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letters (correspondence)

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus

Found in 231 Collections and/or Records:

Joseph Sturge Mission School Opening and Friends' Freedmen's Relief Association Funds Request

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-950-280
Abstract This collection contains a leaflet regarding the opening of Joseph Sturge's First Day School at the Friends Locust St. Mission House in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on January 1st, 1865. The school was established as First Day school for poor African Americans and immigrants. The school later merged and formed the Benezet House Association to provide education and relief to African Americans. Lack of demanding and funding led to the school's demolishment in 1945. There is also a letter from...
Dates: December 1862 and September 1874

Mary S. Kimber papers

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-950-111
Abstract

This collection is comprised of the handwritten personal correspondence and receipts of Mary S. Kimber.

Dates: 1897-1904

Thomas Kimber collection

 Collection
Identifier: HCS-000-024
Abstract

This collection contains a letter from Thomas Kimber, dated October 16, 1830, to Richard Mott, as well as a portrait of Kimber and brief description.

Dates: 1830

Mary Kite commonplace book

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-03-060
Abstract

The commonplace book of Mary Kite includes extracts from her diary, correspondence, and an account of a religious visit to North Carolina. Diary entries concern family news, as well as Kite's attendance at Quaker meetings and social events.

Dates: 1831-1851

Ladd family correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-950-113
Abstract

This collection is comprised of the correspondence of the Ladd family. Letters describe Quaker meetings; traveling to other meetings such as those in Philadelphia, New York, Indiana, Missouri, and Rhode Island; health, family, and numerous Friends; and some discussion of business.

Dates: 1809-1841

Josiah W. Leeds scrapbooks

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1102
Abstract

Twenty-two scrapbooks of correspondence (circa 2,000 letters) of Josiah Woodward Leeds (1841-1908) with persons involved in the social reform movements of the late 19th century as well as tracts and clippings of articles and editorials written by Leeds and articles on topics of interest to him.

Dates: 1872-1907

Letter from Catherine Clancy to J.H. Haines

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-950-275
Abstract

Letter from Catherine Clancy to Joseph Haines about sculptor Hans Schwathe.

Dates: unknown

Letters of Friends: Unsigned, Unattributed, and/or Undated

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Identifier: HC.MC-865
Abstract

Included are letters of Friends unsigned, unattributed, and/or undated. In addition, there is a memorial to Samuel Fothergill; a letter to Phin, possibly Phineas Garrett, and two poems, one to the memory of a Richard Jordan (written in the 19th century), the other to the memory of Tacy Bates (written in the 19th century).

Dates: Undated.

Letters to Anna Wharton Wood and list of apple trees planted at Haverford College

 Collection
Identifier: HCS-000-013
Abstract

This collection consists of letters to Anna Wharton Wood from her brother Edward Wanton Smith and Amelia Mott Gummere about the history of Haverford College. It also includes newspaper clippings and a list of apple trees on the Haverford College campus copied by Wood from the papers of her grandfather, Daniel B. Smith.

Dates: 1925-1936

John Howard Lewis correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: HCS-003-080
Abstract

Correspondence letter written in 1834 to John Howard Lewis from his brother, Samuel C. Lewis; John Howard Lewis entered Haverford School (now Haverford College) in 1833.

Dates: 1834