This collection contains photocopies of Pickering's letters. They are also available in typescript form: Friends BX7796.P6.13.A2.1994. They were prepared by the donor, with an index and notes.

Sarah Ann (Hill) Gray Morris (1827-1903) was a Quaker living in the Walnut Ridge community of Friends in Rush County, Ind. The collection consists of a scrapbook with a number of obituaries, 1866-1903, of Walnut Ridge Friends, and a photograph album with photos of area Friends and prominent ministers such as John Henry Douglas, Robert W. Douglas, Jane Jones, and Rufus King.

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.