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Samuel M. Janney Papers
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Samuel McPherson Janney, distinguished Quaker minister, author, educator, and reformer, was born January 11, 1801, in Loudoun County, Virginia. He was the son of Abijah and Jane (McPherson) Janney and a descendant of Thomas Janney, a Quaker minister who emigrated with his family to America in 1683. In 1826 Samuel Janney married Elizabeth Janney, a third cousin, and they had eight children. As a young man, he worked for his uncle Phineas Janney, an Alexandria, Virginia, merchant, and then briefly partnered with Thomas M. Bond in an apothecary shop in Alexandria. He later was a partner in a cotton factory which was not successful. In 1839 he returned to Loudoun County and opened a boarding school for girls. He retired in 1855 to devote himself to the ministry, writing, and social concerns. He traveled widely in the ministry, meeting with other denominations as well as being immersed in the contemporary issues facing the Society of Friends. Among his activities were establishing schools for African Americans and women, creating public schools in Virginia, and the abolition of slavery. In 1869 he was appointed Superintendent of Indian Affairs in Nebraska. He died April 20, 1880.
Largely correspondence of Samuel M. Janney with family and with friends such as John Comly, Joseph Dugdale, Benjamin Ferris, William Dudley Foulke, Isaac T. Hopper, Halliday Jackson, Horace W. Mann, James and Lucretia Mott, Edward Parrish, Moses Sheppard, and George M. Truman. The collection includes letters written during the period of the Civil War and during the period of Janney's Indian Superintendency, also letters of members of his family to one another, his manuscript journal (published 1881 as Memoirs), sermons and essays, manuscripts for his History of the Religious Society of Friends, vol. III, vol. IV , The Life of George Fox; with a Dissertation on the Views of George Fox concerning the Doctrines of the Christian Church, and The Life of William Penn. Also his Day Book, 1825-1856.
Donor: Mary T. Shoemaker, 1954
Donor: Emily T. Brown, 1967
The collection, most of which was the gift of Mary T. Shoemaker, was processed in the mid 1950s; it was organized chronologically with items individually catalogued in a typed manuscript card file. In 1967, the day book was added to the collection, gift of Emily T. Brown. In 2006, the collection was re-organized into series: Correspondence, Writings, and Day Book. A new finding aid with annotation was produced and coded.
The life of George Fox : With dissertations on his views concerning the doctrines, testimonies, and discipline of the Christian church. Philadelphia : Friends' Book Association, 1875
The life of William Penn : with selections from his correspondence and autobiography. Philadelphia : Lippincott, Grambo & co., 1852
Memoirs of Samuel M. Janney. Philadelphia : Friends' book association, 1882
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- Quakers -- Virginia
- Quakers -- Education
- Quaker Authors
- Society of Friends -- History
- Lay ministry -- Society of Friends
- Church controversies -- Society of Friends
- Society of Friends -- Sermons
- Hicksites -- 19th century
- Sermons, American
- Society of Friends -- Hicksite Separation
- Church Work with Indians -- Society of Friends
- Indians of North America -- Government relations -- 1869-1934
- Indians of North America -- Missions
- Antislavery movements
- Abolitionists
- Social reformers -- 19th century
- Progressive Quakers
- Slavery -- United States
- Freedmen -- Virginia
- Freedmen -- Washington (D.C.)
- Publisher
- Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
- Finding Aid Author
- Finding Aid Prepared by FHL staff
- Finding Aid Date
- 2006
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Collection is open for research.
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Collection Inventory
The bulk of letters written by Samuel M. Janney are in the form of drafts.
Letters from Janney to his daughter, Elizabeth, while she was living with the Hilles family and attending school in Wilmington, Delaware. Discusses events at home.
Physical Description1 folder, 4 items
Letters from Joseph Janney to his sister, Elizabeth. Topics include: an illness spreading around the town and deaths that have occurred; school and the study of French; and various social events, including one with the President.
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Letters are from Samuel H. Janney to his sister, Elizabeth. Author discusses plans for visits and other family news, particularly concerning children.
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Extracts of Meeting for Sufferings' Minutes related to Quaker peace testimony.
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Author, the recipient's stepmother, describes travel to visit relatives and attend Quaker meetings, mostly through Pennsylvania. Letter of 10mo 5 1828 discusses illnesses in the family, briefly giving someone tar water as medicine, and mentions Amos Jones' marriage to a non-Quaker.
Physical Description1 folder, 7 items
Copy of letter in which 17 signatories, former members of Eastern District Monthly Meeting, protest actions of the Yearly Meeting. Eastern District (Baltimore) was laid down in 1819 over a dispute concerning the use of the burial ground.
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Author is writing to his wife about family news and his various travels, particularly to New York and Boston.
