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Box 5

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Contains 6 Results:

Elizabeth Newport, Jr., commonplace book, 1839 - 1846

 Item — Box: 5
Scope and Contents

The album is inscribed "Elizabeth Newport Jnr from Uncle William... Philadelphia." First entry dated 1841. Poems and prose addressed to "Lizzie" including essay signed by John Jackson, Sharon Boarding School, 1846.

Dates: 1839 - 1846

Address booklets, ca. 1863, 1867

 Item — Box: 5
Scope and Contents

Leather bound booklet with a few addresses, pages cut. Drafts, etc. 1867 address book includes an account of a death, unknown author.

Dates: ca. 1863, 1867

Anna Travilla commonplace book, 1882

 Item — Box: 5
Scope and Contents

West Chester Friends High School. Anna Travilla (1866-1945), daughter of Martha Ellison Newport and Jonathan Travilla . She married William Speakman in 1890. Also a small dictation book, 1881

Dates: 1882

[Mary Travilla?] Five year diary, 1906 - 1907

 Item — Box: 5
Scope and Contents

Only entries in 1906 and 1907. Mary was a respected Quaker minister and spoke often at Meetings.

Dates: 1906 - 1907

William Speakman diary [Anna Speakman], 1922

 Item — Box: 5
Scope and Contents

The cover is embossed Dr. William W. Speakman but apparently a diary kept by his wife, Anna T. Speakman. Socialized with Hulls, visited elder daughter Martha Wood in Mont Kisco, New York, and France where daughter Janet worked in a maternity hospital,

Dates: 1922