manuscripts (documents)
Found in 245 Collections and/or Records:
"The Children of Light"
Elizabeth Stanley Trotter's "The Children of Light: Being the story of George Fox, the Quaker, and of Oliver Cromwell, the Soldier, and of William Penn, the Settler, and some of those who followed them" is entirely written in verse, and is split into four "books."
وصيت. Vaṣiyyet , 1784 C.E.; 1198 A.H.
Treatise on the principle of the Islamic faith including divine attributes, Quranic revelation, the prophethood of Muḥammad, the nature of angels, resurrection and the last days, correct ablution and acts of worship, and moral exhortation. Table of contents at the beginning.
Elizabeth Gray Vining papers
Elizabeth Gray Vining (1902-1999) was an author of children’s books and served as the tutor to the crown prince of Japan, Akihito, from 1946 to 1950. The collection consists of correspondence, materials regarding books authored by Vining, articles, lectures and addresses, photographs, and information documenting her and her family's lives.
"The Congregational or Progressive Friends in the Pre-Civil War Reform Movement"
This typed manuscript, entitled "The Congregational or Progressive Friends in the Pre-Civil War Reform Movement," was written by Albert J. Wahl as his dissertation for the Degree of Doctor of Education at the Teachers College at Temple University.
"Education of the Freedmen By Philadelphia and Baltimore Quakers During the Civil War and Reconstruction Period"
"Hegel's Theory of Positivity: An Application to Two Quaker Sects"
James Whitall manuscripts
This collection is comprised of two manuscripts collected by James Whitall. The collection includes the manuscript of a memoir or autobiography by Honah Landis, entitled "How Literature Came to Texas," and a French play by Edmond See, translated by Whitall, entitled "A Friend of His Youth."
"From the Wabash to the Delaware"
"Moll Pitcher: A Poem"
John Greenleaf Whittier's "Moll Pitcher: A Poem" describes the clairvoyant and fortune-teller Moll Pitcher, born Mary Diamond (ca. 1736-1813), of Massachusetts, as a witch engaged in sinful work.
Thomas Willis papers
This collection contains a letter by Thomas Willis and a transcribed account of an earlier event.