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Isaac Collins letter to Rebecca Collins
Title:
Isaac Collins letter to Rebecca Collins
Description:
Written to his wife, Rebecca Collins, while on an extended trip in England. Discusses his social/professional activities and various Quakers. Inquires about the Wilburite separation at New England Yearly Meeting.
Collection:
Rebecca Singer Collins 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 letter to Joseph Kite
Title:
Mary Kite letter to Joseph Kite
Description:
Expresses concern over conflict within the Quaker community. Discusses Quakers Samuel Leeds, Job Haines Jr., and David Cope, and their journeys to visit other Meetings.
Date:
1852-08-29
Collection:
Sharpless Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Rebecca Collins letter to Isaac Collins
Title:
Rebecca Collins letter to Isaac Collins
Description:
Describes a trip to Mount Pleasant, Ohio, with other ministers to attend Ohio Yearly Meeting. Mentions encountering a slaveholder on the way. Alludes to the Wilburite controversy.
Collection:
Rebecca Singer Collins Papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Mary Kite letter to Aaron Sharpless
Title:
Mary Kite letter to Aaron Sharpless
Description:
Written while minister Mary Kite was visiting Quaker meetings in the Southern states. Discusses her religious work at North Carolina Yearly Meeting. Touches on controversies within the Society of Friends and discusses their effect on her work. Discusses the isolation of Southern Quakers from the rest of the Society and from each other.
Date:
1851-11-04
Collection:
Sharpless Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Mary Kite letter to Joseph Kite
Title:
Mary Kite letter to Joseph Kite
Description:
Laments the state of the Society of Friends, likely in reference to the Wilburite-Gurneyite controversy. Discusses the recent death of Benjamin Cope (also spelled Coope) and his dying words in favor of John Wilbur. Also describes the death of "Aunt Lydia, who was attended by her Hicksite brother and reported seeing visions of the heavenly hosts.
Date:
1845-12-27
Collection:
Sharpless Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Isaac Collins letter to Rebecca Collins
Title:
Isaac Collins letter to Rebecca Collins
Description:
Written to his wife, Rebecca Collins, while on an extended trip in England. Describes his social/professional activities, including his participation in a Peace Meeting. Also discusses various Quakers.
Collection:
Rebecca Singer Collins Papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Extracts from the British Friend ... : [being] The division in New England.
Title:
Extracts from the British Friend ... : [being] The division in New England.
Description:
Reprint of an editorial (discussing the Wilbur-Gurney controversy) from the British Friend, published at Glasgow, dated 11th Mo., 29th, 1845. Broadsheet, containing 2 copies (4 p.) of this title.
Collection:
Quaker Broadsides and Pamphlets, 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
Mary Kite letter to Nathan Kite
Title:
Mary Kite letter to Nathan Kite
Description:
Discusses the illness of Susanna Kite Sharpless (1809-1844). Briefly discusses going to meeting and engages in extended biblical metaphors. Expresses support of John Wilbur.
Date:
1844-06-08
Collection:
Sharpless Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Rebecca Collins letter to Isaac Collins
Title:
Rebecca Collins letter to Isaac Collins
Description:
Written while Rebecca Collins's husband, Isaac Collins, was on an extended trip to England. Primarily a copy of an extract of a letter from a friend regarding the Rhode Island Yearly Meeting (i.e., New England Yearly Meeting) and the conduct of the Wilburite separatists.
Collection:
Rebecca Singer Collins Papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Rebecca Collins letter to Isaac Collins
Title:
Rebecca Collins letter to Isaac Collins
Description:
Written while Rebecca Collins's husband, Isaac Collins, was on an extended trip to England. Reports on recent events and shares news about herself, family, and friends. Discusses various Quaker meetings and references the Wilburite controversy. Mentions an upcoming abolition meeting and encloses some abolitionist circulars (no longer attached).
Collection:
Rebecca Singer Collins Papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Rebecca Collins letter to Isaac Collins
Title:
Rebecca Collins letter to Isaac Collins
Description:
Describes attending Ohio Yearly Meeting and the tension between the Wilburites and Gurneyites. Lists the Quaker ministers who attended.
Collection:
Rebecca Singer Collins Papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Rebecca Collins letter to Isaac Collins
Title:
Rebecca Collins letter to Isaac Collins
Description:
Written while Rebecca Collins's husband, Isaac Collins, was on an extended trip to England. Discusses recent events and news about herself and others, including the Wilburite separation within the Society of Friends.
Collection:
Rebecca Singer Collins Papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Rebecca Collins letter to Isaac Collins
Title:
Rebecca Collins letter to Isaac Collins
Description:
Written while Rebecca Collins's husband, Isaac Collins, was on an extended trip to England. Expresses concern over the state of the Society of Friends and the Wilburite controversy, which she sends him material about (no longer attached). Shares news concerning herself, family, and friends. Briefly mentions the "early love, fresh and pure" between two young women. Briefly discusses what to do with one their daughters, Margaret Morris Collins Earle, who has lapsed in her Quaker faith.
Collection:
Rebecca Singer Collins Papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Rebecca Collins letter to Isaac Collins
Title:
Rebecca Collins letter to Isaac Collins
Description:
Written while Rebecca Collins's husband, Isaac Collins, was on an extended trip to England. Shares news concerning herself, family, and friends. Discusses recent events, including attending Quaker meetings and her work on a Quaker committee providing services for sick children and their mothers.
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:
Tells her sister how she has bee doing; discusses the "great departure from ancient ground in principles and practice" in the Society of Friends, likely in reference to the Gurneyite movement. Briefly mentions a controvery among Ohio Quakers and trying a "galvanic battery" on her lame knee.
Date:
1846-09
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. Primarily discusses their ongoing correspondence while Collins has been abroad, and the emerging tensions within the Society of Friends relating to John Wilbur.
Collection:
Rebecca Singer Collins Papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Baltimore conference, held in 7th mo. 1849
Title:
Baltimore conference, held in 7th mo. 1849
Date:
1849
Collection:
Quaker Broadsides and Pamphlets, Haverford College
Mary Kite letter to James Kite
Title:
Mary Kite letter to James Kite
Description:
Describes a recent Yearly Meeting in detail, including a discussion of whether it would correspond with New England Yearly Meeting. Expresses her worries that the Meeting was being "driven farther and farther from the semblance of Quakerism."
Date:
1849-09
Collection:
Sharpless Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College

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