The bulk of the collection is made up of the survey notes, 1829-1873, of Walker, Orrin S. Beale, Robert B. Beath, and unidentified volumes. The survey notes are mainly for lands in Susquehanna County, with some notes for Tioga, Bradford, Wayne, and Luzerne Counties. Also included are miscellaneous land records, land patents, deeds, and survey maps.

Elizabeth Sandwith Drinker composed memorandum books for her own personal recollections, which constitute a day-by-day account of the life of a well-to-do Quaker woman. Elizabeth Drinker's interests were diverse but she was little concerned with political or economic questions, except insofar as they directly touched upon her family. The bulk of the entries deal with strictly private or family matters, particularly the health of her family. She gives particular consideration to the Yellow Fever outbreaks in Philadelphia after 1793, especially the epidemics of 1793 and 1798. Elizabeth Drinker and her family were conscientious Quakers and there is material on the Society of Friends in Philadelphia.

Of special note is the material on the American Revolution which includes detailed descriptions of the treatment of Quaker non-combatants, and of the British occupation of Philadelphia, principally during 1777.

Typescript in 7 v., diary for 1801 lacking.

The volumes for 1787-1788 were destroyed. No diary entries exist for May, 1786, to July, 1789.

Henry Biddle, ed., Extracts from the Journal of Elizabeth Drinker, 1759-1807, Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1889.

With these papers is Foering's account, which apparently relies on a diary, of the Regiment's service. There are also drafts and notes for speeches and a history of the 20th Army Corps, miscellaneous papers and photographs.

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There are letters addressed to Dr. George Douglas, Yuengling's great-great grandfather from Orwigsburg, Schuylkill County, from sister Mary, sons Andrew and John, conveyancer,land agents Andrew D. Cash and Thomas Spotswood of Philadelphia, and others on personal and business matters, 1815-1857. There are also letters written by Yuengling's mother, Augusta Roseberry, while a student at Springside School, Philadelphia, 1896-1900. Roseberry's uncle, Charles H. Moore, is represented by miscellaneous papers on his career as a civil engineer with various railroads, 1895-1937.

The bulk of the collection consists of files of correspondence maintained by Yuengling, 1931-1953, with friends from: Pottstown, the Georgetown School of Foreign Service, Trinidad (where he was employed on the construction of the U.S. Naval Air Station during World War II), teaching positions, and with friends made during his many travels. His most frequent correspondents are his mother, Bertram Anderson, Raymond J. Greene, Elizabeth G. Koenig, and Peter Milivojevic, a Yugoslav priest.

The bulk of the collection consists of Drinker's business correspondence, including some of the firm of James & Drinker, which Drinker had formed with Abel James. In 1773, the East India Company consigned a shipment of tea to the firm; there is a good deal of material concerning the resulting controversy and non-importation. Of particular interest are the letters from Pigou and Booth, London merchants, showing the British point of view. There are several letters on the war-time disruption of trade.

The collection also includes typescripts of correspondence, 1777-1778, between Drinker and his wife, Elizabeth Sandwith Drinker, written while Drinker was exiled to Winchester, Va., by the new Pennsylvania government. Drinker's correspondence after the war, 1783-1809, is largely concerned with land development and speculation in northern and western Pennsylvania. His correspondents include: Benjamin Rush, Benjamin West, James Wilson, and Aaron Burr.

Also included in the collection are other items created or collected by Drinker's descendants: a late 19th century transcription of Henry Drinker's Journal of a Voyage to England, 1759-1760; business letters, 1808-1867, of Henry Drinker's nephew Henry Drinker, Jr.; correspondence and two journals of Drinker's grandson, Sandwith Drinker, including the journal of his voyage to India, 1838, and to Zanzibar, 1840, and correspondence addressed to Nathan Kite, Philadelphia merchant and one of the administrators of the estate of Henry Drinker; annual trial balances, 1833-1838, of John Wheeler Leavitt, maternal great-grandfather of Henry S. Drinker; a diary, 1842-1854 of Leavitt's youngest daughter, Emily Austin Leavitt; and the manuscript for a story, 1887, by Thomas A. Janvier, husband of Sandwith Drinker's daughter Kate.

Originals of typescript Henry Drinker letters, 1777-1778, are located at the Haverford College Library.

Small amount of incoming correspondence, 1893-1907, concerning cases, meetings, and salaries. Some correspondence and membership lists, 1895-1896, of the Eighth Ward Association of the Municipal League. Cases, 1888-1903, on municipal problems and scandals. Financial records, including contribution lists, 1898-1907, and Citizens' Municipal Association's bills and receipts, 1893-1907. Miscellaneous printed material of the Citizens' Municipal Association, 1893-1896.

Christian Gessler letters in German.

The papers, which include affidavits in support of Cozens' case, deal with his arrest in 1864, trial, conviction, and fight for vindication. Correspondence from Cozens' lawyer, Jeremiah Sullivan Black, a copy of a letter, 1867, from Andrew Johnson disapproving the findings of the court's conviction, some of Cozens' account sheet, and a memorandum book, 1864-1871, complete the collection.

Clippings, photographs, trade cards, and trade announcements on the making of watches and cases.

