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American Friends' letters
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-851
Overview
The collection is composed chiefly of letters of members of the Society of Friends in the United States from the 17th to the 20th centuries; there are also documents, clippings, published articles, and miscellaneous manuscripts.
Dates:
1682-1986
Balderston Collected Manuscripts
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-SC-006
Abstract
Most of the correspondence in this collection is addressed to Henry Drinker concerning trivial and more substantive matters of his business and that of the Society of Friends, including a letter from William Savery in 1794 from Canadagua describing a visit to the Oneidas. Also included are a document from the Philadelphia Committee to Joseph Elkinton in Tunesassah (1822) and a subscription list (1831) for J.J. Foster's publication on the New Jersey Crosswicks trial, signed by Roberts Vaux and...
Dates:
1735-1822
Bettle Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-013
Overview
The Bettle family were prominent 19th century Quaker merchants in Philadelphia. Samuel Bettle, Sr., was Clerk of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting at the time of the Separation in 1827. His son, Samuel Bettle, Jr., was also a Quaker minister. They had at least five children, among whom was Samuel, Jr.; the latter married Mary Ann Jones in 1831. The collection includes correspondence, biographical clippings, business records, and other papers of Samuel Bettle and his family. Correspondents include...
Dates:
1800-1955
Stephen G. Cary collection
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1320
Overview
This collection contains the personal materials of Stephen G. Cary and historical materials collected by Cary about his relatives.
Dates:
1714-2003
William Wistar Comfort papers
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1195
Scope and Contents
Papers include such biographical information as provided in William Wistar Comfort’s autobiography, a small amount of correspondence, as with his father, Howard Comfort, Comfort’s writings on French topics, Friends’ stories for children, on William Cowper and primarily on Quaker topics, including on William Penn, Anthony Benezet and Stephen Grellet. Comfort spoke publicly on many occasions, specifically at schools and colleges as well as in France during his stay there in 1937.
Dates:
1867-1941
Maramaduke Cooper Cope collection
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1022
Overview
Letters to and from the Quaker Marmaduke Cooper Cope (1804-1897) of the prominent Philadelphia Cope family on various important issues of his day.
Dates:
1843-1874
Families of Philadelphia papers
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1184
Overview
Papers of the Philadelphia families Bloomfield, Coates, Cresson, Emlen, Gumbes, Horner, Howel, Lloyd, Macomb, Moore, Vaux and Wetherill families from the 19th and 20th centuries. Some of these families were Quaker, including Coates, Emlen and Vaux; others had some Quaker family members, including Cresson, other families (as represented in this collection, including Gumbes and Wetherill, did not remain Quaker.
Dates:
1700-1942
Grellet-Gurney correspondence
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-SC-049
Abstract
This collection includes correspondence of members of the Grellet and Gurney families. Letters between Stephen and Rebecca Collins Grellet to her Collins and Longstreth relations relate primarily family news. Also included are letters of the Gurneys, Joseph John and his wife, Elizabeth Paul, from William Forster, and from Stephan Grellet. These letters share news of traveling ministers and discussions of spiritual issues. Also of interest are a letter of Edward Pease, a letter from Mary Anna...
Dates:
1799-1859
Stephen Grellet papers
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-967
Overview
Letters, diary fragments and other miscellaneous papers. Primarily related to Grellet's travels in Europe, Russia and Haiti as Quaker missionary. Topics include his spiritual life, meeting leaders of religious denominations in Europe, with Friends and other religious sects (Saints), visits to schools, prisons, poorhouses and hospitals during travels, visits with members of European aristocracy, Russian nobility and Pope Pius VII (1819), social and religious situation in Haiti (1816).
