Friends Meeting of Washington correspondence, 1943-1947.

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Friends Meeting of Washington correspondence, 1943-1947.

Collection consists of correspondence from staff or board members at Bettis Academy, Laing High School and Schofield Normal School expressing thanks for monies donated by the Friends Meeting of Washington, D.C. on an annual basis.The bulk of the letters are from Bettis Academy and contain significant details on school operations and conditions. Also included is a Christmas greeting entitling Bettis Academy to three hundred and sixty five days of happiness, prosperity and peace for the year 1946. Correspondents include A.W. Nicholson, Richard F. Bouleware, Sanford P. Bradby, J. MIchael Graves, Janet M. Brown and Bessie H. Preston.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8079967

South Carolina Historical Society

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Friends Meeting of Washington (Washington, D.C.)

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Friends Meeting of Washington was established as an independent meeting on Florida Avenue in the District of Columbia in 1930. It provided a convenient place of worship for then President Herbert Hoover and his wife, Lou Henry Hoover; Mrs. Hoover was greatly involved with the creation of the meeting and the construction of the meeting house. In 1944, Friends Meeting of Washington affiliated with both the Orthodox and Hicksite Baltimore Yearly Meetings. The older Washington Monthly Meeting, refer...

Schofield, Martha

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Martha Schofield was a northern Quaker teacher-missionary among the free blacks on Wadmalaw Island and Johns Island (Charleston County) and at Aiken, S.C. From the description of Martha Schofield papers, 1865-1869. WorldCat record id: 24250571 ...

Hancock, Cornelia, 1840-1927

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Bettis academy, Aiken Co., S. C.

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Laing Normal and Industrial School (Mt. Pleasant, S.C.)

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