Box 6

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Taylor, Elizabeth Robeson (Shoemaker) 1809-1855. 1832-1843. 17 items. Folder 1.

Introductory note, giving line of descent to Margaret (Taylor) MacIntosh Poems exchanged by E. R. T. and A[nna] S. Shoemaker, Glenwood, 1836. [Lament Anna's attachment to Samuel Richie, of whom family seems to disapprove]

Letter to Hannah Taylor, Cincinnati, from Glenwood, 4mo. 16, 1837, [mentions sister Anna's marriage]

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Taylor, Elizabeth Robeson (Shoemaker) 1809-1855. Letters to Isaac Shoemaker and Hannah Taylor, Cincinnati. [Letter to Isaac Shoemaker, 1844. 4mo. 7-9, 1844, 25 items. Folder 2.' [telling of getting settled on farm in Bucks Co.; tells of Morgan Hinchman's unsettled state; mentions last illness of Elizabeth Fry, as told in a letter from Eliza P. Gurney] Note: first part written by Margaretta (Shoemaker) Hinchman; second part, by Elizabeth

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Taylor, Elizabeth Robeson (Shoemaker) 1809-1855. To Isaac Shoemaker and Hannah Taylor, Cincinnati. Three enclosures of poetry. 1845. 25 items. Folder 3.

[Letter to Isaac. Phil., 3mo. 16, 1845, discusses Wilburite controversy between Phil. and New England Yearly Meetings.] [Letter to Isaac. Phil., 11mo. 29, 1845, mentions death of Elizabeth Fry, in England, and work of Dorothy Dix on prison reform in the U.S.]

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Taylor, Elizabeth Robeson (Shoemaker) 1809-1855. To Isaac Shoemaker and Hannah Taylor (and indirectly to Abraham Taylor) 1846. 27 items. Folder 4.

[Letter, Phil. 2mo. 5, 1846, describes Phil. Quarterly Mtg. and feelings of disunity within it. Letter, Phil., 3mo. 12, 1846, says she “cannot justify J. Wilbur.” Letter, Phil. 4mo. 25, 1846, notes on Yearly Mtg. - Women's Mtg., interesting as giving informal view by one participant]

Scope and Contents Taylor, Elizabeth Robeson (Shoemaker) 1809-1855. To Isaac Shoemaker, Hannah and Abraham Taylor. 1847. 25 items. Folder 5.--Letter to Isaac, Cincinnati. Phil., 1mo. 21 1847, says, “...E. Hinchman came after dinner, to try to devise some means for preserving the remainder of Morgan's property (if there be any) and Placing him in an institution for the insane.” --Letter to Isaac. Plumstead, 1mo. 17, 1847, gives more details of Morgan Hinchman's incarceration. ...

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Taylor, Elizabeth Robeson (Shoemaker) 1809-1855. To Isaac Shoemaker, Abraham and Hannah Taylor. 1848. 30 items. Folder 6. [Letters to Abraham, after engagement, example of Quakerly reticence. Letter of 6mo. 18, 1848, mentions Morgan Hinchman's determination to sue as many people as possible.]

Scope and Contents Taylor, Elizabeth Robeson (Shoemaker) 1809-1855. Cincinnati, (Now Eliz. R. S. Taylor) 1849-1854. 26 items. Folder 7.--Letter to sister, 1mo. 9, 1849, mentions book by Mary Howitt, Our Cousins in Ohio, all about the real people and events there, in the family of Harrison Alderson.--Letters to family from Phil. and vicinity, spring of 1854, refer to re-trial of Morgan Hinchman case.--Letter to brother and sister, Cincinnati, 10mo. 1, 1854, discusses the...

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Taylor, Elizabeth Robeson (Shoemaker) 1809-1855. 1855. 19 items. Folder 8.

[Letters mostly from her last trip to Penna., in search of health plus telegrams concerning her death at Bedford, Pa., Oct. 20, 1855, and a memorandum book kept by her on the trip East.]

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Taylor, Elizabeth Robeson (Shoemaker) 1809-1855. Poetry book from years at Westtown School. (Laid in: picture of her as grown woman)

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Taylor, Elizabeth Robeson (Shoemaker) 1809-1855. Diary, 1830.