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Quaker poems : a collection of verse relating to the Society of Friends
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
Collection of papers relating to the Society of Friends in Ohio (Orthodox). Included are communications and epistles received by Ohio Yearly Meeting from the Yearly Meetings in Philadelphia, New York, and Maryland; minutes and other records of the Stillwater, Short Creek, and Redstone Monthly and Quarterly Meetings, marriage announcements, certificates, and other miscellaneous records, including a proposal submitted to the Yearly meeting for establishing labor schools, approximately 1840. The collection also contains some personal letters discussing religious practice, theology, history, child rearing, etc. Also included are: an epistle from Women Friends Meeting in London to Women Friends Yearly Meeting in Philadelphia, 1789, two addresses to a "Spiritual Improvement Society", by Edward Hoops, 1840, two short memoirs of the underground railroad and Quaker abolitionists, and a copy of August Diamond's Levi Coffin, the friend of the slave, published for the Friends' Tract Association (London : Headley Bros.; New York : Friends' Book & Tract Committee), approximately 1915. The collection also contains a bound manuscript "Memoirs of Rachel E. Paterson, 1828-1869." Rachel E. Paterson (born 1810) was a Quaker preacher, daughter of James Edgerton and Anne Hall, members of Stillwater Monthly Meeting (Orthodox). The manuscript consists of copies of letters that she exchanged with her family.
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