DAVID BACON, ET. AL.:

• To The Members of the Three Monthly Meetings in the City of Philadelphia. (Cosigned by John Parrish, Jacob Tompkins, John Elliot, Nicholas Waln, and Daniel Drinker.) A short epistle cautioning against unsound business practices, "improperly grasping after the things of this world," and, in particular, the practice of taking out Promisory Notes. (19th century.)

HANNAH BEAN:

• Hannah Bean to Eliza Gurney, 1881. A moving letter written to the widow of Joseph John Gurney, on the occasion of her eightieth birthday. My experts tell me nothing of hers was ever published, but sometimes I fail to heed the advice of experts and find things anyway.

  
   

JOEL BEAN:

Prose:

• Letter to Eliza Gurney, 1881. Another letter written to Eliza Gurney on the occasion of her eightieth birthday.
• The Issue. One of his more important articles, an examination and sharp critique of the holiness and revival movement of David B. Updegraff, Luke Howard, Dougan Clark, et. al.
• Why I Am A Friend. Taken from one of several reprints. I believe it speaks for itself.
• Joel Bean's Visit to Southland College. Southland, in Helena, Arkansas, was founded by Indiana Friends after the American Civil War with the purpose of providing and caring for the orphans of slaves after that war. Over time it became one of the most successful of American Home Missions. For a fuller discussion, see Henry Cadbury's article "Negro Membership in the Society of Friends," included in this site under Secondary Articles. This is a brief account of Joel Bean's visit.
• The Pastoral System. Various complaints about and charges against the pastoral system emerging in the late 19^th century, with a request that British Friends become more acquainted with the system and help Americans turn back from it.

See also The Minneapolis Corner.

LYDIA CHACE (OR CHASE)

• Autobiography of Lydia Meader Chace. Originally a "Gurneyite" from New England, she later lived in the Midwest and South, worked at the Southland College home mission site in Arkansas (started by Indiana Friends for the orphans of slaves after the American Civil War), the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, and other activities. This material was originally sent to me by e-mail from a descendant, who had transcribed it from an old mimeographed copy. It has, apparently, never been published.

CYRUS COOPER:

• A Greeting of Love. An evangelistic tract, probably from Ohio Yearly Meeting (Conservative), date unknown. (Additional material by Cyrus Cooper is on The QuakerPages Branch Office.

  
   

ANNA HALVORS DALLER:

• An Epistle to the Sisters in Christiansand. From Norway.

  
   

GEORGE DILWYN:

• The Youth's Instructor. Better known as a minister and companion of William Savery in his European journey, these are alphabetically arranged children's copy book exercises.

JONATHAN DYMOND:

• An Inquiry Into The Accordancy of War With the Principles of Christianity. The classic and often reprinted 19th century essay on war. This is actually on Larry Kuenning's Quaker Heritage Press site due to technical problems on my part at the time of its completion.
• War, Its Causes, Consequences, and Lawfulness. The second of Dymond's essays on war, actually the last chapter of the third and final of the Essays on Morality. This chapter was frequently reprinted as a separate pamphlet, frequently just called Dymond on War. Additonal material by Jonathan Dymond is on The QuakerPages Branch Office.

  
   

ELIZABETH FRY:

• A letter to Sarah Smith, on prison reform. Smith was, apparently, part of the same social set that the Gurneys traveled in.
• A letter to Alderman Wood, making intercessions for particular prisoners at Newgate.

  
   

STEPHEN GRELLET:

• Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, 1796; Paul Cuffee. Background information can be found in Cadbury's article, also in this collection. This was the Yearly Meeting that (finally) decided black people could be admitted as members. Paul Cuffee was one of the most famous of Black Friends.
• Observations of slavery. Taken from the chapter detailing his work is Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina.

  
   

ELIZA P. GURNEY:

Prose:

• An Exhortation and A Letter to Abraham Lincoln (With His Responses.) The exhortation was delivered in the White House, 1862, and it (and Lincoln's answer)were reconstructed from memory by others present. The letter was written at Lincoln's request.

  
   

Poetry:

• The Alpine Horn. Exhortation to praise. "O God! has man so thankless grown, / He brings no anthems to thy throne, / When voiceless things have found a tone / To praise the Lord?
• The Gathering Round The Oak Tree. Written in commemoration of the exclusion of Orthodox Friends from the Abington (PA) Meetinghouse by the Hicksites; included to show that both sides acted like this.
• On the Deaths of Elizabeth Fry and Sir T.F.. Buxton. The prison reformer and the antislavery advocate.

