CYRUS PRINGLE:

• The Record of A Quaker Conscience, Part One. Pringle, from Vermont, New England, was drafted to fight in the American Civil War and refused to comply, or to pay the required commutation money or hire a substitute. This is his record of four months imprisonment in various camps and prisons until released per orders of President Abraham Lincoln.
• Part Two.A continuation of the same.
• Part Three.The end of the diary, from time he was taken to the front until eventually released per personal orders of Abraham Lincoln.

PETER SCHIVELLAND:

• Letter to Enoch Jacobson, 1813. One of several documents I found from 19th century Norway, this addressed to an English visitor asking for closer ties and correspondence between English and Norwegian Friends.

 

DAVID B. UPDEGRAFF:

• Letters Home From the Mission Fields. Updegraff was one of the most influential of all of the divisive 19th century figures in Quakerism, and one of the most responsible for programmed worship, a pastoral ministry, revivalism and holiness theology. These are extracts from letters he wrote to his family during this frequent travels, taken from a very laudatory biography. It is expected that they have been edited.
• His Personal Testimony. From the end of his own compilation of sermons (I think Updegraff was the first Quaker to actively engage in collecting his own sermons.) There are, noticeable, certain gaps in it.
• Christian Tolerance as Related to Truth and Unity. Described by his editors as a noble exposition; but I would note that like many before and even more since, Updegraff was an able exponent of toleration when he was in the disadvantageous position of being the victim of intolerance; but when he was in the position of power, he could be as intolerant of dissension to him as anyone else. This is a fascinating piece to the editor, because it reads almost exactly like present day pleas for toleration; just change the names of the bad guys.

 

JOHN WILBUR:

• "Letters to a Friend, On Some of the Primitive Doctrines of Christianity:"

Preface from the Publisher. From the contemporary publisher, Tract Association of Friends.
Introductory .
On The Fall of Man and Christian Redemption.
The Effect of Action and Reaction Upon the Professors of Christianity, Especially in Relation To the Society of Friends.
On The Secession In America.
On The Holy Scriptures.
On Plainness and Self Denial.
• Appendix to the Narrative and Exposition. Containing an 18 part comparison of quotations from Joseph John Gurney and early Friends and a collection of letters and testimonies by John Wilbur, Thomas Shillitoe, George Jones and Ralph Wardlaw (a Scottish Presbyterian.)

JAMES WOOD:

• The Distinguishing Doctrines of the Religious Society of Friends. A lecture; content self explanatory. Wood was from New York Yearly Meeting (Orthodox) and was one of the delegated to the conference in Richmond that adopted the Richmond Declaration of Faith, partly to combat the growing influence of David B. Updegraff (above.) Provided by Joe Condon.