%eadnotat; ]> 5221fome Foster-Meyers Family Papers, 1765-2003 2004 Finding aid encoded by JGW from an MSWord finding aid by SKM. 2004 Finding aid is in English. Foster-Meyers Family Papers, 1765-2003 Summary Foster-Meyers Family Papers 1765-2001 RG5/221 John Henry Foster (b. 1926) 49 boxes (25 linear ft.), plus oversized items and photographs Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College For current information on the location of materials, please consult the Libraries' online catalog: http://tripod.brynmawr.edu Contains the papers of the Foster Family, a Wilburite New England Quaker family of Rhode Island, and the Meyers Family, conservative Orthodox Quakers of the Midwest. The families were united in 1924 by the marriage of Henry Cope Foster (1895-1987) of Warwick, Rhode Island, and Thyra Jane Meyers (1898-1984), born in West Branch, Iowa. The collection contains extensive personal correspondence of five generations of the Foster and Meyers families, school materials, diaries, writings, reminiscences and biographies which offer insight into conservative Quaker life in Iowa, Ohio, and New England in the late nineteenth and twentieth century. Also includes extensive records of the Foster family farm in Warwick, Rhode Island, memorabilia, pictures, and correspondence and related papers of John Henry Foster concerning his AFSC service at Friends Rural Center, Rasulia, India. BIOGRAPHICAL & HISTORICAL

Thyra Jane (or Jane) Foster (1898-1984) was born in West Branch, Iowa, to Joseph E. and Mary Warner Meyers. She attended Stillwater Primary School in West Branch, the Friends Boarding School of Barnesville, Ohio, and the Westtown School in Westtown, Pa. In 1921, Jane graduated from Mt. Holyoke College and in 1924 married Henry Cope Foster (1895-1987). Henry graduated from the Massachusetts Agricultural College (now the University of Massachusetts) in 1923 and returned to Warwick, Rhode Island, where in his early years he worked in the family farm with his brother William and his father Horace. His two sisters, Anna and Elizabeth Foster, lived on the farm for their entire lives. Jane taught chemistry, physics, Latin, and German in the Coventry school system from 1944 until her retirement in 1959. After her retirement, she was the founding archivist of the Archives of the New England Yearly Meeting. Thyra Jane and Henry Foster were active members of Providence Monthly Meeting of Friends. The Fosters' son, John Henry Foster, was born in 1926, and twins Harold M. and Thera were born in 1929. The children were educated at Westtown School before college. John H. Foster married Georgana Falb in 1954. He was a member of the faculty of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

Thyra Jane's father was Joseph E. Meyers (1858-1937), a conservative Orthodox Quaker, raised in Pennsdale, Pa., a member of the Muncy Monthly Meeting. His father, William D. Myers (1826-1892) was a convinced Friend who became a member of Philadelphia Monthly Meeting for the Southern District in 1854. His mother was Mary Roberts Warner (1828-1873), a birthright member of Muncy Monthly Meeting. Through his mother's side, Joseph E. Meyers was related to prominent Muncy Quaker families such as Lundy, Carpenter, Winner, and Starr.

Joseph E. Meyers was the second of four children and the only to survive early childhood. His father was disowned by the Society of Friends in 1859, and the marriage was not a happy one. In 1863, Mary Meyers returned to Pennsdale and the Muncy Monthly Meeting. She raised her only surviving child with strict adherence to the rules of discipline regarding dress, behavior, and marriage. After her death, Meyers attended Westtown Boarding School and then West Chester Normal School. It had been the desire of his mother that he pursue a career as a teacher, and for about ten years, he taught at a number of schools in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Iowa. However, it was a career to which he was ill-suited, and by 1894, he became a farmer.

In 1880, with the encouragement and support of his uncle, Charles Warner, he moved to Barnesville, Ohio, where he became acquainted with members of the Ohio Yearly Meeting. For about the next ten years, he spent time in Ohio, Kansas, and Iowa. In 1894, Joseph Meyers married Mary J. Worthington at Stillwater Monthly Meeting in Barnesville, and for a short time they lived on a farm in Cedar County, Iowa. About 1896, the family returned to Barnesville, Ohio. He remained at Stillwater MM until 1931 when he moved to Rhode Island to live with his daughter and son-in-law, Thyra Jane and Henry Cope Foster. About 1929, he began to compile biographies on Quakers that he knew from his youth in Pennsdale, Pa., and his many years in Ohio and Iowa, corresponding with a number of friends for information and suggestions.

Additional biographical notes are included as preface to individual series.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE RECORDS

Organization: The papers were organized by family units by the donor, and that organization has been largely retained. They have been placed in seven series: Series 1 includes the papers of Henry and Thyra Jane Foster and Henry's siblings, the series includes extensive correspondence from Thyra Jane; Series 2 contains the papers of Joseph E. Meyers and his family, including his reminiscences of conservative Quakers; Series 3 contains the papers of Horace Bragg and Mary S. Cope Foster and their generation, as well as some Sharpless family material which descended through Mary Sharpless Cope Foster; Series 4 contains a small amount of earlier Foster family generations, that of Horace Foster's parents, John and Pauline Kenyon and family correspondence centered on the Foster family and its residents; Series 5 contains the papers of John H. and Georgana Foster; Series 6 concerns the Foster family farm in Warwick, Rhode Island; and Series 7 contains miscellaneous papers.

Series 1: Henry and Thyra Jane Foster and their generation: a. Henry and Thyra Jane Papers; b. Charles and Hilda Steckle Foster; c. Elizabeth and Anna Foster; d. William (Bill) Oliver and Millicent Foster; e. Family postcard scrapbooks.

Series 2: Joseph Meyers and Family: a. Joseph E. Meyers Papers; b. William D. and Mary Warner Meyers and the Warner family; c. Mary Worthington Meyers; d. Bernice Meyers; e. Charles Lionel Meyers.

Series 3: Horace and Mary Cope Foster Family and Cope ancestors: a. Horace Bragg and Mary Cope Foster; b. Joshua Sharpless Family; c. Hannah Sharpless Cope and Caleb Cope; d. John Hoxie and Mary E. Simkinson Foster, Lizzie Foster Leigh and Thomas Leigh, Edward H. and Emma Walmsley Foster, and Martha Otis Foster.

Series 4: Foster Family: Horace Foster's ancestors: Ethan Foster, John and Paulina Kenyon Foster, Family correspondence of the Foster Family.

Series 5: John and Georgana Foster.

Series 6: The Foster Family Farm, Warwick, Rhode Island Farm, 1838-1992.

Series 7: Miscellaneous.

ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION Accession information

Deposit, John H. Foster, 1992-2003.

Received in several parts beginning in 1992. The papers concerning Joseph E. Meyers, including informal personal reminiscences and other writings, remained in the family at Meyers' death. His grandson, John H. Foster, sorted and transcribed most of the papers. In April 1997, the Joseph E. Meyers Papers were arranged in four series, described, and processed as RG 5/186, Joseph Meyers Papers. Oversized documents such as marriage certificates and diplomas are stored in Oversize.

Later the same year (1997), an additional 22 cubic feet of Foster family papers were received with inventories by the donor. In general, the papers were organized by family units, and that organization largely has been preserved. Selected papers were photocopied for the donor. Photocopies of the records of the Kickemuit Literary Society were added to the collection in 1999. A small amount of material was added in 2000, and in 2002, the whole collection was integrated, renamed the Foster-Meyers Family Papers, and a new finding aid produced. In 2003, John H. Foster deposited additional Foster family letters and some personal papers.

Relics and photographs were removed to FHL Relics and FHL PA 115, respectively. Brochures from the Friends Boarding School, later Moses Brown School, transferred to reference files for better access. File with secondary material on PAX, Massachusetts Political Action for Peace, and peace candidate Stuart Hughes transferred to Swarthmore College Peace Collection. Pictures of Quaker schools and meeting houses and Moses Brown which arrived with Miscellaneous Papers have been stored in FHL General Picture Collection for ease of access.

Inventories and general notes by John H. Foster are filed in Series 5, John H. and Georgana Foster Papers. Comments, transcripts, explanatory notes are stored with the related originals.

A typescript of Joshua Sharpless's 1798 journal which was given to FHL in 1979 by Thyra Jane Foster was transferred from MSS 040 to be stored with the original in RG 5/221, Series 3. MSS 040, Sharpless Manuscripts, contains a different version of the Sharpless journal given to FHL in 1970 by Elizabeth Foster, aunt of John H. Foster and sister-in-law of Thyra Jane Foster.

The collection is open, with additional papers relating to John H. and Georgana Foster and their generation retained by the family.

Materials catalogued separately:

Photographs removed to PA 115

Medicine box of Paulina Kenyon Foster, prior to 1882, removed to Relics

Plain clothes patterns removed to Relics

Artifacts from Mary Cope Foster's letterbox and John Foster's spectacles removed to Relics

The donor has transcribed many Joseph Meyers's writings and some Foster letters, and these transcriptions are stored with the originals.

MSS 003/443. Rachel Coope Journal, Some Account of Rachel Coope. . . , 1805. 2 MSS copies; also, another (incomplete) version of Some Account of Rachel Coope.

MSS 040: Sharpless Manuscripts. Includes expanded version of Joshua Sharpless journal of trip to visit the Indians, 1798. Typsecript, photocopy. Parts of the journal were published in The Friend, 1847.

 Access

Collection is open for research.

 Use Restrictions

Copyright has not been assigned to the Repositories. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted to the individual Meeting or its successor. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Repositories as the holder(s) of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by reader.

 SEARCHING IN OUR ON-LINE CATALOGUE FOR RELATED MATERIALS

This collection is indexed under the following headings in TRIPOD, the on-line catalog of the Friends Historical Library. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons, or places should search the catalog using these headings.:

Foster, John Henry, 1926- Meyers, Joseph E. (Joseph Elkinton), 1858-1937 Foster family Warner family Meyers family Muncy Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends) Ohio Yearly Meeting of Friends (Conservative : 1854- ) New England Yearly Meeting of Friends Iowa Yearly Meeting of the Society of Friends. Hickory Grove Quarterly Meeting Stillwater Monthly Meeting of Friends Nantucket Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends : Orthodox : 1845- 1867 : Nantucket, Mass.) Providence Monthly Meeting of Friends (Providence, R.I.) Westtown Boarding School Friends Boarding School (Barnesville, Ohio) Quakers -- Pennsylvania Quakers -- Ohio Quakers -- Iowa Quakers -- Biography Quakers -- Costume Quakers -- Conduct of life Quakers -- Social life and customs Quakers -- Anecdotes Wilburite Quakers Society of Friends -- Rhode Island Society of Friends -- Ohio Society of Friends -- Pennsylvania Society of Friends -- Indiana Agriculture -- Rhode Island Warwick (Rhode Island) Meyers, Joseph E. (Joseph Elkinton), 1858-1937 Meyers, Mary W. (Mary Worthington), 1862-1925 Meyers, Bernice L. (Bernice Lydia), 1896-1946 Foster, Thyra Jane Foster, Henry C. (Henry Cope), 1895-1987 Foster, Elizabeth, 1888-1980 Foster, Horace B. (Horace Bragg), 1850-1933 Foster, Mary C. (Mary Cope), 1854-1936 Sharples, Joshua, 1747-1826 Sharples, Edith, 1743-1787 Coope, Rachel, 1771-1807 Coope, Benjamin, 1765-1845 DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE RECORDS

Note to Researchers: These records may only be consulted at Swarthmore, and are not available through inter-Library loan.

