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Allen, M. Catherine. Shaker correspondence, 1827-1955.

Title: Shaker correspondence, 1827-1955.

Correspondence from Mount Lebanon and Watervliet, N.Y., Shirley and Harvard, Mass., Canterbury, N.H., Sabbathday Lake, Me., and other Shaker communities from many individuals. Includes letters from Harvard, Mass., covering many topics including the death of Brother John Orsment, a missionary tour to Vermont, and the exemption from bearing arms during the Civil War; letters from Mount Lebanon, N.Y., including correspondence from Eldress M. Catherine Allen to Clara Endicott Sears detailing Allen's contributions to the Fruitlands Shaker museum, letters from Josephine Jilson to Sears discussing the Harvard Shaker cemetery and the relocation of Shaker sisters, and letters from some of the relocated sisters discussing M. Catherine Allen, Shaker songs, and the departure of Sister Lottie Tremper from the Mount Lebanon community; and letters (1932-1938) from Prudence Stickney, of Sabbathday Lake, Me., to Clara Endicott Sears, chiefly concerning donations to the Fruitlands Museums. Also includes correspondence of Rose Morse, Susan Wentworth, and Olive Chandler, of Shirley, Mass.; letters (1 v., 1845-1850) from the community at Enfield, N.H., including details of a fire; and volume of letters (1853-1856) originating at Harvard, copied by Thomas Hammond, including correspondence of Giles B. Avery and Joshua Bussell and a letter (1862) from James Prescott to William Leonard describing the troubles at Pleasant Hill, Ky., during the Civil War.

ArchivalResource: 3 v.

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