Box 3

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1 item: "The Attitude of Friends toward Bible," undated

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John Allen (1809-1891) was a Friends minister of Deer Creek Meeting in Grant County, Ind. The diary is mainly concerned with his travels in the ministry in Indiana. There are a few miscellaneous notes, 1881-1887. Typescript included. Gift of Anita Mott Weddle and Wilda Mott DeCou, 1975.

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Commonplace book, Union Academy, Henry County, Ind., 1858.

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Business and legal papers and receipts of Levi Beard (1834-1887), a Friend of Lynn, Randolph County, Ind. Also included is an obituary of Mary (Cox) Beard (1813-1907), mother of Levi Beard and genealogical material on the Beard, Cox, and related families. Gift of Alice Young, 1992.

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Comments by unknown English Friend, ca. 1830., Kansas, 1983.

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Kaiske was a Friend living in Berlin. These letters are addressed to Irene Stranahan of Minneapolis.

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Diary of Lilian V. Kaminsky (1877-1974), Richmond resident and Earlham student.

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Letters, 1816-1837, to and by Dr. Ithamar Warner (1782-1835), an early Wayne County physician. Letters come from friends and relatives in Indiana and New York. Typescripts of originals at Wayne County Historical Society. Also included are typescripts of two newspaper articles on Warner.

Scope and Contents Abigail (Morris) Wasson (1835-1911) was an active member of Hopewell and New Castle Friends Meetings in Henry County, Ind. This collection includes her diary, 1886-1892, valuable for its accounts of everyday life and the births, marriages, and deaths of her Quaker and non-Quaker neighbors; genealogical material collected by her nephew, Samuel Heffley Morris (1845-1931) on the Morris and Heffley families; an account of the provisions of her will; and an 1858 removal certificate for her...

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"Some Incidents in the Course of My Life More Especially Occurances [sic] of Civil War Days." Typescript, ca.1935. Experiences of a Quaker, Unionist family in Guilford County, North Carolina.