Series 1a: Henry and Thyra Jane Foster Papers, 1904-1988

Thyra Jane, or Jane Foster (1898-1984) was born in West Branch, Iowa, to Joseph E. and Mary Warner Meyers. She attended Stillwater Primary School in West Branch, Friends Boarding School of Barnesville, Ohio, and Westtown School in Westtown, Pa. In 1921, Jane graduated from Mt. Holyoke College and in 1924 married Henry Cope Foster (1895-1987). The Foster's son, John H. Foster, was born in 1926, and twins Harold M. and Thera were born in 1929. The children were educated at Westtown School before college. Jane taught chemistry, physics, Latin, and German in the Coventry school system from 1944 until her retirement in 1959, and after her retirement she was the founding archivist of the Archives of New England Yearly meeting. Thyra Jane and Henry Foster were active members of the Providence Monthly Meeting of Friends.

Henry Cope Foster was born in 1895 on the Foster family farm in Warwick, Rhode Island, to Horace Bragg and Mary Cope Foster. Henry graduated from the Massachusetts Agricultural College (now the University of Massachusetts) in 1923 and returned to Warwick to work on the family farm. He married Thyra Jane Meyers in 1924. In his early years he worked with his brother, William, and his father, and his two sisters, Anna and Elizabeth, lived on the farm for their entire lives. In 1951, dairy farming ended on the Foster farm, and Henry Foster began to work with the Rhode Island Soil Conservation Program . He died on September 13, 1987.

Their eldest child, John Henry Foster (b. 1926) graduated from Cornell University, with graduate degrees from Purdue and Cornell Universities. He spent several years in the early 1950s in India, and in 1954, married Georgana Falb. In 1954, he joined the faculty of University of Massachusetts at Amherst. John H. Foster transcribed many of the writings and added interpretation and commentary to the papers.

The bulk of Series 1 is the family correspondence of Thyra Jane Foster and her writings and activities, contained in Series 1a.

Series 1 also includes a papers of Henry's sibling and their families: Series 1b, brother Charles Foster (1887-1955) who married Hilda Steckle Foster; Series 1c, sisters Elizabeth (1888-1980) and Anna (1890-1958) Foster who also lived on the family farm; and Series 1d, brother William Oliver Foster (1897-1980) who married Millicent Steer. Series 1e contains scrapbooks of postcards collected by the Fosters.

 Biographical 1917-1987 Autobiographical notes ca. 1981 1 folder 1 The Draft and Henry's discharge 1917 1 folder 1 Thyra Jane and Henry's wedding 1923-1924 1 folder 1 Correspondence related to their engagement announcement 1923-24 1 folder 1 Marriage certificate, Stillwater Monthly Meeting 1924 1 folder OE 25th Wedding Anniversary 1949 1 folder 1 50th Wedding Anniversary 1974 2 folders 1 Cards from Thyra Jane's 80th birthday 1978 1 folder 1 Thyra Jane and Henry's deaths 1978-1987 1 folder 1 Vital statistics 1978-87 1 folder 1 Letters related to Henry's death 1987 1 folder 1 List of slides selected for the family archives n.d. 1 folder 1 Correspondence 1920-1987 Friends and Relatives 1920-1939 1 folder 1 Miscellaneous postcards 1920-1981 1 folder 1 Letters saved by Jane 1923-1925 1 folder 1 Letters from Sara and Myra Tucker 1924-1925 1 folder 1 Letters saved by Jane 1926-1929 1 folder 1 Letters to Jane from her siblings 1927-1930 1 folder 1 Correspondence with Bernice from family 1932-1940 1 folder 1 Thera and Harold at Westtown and earlier 1936-1947 1 folder 2 Correspondence with friends from Barnesville and other areas 1937-1977 1 folder 2 Jane to brother Lionel 1939-1981 1 folder 2 Friends and relatives 1940-1959 1 folder 2 To Jane from Rita Couture, a Coventry High School colleague 1946-55 1 folder 2 Letters to children and their families 1952-1983 1 folder 2 Friends and relatives 1960-79 1 folder 2 Letters from Amy Grace McKee 1964-65 1 folder 2 Sympathy cards received for Elizabeth Foster's death 1980 1 folder 2 Miscellaneous correspondence to Henry and Jane 1980-1987 1 folder 2 Miscellaneous correspondence to Henry and Jane 1937-1982 1 folder 2 Friends and relatives n.d. 1 folder 2 Correspondence between Jane and Henry 1920-25 Letters from Jane to Henry 1920 1 folder 2 Letters from Henry to Jane 1920 1 folder 2 Letters from Jane to Henry 1921 1 folder 2 Letters from Henry to Jane 1921 1 folder 2 Letters from Jane to Henry 1922 1 folder 3 Letters from Henry to Jane 1922 1 folder 3 Letters from Jane to Henry 1923 1 folder 3 Letters from Henry to Jane 1923 1 folder 3 Letters from Jane to Henry 1924 1 folder 3 Letters from Henry to Jane 1924 1 folder 3 Letters from Jane to Henry and Henry to Jane 1925 1 folder 4 Correspondence from Jane to her sister Bernice 1931-1946

See also Series 2: Joseph Meyers Family Papers for letters from Bernice

 Correspondence between Jane and Bernice 1931 1 folder 4 Correspondence between Jane and Bernice 1932 1 folder 4 Correspondence between Jane and Bernice 1933 1 folder 4 Correspondence between Jane and Bernice 1934 1 folder 4 Correspondence between Jane and Bernice 1935 1 folder 4 Correspondence between Jane and Bernice 1936 1 folder 4 Correspondence between Jane and Bernice 1937 1 folder 4 Correspondence between Jane and Bernice 1939 1 folder 4 Correspondence between Jane and Bernice 1940 1 folder 4 Correspondence between Jane and Bernice 1941 1 folder 4 Correspondence between Jane and Bernice 1942 1 folder 4 Correspondence between Jane and Bernice 1943 1 folder 4 Correspondence between Jane and Bernice 1944-46 1 folder 4 Correspondence with Quakers 1923-78 Miscellaneous Quaker correspondence to Jane 1923-25 1 folder 5 Correspondence with Quakers 1940-59 1 folder 5 Correspondence with Quakers 1960-69 1 folder 5 Correspondence with Quakers 1970-78 1 folder 5 Correspondence with Quakers n.d. 1 folder 5 Correspondence from Jane to her son John 1941-1984 Correspondence between Jane and John 1941 1 folder 5 Correspondence between Jane and John 1942 1 folder 5 Correspondence between Jane and John 1942 1 folder 5

Includes some letters from Henry

 Correspondence between Jane and John 1943 1 folder 5 Correspondence between Jane and John 1944 1 folder 5 Correspondence between Jane and John 1946 1 folder 5 Correspondence between Jane and John 1947 1 folder 5 Correspondence between Jane and John 1948 1 folder 5 Correspondence between Jane and John 1949 1 folder 5 Correspondence between Jane and John 1950 1 folder 5 Correspondence between Jane and John 1951 1 folder 6 Correspondence between Jane and John 1952 1 folder 6 Correspondence between Jane and John 1953 1 folder 6 Correspondence between Jane and John 1954 1 folder 6 Correspondence between Jane and John 1955 1 folder 6 Correspondence between Jane and John 1956 1 folder 6 Correspondence between Jane and John 1957 1 folder 6 Correspondence between Jane and John 1958 1 folder 6 Correspondence between Jane and John 1959 1 folder 6 Correspondence between Jane and John 1960 1 folder 6 Correspondence between Jane and John 1961 1 folder 6 Correspondence between Jane and John 1962 1 folder 6 Correspondence between Jane and John 1963 1 folder 7 Correspondence between Jane and John 1964 1 folder 7 Correspondence between Jane and John 1965 1 folder 7 Correspondence between Jane and John 1966 1 folder 7 Correspondence between Jane and John 1967 1 folder 7 Correspondence between Jane and John 1968 1 folder 7 Correspondence between Jane and John 1970 1 folder 7 Correspondence between Jane and John 1971 1 folder 7 Correspondence between Jane and John 1972 1 folder 7 Correspondence between Jane and John 1973 1 folder 8 Correspondence between Jane and John 1974 1 folder 8 Correspondence between Jane and John 1975 1 folder 8 Correspondence between Jane and John 1976 1 folder 8 Correspondence between Jane and John 1977 1 folder 8 Correspondence between Jane and John 1978 1 folder 8 Correspondence between Jane and John 1979 1 folder 8 Correspondence between Jane and John 1980 1 folder 8 Correspondence between Jane and John 1981 1 folder 8 Correspondence between Jane and John 1982 1 folder 8 Correspondence between Jane and John 1983 1 folder 8 Correspondence between Jane and John 1984 1 folder 8 Correspondence to Jane from her cousin Evelyn Kuhn 1950-1978 Correspondence between Jane and Evelyn 1950-59 1 folder 9 Correspondence between Jane and Evelyn 1960-64 1 folder 9 Correspondence between Jane and Evelyn 1965-69 1 folder 9 Correspondence between Jane and Evelyn 1970-78 1 folder 9 Correspondence between Jane and Evelyn n.d. 1 folder 9 Writings 1914-1983 "Camp Sunshine," camping journal 1914 1 folder 40 Writings by Jane 1924-76 1 folder 9

Includes typed correspondence and radio broadcasts with transcripts by John H. Foster

 Jane's letters to editors 1950-68 1 folder 9 Jane's brief summaries of Foster Family Letters 1958 1 folder 9

Brief summaries of Foster Family Letters, 1858-1881.

 Rhode Island Quakers in the American Revolution booklet 1977 1 folder 9 "A Tribute to Elizabeth Foster - A Member of an Uncommon Family" 1980 1 folder 9

Booklet by Thyra Jane Foster

 "Growing Up in a Friends Family in Iowa, 1902-1907" and "Growing Up in a Friends Family on an Iowa Farm, 1907-1915" 1983 2 copies 9

Booklet by Thyra Jane Foster

 Jane's Education 1904-1921 Quote Book 1904-1910 1 folder 9 Grade Reports and miscellaneous documents 1904-1914 1 folder 9 Composition book 1907 1 folder 9 Geography Exercise 1907 1 folder 9 Composition book 1908-1909 1 folder 10 Miscellaneous calendar photos 1909 1 folder 10 Composition book 1910 1 folder 10 Stillwater Primary souvenirs 1910 1 folder 10 Composition book 1910-11 1 folder 10 Loose-leaf botany book 1912 1 folder 10 Grade reports 1913 1 folder 10 Westtown 1916-1917 1 folder 10 Mount Holyoke College 1917-1921 1 folder 10 Course in Archive Administration 1966 1 folder 10 Essay - "Shall We Condemn in the Nation that which We Condemn in the Individual" n.d. 1 folder 10 Botany copybook n.d. 1 folder 10 Note, composition book n.d. 1 folder 10 Diplomas 1911-21 1 folder OE

Diplomas from the Friends Boarding School, Westtown School, Mount Holyoke College, and grammar school.

