Manuscripts

William Rathbone correspondence

Description: A collection of 33 items from 1760 to 1821, it consists largely of a series of letters written from 1800 to 1807 by William Rathbone to Abraham Shackleton. The letters concern items of general Quaker interest, including Quaker principles and doctrine, and particularly the controversial publication of Rathbone's "A Narrative of Events...in Ireland..." The collection also includes a small number of manuscripts, notes, and one volume.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1760-1821
Call number: HM 80363-80394
Creator: Rathbone, William (1757-1809)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Dawson's Bookstore, February 1974.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

William Rathbone correspondence

Manuscripts

A collection of 33 items from 1760 to 1809, it consists largely of a series of letters written from 1800 to 1807 by William Rathbone to Abraham Shackleton. The letters concern items of general Quaker interest, including Quaker principles and doctrine, and particularly the controversial publication of Rathbone's "A Narrative of Events...in Ireland..." The collection also includes a small number of manuscripts, notes, and one volume.

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Theodore E. Suliot and Richard Davis. The Ballitore Magazine, 2nd Series

Manuscripts

A collection of 33 items from 1760 to 1821, it consists largely of a series of letters written from 1800 to 1807 by William Rathbone to Abraham Shackleton. The letters concern items of general Quaker interest, including Quaker principles and doctrine, and particularly the controversial publication of Rathbone's "A Narrative of Events...in Ireland..." The collection also includes a small number of manuscripts, notes, and one volume.

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Richard Shackleton correspondence

Manuscripts

A collection of 401 items from 1658 to 1808, it consists of the correspondence of Richard Shackleton and his wife Elizabeth (Carleton) Shackleton. Many of the letters addressed to Richard Shackleton are from parents whose children attended the Ballitore Quaker school and former students commenting on university life. The remaining portion of the collection consists of letters written from the Shackletons to their friend Elizabeth (Pim) Pike of Dublin. Although most of the letters concern the Society of Friends in Ireland, there are some items relating to activities of Friends in England and America. There are a few items from the latter seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, including individual letters by George Whitehead and William Penn.

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