Miscellaneous correspondence, 1819-1944.

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Miscellaneous correspondence, 1819-1944.

Bound volume containing copies of letters, usually written from Mount Lebanon, N.Y., concerning Shaker products, Civil War involvement and taxes, community news, spiritual matters, and theological issues, 1861-1862. Manuscript copies of letters concerning the destitution and persecution of Shakers in Sweden, 1867; and of a 60 page letter from Elder William Leonard to Elder Frederick W. Evans relating his talk on Shakerism before a rural New England church, 1867. Letters by Hannah Ames and Mary Dyer concerning their claims of mistreatment by Shakers, 1819. Original letters include one from the King of Norway and Sweden thanking the Shakers for a book sent him, 1841; seven to Laura Holloway Langford about Mr. Langford's death and news of Mount Lebanon and Canterbury Shakers, 1902-1911; five by Sister Sarah Collins on flax, stone jars, Red Cross activities, and Shaker community news, 1932-1935; and others between Shakers concerning products, community news, theology, and expressions of religious love, 1850-1944.

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Leonard, William, 1803-1877.

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Dyer, Mary M., 1780-

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Evans, F. W. 1808-1893.

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Ames, Hannah.

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Charles XIV John, King of Sweden and Norway, 1763-1844

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American National Red Cross

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