 Jane's Employment 1920-59 Correspondence related to employment 1920-1922 1 folder 10 Class records of teacher 1922-1923 1 folder 10 History of Coventry High School 1941, n.d. 1 folder 10 Mementos of Coventry High School 1944-59 1 folder 40 Jane at Coventry High School 1944-64 1 folder 10 Reports on Human Relations in the Classroom 1955 1 folder 10 Student Council and PTA of Coventry High School 1955-57 1 folder 10 A Tribute to Thyra Jane from Coventry High School 1956 1 folder 10, Map case Issues of "The Entry" 1957-59 1 folder 10

Issues of the Coventry High School newspaper

 Jane's Alumni Activities 1923-83 Mt. Holyoke Round Robin Letters 1923-1980 1 folder 11 Invitations to Friends Boarding School commencements 1925-1929 1 folder 11 Friends Boarding School 50th Anniversary 1926 1 folder 11 Letters from various classmates 1952-1977 1 folder 11 Stillwater Primary Reunion 1955 1 folder 11 Correspondence related to donations to the Friends Boarding School, Barnesville, Ohio 1956-64 1 folder 11 Friends Boarding School 50th Reunion 1962-64 1 folder 11 Friends Boarding School 60th Reunion 1974 1 folder 11 Westtown 65th Reunion 1982 1 folder 11 Barnesville newspapers 1983 1 folder 11 Henry's Education 1905-1923 Spelling Book 1905 1 folder 11 Schoolwork 1908-1912 1 folder 11 School Papers 1909 1 folder 11 Notes and Theme Book 1910-11 1 folder 11 Composition Book 1911-1912 1 folder 11 Massachusetts Agricultural College 1923 1 folder 11 Chemistry Lab Book n.d. 1 folder 11 Chemistry notes n.d. 1 folder 11 Science notebook n.d. 1 folder 11 Composition book n.d. 1 folder 11 Diplomas 1910, 1923 1 folder OE

Diplomas from Warwick Grammar, Massachusetts Agricultural College

 Henry's Employment 1961 Retirement 1961 1 folder 12 Soil Conservation Service Certificate of Merit 1961 1 folder 12 Henry's Alumni Activities 1968-1987; n.d. Stockbridge Honorary Alumni Award 1968 1 folder 12 Accession Sheet, University of Massachusetts Archives 1986-87 1 folder 12 Obituary of Algernon S. Gallup, Henry's primary school teacher n.d. 1 folder 12 Henry and Thyra Jane Foster Financial 1924-1988 Miscellaneous financial documents 1937-1987 1 folder 12 Receipts from charitable donations 1975-1983 1 folder 12 Wills and estates 1980-88 1 folder 12 Henry and Thyra Jane Foster Miscellaneous Activities 1929-1968 Jane's miscellaneous activities 1929-1968, n.d. 1 folder 12

Includes the Women's Christian Temperance Union

 Radio broadcast 1933-34 1 folder 12 Quaker activities 1940-1982 1 folder 12 Jane's notes from various activities 1943-1981 1 folder 12

Includes notes related to Friends and to Coventry High School

 Jane's Notes from various activities 1951-1963 1 folder 12

Includes notes related to Friends and to Coventry High School

 A Quaker Pilgrimage Presentation 1952 1 folder 40 Moses Brown exhibit at the New England Yearly Meeting 1962 1 folder 12 Notes from New England Yearly Meeting 1963-64 1 folder 12 Jane's Notes from Quaker Exhibits 1963-1980, n.d. 2 folders 13 Henry's Inventions and Activities 1979 1 folder 13 Meeting minutes copied by Thyra Jane n.d. 1 folder 40 Note cards from Thyra Jane Foster's exhibit n.d. 1 folder 13 Quaker Play n.d. 1 folder 13 Foster Family Exhibits n.d. 1 folder 13 "The Quaker Experiment with Dress as a Testimony" n.d. 1 folder 49

Short play by Thyra Jane Foster

 "Quaker Costume at Friends School" n.d. 1 folder 49

Short play by Thyra Jane Foster

 Essay, Quaker Costume in Friends School n.d. 1 folder 49 Inventory of Quaker Costumes (reproductions as teaching tools) n.d. 1 folder 49 "Suggestions for Use of Quaker Costumes" by Thyra Jane Foster n.d. 1 folder 49 Scrapbook with examples of Quaker costume n.d. copies and originals 49 Paper patterns n.d. reproduction 49 Henry and Thyra Jane Foster Travel 1948-77 Miscellaneous documents related to travel 1948-1971 1 folder 13 Trip to England, Various Educational and Quaker-related Conferences 1952 1 folder 13 Correspondence to folks at home 1952 1 folder 13 Friends World Conference Tercentenary Conference Papers 1952 2 folders 13 Trip to England, postcards 1 folder 13 Trip to England, souvenir pamphlets 1952, n.d. 1 folder 13 Letters related to Travel and Trips 1952-59 1 folder 14 Letters related to travel and trips 1960-77 1 folder 14 Henry and Thyra Jane Foster memorabilia 1904-1983 & n.d. Henry's miscellaneous mementos 1904-1925, n.d. 1 folder 14 Writing by W.C. Meader, friend of the Fosters n.d. 1 folder 14 Booklet, The Staggering Burden of Armament 1921 1 folder 14 Newspaper clippings 1921-76 1 folder 14 Illustrated Weekly 1922-23 1 folder 14

Booklet made by Jane for Henry

 Guest Book 1924-1980 1 folder 14 Articles and Writings Collected by Jane 1925, n.d. 1 folder 14 Visit to Bielefeld, William Meyers' home 1952, n.d. 1 folder 14 Jane's miscellaneous mementos 1963-74, n.d. 1 folder 14 Quiet Dresden Plate Design by Thyra Jane 1969 Mounted photographs OE Brief History of Friends in New England by William B. Watson 1983 1 folder 14 Lists of Foster family books and exhibits n.d. 1 folder 14 Address book n.d. 1 folder 14 Blueprint, house plan by Baxter n.d. 1 folder OE Series 1b: Charles Foster and Hilda Steckle Foster Papers, 1899-1943

Series 1b includes papers of Henry's brother, Charles Foster (1887-1955), who married Hilda Steckle, and his family.

Miscellaneous correspondence 1899-1945 1 folder 14 Letters from Cousins to Charles 1904-1909 1 folder 14 Charles, School tests and exercises 1899-1905 1 folder 14 Charles, Report cards 1902-1904 1 folder 14 Charles, Certificates of Merit n.d. 1 folder 14 Charles, school books n.d. 1 folder 14 Shock Absorber Patent granted to Charles Foster 1908 1 folder 14 Real estate documents 1943 1 folder 14 Series 1c: Anna and Elizabeth Foster Papers, 1899-1997

Elizabeth and Anna Foster, the daughters of Horace B. and Mary Foster and the sisters of Henry Foster, spent most of their lives together on the family farm; for this reason, their papers are contained in the same series.

Anna Foster was born in Warwick, Rhode Island in 1890, and she lived in Warwick her entire life. After dropping out of high school in the tenth grade, she and Elizabeth helped with the family farm and in caring for their parents until their deaths. In 1928 or 1929, Anna started the family roadside stand and operated it for about ten years. She also reupholstered furniture and completed other projects with the Home Demonstration Club. With the Sewing Group at the Friends Meeting House in Providence, Anna was instrumental in the preparation and transfer of used clothes to the American Friends Service Committee in Philadelphia. Throughout most of her life, she lived in the west end of the family farmhouse and never married. She died of a heart attack on July 31, 1958, in Warwick.

Elizabeth Foster was born on December 9, 1888, in Warwick. After completing the eleventh grade and helping around the home with Anna into the 1920s, Elizabeth worked keeping house for others for most of her life. According to John H. Foster (son of Henry and Thyra Jane), Elizabeth was the more outgoing of the sisters. In 1922, she took a trip to England and independently toured there for some time. Later on in her life, she attended weeklong workshops at Pendle Hill and the Wellesley Institute and relished the opportunities to learn and interact with others. Like Anna, she was interested in the Home Demonstration Club and the donation of clothes to the American Friends Service Committee. Elizabeth also had a keen interest in horses. A lifelong resident of Warwick and unmarried, Elizabeth died on May 13, 1980.

Series 1c contains the papers of Henry Foster's sisters Elizabeth (1888-1980) and Anna (1890-1958) Foster who also lived on the family farm.

Anna and Elizabeth -- Biographical 1993, n.d.

Biographical comments by John H. Foster 1993 1 folder 15 Observations/comments on Foster/Cope genealogy n.d. 1 folder 15 Genealogical chart, Anna Foster n.d. 1 folder OE Anna and Elizabeth -- Correspondence 1904-1978 Miscellaneous correspondence 1904 1 folder 15 Miscellaneous cards 1910-1967 1 folder 15 Miscellaneous correspondence with family members 1911-1968 1 folder 15 Correspondence with cousin Mariana Foster Hall 1914-17 1 folder 15 Correspondence related to travel 1914-20 1 folder 15 Correspondence with Eliza and Priscilla Leeds 1915-78 1 folder 15 Copy of the Friendsville Current from E.F. Leeds 1933 1 folder 15 Invitations 1938-47 1 folder 15 Last letter to Anna and Elizabeth from their "Auntie" 1943 1 folder 15 Anna & Elizabeth -- Financial 1970-78 Expense book (no name in book) 1970-74 1 folder 15 Expense Book (no name in book) 1975-78 1 folder 15 Anna and Elizabeth -- Memorabilia 1899-1969, n.d. Miscellaneous 1899, n.d. 1 folder 15

Includes Quaker play.

 Autograph book 1904-1933 1 folder 15 Newspaper clippings 1969, n.d. 1 folder 15 Anna Foster's Papers 1903-1969, n.d. Documents related to Anna Foster's death and funeral 1958-60 1 folder 15 Anna's miscellaneous correspondence 1908-1920 1 folder 15 Anna's miscellaneous correspondence 1933-69 1 folder 15

Includes letters to nephew and letters from organizations.

 School books 1908, n.d. 1 folder 15 School and art work n.d. 1 folder 15, Map case Anna's expense log 1914-1931 1 folder 16 Newspaper clippings featuring Anna Foster 1957, n.d. 1 folder 16 Anna's Diaries 1903, 1916 1 folder 16 Anna's address book n.d. 1 folder 16 9th grade graduation diploma 1905 1 folder OE Elizabeth Foster's Papers 1901-1981 Documents related to birth, death, and illness 1922-80 1 folder 16 Tribute to Elizabeth by Thyra Jane Foster 1980 copy 2 16 Correspondence and documents related to travel 1907-22 1 folder 16 Miscellaneous correspondence 1949-64 1 folder 16

Includes letters to nephew and postcards

 Correspondence with Hilda 1955-65 1 folder 16 Anna and Elizabeth, cards received 1979-1980 1 folder 16 Christmas letters from Edith Cary Cope (d. 1971) 1957-1961 1 folder 16 Elizabeth's school work and report cards 1901-1906, n.d. 2 folders 16-17 Elizabeth's art work 1903-1904, n.d. 1 folder 17 Diploma 1904 1 folder OE

Elizabeth's Diploma from Centreville Grammar School, 9th grade graduation diploma

 Elizabeth, Adult Education 1942-45 1 folder 17

Includes notes and plans from leadership seminar

 Elizabeth's expense logs 1953-66 1 folder 17 Elizabeth appraisal of real estate 1960 1 folder 17 Financial log 1964-80 1 folder 17 Inventory of Hillside Estate and will preparation 1975-79 1 folder 17 Friends Community Development Corporation 1975-81 1 folder 17 Miscellaneous memorabilia 1922-64, n.d. 1 folder 17

Includes memory book and handkerchief

 Documents related to Elizabeth's participation in various activities 1933-77 1 folder 17 Elizabeth's Letters to editors 1940 1 folder 17 Elizabeth's Diaries 1905, 1921-26 1 folder 18 Elizabeth's Diaries 1927-34 1 folder 18 Elizabeth's Diaries 1935-46 1 folder 18 Elizabeth's Diaries 1947-51 1 folder 18 Elizabeth's Diaries 1952-61 1 folder 19 Elizabeth's Diaries 1962-71 1 folder 19 Elizabeth's Diaries 1972-79 1 folder 19 Series 1d: William (Bill) Oliver and Millicent Foster, and their daughter Mary Cadbury, 1972-2000

Series 1d contains the papers of Henry's brother William Oliver Foster 1897-1980) who married Millicent Steer.

"In Memory Of" 1980 1 folder 19

Recollections by William Oliver Foster

 50th Anniversary for Mary and Chris Cadbury 2000 1 folder 19 Letter to Bill and Millicent from Taber 1972 1 folder 19 Series 1e: Foster Family Picture Postcard Scrapbooks, 1904-ca. 1916

Series 1e contains scrapbooks of postcards collected by the Fosters, including Henry Cope Foster, his siblings, and their parents.

