Subject: Quakers -- Pennsylvania / Language: English - Philadelphia Area Archives Search Results

Rhoads & Wing letterbook, 1868-1881 (inclusive)

Extent:: 0.08 linear ft. (1 volume)
Abstract:: This letterbook contains the correspondence between William G. Rhoads, Samuel Rhoads, and Asa Wing. The volume includes both personal and business correspondence.

Held at: Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections [Contact Us]

"An Account of all the Yearly, Quarterly, Monthly and Particular Meetings of the Friends of America, 1772", 1772 (inclusive)

Extent:: 0.06 linear ft. (1 volume, 1 folder)
Abstract:: This anonymously written volume provides a list of every meeting held in Colonial United States in 1772. Entries include the locations and dates of the yearly and quarterly meetings, and each entry for a monthly meeting includes a list of the particular meetings belonging to that monthly meeting. Meetings for Rhode Island, New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Maryland. The volume includes an index for the meetings at the back.

Held at: Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections [Contact Us]

Penn Family Memoranda from Various Sources, Undated

Extent:: 0.04 linear ft. (1 volume)
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Held at: Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections [Contact Us]

Webb and Price family papers, 1703-1961 (inclusive)

Extent:: 0.22 linear ft.
Abstract:: The collection contains photos and genealogical information on the Webb and Price families.

Held at: Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections [Contact Us]

Elliston P. Morris letterbook, 1831-1915 (inclusive)

Extent:: 0.45 linear ft. (5 volumes)
Abstract:: This collection is comprised of four volumes of Elliston Morris's letterbooks, three large bound volumes, and one volume of Bushnell's Perfect Letter Copying Book. All volumes in the collection contain business correspondence related to financial transactions, including loans, and the buying and selling of real estate.

Held at: Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections [Contact Us]

"The Trail of Life in the Middle Years", 1934 (inclusive)

Extent:: 0.16 linear ft. (1 volume)
Abstract:: The manuscript of Rufus M. Jones, entitled "The Trail of Life in the Middle Years," is the third volume in an autobiographical series, of which the two preceding volumes are: "Finding the Trail of Life" and "The Trail of Life in College." The narrative begins in the year 1893, when Jones became the editor of "The Friends Review" and began teaching philosophy at Haverford College. In it, he discusses the state of the Society of Friends at the time, and discusses his personal reconciliation of past Quaker separations, particularly during his time as the editor of "The Friends Review."

Held at: Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections [Contact Us]

William Wistar Comfort lecture notes and papers, 1941-1956 (inclusive)

Extent:: 0.21 linear ft. (1 box)
Abstract:: The collection consists of William Wistar Comfort's lecture notes, dated 1941-1953, pertaining to a course on Quakerism that he taught at Haverford College, general notes on Quakerism, and a 1956 typescript of the History of Haverford.

Held at: Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections [Contact Us]

Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Historical Records Project, 1984-1989 (inclusive)

Extent:: 3.03 linear ft. (7 boxes)
Abstract:: This collection contains the records of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records Project compiled between the years of 1984 and 1989. Included in the collection are the published materials of the project, processing plans, photographs, notes, and scanned copies of the listing of archival records for this Meeting, for individual Yearly Meetings, Quaker Meetings, and Monthly Meetings.

Held at: Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections [Contact Us]

Wilmer J. and Mildred Binns Young Papers, 1909-2014 (inclusive)

Extent:: 2 linear ft. (3 boxes)
Abstract:: Wilmer J. Young (1887-1983), a Quaker teacher and peace activist born in Iowa, was involved in post World War I reconstruction in France and Poland. He married Mildred Binns in 1922, and together they worked with AFSC work camps and cooperative farms until he began to teach at Pendle Hill in 1955. The collection contains primarily journals and correspondence from his time in France.

Held at: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College [Contact Us]

Friendly Association for Regaining and Preserving Peace with the Indians by Pacific Measures records, 1756-1762 (inclusive)

Extent:: .1 linear ft. (.1 linear feet (ca. 1 in.) and 1 oversize item in flat file)
Abstract:: Correspondence, including that with civil and military authorities, accounts of preliminary meetings with Indian delegates, and invoices, relating to the Treaty of Easton.

Held at: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College [Contact Us]

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