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Collection of verse.
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Author, the recipient's sister-in-law, is discussing various family news, particularly a serious illness.
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Author is discussing water management.
Physical Description1 folder, 1 A.L.S.
Author is writing to her husband, Samuel M. Janney. Discusses various family news. Letter of 12mo 29 1836 mentions that the factory was almost destroyed in a fire.
Physical Description1 folder, 11 items
Author is writing to his wife. He discusses travels to Monticello and Augusta Hot Springs, where he is staying for health reasons.
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Author is writing to his brother-in-law, who is at a Hot Springs in Augusta. Discusses the death of "Richard's daughter," the recipient's niece; business in the factory, including letting go some workers; local politics; and the illness and death of "little Ellen," the recipient's daughter.
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Author writes while on a religious visit to Charleston and New Orleans, before returning to his home in Henrietta because of an illness involving his lungs. In 12mo 25 1830 relates an unpleasant encounter with an Orthodox Friend. Letter of 3mo 12 1831 describes New Orleans as "a place famous or noted for its Dissipation and Profanity Combin'd with Idolatry and Superstition."
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Author is writing to his wife from Hartford, Fredericksburg, Richmond, Petersburg, Philadelphia, and Leesbury, describing various Quaker meetings attended. Frequently mentions Daniel Quimby, a prominent Quaker who was traveling with him.
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Author is writing to his brother about textile manufacturing.
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Draft of an epistle to the Alexandria Monthly Meeting calling for greater dedication to the Quaker faith among youth.
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Describes the 1831 Baltimore Yearly Meeting.
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Rachel Hopkins is writing to her cousin, Elizabeth Janney. In 1858 letter, offers condolences for death of Elizabeth's son, possibly John. Letter of 1880 offers condolences for death of Elizabeth's husband, Samuel M. Janney.
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Letter of introduction for Samuel M. Janney who hopes to publish a book of poetry.
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Author has been charged with "being in cohesion with the Separatists from the Ancient Society of Friends" and defends his views.
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Author is writing to Samuel M. from Philadelphia. Discusses "the satisfactory experience in the course of our travel together"; various travels to Quaker meetings; advice to Janney on the administration of Quaker meetings; inspiration for religious service; slavery; the death of Dr. John Moore; and other thoughts on religion, politics, etc.
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Author is writing to clear up a misunderstanding about a memorial service for T. Wetherald. Includes a copy of a letter to P.E. Thomas from J. Jessop that includes information about Wetherald's final illness.
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Author is requesting that Comly look at two religious manuscripts for possible publication, then forward them to Thomas McClintock.
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Author is writing to Otis, a painter, to arrange a portrait of the author's sister, Elizabeth.
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Author is submitting a manuscript to members of the Baltimore Yearly Meeting. The manuscript is intended "to make more generally known, through the medium of the press, the religious sentiments of the Society of Friends."
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Author is engaging in religious service in and around Baltimore; Loudoun County, VA; Charleston; Frederick County, VA; Philadelphia; and New York. Mentions attendance at a meeting of "Doct. Parrish and Wm. Wharton". Also mentions "B. Hallowell."
Physical Description1 folder containing 8 items
These letters, from John Comly, discuss the publication of manuscripts, some of which are on anti-slavery and reform. On 6mo17 1845, Comly cautions Janney to seal letters about these matters that ended up being seen by many people, and discusses Joseph Dugdale's visit to Philadelphia. In 1mo9 1846 asks if Janney has had a meeting with Lucretia Mott about "her charge against Edward Stabler" in relation to abolition and the laying down of meetings of ministers and elders.
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Concerning a Book Committee meeting.
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Letters are from John Jackson, Quaker educator and minister, about meeting matters and the publication of his book.
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Author is discussing news of family and friends.
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A.A.C. (Abby Ann?) is Elizabeth Janney's cousin and is writing about the death of a relative.
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Letter of 1mo16 1853 concerns the editing of John Comly's journal. Janney writes to decline an invitation to attend the Centennial Anniversary of the Pennsylvania Society for the Abolition of Slavery, but attaches a summary history of anti-slavery activities in the District of Columbia and Alexandria.
Physical Description1 folder containing 6 A.Ls.S., 1 D
Letters are from Elizabeth Janney to her daughter, Cornelia. Discussing family news, including a description of the healing regimen at the Red Sulphur Springs. Also discusses household management, including chickens and turkeys. Mentions visits to Quaker meetings.
Physical Description1 folder containing 16 items
Author is answering questions that Hopkins had asked about Janney's philosophy of Quakerism. Letter includes Janney's interpretation of various parts of Christian history and belief.