Loose postcards with Quaker related sites 1906-1915 1 folder 43

With typed transcript by John H. Foster

 Scrapbook of picture postcards 1904-1907 1 folder 43 Scrapbook of picture postcards 1907-ca. 1913 1 folder 44 Scrapbook of picture postcards 1911-ca. 1916 1 folder 44 Series 2a: Joseph E. Meyers Papers, 1873-1977, n.d.

Joseph E. Meyers (1858-1937) was a conservative Orthodox Quaker, raised in Pennsdale, Pa., a member of the Muncy Monthly Meeting. His father, William D. Meyers (1826-1892) was a convinced Friend who became a member of Philadelphia Monthly Meeting for the Southern District in 1854. His mother was Mary Roberts Warner (1828-1873), a birthright member of Muncy Monthly Meeting. Her parents were Samuel Warner and Abigail Roberts, and through his mother's side, Joseph E. Meyers was related to prominent Muncy Quaker families such as Lundy, Carpenter, Winner, and Starr. His parents were married at Philadelphia MM- SD, in 1855.

Joseph E. Meyers was the second of four children and the only to survive early childhood. His father was disowned by the Society of Friends in 1859, and the marriage was not a happy one. In 1863, Mary Meyers returned to Pennsdale and the Muncy Monthly Meeting. She raised her only surviving child according to the ancient testimonies of the Society of Friends, with strict adherence to the rules of discipline regarding dress, behavior, and marriage. After her death, Meyers attended Westtown Boarding School and then West Chester Normal School. It had been the desire of his mother that he pursue a career as a teacher, and for about ten years, he taught at a number of schools in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Iowa. However, it was a career to which he was ill-suited, and by 1894, he became a farmer.

In 1880, with the encouragement and support of his uncle, Charles Warner, he moved to Barnesville, Ohio, where he became acquainted with members of the Ohio Yearly Meeting. For about the next ten years, he spent time in Ohio, Kansas, and Iowa. In 1894, Joseph Meyers married Mary J. Worthington at Stillwater Monthly Meeting in Barnesville, and for a short time they lived on a farm in Cedar County, Iowa. About 1896, the family returned to Barnesville, Ohio. He remained at Stillwater MM until 1931 when he moved to Rhode Island to live with his daughter and son-in-law, Thyra Jane and Henry Cope Foster. About 1929, began to compile biographies on Quakers that he knew from his youth in Pennsdale, Pa., and his many years in Ohio and Iowa, corresponding with a number of friends for information and suggestions.

Also included in Series 2 are the papers of closely related Meyers/Warner family members: His wife, Mary Worthington Meyers; Joseph Meyers' parents William and Mary Warner Meyers; his uncle and benefactor, Charles Warner; daughter Bernice Myers and son Charles Lionel Meyers.

 Reminiscences of his Early Life 1873-94, n.d. John H. Foster's notes on the material n.d. 1 folder 20

Includes a listing of the paging of the original

 Joseph Meyers' school experience prior to Westtown School n.d. 1 folder 20 Days at Westtown School 1873-77 1 folder 20 Westtown workers n.d. 1 folder 20 Remembrances of Muncy Monthly Meeting n.d. 1 folder 20

Remembrances of Muncy Monthly Meeting in the 1860's and 1870's, with a history of the meeting and some of its members.

 More of the people in Pennsdale n.d. 1 folder 20

Includes a fragment about William and Charles

 Continued Pennsdale, leading into an account of his education n.d. 1 folder 20 Paragraph on Charles Winner n.d. 1 folder 20 Ellis Winner and others n.d. 1 folder 20 Parvin Masters and William Winner n.d. 1 folder 20 John Warner and others n.d. 1 folder 20 Thomas Warner and others n.d. 1 folder 20 Draft for a biography on his uncle, Charles Warner n.d. 1 folder 20 His grandfather, Samuel Warner n.d. 1 folder 20 His father, William D. Meyes, and others of his boyhood n.d. 1 folder 20 His life 1889-1894 and courtship of Mary Worthington n.d. 1 folder 20 Thoughts on selling the farm, circa 1930 n.d. 1 folder 20 Miscellaneous n.d. 1 folder 20

Certificates of merit and grade sheets from Friends School, Pennsdale, 1869-72, and an invitation to Haverford College 1877 graduation.

 Marriage certificate, Richland MM, Ohio 1894 1 folder OE Diplomas 1877, 1879 1 folder OE

Diplomas from Westtown (1877), and State Normal School (West Chester, Pa., 1879)

 Biographies of Ohio Quakers compiled by Joseph ca. 1929 Draft of Introduction to biographies of Ohio Quakers 1929 1 folder 20

Manuscript draft, transcription by John H. Foster

 Joseph's MSS drafts of biographies of Ohio Quakers 1929 1 folder 20

Includes: Asenath Bailey*, Ann Branson*, Asa Branson*, John Brantingan*, Ellwood Dean*, Griffith Dewees, Jesse Dewees, Rebecca Dewees*, John and Esther Fowler*, Aaron Frame*, John G. Hall*, Wilson Hall*, David Halloway, Robert Milhous, John W. Smith*, Louis Taber. Those marked with astericks also in rough typescript. Typescript generally includes two versions, one with corections.

 Joseph's typed drafts of biographies of Ohio Friends 1929 1 folder 20

Includes: Asenath Bailey, Ann Branson, Asa Branson, John Brantingan, Rebecca Bundy*, Elwood Dean, Griffith Dewees, Jesse Dewees, Rebecca Dewees, John and Esther Fowler, Aaron Frame, John G. Hall, Wilson Hall, David Halloway, David Holloway*, Robert Milhous, Daniel M. Mott*, Evan Smith*, John W. Smith, Joshua P. Smith*, Samuel Stanley, Louis Taber, John Thomas*. Those marked with astericks are in typescript only, with no mss. verson.

Correspondence to Joseph Meyers used in compiling his biographies 20 Bailey, Asenath 1929 1 ALS

From Mary E. Patterson.

 Binns, Jonathan 1928-29 5 ALS

Including his reactions to drafts.

 Branson, Asa n.d. 1 mss

Biographical sketch.

 Brantingham, John 1929 2 ALS

2 ALS from Thomas A. Crawford with 3 pp. biography prepared by Sarah Crawford.

 Bundy, Rebecca 1929 1 mss

"Brief Sketch of the life of Rebecca W. Bundy."

 Dewees, Jesse 1929 1 ALS

1 ALS from Thomas Dewess and 6 pp. draft by Meyers.

 Edgerton, J. Howard 1mo18 1929 1 ALS

1 ALS regarding the project.

 Frame, Aaron 1929 4 ALS

3 ALS from Ruanna Steer, 1 ALS by W. Steer, and Meyers' draft.

 Hall, John George 1929 1 mss

A sketch of his life.

 Hall, Wilson n.d. 1 mss

Sketch on his life by his wife Sina Hall, transcribed and with additional information added by Howard Edgerton, n.d.

 Leeds, Henry B. 1929 1 ALS

1 ALS regarding the biography project.

 Milhous, Robert 1929 1 ALS

1 ALS from B.F. and Anna Starbuck.

 Morlan, Charles 1929 1 ALS

1 ALS regarding his support for Meyers's biography project.

 Mott, Daniel 1929 7 ALS

4 ALS from Sara Mott with handwritten short account of her father's life; 3 ALS from Anna Lizzy Hall; 6 pp. mss by Joseph Meyers.

 Patterson, Carl 1929 ALS

1 ALS regarding biography project.

 Sears, Abigail 1929 3 ALS

2ALS from Martha Bishop; 1 ALS Anna Holloway.

 Sears, Rebecca 1929 4 ALS

2 ALS from James Henderson and 2 ALS from Rebecca Sears, the daughter.

Stratton, Dillwyn 2mo21 1929 and 8mo18 1929 2 ALS

2ALS regarding project.

 Stratton, Edward F. 1929 1 ALS

1 ALS regarding biography project.

 Tabor, Louis 1929 2 ALS

2 ALS from Ellen Taber with enclosed poem by Louis Taber and letters to Joseph Meyers and Thyra Jane Foster from W.E. and Rachel Taber Hirst.

 Rough drafts n.d. 1 folder 20

Rough drafts on various Ohio subjects, including boarding schools at Barnesville, Ohio Yearly Meeting, Willson Hall, and Ann Branson Branson.

 "Impressions of Friends With Whom I Was Associated With in Iowa, With Many Anecdotes and Reminiscences of a Historical Nature Concerning the Meeting There" 1880-1900, n.d.

Writings of Iowa Friends.

 Photocopy of Joseph Meyer's Writings on Iowa Friends 1880-1900 1 folder 21 Volume 1: Hickory Grove Quarterly Meeting 1 folder 21

Composed of Hickory Grove, Coal Creek, and Springville Monthly Meetings.

 Bye, Lewis (173) n.d. Armstrong, Joseph (168) n.d. Askew, Benjamin (124) n.d. Bailey, James (104) n.d. Bailey, Jesse (79) n.d. Bates, Benjamin (26) n.d. Bates, Chakley (36) n.d. Bates, Joshua (27) n.d. Battey, Joseph (51) n.d. Battey, Thomas (52) n.d. Bedell, Albert (128) n.d. Bedell, Samuel (111) n.d. Binns, Thomas (135) n.d. Blackburn, Thomas (28) n.d. Bonsall, Evan (21) n.d. Briggs, Benjamin (48) n.d. Briggs, Jonathan (6) n.d. Bundy, Jonathan (146) n.d. Bundy, William (133) n.d. Clendenon, Stephen (34) n.d. Cooper, Evan (7) n.d. Coppock, Barton (128) n.d. Coppock, Benjamin (30) n.d. Coppock, William (100) n.d. Cowgill, Abraham (155) n.d. Cowgill, Samuel (165) n.d. Crew, Abner (114) n.d. Crew, Aquila (80) n.d. Crew, Thomas (125) n.d. Dean, Barton (70) n.d. Dewees, Barclay (130) n.d. Dewees, Isaac (63) n.d. Dewees, Joseph (63) n.d. Dewees, William (87) n.d. Ecroyd, John (48) n.d. Edgerton, Edward (43) n.d. Edgerton, Joseph (17) n.d. Edmundson, John (20) n.d. Edmundson, Jonathan (25) n.d. Ellyson, Benjamin (195) n.d. Embree, Samuel (94) n.d. Emmons, Albert (22) n.d. Emmons, Edwin (126) n.d. Emmons, Micajah (71) n.d. Emmons, Thomas (5) n.d. Engle, Caleb (57) n.d. Garwood, Jess (17) n.d. Gibbons, Homer (32) n.d. Hall, Francis (131) n.d. Hall, Joseph (162) n.d. Hall, Pearson (132) n.d. Halloway, David (12) n.d. Hampton, Daniel (141) n.d. Hampton, John (51) n.d. Hampton, Jonathan (32) n.d. Hampton, Oliver (98) n.d. Hampton, Robert (102) n.d. Heald family (150) n.d. Heald, Alleln (49) n.d. Heald, Edwin (115) n.d. Heald, Elnathan (34) n.d. Heald, Joseph (108) n.d. Hibbs, Jason (25) n.d. Hirst, John (172) n.d. Hirst, Wilson (198) n.d. Hodgin, John (93) n.d. Hodgin, Willson (136) n.d. Hoge, James Edwin (35) n.d. Hoge, John (21) n.d. Holloway, Martin (36) n.d. Hoyle, Lindley (101) n.d. Hoyle, Thomas (86) n.d. Hoyle, William (111) n.d. James, David (21) n.d. Langstaff, Enoch (186) n.d. Langstaff, Thomas (52) n.d. Lee, Allen (17) n.d. Leech, Charles (189) n.d. Leech, Thomas (159) n.d. Lipsey, John (1) n.d. Lupton family (124) n.d. Madsen, Neal (180) n.d.

