Showing Collections: 1 - 10 of 10
Thomas Evans papers
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC.1324
Abstract
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
Hoskins family letterbook
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-02-034
Abstract
This collection is comprised of the single volume letterbook of the Hoskins family. The primary correspondents in the volume are members of the Hoskins family, though quite a number of the letters are directed to Benjamin H. Warder. Most of the letters were written in the 18th century, but some are from the 19th century. A number of them are religious in nature, while others deal with service in the ministry or visiting Friends, and some deal with states of health and mortality. The letters...
Dates:
1729-1864
Ann Jones Papers
Collection — othertype: SC-251
Identifier: SFHL-SC-251
Abstract
This collection contains letters and other manuscripts relating to visits of English Friends to America in the 1820s and the controversies which led to the Hicksite-Orthodox Separation. Also included are letters from Elizabeth Rathbone, Liverpool, England, to "My Beloved Uncle;" Joseph Bringhurst, Philadelphia, to "My Esteemed Friend;" also Abel Thomas to Thomas and Mary Wistar (copy) as well as some miscellaneous Quaker papers.
Dates:
1793 - 1831
Mary Ann Lloyd letterbook
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-02-013
Abstract
The letterbook of Mary Ann Lloyd includes correspondence between Daniel Wheeler and his daughter Jane Wheeler, as well as a copy of a letter from Daniel Wheeler to Elias Yarnall, dated 1840.
Dates:
1832-1840
Caleb McComber correspondence
Collection — othertype: SC-260
Identifier: SFHL-SC-260
Dates:
1814-1827
John Mott papers
Collection — othertype: SC-208
Identifier: SFHL-SC-208
Abstract
Contains transcriptions of John Mott's letters to family and friends and journals, probably compiled to circulate in manuscript form. Also some original letters from John Mott to his family. Mott wrote extensively on his religious views, particularly on Quaker testimony and the issues of the Hicksite separation, as well as the conflicts within Genesee Yearly Meeting which led to the separation of Congregational (Progressive) Friends. Of special interest is a draft of responses to queries...
Dates:
1822-1851
Price family papers
Collection — othertype: SC-101
Identifier: SFHL-SC-101
Abstract
This collection includes letters of Benjamin and Jane Price, among their family and with other Quakers. Also included are letters received by Benjamin's brother Eli K. Price regarding his legal practice, and by Benjamin's daughter-in-law Lydia H. Price, regarding family news. Bound volumes of letters record the correspondence of Benjamin and Jane Price while one or the other travelled in Quaker ministry. Of particular interest are : letters of Edward Hicks, regarding the Hicksite controversy...
Dates:
1809-1878
Richard Price correspondence with John Watson
Collection — othertype: SC-254
Identifier: SFHL-SC-254
Abstract
Richard Price's letters to fellow Hicksite Quaker John Watson provide a rich account of the Hicksite-Orthodox Separation with references and comments on many of the personalities involved: Elias Hicks, William Wharton, Jonathan Evans, as well as visiting Quaker ministers including George Truman, Lucretia Mott, Ann Jones, Mary and Susan Cox, and Martha Smith. Price also wrote a detailed account of the Proceedings of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, 1848. The collection contains a small number...
Dates:
1826-1867-1826-1848 (bulk)
Mary King Swayne letters
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1346
Abstract
The collection contains handwritten letters from and to Mary King Swayne, the wife of Joel Swayne, a Quaker missionary to the Onondaga Tribe of Upstate New York. The letters cover family life and discussions on religion, including the Hicksite Schism.
Dates:
1807 - 1864
William Woodman correspondence
Collection — othertype: SC-125
Identifier: SFHL-SC-125
Abstract
This collection includes letters received by William Woodman, primarily from his cousins Mary Anna Stradling and Annie Michener. Mary Anna Stradling's letters recount the rise of spiritualism in her community, her views on and interests in literature, and her conception of God. In one letter she muses on the changes among Orthodox Friends, and that they are now little different from Hicksite. Her writings reflect the daily life of women in the 19th Century.
