Sales brochure from developers of the Alexandra Colony, London. Advertising a tract of land acquired on west bank of San Javier River in the province of Saanta Fe by J. Thomson, T. Bonar and Company for development.

Covers the trips from Alexandria Colony to England, then U.S. and North Carolina. With a rough itinerary compiled by his daughter Eleanor Fisher Brinton and a photograph of the family in North Carolina.

Typed transcript memoir of his childhood, life in Argentina, and travel to the United States. Thomas (1853-1940) was the third child, eldest son. He and his brothers were educated in Ireland and assumed responsibility for the family farm and care of younger siblings until his father directed him to sell it and follow him to South America. Typed addendum by Eleanor Fisher Brinton adds entries from Sarah's diary which supplied specific dates. Thomas was a member of Goshen Monthly Meeting and an acknowledged minister of Holly Spring Friends Meeting, North Carolina, an independent meeting for worship.

Editor of The Friend, inviting her to submit a manuscript.

2 copies with photographs glued onto first page. The donor noted that Henry's account is most complete of the siblings memoirs. Also a mimeograph copy of trip of Henry and wife Hattie Fisher to St. Petersburg, Florida. Henry attended Cornell University and was an engineer and avid supporter of Esperanto. He married Harriett Wixon.

Typed manuscript family history including the family in Ireland, descended from Reuben and Joan Fisher. Also aAn appendix on her father's character and the fire in the North Carolina homestead. Carbons copies, tied with string. Susanna G. Fisher (1865-1956), second youngest of the nine children and a small child when the family lived in Argentina, explained that since the family lived remotely, they took great interest in family stories that were handed down. She was a writer and editor, the only daughter who did not marry. She moved with her father and two sisters moved to Pennsylvania in 1898.

Typed carbon written by Eleanor Fisher (1868-1958), youngest child, with her impressions of the environment and local natives. Also copies with translation of a description of Fishers' home in Argentina from a book by William Wilcken, 1872, described as the only home without firearms.

Compiled by Susanna Fisher [and Eleanor?] Contains clippings, memorials, genealogical tables, etc., on family members including Anna M. Haslam. Included are published articles by William F. Brinton and a printed memorial for Thomas Wright Fisher by Holly Springs Monthly Meeing, North Carolina. Also original loose material, dated 1850-1930s: A. J. Grimshaw letters; condolence letters concerning deaths of Elizabeth and Nathan Mizell, etc.

Abraham Fisher to Hannah Rhodes, 1850 8 mo. 18, concerning her plan to visit to Europe. Rhodes was a Philadelphia Quaker minister, and Fisher wrote that his wife would like to accompany her if she included Ireland in her travels. Manuscript copy letter Abraham Fisher, Sr., to Edward Jefferis, Youghal, 1853, concerning his Quaker faith and large family that included 17 children.

Drawn by Stephen J. Ferris

Sarah Wright married Abraham Fisher in 1850. The title page includes the signature of her youngest daughter Eleanor P. F. Brinton. Inside cover has Sarah's signed temperance pledge. Contain list of books read, poetry (words to songs?), and note from mother to her children.

Typed extracts. William (1859-1885) had moved to Pennsylvania where he started a plant nursery. He was visiting family in North Carolina where he died, probably from tuberculosis.

Tydped carbon copies of rhyming letter sent between the siblings, transcript by Susanna G. Fisher

Pocket diary journal of trip to New York World's Fair. Elizabeth (1863-1935) married Nathan Eugene Mizell, and they were active members of Goshen Monthly Meeting.

Photocopy of a typescript. Nolan (1840-1893) was the first husband of Maria Fisher (1851-1939], the eldest of the Fisher children. He was also Irish by birth and met the family in Argentina where he had worked in various jobs and became a manager at the Colony. He left Argentina at the same time as the Fishers and eventually came to North Carolina to work for the railroad and lumber company. He joined the Society of Friends meeting a Piney Woods, He and Maria married in 1877. Susanna explained that she recorded his life so that his children could appreciate his adventurous personality and exploits before illness and hard times in North Carolina.

Susanna Georgina Fisher (1865-1956) was an editor and writer and served as an Elder in Philadelphia Monthly Meeting of the Western District. Carbons and mimeographed short stories and copy of her published book, A Child's Story of Jesus' Friends, signed by author for her sister, Eleanor Brinton. [2nd copy to stacks. Photos enclosed]

Family births and information kept by Susanna G. Fisher. Index at end and loose note written by W. F. Brinton.

A note written by that donor explained that members of the Jacobs family intermarried with the Fisher family. Louisa Jacobs was Philadelphia-area Quaker teacher who had lived in Germany before WWII and later was active in German relief.

Instruction from seller of Lancaster County property regarding sale to Moses Brinton.

Letters from his mother and his sister, Cassie (Cassandra).

Detailed description of the Yearly Meeting. Draft? Labeled. in pencil Wilburite Controversy/Important History. Last page in shorthand.

Mary Brinton included news of the family, as their infant son David Brinton was in cradle nearby. Also her account of her going from Dartmouth to Newport to attend New England Yearly Meeting. She traveled with Jesse and Mary Tucker Ann Tucker. She added a note that she had met them in the fall of 1848 when she despaired that she might be homeless with no resources, and they offered her a home as a teacher their children.

