Correspondence, 1809-1876

Ca. 100 items, arranged by Francis R. Taylor in chronological order and so numbered.

Note: Most of the letters are not by George W. Taylor. There are many letters from the agent Nathan Thomas as he traveled around the South and from Levi Coffin, also I.H. Krafft, primarily on Free labor topics

Francis R. Taylor created a numbered list of the letters and the topic briefly stated. The list includes the following topics:

Free Labor and Free Labor Projects; Indiana Separation; Profits Internal Slave Trade; Supply of Free Produce in South; Cotton machinery system; Wilbur-Gurney controversy; Cotton to Liverpool; Status of Southern white labor; New York Quarterly Meeting and the Free Produce Association; Joseph Sturge; Liberia and coffee, rice and ginger; introduction of the cotton gin in the South; decline of Anti- Slavery Friends; Wilmot proviso; slave woman beaten; Civil War; Free colony Negroes in Texas; war time in the South; Institute for Colored Youth; Cuban question; tariff on slave and coolie labor articles

Letter writers include:

Wilson Armistead, C. Atherton, Stephen Benson, Elihu Burritt, F.A. Calder, John Clay, Elijah Coffin, Levi Coffin, E. Coleman, Sarah Cooper, M.C. Cope, Charles Dowman, Hamilton Fish, Benjamin Gatham, John Hickman, I.H. Krafft, Benjamin Ladd, E. Lewis, Lorens Mabbett, John Mason, S[amuel] Parsons, S. Purdsall, C.S. Renshaw, Samuel Rhoads, Rice & Thaxter, N.? RobesonJ. Scholfield, William Taber, George W. Taylor, Samuel Test, I. M. Thistlethwaite, Nathan Thomas, W.R. Wheeler, David White, James Wright

Highlights include:

Clay, John to Theodore Mansifled. New Orleans, 1809 2/10. On the profits from the sale of Negroes from Maryland and Virginia to Louisiana

Coffin, Levi to Samuel Rhoads. New Garden, 1845 7/18. On the Separation of Friends in Indiana; free labor

Thomas, Nathan to Samuel Rhoads. Newport, 1845 10/30. Free labor issues

Coffin, Levi to Samuel Rhoads. Newport, 1846 3/16. An appraisal of Rhoads' paper the Non-Slaveholder

Atherton, C. to George W. Taylor. Providence, R.I., 1846 12/27. Is wondering what is the status of the proposed newspaper, under supervision of Enoch Lewis, which was to supercede the Philadelphia Friend and whether the contentious issue of slavery is holding it up as well as agitation over the Gurney-Wilbur controversy

Coffin, Elijah to George W. Taylor. Richmond, Indiana, 1847 1/26. Differences between eastern and western Friends as expressed in the Gurney-Wilbur controversy and the desire to have a newspaper not edited in Philadelphia

Benson, Stephen. Bassa Cove [Liberia], 1848 11/1. Is pleased by all the interest by Friends in America for them in Liberia

-- to A. Faustin, the first Emperor of Haiti. 1852? A general letter expressing friendship and re independence of nations in South America

Burritt, Elihu to GWT. New Britain, CT, 1858 11/13. Appraisals of the newspapers Citizen and Bond of Slave

Taylor, George W. to R. Barnwell Rhett and others of South Carolina. Philadelphia, 1860 12/25. (Never sent) On the benefits of Free Labor

Taylor, George W. to A.W. Bennett. 1862 1/28. On the subject of peace with the U.S. by Friends in England

Taylor, George W. to Pres. Abraham Lincoln. Philadelphia, 1862 11/17. (draft) In support of the president and the Emancipation Proclamation and the future of the African race

Taylor, George W. to President Andrew Johnson. Philadelphia, Pa., 1865 7/17. (draft) Re situation of African Americans and slavery

Fish, Hamilton to George W. Taylor. Washington, D.C. 1875 12/21. Taylor's suggestions with regard to the peaceable settlement of the Cuban question will be taken into consideration

Fish, Hamilton to George W. Taylor. Washington, D.C., 1876 1/12. Regarding Taylor's letter on taxes on goods produced by enslaved labor and of "coolie" labor