Letters : Richmond, Ind., to Samuel Bettle, Philadelphia, 1845-1852.

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Letters : Richmond, Ind., to Samuel Bettle, Philadelphia, 1845-1852.

4 ALsS. Includes an 1851 letter from Coffin's father, Elijah, discussing details of their bookselling enterprise.

4 items (together 14 p.) ; 28 x 21 cm. or smaller.

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Friends' Asylum for the Insane

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Coffin, Charles F. (Charles Fisher), 1823-1916

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Indiana Quaker. From the description of Letter : Richmond, Ind., to Samuel Bettle, Jr., Philadelphia, 1851 June 18. (Bryn Mawr College). WorldCat record id: 28328000 ...

Bettle, Samuel, 1809-1880

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Philadelphia Quaker. From the description of Letter : Philadelphia, to Jane Bettle, Philadelphia, 1840 Jan. 13. (Bryn Mawr College). WorldCat record id: 28328276 Samuel Bettle, Jr., a Quaker minister from Philadelphia, spent several weeks during the summer of 1841 traveling between the isolated Quaker meetings scattered through the counties of central Pennsylvania. An Orthodox Quaker and probably the son of the clerk of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the sam...

Coffin, Elijah, 1798-1862

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Elijah Coffin was born in 1793 in Guilford County, N.C., and moved to Indiana in 1824. He began as a teacher, then became a businessman and finally a banker. He held positions of responsibility within the Society of Friends, including Clerk of the Indiana Yearly Meeting and Elder, and published works on Scripture and religion. He died in 1862. From the description of Explanatory notes, showing the mode of organizing and conducting a school, upon the genuine Lancasterian plan : writte...