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Friends Historical Library manuscript epistles collection
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Held at: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College [Contact Us]500 College Avenue, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania 19081
This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held at the 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
This collection is organized into three series: epistles issued by American yearly meetings, epistles issued by Foreign yearly meetings, and epistles issued by other entities (mostly American monthly or Quarterly meetings). Within the first two series, epistles are divided alphabetically by issuing yearly meeting; then sorted by men's meeting, meeting for sufferings, or women's meeting; and then placed in chronological order. The third series is sorted chronologically. Some listed epistles are not in this collection, but are cross-referenced to their location in another collection.
Items accumulated at various sources over time by the Friends Historical Library.
In March 2018, a pre-existing typewritten checklist was encoded and imported into ArchivesSpace, and the collection was re-housed in standard document boxes while preserving the existing order.
In April 2018, the series "Epistles other than Yearly Meetings" from MSS 058 Miscellaneous Meeting Papers was removed from that collection and added to this one instead.
Organization
- Baltimore Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends
- Genesee Yearly Meeting of Friends
- North Carolina Yearly Meeting of Friends (1698- )
- New England Yearly Meeting of Friends
- New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends
- Ohio Yearly Meeting (Society of Friends : 1813-1828)
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends
- Yearly Meeting of Friends, held in Virginia
- Religious Society of Friends in Ireland
- London Yearly Meeting (Society of Friends)
- Publisher
- Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
- Finding Aid Date
- 2018
- Access Restrictions
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This collection is available for research use.
- Use Restrictions
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Some of the items in this collection may be protected by copyright. The user is solely responsible for making a final determination of copyright status. If copyright protection applies, permission must be obtained from the copyright holder or their heirs/assigns to reuse, publish, or reproduce relevant items beyond the bounds of Fair Use or other exemptions to the law. See http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/UND/1.0/.
Collection Inventory
This item is not part of collection SFHL-MSS-006, Friends Historical Library Epistles Collection. See Journals, Mss., Baltimore YM, p.76.
This item is not part of collection SFHL-MSS-006, Friends Historical Library Epistles Collection. See Rodman Mss., corres. Mary Rotch
This item is not part of collection SFHL-MSS-006, Friends Historical Library Epistles Collection. See Baltimore YM Mss., album, p. 107.
This item is not part of collection SFHL-MSS-006, Friends Historical Library Epistles Collection. See SFHL-RG5-040 Ferris Papers, Box 13
This item is not part of collection SFHL-MSS-006, Friends Historical Library Epistles Collection. See SFHL-RG5-040 Ferris Papers, Box 13
This item is not part of collection SFHL-MSS-006, Friends Historical Library Epistles Collection. See SFHL-RG5-040 Ferris Papers, series 4
This item is not part of collection SFHL-MSS-006, Friends Historical Library Epistles Collection. See SFHL-RG5-040 Ferris Papers, series 4
This item is not part of collection SFHL-MSS-006, Friends Historical Library Epistles Collection. See SFHL-RG5-040 Ferris Papers, series 4
This item is not part of collection SFHL-MSS-006, Friends Historical Library Epistles Collection. See Journals, Mss., Baltimore YM, pp. 61-63
This item is not part of collection SFHL-MSS-006, Friends Historical Library Epistles Collection. See Journals, Mss., Baltimore YM, pp. 73, 74
This item is not part of collection SFHL-MSS-006, Friends Historical Library Epistles Collection. See: SFHL-MSS-004 Friends Historical Library Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection, Series 2: Undated Manuscripts, item: "Hockett, Susanna. Verse, with copy of 1787 Epistle of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Women to Yearly Meeting of North Carolina, undated."
This item is not part of collection SFHL-MSS-006, Friends Historical Library Epistles Collection. See Journals, Mss., Baltimore YM, p.75
This item is not part of collection SFHL-MSS-006, Friends Historical Library Epistles Collection. See SFHL-RG5-040 Ferris Papers, series 4
See reverse of Baltimore YM to Virginia YM, 1784
This item is not part of collection SFHL-MSS-006, Friends Historical Library Epistles Collection. See SFHL-RG5-099, Maulsby-Albertson Family Papers
This item is not part of collection SFHL-MSS-006, Friends Historical Library Epistles Collection. See SFHL-MSS-002-125 Friends Historical Library Album Collection: "Starr, Ann. Album of clippings"