Insert: ack addressed to Hickory Grove MM

 McBride, Isaac (22) n.d. McCrew, James (113) n.d. Milhouse, William (57) n.d. Miller, John (30) n.d. Mott, David Charles (37) n.d. Mott, Gershom (24) n.d. Mott, James (62) n.d. Mott, John (57) n.d. Mott, Richard (54) n.d. Mott, Thomas (104) n.d. North, Jesse (79) n.d. Oliphant, John (161) n.d. Patten, Richard (97) n.d. Patten, William (120) n.d. Patterson, John (128) n.d. Patterson, Joseph (90) n.d. Patterson, Tillman (92) n.d. Penrose, Margaret (193) n.d. Pierpoint, Obed (104) n.d. Sattortwait, Nathan (172) n.d. Sears, David (32) n.d. Shaw, Lindley (58) n.d. Shaw, Milton (118) n.d. Shaw, William (75) n.d. Shaw, Wilson (66) n.d. Sidwell, Branson (134) n.d. Smith Family (38) n.d. Smith, Evan (1) n.d. Smith, Joshua (122) n.d. Smith, Joshua (8) n.d. Smith, Morris (61) n.d. Spencer, Adna (44) n.d. Spencer, George T. (33) n.d. Spencer, John (19) n.d. Stanley, Isaac (34) n.d. Stanley, Morris (114) n.d. Stanley, Nathan (60) n.d. Stanley, Samuel (68) n.d. Stanley, Thomas (111) n.d. Stratton, John E. (35) n.d. Taber, Russell (136) n.d. Talbott, Benjamin (63) n.d. Test, Zaccheus (81) n.d. Thomas, John (147) n.d. Thomasson, Thomas (138) n.d. Vail, John (6) n.d. Vernon, Iddo (130) n.d. Walker, Isaac (145) n.d. Walker, William (192) n.d. Ward, Thomas (11) n.d. Warrington, Nathan (46) n.d. White, James L (21) n.d. Williams, Aaron (139) n.d. Willits, David (121) n.d. Winder, David (33) n.d. Wood, Asaph (34) n.d. Wood, John (56) n.d. Wood, Robert (34) n.d. Worrall, Isaac (177) n.d. Worthington, William (45) n.d. Yocom, Thomas (80) n.d. Young, George (121) n.d. Young, William (64) n.d. Volume 2: Friends Associated with Hickory Grove and with Conservative Iowa Meeting n.d. 1 folder 21

Concludes with explanation of divergent views of the two groups.

 Allman, Meader (59) n.d. Armstrong, Israel (23) n.d. Armstrong, Samuel (28) n.d. Bean, Joel (115) n.d. Branson, William D. (120) n.d. Bye, Elisha J. (51) n.d. Cogge, Tristram (118) n.d. Cook, Jacob and Rebecca (191) n.d. Cope, Cyrus (34) n.d. Coppock, Joseph J. (63) n.d. Cowgill, Lewis I. (49) n.d. Crosbie, Archibald (140) n.d. Crozier, Jonathan (22) n.d. Dean, Francis (124) n.d. Dean, Joseph B. (43) n.d. Dye, Daniel T. (189) n.d. Dyhr, Peter N. (78) n.d. Edgerton, Lindley H. (36) n.d. Ellyson Family: Robert M, William B. Franklin B. (41) n.d. Fawcett, Amos (33) n.d. Fawcett, Joseph (33) n.d. Fawcett, Thomas (32) n.d. Fawcett, Willis T. (74) n.d. Gilbert, Joshua (82) n.d. Gooden, James (110) n.d. Hadley, Edwin J. (84) n.d. Hall, G. Dillwyn (440) n.d. Hall, William G. (46) n.d. Halloway, Lindley (30) n.d. Hansen, Lars (126) n.d. Hawley family (119) n.d. Heald, Cyrus (57) n.d. Heald, Ezra (58) n.d. Heald, Henry (35) n.d. Heald, Lewis (77) n.d. Heald, Lindley (19) n.d. Henderson, David (171) n.d. Henderson, Joseph (167) n.d. Hirsh. Willson and his family(1) n.d. Hirst, John (76) n.d. Holloway, Jophtha (49) n.d. Horner, Zimri (107) n.d. Jenkins, Thomas (188) n.d. Kirby, Isaac (77) n.d. Knudson, Eric (121) n.d. Larsen, Nicholas (38) n.d. Leech, John (32) n.d. Macy, Samuel (185) n.d. McConnell, Emmet (37) n.d. McCrew, Simon O. (11) n.d. Meltvedt, Knud (185) n.d. Meyers, Joseph E. (86) n.d. Michener, John E. (12) n.d. Michiner, William F.(15) n.d. Mills, Milton (107) n.d. Moffitt, Clarkson (112) n.d. Moffitt, William (111) n.d. Mott, George W. (68) n.d. Negus, Jesse (119) n.d. Newlin family (108) n.d. Norland, Sam (166) n.d. Oleson, Anna (181) n.d. Oliphant, Samuel (54) n.d. Oliphant, William (117) n.d. Paullina Monthly Meeting (140) n.d. Peckham, Daniel (164) n.d. Peckham, David (155) n.d. Penrose, Clarkson T (116) n.d. Penrose, William W. (186) n.d. Rich, Franklin B. (192) n.d. Rockwell, Franklin (161) n.d. Rockwell, Hubert (156) n.d. Rockwell, Lewis L. (170) n.d. Rockwell, Lorenzo (154) n.d. Salem Quarterly Meeting (113) n.d. Savanger Monthly Meeting and Norwegian Friends (132) n.d. Sawyer, Ole (135) n.d. Sharpless, Nathan (56) n.d. Sidwell, Wilson I. (59) n.d. Smeal family (141) n.d. Smith, Benjamin H. (54) n.d. Smith, Joel n.d. Southwich, Jonathan (188) n.d. Spencer, Ellwood (75) n.d. Spencer, William T. (75) n.d. Standing family (107) n.d. Stanley, Elihu (110) n.d. Test, William (128) n.d. Thomas, Peason (8) n.d. Thomas, Peter, (9) n.d. Thomas, Samuel S. (5) n.d. Thomas, William (6) n.d. Thompson, Rezin (120) n.d. Tjossem, Ole P. (155) n.d. Tow, Andrew (138) n.d. Tow, Omen (166) n.d. Walson, Eliza (121) n.d. West Branch Meeting (114) n.d. Wick, Bartineu (139) n.d. William, John (192) n.d. William, Joseph (56) n.d. Worrall, Isaac (5) n.d. Worrall, Joseph G. and family (40) n.d. Miscellaneous Essays and Writings 1879-1937, n.d.

Essay on Balance of Silence 1930 1 folder 21 Essay on Conservative Friends and Controversies of the Day n.d. 1 folder 21 Essay on Plain Dress n.d. 1 folder 21

Essay on why Conservative Friends of Iowa and Hickory Grove should not unite n.d. 1 folder 21 Misc. Thoughts on Plain Dress and Iowa Friends n.d. 1 folder 21 Misc. Thoughts on plain dress, Albert Emmons, and First Day School n.d. 1 folder 21 Short Essays on Various Subjects n.d. 1 folder 21 Draft of letter addressed to Benjamin Brown on Ohio Yearly Meeting 1909 1 folder 21 Essay on the origins of Intemperance n.d. 1 folder 21 Poem written for the 50th Wedding Anniversary of Horace and Mary Foster n.d. 1 folder 21 Six small diaries 1879-1937 1 folder 21 Comment on the Epistle of 1697 n.1931 1 folder 41 Book of Essays n.d. 1 folder 21

Donor's note: Maybe written 1927-1938.

 Joseph Meyers: Correspondence Sent 1911-1937 Benjamin Brown 1912 1 folder 21 Elisha Bye 1911-12 1 folder 21 Henry H. Perry 1933-37 1 folder 21 Frederick Sainte 1930 1 folder 21 "Dear Ones at Home" from the Yearly meeting 1906, 1924-25 1 folder 21 Foster Family 1926 1 folder 21 "Dear Children" from Barnesville and Warner genealogy 1926 1 folder 21 Meyers Children 1926 1 folder 21 Meyers Children 1927 1 folder 21 Meyers Children on the Ohio Farm 1930 1 folder 21 Meyers Children, written from Rhode Island 1931 1 folder 21 Foster Family in Rhode Island 1932 1 folder 21 Ambrose and Bernice Meyers 1932 1 folder 21 Jane and Henry Foster 1933 1 folder 21 Bernice Meyers 1933 1 folder 21 Bernice Meyers 1934 1 folder 21 Bernice Meyers 1935 1 folder 22 Bernice Meyers 1936 1 folder 22 Joseph Meyers: Correspondence Received 1877-1964 Reading books and school notes n.d. 1 folder 22 West Chester School 1879-89 1 folder 22 Westtown Boarding School 1879-1919 1 folder 22 Teaching Book n.d. 1 folder 22 Three Account Books 1893-1932 1 folder 22 Miscellaneous Account Books 1917-1936 1 folder 22 Plain Dress n.d. 1 folder 22

Clippings and ads for ready-made plain suits

 Calling cards, etc. 1880-1888, n.d. 1 folder 22 Estate Papers 1932-1947 1 folder 22 Mortgage Deeds - Meyers Family 1924-37 1 folder 22 Account Book 1901-05 1 folder 22 Account Book 1886-1907 1 folder 22

Also belonged to William D. Meyers

 Memorial for Harold W. Meyers 1977 1 folder 22 Series 2b: William D. and Mary Warner Meyers and the Warner Family, 1847-1982

William D and Mary Warner Meyers were the parents of Joseph E. Meyers. William D. Meyers (b. about 1826) was born Wilhelm Dietrich Meier in Germany. He came to the U.S. in 1836 and joined the Society of Friends in 1854 at Philadelphia Monthly Meeting, Southern District. He married Mary Roberts Warner (1828-1873) from Pennsdale, Pa., a member of Muncy Monthly Meeting, in 1855. William was disowned in 1859, and the marriage was not a happy one. After Mary's death in 1873, their only surviving child, Joseph Elkinton Meyers was placed in Westtown School, under the care of his uncle. Charles L. Warner.

Charles L Warner (1822-1898) was born in Muncy, the son of Samuel and Abigail (Roberts) Warner. He was in the provision business in Philadelphia and later was a map publisher and building contractor. He married Jane Sharpless, daughter of John and Ruth (Martin) Sharpless, in 1856. Charles L. and Jane Warner had no children, and they helped educate Joseph Meyers and in his various careers endeavors.

William D. Meyers Biographical account, draft notice, property papers 1855-1865 1 folder 23

Biographical account was written by Joseph E. Meyers, and is undated. It is a typescript; the original is in Joseph Meyers' Reminiscences.

 Marriage certificate, Philadelphia MM, Southern District 1855 1 folder OE Accounts of William D. Meyers 1857-78 1 folder 40 ALS to Mary Warner Meyers from her brother Benjamin Warner 1864 1 folder 23 Mary Warner Meyers' Autograph Book 1851 1 folder 23 Mary Warner Meyers' Commonplace Book 1847-1848 1 folder 23 Family tree Warner family n.d. 1 folder 23 Biographies n.d. 1 folder 23

Photocopy of Joseph Meyers' biography of Charles Warner, Biographical Sketch of Charles Warner, typescript of Joseph Meyers' biography of Samuel Warner, his grandfather (1794-1870).

