Quakers -- History
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 592 Collections and/or Records:
Wilmer A. Cooper manuscripts
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-07-025
Scope and Content note
This collection is composed of the two volumes of manuscripts by Wilmer A. Cooper, and includes his Master's thesis for Haverford College and a paper written while at Yale University Divinity School.
Dates:
1948-1950
Cope-Collins-Morris papers
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-950-046
Scope and Content note
This collection is comprised of the correspondence, prints, and legal papers of three Quaker families, Cope, Collins, and Morris. It primarily includes letters by Mary Ann Cope Morris and letters to Eliza Cope Collins; including the letter of the latter's husband William Morris describing cholera epidemic in Philadelphia, as well as abolitionist activity, Philadelphia Quaker life, Yearly Meetings and a trip through an Oneida Indian village with details about life there. In addition, there are...
Dates:
1834-1878
Cope family correspondence
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-950-043
Scope and Content note
This collection is comprised of the correspondence of the Cope family.
Dates:
1833-1855
Cope family financial records
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-08-005
Scope and Content note
This collection is comprised of four volumes of the Cope family's financial records, including an account book, a Pennsylvania bank account book, and two family cash books. The collection includes both business and personal financial records.
Dates:
1789-1883
Gilbert Cope papers
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-950-044
Scope and Content note
This collection is comprised of the typed diary transcript of entries dated 1869, as well as the Genealogy of Kirk-Price and Cox-Garrett ancestors, and miscellaneous notes pertaining to the Gilbert Cope foundation of genealogy and historical research.
Dates:
1869
Sarah Wistar Cope commonplace books
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-03-008
Scope and Content note
This collection is comprised of two volumes of the commonplace books of Sarah Wistar Cope. The first volume includes extracts on moral and religious topics, poetry, and pressed leaves. The second volume includes a memorandum of a religious visit to New York, extracts, and an "account of Joseph Hoag's family."
Dates:
1824
Thomas Cope legal papers
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-950-045
Scope and Content note
This collection is comprised of the court documents and papers related to the settlement papers of Thomas P. Cope's estate.
Dates:
1911-1912
Thomas P. Cope packetship logbooks
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-11-009
Scope and Content note
This collection is comprised of the handwritten copies of nine of the logbooks of Thomas P. Cope's packet ships, as well as a folder of related materials.
Dates:
1817-1876
Thomas P. Cope estate settlement papers
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-950-193
Scope and Content note
This collection is comprised of a single folder of materials related to the settlement of Thomas P. Cope's estate. Included are letters and documents of Edward Evans, Walter Penn Shipley and members of the U.S. Treasury and U.S. District Attorney's office.
Dates:
1908-1914
"Corrections of News of a Trumpet Sounding in the Wilderness"
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-11-034
Scope and Content note
This collection is comprised of the single volume handwritten manuscript which lists the printing mistakes and corrections of the published work by Daniel Leeds, entitled "News of a Trumpet sounding in the Wilderness, or the Quakers Ancient Testimony Revived, Examined and Compared with itself, and also with their New Doctrine. Whereby the Ignorant may learn Wisdom, and the Wise advance in their Understandings."
Dates:
Undated