Samuel Simeon Fels, youngest son of Lazarus and Susanna Fels, was born in Yanceyville, N.C., on February 16, 1860. His family moved north to settle in Philadelphia, where in 1876 Samuel joined the soap manufacturing business established that year by his older brother. The firm, Fels & Co., was incorporated in 1914, and Samuel became its first president, holding the office until his death in 1950. (The company was sold to Purex Corporation in 1964.) While remaining active in the affairs of Fels & Co., he also became one of Philadelphia's most prominent philanthropists. He took an active interest in, and gave generous support to civic, scientific, cultural, and educational causes. In 1936 Fels established the Samuel S. Fels Fund to continue financial support in these areas.

Financial records including bills, receipts, and account books of personal and household expenses and account books, 1853-1886, of his farm receipts and expenditures.

Song-books in German.

The bulk of the collection is made up of scrapbooks of cartoons and comic strips. There are also clippings about his activities, and letters to him from prominent persons including Walt Disney, Herbert Hoover, and John J. Pershing.

The records include: enrollment books, 1801-1858; minutes and extracts of minutes of the board of managers and of the contributors, 1832-1951; minutes of the Committee on Instruction and Lectures, 1904-1940; miscellaneous correspondence, 1899-1950; miscellaneous financial records including check stubs, 1859-1898, 1912-1916, and treasurers' reports, 1886-1918; and two typescript biographies of Christopher Ludwick, one by Edward W. Hocker and one anonymous.

The association's records contain material on many periods of economic depression, including the Great Depression, 1929-1939. They also reveal the gradual evolution of theories and practice of social welfare.

The records include: minutes, 1831-1967; minutes of the Ladies Branch, 1832-1845; reports, 1937-1941; miscellaneous items; and incoming with some outgoing correspondence, 1908, 1921-1950. Among the correspondents are the Welfare Federation of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Department of Welfare, Social Security Board, and the American Red Cross. The financial accounts include: cash journals, 1876-1892, 1894-1920, 1933-1949; receipt book, 1876-1891; ledger, 1933-1940; budgets, 1923-1935; and miscellaneous accounts, including records of legacies and trusts.

There are also some records of Southwark Soup Society, Philadelphia, organized in 1805: constitution and by-laws; minutes, 1855-1949; ledger, 1887-1949; and a few miscellaneous papers.

Cookbook, 1776, of Mary Plumsted reported to NUCMC as cashbook.

Incoming personal and political correspondence, 1854-1885, including a few letters, 1885, while he was assistant postmaster general; newspaper clippings and a few printed documents, 1872-1873, on the Pennsylvania Constitutional Convention.

Incoming correspondence, 1878-1893, and a letterpress book, 1878.

The records of the Board of Trade are organized chronologically by month. The records for each month are arranged by subject in the order they were presented at the monthly meetings. Included are incoming and some outgoing correspondence, reports, and miscellaneous items, 1889, 1891, 1897-1900, 1904-1916, 1919, 1921-1925, 1930-1933, 1939-1942. Many of the records, including reports, are recorded in the Minutes, 1833-1940. There are also annual reports, 1904-1922, 1929-1941; correspondence and reports, 1880-1909, on deepening the harbor, Port of Philadelphia. There are three volumes of records of the old Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce: an Award Book, 1801-1808, which contains the proceedings of the Committee of the Chamber of Commerce that acted as arbiter in commercial disputes; a letterbook, 1801-1826, of which many of the letters were written by Thomas Fitzsimons, president of the Chamber of Commerce, 1801-1811, Philadelphia merchant, political figure, and signer of the Constitution; and minute book, 1837-1846.

Also included in the collection are minutes, 1868-1900, of the Executive Council of the National Board of Trade; Port of Philadelphia statistics, 1924-1934; Minutes and miscellaneous records of the Pennsylvania Tax Conference, 1892-1994, a conference of various economic interests to consider a revision of the assessing and taxing laws of the state; Minutes and a few miscellaneous items, 1895-1898, of the Sound Money League of Pennsylvania, an organization formed to maintain the gold standard; and letter press correspondence, 1863- 1879, of Henry Preaut, merchant and Russian Vice Consul in Philadelphia.

The manuscripts consist of correspondence and other papers of Thomas and Christine Biddle and their descendants, as well as aunts Berthia, Christine and Jane Alexander and Isabelle Alexander Hankey, all of whom report on politics and family affairs in Scotland, England, and France. Another major correspondent is Apolline Agatha Alexander, a member of the Kentucky branch of the family who was orphaned and subsequently raised by Mrs. Biddle, with letters from London following her marriage to Thomson Hankey, Jr.

The individual units of the collection were once likely a single body of family papers which were divided among various relatives. Although emphasis may differ with each entry, material found in one may also be found to some degree in others.

Small groups of other family papers include: George Washington Biddle letters and documents, 1804-1809, on Stephen Girard's suit against Biddle over a tea shipment from Canton; Anne and Alexander W. Biddle incoming family and social notes, 1893-1898.

