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Wood, Deborah

 File — Box: 8

Scope and Contents

Eight letters to cousin Elizabeth Shoemaker; one to aunt, Mrs. Margaret Shoemaker, of Cheltenham. New York, which says the N.Y. Meeting has split over the Hicksite controversy; she herself has left Meeting and attends church.

Note: Uses you, Roman dates, etc.; left Friends by own request, 1833. Contrast in cheerful description of New York life and society, compared with gloomy, drab scene in Phil. Letter of May 28, 1828,

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