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1757ref. 25203London: Printed by Luke Hinde 1757. Significant Compilation of Quaker-Related Laws This collection of statutes covers a very broad range both explicit restrictions on Quakers and many more subtle ones including acts for encouraging the growth of coffee in the American colonies and others relative to colonial finances e.g. "An Act for the more easy Recovery of Debts in his Majesty's Plantations and Colonies in America." in which Quakers are treated differently under the law. Quarto. Contemporary reversed calf red leather label. A bit rubbed. Internally clean and crisp. Very good. SABIN 14370. hardcover books
1777ref. 69134Philadelphia. 1777. Calling for the Rights of Conscientious Objectors and the Release of Exiled Quakers A rare broadside concerning the so-called "Quaker exiles" the Philadelphia Friends who were rounded up held without hearing and banished to the Virginia frontier in 1777–1778 during the height of the American Revolution. Signed in type by clerk Isaac Jackson on behalf of the Yearly Meeting the broadside calls for the release of "A Number of our Friends" who have recently "been imprisoned and banished unheard from their Families under a Charge and Insinuation that 'they have in their general Conduct and Conversation evidenced a Disposition inimical to the Cause of America.'" When war broke out between Britain and its North American colonies many Quakers remained steadfast in their religious commitment to pacifist principles refusing to pay taxes bear arms or take oaths of allegiance on behalf of the Patriot cause. This pacifism was met with suspicion by American Revolutionaries who accused Quakers of secretly supporting the British. In August and September 1777 with Philadelphia under imminent threat of capture by the enemy Quakers became the victims of growing persecution. Patriot suspicions were seemingly confirmed when on August 25 1777 the Continental Congress received a letter from Major-General John Sullivan reporting the discovery of several documents signed "the Spank-town Yearly-Meeting" implicating the Society of Friends in passing sensitive military information to the British. Never mind that no such Meeting at Spanktown existed or that the documents were likely fabricated by someone intent on maligning Quakers. The letter together with the incriminating documents were immediately referred to a committee which in its report concluded that the actions of "a number of Quakers of considerable wealth.render it certain and notorious that those persons are with much rancour and bitterness disaffected to the American cause" and that since those persons might be inclined "to communicate intelligence to the enemy and in various other ways to injure the councils and arms of America" they therefore ought to be considered a risk "to the public safety" Ford. The committee recommended that "the executive powers of the respective states.apprehend and secure all persons as well among the people called Quakers as others who have in their general conduct and conversation evidenced a disposition inimical to the cause of America" Ford. On August 28 the Congress approved the committee's recommendation. Three days later on August 31 the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania in response to the resolution in Congress called for the arrest of forty-one people among them some of the city's most prominent and wealthy Quakers. Following their arrest in early September the prisoners were held for several days at the Philadelphia Masonic Lodge pending their removal to Virginia. The prisoners were offered release on condition that they swear or affirm allegiance to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania but some refused. On September 10 the twenty remaining prisoners nearly all of them either Quakers or disowned former Quakers were banished from Philadelphia and sent to the Virginia frontier. En route the exiles were granted writs of habeas corpus by Chief Justice Thomas McKean of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court but these were denied. The next day the Pennsylvania Assembly passed a bill suspending habeas corpus entirely. The prisoners arrived in Winchester Virginia on September 29. They were released the following April in the face of mounting public pressure but only after two had died in exile. The present broadside is a product of the "extensive publishing campaign" that helped secure the Quaker exiles' release Whidbee. The broadside serves first to reiterate the Friends' position of pacifism and neutrality to remind the public that Quakers "are led out of all Wars and Fightings by the Principle of Grace and Truth in our own Minds by which we are restrained either as private Members of Society or in any of our Meetings from holding a Correspondence with either Army." The authors explain that Quakers are called "to spread the Testimony of Truth and the peaceable Doctrines of Christ to seek the good of all." They then go on to address the fabricated documents recently discovered by the Continental Army and to combat the resulting spread of misinformation: "As to a nameless Paper lately published said to be dated at Spank-Town Yearly-Meeting and found among the Baggage on Staten-Island every Person who is acquainted with our Stile may be convinced it was never wrote at any of our