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Yearly Meeting Epistles and Extracts

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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.

Overview and metadata sections

Call Number:
MC.971
Repository:
Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections
Extent:
2.1 linear ft. (5 boxes)
Language:
English
Preferred Citation:
Yearly Meeting Epistles and Extracts (HC.MC.971), Quaker & Special Collections,Haverford College, Haverford, PA
Date:
1668-1944 (inclusive)
Creator:
Rhoads, Hannah, Ely, Ruth, Evans, William, 1787-1867, Bettle, Samuel, Pemberton, James, 1723-1809, and Scattergood, Joseph
Form:
Epistles
Abstract:
Contemporary copies of epistles and extracts of Yearly Meeting minutes, of Meeting for Sufferings, and of Women Friends, of London, Dublin, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Virginia, Rhode Island from 1698-1944.

Epistles are documents published by Quaker meetings directed towards other meetings. Usually published yearly, these documents contain some of the main concerns of the meetings for that year.

This collection consists of Epistles from England, Ireland, and the United States. Some are printed and some are handwritten. The printed Epistles are sometimes reprinted in other cities. Each Epistle is usually signed by one member of the meeting, the Clerk. See "Other Finding Aids" note for link to itemized list of epistles

The Epistle collection is arranged first by the country from which the Epistle is from, for example: England, Ireland, or the United States. The Epistles to meetings within that country are first, followed by Yearly Meetings for Sufferings and then Epistles from Yearly Meetings of Women Friends. Epistles are then sorted chronologically.

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Itemized Listing of epistles in downloadable spreadsheet form.

Processed by Madison Arnold-Scerbo; completed February 2016. Revised by Mary Crauderueff in March 2023 to incorporate outstanding epistles.

Philadelphia Yearly Meeting records

Organization
Subject

Publisher
Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections
Finding Aid Author
Madison Arnold-Scerbo
Finding Aid Date
February 2016
Access Restrictions

The collection is open to research use.

Use Restrictions

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

Collection Inventory

Scope and Contents note

There are four oversized epistles that should be housed in boxes 4 or 5 but are instead are housed in box 6. They are: 1831Women London to Women England [Box 4 Folder 4], 1784 Women London to Women USA [Box 4 Folder 5], 1813 Women London to Women USA [Box 4 Folder 5], and 1797 Women Philadelphia to Women London [Box 5 Folder 15].

Physical Description

4 boxesThis series takes up almost four boxes.

London Yearly Meeting, 1683-1768.
Box 1
London Yearly Meeting, 1769-1821.
Box 2
London Yearly Meeting, 1822-1906.
Box 3
London Yearly Meeting, 1907-1940.
Box 4
London Yearly Meeting, Book of Epistles, 1675-1755.
Box 4
London Yearly Meeting to USA, 1755-1806, 1840, 1841.
Box 4
London Meeting for Sufferings, 1682-1837.
Box 4
London YM for Women Friends to England, 1786-1872.
Box 4
London YM of Women Friends to Philadelphia Women, 1764-1848.
Box 4
Bristol YM, 1763.
Box 5
York YM for Women Friends, 1668.
Box 5
Daniel Wheeler to York Quarterly Meeting, 1832.
Box 5

Physical Description

1 boxesThis series contains two folders within one box.

Dublin Half Years Meeting, 1776-1829.
Box 5
Dublin Yearly Meeting of Women Friends to Philadelphia, 1800-1862.
Box 5

Physical Description

1 boxes

Baltimore Yearly Meeting, 1854-1856.
Box 5
Baltimore Yearly Meeting Women Friends, 1818.
Box 5
Baltimore Yearly Meeting for Sufferings, 1809.
Box 5
Baltimore Conference (Wilburite), 1849.
Box 5
Indiana Yearly Meeting, 1834.
Box 5
New England Yearly Meeting, 1818, 1827.
Box 5
New England Yearly Meeting Women's Friends, 1752-1843.
Box 5
New York Yearly Meeting, 1830-1853.
Box 5
New York Yearly Meeting Women's Friends, 1808-1817.
Box 5
Ohio Yearly Meeting, 1815, 1855.
Box 5
Ohio Yearly Meeting Women's Friends, 1829.
Box 5
Virginia Yearly Meeting, 1748.
Box 5
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, 1724-1830.
Box 5
Oversized item: 1797 epistle.
Box 6 (ovs)
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Women's Friends to United States Yearly Meetings, 1698-1836.
Box 5
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting for Sufferings, 1755-1944.
Box 5

Non-Epistle Letters, 1600s-1900, undated.
Box 5

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