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Box 3

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Contains 12 Results:

Susanna G. Fisher birthday book, Whittier Birthday Book , circa 1900-1980

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Family births and information kept by Susanna G. Fisher. Index at end and loose note written by W. F. Brinton.

Dates: circa 1900-1980

Eleanor Fisher commonplace book, 1885 - 1886

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Poems by hRer siblings and others, copied into volume with some later additions, undated. Also receipts and grades, Westtown School.

Dates: 1885 - 1886

Memoirs of a Quaker Childhood in Ireland and Pennsylvania by Louisa M. Jacob, circa 1957

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A note written by that donor explained that members of the Jacobs family intermarried with the Fisher family. Louisa Jacobs was Philadelphia-area Quaker teacher who had lived in Germany before WWII and later was active in German relief.

Dates: circa 1957

[William Brinton] travel journal [photocopy and handwritten transcript], 1818

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1818 Identified by William F. Brinton as likely the journal of his grandfather, William Brinton (1785-1878), a Lancaster County farmer. He transcribed the journal with the title: 1818 Diary: A trip to Niagara Falls by a simple Lancaster Co. farmer in 1818/WFB

Dates: 1818

Some reminiscences of Limerick Friends, by Ernest H. Bennis, 1930

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Stories about members of the Fisher, Jacob, and other Quaker families

Dates: 1930

The Silver Flute : The Writers' Club of Delaware County, 1952

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Includes poems by Susanna G. Fisher, loose poems and a photograph of the old Brinton home on State Road, south of Phoenixville, which William F. and Louise Brinton had purchased. Book was from their library.

Dates: 1952

Gulielma Brinton to Joseph Brinton, Newport, Rhode Island, 1852, 1854

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Letters from his mother and his sister, Cassie (Cassandra).

Dates: 1852, 1854