JOSEPH JOHN GURNEY:

Prose:

• Statement of his Christian Faith. "A statement of my Christian faith, respecting the Holy Scriptures, the immediate and perceptible operation of the Spirit, the doctrine of justification, and that of the Trinity, (as it is called.)" With the various points backed up with citations of early Quakers.
• Response to John Wilbur. The only known reference by Gurney to John Wilbur. He denies having read any of Wilbur's material, or intending to do so, and expresses a willingness to have his own material examined by the Morning Meeting, and to submit to their decisions. The reference to charges being duly signed probably refers to Wilbur's acknowledged anonymous publications.
• Notes to himself, after a Meeting for Worship. "This day has been very peaceful and quiet, and I hope profitable. At the morning meeting I endeavoured to examine my conduct in life a little more methodically that I have for some time been accustomed to do, and have several things to note." (He then lists a number of notes to himself, mentioning specific behaviors and weaknesses.)

Poetry:

• The World. A prayer for guidance and direction.
• The Child of the Lord. The blessedness of discipleship despite hardships.
• The Death Bed of a Penitent Sinner. Praise for steadfast love and deliverance.

  
   

ELIAS HICKS:

• Observations on The Slavery of The Africans And Their Descendants, And on The Use of The Produce of Their Labour. First published in 1811 (before Hicks became a controversial figure) with the approval of the Meeting for Sufferings of New York Yearly Meeting, with a second edition published in 1814. The essay addressed slavery and the use of goods produced through slave labor through a series of queries and answers.

HANS NEILSON HOUGHE:

• Epistle from the Prison at Christiana, 1813. A prison epistle from Norway
• Second Epistle from the Prison at Christiana. Similar to the first, with more content of a personal nature.

  
   

HENRY HULL:

• Selections from Chapter Two of his Journal, dealing mostly with encounters with slavery. (All from the webmeister's personal collection.)
• Journal Extract, relating travels in New England. Interesting because of the depiction of the primitive travel conditions and health risks involved; also, reference to his seeing a black person taken into membership for the first time.
• Journal Extract, relating to travels in the South. He mentions condemning slavery as antiChristian in an appointed meeting in a courthouse, a meeting disrupted by religious enthusiasm, and an appointed meeting for slaves.
• Journal Extract, from the same journey. This extract describes what he saw at a slave auction in Charleston, and is not for the squeamish. Observe that triple exclamations points are extremely unusual in Quaker Journals!!!

  
   

SAMUEL M. JANNEY:

• The Anecdote of William Penn and his Sword. This is the apparent source of this cherished, but still probably false and self serving bit of Quaker urban folklore.

  
   

JESSE KERSEY:

• A Biographical Sketch, by me. Normally I try to avoid this, but since I found several significant discrepencies between his Narrative and my independent research I thought it best to write out an original essay.

• The European Journal. Long thought lost, but found and printed for the first time  in seriel form in The Journal, a Hicksite periodical, in 1874-1875. Jesse Kersey's travels through England and Ireland in the ministry in 1804-1805, prior to his publication of the Treatise and his becoming a Hicksite.
• A Treatise on the Fundamental Doctrines of the Christian Religion: In Which are Illustrated the Proffession, Ministry, Worship, and Faith of the Society of Friends. A pre-Hicksite (1815) summary of Quaker doctrine and practice, officially approved by the Yearly Meeting.
• A Narrative of the Early Life, Travels, and Gospel Labors of Jesse Kersey, Late of Chester County, Pennsylvania. His Journal, the title is something of a misnomer since it actually goes almost up to his death. See also my own Biographical Sketch of Kersey: there are some places where the Narrative is not strictly accurate.
• Later Essays, Taken from the back of Kersey's Narrative. Most of these, I believe, are of considerably later origin than the Treatise and show pronouced Hicksite views. Contents are variable and sometime in marked contrast to the earlier work.
• A Previously Unpublished Account of a Meeting with George and Ann Jones and Cheyney and Martha Jeffries, 1827. Actual authorship unknown; this was transcribed from a copy at the Chester County (PA) Historical Society in Kersey's handwriting (presumably he was allowed to make a copy for himself.) This was presumably part of the disownment proceedings.
• A  Previously Unpublished Letter, 25th of 3rd month, 1827. Written before the Yearly Meeting, but showing that Kersey was aware of what was probably going to happen at it and had already chosen his side.
• Two Previously Unpublished Letters to Halliday Jackson, 6/22/1827 and 6/29/1827.  Two unusually unguarded documents showing a very different side of Kersey, written during the time of the separations.

SAMUEL J. LEVICK:

• Letter to J.B.C., on Reform movements and being obedient to the Light. Written to someone who sounds like he wanted to reform the world, preferably by yesterday. From the webmeister's personal collection. (Both pieces from the webmeister's personal collection.)
• Mind The Light. A short discussion on what the light is, how people will respond to it and the desire those who have it will feel to share it with others. From the webmeister's personal collection.