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Day, Mahlon

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1790 - 1854

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Cope Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-178
Overview

The Cope family was a Quaker family of Chester County and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Baltimore, Maryland. The collection contains family correspondence, genealogical papers and legal papers, a journal (1823) of Ann (Shoemaker) Janney, and other papers of the Cope and related Shoemaker, Yarnell, and Janney families. Individuals represented include Mahlon Day, Joseph John Gurney, and John Janney.

Dates: 1792-1877

Maramaduke Cooper Cope collection

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1022
Overview

Letters to and from the Quaker Marmaduke Cooper Cope (1804-1897) of the prominent Philadelphia Cope family on various important issues of his day.

Dates: 1843-1874

Mahlon Day papers

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1129
Overview

The Mahlon Day papers center on the West Indies journals kept by Day on his spiritual trip with Joseph John Gurney in 1839-1840, and his letters which touch on a range of topics from religious to political to business to family.

Dates: 1787-1936

Mahlon Day collection of publications

 Collection — Othertype SC-183
Identifier: SFHL-SC-183
Abstract

Religious tracts and reprints and children's books with some manuscript inscriptions, published and sold by Mahlon Day, a New York Orthodox Quaker.

Dates: 1821-1852

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Subject
Children's literature 1
Children's poetry 1
Conscientious objectors -- Virginia 1
Quaker printers 1
Quakers -- 19th century -- Diaries 1