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Drawer 4

 Container

Contains 53 Results:

Wayne County Manuscripts

 Collection — Drawer: 4
Identifier: MR-211
Scope and Contents

Includes Daniel Ulrich papers (1824-1873); John & Daniel Ulrich papers (1796-1904); Albert Votaw family papers (1832-1922); M.H. Jenks, Brief sketches of a tour of Indiana (1838); & notes on teaching methods in Richmond public schools, ca. 1880.

Dates: c.1796-1922

Wayne County Manuscripts: Quaker Materials

 Collection — Drawer: 4
Identifier: MR-212
Scope and Contents

Includes miscellaneous letters and other items, some by Charles and Elijah Coffin and Barnabas Hobbs. Also a hand-written newspaper and a letter from Earlham College and a typescript of a history of West Richmond Monthly Meeting.

Dates: 1833-1877

Wayne County Manuscripts: Canals, Turnpikes, and Railroads

 Collection — Drawer: 4
Identifier: MR-213-215
Scope and Contents

The bulk of the collection pertains to the Whitewater Valley Canal Co., including letters, property lists and account books.

Dates: 1835-1873

Wayne County Manuscripts: Richmond Area Materials

 Collection — Drawer: 4
Identifier: MR-216
Scope and Contents

Miscellaneous items, including letters, mostly mid-19th century, relating to the Richmond area.

Dates: 1816-1964

Thomas Marshall Family Correspondence

 Collection — Drawer: 4
Identifier: MR-217-218
Scope and Contents

Wayne County (Economy, Indiana) Quaker family. Many items are letters from sons in the Union Army in the Civil War. Also a diary of a trip to Colorado in 1905 by Orlando Marshall and 84 letters to Alonzo Marshall and his family, 1857-1922.

Dates: 1821-1901

Sketches of Early Newport

 Collection — Drawer: 4
Identifier: MR-219
Scope and Contents

Daniel Huff (1816-?) was a Wayne Co. Quaker and wagon shop owner in Newport (now Fountain City). Oliver N. Huff (1852-1937), his son, was a doctor. The mss. relate to the history of Newport and anti-slavery activities.

Dates: c. 1816-1937

Sarah Ratliff Civil War Letters and John Miller Legg Diary and Memorandum

 Collection — Drawer: 4
Identifier: MR-220
Scope and Contents

Civil war letters written to Sarah Ratliff (1859-1914): The bulk of the collection consists of letters written her by three of her brothers, two cousins and a friend while in the Union Army. John Miller Legg's (1831-1911) Diary and memorandum: Rush Co. farmer. The typescript of the diary also includes a history of the Legg family (p. 116-118) by Alice Rebecca Legg Mayse

Dates: 1859-1914; 1851-1854

Meredith Papers

 Collection — Drawer: 4
Identifier: MR-221-226
Scope and Contents

Soldier, businessman, politician & Quaker in Cambridge City, Ind. Includes miscellaneous papers and correspondence of Solomon Meredith, 1785-1879, his diaries, 1838-1872; papers of David H. Meredith, 1861-1864; diaries of Henry C. Meredith, 1863-1897; papers of Virginia C. Meredith relating to the 1893 Columbian Exhibition, 1893-1896.

Dates: 1785-1898

Quaker Women's Diaries: 18th-19th Century

 Collection — Drawer: 4
Identifier: MR-228
Scope and Contents

Rachel Wilson: Account of Rachel Wilson's religious visit to Friends in America, carefully transcribed from her manuscript for the information and benefit of her children and near relations by Deborah Braithwaite. Betty Gregory Bishop Diaries: Covers 1779, 1783-1801 and 1 vol. (by a daughter?) for 1809.

Dates: c. 1779-1809.