Meetings or by any of our Friends." The authors go on to note that "there is no Meeting throughout our whole Society of that Name; nor was that Letter or any one like it ever wrote in any of our Meetings since we were a People." Finally the Yearly Meeting pleads for the release of "our banished Friends" who they insist "have done nothing to forfeit their just Right to Liberty." OCLC locates at least six copies at Yale University the Society of the Cincinnati the Friends Historical Library Florida Atlantic University the Library of Congress and Princeton University. Additionally we find one copy at Brown University and two at the Library Company of Philadelphia. A rare broadside marking an important moment in the history of civil liberty religious freedom habeas corpus and conscientious objection in America. Old folds two horizontal and one vertical. Very minor splitting to one fold affecting text without loss. Light toning. Near fine. SABIN 94920. EVANS 15302. HILDEBURN 3638. SMITH FRIENDS' BOOKS I p.762. ESTC W5972. OCLC 1365079001 27103627 1268543044. Jack D. Marietta The Reformation of American Quakerism 1748–1783 Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press 1984 pp.240-44. Arthur J. Mekeel "The Relation of the Quakers to the American Revolution" in Quaker History Vol. 65 no. 1 Spring 1976 pp.3-18. Robert F. Oaks "Philadelphians in Exile: The Problem of Loyalty during the American Revolution" in Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography Vol. 96 no. 3 July 1972 pp.298-325. Paige L. Whidbee "The Quaker Exiles: 'The Cause of Every Inhabitant'" in Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies Vol. 83 no. 1 Winter 2016 p.29. Worthington Chauncey Ford ed. Journals of the Continental Congress 1774–1789 Vol. VIII May 22–October 2 1777 Washington: Government Printing Office 1907 pp.694-95. unknown
1821ref. 61985Various locations and publishers as noted below. 1821-1834. Collection of Quaker Pamphlets Compiled by a Baltimore Friend An interesting sammelband consisting of twenty-nine tracts published variously between 1821 and 1834 all relating in one way or another to the Society of Friends and bound in a matching set of two volumes. The volumes and many of the bound-in pamphlets bear the handwritten signature of "Wm Procter" and each volume of texts is preceded by a table of contents written in ink in the same hand. Some pamphlets also note the year Procter acquired them. The compiler of these two volumes was almost certainly William Procter 1780-1860 of Baltimore Maryland. Born in York England Procter arrived in Baltimore in 1796 at the age of sixteen. He married Anna Wilson in 1809 and together they had six children. Procter was a hardware merchant and an active member of the Baltimore Yearly Meeting of the Society of Friends. A death notice in the January 17 1860 issue of the Baltimore Sun described Procter as "a venerable and highly esteemed member of the Society of Friends Orthodox and the oldest hardware importer of Baltimore" distinguished for his "unobtrusive manners and integrity of character." The American Annual Monitor a publication of the Society of Friends in America noted that Procter was "much attached to our religious Society and filled many stations in the church to the satisfaction of his friends." The present collection of tracts and pamphlets reflects Procter's involvement and interest in the affairs of the Baltimore community of Friends. From the published minutes of the Baltimore Yearly Meeting documenting the activities of the Society and polemical tracts relating to the bitter theological controversies that divided the Friends community to pamphlets treating some of the issues and institutions in which members of the Baltimore Meeting were personally financially and politically invested the pamphlets herein offer a unique glimpse into American Quakerism in the 1820s and 30s. Included are pamphlets written in both condemnation and defense of Job Scott a Quaker preacher mystic and quietist from Providence Rhode Island as well as a host of pamphlets concerning the Hicksite schism that splintered the Quaker community in the 1820s. Also included is a publication commemorating the establishment of McKim's School in Baltimore a charity school funded by Quaker John McKim and his sons Isaac and William and another pamphlet on the collapse of the Union Bank of Maryland headed by Baltimore Quaker Thomas Ellicott. Most of the pamphlets were published either in Baltimore or Philadelphia with others published - one each - in Wilmington Delaware; Trenton New Jersey; and Mount Pleasant Ohio. A handful of others lack publication information. Early printer's imprints include those of William Brown Philadelphia Thomas Kite Philadelphia T. Murphy Baltimore and R. Porter & Son Wilmington. There is a total of twenty-nine separate works three of them duplicates across the two volumes fourteen in one and fifteen in the other. The titles in the order in which they appear are: First volume: 1 First Annual Report of the Bible Association of Friends in America Read at the Annual Meeting Held on the Evening of the Nineteenth of Fourth Month 1830. Philadelphia: William Brown 1830. 133pp. SMITH FRIENDS' BOOKS I:780. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 531. 2 Second Annual Report of the Bible Association of Friends in America Read at the Annual Meeting Held on the Evening of the Eighteenth of Fourth Month 1831. Philadelphia: William Brown 1831. 