Collected Writings of Friends House Residents
Scope and Contents
Contains writings of residents of Friends House, a Quaker retirement home in Sandy Spring, Md., and Haviland Hall, its nursing home extension. The majority were typed and collected between 1980 and 1994 by Margaret P. Apgar who was a resident of the House, and most of the authors represented were Quakers.
Organization: Three series: 1. Gleanings, published in-house, 2, Margaret Apgar’s notebooks with additional miscellaneous writing; 3. Other writings and collected works by residents, arranged alphabetically.
Dates
- Creation: 1980-1995
Creator
- Apgar, Margaret Parsons (Person)
- Steer, Margaret Wells, 1899-1992 (Contributor, Person)
- Birckhead, Mary B. (Contributor, Person)
- Spencer, Cornelia, -1899 (Contributor, Person)
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Permission to reuse, publish, or reproduce items in this collection beyond the bounds of Fair Use or other exemptions to copyright law must be obtained from the copyright holder or their heirs/assigns. See http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-RUU/1.0/.
Biographical / Historical
Friends House is a Quaker retirement home in Sandy Spring, Md., which opened in 1961 under the sponsorship of Baltimore Yearly Meeting. Friends Nursing Home, Inc., was established as an extension of the retirement home; Haviland Hall is the assisted living facility of the Nursing Home.
Margaret P. Apgar was a resident Friends House. She co-edited the Friends House Newsletter and typed and edited writings of residents. A selection were published in-house in six volumes under the title of Gleanings. The writings were initiated by a Friends House Writers Workshop held in 1980 which in turn inspired a Writers Group wherein residents shared more of their memories and writings.
Margaret Apgar left Friends House in 1991 after sixteen years, and returned in 2001. Her notebooks include additional works by the residents of Friends House and Haviland Hall, including works by Grace Yaukey who published under the name of Cornelia Spencer, Margaret Wells Steer, Grace Nesbitt, and Margaret Birckhead.
Extent
1 linear ft. (2 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Contains collected writings of residents of Friends House, a Quaker retirement home in Sandy Spring, Md., and Haviland Hall, its nursing home extension. Margaret P. Apgar collected, typed and edited the writings between 1980 and 1994. The collection includes Gleanings, the published collection of residents’ work in six volumes, and additional writings by individuals including by Grace Yaukey who published under the name of Cornelia Spencer, Margaret Wells Steer, Grace Nesbitt, and Margaret Birckhead.
Physical Location
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Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift, Margaret P. Apgar, 1996
Gift, Pamela Apgar, 1999
Immediate Source of Acquisition
This collection was assembled by Margaret Apgar, editor of the newsletter of Friends House, Maryland, and of Gleanings, six volumes of collected writings of the residents of the retirement home. In December, 1999, Pamela Apgar, Margaret's daughter, donated additional works of Mary Birckhead which were collected by her mother.
Separated Materials
Steer, Margery Wells, The View in Winter. Southbound Press, 1992. Transferred to FHL books.
Friends House Letter, Vols. 1-15, transferred to FHL Serial Group 1.
Processing Information
Duplicates were removed and the full set of Friends House Newsletter transferred to FHL Serial Group 1. Writings by individual authors arranged alphabetically. Individual manuscript items sent by Mary Birckhead to Larry and Margaret Apgar and received from Martha Nesbitt (1999) added to the other papers by Mary Birckhead.
Subject
- Friends House (Sandy Spring, Md.) (Organization)
- Apgar, Margaret Parsons (Person)
- Title
- Margaret P. Apgar. Collected Writings of Friends House Residents, 1980-1995
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
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