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Friends United Meeting

 Collection
Identifier: FRG-37

Scope and Contents

The collection consists of Friends United Meeting records, including meeting minutes, photographs, correspondence, publications, and official records. Most records are related to missions operated by Friends United Meeting, particularly those in Kenya, Ramallah, and Cuba.

Dates

  • 1890 - 2002

Creator

Biographical or Historical Information

Friends United Meeting (FUM) is an international association of 26 yearly meetings of the Religious Society of Friends in North America, Africa, and the Caribbean. FUM maintains offices in Richmond Indiana and in Kisumu Kenya. Originally FUM was called Five Years Meeting and was founded following by the Richmond Declaration in 1902. In 1963 Five Years Meeting renamed itself Friends United Meeting.

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Extent

136 Boxes

Language of Materials

English

Spanish; Castilian

Arabic

Swahili