31pp. SMITH FRIENDS' BOOKS I:780. 3 Third Annual Report of the Bible Association of Friends in America Read at the Annual Meeting Held on the Evening of the Sixteenth of Fourth Month 1832. Philadelphia: William Brown 1832. 17pp. SMITH FRIENDS' BOOKS I:780. 4 An Appeal to the Society of Friends in Behalf of The Bible Association of Friends in America. Philadelphia: William Brown 1832. 72pp. SABIN 86036. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 11363. SMITH FRIENDS' BOOKS I:780. 5 A Declaration of the Yearly Meetings of Friends Held in Philadelphia Respecting the Proceedings of Those Who Have Lately Separated from the Society: and Also Shewing the Contrast Between Their Doctrines and Those Held by Friends. Philadelphia: Thomas Kite 1828. 32pp. SABIN 19183. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 33301. 6 The Testimony of the Society of Friends on the Continent of America. Philadelphia: Joseph Rakestraw 1830. 36pp. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 1508. SABIN 86070. SMITH FRIENDS' BOOKS I:780. 7 A Letter from Luke Howard of Tottenham Near London to a Friend in America; Containing Observations upon a Treatise Written by Job Scott entitled Salvation by Christ &c. N.p. 1825. 20pp. SMITH FRIENDS' BOOKS I:982. 8 A Letter from a Friend in America to Luke Howard of Tottenham Near London in Which the Character of Our Late Friend Job Scott Is Vindicated and Defended and His Doctrines Shown to Be Consistent with Scripture and Sound Reason. In Reply to a Letter Addressed by Luke Howard to the Author. N.p. 1826. 54pp. plus errata leaf bound in. SABIN 78289. SMITH FRIENDS' BOOKS I:943. 9 Charter of M'Kim's School Incorporated by The General Assembly of Maryland December Session 1820: with the By-Laws of the Trustees of That Institution. Baltimore: T. Murphy 1821. 15pp. including in-text illustration plus embossed seal of the school on separate slip of paper bound in. OCLC records only three copies at Yale Duke and the Library Company of Philadelphia. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 5889. 10 Owen Robert Dale: Letters Addressed to William Gibbons of Wilmington Del. in Reply to "An Exposition of Modern Scepticism;" Together with an Address to the Society of Friends and a Letter to Eli Hilles Benj. Ferris and Others. First Published in the F. Enquirer. Philadelphia: J.A. M'Clintock 1830. 24pp. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 2920. 11 Gibbons William: An Exposition of Modern Scepticism in a Letter Addressed to the Editors of the Free Enquirer. Wilmington De.: R. Porter and Son 1829. 48pp. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 38754. 12 Gould M.T.C.: The Friend or Advocate of Truth Extra. Facts from M.T.C. Gould Respecting Isaac T. Hopper caption title. Philadelphia 1831 16pp. 13 Defence of Isaac T. Hopper Against the Aspersions of Marcus T.C. Gould half title. N.p. N.d. 12pp. 14 Address of the Sufferers of the Eastern District of the City of Baltimore to the Yearly Meeting Held in Baltimore 10th Month 28th 1822. N.p. 1822. 24pp. OCLC locates only five copies. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 8778. Second volume: 15 Extracts from The Minutes of Baltimore Yearly Meeting caption title. N.p. 1833. 21pp. SMITH FRIENDS' BOOKS I:776. 16 Extracts from The Minutes of Baltimore Yearly Meeting caption title. N.p. 1831. 23pp. SMITH FRIENDS' BOOKS I:776. 17 Extracts from The Minutes of Baltimore Yearly Meeting caption title. N.p. 1830. 12pp. SMITH FRIENDS' BOOKS I:776. 18 Extracts from The Minutes of Baltimore Yearly Meeting caption title. N.p. 1829. 15pp. SMITH FRIENDS' BOOKS I:776. 19 Bates Elisha: The Incorporation of Ohio Yearly Meeting for the Purpose of Establishing a Boarding School Defended: or an Explanation of the Application Made by Friends to the Legislature of Ohio. Mount Pleasant Oh. 1833. 23pp. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 17684. 20 Foulke Joseph: Friends' Almanac for the Year of our Lord 1834. Being the Second After Leap Year…. Philadelphia: Evan Lewis 1833. 29-48pp. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 18930. DRAKE 11877. 21 Bates Elisha: A View of the Sentiments of Elias Hicks Respecting Future Rewards and Punishments. Philadelphia: Thomas Kite 1829. 16pp. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 37723. 22 Review of a Letter from Elias Hicks to Dr. N. Shoemaker. Fourth Edition. Philadelphia: Thomas Kite 1829. 28pp. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 40251. SMITH FRIENDS' BOOKS I:943. 23 A Review of Elias Hicks' Letter to Thomas Willis on the Miraculous Conception of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Philadelphia: Thomas Kite 1829. 27pp. 24 Epistles and Testimonies Issued by the Yearly Meetings of Friends in North America; Setting Forth Their Faith Respecting the Holy Scriptures and in the Divinity and Offices of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ; Shewing That the Antichristian Doctrines of Those Who Have Lately Separated from the Society are Repugnant Thereto. Philadelphia: Thomas Kite 1828. 83pp. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 33295. SABIN 86056. SMITH FRIENDS' BOOKS I:779. 25 Another copy of The Testimony of the Society of Friends on the Continent of America. Philadelphia: Joseph Rakestraw 1830. 