Journal and diary collection, ca. 1599-1986.

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Journal and diary collection, ca. 1599-1986.

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Journals, diaries, memoirs, commonplace books, memorandum books, account books, notebooks, academic dissertations, autograph and photograph albums, scrapbooks, letterbooks, records (minute books, etc.), copybooks, book manuscripts, poetry, plays, silhouettes, genealogy, etc. chiefly by or about Quakers. Collection consists primarily of manuscript volumes reflecting Quaker life and thought. Journals and diaries include those of William C. Allen (7 v., worldwide travel in the ministry, 1904-1937), Peter Andrews (travel in England as minister, 1755-1756), Joshua L. Baily (42 v., 1845-1916), George Churchman (10 v., Meetings and travel in ministry, 1759-1813), Thomas Pym Cope (10 v., shipping business and philanthropic concerns, 1800-1851), Jacob R. Elfreth (45 v., 1814-1870) and son Jacob R. Elfreth (64 v., 1861-1924), Elizabeth Reeve Evans (7 v., 1882-1899), Mary Rhoads Haines (3 v., travel in England, includes photographs, 1874-1875), William Hunt (travel as minister, 1748-1772), Isaac Jackson (visit to Maryland Friends w/slaves, 1776), Jane Maule (11 v., 1866-1939), Margaret Hill Morris (Revolutionary War, 1776-1778), John Parrish. (7 v., 1796-1805), William Savery (4 v., 1794-1798), Joshua Sharples (3 v., 1798 visit to Indians), John Shoemaker (3 v., 1805-1815), Henry Simmons (4 v., 1796-1800), Anna Spencer (50 v., 1855-1905), Joseph Walton (19 v., 1875-1894), Thomas Wistar (6 v., 1841-1876), Emma Yarnall (43 v., 1856-1885) and others. Memoirs and autobiographical works of Friends; letterbooks include typed transcripts of letters of James Bringhurst (5 v., 1780-1807); book and other mss. include George Aaron Barton's "Boston Broad Brim," Thomas Clarkson's work on the African slave trade (1808), Logan Pearsall Smith's "On reading Shakespeare"; privately printed book of extracts, letters, etc. of Joseph John Gurney prepared for his family; records of Friends organizations include Friends Hospital records (43 v., 1812-1943), etc.; scrapbooks include 12 v. of Christopher Morley's "The Bowling Green" (1920-1923), Joseph Elkinton's indexed collection of obituaries (1789-1905), clippings on the 1851 Christiana riot collected by William Parker, and a scrapbook of original Quaker records (1633-1750).

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Parrish, John, 1730-1807

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Quaker minister of Philadelphia and Baltimore. Born in Maryland in 1729, the son of John and Elizabeth Roberts Parrish, he was apprenticed in Philadelphia and afterwards married Ann Wilson in 1753. Parrish travelled in the ministry to the Delaware Indians of western Pennsylvania in 1773 and again in 1784 to Barbadoes. In 1806 he wrote Remarks on the Slavery of the Black People. From the description of Notes on Abolition, circa 1805. (Swarthmore College). Wor...

Savery, William, 1750-1804

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William Savery (1750-1804) was born September 14, 1750, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of William and Mary (Peters) Savery. Educated in local schools, Savery was then apprenticed in the tanning industry. He was a business Friend of Philadelphia and a prominent minister. In 1778, he married Sarah Evans. Savery was first recognized a minister in 1781, and traveled on religious visits throughout America and Europe. In 1796, Savery traveled to England via Germany, France, and the Netherlands...

Sharples, Joshua

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Wilmington Monthly Meeting was established in 1750 by Chester [Concord] Quarterly Meeting out of Kennett Monthly Meeting (PA). After the Hicksite Separation of 1827, there were two monthly meetings at Wilmington. The Hicksite, or West Street, meeting merged with the Orthodox, or Harrison Street, meeting in 1945, forming a united monthly meeting under the two Concord Quarterly Meetings. Wilmington is currently an active monthly meeting. From the description of Account of the time mini...

Morris, Margaret Hill, 1737?-1816

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Morley, Christopher, 1890-1957

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American author and journalist. From the description of Letter to unidentified recipient [manuscript], 1940 October 25. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647810653 Christopher Morley was an American editor, an author, and a Rhodes scholar. Morley was one of the founders of the "Saturday Review of Literature," of which he was an editor from 1924 to 1940. A prolific author, he wrote more than 50 books. His novels include PANASSUS ON WHEELS (1917), THE HAUNTED BOOKS...

Walton, Joseph, 1817-1898

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Evans, Elizabeth

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Shoemaker, John, 1764-1817.

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Yarnall, Emma A.

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Churchman, George

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George Churchman was deputy surveyor of Pennsylvania. From the description of Papers, 1720-1850. (Historical Society of Pennsylvania). WorldCat record id: 86155763 ...

