Call Number:

SC.257

Repository:

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Extent:

.1 linear ft. (.1 linear feet (1 folder.))

Language Note:

Materials are in English.

Preferred Citation:

Cite as: Virginia Parry correspondence received,1985-1989, SC/257, Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College.

Date:

1985-1989 (inclusive)

Creator:

Parry, Virginia D. Wright

Abstract:

The collection contains correspondence received by Virginia Parry concerning Quaker meetings within Baltimore Yearly Meeting. The seven letters from a trustee of Pipe Creek Monthly Meeting discuss preservation of burial grounds and Quaker meeting concerns.

Virginia was born in 1913, the daughter of Ryland and Nellie Wilson Wright. She married James Elihu Parry in 1954 and worked as a teacher and administrator in Adams County, Pa. Parry and her stepdaughter, Suzanne Lamborn, shared an interest in genealogy and meeting history. She was a member of Menallen Monthly Meeting and died in 2003.