This series includes minutes and related materials such as brief correspondence and materials relating directly to the minutes. These minutes are from Board of Directors meetings and the annual fall event. Board meetings are held three times a year, with a fourth annual meeting and event for members held in late fall. The minute book for the Friends Historical Society is also included in this series (1909-1934).

3.3 linear ft.

This series contains correspondence, predominately correspondence to/from editors of the Bulletin or Quaker History, the office manager of Friends Historical Association, and various presidents of the organization. This series also contains correspondence with some organizations with which Friends Historical Association did business, such as printers and bookstores. This series is arranged chronologically, except in cases when original order was alphabetical. In these cases, the folders are arranged chronologically according to the first folders in the alphabet (folder containing the letter "A").

5.8 linear ft.

This series contains financial materials, including balance books, check receipt books, account balance sheets, returned checks, financial receipts, reports to the treasurer, ledger sheets, budgets, various statements. This series also includes minor correspondence related to a Xerox/UMI agreement. Of particular interest may be the treasurer reports, and materials related to the "Help US Grow New Members" campaign from 1996.

3.1 linear ft.

This series contains materials related to the biennial Conference for Quaker Historians and Archivists. The conference is held at various Quaker colleges and universities across the United States and Canada. The materials in this series include correspondence, paper proposals from various years, paper proposals, registrant lists, papers (1996-2010), responses to papers (1998, 2000), business meeting minutes, miscellaneous materials, and program and registration information. This information includes schedules, programs, program letters, and often information about the college or university at which the meeting was held. The correspondence includes general correspondence, such as invitations to submitting papers to the conference or for attending the conference, as well as some planning committee correspondence. All information is not available for all conferences, review the folder list for more information.

3.2 linear ft.

This series includes two subseries: Membership committee materials, and other committee matierals. See subseries for descriptions.

1.7 linear ft.

This series contains subseries regarding publications and publicity for Friends Historical Association. See subseries for further description.

2 linear ft.

The Association holds two stated meetings each year, an annual meeting in November in Philadelphia, and a historical pilgrimage in the spring to some region associated with the history of Quakerism. The spring meeting is typically held in May, however it was often held in the summer, or another event was held in the summer. See subseries for more information.

1.26 linear ft.

This series contains materials that do not fit into other series, including the Certification of Incorporation from 1875, copies of the charter and by-laws, and the Friends Historical Association Seal, which was "used in making bronze markers."

0.42 linear ft.

This series includes materials from the Conference of Quaker Historians and archivists, and membership records. The conference materials include programs and notes. The membership materials include card file lists of members, organized both alphabetically and geographically.