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Anna Wharton Wood collection

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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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Call Number:
MC.958
Repository:
Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections
Extent:
0.5 linear ft. (1 document box)
Language:
English
Preferred Citation:
Anna Wharton Wood collection 1741-1853 (HC.MC.958) Quaker & Special Collections, Haverford College, Haverford, PA
Date:
1741-1853 (inclusive)
Creator:
Wood, Anna Wharton Smith
Abstract:
The collection of Quaker Anna Wharton Wood includes letters of several 18th century Friends, a petition by English Friends, epistles, testimonies, and other miscellaneous items.

Anna Wharton Wood (1864-1945) daughter of Benjamin Rapier Smith and Esther Fisher Wharton m. Henry A. Wood. She was active in the Quaker Meeting in Cambridge, Ma.

Miscellaneous papers reflecting the religious and social interests of Friends of the period. Included are the following papers: Extracts from a journal, 1809, of a tour to Tunesassa and Cattaraugus by William Allinson, giving interesting details of travel and life among Indigenous Americans, reservations on the Allegheny River [Seneca Nation?], and the prehistoric remains of a people who lived in this area more than 2000 years ago; letters of William Logan, Samuel Emlen, Samuel Fothergill, and John Pemberton; a petition by English Friends to Governor Shirley, 1741; epistles; testimonies; "A plan for some slave utopia" / George Dillwyn (fragile), and other miscellaneous material on Quakerism.

Presented by Anna Wharton Wood, 1940

The journal of William Allinson to Indians in New York state in 1909 (extracts in the Anna Wharton Wood Collection) is to be found in the Allinson Family Papers (collection no. 968). See also Edward Wanton Smith family papers (collection no. 955).

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Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections
Access Restrictions

The collection is open to research use.

Use Restrictions

Standard Federal Copyright Law apply (U.S. Title 17)

Collection Inventory

George Dillwyn Notebooks (pts.1-3).
Box 1
Address to General Assembly of Pennsylvania.
Box 1
Joseph Delaphine Letters and Notes, 16175.
Box 1
Samuel Emlen Letters & Notes.
Box 1
John Fellows and Phineas Nixon Papers, 23rd of 11th Mo., 1826.
Box 1
Samuel Fothergill Letters and Notebook, `.
Box 1
Friends School in Burlington.
Box 1
Elizabeth Hopkins Wing.
Box 1
William Logan.
Box 1
John Pemberton.
Box 1
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Education Committee.
Box 1
(Letters of) Daniel B. Smith.
Box 1
(Letters to) Daniel B. Smith.
Box 1
Warner, Simeon, and others.
Box 1
Miscellaneous.
Box 1

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