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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
Thomas Evans papers
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC.1324
Overview
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
Overview
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
Overview
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
Overview
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
William Hodgson Jr. diary
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-01-035
Overview
William Hodgson Jr. was a Quaker minister. His diary entries describe the voyage from Liverpool, England, to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, including descriptions of the weather, books Hodgson read while on board, and the Captain and other passengers. Later entries related to Hodgson's time in Philadelphia describe the terrain, his attendance at the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting and other Quaker Meetings, visits to schools in Philadelphia, and discussions of the Hicksite separation.
Dates:
1827
Collection of Isaac T. Hopper papers
Collection — othertype: SC-058
Identifier: SFHL-SC-058
Abstract
This collection includes Isaac T. Hopper's original and photocopied letters and his letterbook. Much of the material concerns his bookselling business and the Hicksite separation. He relates news of figures central to the controversy, including Elisha Bates, Elias Hicks, and Anna Braithwaite. Also included is Hopper's copy of the book, The History of the Life of Thomas Elwood.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1833-1902 [ 1833-1845]
Hannah Hurnard family letters
Collection — othertype: SC-062
Identifier: SFHL-SC-062
Abstract
This collection includes the correspondence of Hannah Hurnard and her family, written between Essex, England, and Wilmington, Delaware. The letters document the family's emigration to America, their struggles adapting to life there, and finally their return to England. Letters between Hannah and her sister, Elizabeth Clark, share family and local news. Letters from Mary Thresher relate the activities of Quaker ministers, including Stephen Grellet, Jesse Kersey, and Nathan Hunt. The letters...
Dates:
1804-1836
George & Ann Jones notebook
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-11-019
Scope and Content note
This collection is comprised of a single volume manuscript notebook, with notes related to a disturbance at the Mulberry Street House, when George and Ann Jones held an evening meeting, in 1826. According to the first entry, at a meeting of the Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia, a committee was created for “ascertaining the facts, and enquiring into the cause of the disturbance which occurred in the vicinity of our meeting house a few weeks since.” The notebook records the meetings...
Dates:
1826-1827
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- Braithwaite, Anna, 1788-1859 3
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- Price, Benjamin, 1793-1872 2
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- Ferris, Benjamin, 1780-1867 1
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- Ferris, Fanny, 1778-1833 1
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- Ford, Alice, 1906- 1
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- Grellet, Stephen, 1773-1855 1
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- Hunt, Nathan, 1758-1853 1
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- Jericho Preparative Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Nassau County, N.Y.) 1
- Jones, Ann, 1774-1846 1
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- Kersey, Jesse, 1768-1845 1
- Kimber, Emmor, 1775-1850 1
- Leggett, Aaron, 1792-1860 1
- Lloyd, Mary Ann 1
- Lockwood, John, 1793?-1859 1
- McClintock, Thomas, 1792?-1876 1
- Mott, James, 1788-1868 1
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