Dates:
1796 - 1955; Majority of material found within 1796 - 1833
Stephen Grellet travel papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-SC-234
Abstract
The collection contains travel minutes for Stephen Grellet's ministry in 1800-1805 in the northeastern U.S., a copy of Stephen Grellet's account of the religious conversion of a Swede who was called upon to preach to pirates, and the original and a manuscript copy of Grellet's religious epistle dated 24, 6mo, 1813, to New York Monthly Meeting, sent from Morlaix, France.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1800-1813
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- Hicks, Elias, 1748-1830 3
- Kersey, Jesse, 1768-1845 3
- Coffin, Elijah, 1798-1862 2
- Grellet family 2
- Haverford College 2
- Pease, Edward, 1767-1858 2
- Pease, John, 1797-1868 2
- Savery, William, 1750-1804 2
- Allen, John, 1790-1859 1
- Benezet, Anthony 1
- Bettle family 1
- Bettle, Jane, 1773-1840 1
- Bettle, Samuel, 1774-1861 1
- Bettle, Samuel, 1809-1880 1
- Bloomfield family 1
- Bloomfield, Isabella Macomb 1
- Bloomfield, Joseph, 1753-1823 1
- Bringhurst, Deborah, 1773-1844 1
- Brown, Moses, 1738-1836 1
- Burlington Monthly Meeting of Friends (1827-1959: Rancocas, N.J.) 1
- Canby, Isaiah 1
- Cary, Elizabeth S. 1
- Cary, Stephen G. 1
- Chalkley, Thomas, 1675-1741 1
- Churchman, George, 1730-1814 1
- Clark, Elizabeth 1
- Claypoole, Jane 1
- Coates family 1
- Coates, Benjamin Hornor, 1797-1881 1
- Coates, Benjamin, 1808-1887 1
- Coates, George M., 1845-1894 1
- Coates, Sarah Hornor, 1825-1912 1
- Coates, William Morrison, 1845-1937 1
- Comfort family 1
- Comfort, William Wistar 1
- Cook, Charity, 1745-1822 1
- Cope, M. C. 1
- Cope, Sarah Wistar 1
- Coppin, Fanny Jackson 1
- Cowper, William, 1731-1800 1
- Cresson family 1
- Cresson, Caleb, 1775-1821 1
- Cresson, Francis Macomb, 1867- 1
- Cresson, George Vaux, 1836-1908 1
- Cresson, Isabella Bloomfield Gumbes, 1844-1913 1
- Cresson, Mary B. 1
- Cresson, Sarah E., 1787-1870 1
- Cresson, Susan Vaux, -1890 1
- Cresson, William Penn, 1814-1892 1
- Darby, Deborah, 1754-1810 1
- Day, Mahlon 1
- Dillwyn, George, 1738-1820 1
- Drinker, Henry, 1734-1809 1
- Elkinton, Joseph, 1794-1868 1
- Emlen family 1
- Evans, C. 1
- Fennell, George, b.1787 1
- Forster, Josiah, 1782-1870 1
- Forster, William, 1784-1854 1
- Foster, J. J. (Jeremiah J.) 1
- Fothergill, Samuel 1
- Garrigues family 1
- Garrigues, Edward, 1756-1845 1
- Grant, Elihu, 1873-1942 1
- Green, Priscilla 1
- Grellet, Rebecca, 1772-1861 1
- Groth, Mary Coates 1
- Gumbes family 1
- Gumbes, Francis 1
- Gumbes, Rebecca W., 1789-1869 1
- Gumbes, Samuel Wetherill, 1813-1865 1
- Gurney, Eliza Paul, 1801-1881 1
- Gurney, Joseph John, 1788-1847 1
- Harris, J. Rendel (James Rendel), 1852-1941 1
- Hicks, Isaac, 1767-1820 1
- Hornor family 1
- Hornor, Benjamin C., approximately 1806-1875 1
- Hornor, Benjamin, 1737-1823 1
- Hornor, Benjamin, 1769-1810 1
- Hornor, Sarah, 1767-1848 1
- Howell family 1
- Hunt, John, 1711 or 1712-1778 1
- Hunt, Nathan, 1758-1853 1
- Hurnard, Hannah, 1778?-1835 1
- Hurnard, Robert, b.1774 1
- Jenkins, John 1
- Jones, Esther A. Balderston, 1891-1967 1
- Jones, Rebecca, 1739-1817 1
- Jones, Sybil 1
- Kite, Thomas, 1785-1845 1
- Ladd, Benjamin 1
- Lewis family 1
- Lindsey, Robert 1
- Lloyd family 1
- Longstreth family 1
- Longstreth, Mary Anna, 1810-1884 1
- Lowber, Michael 1
- Macomb family 1
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