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Bronner, Edwin B., 1920-. Letters to Stephen Straight, 1962-1974.

Title: Letters to Stephen Straight, 1962-1974.

Letters respond to questions originally posed by Stephen Straight about specific Quaker Meetings in America, Canada, and Ireland or about regional Quaker issues. Some respondents include: Frederick Tolles, Edwin Bronner, Hannah Stapler, Richard Dunn, Glenn Reece, and Richmond Miller. A few maps, photographs and pamphlets accompany these responses.

ArchivalResource: 2 folders.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/45145731 View

Smith, Vernona I. C. Abstracts of Jamaica wills, 1625-1792.

Title: Abstracts of Jamaica wills, 1625-1792.

The abstracts are of wills of English colonists, all property holders in Jamaica during the 17th and 18th centuries. This collection spans the rise of the Jamaica sugar industry. Most testators were big planters or merchants.

ArchivalResource: 1 microfilm reel.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122503616 View

McNeil Center for Early American Studies. Records, 1959-2006.

Title: Records, 1959-2006.

The records for the McNeil Center for Early American Studies document the efforts the consortium to fulfill its mission. The collection is divided in two sections according to the date of their processing. The first section, processed in 1992, is 12 cubic feet in volume,; the second section, done in 2010, has 6.3 c.f. Each section consists of four series: The Administrative series consists of two parts, General files and Financial files. The General files include correspondence, annual reports, announcements, brochures, personnel information, and mailing lists. The Financial files include development records, budgetary files, and miscellaneous expenditure files. The development records contain a wealth of information on the Mellon Foundation and the National Endowment of Humanities, the two major funding agencies for the Center, as well as other corporate sponsors and fund raising efforts. The Fellowship files constitute the bulk of the collection. This series contains files on all applicants for doctoral, post-doctoral, and travel fellowships. Applicant files normally contain statements of purpose, letters of recommendations, and writing samples, often in the form of research papers, speeches, articles, and book chapters. As a result, there is a wealth of scholarly research in this series. The Seminar series also holds a variety of scholarly work. The Projects series includes information on the various national conferences and projects supported by the Center. These conferences and projects include the Papers of William Penn; the Biographical Dictionary of Early Pennsylvania Legislators Project; the Transformation of Philadelphia and the Delaware Valley, 1750-1850 Project; "The World of William Penn" Conference, 1981; "The World Turned Upside Down: Working People in England and America, 1660-1790" Conference, 1981; "The Founding of Pennsylvania, 1682-1800" Conference, 1982; "The Creation of the American Constitution" Conference, 1984; and the Graduate Student Conference, 1999-2001.

ArchivalResource: 18.5 cubic feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145429557 View

Dunn, Richard S. Papers, 1765-1995 (bulk 1950-1993).

Title: Papers, 1765-1995 (bulk 1950-1993).

The Richard S. Dunn Papers represent the career and achievement of the distinguished Penn faculty as teacher, author and administrator. The Administrative files series documents his experience as Chairman of the Department of History of the University of Pennsylvania as well as his commitments as a senior faculty member to many committees of the School of Arts and Sciences or of the University. Dunn's teaching experience is well recorded in the Teaching files series. Included in it are all kinds of teaching material, ranging from syllabi, bibliographical data, teaching notes to examination questions, recommendations written for the students, and a bounteous collection of Senior History Honors papers he advised from the late 1970s to the early 1990s. Dunn's teaching at the University of Michigan as a visiting professor, 1969-1970, and his term as Harmsworth Professor of the Queen's College, Oxford University, 1987-1988, are two additional features. The Publications, Presentations, Manuscripts series includes books and articles Dunn has published, papers he presented to various academic institutions and symposiums, and some unpublished manuscripts. The Other Professional Activities files record Dunn's participation in the activities of many academic and professional institutions, among them the American Historical Association, the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, the Institute of Early American History and Culture, and the McNeil Center for Early American Studies. Two more components of the collection deserve a special note. The Glass Slides series consists of over 140 pieces of slides Dunn used as teaching aids to his history courses. The series covers six subjects--early American bank notes (issued between 1775 and 1865), British statesmen and London landscape, American Far West, Italian statesmen, fugitive slaves, and World War I. The William P. Dunn Papers include over six hundred pages of manuscript by Richard S. Dunn's father annotating a selection of works written by the English author and theologian Richard Hook.

ArchivalResource: 17 Cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145429201 View