Katherine Karsner correspondence, 1971

In 1971, Katherine instructed Mary Ann to deliver Granny's (Lydia J. Hunn) diaries to Swarthmore College and her father's books to the Pennsylvania Historical Society. And to arrange to ship whatever she wanted to her home in Alaska, the remaining furniture was in storage. There was controversy in Alaska regarding the pipeline, and the family planned a trip to the West Coast and Hawaii. In the summer, Mary Ann worked as a field archeologist for the Alaska Environmental Group. In August Katherine wrote that the 12th Street Meeting House in Philadelphia was to be demolished. [It was moved to Friends Center and saved.] Mary Ann still considered herself a member of Central Philadelphia Monthly Meeting. In September, Mary Ann wrote to the Clerk to request membership for her three children. They met with the Overseers in Philadelphia, and the Clerk responded with reservations and requested that the older children should write letters of application.