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Lizzie Edwards (1835-1927) was a Friend of Spiceland, Ind. who later married Asa Holloway of Spiceland. Part of the diary was kept while teaching in a freedmen's school near Vicksburg, Mississippi. Photocopy; gift of Rosemary Holloway, 1988.

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"Letters from George Evans to his family and Particular Friends at Spiceland, Indiana, describing the journey taken by him and Charles Osborn among Friends in Indiana, New York, New England, and other states in 1839 and 1840." Photocopy of typescript in Indiana Division, Indiana State Library. Evans (1802-1863) was a leading elder and assistant clerk of Indiana Yearly Meeting.

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Family record of letters to Joshua Cox (1805-1868) and wife Rosannah (Cox) (1815- ), Friends who moved from Holly Spring Meeting, Randolph County, North Carolina, to Montgomery County, Ind. in 1833. Includes letters from relatives in North Carolina, 1835-1855, a letter written from the union army by E.P. Mccluskey, and a record of the family of Orion and Rose (Custer) Wilson of Darlington, Ind.

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Joseph Crosfield (1821-1879) was an English Quaker minister who traveled extensively in the US in 1845 and 1865. These extracts from his letters home, made by Norman Penney for Harlow Lindley in 1923, describe his travels through Ohio and Indiana and attendance at Indiana and Western Yearly Meetings. Includes typescripts.

Scope and Contents Naomi Painter Curl (1817-1894) was an Orthodox Friend of Pickerelltown, Logan County, Ohio. These fifty letters from friends and relatives concern personal and Quakers affairs. Included are several letters from David Hunt, Naomi's uncle and superintendent of Friends Boarding School in Richmond, Ind., and his daughter Mary D. Hunt, later Andrews. Other correspondents include Lemuel Baldwin, Sarah Cox, A.L. Curl, Charles H. Curl, Mary L. Curl. Isaac M. Gidley, Lorana Gidley, Rebecca P. Gidley,...