 Charles L. and Jane Warner Documents 1857 1 folder 23 Miscellaneous day books, notebooks, typed account of a trip from Philadelphia to Chicago 1858-91 1 folder 23 Miscellaneous Financial Papers 1887-1902 1 folder 23 Letters to Joseph and Mary Meyers 1884-1919 1 folder 23

25 letters to Joseph and Mary Meyers, selected by John Foster as a sample of the correspondence; the entire collection of letters was summarized by Thyra Jane Foster in 1963 calendar book.

 Charles Warner to Joseph Meyers 1877-1885 1 folder 23 Jane Warner to Joseph Meyers 1898-1919 1 folder 23 Jane Warner to Bernice Meyers 1904 1 folder 23 Will of Charles Warner 1889 1 folder 23 Distribution Schedule 1907-1982 1 folder 23 Correspondence regarding the estate of Charles Warner 1907-08, 1921-22 1 folder 23 Correspondence from Girard Trust regarding estate of Charles Warner 1907-1929 1 folder 23 Second and Third Distribution Schedules 1901-52 1 folder 23 Tooled Billfold that belonged to Charles Warner n.d. 1 folder 23 Series 2c: Mary Worthington Meyers Papers, 1862-1925

Mary Worthington Meyers (1862-1925), the wife of Joseph E. Meyers, was the daughter of Jacob and Lydia Hollingsworth Worthington of Pennsville, Ohio. Like her husband, she had a difficult childhood. She was educated in Friends Boarding School, Barnesville, Ohio, and worked as a companion/housekeeper before her marriage to Joseph Meyers in 1894 under the care of Stillwater Monthly Meeting, Ohio. The couple first settled in West Branch, Iowa, and then moved to a less successful farm in Barnesville, Ohio, so as to be close to the Friends School. Mary and Joseph had four children, Charles Lionel (1900-1984), Ambrose (1904-1986), Thyra Jane (1898-1984), and Bernice Lydia (1896-1946).

 Character sketch of Mary W. Meyers by her daughter 1919 1 folder 24 Journal 1890-1892 1 folder 24

MS and typescript. Describes the final months of her brother's life. Zenas Worthington died 2mo, 14, 1892.

 Two small bound diaries and albums: A visit to Charles Jones' home with her mother 1880, n.d. 1 folder 24 Autograph albums, Olney, OH 1876-1887 1 folder 24 Three letters and fragment from Mary W. Meyers to her children 1920-24 1 folder 24 Family letters received 1882-1891 1 folder 24 Estate papers, Jacob Worthington, Mary W. Meyers' father 1862 1 folder 24 Guardianship account of Mary Worthington 1880 1 folder 24 Financial papers 1890-1920 1 folder 24 Marriage invitation, etc. 1894 1 folder 24 Papers concerning her illness in 1924 and death in 1925 1924-25 1 folder 24 Worthington family miscellaneous, including some letters 1862-98 1 folder 24 Memorabilia 1878-1906 1 folder 24 Mary Worthington Meyers' receipts 1886-95 1 folder 24 Series 2d: Bernice Meyers (1896-1946), sister of Thyra Jane Foster, 1904-47

Bernice was the eldest child of Joseph and Mary Meyers and endured a sickly childhood and ill health throughout her life. She studied at Friends Boarding School (Barnesville, Ohio), the Westtown School, and graduated from Earlham College. As the unmarried daughter, she returned home to care for her ailing mother and then to keep house for her father and brothers after her mother's death in 1925. Charles Lionel Meyers left the farm in 1928 to take a job in Cleveland. He never married. The farm was sold in 1931, and Bernice tried various employments and careers. Her youngest brother, Ambrose, was married in 1939 to Hazel Williams. Bernice corresponded often with her sister, Thyra Jane. Jane's correspondence with Bernice is stored in Series 1, Henry and Thyra Jane Foster Papers.

 Bernice Meyers Writings, Memoirs 1896-1925 & n.d. Short journal concerning Bernice, by her mother 1896-98 1 folder 25 A Child There Was n.d. 1 folder 25

By Bernice Meyers. Compiled and edited by Thyra Jane Foster, with a biographical sketch of Bernice.

 A Raven of the Rocks 1925 1 folder 25

Novel written by Bernice Meyers, typed and bound by her sister, Thyra Jane Foster

 Three notebooks 1913-45 1 folder 25

Outline for her memoirs, notes for "Heritage" and "Thoughts".

 Bernice Meyers Correspondence 1904-1946 Early letters, 1904, and to Aunt Jane Warner, 1914 1904, 1914 1 folder 25 ALSs to Thyra Jane and the Foster family in Rhode Island 1923-25 1 folder 25

31 ALSs. Includes letter about her losing her job in NYC.

 46 ALSs to Jane and family 1926 1 folder 25 38 ALSs to Jane and family 1927 1 folder 25 49 ALSs to Jane and family 1928 1 folder 25 54 ALSs to Jane and family 1929 1 folder 25 52 ALSs to Jane and family 1930 1 folder 25

Jane visits the farm with her three children, and Bernice leaves the farm.

 47 ALSs to Jane and family 1931 1 folder 25 47 ALSs to Jane and family 1932 1 folder 25 46 ALSs to Jane and family 1933 1 folder 25 46 ALSs to Jane and family 1934 1 folder 25 36 ALSs to Jane and family 1935 1 folder 26 11 ALSs to Jane and family 1936 1 folder 26

Bernice moves to Rhode Island

 34 ALSs to Jane and family 1937-38 1 folder 26

Bernice moved to Philadelphia area

 23 ALSs to Jane and family 1939 1 folder 26

Ambrose Meyers married

 36 ALSs to Jane and family 1940 1 folder 26 26 ALSs to Jane and family 1941 1 folder 26 28 ALSs to Jane and family 1942 1 folder 26 31 ALSs to Jane and family 1943 1 folder 26 31 ALSs to Jane and family 1944 1 folder 26 17 ALSs to Jane and family 1945 1 folder 26 22 ALSs to Jane and family 1946 1 folder 26 Bernice to Joseph E. Meyers, birthday cards n.d. 1 folder 26 L.M. Hollingsworth (cousin) to Bernice 1934-41 1 folder 26

2 TLs and his published poetry booklet, "The Opened Tomb."

 Correspondence received from friends and relatives 1935-46 1 folder 26 Correspondence received from cousins, Mary and Edith Love, and others, to Bernice 1936-46 1 folder 26 Correspondence with Cousin Elizabeth 1938-39 1 folder 26 Letters and cards from friends and relatives to Bernice 1945-46 1 folder 26 Bernice Meyers Education: Report Cards and miscellaneous papers 1904-1939 Friends Primary School, Iowa 1904 1 folder 27 Olney Friends Boarding School, Barnesville, OH 1911-23 1 folder 27

6 composition books and notebook, girls' dress code

 Report cards, Friends Boarding School 1912-14 1 folder 27 "List of Books Read" 1912-23 1 folder 27 Columbia College of Expression 1918-19 1 folder 27 Earlham College, Women's Athletic Association Field Day Program 1919-20 1 folder 27 Diplomas 1914-39 1 folder OE

Friends Boarding School, Westtown School, Earlham College, Lewis Hotel Schools, YWCA.

 Bernice Meyers Miscellaneous 1915-1947 1 folder 24 Birth certificate and receipt for absentee ballot 1920 1 folder 27 Two notebooks of accounts 1915-47 1 folder 27 Address book n.d. 1 folder 27 Job concerns 1940-42 1 folder 27

Includes art work samples and professional vocational analysis.

 Papers concerning her illness and death 1940-47 1 folder 27 Series 2e: [Charles] Lionel Meyers (1900-1984), brother of Thyra Jane Foster, 1908-1985. Charles Lionel Meyers Biographical 1918-84 Biographical 1969-84 1 folder 28

Includes a biographical sketch by John H. Foster

 ALS, Lionel to Jane Foster 1936-45, n.d. 1 folder 28 3 ALSs received by Lionel 1918-25 1 folder 28 Correspondence related to Lionel's condition 1981-84 1 folder 28 Charles Lionel Meyers Education 1916-24, n.d. Olney Friends Boarding School, Barnesville 1916-18 1 folder 28

Class notes from senior year and diploma; report card.

 Olney Friends Boarding School Diploma 1918 1 folder 28 Westtown School diploma, cashed checks 1919-24 1 folder 28 Miscellaneous school papers n.d. 1 folder 28 Charles Lionel Meyers Miscellaneous 1908-1985 1 folder Papers concerning Cleveland property and possible companies with which he was employed 1945-66 1 folder 28 Inventory of records and address book, ID cards 1908, n.d. 1 folder 28 Papers concerning Lionel's death and estate 1981-85 1 folder 28 West Branch State Bank Account Book 1911-12 1 folder 28 Series 3a: Horace B. and Mary Sharpless Cope Foster Family Papers, 1839-1980

Horace Bragg Foster (1850-1933) was born on the Foster family homestead in Centreville, R.I., on July 1, 1850. He was the son of John and Paulina (Kenyon) Foster. He married Mary Sharpless Cope on March 26, 1882, in Hatboro, PA. Just four days after their wedding, the family relocated to the Foster family homestead where they remained for the rest of their lives. Horace worked as a farmer on the land until 1925, when he passed the business onto his sons. Horace and Mary C. had six children, Charles (1887-1955) who married Hilda Steckle; Elizabeth (1888-1980); Anna (1890-1958); Edward (1891-1959) who married Jessica Green; Henry Cope (1895-1987) who married Thyra Jane Meyers; and William Oliver (1897-1980) who married Millicent Steer. The family had a rather insular lifestyle, worshipping as a unit. Horace B. Foster died in 1933, and Mary died in 1936.

The Kickemuit Literary Society was organized 1924-1928 by Horace and Mary Foster and the others in their immediate unit to provide a social activity for the family.

Mary S. Cope (1854-1936) was born in Jenkintown, Pa., on April 24, 1854, the daughter of Caleb B. and Hannah (Sharpless) Cope. Caleb B. Cope married Hannah Sharpless on New Garden Monthly Meeting in 1842. Hannah was the daughter of Joshua Sharpless (1779-1860), a Philadelphia carpenter, and Philadelphia Drinker (1779-1875). Philadelphia was the daughter of Joseph and Hannah Hunt Drinker, and Joshua Sharpless was the son of Joshua Sharpless (1746/7-1826) and Edith Yarnall Sharpless (1743-1787). Both Joshua and Edith Sharpless were Quaker ministers. Joshua Sharpless made a visit to the Indians in New York State in 1798, and he was the first headmaster of the Westtown School, Pa.

Series 3 includes the papers of Horace B. and Mary Cope Foster and their families, including the siblings of Horace B. Foster and the Sharpless and Drinker ancestors of Mary Sharpless Cope.

