Edward M. Wistar

Included are: I. correspondence, II. deed, III. manuscripts, IV. memberships, V. miscellaneous and VI. poems. I. Correspondence (4 items) Highlights include: Wistar, Edward M. 1897 3-4. Letterbook and journal kept while visiting Quaker missions to various Native American tribes and work in Turkey and Armenia Wistar, Edward M. to Thomas and Beatrice Wistar. Wilderswyl, Switzerland, [19]22 4/22. [travelogue in Switzerland; invited to Meeting and picked up by Dr. Nitobe's auto, then later to League of Nations where Mary Elkinton Nitobe awaited; in an attached letter from Margaret C. Wistar, she tells of the celebrities, such as Princess Radziwill, and the Russian Bolshevik, who are there] II. Deed (3 items) Deed for property partitioned among Ellen C. Wood, Horatio C. Wood and Annabella C. Wood and Margaret C. Wistar and Edward M. Wistar in Germantown, Phila., 1902; typed copy; hand-drawn plot plan. III. Manuscripts (1 item) “William Penn, proprietor and founder of Pennsylvania” / E.M. Wistar. 1931. V. Certificates, diplomas and memberships (5 items) Diplomas from Westtown Boarding School, Haverford College and certificate from Loganian Society Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1905 National Geographic Society, 1907 V. Miscellaneous (3 items) Permission for W.T. Wister to sketch inside Christ Church, Oxford, 1824 Contemporary copy of Yearly Meeting minute concerning Ministers and Elders and Queries, 1755 Invitation to 50th wedding anniversary of Edward Morris Wistar and Margaret Wistar VI. Poem (1 item) “Hope On” / E.M. Wistar, Westtown Boarding School, 1868