for her father, on his 55th birthday, in 1846. The volume is largely comprised of poetry, but also includes short stories and personal essays related to family, nature,...
Dates: 1840-1844
Found in: Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections
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Bryn Mawr College Special Collections
Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections