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Joseph Shaw account book

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-08-028
Overview

The business account book of Joseph Shaw records sales of dry goods, amounts owed from various individuals, and account balances.

Dates: 1811-1822

John Smith letterbooks

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-02-020
Overview

John Smith's letterbooks include both personal and business correspondence. Personal correspondence discusses family news and births, deaths, and marriages within the Quaker community. Business correspondence is largely related to the buying and selling of imported dry goods.

Dates: 1750-1760

Benjamin Swett letterbook

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-02-021
Overview The first half of the volume contains business correspondence concerning merchant's orders and the status of shipments. The second half of the volume contains personal correspondence, chiefly letters from Benjamin Swett to Mary Howell Swett, his wife. Letters are addressed to William Johnson, Isaac Milnor, Harper & Hartshorne, John Wickman & Sons, Barclay & Sons, Richard Mayhew, Joseph Brown, Jonathon Cowpland, David Symour, Arnoll & Mayhew, Thomas Letchworth, George Dillwyn,...
Dates: 1765-1806

Charles Shoemaker Taylor letterbook

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-02-022
Overview

This collection is comprised of the single volume letterbook of Charles Shoemaker Taylor, which contains business correspondence related to the buying and selling of goods, livestock, and land. Taylor was educated at Haverford College, was a member of the original board of trustees for Bryn Mawr College until 1893, and was the vice president of the Haverford College Alumni Association.

Dates: 1875-1878

George W. Taylor letterbooks

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-02-023
Overview

This collection is comprised of two volumes of the letterbooks of convinced Quaker George W. Taylor, which contain business correspondence.

Dates: 1852-1868

Arthur H. and Esther Willits Thomas Correspondence, 1888-1945

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1037
Overview

A collection of correspondences between Arthur H. Thomas and Esther E. Willits and assorted family and friends of the couple. Topics include daily life, courtship, marriage, illness, and business.

Dates: 1888-1945; Majority of material found within 1891-1899

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correspondence 6
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Westtown Boarding School 4
Cope, Thomas P. (Thomas Pim), 1768-1854 3
Cope family 2
Fisher, Samuel Rowland, 1745-1834 2
Hicks, Elias, 1748-1830 2
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Jenkins family (Jenkins, Jabez, 1792-1858) 2
Jenkins, Jabez, 1792-1858 2
Morris family 2
Alford, Terry (Seller) 1
American Friends Service Committee 1
Anna Morris Shinn Maier 1
Ash, Samuel S. (Samuel Shinn), 1829-1911 1
Ash, Sarah J. (Sarah Jane), 1835-1912 1
Balch, Emily Greene, 1867-1961 1
Baxter family 1
Baxter, Mary, 1830-1918 1
Baxter, William, 1824-1886 1
Biddle family 1
Biddle, Clement M. (Clement Miller), 1876-1959 1
Biddle, Owen, 1737-1799 1
Biddle, William Canby, 1864-1942 1
Braithwaite, Anna, 1788-1859 1
Brinton family 1
Brinton, David, 1864-1945 1
Brinton, Eleanor Fisher, 1868-1958 1
Brinton, Joseph, 1828-1917 1
Brinton, Mary H. (Mary Howland), 1833-1870 1
Brinton, William Fisher, 1909-2008 1
Bryn Mawr College 1
Cadbury, Lydia C. Shinn 1
Cadbury, Richard, 1825-1897 1
Cadorus, Page 1
Chalkley, Thomas, 1675-1741 1
Child, Mary H. (Mary Hough), 1803-1874 1
Collins, Julia Cope 1
Comly, John, 1773-1850 1
Cope, Annette 1
Cope, Caroline E. (Caroline Elizabeth) 1
Cope, Clementine 1
Cope, E. D. (Edward Drinker) 1
Cope, Elizabeth Stewardson 1
Cope, William D. (William Drinker) 1
Darlington family 1
Darlington, Martha Sharples, 1906-1979 1
Darlington, Richard Stiles 1
Dolobran Mining Company 1
Evans family 1
Evans, Anne Tall 1
Evans, Francis Algernon 1
Evans, J. Morris 1
Evans, Rachel Reeve Cope 1
Evans, Thomas, 1798-1868 1
Evans, William Bacon, 1875-1964 1
Fisher family 1
Fisher, Abraham, 1823-1909 1
Fisher, Miers, 1748-1819 1
Fisher, Sarah Wright, 1822-1886 1
Fisher, Susanna G., 1865-1956 1
Friends Select School (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
Friends' Boarding Home of the Concord Quarterly Meeting 1
Garrett, Thomas Cresson, 1805-1888 1
Gibbons, J. S. (James Sloan), 1810-1892 1
Gould, Thomas B., 1813-1856 1
Grimké, Angelina Emily 1
Grimké, Sarah Moore 1
Guest family 1
Gurney, Joseph John, 1788-1847 1
Haines, Elizabeth Shinn, 1823-1883 1
Haines, Henry 1
Harrison, Hannah 1
Harvey, Francis A. (Francis Adolphus), 1905- 1
Haverford College 1
Hicks family 1
Hicks, Edward, 1780-1849 1
Hicks, Isaac, 1767-1820 1
Hockley, Richard 1
Hollingsworth, H. (Henry), 1737-1803 1
Hopkins, Mary Brinton, 1831-1926 1
Hopper, Isaac T. (Isaac Tatem), 1771-1852 1
Howell, John Ladd, 1738-1785? 1
Howell, John, 1713- 1
Howland family 1
Howland, David P., 1809-1852 1
Hume, Sophia, 1701-1774 1
J.E. Rhoads and Sons 1
James, Dorothy Biddle 1
Jenkins, Mary Ash, 1875-1948 1
Jones, Owen 1
Jones, William 1
Ladd, John, -1740 1
Langmuir, Robert (Bookseller) 1
Leeds, Morris Evans 1
Lewis, Lucy Biddle, 1861- 1
Maier family 1
Maier, James Shinn 1
Maier, Paul David Irwin 1
Maier, William Morris 1
Marriott, Charles 1
Marshall, Christopher 1
Mifflin, Thomas, 1744-1800 1
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