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The Smith Papers include a variety of documents, photographs, and materials, nearly all relating to Logan Smith's pastoral and missionary work. This collection documents his life and is typical of the activities of a Quaker pastor from the 1940s into the 1970s.

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The collection consists of a diary written by Nathanial Carter. Carter regularly reflects on his progress in religious life and reports on what happened in his meeting. He also is a typical farmer, giving close attention to the weather and the markets for crops. Finally, he chronicles his community, recording events in the lives of family and neighbors, especially births, deaths, and marriages. The Carter diary was a gift from the Rev. Floyd L. Cook of Indianapolis some time before 1975.

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The collection consists of the minutes and records of the North Carolina Manumission Society.

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The collection includes journals of her sermons (primarily from the 1960s and 1970s), personal diaries, scrapbooks from her travels to Colorado and England, family photographs, travel journals from missionary work, correspondence primarily pertaining to her work as a minister, and several original holiday plays written by Osborn. Also included in the collection is a subsection of material gathered by Jody Richmond who planned to write a biography of Osborn that never came to fruition.

Scope and Contents This collection consists of records of the United Society of Friends Women and its predecessor bodies, the Woman’s Foreign Missionary Union of Friends in America and the Woman’s Missionary Union of Friends in America.  They are a rich source for the missionary activities of American Quakers since the 1880s and the establishment of Quakerism in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, and Central America. These records were housed for many years in the vault of First Friends Meetinghouse in Richmond. ...

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This collection, assembled by Mary Wright Dennis of Dublin, IN consists of genealogical materials, photographs, correspondence, account books, and other documents of descendants of William Dennis (1767-1847), a Quaker of Randolph County, NC and Wayne County, IN, especially his grandson Wilson Dennis (1814-1904) of Wayne County, IN.

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This collection consists of four manuscript volumes of poetry written while he was a student at Earlham from 1862-1866, a commonplace book ca 1862, and a typescript of poems written 1867-1879.