SFHL/FHL/SC. Small Collections
Found in 298 Collections and/or Records:
George Fox Club of Philadelphia records
Samuel Comfort family papers
Samuel Comfort (1776-1862) was a leader of the Hicksite Quaker movement and the grandson of John Woolman. The bulk of this collection is writings and correspondence of Samuel Comfort, many dealing with the Hicksite separation and questions of Quaker discipline; but there are also papers relating to other family members, including references to his grandparents John and Sarah Woolman.
Five Years Meeting Executive Committee minutes
Five Years Meeting was a coalition of Orthodox Quaker yearly meetings established in 1902 (fifteen years after the signing of the Richmond Declaration). It was renamed Friends United Meeting in 1963. This collection consists of Executive Committee minutes, including attached reports.
Levis Miller family correspondence
This small collection includes five letters. Four of them are letters from George Miller in Trenton, Iowa, writing to his brother, Levis Miller in Media, Delaware County, Pa. One letter is from Annie E. Miller (daughter of Levis?) to her brother, Edgar Miller. George's letters primarily relate farming matters, but of special interest is a political discussion including "negro suffrage" on the last page of the December 1868 letter.
Lockwood family papers
Materials pertaining to the Lockwood family of Warwick, R.I. Includes three letters, mostly about family health; an arrest warrant (on account of unpaid debt); a note about tobacco; and several other documents.
Mary Tatum collection on American Friends Service Committee relief work in Poland
Mary B. M. McCollin (1867-1934) was a Quaker physician who directed the American Friends Service Committee's hospital rehabilitation work in Poland after World War I.
Collection of Isaac T. Hopper papers
This collection includes Isaac T. Hopper's original and photocopied letters and his letterbook. Much of the material concerns his bookselling business and the Hicksite separation. He relates news of figures central to the controversy, including Elisha Bates, Elias Hicks, and Anna Braithwaite. There are two posthumous documents: a proposed minute to restore his membership and a letter from his daughter regarding the printing plates for his biography.