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Janney is writing primarily while traveling in the ministry in Ohio and western Pennsylvania. Mentions Lucretia Mott speaking about abolition at an appointed meeting, accepting the epistles of Congregational Friends, and Oliver Johnson. Also discusses education and visits to schools, including Randolph-Macon College. Describes Miami Quarterly Meeting (8mo27 1849) in which Joseph and Sarah Dugdale were withdrawn as ministers, without being privately labored with or even with the concurrence of the Meeting of Ministers and Elders.
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Author discusses slavery and the publication of a letter by Janney against slavery, and particularly against the notion that slavery can be defended by scripture. Mentions Lucretia Mott several times, talks about her ministry, abolition activities, her mother's death, and her own illness. Discusses publication of a book, Charles Marriott's illness, and a letter from Jamaica concerning conditions there.
Physical Description1 folder containing 7 items
Letter is from Samuel M.'s uncle, Phineas Janney. Letter is about one of Samuel M.'s business transactions involving a wharf and a warehouse. Also talks about a memorial service for those who died in the wreck of the "Steam Frigate Princeton".
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Johns Hopkins Janney is Elizabeth Janney's brother. Discusses family news.
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Discusses publication of a pamphlet by Samuel M. Janney.
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Author discusses anti-slavery books and pamphlets.
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Author discusses the anti-slavery movement and expresses sympathy with Friends at Green Plain.
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Author is writing to his uncle. Discusses an anti-slavery tract he is writing and mentions some reviews of his work. Also discusses his book, "Life of Penn." Also discusses legal and financial matters concerning "Elliott's Estate," as well as other financial matters such as tuition fees.
Physical Description1 folder containing 12 A.Ls.S.
Author is discussing anti-slavery activities and writings.
Physical Description1 folder containing 2 items
Letters are from John Jr. to his father, Samuel M. The 18-year-old John discusses his education at Benjamin Hallowell's school, including which courses he is taking and how much money he needs for various expenses. Discusses staying on as a teacher in order to make some money. Mentions getting a small pox vaccination. Talks about a general happiness in Alexandria because of "the extension of the laws of Virginia over Alexandria," which had been decided by the Virginia legislature a few months before John's writing. Includes a formal copy of John's grades.
Physical Description1 folder containing 11 items
Discusses an essay of Janney's.
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Author is writing to her husband, who is away on Friends' business. Discusses family news, illnesses, and small financial matters.
Physical Description1 folder containing 8 items
Letters to his mother from Philadelphia, New York State, and Locust Grove.
Physical Description1 folder containing 4 A.Ls.S.
Comments on his book, "Life of William Penn," Janney's school, a meeting with the "coloured people" in Alexandria, and a religious trip through the south to New Orleans,
Physical Description1 folder containing 17 A.Ls.S.
Concerning the publication of his essays on slavery.
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Letter to his brother with family news.
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Reports to his parents on his arrival at Benjamin Hallowell's school in Philadelphia.
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Speaks of being criticized by his friend, Edward Hicks, for going to a ball.
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Letters to his sister with family news.
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Letters to daughter with family news.
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Concerning publication of his letter in the Richmond Whig about the advantages of free labor over the labor of enslaved people, and intended visit.
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Draft, describes series of education meetings to prepare public to assume responsibility for schools, especially to educate the poor.
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Draft of a letter disagreeing with the assertion that some Quakers in Virginia approve of slavery and intemperance.
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Family news.
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Information on mouldings and family news.
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Encloses a copy of his book.
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From a Presbyterian minister and educator in favor of emancipation.
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Rent receipts.
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Concerns over the spread of cholera and travelling. Letter of 5mo 9 1851 mentions Dugdale's charges against Janney.
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Mentions that there is no Quaker community in Louisville, so he stays at home on First Day morning, then goes to the Unitarian church at night; expresses antislavery sentiment.
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Letter from a newspaper editor concerning the need to educate freedmen and comments on antislavery legislation; mentions Dr. Lee's support for colonization.
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Draft of letter not sent expressing opposition to Dugdale's actions.
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Letter (incomplete) to his uncle with impressions of Ohio Yearly Meeting and its two factions, viz. the "conservatives" and the "reformers." Janney sees himself as an "anti-slavery man," but finds himself allied with the conservatives. The debate over receiving the epistles from the "Congregational Yearly Meeting of Genesee" was long but not acrimonious, and finally an accomodation was made.
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Letter of 8mo 26 1850 comments on the sad state of the Society, and that of 4mo 30 1851 on Dugdale's activities in Pennsylvania. On 12mo6 1852 he reports a visit to Lucretia Mott, and regrets that her influence in the Society of Friends is declining due to her divergent opinions.
