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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
Darlington Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-296
Overview
This collection contains the papers of the Darlington family of Delaware County, Pa., and Woodstown, NJ. Quakers with strong ties to Swarthmore College, the family was involved in education, social and peace concerns, and businesses in the Philadelphia area. Charles J. Darlington (1894-1966) served as Clerk of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends during the reunification of the two Philadelphia Yearly Meetings. The collection includes family correspondence relating...
Dates:
1831-2012
Lydia Jones Sharpless Hunn Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-070
Overview
Lydia Jones Sharpless Hunn (1818-1911) was a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Orthodox Quaker. The collection contains diaries (1881-1908), reminiscences (1893), and other family papers.
Dates:
1881-1908
Sharpless addition
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1319
Overview
This collection contains papers, clippings, and photographs relating to the Sharpless family.
Dates:
1903-2018
Sharpless family letterbook
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-02-017
Overview
The personal correspondence included in the Sharpless family letterbook acted as a circulating "family letter," and was added to by each family member with the goal of assembling the letters at the end of the year and binding them together for the use of future generations. Letters generally provide news of each letter writer, as well as comments on past letters. Letter writers include Susanna F. Sharpless, Edith Sharpless, Thomas Sharpless, Elizabeth S. Smedley, Ann Sharpless, William...
Dates:
1883
Sharpless family papers
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-950-163
Overview
This collection contains materials of the Sharpless family, related to the Anna T. Jeanes and Joseph Jeanes Fund and the George School.
Dates:
1891-1920
Sharpless Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-MSS-040
Overview
The collection represents two branches of the Sharpless family of Pennsylvania descended from Joseph and Lydia (Lewis) Sharpless). It contains correspondence between extended Sharpless family relations including Sharpless, Hunn, Jones, Drinker families and journals of Joshua Sharpless, a Quaker minister who worked with Native Americans and visited Quaker meetings in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Canada. Correspondence covers various topics including the travels of women ministers, yellow...
Dates:
1792-1892
Sharpless Family papers
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1111
Overview
Letters, accounts, diaries, and journals of members of the interrelated Sharpless and Kite families, including the papers of Joshua Sharpless (1746/7-1826) and letters of Mary Kite (1792-1861) as well as the papers of Edward G. Smedley, ca. 1836-1908, dealing with his experiences as a conscientious objector during the Civil War, 1863-1866.
Dates:
1748-1875
Smedley Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-319
Overview
The collection contains correspondence, journals and other writings, business and legal papers, and miscellaneous items of the Smedley family, a large and prominent Quaker family of Penncrest Farm, Middletown Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania. The family was related to the Kite and Sharples/Sharpless families of Chester and Delaware Counties. The papers include significant correspondence of the Kite family, especially Thomas Kite (1785-1845) and Mary Kite (1792-1861), both prominent...
Dates:
1751 - 1996; Majority of material found within 1821 - 1950
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- Balderston, Ida Smedley (Ida Roberts Smedley Balderston), 1896-1993 1
- Brinton family 1
- Brown, Moses, 1738-1836 1
- Churchman, George, 1730-1814 1
- Coffin, Elijah, 1798-1862 1
- Darlington family 1
- Darlington, Charles J. (Charles Joseph), 1894-1966 1
- Darlington, Esther 1
- Delaware Indians. Lenape Indians. Lenni Lenape Indians 1
- Dillwyn, George, 1738-1820 1
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- Grant, Elihu, 1873-1942 1
- Grellet, Stephen, 1773-1855 1
- Groth, Mary Coates 1
- Harris, J. Rendel (James Rendel), 1852-1941 1
- Hicks, Elias, 1748-1830 1
- Hunn, Ezekiel, 1841-1926 1
- Hunt, John, 1711 or 1712-1778 1
- Jones, Esther A. Balderston, 1891-1967 1
- Jones, Rebecca, 1739-1817 1
- Kersey, Jesse, 1768-1845 1
- Klein family 1
- Ladd, Benjamin 1
- Masters family 1
- Mendenhall, Joseph 1
- Mott, Lucretia, 1793-1880 1
- Nicholson, William H. (William Hopkins), 1827-1908 1
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1955) 1
- Pleasants, Robert, 1723-1801 1
- Pocono Manor (Pa.) 1
- Pocono Manor Association 1
- Rhoads, James E. (James Evans), 1828-1895 1
- Russell, Elbert, 1871-1951 1
- Savery, William, 1721 or 1722-1787 1
- Sharpless, Aaron, 1809-1876 1
- Sharpless, Ann 1
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- Turner, Joseph, 1765-1841 1
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