New Lebanon, N.Y., single-sheet manuscripts, ca. 1790-1900.

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New Lebanon, N.Y., single-sheet manuscripts, ca. 1790-1900.

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Correspondence, recipes, advertisements, songs, music, booklets, poems, homilies, accounts, and other materials, of/or relating to Mount Lebanon, the Shaker community at New Lebanon, N.Y. Also includes letter (1833 Sept. 21) from Asa L. Thompson, New York, N.Y., to Alpheus Longley, Hatfield, Mass., ordering Shaker brushes and brooms; indenture (1836 Apr. 25) of Sarah Bradley to Jonathan Wood, of New Lebanon, until Bradley's 21st birthday; booklet (1841 Feb. 17) of the words of Mother Ann Lee written to Eldress Ruth Landon; spirit messages (1841, 1849) from Mother Ann to the New Lebanon, Second Family; booklets of rules for living; spirit drawings (1842-1848) including card (1843 Jan. 25) to George W. Curtiss; letter (1849 Mar. 17) from Robert White, Jr., New York, N.Y., to Nathan Freeman, Alfred, opposing a law before the New York Legislature making joining the Shakers (among other things) a cause for divorce; extract of journal (ca. 1850) of Isaac Youngs, relating to a trip to Union Village, Ohio; speech (1850 July) of Samantha Fairbanks about the necessity for a plain life; address (ca. 1855) of Betsy Bates to the meeting at Mount Lebanon, written in poetry, calling for a better higher life; accounts and records of medicinal herbs and other medicines of various drug companies; and billheads (8 items, 1858) of Edward Fowler, New Lebanon, wholesale dealer in botanic medicine.

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United Society of Shakers, Shaker Library

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