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Scope and Contents Details of the evening meetings, Select and monthly meetings. Personalities, conflicts, description of wedding and the reception. His letter of 5month 30 noted that the Hicksite held a conference at Kennett Meeting calling themselves Pennsylvania Meeting of Progressive Friends and Lucretia Mott spoke. He wrote that they "eshew Christianity" and have no religious belief but do valuable testimony against slavery, alcohol, tobacco. Reported that a committee from London Yearly Meeting...

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Details of meetings, visiting Friends including Eliza P. Gurney, Richard Mott, Thomas B. Gould accompanied by Robert Scotten. The letter of 7 month 15 includes mention of Lucretia Mott's sermon at Cherry Street Meeting, with a clipping he found in the Daily Register recording the substance of the talk. Joseph Kite died 10 month 29, 1854.

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amily updates, especially concerning the children in the Aaron Sharpless family. Also an undated note to Elizabeth Sharpless. Edith's letter to her great-aunt 1853, shortly after the birth of brother James, reported that her step-mother was treated for pleurisy. She was bled and given medicines.

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The letter mentions family including William and daughter Hetty (Esther). Attended meetings. Brother James and wife Lydia visited, and he looked very ill. [James died that year.] They heard Mary Nicholson's report on ancient English Friend Mary Witchell - Hetty (Esther) recorded the story. Includes a typed transcription and copy Mary's letter (carbon copy). Also a unsigned or dated scrap which mentions Aunt Mary Kite.

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Asenath Hunt Clark, North Carolina Quaker minister.

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Includes an extract of a letter dated 1843 from niece Edith Jefferis with comments by Caleb Pennock at Kennett Meeting regarding the Separation and a poem by Henry Hicks White copied for Edith. Also a letter of sympathy from Benjamin Hoyle on death of her brother Thomas in 1845. .

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Society of Friends concerns.

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An account of his journey in the ministry to western Pennsylvania.

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4 letters, signed. Joseph Edgerton (1797-1865), Quaker minister

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2 letters, signed. Elkinton (1794-1868) was a Philadelphia Quaker minister