QWHP UNPUBLISHED MATERIALS

(Note: I have transcribed these manuscripts in a way as close to the original as possible, deliberately preserving errors in spelling, punctuation, grammar, etc. - pds)

ALS = "Autograph Letter Signed," i.e. the original, handwritten manuscript.

CHARITY COOK:

• Letter to Sidney (?) Pickering, 1797. In which she declines going with her aunt to London, and lays out general plans to visit various meetings prior to the Yearly Meeting. ALS, Spruance Library, Bucks County Historical Society.

SIMON GILLAM:

• Letter to Samuel Hart, 1883. Gillam appeared to be a minister, possibly self appointed, in the Bucks Quarter of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (Hicksite.) Here he is asking Hart to publicize a series of general meetings he plans to hold. ALS, Spruance Library, Bucks County Historical Society.
• Letter to Samuel Hart, 1884. A year later, planning another tour of the Meetings in the Quarter; in this letter, Gillam is becoming more defensive of his views, which hold that Christianity is quite distinct from transcendentalism, ethics, etc. and is revealed by God. ALS, Spruance Library, Bucks County Historical Society.

EDWARD HICKS:

• Letter of Edward Hicks to Samuel Hart, 1840. Announcing his intention to visit Plumstead and Doylestown Meetings in the Bucks Quarter of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, and making reference to some kind of mistreatment at Buckingham Meeting and being brought before an "ecclesiastical tribunal." I have not found out the specific problem, but a contemporary, Jesse Kersey, wrote there was "a divisive spirit" in that meeting... ALS, Spruance Library, Bucks County Historical Society.
• Letter of Edward Hicks to Samuel Hart, 1841. A longer letter of encouragement to Hart, who had apparently become caught in the same problems at Buckingham Meeting. According to Hicks Hart had been a model of integrity, holding fast for the truth, etc. ALS, Spruance Library, Bucks County Historical Society.
• Letter of Edward Hicks to Samuel Hart, 1841. Hicks informs Samuel Hart that he (Hicks) is coming to his place, and that Hart is going to accompany him on several appearances in the ministry. ALS, Spruance Library, Bucks County Historical Society.

WILLIAM SAVERY:

• William Savery to Robert Pleasants, 1792. Savery expresses his gratitude to more experienced and seasoned ministers (his own most significant work was still yet to come.) There is also a word of advice that an apparently difficult case of discipline will turn out all right. Typed copy, Haverford College.