Alexander Selkirk Starbuck (1847-1865) was a native of Randolph County, Ind., who served in the 121st Indiana Regiment, Ninth Cavalry, during the Civil War. The collection consists of five letters written from Mississippi from January to June 1865, including descriptions of army life and responses to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Transferred from FMS 33, 1997.

Nancy (Davis) Starnes (1851-1886) was a native of Hamilton County, Ind., who died in Rose Hill, Kansas. A Quaker, she lost her membership in 1877 when she divorced her husband, Browning L. Starnes. The collection consists of letters to Nancy Starnes and to her daughter Clara (Starnes) Thomas Moore Reel (1871-1957). Gift of Beatrice Thomas, 1994.

Arend Vlaskamp (1895-1974) was an accountant and Quaker of Muncie, Ind. who attended Earlham College, 1914-1917. The collection consists of material relating to his work in France as a conscientious objector with the Friends Reconstruction Unit, 1917-1919. Gift of Joseph A. Vlaskamp, 1994.

John and Jane Walls were fugitive slaves from North Carolina who passed through Indiana and were aided by Ephraim Stout (1798-1867), an anti-slavery Friend of Hamilton County, Ind. The collection consists of newspaper stories about the Walls home near Maidstone, Ontario, and a copy of an 1854 letter from Stout.

The Women's Medical College of Philadelphia (originally the Female Medical College of Pennsylvania) was founded in 1850 by Dr. Joseph Longshore. This unpublished history, undated, was the work of Joseph Longshore's brother, Thomas E. Longshore. Typescript.

Andrew White Young (1802-1877) was the author of History of Wayne County, Indiana (1872). The collection consists of letters, 1871-1873, to John Davis (1823-1885) of Dalton, Wayne County, on Young's problems collecting information and securing subscribers for the book. Transferred from FMS 33.

Edith (Stanley) Pearson (1838-1917) was a Quaker farm wife who lived near Plainfield, Ind. and near Leavenworth and Hesper, Kansas. The scrapbook includes vital statistics, obituaries, and photographs, of the Pearson, Stanley, and Carter families and clippings re: Quaker meetings and schools in Hendricks County, Ind. Photocopy; gift of Vernon L. Dixon, 1995.

Joseph P. Smith (1845-1937) was a Quaker farmer of Morgan County, Ohio, and Warren County Iowa. This typescript reminiscence narrates his boyhood in Ohio and life on farms in Missouri and Iowa. Transferred from D. Elton Trueblood Collection, 1995.