Showing Collections: 1 - 2 of 2
Elizabeth Drinker diaries
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-01-018
Overview
Elizabeth was a colonial era Quaker and prolific journal writer. Elizabeth's diaries are composed of her personal reflections of the day-to-day life of a wealthy Quaker woman in colonial Philadelphia. The majority of Elizabeth’s entries detail her daily life, including social calls with other Quaker families and individuals, the births, deaths, and marriages within her community, and attendance at, and descriptions of, weekly and monthly Quaker meetings. Elizabeth’s description of events...
Dates:
1758-1800
Morris family commonplace book
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-03-065
Overview
The commonplace book of the Morris family includes copied extracts from the journals of Margaret Morris, which include a description of Yellow Fever in Philadelphia in 1793, as well as copied poems, letters written by Mary Morris and Richard Hill Morris, and a clipped illustration depicting early settlers.
Dates:
Undated.
Filter Results
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Medicine -- United States -- History -- 18th century 1
- Philadelphia (Pa.) -- History 1
- Quaker women 1
- Quaker women -- United States 1
- Quakers -- History 1
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- Social life and customs 1
- Society of Friends -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- Sources 1
- United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 1
- United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Women -- Sources 1
- Women -- United States -- Social life and customs 1
- commonplace books 1
- correspondence 1 ∧ less
- Names
- Drinker, Elizabeth Sandwith 1
- Drinker, Henry, 1734-1809 1
- Emlen, Samuel 1
- Morris family 1
- Morris, Margaret Hill 1
∨ more
