Mary Cadbury files related to Eastern Meeting status, 1998 - 1999
Scope and Contents
Mary Foster Cadbury, Clerk of Nine Partners Quarterly Meeting Prisons Committee, helped discern a way forward for the Quarterly Meeting (where some members bridled at what they saw as a misuse of the defined term "preparative") and Eastern (whose attenders, as men inside, felt strongly called to the term "preparative"). Files include a memo of her thoughts following a Quarterly meting, a report to the Quarter about Eastern and prison worship groups more broadly, and a letter received from a Quarter member.
The second folder is Cadbury's copies of a tense correspondence between the outside coordinator for Eastern Meeting and a member of Nine Partners Quarterly Meeting, strongly disagreeing about whether or not Eastern Meeting should be required to use "Prison" in its name.
Dates
- Creation: 1998 - 1999
Conditions Governing Access
Most of this collection is open for research. A folder of personal material related to an ICE petition by an inside member is restricted for 50 years from date of creation.
Physical Facet
2 folders
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