Miscellaneous biographical documents 1882-1929, n.d. Miscellaneous documents related to Horace B. and Mary C. 1883-1929 1 folder 29

Includes birth certificate and 50th Anniversary poem

 Marriage certificate, Philadelphia Monthly Meeting 1882 1 folder OE Horace B. and Mary Cope Foster Correspondence 1873-1936

See also Miscellaneous Correspondence File in the John Hoxie and Mary E. Simkinson Folder

 Horace B.'s miscellaneous correspondence 1873-1933 1 folder 29 Mary C.'s correspondence with other Cope relatives 1874-1943 1 folder 29 Wedding invitations 1882-1934 1 folder 29 Invitations 1897-1924 1 folder 29 Graduation invitations 1906-1916 1 folder 29 Condolence letters for death of Horace B. Foster 1933-1934 1 folder 29 Condolence letters for death of Mary C. Foster 1936 1 folder 29 Horace B. and Mary Cope Foster Education 1856-1916 Report of the School Committee of Warwick 1856 1 folder 29 Mary C.'s school notebooks 1870-71 1 folder 29 Horace B. and Mary C.'s schoolwork and lesson plans 1916, n.d. 1 folder 29 Horace B. and Mary Cope Foster Writings 1870-1933 Mary C.'s copybook 1870-75 1 folder 29 Miscellaneous writings by both Horace and Mary C. 1879-1933 1 folder 29 Mary C.'s copybook 1883-1931 1 folder 30 Mary C.'s notebook/diary 1906-1924 1 folder 30 Kickemuit Literary Society and Chronicle 1924-25 1 folder 40 Minutes, Kickemuit Literary Society 4 folders, photocopies 30 Horace B. and Mary Cope Foster Financial 1882-1958 Horace B. and Mary Cope Foster financial 1882-1892 3 folders 30 Horace B. Foster's account book 1887-1911 1 folder 40 Sale of real estate by heirs of Mary Ann Shove 1888 1 folder 31 Estates and wills 1889-1958 1 folder 31 Miscellaneous financial documents 1909-1946 1 folder 31

Miscellaneous financial documents related to Horace B. and Mary C., including documents related to their estates

 Horace B. Foster's account book 1911-31 1 folder 41 Horace B.'s account books 1913-30 1 folder 31 Horace's account book/diary n.d. 1 folder 31 Horace B. and Mary Cope Foster Memorabilia 1939-1934, n.d. Keepsakes removed from Mary C.'s Bible 1839-1921, n.d. 1 folder 31 Miscellaneous memorabilia 1854-92, n.d. 1 folder 31 Keepsakes from Mary C.'s letter box 1863-1914 1 folder 31 Artifacts removed from letter box n.d. 1 folder Relics Deaths and Births list from Horace and Mary C.'s Bible 1882-1980 1 folder 31 Miscellaneous newspaper clippings 1933-34 1 folder 31 Map to the J.S. Cope farm and Caleb C. Cope home n.d. 1 folder 31 Fabric swatches from family wedding dresses n.d. 1 folder 31

Removed from Mary C.'s Bible and letter box.

 Horace B. Foster's brass address stencil n.d. 1 folder 31 The Slave's Friend Book n.d. 1 folder 31

Belonged to Horace Foster.

 Framed flowers (heather bells) 1903 1 folder 31

Gathered 1903, inscribed in memory of Horace and Mary C. Foster in 1908.

 Abby L. Chace's notebook n.d. 1 folder 41 Series 3b: Joshua and Edith Yarnall Sharpless Family Papers, 1765-1963

Mary S. Cope (1854-1936), who married Horace B. Foster in 1882, was born in Jenkintown, Pa., on April 24, 1854, the daughter of Caleb B. and Hannah (Sharpless) Cope. Caleb B. Cope married Hannah Sharpless on New Garden Monthly Meeting in 1842. Hannah was the daughter of Joshua Sharpless (1779-1860), a Philadelphia carpenter, and Philadelphia Drinker (1779-1875). Philadelphia was the daughter of Joseph and Hannah Hunt Drinker, and Joshua Sharpless was the son of Joshua Sharpless (1746/7-1826) and Edith Yarnall Sharpless (1743-1787). Both Joshua and Edith Sharpless were Quaker ministers. Joshua Sharpless made a visit to the Indians in New York State in 1798, and he was the first headmaster of the Westtown School, Pa.

 Joshua Sharpless' will 1861-1862 2 copies 41 Rachel Sharpless' copybook 1786 1 folder 41 MS journal of Joshua Sharpless 1798 1 folder 31

Incomplete journal of Joshua Sharpless, describing a trip to the Indians of New York State. With typed copy.

 Typed transcript of Joshua Sharpless journal ca. 1978 1 folder 31

Describes trip to the Indians of Western New York. Original in FHL.

 Typescript of Joshua Sharpless Sr.'s trip to the Indians of Western New York 1963 1 folder 31 MS account of the ministry of Edith Sharpless by Joshua Sharpless 1788 1 folder 31 MS account of plainness which belonged to Edith Sharpless 1765 1 folder 31 Edith Sharpless ALS with an account of her ministry 1779 1 folder 31 Fragments on Quaker ministers n.d. 1 folder 31 MS account of life of Rachel Coope n.d. 1 folder 31

Possibly by her brother, Joshua Sharpless.

Rachel Coope, daughter of Joshua and Edith Yarnall Sharpless, traveled with her husband to New York State to minister to the Indians, 1805-1807.

 Correspondence with Joshua Sharpless, Jr. 1794-1852 1 folder 31 Mathematics student book n.d. 1 folder 31 Joseph Drinker's Plea for the Admission of Colored People to the Society of Friends 1947 1 folder 32

Originally printed in 1795. Reprint from Journal of Negro History.

 2 ALSs, Joseph Drinker to his wife, Hannah 1794 1 folder 32 ALS from George Drinker to his sister Mary James 1811 1 folder 32 MS Memorial to Hannah Drinker 1825 1 folder 32 Series 3c: Hannah Sharpless Cope and Caleb Cope Family, 1819-1932

Caleb B. Cope married Hannah Sharpless on New Garden Monthly Meeting (Pa.) in 1842. Hannah was the daughter of Joshua Sharpless (1779-1860), a Philadelphia carpenter, and Philadelphia Drinker (1779-1875). Philadelphia was the daughter of Joseph and Hannah Hunt Drinker.

A Short Account of Elizabeth Cope n.d. 1 folder 32 Marriage Certificate of Caleb and Hannah Sharpless Cope 1842 1 folder OE Hannah S. Cope's MS account of life and death of Caleb B. Cope 1879 2 copies 32 Joshua S. Cope's will 1932 1 folder 32

Joshua S. Cope was the son of Caleb B. and Hannah S. Cope.

 Hannah's correspondence 1845-1892 1 folder 32 Joshua S. Cope's correspondence 1857-1869 1 folder 32 Caleb's correspondence with Hannah from England 1857-1876 1 folder 32 Letter from Caleb to his sister Mary 1863 1 folder 32 Hannah Sharpless Cope's Westtown notebook 1825 1 folder 32 Hannah Sharpless commonplace books (2) n.d. 1 folder 32

Includes a list of students, teachers at Westtown School when Philip and Rachel Price were superintendents (1818-1830).

Hannah Sharpless journal 1850-1894 1 folder 32 Caleb Cope's Journal trip to England 1876 1 folder 32

Includes typed transcript

 Hannah's short diary 1881-1882 1 folder 32 Hannah Sharpless's receipt 1842 1 folder 32 Hannah's account book with her mother 1869 1 folder 32 Caleb's traveling map of Ireland 1876 1 folder 32 Series 3d: Siblings of Horace B. Foster Papers, 1844-1974

John Hoxie Foster (1839-1919), the brother of Horace, was born on the Foster family homestead. His wife, Mary E. Simkinson Foster (1853-1934) was born near Cockermouth, England, on December 19, 1853. She was the daughter of John and Elizabeth (Holmes) Simkinson. She came to America in 1872 and lived in New York State and Providence, R.I.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) was the sister of Horace B. Foster. She married Thomas Leigh.

Edward Foster was the brother of Horace B. Foster. He married first Emma Walmsley and second, Martha Otis.

For additional correspondence concerning this group, see also Series 4 Foster Family Papers which includes letters sorted and transcribed by John H. Foster from friends and family members 1860s and 1870s, most sent to John Hoxie Foster and his mother, Paulina

 Miscellaneous biographical documents 1875-1919 1 folder 32 Marriage certificate, Nantucket Monthly Meeting 1887 1 folder OE Miscellaneous correspondence 1862-1894 1 folder 32

Most are directed to John Hoxie Foster

 Miscellaneous correspondence 1872-1933 1 folder 32

Includes typed lists of condolence letters to Horace B., Mary C., and Mary E.

Invitation to Lizzie's wedding 1876 1 folder 32 Correspondence with Mary E. Simkinson Foster 1882-1883 1 folder 32 Card received by Mary E. Simkinson Foster ca. 1907 1 folder 32 Condolence Letters on the death of Mary E. Simkinson Foster 1934-1935 1 folder 32 Diary of Foster Family Farm kept by John H. Foster 1865 1 folder 33

Transcript of diary also included.

 John Hoxie's Diary 1866 1 folder 33 John H.'s Notebook n.d. 1 folder 33 Penmanship books and Certificates of Merit (Folder 1/2) 1844-1858 2 folders 33 Poems by John Hoxie Foster n.d. 1 folder 33 Miscellaneous financial documents 1880-1936 1 folder 33 Providence and Worcester Railroad documents 1881 1 folder 33 John H. Foster's account book 1887-1895 1 folder 44 Newspaper clippings related to the Fosters 1933-1974 1 folder 33 Book Precepts of Jesus n.d. 1 folder 33 Elizabeth Foster Leigh and Thomas Leigh miscellaneous correspondence 1865-1885 1 folder 33 Edward H. Foster 1872-1913 Miscellaneous correspondence 1872-1875 1 folder 33 Visit at Newport Letter from Bragg 1876 1 folder 33 Miscellaneous correspondence 1876-1878 1 folder 33 Miscellaneous correspondence 1882-1913 1 folder 33 Poem for Edward and Martha's Wedding n.d. 1 folder 33 Series 4: Foster Family Papers, 1764-1900

John Foster (1802-1880) was the father of Horace B. Foster. He married Paulina Kenyon (1814-1882) in 1837. She was the daughter of John and Ruth Collins Kenyon. John Foster was the son of Ethan and Temperance Bragg Foster. Paulina served as a community nurse.

Billfold, estate deed 1764-1839 1 folder 34 Deeds and documents belonging to Ethan Foster and John Kenyon 1776-1849 1 folder 42 Pamphlets belonging to Ethan Foster 1816-1870 1 folder 34 Ethan Foster ciphering book and school book 1798, 1817 1 folder 42 Marriage certificate Ethan Foster and Temperance Bragg 1801 1 folder 34 Marriage certificate Ethan Foster and Mary Wilbur, Coventry MM, R.I., 1824 1 folder OE Letter from Aunt Jane Bragg. 1830 1 folder 34

ALS

 A Reply to Editorial Remarks in The Friend 1856 1 folder 34 The Conscript Quakers 1863 1 folder 34 John and Paulina Kenyon Foster deeds, contracts, ietters, etc. 1833-1882 1 folder 42 John Foster and Paulina Kenyon marriage certificate, S. Kingstown, CT. 1824 1 folder OE Typed transcripts by John Henry Foster, Foster family correspondence 1860-1870's 1 folder 45

Also includes two floppy disks.

 Notes from reading letters to John H. Foster while he traveled in the West March to August, 1868 1 folder 45 Letters 1857-1968 & n.d. 1-10, John and Paulina Foster 1 folder 45 11-20, John and Paulina Foster 1 folder 45 21-30, to John Hoxie Foster 1860s 1 folder 45 31-40, to John Hoxie Foster 1865-1866 1 folder 45 41-50. to John Hoxie Foster 1865-1868 1 folder 45 51-60, to John Hoxie Foster 1868 1 folder 45 61-70, to John Foster and John Hoxie Foster 1860, 1868 1 folder 45 71-80, from George Kenyon, John Hoxie Foster, etc. 1858-1859` 1 folder 45

Some concern Providence Boarding School

 81-90, to John Hoxie Foster 1857-1867 1 folder 45 91-100, to John Hoxie Foster and others 1865-1881 1 folder 45 Empty Envelopes, 101-144 ca. 1866-1900 1 folder 45

Most to John Hoxie Foster or siblings, with handwritten listing of postage.