Brinton wrote that he would provide any specific information upon request, but that he was unwilling to send the record books of the Yearly Meeting which he had taken with him to Pennsylvania.

Words of encouragement to follow Quaker tradition

Transcribed from diary of Joseph Brinton, typed transcript and published in Friends Journal, May 15, 1965, with illustrations by Eileen Waring.

Labeled on cover [by son David Brinton] 1885/ Father's notes on activities. Includes accounts, remarks on food, etc.

Mary Brinton (1831-1926), younger sister of Joseph Brinton, married Joseph J. Hopkins in 1861. Her diary is rich with family detail, Quaker meetings and ministers. In entries before 6 month 1864, the ink is badly faded and difficult to decipher. Beginning 1864, visits to family and friends, Quaker meetings. 7 mo. 1864, funeral of Uncle Joseph in the meeting house at East Sadsbury with large meetings of people from various denominations. Thomas Whitson and Horatio Cooper spoke. Entry of 7 mo. 29, tax collectors came to collect military fine. Joseph Hopkins refused and was threatened with prison. A mare and colt were confiscated. Attending worship, monthly (mostly Fallowfield) and quarterly meetings, visits from Ohio and New England Friends. Attended General Meeting in Philadelphia in December. 1865 Quaker notes, including preaching by her husband, brother Joseph, visit of James Kite and others. After a long gap, she wrote that she had stayed with Mary H. Brinton for final weeks of her life. Before her death, Mary asked her sister Anna to care for her children. Anna became Joseph Brinton's second wife.o Mary and Joseph Hopkins lived near Gap, Lancaster County. The family practiced as Wilburite/Conservative Quakers, and the family worshipped in their home several times a week where Joseph would lead worship.

"Memories of Three Spring Farms" includes two sketches by Susanna Brinton of the farm in Lancaster County where she grew up. Yoder wrote that she was a plain Quaker her entire long life and supported suffrage and education. She gave a building as a residence for teachers at Cheyney University and a building at Women's Medical College in Philadelphia.

Two essays about his father, David P. Brinton, and his unease with changing times.

6 small volumes, family and daily activities as her health failed

Largely clippings, family and poems, etc., of interest

Sarah W. Brinton (1902-1997) was the eldest of David and Eleanor Brinton's four children. Two handwritten and illustrated stories written as a child. Also a 1960 note to her brother and sister-in-law, William F. and Louise Brinton, describing her visit to the Moses Brinton farm in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

Daily entries which record high and low temperatures, school, family and activities. She mentions the flu epidemic, War, and Wilson leaving for Europe in December 1918 to attend Treat of Versailles. Two volumes, acidic, very fragile and some pages crumbling. Excerpts from 1916-1918 in her handwriting.

With a letter from the editor Of American Baptist, Department of Sunday School publications, to M. Eileen Brinton.

Florida, California, Mexico, Canada, England, etc. Bill Brinton loved travel, often with his brother Arthur. In November 1940 he noted that he was preparing his questionnaire for the draft notice. Also loose, brief entries removed from small notebooks; he wondered if he would ever settle down (brother Art married in 1940). Snapshots of camping in Californis, 1932

Many are identified by Brinton. Also donor's note remarking on the variety of topics, courses, and visitors at Woodbrooke from many European countries including Germany.

A long letter recounted his experiences in work camps in Europe, Woodbrooke. Includes a brochure, Volunteer Work Camp, Summer 1937, published by the AFSC in cooperation with the Emergency Peace Campaign.

Typed and handwritten

Issued to William F. Brinton for having met the requirements of the AYH Training School as established in the 1944 Handbook

"Restlessness." Draft for his autobiography. His theme for this chapter of his early adulthood was youthful restlessness. "How to travel on little." He loved to travel and was involved in the hostel movement. Handwritten on very acidic paper.

Brief entries removed from small notebooks; also miscellaneous notes of interest

Brinton was among the first conscientious objectors to be assigned to Camp #3, Patapsco, Maryland which opened 4 month 1941 and closed 9 month. In a letter dated 6 month 14, he described his day, Friends who visited to tour the camp, and his thoughts on alternative service which though not managed efficiently was better than prison or military service. He expected his service to be only a year and was a released in September. He went to NYC to work on Co-ops and lived in a cooperative apartment in Greenwich Village.

Brinton traveled in Michigan and New England. In June he attended a conference on Cooperatives in Wisconsin.

Brinton's notes on camp discussion on issues such as labor problems and expectations. The journal begins on August 26, 1942, his first week at Big Flats and contains his detailed assessments. Bayard Rustin, Barnard Walton, and others spoke at the Camp. Brinton presided over camp meetings. He noted efforts to release Japanese Americans from internment camps and that some prisoners had been sent to Chicago. Most of the volume is empty, and the final entry is May 10, 1943, in which he reflected on his leaving the camp and his debt to his aged parents.

Includes 1943 correspondence concerning his being reported AWOL when he attended Yearly Meeting without being granted an emergency furlough. 1945 letter from Ruth [Cadbury], Worcester, England, whom he had met at Woodbrooke.

