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Editor of The Friend, inviting her to submit a manuscript.

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Group photograph of the family outside their home in Megessa. Labeled on reverse.

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Sales brochure from developers of the Alexandra Colony, London. Advertising a tract of land acquired on west bank of San Javier River in the province of Saanta Fe by J. Thomson, T. Bonar and Company for development.

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Anna (1852-1937) was the second eldest of the Fisher children. She married Charles Grimshaw in 1878 in North Carolina. About 1899, they moved to Malvern, Pennsylvania. Anna served as an elder and clerk for Goshen Monthly Meeting. The diary contains excerpts from her diary of the trip to Argentina in December 1871 to 1872. Typed carbon on the reverse of scrap paper dated 1934.

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Sarah Moor Fisher (1856-1945) married Frederic White in 1899 and was acknowledged as a minister by Philadelphia Monthly Meeting of the Western District. Her journal includes details about the voyage from South America, the family's life aboard ship and eventual arrival in North Carolina. Faded typed transcript, photocopies. Her younger sister Susanna wrote a biography of Sarah Moor White published in The Friend, 6 mo. 6, 1951.

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"Primitive Life in the Gran Chaco Argentine Republic" typed carbon. Henry (1861-1937) was the youngest son and a child when the family moved to Argentina. The editing is in hand of his sister, Eleanor Brinton. 1916 letter from Buenos Aires described the Alexandria Colony, founded in 1870. .

Scope and Contents Typed manuscript family history including the family in Ireland, descended from Reuben and Joan Fisher. Also aAn appendix on her father’s character and the fire in the North Carolina homestead. Carbons copies, tied with string. Susanna G. Fisher (1865-1956), second youngest of the nine children and a small child when the family lived in Argentina, explained that since the family lived remotely, they took great interest in family stories that were handed down. She was a writer and editor,...

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Typed carbon written by Eleanor Fisher (1868-1958), youngest child, with her impressions of the environment and local natives. Also copies with translation of a description of Fishers' home in Argentina from a book by William Wilcken, 1872, described as the only home without firearms.

Scope and Contents Quaker separations in the United States, J. J. Gurney. and education. Identified in the family as the journal of Abraham Fisher (1783-1871), the father of Abraham, the immigrant. Abraham, Sr., accompanied John and Sarah Grubb and William Forster in their ministries in the early 19th century. He was a corn merchant in Youghal and insurance agent for Friends Provident Institution and other companies. He and wife Jane Moor Fisher had seventeen children and were involved in a myriad of...

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Abraham Fisher to Hannah Rhodes, 1850 8 mo. 18, concerning her plan to visit to Europe. Rhodes was a Philadelphia Quaker minister, and Fisher wrote that his wife would like to accompany her if she included Ireland in her travels. Manuscript copy letter Abraham Fisher, Sr., to Edward Jefferis, Youghal, 1853, concerning his Quaker faith and large family that included 17 children.