Letter from John Simcock to Margaret Fell Fox.

Anna Ward (1857-1942), daughter of James and Ellen (Barnett) Ward, was a lifelong resident of Richmond, Indiana. This collection consists of a notebook in which she recorded information about family and neighbors, including dozens of dates of death for Richmond residents from the 1850s into the 1930s. Also included are a few household accounts and clippings concerning Richmond physicians. Purchase, 2008.

This small collection consists of letter of the family of Jeremiah Warder (1780-1849), his wife Ann (Aston) Warder (1786-1871), their son Dr. John A. Warder (1811-1883) and his wife Elizabeth Bowne (Haines) Wader (1817-1891), Orthodox Friends who lived in Springfield and Cincinnati, Ohio. Some of the letters are from Elizabeth’s parents, Reuben and Jane (Bowne) Haines of Germantown, Pen. Purchase, 2008, 2009.

Margaret (Dorland) Webb (1882-1967) was a native of Ontario, Canada, and the wife of John R. Webb, the pastor of East Main Street Friends Meeting in Richmond, Ind., 1917-1919, and an official of the Five Years Meeting of Friends. The collection consists of the transcript of a hearing on Margaret Webb’s application for U.S. citizenship, rejected because of her adherence to the Quaker Peace Testimony.

The author of this copybook, Amy Coates, was apparently a Philadelphia Quaker, but she has not been definitely identified. The copybook appears to date from the 1830s and contains poetry concerning Job Scott, the dying testimony of James Nayler, and passages from the writings of R. Archer and Henry Wotton. Purchase, 2008.

Esther Cook (1857-1956) was a Quaker minister and pastor who lived and worked in Indiana, Ohio and Michigan and was a student at Earlham College 1888-1890. This collection consists of handwriting specimens ca. 1970. Transferred from New Castle Monthly Meeting.

Miriam Jane Hill (1831-1906) was an Orthodox Quaker woman who lived in Richmond and Rush County, Indiana, and was a student at Friends Boarding School in 1850. This commonplace book contains poetry, mainly religious and didactic. Of special interest is “On the Death of Lydia Sanders,” about the murder of a young Quaker woman in Highland County, Ohio, in 1818. Gift of Louis and Mary Ruth (Brown) Jones, 2002.

Genealogical data relating to the family of Samuel Hoare and wife Louisa Gurney, married 1806, English Friends. Purchase, 2009.

Allen D. Hole Jr. (1909-1966) was professor of modern languages at Earlham. This collection consists of letters of his family while he was studying at Haverford College.