Typed carbons. Brinton studied archival training at the Library of Congress after the War and briefly worked for the Swarthmore College Peace Collection when his cousin Anna Brinton was Curator.

Travel notes from road trips

Early memories of Brinton and a short biography by Margaret Brinton Collinson on her father.

Sorted by the author, topics include travel, cooperatives, work camps

Handwritten and typed drafts

Carbon copies of accepted articles

Guide published by Friend General Conference which listed the home of ted the Brintons in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania

Typed photocopy, spiral bound with commentary. He was the son of John Irwin, Jr. (1782-1859) who married Mary Fisher under the care of Muncy Monthly Meeting in 1802. With his family, he accompanied the Fishers to Bald Eagle Valley, Centre County, Pennsylvania. He was a birthright Quaker who became a Methodist after his marriage. Also includes the autobiography of his brother Ellis Irwin (1805-1902). A note that the letters had been property of Louise Irwin Brinton and were transcribed and researched by John P. Irwin.

Margaret Fisher Brinton Collinson, the daughter of William Fisher Brinton and Louise Irwin Brinton, attended a small Irish Quaker boarding school, Grammar School Drogheda, during her Junior Year Abroad. Her letters reflect a very different academic experience, far from home and technology, located only thirty miles from the Border shortly before "The Troubles" erupted.

Sketches of farm life at Joseph Brinton's Spring Hope Farm, Glenrose, Pennsylvania, where Margaret Brinton, later Collinson, spent weekends as a child.

Sorted from Brinton photographs. Includes 1930s anti-war postcards, postcards of memorials, postcard series of Lover's Lane, Saint Jo by Eugene Field, miscellaneous greeting cards, and photo of Bill Brinton on bike in England/Greeting for New Year 1938. Also an envelope of "Old Money."

Largely family and some business news. Oliver Robinson (1812-1890) was a younger brother of Anna Robinson Howland. He was a successful Windham, Maine, manufacturer and member of Windham Monthly Meeting.

Addressed to Dear Sister, the letter contains family news and comments on the tensions in the Society.

Hill reported on events at the Quarterly Meeting and the formation of a smaller Conservative Yearly Meeting, He remarked that he and his wife were holding a school in their home for their children, and he invited Anna to join them. His son Charles added a note at the end, requesting that Howland inquire at the Insane Hospital in Augusta concerning the placement of a young man, William Henry, who suffered from seizures.

Timothy Robinson was Anna's father. The letter contains family news and remarks about "Wilburism," with addendum from her brother Oliver Robinson

Two letters from John Wilbur (1774-1856) of Hopkinton, Rhode Island. He was a Quaker minister who objected to the evangelical focus promoted by John Joseph Gurney and other London Friends which led to a separation in New England Yearly Meeting in 1845. Wilbur acknowledged the Howlands' support for him and the new yearly meeting. The 1847 letter mentioned that Noah Winslow had written to him with an account of his disownment.

The letters focus on business concerns, then remarks on Quaker Wilburites and Gurneyites as reported in London and Philadelphia Friend. The second letter gave lengthy description of New England Yearly Meeting (Wilburite) which was well attended and approved an Epistle concerning the Separation to be printed.

The correspondence concerned their investment to build a merchant vessel, Abeona. In letters of 9 month 1847, Hill expressed his desire to invest and in October assigned Howland to serve as his attorney

Letter from a prominent Wilburite minister concerning James Sribbens with reference to J[ohn] Wilbur and Peter Davis. [Also includes print-out of the online transcript by Sharon Iwanick, 2003, from a copy of the letter in Narragansett Historical Society Register.]

Family update from his mother including progress on the new house. Addendum by his sister Susanna

Condolences on the death of her husband, David P. Howland

Mansucript album from Oak Grove Seminary, Vassalboro, Maine.

Manuscript poem written for Mary H. Howland with typed transcript

Includes "Memoranda of my beloved wife, Mary H. Brinton." Mary H. Brinton died in 1870 shortly after the birth of her fifth child. The manuscript was sewed into acidic, water-stained corrugated cardboard covers, probably compiled by David Brinton, son of Mary and grandfather of the donor. Mary Howland taught school in the home of Jesse and Mary Ann Tucker in Dartmouth, Massachusetts. In Mary's memoir, she suffered her first hemorrhages in 1857 and was forced to give up teaching, but was able to attend New England Yearly Meeting in 1863 with Joseph and record the sessions. David Brinton's memoranda includes excerpts of letters to Mary's sister Anna. Sister Anna came to assist with care of Mary's first child, David, born 1864, and remained to help with the family. Mary, who had three additional children, was fragile and weak presumably from tuberculosis; she died days after the death of the fourth child, Mary. Removed from acidic cardboard covers.

Typed manuscript with two related letters from Willard Heiss. The note from donor explains that Elizabeth Bridwell, an Indiana Quaker, was a long-time friend of her parents, William and Louise Brinton, and they cared for her in their home in her late illness. She had worked as an assistant to James A. Michener. Rufus Jones was one of William Brinton's most admired professors at Haverford College.