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Quakers

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 563 Collections and/or Records:

Friends World Committee on Consultation records

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1004
Abstract

Three separate sets of records of Friends World Conferences, the first through the third, dated 1926-1952.

Dates: 1926-1929, 1934-1937, 1949-1952

Friends World Conference minutes

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-950-078
Abstract

This collection is comprised of the typed minutes of a Meeting of the Committee on arrangements for the London Conference.

Dates: 1920

Fritz and Karoline Solmitz papers

 Collection
Identifier: BMC-M94
Abstract Fritz Solmitz (1893-1933) was an early and outspoken leader in the opposition to Nazism, an editor of a Social Democratic newspaper in Lübeck and a member of the City council. Because of his active opposition to the Nazis, and probably because he was a Jew, he died of mistreatment in a German prison shortly after Hitler came to power. Karoline Somitz (1893-1966) was, like her husband, active in civic affairs. Much of the collection contains letters and photographs, some translated from...
Dates: 1929 - 2006
Found in: Bryn Mawr College

William Frost correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-950-079
Abstract

This collection is comprised of the handwritten letter (1809) between William Frost and Samuel Jenkins, and two letters between Thomas E. Drake and C.E.H. Whitlock concerning the sale of the original William Frost letter.

Dates: 1809, 1941

"George Fox, Seine Botschaft, Seine Wesen und Seine Leben"

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-07-033
Abstract

Emil Fuch's manuscript "George Fox, Seine Botschaft, Seine Wesen un Seine Leben" is written in German. In English, the title of the manuscript is "George Fox, his Message, his Essence, and his Life."

Dates: Undated.

"Quaker Influences on Whitman's Religious Thought"

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-07-034
Abstract

Walter B. Fulghum's dissertation "Quaker Influences on Whitman's Religious Thought" analyzes the influences of Quakerism, particularly the influences of Elias Hicks and Hicksite Quakerism, on Walt Whitman's religious thought. The manuscript discusses ways in which Whitman's personal demeanor and behavior reflected a Quaker influence, and connects Quakerism to the themes in Whitman's "Leaves of Grass."

Dates: 1943

Garret family library catalog

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-11-012
Scope and Content note

This collection is comprised of the single volume manuscript list of the volumes in the Garret family library. The volume is organized by genre, including biographies, histories, journals, Christian morals, science, books of reference, essays & prose literature, poetry, travels & geography, fiction, foreign languages, Latin, and miscellaneous.

Dates: Undated

Garrett family genealogical records

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-950-080
Abstract

This collection is comprised of the Garrett family genealogial records, and includes manuscripts concerning family history, research notes, and photographs of family members.

Dates: Undated.

Garrett, McCollin, and Vail family papers

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-950-081
Abstract

This collection contains the correspondence of the Garrett, McCollin, and Vail families.

Dates: 1820-1920

Samuel Garrigues commonplace book

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-03-014
Abstract

The commonplace book of Samuel Garrigues includes extracts of minutes by Thomas Brown, Quaker testimonies, memorandum of Thomas Brown's last illness, and an Account of Ann Parrish. The volume also contains copies of letters written by Samuel Fothergill, Frances Dodshon, Thomas Lloyd, and Samuel Neale.

Dates: 1757-1820