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Conscientious objection circular letter
Title:
Conscientious objection circular letter
Description:
Letter and affidavit written by James Emlen, Thomas Evans, Nathan Kite, Joseph Elkington, Charles Yarnall, and Charles Downing to Pennsylvania Quakers, providing a statement for exemption from the draft on grounds of conscientious objection. These copies were sent to Edward G. Smedley.
Date:
1862-09-03
Collection:
Sharpless Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Edward G. Smedley and William P. Smedley letter to Samuel W. Smedley
Title:
Edward G. Smedley and William P. Smedley letter to Samuel W. Smedley
Description:
Probably written to Edward G. Smedley's brother Samuel Webster Smedley (1831-1873).
Date:
1863-08-15
Collection:
Sharpless Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Dr. Parrish letter to the editor
Title:
Dr. Parrish letter to the editor
Description:
Titled "The Society of Friends and the Draft, and written by Dr. Parrish." Item mc1111_02_12_018 is a handwritten draft version.
Date:
1859 - 1917
Collection:
Sharpless Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Edward G. Smedley notes on being drafted
Title:
Edward G. Smedley notes on being drafted
Date:
1863 - 1908
Collection:
Sharpless Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Curiosities of the Conscript Barracks. newspaper article
Title:
Curiosities of the Conscript Barracks. newspaper article
Description:
Two clippings of a newspaper article discussing the drafting of Edward G. Smedley and William P. Smedley, two Quakers who refused to pay the exemption fee or find substitutes upon being drafted.
Date:
1863-08
Collection:
Sharpless Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Joseph Scattergood memoranda
Title:
Joseph Scattergood memoranda
Description:
Discusses the drafting and treatment of Edward G. Smedley and William P. Smedley during the Civil War. Probably written by Joseph Scattergood (1808-1877).
Date:
1863-06-22
Collection:
Sharpless Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Letter to Emma H. Edwards
Title:
Letter to Emma H. Edwards
Description:
The writer explains that the undersigned cannot conform themselves to the draft as a member of the Religious Society of Friends.
Date:
1861 - 1865
Collection:
Sharpless Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
An apology for the people called Quakers.
Title:
An apology for the people called Quakers.
Description:
Published under the direction of the 1756 Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. Concerns attitudes of Quakers to fast days and to current outbreak of war. Broadsheet, signed by James Pemberton, Clerk; Haverford copy 1
Collection:
Quaker Broadsides and Pamphlets, Haverford College
A statement by Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends, Third month 29th, 1918
Title:
A statement by Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends, 1918
Description:
Caption title. Concerning war.
Date:
1918
Collection:
Quaker Broadsides and Pamphlets, Haverford College
Jacob Smedley letter to Edward G. Smedley
Title:
Jacob Smedley letter to Edward G. Smedley
Description:
Most likely written by Edward G. Smedley's cousin Jacob Smedley (1835-1893).
Date:
1863-02-03
Collection:
Sharpless Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Fleeing to God poem and notes
Title:
Fleeing to God poem and notes
Description:
Poem titled "Fleeing to God" and accompanying notes.
Date:
1835 - 1908
Collection:
Sharpless Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Joseph Scattergood letter to Edward G. Smedley
Title:
Joseph Scattergood letter to Edward G. Smedley
Description:
Probably written by Joseph Scattergood (1839-1890).
Date:
1863-08-20
Collection:
Sharpless Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Lucretia Mott letter to Martha Coffin Wright
Title:
Lucretia Mott letter to Martha Coffin Wright
Description:
Fragment. Lucretia Mott talks about recent news concerning friends and family and discusses the morality of war.
Date:
1860
Collection:
Mott Manuscripts, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Edward G. Smedley diary
Title:
Edward G. Smedley diary
Description:
Copied extract of Edward G. Smedley's diary, written while Smedley was detained in the conscript barracks in Philadelphia after being drafted for the Civil War.
Date:
1863
Collection:
Sharpless Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Lucretia Mott letter to Mary Hussey Earle
Title:
Lucretia Mott letter to Mary Hussey Earle
Description:
Mott tells her cousin about a relative's death in battle and relays other news of friends and family.
Date:
1863-01-11
Collection:
Mott Manuscripts, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Lucretia Mott letter to Martha Coffin Wright and her children
Title:
Lucretia Mott letter to Martha Coffin Wright and her children
Description:
Written from Roadside. In addition to giving her sister Martha news of family and friends, Lucretia Mott discusses recent social engagements with "old abolitionists" including Sarah Pugh, Elijah Pennypacker, Graceanna Lewis, and Gertrude K. Burleigh; politics and the war; the Christmas gifts her grandchildren received; John William Colenso's recent book on the scriptures and her own opinion on theological issues; charity work being undertaken for the African-American freedmen in Port Royal and Washington, D.C.; James Freeman Clarke and Robert Collyer; and a "home for colored children, possibly the Association for the Care of Coloured Orphans.
Date:
1862-12-27
Collection:
Mott Manuscripts, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Lucretia Mott letter to Martha Coffin Wright and Maria Mott Davis
Title:
Lucretia Mott letter to Martha Coffin Wright and Maria Mott Davis
Description:
Written from Roadside. Lucretia Mott discusses the war and the aid work for freedmen and contraband (formerly enslaved people who escaped to Union lines) undertaken by her, her sister, and other Quakers. She also mentions excitement over the freedmen at Port Royal, conversations with politician and social reformer Robert Dale Owen, the fact that either Joseph Carpenter or Lydia Maria Child sheltered fugitive slaves, the deaths of friends and relatives, spiritualism, and Charles Dall's missionary work in India and his opinion on the Sepoy Mutiny.
Date:
1862-11-20
Collection:
Mott Manuscripts, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Lucretia Mott letter to Martha Coffin Wright and her daughters
Title:
Lucretia Mott letter to Martha Coffin Wright and her daughters
Description:
Written from Roadside; the final paragraph is written in faint pencil. Mott discusses the illness, death, and burial of her grandson Henry "Harry" Cavender (1849-1863), son of Thomas Cavender and Elizabeth Mott Cavender, as well as other news of family and friends. Mott also reflects on the Civil War, discusses a recent speech by Charles Sumner, and tells of running into the ex-husband of her cousin Caroline Stratton. Mott says of the Civil War: "How many are cut down, alas! Still, I wish to compare these awful sacrifices, with the tenfold—yes—manifold, in numbers, that slavery has doomed to the most cruel deaths from generation to generation—and if, by this present means, these cruelties can be arrested, and an end draw nigh to man's claim of property in his fellow man, we need not 'be troubled'—knowing that 'these things must needs be.' My faith, however, in the superior force of the 'mighty weapons' that 'are not carnal, ' is unshaken."
Date:
1863-09-12
Collection:
Mott Manuscripts, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Lucretia Mott letter to Martha Coffin Wright
Title:
Lucretia Mott letter to Martha Coffin Wright
Description:
Written from Roadside. Most of the letter consists of recent news concerning friends and family. Lucretia Mott also quotes an excerpt from a letter discussing her esteem for Herbert Spencer's ideas about education; discusses her son-in-law Edward Morris Davis's role in the war, his hope for emancipation, and his connection to John C. Frémont; and briefly speaks about her own health. Likely continued in Lucretia Mott to Martha Coffin Wright, 1861-08-20 (A00181990).
Date:
1861-08-18
Collection:
Mott Manuscripts, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Elton B. Gifford letter to Edward G. Smedley
Title:
Elton B. Gifford letter to Edward G. Smedley
Description:
Includes several newspaper clippings with information relating to the draft and a business card.
Date:
1864-03-04
Collection:
Sharpless Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College

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