SFHL/FHL/SC. Small Collections
Found in 298 Collections and/or Records:
Eli F. Brown Collection
Albert Cook Myers correspondence with Norman Penney and others.
Contains correspondence concerning the publications of "First Publishers of Truth," and other Quaker writings in the Journal of the Friends' Historical Society, London, England. Letters from Robert M. Janney. George Vaux, and Isaac Clothier concern contributions to finance the publication of "First Publishers" as a supplement to the Journal. Most of the correspondence is with Norman Penney (1858-1933), Quaker historian and Librarian at the Friends' Reference Library in London.
Young Friends' Association (West Chester, Pa.) Minutes
Young Friends' Association (West Chester, Pa.), a Quaker social and study group, was established in 1895 in West Chester, Pa. This collection contains the constitution and minutes, 1895-1904, in one bound volume.
Henry Drinker Letters to Isaac Hicks
Swarthmore Chautauqua memorabilia collected by Kevin Gilmartin
Emmor Roberts transcribed letters to Israel Roberts
Collection of typed transcribed letters written by Emmor Robert, New Jersey Quaker farmer, to his son, Israel Roberts, a student at Swarthmore College, Class of 1878. Contains descriptions of daily life on the farm, family and Quaker local news.
New York Yearly Meeting collection of militia regulations
The collection contains Quaker correspondence concerning various states' regulations on military conscription and conscientious objection in the early 19th century.
Amy Grace Mekeel papers concerning Conservative Friends, New York Yearly Meeting
The collectionn contains Mekeel's notes and abstracts concerning Quaker meetings in the Scipio and Farmington Quarterly Meetings of New York Yearly Meeting, particularly concerning the various nineteenth century Orthodox separations. There is also a small group of correspondence focused on Quaker meeting records.
New York Yearly Meeting collection of papers concerning slavery
The collection contains a small number of miscellaneous papers relating to efforts within New York Yearly Meeting to support the manumission of enslaved people, abolition, and education of formerly enslaved people, 1778-1870. Most are copies of reports presented to New York Monthly Meeting or to the Yearly Meeting, compiled as a reference file.
Miscellaneous manuscripts relating to Native Americans and Quakers
Fragments and copies of manuscripts concerning Quaker (probably Philadelphia Yearly Meeting) activities relating to Native Americans. Some of these may be contemporary manuscript copies of documents in the Friendly Association or the Indian Committee records.