Physical Description1 folder containing 11 items
Thanks Hallowell for the loan in 1839, enclosing the balance due except for the interest, and acknowledges that he has paid those debts first to the needy and those "most likely to cast imputations on the Society of Friends."
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Letter of 6mo 15 1851 relates a conversation with Dugdale at Marlborough Meeting.
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Commiserates with him on the difficulties still ongoing in his yearly meeting, and offers comments on Oliver Johnson and the proceedings of the "Practical Christian Conference" held at New Garden.
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Comments on William Penn's greatness and also on the trouble Dugdale is causing in Kennett.
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Concerning Janney's biography of Penn, the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, and the visit of Granville Penn to Philadelphia, "disappointed as he has all the main mannerism of the Frenchman and little of the quiet dignity of the English man."
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Disagrees with Janney's assertion that Penn was the sole author of our frame of government, makes suggestions for improving the Intelligencer, discusses prospects of reuniting the Society of Friends, particularly questioning Janney's conversations with Eli K. Price and Thomas Evans, and calls the "Abolition controversy" a "leprosy that has run thro' the whole body except Baltimore." Also includes negative observations on Quaker actions during the Irish famine and the Wilburite separations.
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Comments on the Life of Penn and the publication of extracts, the establishment of a quarterly meeting of "Reform Friends" in Western Quarter; also comments on Thomas Evans.
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Concerning Granville Penn.
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Smithsonian receipt for the Life of William Penn.
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Letter to a prominent Orthodox Friend about his beliefs.
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Comments on some defects in the Penn book, particularly in spelling.
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Requesting an image for publication.
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Witnesses to the purchase of an enslaved woman and her children from Virginia Blincoe by A. Wilson Anderson. Previous correspondence described the woman as the Wilson's wife.
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On the writings of John Comly and on birthright membership.
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Family news. Mentions that their school for coloured children is well attended.
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Janney is in Philadelphia editing John Comply's Journal for publication; requires more revising than anticipated. Then in Alexandria, settling estate of his Aunt Sally(?). Met with the women who edit the Intelligencer. Also visited Sharon School in Darby, Baltimore Yearly Meeting, and travels in the ministry to meetings in Nottingham Quarter.
Physical Description1 folder containing 9 items
Discusses Intelligencer, including articles, circulation and editing by a committee of women readers; also publicity for Janney's Life of Fox & visiting ministers.
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Her reaction to Janney's Life of Fox and describes her series of poems on religious heros.
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Topics for essays, mentions Francis Ray's removal from Janney's school; she reports on the founding of the Book Association of Friends in Philadelphia, and discusses topics to be published.
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From Quaker of Moorestown, NJ, and her reaction to Life of Fox & other religious musings.
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Progressive Friends; establishment of fund (1864) to create Friends schools (1870-77) as well as comments on Superintendency in Nebraska Indian territories; also politics and Quakers.
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Family news.
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Memorial he was writing about Phineas.
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Concerning publication of her father's journal.
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Re: Janney's search for Fox manuscript materials, discouraging his writing of a book on the life of Fox.
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Inquiry about a quote in reference to L.M. Child's biography of Isaac T. Hopper.
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Journal publication.
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About the publication of Friends Weekly Intelligencer.
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States the purposes of his school (draft).
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About the life of William Penn and Penn's deeds in Bristol.
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Mentions visit of cousin Johns Hopkins and family news.
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Enjoyed Life of Fox.
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Copy of a letter, expressing approval of Janney's books.
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Interesting letter from new member, formerly a Presbyterian, of Albany Monthly Meeting; mentions misinformation that Hicksite and Unitarian were synonymous terms, life of Fox very useful.
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Includes letter to Janney who is in NY meeting with Richard Mott. Family news.
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From Philadelphia, Medford, New York City, attending quarterly and yearly meetings. . In Philadelphia, opened shutters to address both men's and women's meetings. PYM of 1854 discussion of spiritualism. Discussions with Richard Mott about separations.
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From Philadelphia, describes series of public debates regarding the authenticity of the Bible, using Quaker texts. "Infidel" was Barker, supposedly lapsed Quaker minister. Also discussion of F.S.Pease, Albany convert. Description of controversies among Orthodox Friends, involvement of English Quakers, and visits of Quaker ministers. Death of Rodman Wharton.
Physical Description1 folder containing 9 items
Janney describes to him the controversies in the American Quaker community, education, his situation during the Civil War, and other concerns.
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From Philadelphia, primarily discussion of the sales of Janney's books, but also laments exclusiveness in the Society of Friends (1862), Ann Townsend and Phebe Foulke's visit to Genesee Yearly Meeting and Canada, Friends schools near Philadelphia, dislike of the term Hicksite in Dr. McClintock's Cyclopedia; Janney to write preface.