Parker, William Dan, 1934-

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Spencer, Ann, d. 1905.

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Smith, Logan Pearsall, 1865-1946

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Logan Pearsall Smith, the British essayist, was actually born in Millville, New Jersey into a family of Quakers. Smith studied in England,became a British resident, and spent his life writing about English writers. From the description of Constable Correspondence, 1917-1943. (Temple University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 122491162 American essayist. From the description of Autograph letters signed (2) : London, to Belle da Costa Greene, 1943 Aug. 14-1943 Aug....

Barton, George A. (George Aaron), 1859-1942

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George Aaron Barton, author, scholar, and Professor of Semitic languages. Graduated from Haverford College, B.A., 1882 and M.A., 1885. Barton received his Ph. D., 1891 from Harvard. He taught at the Friends School (Providence, R.I.), 1884-1889; at Haverford College, 1889-1893; and Bryn Mawr, 1899-1922. Barton was professor of Semitic languages at the University of Pennsylvania, 1922-1931 and Professor Emeritus, 1932-1942. He was also appointed director of the American School of Oriental Research...

Allen, William Charles, 1857-1938

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Cope, Thomas P. (Thomas Pim), 1768-1854

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Founder of packet ship line in 1821 that sailed from Philadelphia to Liverpool; Cope travelled from Philadelphia to Niagara Falls, Montreal, and Quebec with his son Alfred on July 12, 1820, visiting Nantucket from Sept. 9-15, 1820. From the description of Thomas Pym Cope diary/J. Morris Evans collection, 1820 Sept. 9-15. (Nantucket Hist Association). WorldCat record id: 70953345 William Carvill was Haverford College's first landscape architect. Jonathan Richards was principa...

Friends Hospital (Philadelphia, Pa.)

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Haines, Mary Rhoads, 1819-1905.

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Clarkson, Thomas, 1760-1846

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Philanthropist. Entered St John's 1780. B.A. 1783. Clarkson won the members prize for Latin essay in 1785, the subject being a question 'anne liceat invitos in servitutem dare?' ('is it lawful to make slaves of others against their will?') This contest determined the course of the rest of his life. The essay was read in the Senate House to much applause in June 1785, and published by James Phillips in June 1786. He met William Wilberforce in 1786 and co-founded a committee for the suppr...

Simmons, Henry.

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Elfreth, Jacob R., 1837-1924.

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Andrews, Peter, 1707-1756.

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Gurney, Joseph-John, 1788-1847

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Quaker philanthropist, writer, and minister. From the description of Letter : Charleston, to Samuel Bettle, 1840 May 3. (Bryn Mawr College). WorldCat record id: 28886177 An English Quaker reformer and writer, Gurney traveled widely in the U.S., Canada and West Indies. From the description of ALS, 1841 February 1 : Earlham, [Eng.] to Cecilia Baring / J.J. Gurney. (Haverford College Library). WorldCat record id: 44996509 ...

Hunt, William, 1733-1772

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William Hunt was a Quaker minister born near Philadelphia who spent much of his adult life in Guilford, North Carolina. William was a very sober, religious child, and began to preach at the age of fifteen. Finding himself somewhat vain of the gift, which was encouraged by the elder Friends, he held his peace for some time, and finally began all over again, becoming eventually one of the foremost ministers of his denomination. He married early, before his majority, Sarah Mills, in 4mo.1753. Jus...

Maule, Jane, d. 1939.

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Bringhurst, James d. 1810

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The Bringhursts of Philadelphia, Pa., were a prominent Quaker family, active in the civic life of the City and in the Society of Friends. James Bringhurst and his brother, Joseph, were merchants, and their niece, Elizabeth Foulke, was a Quaker minister. From the description of Collection of Bringhurst Family Correspondence, 1780-1811. (Swarthmore College). WorldCat record id: 56359896 ...

Wistar, Thomas, 1798-1876

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Baily, Joshua L. (Joshua Longstreth), 1826-1916

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Joshua Longstreth Baily, Quaker merchant and philanthropist, was the son of Joshua and Elizabeth Lloyd Baily. He m. 1856 Theodate Lang. Baily was especially active in the fields of temperance, African American education, peace and prison reform. From the description of Papers, 1818-1956. (Haverford College Library). WorldCat record id: 29216272 ...

Elkinton, Joseph Scotton, 1830-1905

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Joseph Scotton Elkinton (1830-1905), a Quaker, attended Westtown School in Westtown, PA, and with his brother, Thomas, went into the soap business, which later became the Philadelphia Quartz Company. He was instrumental in garnering interest and securing aid for the Doukhobors, a religious group which emigrated from Russia to Canada. He was a minister in the Society of Friends. In 1856, he married Malinda Patterson. He was author of Arrival of Doukhobors in Canada from Cyprus. From t...

Elfreth, Jacob R., 1789-1870.

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Jackson, Isaac, 1734-1807.

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