Joseph Meyers correspondence

There are over 100 letters in this collection from 14 different correspondents. Most of the letter writers were Meyer’s classmates at Westtown School. The letters contain mostly life events, discussions of mutual friends, and reminiscence of the Westtown days. Many of the correspondents mention each other or their families in one letter or another, and it is clear that they are all familiar, likely through Westtown. The majority of the letters are from one William B. Kirkbride, Meyer’s school friend and his mother’s fourth cousin. Kirkbride’s letters span from their graduation from Westtown until less than one month before Kirkbride’s death. The non-correspondence materials include invitations to Haverford College events from 1879-1882 (especially relating to D.H. Forsythe, W. Leeds, E. Jones, C. Gause Jr.) and Meyer’s report cards from Friends School, Muncy from 1868-1872.