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James Whitall manuscripts

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-07-095
Abstract

This collection is comprised of two manuscripts collected by James Whitall. The collection includes the manuscript of a memoir or autobiography by Honah Landis, entitled "How Literature Came to Texas," and a French play by Edmond See, translated by Whitall, entitled "A Friend of His Youth."

Dates: Undated.

"From the Wabash to the Delaware"

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Identifier: HC.MC-975-07-098
Abstract Thomas Raeburn White wrote this manuscript for his children and their descendants. The volume begins with a brief genealogical history of White's ancestors, who came from England or Scotland, and initially settled in the Carolinas. White describes how the family migrated to Indiana when his father was a child, in search of a more religiously tolerant community, and provides brief family history for his mother and father. White also describes his childhood, early education, Quaker...
Dates: Undated.

James Wood papers

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Identifier: HC.MC-1218
Abstract James Wood (1839-1925) was “interested in education, philanthropy, in the various branches of agriculture, in archaeology, history, Indian lore, anthropology, science, in prison reform and above all, in the Bible and religion,” (ABS, 2). He was also a business man, serving as President of the Genesee Salt Company in Piffard, New York. The James Wood papers are divided into twelve series: “Biographical Material:” “Agriculture;” Business and Financial Material;” “Collected Quaker Material;”...
Dates: Bulk, 1865-1921 1865-1964; Majority of material found within 1865 - 1921

“From World War One to the Bicentennial: An Autobiography”

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Identifier: HC.MC-975-07-100
Abstract

This autobiography describes Morris Wistar Wood's early life, his education, his travels in the United States and abroad, his time spent teaching and in academic administration at various schools, including at a school in Lingnan, at the Culver Military Academy, the University of Pennsylvania, Westtown School, and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Wood also describes his family life with his wife Evelyn, and their children.

Dates: 1976

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American Bible Society 1
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Balderston, Lloyd, 1863-1933 1
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Ballard, Willa E. 1
Barbour, Hugh 1
Bedford Farmers' Club (Bedford (Westchester County, N.Y.)) 1
Bryn Mawr College 1
Cadbury, Catharine Balderston 1
Cadbury, Catherine J. 1
Cadbury, William Warder 1
Carter, Henry, 1804-1896 1
Carter, Joseph C. 1
Cooper, David 1
Cripps, Arthur Shearly, 1869-1952 1
Earlham College 1
Ecumenical Institute of Spirituality 1
Elkinton, J.P. 1
Ellis, Margaret 1
Five Years Meeting (Society of Friends: U.S.) 1
Fox, George 1
Greene, Rowland 1
Hanson, John F. (John Frederick), 1841-1917 1
Harvard University 1
Hirohito, Emperor of Japan 1
Hoag, Joseph, 1762-1846 1
Hoskins, Jane 1
Hügel, Friedrich, Freiherr von, 1852-1925 1
Jones, Augustine 1
Jones, Esther A. Balderston, 1891-1967 1
Jones, Rufus M. (Rufus Matthew), 1863-1948 1
Jones, Thomas Elsa, 1888-1973 1
Jordan, Richard 1
Kite family 1
Lloyd family 1
Michigan Agricultural College 1
New York State Reformatory for Women (Bedford Hills, N.Y.) 1
New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends 1
Nitobe, Inazō, 1862-1933 1
Nitobe, Mary Patterson Elkinton, 1857-1938 1
Paxson, Katherine Thompson 1
Pendle Hill (School: Wallingford, Pa.) 1
Penington, Isaac 1
Penington, Mary 1
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Mission Board 1
Rogers, Ruth Abbott 1
Society of Friends 1
Steere, Dorothy M., 1908-2003 1
Steere, Douglas V. (Douglas Van), 1901-1995 1
Taylor, George Washington 1
University of Oxford 1
Vatican Council (2nd : 1962-1965 : Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano) 1
Walton family 1
Westchester County Bible Society (Westchester County, N.Y.) 1
Westtown Boarding School 1
Whitall, James 1
White, Thomas Raeburn 1
Wood, Carolena Morris, 1871-1936 1
Wood, James, 1839-1925 1
Wood, Morris Wistar 1
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