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Mary Passmore letter to Mary Kite
Title:
Mary Passmore letter to Mary Kite
Description:
Discusses their correspondence and her intentions to visit Mary Kite soon. Also discusses Phebe Roberts and corresponding with people she met in North Carolina.
Date:
1852
Collection:
Sharpless Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Mary Kite letter to Nathan Kite and Hannah Kite; Mary F. Kite note to Hannah Kite
Title:
Mary Kite letter to Nathan Kite and Hannah Kite; Mary F. Kite note to Hannah Kite
Description:
Discusses her recent activities, religious beliefs, attendance at Quaker meetings, and news about family/friends. Includes a brief note from Mary Kite's niece-in-law Mary F. Kite.
Date:
1860-05-20
Collection:
Sharpless Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Letter to Rebecca Collins
Title:
Letter to Rebecca Collins
Description:
Signed ''Elisa H.'' The writer discusses her friendship with Collins and her religious faith. She writes at length about the death of A. Barker and mentions a recent visit with Joseph John Gurney.
Collection:
Rebecca Singer Collins Papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Mary Kite letter Abi Kite Walton
Title:
Mary Kite letter Abi Kite Walton
Description:
Discusses her living situation and the arrangment of the house. Mentions hearing "a long communication in the Hicksite end of the house" and Samuel Cope's theological response to it. Also says that "our cousin is very zealous that the spirit of Gurneyism should not spread amongst us."
Date:
1845-05-11
Collection:
Sharpless Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Mary Kite letter to Rebecca W. Kite
Title:
Mary Kite letter to Rebecca W. Kite
Description:
Mary Kite mourns the death of her brother Joseph Kite (1795-1854).
Date:
1854-11-26
Collection:
Sharpless Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Mary Kite letter to her sister
Title:
Mary Kite letter to her sister
Description:
Probably written to Mary Kite's sister Abi Kite Walton (1787-1865). Discusses her and her sister's religious work as well as the Wilburite controversy. Shares news about family/friends.
Date:
1852-08-29
Collection:
Sharpless Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Mary Kite diary
Title:
Mary Kite diary
Description:
Discusses her religious life, including her feelings at Quaker meetings and the people she heard speak there; her struggles against the temptations of "the evil one"; her visits to various people for spiritual purposes; and her increasingly strong urge to speak in meeting. Mentions being appointed to "treat with a young woman who had joined the Society of Shakers." Also discusses illnesses and major life events among her family and friends.
Date:
1827 - 1840
Collection:
Sharpless Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Mary Kite letter to Susanna Kite Sharpless
Title:
Mary Kite letter to Susanna Kite Sharpless
Description:
Discusses Quaker meeting and the appropriate preparations to make before attending it. Stresses the importance of religion. Passes on news of family and friends, including the sickness of their grandparents.
Date:
1836-02-21
Collection:
Sharpless Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Mary Kite diary
Title:
Mary Kite diary
Description:
Mostly discusses Kite's religious life, including her inner spiritual feelings, impromptu sermons she gave, and Quaker meetings she attended.
Date:
1841 - 1849
Collection:
Sharpless Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Minutes of the Annual Assoc. for the Relief of Sick Children in the Summer Book No. 3
Title:
Minutes of the Annual Assoc. for the Relief of Sick Children in the Summer Book No. 3
Description:
Third book of minutes from the meetings of the Annual Association for Relief of Sick Children in the Summer. Includes discussion of withdrawal of funds from donors, as well as overall business regarding the program.
Date:
1821-1823
Collection:
Annual Association for the Relief of Sick Children in the Summer Records, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Mary Kite diary
Title:
Mary Kite diary
Description:
Account of Mary Kite's trip to visit the Quaker meetings in North Carolina with Pennock and Mary Passmore. Name on the cover is Edith Sharpless; the book possibly belonged to her before Mary Kite.
Date:
1851
Collection:
Sharpless Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Mary Kite letter to her niece
Title:
Mary Kite letter to her niece
Date:
1859-04-30
Collection:
Sharpless Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Mary Anna Longstreth letter to Rebecca Collins
Title:
Mary Anna Longstreth letter to Rebecca Collins
Description:
Mary Anna Longstreth was Rebecca Collins's niece. She shares news about several family members, including Stephen Grellet. She describes several sermons that were recently delivered at Quaker meetings and briefly mentions attending a prison committee meeting.
Collection:
Rebecca Singer Collins Papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Mary Kite letter to Abigail Sharpless Greaves
Title:
Mary Kite letter to Abigail Sharpless Greaves
Description:
Passes on news of friends and family, including possibilities of marriage. Discusses construction in Philadelphia. Describes an attack of amnesia or dementia her father suffered while she was writing the letter.
Date:
1836-08-09
Collection:
Sharpless Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Mary Kite letters; Mary Passmore letter
Title:
Mary Kite letters; Mary Passmore letter
Description:
Copies of a series of letters written by Quaker minister Mary Kite while travelling in North Carolina with Mary and Pennock Passmore. Discusses her travels and her spiritual work. Includes a copy of one letter written by her traveling companion Mary Passmore.
Date:
1851 - 1852
Collection:
Sharpless Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Mary Kite letter to Rebecca Walton
Title:
Mary Kite letter to Rebecca Walton
Description:
Unsigned but most likely written by Mary Kite.
Date:
1841-09-04
Collection:
Sharpless Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Alicia Sarah Ashworth letter to Rebecca Collins
Title:
Alicia Sarah Ashworth letter to Rebecca Collins
Description:
Alicia Sarah (Nicolls) Ashworth was a prominent British Quaker. She writes about several Quaker meetings she has recently attended and lists several Quakers whom she encountered at meetings. She comments on the state of the Religious Society of Friends in the United States and references the Wilburite controversy.
Collection:
Rebecca Singer Collins Papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Hannah Warrington letter to Mary Kite
Title:
Hannah Warrington letter to Mary Kite
Description:
Expresses concern over the growing "libertine spirit" within the Quaker community. Discusses her Quaker Meeting and the people who spoke there, including minister Elizabeth Robson and a man named James Sleeper.
Date:
1827-03-17
Collection:
Sharpless Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Mary Passmore diary
Title:
Mary Passmore diary
Description:
Account of journey to and visits in North Carolina with Pennock Passmore and Mary Kite.
Date:
1851 - 1852
Collection:
Sharpless Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Mary Kite letter to Rebecca W. Kite
Title:
Mary Kite letter to Rebecca W. Kite
Description:
Discusses Rebecca Kite, Rebecca Kite's children, and recent events concerning family/friends. Shares an account of Quaker minister Mary Wright Witchell, who lived to be 100 years old.
Date:
1856-10-26
Collection:
Sharpless Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College

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