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Philadelphia General Meeting (1946-1954) 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
In 1945, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (Hicksite) instructed its Representative Meeting to consider possible ways and means of closer unity with its Orthodox counterpart; this direction was met with a similar proposal from Arch Street. A preliminary study resulted in the formation of a Philadelphia General Meeting of Friends, comprising all members of both Philadelphia Yearly Meetings. Philadelphia General Meeting convened in the autumn of each year. Direction of this Meeting was vested in a Planning Committee of fifty, half of which would be appointed by each Yearly Meeting. Initially the sessions were limited to consideration of those projects which were already conducted jointly, including the American Friends Service Committee Friends Council on Education, etc., with two evenings of an inspirational or educational nature.
In 1950, agreement on the complete merger of the two yearly meetings was reached; this organic reunification was finally accomplished in 1955. The last session of Philadelphia General Meeting was held in 1954.
Records of the Philadelphia General Meeting (Society of Friends) and the joint committees appointed in anticipation of reunification, including the Joint Committee on a Common Book of Discipline, Faith and Practice and the Joint Committee on Organic Union. Also includes the relevant papers -- minutes and correspondence -- of committee members.
Deposit
People
- Walton, George A. (George Arthur), 1883-
- Jones, Wilmot
- Smith, Claude C.
- Miller, Richmond P. (Richmond Pearson), 1902-1972
Organization
- Joint Committee on Organic Union (Society of Friends : Philadelphia, Pa.)
- Joint Committee on a Common Book of Discipline, Faith and Practice (Society of Friends : Philadelphia, Pa.)
- Joint Committee on the Revision of Queries (Society of Friends : Philadelphia, Pa.)
Subject
- Publisher
- Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
- Finding Aid Date
- 2004
- Access Restrictions
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Collection is open for research. Access may be provided via digital or microfilm copy, per repository policy.
- Use Restrictions
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Copyright has not been assigned to the Repositories. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted to the individual Meeting or its successor. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Repositories as the holder(s) of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by reader.
Collection Inventory
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No film
- Haverford: No film
2 volumes
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: United
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No film
- Haverford: No film
1 volume + 1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No film
- Haverford: No film
5 folders
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: United
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No film
- Haverford: No film
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Includes minutes of the Committee on the Revision of Queries and Advices (Hicksite), as well as some of the minutes of the FGC Committee on the Revision of Discipline and of the committees in joint session, 1940-1942. A joint committee of the two Representative bodies was appointed in 1945.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No film
- Haverford: No film
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No film
- Haverford: No film
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No film
- Haverford: No film
2 folders
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No film
- Haverford: No film
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No film
- Haverford: No film
1 volume
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No film
- Haverford: No film
3 folders
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: United
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Includes minutes, correspondence, and revisions of the Joint Committee on a Common Book of Discipline, Faith and Practice and the Joint Committee on Organic Union.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No film
- Haverford: No film
1 box
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Minutes, 1949-1955.
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No film
- Haverford: No film
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No film
- Haverford: No film
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No film
- Haverford: No film
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Published materials including a Tentative Draft of Faith and Practice (1954), Queries of the Two Yearly Meetings (1946, 1949), United Meetings (1945, 1946), and a mailing to the Clerks of Monthly Meetings from the Committee (1953).
Available on microfilm in the following location(s):
- Swarthmore: No film
- Haverford: No film
1 folder
Material Specific DetailsAffiliation: United
Physical LocationFriends Historical Library of Swarthmore College