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To his son, affectionate letters with fatherly advice.
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From Alexandria Boarding School. About difficulty in finding support to revive Springdale School. Respect for William Bennett whose letter Janney had forwarded to him, and regret about the divisions in the Society of Friends. Discussed issues 30 years past Separation, division of property in Sandy Spring, Indiana Yearly Meeting, optimism concerning the Indian (1868).
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From Philadelphia, forwards a letter from William Bennett, reception of Janney's Life of Penn in the US and in England.
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In response to receiving William Bennett's letter. Publication matters.
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General questions about ancestor, Thomas Janney.
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[Extracts of his letter] concerning referral of editor of British Friend to publish Janney's letter lest it present a Hicksite perspective. Bennett urges its publication.
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Refers to the lack of success in getting Janney's letter published and general misunderstanding of the Hicksite point of view. Privately circulating the letter. Comments on tensions in London Yearly Meeting and its perspectives on US divisions.
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From Washington, DC, family matters.
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Republication of the memoirs of David Ferris.
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Condolences on the death of his wife.
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Refusal to publish Janney in the (British) Journal due to prejudice against "Hicksism."
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Parrish's discourse on the life of Stephen Grellet; comment concerning an anticipated division in the Orthodox Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, to be followed by one in London.
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Congratulations on Life of Penn.
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Family news.
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Death of her aunt.
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Results of his anti-slavery sentiment
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William Penn, George Fox, and Orthodox Friends.
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Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (1857), Nathaniel Crenshaw's ministry, religious visit to Farmington, and decline of the Quaker community at Salem, Ohio.
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Gurney and Wilbur factions in Philadelphia, with an anonymous pamphlet charging "Orthodox friends are Keithians, & that 'Hicksites' are the old Foxian Quakers who still uphold 'the great ?' of the Inward Light." Also comments on the Intelligencer, controversy over reading of epistles in the Orthodox Yearly Meeting, John Bull Quakers in England, and coeducation.
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Abuses of paid clergy.
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Book order.
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Death of Smith's father.
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Extracts from his letter concerning change of sentiments in London Yearly Meeting.
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Includes postscript from Susan Parrish. Dillwyn comments on Uriah Hunt ("a liberal Gurney Friend"), new Reading Circle, the "sisterhood" at the Intelligencer, Orthodox publication of "Selections from George Fox Epistles" suspect, English John Bright ("the prominent man among the liberals"), and Janney's essays.
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Lucretia Mott at Baltimore Yearly Meeting.
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Purchase of breathing respirator and treatment of maladies of the lungs. Also comments on Dr. Thomas' view of Hicksites, bereavement of Lucretia Mott.
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Family news.
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Concerning "Salutations" from London.
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Rachel Hicks' visits, the British Friend, the revival movement and the Young Men's Christian Association, and introduction of the study of the bible to Haverford College by Robert Smith.
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Catalog and Martin Mason's letters.
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Copy of his letter to Josiah Forster concerning presenting a communication from Baltimore Yearly Meeting to London Yearly Meeting.
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Draft of his letter, concerning publication of his History of Friends.
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Draft of an epistle to Friends of Warrington Monthly Meeting with personal note to Garretson on the reverse.
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Had recently visited Warrington and will send Quaker books.
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Concerning publishing his manuscripts in England.
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Concerning the publishing of his History of the Society of Friends.
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From London, describes unpublished manuscripts that he has, his work on the cataloguing of Friends books, supplies him with copies of the British Friend.
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From Philadelphia, concerning his communication with Joseph Smith; suggested to Dillwyn Parrish raising a subscription to purchase some of Smith's unpublished manuscripts for Philadelphia Monthly Meeting.
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From Philadelphia, about receiving Joseph Smith's books and prize essays. Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (Orthodox) to meet, quiet but for pamphlet by Dr. J. Kite that J.J. Gurney should have no more right to membership than Elias Hicks. Dillwyn expresses support for three yearly meetings (Baltimore, New York, and Philadelphia) to raise a subscription for a Friends' school to provide a guarded education. Recounts meeting freedom seekers who had escaped slavery in Virginia on a visit to Niagara. He was mistaken for Janney by Amos Norris who left Loudoun County in 1850. Parrish is staying in Concordville, Delaware County, and describes the meetings and the family and home of William and Sarah Larkin, both Elders in Concord Monthly Meeting.
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Copy expresses his view of the political situation in Virginia (1860), then impact on region. 1869 letter describes his visit to the Pawnee Reservation, written from Omaha.
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Draft concerning her request for his assistance in her books for children. Suggests men as well as women for the Association of Women Friends for the Improvement of Juvenile Books.
