Correspondence, 1986, with Edwin Bronner.

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Correspondence, 1986, with Edwin Bronner.

Broadfield inquires about information on Jean Toomer and Bronner responds with biographical data, telling of Toomer's involvement with the Young Friends Movement and mysticism. Toomer was probably the only Black member of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting in the 1940's.

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Haverford College Library

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Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends

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Mount Holly Monthly Meeting was established in 1776 by Burlington Quarterly Meeting out of Burlington Monthly Meeting. In 1827, after the Hicksite Separation in Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, the Meeting split into Hicksite and Orthodox branches. The Orthodox Meeting was discontinued in 1828 ; its members were transferred to Burlington Monthly Meeting (Orthodox). Mount Holly Monthly Meeting (Hicksite), which reunited with Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (Orthodox) in 1955, was the forerunner of the cu...

Toomer, Jean, 1894-1967

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Young Friends Movement (Philadelphia, Pa.)

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Broadfield, Joan.

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