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Thomas Wistar Brown papers

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Held at: Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections [Contact Us]370 Lancaster Ave, Haverford, PA 19041

This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held at the Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in their reading room, and not digitally available through the web.

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Correspondence, letter books, diaries, scrapbooks, account books, deeds, marriage certificates, genealogical material, and miscellaneous manuscript and printed items of, or about, Thomas Wistar Brown (1826-1916), his father Moses Brown (1793-1878), his mother Mary (Wistar) Brown (b. 1807), his brother Moses Brown (b. 1829), his wife Mary (Farnum) Brown, his son John Farnum Brown (1873-1894) and others. Under correspondence, there are four letters from Eliza Paul (Kirkbride) Gurney to Elizabeth W. Wistar. Included under miscellaneous manuscripts are extracts from the Minutes of Dover [N.H.] Monthly Meeting, 1701/2-1785, the will of William Brown of Dover, N.H., 4mo. 19 1833, and a poem by Joseph John Gurney, 1838. The collection also contains the Wistar Family tree.

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Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections
Finding Aid Author
Original author unknown; revised by Sarah Horowitz
Finding Aid Date
Unknown; revised October 2018

Collection Inventory

Archival Resource Key. Deeds.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Passport.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Correspondence, undated and 1916.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Miscellaneous manuscripts.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Miscellaneous printed items.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Letterbook of Mary W. Brown, 1815-1834.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Letterbook of Moses Brown, 1827-1841.
Box 2
Archival Resource Key. Letterbook of T. Wistar Brown, undated to 1914.
Box 3
Archival Resource Key. Extracts from the diary of Elizabeth Young, 1842.
Box 4
Archival Resource Key. Diary of T. Wistar and Moses Brown, 1833-1834.
Box 5
Archival Resource Key. Diary of T. Wistar Brown, 1891-1915.
Box 6
Archival Resource Key. Scrapbook of T. Wistar Brown.
Box 7
Archival Resource Key. Account book of T. Wistar Brown, 1905-1909.
Box 8
Archival Resource Key. Mary Farnum's piece book, part 1.
Box 9
Archival Resource Key. Mary Farnum's piece book, part 2.
Box 10
Archival Resource Key. Account of the sickness and death of the wife and daughter of Daniel Wheeler, 1832.
Box 11
Archival Resource Key. Bird notes of John Farnum Brown, part 1, 1890.
Box 12
Archival Resource Key. Bird notes of John Farnum Brown, part 1, 1890-1891.
Box 13

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