Alice Ford research notes for the biography of Edward Hicks

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Alice Ford research notes for the biography of Edward Hicks

c. 1952

http://archives.tricolib.brynmawr.edu/resources/sfhl-sc-040

This collection contains the research notes made by Alice Ford for her book, Edward Hicks Painter of the Peaceable Kingdom. These notes include genealogical information on the Hicks family and on several of his correspondents. Also included are typescripts of letters of Edward Hicks and his family. Among the correspondents are Emmor Kimber, John Comly, Elias Hicks, Benjamin and Richard Price, Elias Hicks, and Thomas McClintock. Topics include family news, issues of Quaker Spirituality, and the 1827 Hicksite separation in the Society of Friends.

.1 Linear Feet (11 folders.)

eng, Latn

Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections

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