Henry J. Williams' incoming correspondence, 1812-1871, includes miscellaneous financial and personal letters, and letters from the Alexander sisters. There are also letters from Mariamne to Jonathan Williams, 1785-1789, while the latter was in the United States, discussing Jonathan Williams' financial affairs and reporting her own activities.

There is also a small group of personal and political correspondence, 1768-1809, of Benjamin Rush, and a Rush family genealogy.

There is a small group of legal papers, 1828-1877, of Williams dealing with family estates and including his personal receipted bills.

Another small group contains family and social notes of Alexander and Julia Williams Rush Biddle, 1874-1896.

There is also some Yarrow & Van Pelt correspondence, 1916-1937, on Philadelphia real estate brokerage.

The Jonathan Williams, Jr., correspondence, 1773-1815, includes family letters.

Mariamne Alexander Williams' correspondence, 1778-1816, includes letters from her sisters Bethia, Christine, and Jane Alexander and Isabelle Alexander Hankey, as well as from Henry Jonathan Williams, Margaret M. Craig, and Jonathan Williams, Jr.

The Thomas Biddle papers, 1800-1846, consist primarily of business letters and related documents involving his brokerage firm. There are also some family letters from various Alexanders abroad and in Kentucky, his son Henry Jonathan Biddle, his brother John G. Biddle, and his wife Christine Williams Biddle.

Christine Biddle's correspondence, 1794-1856 includes letters from the four Alexander aunts, Margaret Green, her "daughter" Apolline Agatha Alexander Hankey, and her "granddaughter" Apolline Alexander Blair of the Kentucky branch of the Alexanders, her five sons, particularly Henry Jonathan Biddle, as well as Thomas Biddle and Thomas Hankey, Jr.

The Henry Jonathan Williams correspondence, 1812-1862, includes letters from his four Alexander aunts, Thomas Hankey, Jr., on remittances, his parents, and from various others on legal, personal, and military matters. There is also a scrapbook of "Family Memorials," begun by Williams and continued after his death, which includes genealogical and biographical materials on the Alexander, Biddle, Rush, and Williams families.

Julia Rush Williams correspondence, 1823-1866, includes letters to her mother, Julia Stockton Rush, and letters from various relatives.

Other family members are represented by small groups of miscellaneous papers: Clement Biddle, 1776, 1813, mostly as deputy quarter master for the Pennsylvania and New Jersey militia; Benjamin Rush, 1768-1810, with letters from Alexander Leslie (Lord Balgonie) and others; and Julia Stockton Rush, 1813-1840, on social and family matters.

Also included are some Jonathan Williams family papers, 1779-1828; Alexander Biddle's letters to his wife written while he toured Europe, 1878, and other family correspondence.

Clement Biddle's letters, 1781-1813, relate mostly to business affairs. There are also two smaller groups: Nicholas Biddle's papers, 1824-1842, concern banking and the Second Bank of the United States; and Episcopal Bishop of Alabama Richard H. Wilmer's letters, 1812-1857, discuss church matters.

Ledger, 1813-1852, contracts, receipts, and miscellaneous financial records of Franklin Lee & Son, bricklayers and corders; papers and financial records on various estates of which Lee was executor or trustee.

These papers include letters: 1812-1832 on military and political matters to Isaac Dutton Barnard, a Chester County lawyer who served as an officer during the War of 1812, held several elective local and state offices, including senator (Federalist), 1827-1831; 1826-1858 to Anthony Bolmar on the West Chester boys schools he operated; 1761-1858 to the Townsend family of West Chester, principally to Washington Townsend; 1838-1854 to General Persifer F. Smith, mainly on the Mexican War; 1852 to and from Henry S. Evans regarding legal efforts of the Pennsylvania legislature to free Rachel Parker from slavery; and a few letters addressed to others.

David Townsend's incoming letters, 1812-1854, from William Dillingham, solicitor for the Bank of Chester County, and from others concerns the recharter of the bank and some political issues. Townsend's incoming letters, 1833-1893, concerns mostly family matters.

Isaac Dutton Barnard incoming correspondence, 1820-1832, is mostly from his father-in-law Isaac Darlington. Barnard, a lawyer and officer in the War of 1812, became a U.S. senator and served in various Chester County political and business offices. Darlington was serving as president judge of the Chester and Delaware Counties judicial district, and the letters report on Court cases, politics, and appointments.

The biography treats the Civil War experiences in detail, quoting extensively from the war Reminiscences of General Herman Haupt, published privately in 1901. Also included is a typescript, written in 1859, of the Memoirs of Herman Haupt up to the age of 21.

Correspondence, memoranda, and financial papers relate to Curwin's Accountancy Corporation, North Bend, Ind., where Minford was manager of the Services Department, and to a piece of property in Wilkes Barre, owned by his cousin Sarah Patterson. Some of the material concerns financial hardships brought on by the Depression. There are several unidentified photographs.

Contained in the collection are incoming letters addressed to Miss Brice, as well as flyers, pamphlets, and photographs dealing with the work of the Belgian Relief Committee. Also included are anonymous notes and reminiscences on a wide variety of topics: Spanish colonies, volunteer fire departments of Philadelphia, packet ships serving Philadelphia, coal lands, and the settlement of Pennsylvania.