%eadnotat; ]> 5225apga Margaret P. Apgar. Collected Writings of Friends House Residents, 1980-1995 Finding aid encoded by JGW from MSWord finding aid by SKM. 2004 Margaret P. Apgar. Collected Writings of Friends House Residents, 1980-1995 Summary Collected Writings of Friends House Residents 1980-1995 RG5/225 Margaret P. Apgar 2 boxes ; 1 linear ft. 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 collected writings of residents of Friends House, a Quaker retirement home in Sandy Spring, Md., and Haviland Hall, its nursing home extension. Margaret P. Apgar collected, typed and edited the writings between 1980 and 1994. The collection includes Gleanings, the published collection of residents’ work in six volumes, and additional writings by individuals including by Grace Yaukey who published under the name of Cornelia Spencer, Margaret Wells Steer, Grace Nesbitt, and Margaret Birckhead. Historical Note

Friends House is a Quaker retirement home in Sandy Spring, Md., which opened in 1961 under the sponsorship of Baltimore Yearly Meeting. Friends Nursing Home, Inc., was established as an extension of the retirement home; Haviland Hall is the assisted living facility of the Nursing Home.

Margaret P. Apgar was a resident Friends House. She co-edited the Friends House Newsletter and typed and edited writings of residents. A selection were published in-house in six volumes under the title of Gleanings. The writings were initiated by a Friends House Writers Workshop held in 1980 which in turn inspired a Writers Group wherein residents shared more of their memories and writings.

Margaret Apgar left Friends House in 1991 after sixteen years, and returned in 2001. Her notebooks include additional works by the residents of Friends House and Haviland Hall, including works by Grace Yaukey who published under the name of Cornelia Spencer, Margaret Wells Steer, Grace Nesbitt, and Margaret Birckhead.

Scope and Content

Contains writings of residents of Friends House, a Quaker retirement home in Sandy Spring, Md., and Haviland Hall, its nursing home extension. The majority were typed and collected between 1980 and 1994 by Margaret P. Apgar who was a resident of the House, and most of the authors represented were Quakers.

Organization: Three series: 1. Gleanings, published in-house, 2, Margaret Apgar’s notebooks with additional miscellaneous writing; 3. Other writings and collected works by residents, arranged alphabetically.

ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION Accession information

Gift, Margaret P. Apgar, 1996

Gift, Pamela Apgar, 1999

 Provenance

This collection was assembled by Margaret Apgar, editor of the newsletter of Friends House, Maryland, and of Gleanings, six volumes of collected writings of the residents of the retirement home. In December, 1999, Pamela Apgar, Margaret's daughter, donated additional works of Mary Birckhead which were collected by her mother.

Duplicates were removed and the full set of Friends House Newsletter transferred to FHL Serial Group 1. Writings by individual authors arranged alphabetically. Individual manuscript items sent by Mary Birckhead to Larry and Margaret Apgar and received from Martha Nesbitt (1999) added to the other papers by Mary Birckhead.

 Materials catalogues separately:

Steer, Margery Wells, The View in Winter. Southbound Press, 1992. Transferred to FHL books.

Friends House Letter, Vols. 1-15, transferred to FHL Serial Group 1.

 Related Material:

Birckhead, Mary B., Papers, 1959-1991, 1985-1991, SC 163

Steer, Margery Wells, Dear grandparents : letters from around the world. Ardmore, Pa. : Dorrance, c1981.

Steer, Margery Wells, The View in Winter. Southbound Press, 1992.

Nesbitt, Martha C., Chronicles of Sandy Spring Friends meeting and environs / by Martha C. Nesbitt and Mary Reading Miller, et al. ; drawings and maps by John Weske. Sandy Spring, Md. : Sandy Spring Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends, 1987.

 Access

Collection is open for research.

 Use Restrictions

Copyright has not been assigned to Friends Historical Library. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in to the Director. Permission for publication is given on behalf of Friends Historical Library as the owner 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 the catalog of the Friends Historical Library (TRIPOD). Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons, or places should search the catalog using these headings: Researchers are advised to search by subject and author, when applicable:

Quakers - Social life and customs Quakers -- Maryland Quakers -- Old age homes Quakers - Old age Aged -- Social networks Old age homes -- Maryland Friends House (Sandy Spring, Md.) Steer, Margaret Wells, 1899-1992 Birckhead, Mary B. Apgar, Margaret Parsons Spencer, Cornelia, 1899- 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 1: Gleanings, 1980-1991

Margaret Apgar was editor of the newsletter of Friends House, Maryland, and of Gleanings, six volumes of collected writings of the residents of the retirement home.

Gleanings 1980-91 6 volumes 1 Series 2: Notebooks, 1980-1994 Margaret Apgar’s notebooks ca. 1980-1994 2 volumes 1

Contains collected writings, letters concerning Gleanings, and samples of the Haviland Hall Writers Group

Series 3: Writings of residents of Friends House, collected by Margaret Apgar, 1975-95

Typed manuscripts and photocopies

Mary Birckhead ca. 1975-1990 Sinimum Serpent 1963 1 folder 1Hand-bound and colored books ca.1977 1 folder 1Farm Sketches 1988 1 folder 1A Painter’s Palette 1988 1 folder 1Tide Pools 1988 1 folder 1“Babby” short stories and poems 1968-1990 and n.d. 2 folders 2Manuscripts ca. 1975-1990 1 folder 2

Hand-painted mss items sent to Larry and Margaret Apgar at Friends House

 Vera Curtis 1994-1995 Autobiography, The Backward Glance 1994-1995 1 folder 2 Helene Doying ca. 1990 Recollections of her mother ca. 1990 1 folder 2

Recollections of her mother, Maisie McLachlen, who lived in early 20th century Alaska

 Martha Nesbitt 1993 A Potpourri of Time and Place and People 1993 1 folder 2 Sarah Louise Pennington Owen 1991 Memories 1991 1 folder 2 Margery Wells Steer 1987-1992 Harvest of Chaff 1987-1989 3 vols. 2Autumn Harvest 1990 1 folder 2Bits and Pieces 1992 1 folder 2 Evelyn Williams 1992-1993 Reminiscences Book 1 1992-1993 1 folder 2Reminiscences Book 2 1992-1993 1 folder 2