Poems.
Posthumously-published collection of poems written by the Quaker abolitionist, reformer, and poet Henry Simmons Kent (d. 1906), affiliated with the Swarthmore Friends of Swarthmore, Pennsylvania..... Read More about Poems
Posthumously-published collection of poems written by the Quaker abolitionist, reformer, and poet Henry Simmons Kent (d. 1906), affiliated with the Swarthmore Friends of Swarthmore, Pennsylvania..... Read More about Poems
Schoolmaster, poet, and Quaker Richard Shackleton (1726-1792) was the son of Abraham Shakleton (an ancestor of polar explorer Ernest Shackleton), a Quaker educator who in..... Read More about Memoirs and Letters of Richard and Elizabeth Shackleton, Late of Ballitore, Ireland, compiled by...
Ruth Clement was a Quaker physician. Where she earned her medical degree is unknown, but in her book —a mixture of poetry, short stories, and..... Read More about Under the Olive Tree. Songs and Stories
Memorial biography and autobiographical memoir of the conversion of Quaker minister Ruth Anna Lindley (1768–1810) of Chester County, Pennsylvania. She was a convert from the..... Read More about Account of Ruth Anna Lindley, A Minister of the Gospel in the Religious Society of Friends
This address exhorts fellow Quakers to righteously oppose slavery; to avoid using products derived from slave labor; to attend to the moral and education uplifting..... Read More about An address to the quarterly, monthly and preparative meetings and the members thereof, composing...
Doctoral dissertation by Philadelphia physician and surgeon Joseph Parrish (1779–1840), submitted to the trustees and medical faculty of the University of Pennsylvania. Parrish here investigates..... Read More about An Inaugural Dissertation on the Influence of the Passions upon the Body, in the Production and...
Letter from Philadelphia reformer Roberts Vaux (1786–1836) touching on two concerns: education and temperance. Vaux writes briefly here “to the President, and Members, of the..... Read More about 1831 Autograph Letter Signed by Roberts Vaux, Pennsylvania Abolitionist, Reformer of Education...
William P. Cresson Co. of Philadelphia was actively engaged in the hardware commission business in the 1830’s and 1840’s. The company offered a variety of..... Read More about 1837–1845 Manuscript Correspondence of William P. Cresson Company of Philadelphia