Box 1

Letters from Evans, William; Garretson, Asa; and Hoyce, Benjamin. Some anonymous items. Yearly Meeting for Sufferings, Thomas Evans, wrote to Comissioner of Internal Revenue to access Secretary of War, who could not do anything for him. Garretson demurs fighting in the Civil War on religious grounds of conscientious objection and writes of his appeal. Hoyle and an anonymous person writes on redivisions in Ohio Yearly Meeting and Gurneyites.

Letters from Abbott, Ruth; Bennett, Joshua; Branson, Anna; Dewees, J. and R.; Elkinton, Alfred; and Elkinton, J.S. Dewees discusses Gurneyites.

Letter from unknown writer to Mary H Walton. Kite, J's parody on Gray's Elegy and a handdrawn map of San Diego Bay.

Kite, Mary (1792-1861). 7 items. On family topics, opening of Haverford Meetinghouse, the imprisonment of the husband of an unnamed "coulerd friend" (he had been recognized as the former slave of a woman in Baltimore) (1834), health, religion. Mentions "Gurneitte bewilderment."

Philadelphia. 2 items. On family, religious topics, various Friends; John Wilbur visiting Meetings seeming not to meet any opposition

Refers to Sarah and Angelina Grimke, Richard Jordan and others; says that if enslaved people knew how much she loved them "they would be willing I should partake of there labour." Retired from (Friends) Select School and visit to classroom led by Daniel B. Smith at the new Haverford School (1934); treatment of African Americans; family news

Kite, Rebecca Walton (1765-1840). Philadelphia. 6 items. On family topics, health, various Friends, Meeting.

4 items.

Lightfoot, Jane. 2 items and fragment. Behavior of a camp of Union soldiers, family news. Luke, William to Joseph Walton.

To Anna Walton. 3 items. Building at Westtown (School).