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From London, he and his father are editing Janney's manuscripts, ready for the printer.
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About editing. Answers Zell's questions about using "Holy" in his essay on Holy Scriptures.
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Draft, remarks on Orthodox Quaker's approach approximating Trinitarian Church beliefs from which Quakerism "came out."
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Dillwyn hopes (1861) that the border states will not follow the deep South. Sentiment in the North has been to not interfere with the states that presently enslave people. Joint Committee on the Education Concern advancing slowly. Growing interest in women establishing First Day Schools. Philadelphia suffering economic problems with the political situation. Extracts from a letter from his brother George who spent several weeks in London, visited Joseph Smith in his little house. Smith says that he is thought to be "tainted with Hicks." Controversial book in London is Friendly Sketches in America by William Tallack; gives an account of divisions in the Society of Friends in the U.S., especially critical of the Wilburites.
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Family news.
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Desires to go to Nebraska to see the results of "Quaker Policy," but family is discouraging her. New meeting house in Washington is to be opened.
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Inquiring how Friends have come to adopt their form of public vocal prayer: "A Friend appearing in supplication in meeting kneels and the meeting rises and stands."
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Answer to Griscom's query.
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Family news.
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Eliza was questioned by a picket guard at the river. Anxious about the two armies. Difficulty of life during wartime.
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Condolences.
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Pass to cross the Shenandoah for Janney and Nathan Walker, signed in Harpers Ferry.
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Asking for assistance because two friends, W. Williams and Robt Isaac Hollings, were arrested by soldiers of White's battalion by order of the rebel General.
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Says that Secretary of War has decided that young Friends may be exempted from bearing arms and may be appointed to the relief of the freedmen.
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Appoints meeting in Illinois with Hicksites, some Orthodox, and Norwegians. Meeting with General Sheridan on the subject of prisons (1864). Survived a severe train accident. Meeting with Stanton concerning claims from Loudoun people for war damages.
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Concerning conscientious objection, raising money for the educational objectives of the Pennsylvania Society for the Aid of the Freedmen, and the "sisterhood" assuming full control of the Intelligencer.
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Trying to obtain permission for Phineas to return to Virginia and meeting an old friend, Noah H. Swayne, Supreme Court Justice. Reported hearing that Lincoln "was a humane honest man & that many falsehoods had been told about him."
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Family news.
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Relief of Friends in the South, Circular meetings at Washington and Alexandria, Spring Dale Association, Friends work with the Indians, and the mission of Caroline E. Talbott.
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Draft of an epistle concerning dissension in their meeting.
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Draft concerning reparations for war damage, particularly buildings burned by Sheridan.
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From Washington, D.C. Discussion before the Senate (2mo). Meeting with Thaddeus Stevens. Also visits to Iowa, Pennsylvania, etc.; attends meeting of Friend Freedmen's Aid Society at Green Street meeting house.
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Family news.
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From New York, history of the division of Friends property, 1850-51, in New York City, and of burial ground, and in Brooklyn as voluntary peace offering. Attended service in Wilmington at church of Colored Methodists. Thomas Foulke in Salt Lake City in July 1870, saw Brigham's mansion, Tabernacle being constructed. Touring western United States with his wife. Mentions his cousin, Phebe W. Foulke's appointment as matron of Swarthmore College. Son William Foulke will not be able to fill assignment to the Pawnee prisoners in the Omaha jail, but worked toward the release of Samuel Walton and some of the Indians. Delegates of the Six Yearly Meetings to meet in Philadelphia. Jonathan Thorne planning to send copies of Benjamin West's painting of Penn's Treaty to the Northern Superintendency. Mentions Custer's battle. Mentions Samuel Janney's visit to William Cullen Bryant.
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Philip E. Thomas, Baltimore. Laments the domestic traffic now being carried on by African Americans causing great sufferings and hardships. Denies that has given passes to blacks who must fulfil service.
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Cannot attend laying of Swarthmore College cornerstone.
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Draft concerning publishing of his History, looking for support from Philadelphia Yearly Meeting which would then hold copyright.
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Will present Janney's request to Representative Committee.
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Family news. Cousin Johns intends to establish a college for white boys on his estate and talks of founding a colored school elsewhere in the city of Baltimore.
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News on emancipation in Brazil, article by Robertson on unity, and good reviews on Janney's history of the Separation, but no acknowledgement from the Orthodox yet.
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Contributions to the Intelligencer and editorial work, death of James Mott, and First Day School at the Valley.
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Extracts related to his History.
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Death of T.B. Longstreth and reaction to Life of Robertson.
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In his opinion, Orthodox "breach" in this country and England is widening.
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Travel to Omaha and housekeeping; Indian supplies.
