Box 14

Anna Dora French married Edwin Lewis Palmer, a nephew of Mary F. Darlington. She recorded significant events in the lives of her children through 1918. The death of Edwin L. Palmer, Jr., in 1991 was added in another hand. Also clippings, etc.

Anna Dora French was the daughter of Charles S. French and Anna Bowman French. The copy poetry book apparently belonged to Anna B. French (1838-1890) who dedicated a poem in 1887 to her daughter Caroline (1867-1868) who had died many years before. Three loose poems may have been written for Anna as well.

To “Folks at Home” and Annie, sent from Elmira Water Cure, a sulfur spring infirmary and resort in Elmira, NY

ALsS. Letter of Dec. 13, 1863, describes taking train from Concordville to Philadelphia to hear Anti-Slavery lecture. 1865, travels to St. Lawrence. ALS, n.d., describes visit to NYC and hearing Beecher and others.

Describes school at University Female Institute, Lewisburg, Pa. (later Bucknell University)

Condolences on death of her brother, E. Eugene Gause

ALsS

Mentions Yearly Meeting and her children, Marian and Charlie.

Copy of correspondence between Cara Clifford and Joseph Ferrell, Oakwood Farm

Summer and Fall 1857, almost daily entries which record books she reads and events of the day. Mentions that boys and men attend a “colored meeting” on the Sabbath, Joseph Dugdale was at Longwood meeting. In October she notes an elegant letter she received from Joseph Shortlidge.