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Edward Hicks Manuscript Collection
Collection — othertype: MSS-016
Identifier: SFHL-MSS-016
Overview
This collection is composed of the draft manuscript of the memoirs and journal of Edward Hicks and related miscellaneous papers. Included are his drafts of the first pages of the memoirs, photocopies of letters and sermons of Hicks relating to the Hicksite Separation, abolition, and Quaker spirituality. Also included are a typescript copy of Samuel Johnson's letter to Edward Hicks on slavery, the original of Hicks' responses, and a letter from Isaac Parry to Benjamin Ferris after the death...
Dates:
1836 - 1952; Majority of material found within 1836 - 1849
Smedley Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-319
Overview
The collection contains correspondence, journals and other writings, business and legal papers, and miscellaneous items of the Smedley family, a large and prominent Quaker family of Penncrest Farm, Middletown Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania. The family was related to the Kite and Sharples/Sharpless families of Chester and Delaware Counties. The papers include significant correspondence of the Kite family, especially Thomas Kite (1785-1845) and Mary Kite (1792-1861), both prominent...
Dates:
1751 - 1996; Majority of material found within 1821 - 1950
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- Balderston, Ida Smedley (Ida Roberts Smedley Balderston), 1896-1993 1
- Ford, Alice, 1906- 1
- Hicks, Edward, 1780-1849 1
- Hough, Oliver, 1804-1855 1
- Johnson, Samuel, 1763-1843? 1
- Kite family 1
- Kite, Mary, 1793?-1861 1
- Parry, Isaac, 1774-1857 1
- Pocono Manor (Pa.) 1
- Pocono Manor Association 1
- Sharples, Edith, 1743-1787 1
- Sharples, Joshua, 1747-1826 1
- Sharpless family 1
- Sharpless, Aaron, 1809-1876 1
- Sharpless, Susanna Kite, 1809-1844 1
- Smedley family 1
- Smedley, Elizabeth Sharpless, 1842-1924 1
- Smedley, Emma, 1868-1944 1
- Smedley, Walter, 1862-1939 1
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