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First Annual First Day School conference in Baltimore synopsis.
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Family news.
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Travelling in the ministry with Thomas Foulke.
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Payment for writing in the Intelligencer.
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Indian Aid Society formed to furnish clothing for Indian children & prospect for opening a mission school and hospital.
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Trip to Harrisburg to discuss Pennsylvania compulsory militia law. Later letters primarily concerning Janney's work with the Indians and a trip that Dorsey made to Washington to speak with the President and the Indian Commissioner.
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Indian concerns and Janney's wish to be replaced.
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Approval of Janney's History of the Society of Friends, especially on the section on the Separation. Writes that Orthodox Quakers have written on the subject, representing Hicksites as seceders, while some Hicksites have urged suppressing discussion. Tells Janney that his father had written an unpublished manuscript history of the Separation which agrees in facts with Janney's.
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Draft in reply to Tracy's request for information about the Society of Friends and slavery. Note that he defines the Christian church as all denominations united by Christ.
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Concerning Hallowell's manuscript at the publisher's, and the resignation and appointment of Indian agents.
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Julian was editor and owner of Indiana Radical newspaper. Would welcome letters from Janney.
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From Anne P. Jackson (1792-1874), Quaker minister of Darby, a letter religious in content.
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From Baltimore, asks for an account of the First Day School and reports on the success of the school. Had hoped to see Janney at Yearly Meeting, but he will be in Omaha.
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In support of his efforts with the Superintendency.
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From Mt. Pleasant, Iowa. Dr. J. Holmes and Nathan Thomas travelling in Illinois; Dugdale invited to sit in Cedar Creek Monthly Meeting (Orthodox); he requested that the shutters be lowered, and the request was complied with. He has been invited to take some part in the services of "the spirit moves." Appointed meetings at the Prison Reform School and the Insane Asylum near Clear Creek. Orthodox Friends in Lee County sometimes "break forth into singing," awakening some anxiety. Concerned over the state of the "deeply wronged Aborigines" but especially about disenfranchised women; Indiana Yearly Meeting has appointed a woman member of Meeting for Sufferings.
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From Henry County, Iowa, Uncle Joseph and Aunt Ruth stayed with them.
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Committee appreciates sacrifices Janney is making. African Americans waiting for the official announcement of the 15th Amendment to celebrate. Swarthmore College "experiment is successful, and coeducational privileges have not been abused." Speakman pamphlet has not been attacked by Orthodox, and Orthodox Friends attended meetings at which Caroline Talbert and Caroline Jenkins, daughter of Ruth Updegraff, were seated. However, exercises at 12th Street meetinghouse were censured by The Friend. Lucretia Mott making "farewell visit" to "the 16 Colored Congregations in this City."
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Has been admitted to the bar at the US Circuit Court in Omaha, but needs certificates. Trial of the Pawnees has been postponed again.
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Apologizes for printing the editorial of the previous week which was not sufficiently examined; will print Janney's reply "Protestantism." "Older portion" of the Sisterhood is beginning to feel as if they are wearing out. The First Day School Movement has had positive effects.
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From the President's Secretary, thanking Janney for the photographs of Indians and Indian scenes.
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Requests report on any First Day School among the Indians or of Hicksite Friends in Nebraska.
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Wishes her mother would consent to hake her picture taken. James Ball has been teaching the colored school at Lincoln. Family news.
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Death of Edward Parrish. Watching the state of the Society in England, Edward Bennett disowned, Lydia Gillingham's death, and distribution of "Peace Principles Exemplified."
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Meeting of the First Day School Association in NYC, Lucretia Mott spoke at Meeting, conferred with Wm. and Phebe Cornell about the Industrial Boarding School at the Santee Agency, travelling in Ohio with Sunderland P. Gardiner, attended public meeting for worship during the Gurneyite Yearly Meeting at Mount Pleasant and their extreme views on original sin and vicarious sanctification, with comments on D. Updegraph, with passing the hat for the establishment of a school for colored girls. Greeted by black friends who had moved to the Mount Pleasant area. Dined at Edward Hopper's with Lucretia Mott and visit to Swarthmore. Comments after discussion of Indian affairs that it is likely that Friends will have to give up their work because "we cannot be responsible for agents unless we are allowed to select them."
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Condolences on the death of her daughter.
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Comments on Newport's Indices.
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Her grandson, comments on his Christmas gifts.
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Family news.
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Death of Dorsey.
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Condolences on the death of his nephew, Joseph Saunders.
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Not able to make a special report to Baltimore's Indian Committee.
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Report of schools at Santee, Omaha, Pawnee, and Otoe Indian Agencies. Also includes a report on industry.
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Letter of condolence.
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Report of schools at Winnebago.
