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American Friends' letters
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-851
Abstract
The collection is composed chiefly of letters of members of the Society of Friends in the United States from the 17th to the 20th centuries; there are also documents, clippings, published articles, and miscellaneous manuscripts.
Dates:
1682-1986
Joshua L. Baily notes on quaker meetings
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-11-003
Scope and Content note
This collection is comprised of Joshua Baily's notes on the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, as well as various Quarterly meetings. The collection includes Baily's original handwritten notes, a volume of typed notes compiled later, and related materials, such as letters and extracts of sermons.
Dates:
1826-1871
Hugh Barbour lecture papers
Collection — othertype: SC-008
Identifier: SFHL-SC-008
Abstract
Includes outline and course materials for five lectures given at Pendle Hill in the winter of 1975, notes on "Ethics and Theology in the Hicksite Separation" and the manuscript of a lecture on "Quakers and the Trinity" given at Swarthmore College in the spring of 1975.
Dates:
1975
British Friends' letters
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-861
Abstract
Letters of English Friends containing information on Quaker history as well as religious and cultural activities. The collection also includes letters relating to the activities of early Friends.
Dates:
1650 - 1985
Samuel Comfort family papers
Collection — othertype: SC-304
Identifier: SFHL-SC-304
Abstract
Samuel Comfort (1776-1862) was a leader of the Hicksite Quaker movement and the grandson of John Woolman. The bulk of this collection is writings and correspondence of Samuel Comfort, many dealing with the Hicksite separation and questions of Quaker discipline; but there are also papers relating to other family members, including references to his grandparents John and Sarah Woolman.
Dates:
1701 - 1887
Thomas Evans papers
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC.1324
Abstract
This collection contains over 240 mainly incoming manuscript letters addressed to Thomas Evans, a Philadelphia druggist, author, editor, Orthodox Quaker minister of Philadelphia and, in 1833, one the founders of Haverford College. The letters, 1823-1859, contain material on his very active role in the Society of Friends and the problems of religious doctrine before and during the Hicksite and Wilburite schisms within the Quaker faith. The collection also includes papers and legal documents...
Dates:
1704 - 1868; Majority of material found within 1823 - 1859
Ferris Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-040
Abstract
The collection contains correspondence, journals and other writings, business and legal papers, and miscellaneous items of the Ferris family of Wilmington, Delaware, a prominent Quaker family. Of particular note are the correspondence and writings of Benjamin Ferris concerning the Separation in the Society of Friends, as well as the journals and diaries of Anna M. Ferris, David Ferris, Matilda Ferris, Benjamin Ferris, and Henry Ferris. Correspondents include William Lloyd Garrison, William...
Dates:
1737-1940
Susan Foulke diary
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-01-026
Abstract
Susan Foulke was an Orthodox Quaker and a member of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. Entries detail Susan’s daily life and include prayers, religious reflection, descriptions of visits to friends and family in Philadelphia and Burlington, New Jersey, and births, deaths, and marriages within her family and the Quaker community.
Dates:
1814-1840
John Mietou Griscom diary
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-01-030
Abstract
John M. Grisom was a physician who lived and practiced in Moorestown, Burlington, New Jersey. His diary focuses on his attendance at "Friendly Study Group" meetings, a group, according to Griscom, that gathers for "the study of the influences and causes leading to the separation of 1827." Entries describe discussions had at these meetings.
Dates:
1912-1914
Alice Ford research notes for the biography of Edward Hicks
Collection — othertype: SC-040
Identifier: SFHL-SC-040
Abstract
This collection contains the research notes made by Alice Ford for her book, Edward Hicks Painter of the Peaceable Kingdom. These notes include genealogical information on the Hicks family and on several of his correspondents. Also included are typescripts of letters of Edward Hicks and his family. Among the correspondents are Emmor Kimber, John Comly, Elias Hicks, Benjamin and Richard Price, Elias Hicks, and Thomas McClintock. Topics include family news, issues of Quaker Spirituality, and...
Dates:
c. 1952
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- Hicks, Edward, 1780-1849 6
- Comly, John, 1773-1850 5
- Gurney, Joseph John, 1788-1847 5
- Ferris, Benjamin, 1780-1867 4
- Mott, Lucretia, 1793-1880 4
- Woolman, John, 1720-1772 4
- Braithwaite, Anna, 1788-1859 3
- Grellet, Stephen, 1773-1855 3
- Hopper, Isaac T. (Isaac Tatem), 1771-1852 3
- Kersey, Jesse, 1768-1845 3
- Mott, James, 1788-1868 3
- Poole, William, 1764-1829 3
- Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892 3
- Barbour, Hugh 2
- Bean, Joel, 1825-1914 2
- Cadwallader, Priscilla, 1786-1859 2
- Churchman, George, 1730-1814 2
- Fisher, Samuel Rowland, 1745-1834 2
- Fox, George 2
- Fry, Elizabeth Gurney, 1780-1845 2
- Garrigues, Edward, 1756-1845 2
- Harris, J. Rendel (James Rendel), 1852-1941 2
- Hicks family 2
- Hicks, Isaac, 1767-1820 2
- Jackson, Halliday, 1771-1835 2
- Jackson, John, 1809-1855 2
- Kimber, Emmor, 1775-1850 2
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- McClintock, Thomas, 1792?-1876 2
- New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends 2
- Parsons, Samuel, 1774-1841 2
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends Library 2
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- Price, Benjamin, 1793-1872 2
- Routh, Martha Winter, 1743-1817 2
- Seaman, David, 1791-1844 2
- Willis, Thomas, 1770 or 1771-1864 2
- Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell) 1
- Baily, Joshua L. (Joshua Longstreth), 1826-1916 1
- Barclay, Robert, 1648-1690 1
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