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Langley Hill Monthly Meeting Records

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This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held at the Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College. 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

Langley Hill was established as a preparative meeting under Friends Meeting of Washington in 1961. It remained a preparative meeting until 1969 when it was set off as Langley Hill Monthly Meeting, a united body. Langley Hill Meeting, informally known as Vienna Monthly Meeting, is currently active.

Records of Langley Hill Monthly Meeting, which include paper and electronic records (which include those digitized by LHFM from paper and those that were born digital). LHFM has historically combined all of its records into a single annual file, arranged chronologically, which includes all of the meeting for business records along with related correspondence and newsletters. Some records donated by Yearly Meeting Office.

For Langley Hill Preparative Meeting, see Friends Meeting of Washington (D.C.). Vol. 2.1 includes various documents and correspondence concerning the AFSC, affirmative action, and gay rights.

Deposit. Some digital records from the 2010s deposited by Wayne Finegar, General Secretary of Baltimore Yearly Meeting, in 2020.

Publisher
Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Finding Aid Date
2005
Access Restrictions

Collection is open for research. Access may be provided via digital or microfilm copy, per repository policy. Digital files are accessible to TriCollege accounts or on-campus users.

Collection Inventory

RG2/B/L361 1.1-1.3. Record of Membership, 1969-92.
Box 7
Scope and Contents

Includes copies of the member record forms for members active in 1992, and a file of new members who joined 1996-1999.

Physical Description

3 folders

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: United

Physical Location

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

RG2/B/L361 1.4-1.7. Record of Membership [Inactive], 1969-1999.
Box 7
Scope and Contents

Includes the member records of members who died, transfered out, resigned, or were unable to be found. In three alphabetical runs: 1969-1992; 1992-1996; 1996-1999.

Physical Description

4 folders

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: United

Physical Location

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

RG2/B/L361 1.8. Marriages, 1996-1999.
Box 7
Physical Description

1 folder

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: United

Physical Location

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

RG2/B/L361. Apportionment Questionnaire responses and community statistics to BYM (digital), 2012-2013.
Physical Description

2 PDF files

Physical Location

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

RG2/B/L361 3.1-3.50. Annual records, 1955-2010.
Box 1 Box 2 Box 3 Box 4 Box 5 Box 6 Box 8
Scope and Contents

Almost all were deposited by Langley Hill as combined documents, incorporating business meeting minutes, newsletters, queries, financial statements, a spiritual state of the meeting report,and occasional correspondence (such as letters from the clerk to other organizations on behalf of the meeting).

Records were arranged chronologically, bound, and deposited at FHL. Binders have not been retained.

Existence and Location of Copies

The meeting digitized most of the material and much of the information is available as digitized PDFs, one file per year. Digital files are accessible to TriCollege accounts or on-campus users.

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: United

Physical Location

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

RG2/B/L361 3.51. Annual records (digital), 2011-2020.
Scope and Contents

Deposited by Langley Hill as combined documents, incorporating agenda, business meeting minutes, treasurer's report, other committee reports, occasional correspondence (such as letters from the clerk to other organizations on behalf of the meeting and traveling minutes), committee lists, and issues of the Langley Hill Friend newsletter.

Records were arranged chronologically and combined into a single PDF by the meeting. The combined PDF files frequently include a combination of printed and digitized material and born digital material. They are not searchable and not accessible by screen readers. Digital files are restricted to in library use only.

RG2/B/L361 2.1. "Affirmative Action AFSC," scrapbook related to LHFM's objections, 1978.
Box 8
Scope and Contents

In 1976, the American Friends Service Committee's Board of Directors approved a minute to support "the civil and human rights of homosexual and bisexual persons." In 1978, the AFSC approved an affirmative action plan with associated employment goals addressed to underrepresented groups, including gay people.

The plan was newsworthy, and after coverage in the Washington Post, the Langley Hill Monthly Meeting brought a concern to Baltimore Yearly Meeting about its members' "uneasiness" with employing "open gay people on a quota basis." They requested that BYM incorporate time to discuss AFSC's plan at its annual sessions, and requested AFSC to send a representative to Langley Hill Monthly Meeting within two weeks, before "our budget for the coming year will be finalized."

The scrapbook includes relevant AFSC minutes, the organization's 1978 Affirmative Action plan, letters from concerned LHFM members, responses from AFSC and BYM, and secondary material about affirmative action.

Physical Description

1 vol.; 29.5 cm

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: United

Physical Location

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

RG2/B/L361 2.2-2.3. The Langley Hill Friend, 1980-82/1996-99.
Box 8
Physical Description

2 folders

Material Specific Details

Affiliation: United

Physical Location

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

RG2/B/L361. Margaret Scattergood oral history and memoirs of AFSC World War I relief service (digital), 1918, 1981.
Scope and Contents

Memoirs of Reconctruction Work in France (1918), Chalmers the Marne (1918), and an oral history of Margaret Scattergood, who wrote the memoirs of her AFSC work during World War I. Oral history interview was conducted in 1981 by the Young Friends of Langley Hill.

Physical Description

1 combined digitized file (PDF)

Material Specific Details

United

RG2/B/L361. Manual of Major Decisions (digital), 2013.
Scope and Contents

Compiled by Steve Elkinton, Langley Hill Friends Meeting Archivist, in Fall 2012. An alphabetical (by topic) compilation of policies approved by LHFM between 1961 and 2012, including things like "gender issues," "recorded ministers," "use of the meetinghouse," and "working group on racism."

Physical Description

1 Word Document

RG2/B/L361. "From the Archives of Langley Hill Friends Meeting," by the LHFM archivist (digital), circa 2020.
Physical Description

1 .doc file

RG2/B/L361. Spiritual State of the Meeting reports (digital), 2010-2019.
Physical Description

10 PDF files

Physical Location

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

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