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letters (correspondence)

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus

Found in 196 Collections and/or Records:

Howell family correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-950-099
Overview

This collection is comprised of the correspondence of the Howell family. Letters are between family members, Elizabeth and Israel Howell and their children, and relate family matters.

Dates: 1818-1847

Geo [George] and Susan Howland Letter

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-950-294
Overview

This collection contains a jointly written letter by Geo [George] and Susan Howland to Phebe Field and Humphrey Howland in 1830.

Dates: 1830

Gulielma M. Howland Collection

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1000
Abstract

In these papers collected by Gulielma Howland are letters or other writings of such notable Quakers as George Dillwyn, Susanna Dillwyn, Samuel Emlen, John Fothergill,, Rebecca Grellet, Hannah Griffitts, Sarah Moore Grimke, Hill family, Margaret H. Hilles, James Logan, Margaret Hill Morris, Milcah Martha Moore, James and John Pemberton,, Daniel B. Smith, John Smith, Margaret H. Smith, Roberts Vaux, Daniel Wheeler and Thomas Wistar.

Dates: ca. 1700-1867

Howland-Shearman Family Correspondence,

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-303
Overview The collection is composed of correspondence of the family of David Sands Shearman and his wife, Hepsa Hathaway Howland Shearman of New Bedford, Massachusetts, and Poughkeepsie, New York. The Shearman and Howlands were prominent New England Quaker merchant and whaling families, intertwined by business and marriage. Much of the correspondence is directed to Hepsa, largely from her children who pursued a range of careers. Early correspondence is with her husband Captain David Sands...
Dates: 1800 - 1916; Majority of material found within 1832 - 1899

John R. Hubbard letter

 Collection
Identifier: HCS-003-114
Overview

This collection contains one letter written by John R. Hubbard and addressed to John F. Rowell.

Dates: 1853 November 11

James C. Iddings letter

 Collection
Identifier: HCS-003-086
Overview

The collection contains a letter written by James C. Iddings to his uncle Charlie about their family while a student at Haverford College.

Dates: 1853

Janney family papers

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-950-102
Overview

This collection contains Janney family papers, and includes family correspondence, newspaper clippings, financial records, legal papers, maps, and photographs.

Dates: 1800-1870

Japanese Yearly Meeting Letter

 Collection — Box 60
Identifier: HC.MC-950-274
Overview

This collection contains a letter from Herbert V. Nicholson, a Quaker missionary and vocal opponent of Japanese internment camps, about the first established Japanese Yearly Meeting in 1917. Throughout the letter, he writes about the attendees, the regions they're coming from, as well as how the Yearly Meeting has much room to grow.

Dates: 1917-05-12

Emily Jermyn commonplace book

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-03-021
Overview The commonplace book of Emily Jermyn features hand copied excerpts from manuscripts in the Friends Reference Library, London. It is largely comprised of the letters and journal entries, religious in nature, of the following Quakers: Christopher Taylor, Henry Fell, Bridget Fell, Margaret Fell, John Rous, John Abraham, Leonard Fell, Ann Cleaton, Edward Burrough, Thomas Taylor, James Nayler, George Fox, Francis Howgill, Gervase Benson, John Lawson, Mary Pease, Joshua Nicholson, Thomas...
Dates: Undated.

Jones Family papers

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1009
Abstract

The papers of Eli and Sybil Jones, 19th century Quaker missionaries, most notably to the Middle East where they established missions on Mt. Lebanon and in Ramallah, Palestine; the correspondence of Charles and Ellen Jones, also 19th century Quaker missionaries in Ramallah; and the letters of Quaker James Parnell Jones, son of Eli and Sybil Jones, who fought in the Civil War.

Dates: 1821-1918