Box 1

"A Testimony against Superfluety in the Course of Conversation"

According to summary at beginning of folder, these are extracts from the Minutes of the London Yearly Meeting of Advices and Minutes relating to discipline. There are also letters from of the Yearly Meeting to the Quarterly Meeting (especially the QM of Hertford).

This folder includes three letters from the London Yearly Meeting to the Quarterly Meetings of Great Britain, a letter to the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, a letter to the Meetings of Pennsylvania and New Jersey, and three letters of the London Meeting of Women Friends to their counterpart in Philadelphia.

An unbound copy of a Book of Discipline addressed to the Quarterly and Monthly Meetings in East Jersey, West Jersey, and Pennsylvania by the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting.

Three copies of the rules of discipline set forth by the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting in 1719.

A loosely bound volume of disciplines put forth by the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. According to the contents page the volume includes writing on the establishment and order of Meetings, advice and directions to Overseers, and directions on how to discipline infractions such as "marriage with other persuasions", "horse and foot racing", and "buying Negro slaves" among a number of others.

Included in this folder are miscellaneous transcriptions of some of the disciplines included in this collection, correspondence regarding contents of the collection, and a 1935 article about the collection in the Bulletin of Friends' Historical Association.