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Dorsey's journal and selections from his letters.
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Prison reform and Janney's interest in Indian affairs.
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Condolences on the death of Foulke's wife.
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On Janney's book, Peace Principles.
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Believes in Adam and Eve and finds Darwinian theory degrading and absurd.
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To his aunt, family news.
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From Lincoln, Va., advice.
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Views on atonement, vicarious sacrifice, salvation by faith alone, etc. Also includes letter, not sent but probably dating from 1848, on Swedenborg
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Condolences on the death of Asa, and relief that the obituary for Samuel M. Janney was premature. Also asks his opinion of Hayes.
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From Baltimore, Rachel Hicks is in attendance. Read a report before the Indian Transfer Commission in Washington, D.C.
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Receipt for a copy of the Janney family tree.
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Criticizes her poetry.
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Death of G[eorge] Truman and new work on William Penn. Edward Hopper found Lucretia Mott baking for the poor in her neighborhood; Mott's voice is somewhat cracked. The Intelligencer has added staff: Susan Roberts, Louisa J. Roberts, Hetty L. Parrish, and Helen G. Long. Three others remain, J[ane] Johnson, A.A. Townsend, and Susan M. Parrish.
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Temperance societies.
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Yearly Meeting's proposition for a general conference.
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Proposal for a general conference deferred to next year
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Letter from a friend.
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From cousin, sympathy on the death of Janney (5mo 2). July letter says that he was asked to contribute to a memorial on SMJ, mentions severe editing of all manuscripts by Representative Committee. Harshly edited a manuscript by Martha E. Tyson, as an example. His draft memorial alludes to an event in SMJ's life that others have avoided mentioning.
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Thanks for her poems, reflects on 79th birthday. Mentions poor health in past year, but improving; attended Quarterly Meeting in Waterford.
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From Brooklyn, daughter-in-law, condolences on the death of SMJ.
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From Brooklyn, granddaughter, condolences on the death of SMJ.
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Condolences and tribute of respect.
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Condolences and Susan requests some notes of a personal nature for an obituary in the Intelligencer.
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Condolences.
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Condolences from a nephew.
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Condolences.
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From Brooklyn, working with released prisoners at "Wayside Home."
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Sympathy poem.
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From Philadelphia, condolences.
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From Philadelphia, mentions that Janney was at the opening of the new meeting house in Washington, D.C.
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From Ercildoun, condolences.
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From Baltimore, condolences.
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Condolences, probably dated [1880] 5mo 24.
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From Omaha, mentions visits with Jacob Troth, William Coffin, S. Walton, Cousin Ligge, and Nathan Haines. Also raid by "wild Sioux" on the Agency resulted in the death of two students.
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From Philadelphia, SMJ working with an employee each day, 9-5. Cornelia seeing the sights, plans to visit John Jackson's.
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Family news. Janney is considering new teachers for the school, and Elizabeth mentions that a daughter of Isaac Hopper's is looking for a position; John Jackson has no positions open. Rachel Jackson edited out a remark by Samuel M. Janney for Friends Intelligencer on Joseph Dugdale.
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Family news.
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Affectionate letter planning a railing trip.
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Copy of a poem expressing sorrow.
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Incomplete. George Truman was looking for a suitable poem to read at formal presentation of West's Penn's Treaty to Swarthmore College.
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Draft, expresses different interpretation of Jewish law from that expressed by Jackson.
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Janney visited John M. White, Philadelphia Orthodox Quaker and his friends who told him of English Friends who visited the President on slavery issue, and planned to meet with governors of the Southern states. Another letter reports that a reading circle of Orthodox Friends in Burlington much appreciated his Life of Penn. In Baltimore Yearly Meeting, heard Nickolas Brown and Jesse Kersey speak.
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Janney thanks them for his visit with them to the southern suburbs of Philadelphia to see the condition of the free people of color. Largely believed in South that were worse off than enslaved people, but he was grateful to not find it true. Especially impressed with the schools for African Americans.
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Draft, response to Pease' letter of 1853. Writes that in conversations with Orthodox Friends in Philadelphia, found them to be not much different, as he had expected.
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Draft, has a draft of a manuscript from John Comply who wishes to have it published as a series. Representative Committee wants to wait for the whole; Janney suggests that he publish it on his own (Janney's) responsibility.
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Asks that he write an essay on the express concern he made at Select Yearly Meeting on qualifications for gospel ministry. Second letter is dated 2mo 1860 and asks his help in finding funding for the publishing of a book on Friends' testimonies for children.
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Family news.
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From Louisville, where the office of the Journal burned with all copies of an issue announcing publication of the life of George Fox. Would like to retire from business to write.
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Read and enjoyed Janney's poems.
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