 Letters, not numbered, John H. Foster correspondence 1858-1871 1 folder 45 Postcards, 145-176, to John Hoxie Foster and others; letter 177 1880-1883 1 folder 45 Photocopies of Letters to Paulina from Sarah Paddock 1873-1881 1 folder 34 Correspondence with H.C. Hassey 1871-1882 1 folder 34 Letters to Paulina from Sarah Paddock 1880, n.d. 1 folder 34 John and Paulina Kenyon Foster notebooks and storybooks 1830-1836 1 folder 35 John Foster's Butter Account Book 1844-1855 1 folder 35 Paulina's Knitting Machine Account Book 1862-1872 1 folder 35 Estate Book 1880-1882 1 folder 42 Copybooks and miscellaneous poems 1829-1859 1 folder 35 Medical/Practical Medicine Book 1870 1 folder 35 Medical books n.d. 1 folder 35 Series 5: John H. and Georgana Foster Family, 1938-2003

John Henry Foster (b. 1926) is the eldest child of Henry and Thyra Jane Foster. He graduated from the Westtown School and then Cornell University, with graduate degrees from Purdue and Cornell Universities. He worked in an AFSC work camp in Mexico in 1948 and as the agriculturalist in Friends Rural Center, Rasulia, India, 1951-1954 where he was the first American involved in a largely English Quaker program. In 1954, he married Georgana Falb. Also in 1954, he joined the faculty of University of Massachusetts at Amherst, teaching Agricultural Economics and Third World Rural Development. In 1964-1965 he returned to India as a Fulbright lecturer in agricultural economics as Allahabad Institute. In addition to organizing the family papers, John H. Foster transcribed many of the writings and added interpretation. His comments are filed together with the related material.

 John H. Foster's Inventories of papers 1997, 2003 1 folder 46

As deposited at Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Notes on Foster family burial ground 1997 1 folder 46 John H. Foster draft papers and related material 1945-1952 1 folder 46 Correspondence from Chris Cadbury ca. 1942 1 folder 46

Photocopies and typescripts.

Chris Cadbury was the son of Henry Cadbury.

 Correspondence from Karl Fezer 1950-1951 1 folder 46 Correspondence from Tim Nicholson 1929-1944 1 folder 46 Correspondence from Warren Haines 1944-1946 1 folder 46

Warren Haines was John Henry Foster's Westtown roommate. He was killed in 1946.

 Correspondence from Bill Young 1944-1949 1 folder 46 Correspondence from Tom Snipes 1945-1951 1 folder 46 Correspondence from Ted Rhoads 1944-1946 1 folder 46 Correspondence from Ralph Cook 1948-1949 1 folder 46

Ralph Cook was a C.O. imprisoned in Portland, Me, at the time.

 Young Friends at Cornell and Purdue Universities, AFSC clothing drive 1948-1951 1 folder 46 AFSC Service Committee, Mexico 1948 1 folder 46 Miscellaneous correspondence 1838-1950 1 folder 46 Correspondence from Peter Mullen, India 1949-1950 1 folder 47 Correspondence, etc., concerning planned India project 1951 1 folder 47 AFSC India reports, etc., John Foster notes on introductory lectures, etc. ca. 1951 1 folder 47 Rasulia program, activities 1951-1954 1 folder 47 Financial, India 1951-1954 1 folder 47 Reports on India projects 1951-1965 1 folder 47 Data on Rasulia agriculture and extension publications n.d. 1 folder 47 Miscellaneous India reports 1952-1954 carbons 47 Published Rasulia papers 1952-1954 1 folder 47 Published reports on Friends Rural Center 1981-1987 1 folder 47 Correspondence received while in India n.d. 1 folder 47 Correspondence, etc., concerning trip home 1954 1 folder 47 Correspondence, trip home 1954 1 folder 47 Correspondence, etc., with Partap Aggarwal 1954-1989 1 folder 47

Partap Aggarwal was the director of Friends Rural Center, India, and member of Hamilton MM (NY).

 Miscellaneous business correspondence in India 1 folder 48 Miscellaneous correspondence, etc. 1 folder 48 Correspondence from Gurdial Mallik 1953-1970 1 folder 48

Gurdial Mallik was a teacher at Rabindranath (Tagore's college). Also a convinced Quaker, resident at Pendle Hill, 1962-63.

 Correspondence from Alice Barnes, India 1955-1968 1 folder 48 Correspondence from Quakers overseas 1956-1990 1 folder 48

Correspondence regarding shared Indian experience, including correspondence with Donald and Erica Groom.

 Correspondence, Ratcliff and Gayle Addison and other 1 folder 48 Correspondence, William and Ruth Rowley 1956-1991 1 folder 48 Correspondence from AFSC and other institutions 1952-1954, 1996 1 folder 48 Letter from India (#11) 1953 1 folder 48 Handwritten journal of Bombay to New York return travel 1954 small loose leaf binder 48 Writings, talks, reports concerning India by John H. Foster 1954-1972 1 folder 48 Essays on John H. Foster's trips to Iraq and Damascus typed 48 Published material on Friends Center 1981- 1 folder 48 Miscellaneous clippings 1 folder 48 Series 6: The Foster Family Farm, 1846-2001 History 1925-2001, n.d. Description of Hillside Farm. . . by John Foster 2001 1 folder 35

Based on family letters written 1860s

See Foster Family, Series 4 for correspondence.

 Articles of Partnership between Henry C. and William O. Foster 1925 1 folder 35 Founding Hillside Farm Skit 1938 1 folder 35 Farm diagrams and history by John Foster 1992 1 folder 35 Notes on the History of the Hillside Farm by Thyra Jane Foster n.d. 1 folder 35 Real Estate / Property 1846-1980 1 folder Real Estate Deeds 1846-1979 1 folder 35 Milkhouse Building 1904-1921 1 folder 35 Real Estate Documents 1932-1969 1 folder 35 Plans for Rebuilding Road 1959 1 folder 35

Real Estate Appraisal 1960 1 folder 35 Sale of Farm Property to the Golf Course 1963 1 folder 35 Thyra Jane and Henry's Distribution of Property 1980 1 folder 35 Account Books 1870-1945 General Account Books and notes 1870-1871 1 folder 35 General Account Books 1875-1880 1 folder 42 General Account Books 1880-1887 1 folder 42 General Account Books 1885 1 folder 35 General Account Books – transcribed 1890 1 folder 35 General Account Books 1914-1919 1 folder 35 General Account Books 1914-1919 1 folder 35 Sweet Corn Account Book 1916 1 folder 35 General Account Books – transcribed 1920 1 folder 35 West End 1937-1945 1 folder 36 Notes on Account Books n.d. 1 folder 36 Inventories and Appraisals 1881-1979 General Inventory 1881-1889 1 folder 42 Inventory 1881-1885 1 folder 36 General Inventory 1928-1929 1 folder 36 Inventory of Significant Items 1969 1 folder 36 Inventory of Household Furnishings in the West End 1975 1 folder 36 Appraisal 1975 1 folder 36 General Inventory 1979 1 folder 36 Appraisal of Aunt Elizabeth's belongings 1979 1 folder 36 General Inventory n.d. 1 folder 36 Receipts / Bills 1838-1939 Miscellaneous Receipts 1838-1939 1 folder 36 Construction Bills 1859-1883 1 folder 36 Farm Receipts 1869-1885 2 folders 36 Household Receipts 1871-1887 1 folder 36 Hired Farm Labor 1872-1885 1 folder 36 Construction Receipts 1887-1932 1 folder 36 Rogers and Hubbard Company Contract and Receipts 1914-1932 1 folder 36 Auto Expenses 1919-1920 1 folder 36 Roadside Stand Tally Sheets n.d. 1 folder 36 Correspondence 1977-1980, n.d. Miscellaneous 1977-1980, n.d. 1 folder 36 Miscellaneous 1912-1979 Overnight Guests 1912-1944 1 folder 36 Newspaper Clippings 1944-1979 1 folder 36 Items Given to the South County Museum 1976 1 folder 36 Farm Auction 1978-1979 1 folder 36 Quaker Items Given to the Newport Historical Society 1979 1 folder 36 Miscellaneous Mementos n.d. 1 folder 36 Series 7: Miscellaneous, 1691-1980, n.d. Vision of Joseph Hoag, Extracts from Quaker speeches and letters n.d. 1 folder 36 Persons visited in Nantucket 1860 1 folder 36

Donor speculated that this is a list of Gurneyites who were visited by a committee from the Otisites.

 Miscellaneous Quaker Documents 1691-1866 1 folder 36

Accounts of Important Figures, Meeting Minutes

 Letter from H.J. 1787 1 folder 36 Isaac Robert's Deeds 1794-1796 1 folder OE Warwick, Rhode Island, property maps 1 folder OE Miscellaneous Writings and Correspondence 1806-1980 1 folder 36 Account Book ca. 1812 1 folder 36a

Newspaper clippings glued over some pages

 The Doctrine of Baptisms by William Dell 1815 1 folder 37 Pen and Ink Drawings, Foster Coat of Arms Illustration 1815-1821, n.d. 1 folder 42 Books on Scriptural Instruction and William Cowper 1831-1834 1 folder 37 Children's Books and Good Behavior Slips 1836-1875 1 folder 37 Copies of Correspondence of Daniel Wheeler, Joel Clapp 1839 1 folder 37 Almanacs 1850-1875 1 folder 37 Miscellaneous Pamphlets and Clippings 1850-1934 1 folder 37 Miscellaneous Pamphlets and Clippings 1855-1943 1 folder 37 Putnam's Monthly and miscellaneous bible pamphlets 1858-1882 1 folder 37 Daily Text Books 1859 1 folder 37 Newspaper Clippings 1869-1881 1 folder 37

May have belonged to Meyers

 The Plymouth Pulpit, published sermons 1872 1 folder 38 Commonplace book, author unknown 1872-1929 1 folder 38 Almanacs 1876-1889 1 folder 38 Old Trade Cards and Valentines 1883-1884, n.d. 1 folder 38 Miscellaneous Quaker Papers 1890, n.d. 1 folder 38 Pamphlets and Clippings from the Horace Foster era 1893-1930 1 folder 38 Bibby Calendar from Fritchley, England 1911 1 folder 42 Miscellaneous Quaker and Christian Pamphlets 1913-1980 4 folders 38 Westtown Literary Union – Constitution 1914 1 folder 38 Miscellaneous Documents on Peace and Politics 1915-1970 1 folder 38

Probably belonged to Thyra Jane Foster

 Newspaper Clippings 1917-1962 1 folder 38

May have belonged to Meyers.

 C.W. Johnson's Photo Flowers and Poems 1918, n.d. 1 folder 39 Miscellaneous Pen and Ink Drawings, Song Book, Theater Program 1920-1937 1 folder 39 Pawtuxet Valley Fair Ribbons 1923 1 folder 39 Copies of Miscellaneous Newspaper Clippings 1933-1934, n.d. 1 folder 39 Hymns of Praise, Number 2 1934 1 folder 39 Documents on Christianity 1938, n.d. 1 folder 39 Mementos 1939, n.d. 1 folder 39 Mementos 1939, n.d. 1 folder 39 Harold M. Foster – postcard from Helen Gifford 1944 1 folder 39 Newspaper Clippings 1951-1966 1 folder 39 Religious Education Committee 1958-1967 1 folder 39 Folder on Fall-Out Shelters 1961-1962 1 folder 39 Political Peace Campaigns 1962-1965 1 folder 39 Notes on Foster Family Burying Ground 1997 1 folder 39 Joseph Greene's Will Copy Book and Other Quaker Documents n.d. 1 folder 39 Personal Expenses Book n.d. 1 folder 39 Play – A Quaker Love Story and Romance n.d. 1 folder 40 School Papers n.d. 1 folder 40 Photocopies of Meeting Minutes n.d. 1 folder 40 Child's Drawing Book n.d. 1 folder 40 Miscellaneous Quaker Documents n.d. 1 folder 40

Accounts of Important Figures, Meeting Minutes. Copied by Donor.

 Anonymous Invitations n.d. 1 folder 40 Anonymous Invitations n.d. 1 folder 40 Miscellaneous prints of Quaker Buildings n.d. 1 folder 40 Plain clothes patterns 19th century 1 folder Relics