Quakers -- England -- London
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Henry J. Cadbury Letter
This collection contains a 1966 letter sent to Henry J. Cadbury by Avis G. Clarke on behalf of the American Antiquarian Society. Clarke and the Society ask Cadbury about information regarding the origin of American "Epistles" printed before 1820.
Rebecca Singer Collins papers
Letters and diaries of Rebecca Singer Collins (1804-1892), a nineteenth-century Quaker well known for her religious philanthropic work.
John Ewer letters
Letters of John Ewer, located in London, to Owen Biddle (1737-1799), located in Philadelphia. Ewer was supplying Biddle, a Philadelphian merchant, with fabric of various kinds and patterns. Most of the letters deal with the shipping of this merchandise to Biddle and its payment. There are references to the increasing difficulties between Great Britain and the British colonies that would become the United States in Ewer's letters of 1775-1776.
West family correspondence
Collection of miscellaneous letters, mostly relating to family and affairs of Samuel West, a Quaker merchant of London and Maidenhead, England. Of particular interest is a letter from Henry Tuke concerning proposed admission of a patient to The Retreat, a home for the mentally ill in Leeds.