Dates:
1861-1872
Filter Results
Additional filters:
- Library
- Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College 6
- Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections 4
- Subject
- Society of Friends -- Hicksite separation 8
- Church controversies -- Society of Friends 3
- Lay ministry -- Society of Friends 3
- Quakers -- Correspondence 3
- Society of Friends -- Schisms and separations 3
- correspondence 3
- Quaker women -- 19th century -- Correspondence 2
- Quakers 2
- Quakers -- History 2
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania 2
- Quakers -- Social life and customs 2
- Quakers -- United States 2
- Society of Friends -- Correspondence 2
- Society of Friends -- Hicksite Separation 2
- Society of Friends -- United States -- History -- 19th century 2
- Baal (Canaanite deity) 1
- Conservative Quakers 1
- Hicksites -- 19th century 1
- Indians of North America 1
- Mentally ill -- Care -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 1
- Mentally ill -- Care -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- Sources 1
- Philadelphia (Pa.) 1
- Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Genealogy 1
- Philadelphia (Pa.) -- History 1
- Philadelphia (Pa.) -- History -- Sources 1
- Philadelphia County (Pa.) -- Genealogy 1
- Quaker authors 1
- Quaker businesspeople 1
- Quaker deeds 1
- Quaker publishers 1
- Quaker women -- History -- Sources 1
- Quaker women -- Religious life 1
- Quaker women ministers -- 19th century 1
- Quakers -- Great Britain 1
- Quakers -- Michigan 1
- Quakers -- New York (State) 1
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 1
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- Sources 1
- Society of Friends -- Antislavery movement 1
- Society of Friends -- Barbados 1
- Society of Friends -- Indian affairs 1
- Society of Friends -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 1
- Society of Friends -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- Sources 1
- Society of Friends -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia County 1
- Society of Friends -- Sermons 1
- Society of Friends -- Testimonies and concerns 1
- Society of Friends -- Wilburite controversy 1
- Spiritualism -- United States -- History 1
- Women -- United States -- Books and Reading -- 19th Century 1
- family papers 1 + ∧ less
- Names
- Hicks, Elias, 1748-1830 3
- Evans, Thomas, 1798-1868 2
- Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia (Hicksite) 2
- Mott, John, 1783-1848 2
- Allinson, Elizabeth 1
- Braithwaite, Anna, 1788-1859 1
- Channing, William Ellery, 1780-1842 1
- Comly, John, 1773-1850 1
- Cresson, Sarah 1
- Dillwyn, William, 1743-1824 1
- Fisher, Hannah Logan 1
- Foulke, Elizabeth 1
- Garrett, Thomas, 1789-1871 1
- Genesee Yearly Meeting of Friends 1
- Gurney, Joseph John, 1788-1847 1
- Hanna, Benjamin, 1779-1853 1
- Hicks, Edward, 1780-1849 1
- Hoskins, John 1
- Hoskins, Lydia 1
- Jones, Ann, 1774-1846 1
- Lloyd, Mary Ann 1
- Michener, Annie, b. 1848? 1
- Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia 1
- Mott, James, 1788-1868 1
- New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends 1
- Parrish, Dillwyn, 1809-1886 1
- Paxson family 1
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1955) 1
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends Library 1
- Price family 1
- Price, Benjamin, 1793-1872 1
- Price, Eli K. (Eli Kirk), 1797-1884 1
- Price, Jane, 1791-1876 1
- Price, Lydia H., 1827-1907 1
- Price, Richard, 1794-1865 1
- Stradling, Mary Anna, 1847-1917 1
- Swayne, Mary King (1787-1855) 1
- Tallcot, Joseph, 1768-1853 1
- Waln, Nicholas, 1742-1813 1
- Watson, John, 1774-1864 1
- Wharton, Deborah Fisher, 1795-1888 1
- Wharton, William, 1790-1856 1
- Wheeler, Daniel, 1771-1840 1
- Woodman, William, 1838-1917 1
- Yearly Meeting of Congregational Friends (Waterloo, N.Y.) 1 + ∧ less
∨ more
∨ more