36pp. 26 The Decision in a Cause Decided in the Court of Chancery of the State of New Jersey between Thomas L. Shotwell Complainant and Joseph Hendrickson and Stacy Decow Defendants caption title. Trenton N.J.: P.J. Gray 1832. 90pp. Likely extracted from Wood George and Isaac H. Williamson The Society of Friends Vindicated: Being the Arguments of the Counsel of Joseph Hendrickson in a Cause Decided in the Court of Chancery of the State of New Jersey between Thomas L. Shotwell Complainant and Joseph Hendrickson and Stacy Decow Defendants. By George Wood and Isaac H. Williamson Counsellors at Law. To Which Is Appended the Decision of the Court. Trenton N.J.: P.J. Gray 1832. "An important case relating to a dispute between Orthodox and Hicksite Friends over funds belonging to the Society before the division" - SABIN. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 17135. SABIN 105026. FELCONE COLLECTION 1435. 27 Another copy of Address of the Sufferers of the Eastern District of the City of Baltimore to the Yearly Meeting Held in Baltimore 10th Month 28th 1822. N.p. 1822. 24pp. 28 Another copy of Gould M.T.C.: The Friend or Advocate of Truth Extra. Facts from M.T.C. Gould Respecting Isaac T. Hopper caption title. Philadelphia 1831 16pp. 29 Johnson Reverdy: Reply to a Pamphlet Entitled "A Brief Exposition of Matters Relating to the Bank of Maryland" with an Examination into Some of the Causes of the Bankruptcy of That Institution. Baltimore: Jas. Lucas & E.K. Deaver 1834. 54251pp. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 25136. SABIN 36271. Together the pamphlets provide a comprehensive look at the Society of Friends in Baltimore and in the United States more broadly between 1821 and 1834. Bound in two volumes. Contemporary three-quarter calf and marbled boards spines gilt. Boards rubbed shelfworn corners and spine ends worn. Intermittent tanning foxing and staining. Very good overall. The American Annual Monitor for 1861; or Obituary of the Members of the Society of Friends in America for the Year 1860. No. 4 New York 1861 p.145. "Death of an Aged Citizen. – Mr. Wm Proctor sic" in The Sun Baltimore MD January 17 1860. hardcover
1954ref. 4307Philadelphia 1954. About very good. Thirty-five printed and typescript items approximately 150pp. total. Some staples old folds. Scattered contemporary ink stamps. Light toning and minor wear heavier in places. Scattered chipping and occasional short edge tears. A fascinating and scarce group of newsletters pamphlets and ephemera published by the American Friends Service Committee during and after World War II comprising thirty-five printed and typescript items. The Committee administered roughly one third of the camps in the Civilian Public Service system which was established to provide a means of non-military service to religious conscientious objectors during the war and also played a significant role in the anti-draft anti-conscription movement. The first group of material present here includes seven issues of the Civilian Public Service Friends Newsletter. These provide a detailed contemporary account of the overall state of the camps including camp populations incoming "campers" camp openings and closures and the financial situation. The newsletters also include news relating to the administration of the camps and developments regarding their operation and the activities of the interned objectors. Included as well are a promotional report issued on the two-year anniversary of the Service's inception and an elaborate four-page solicitation for donations to the CPS both also issued by the American Friends Service Committee. The issues of the newsletters present are: No. 5 October 30th 1942; No. 6 December 21 1942; No. 8 February 25 1943; No. 9 March 15 1943; No. 10 April 21 1943; No. 12 July 12 1943; No. 13 August 23 1943. A substantial run of a scarce and short-lived newsletter. We locate individually catalogued groups of these reports only at Bethel College and the University of Oregon and not in the Swarthmore Peace Collection. A second group of newsletters contains three issues of a weekly periodical Information and eleven issues of its monthly offshoot Information Digest dating December 1943 to July 1945 with two issues from later in 1946. These issues document the administration process of the CPS camps and contain reports on various facets of their operation including finances fundraising working and social conditions religious life and legal issues. Amongst these are reports on internal efforts and negotiations to fund the camps both within the Society of Friends and in partnership with other pacifist religious sects such as the Mennonites who were involved in camp operations. The December 2 1943 issue of Information for example contains a detailed narrative of the negotiation to fund the camps in 1944. The newsletters also contain a wealth of information on developments initiatives and daily life at the camps which include some particularly interesting reports on mental health among internees and on civil rights as the issue related to conscientious objectors but also to racial equality in the United States during the war era. OCLC locates holdings of this periodical at just a small handful of institutions. The third group of material comprises four scarce typed reports prepared and distributed by the AFSC during the war regarding the rights of conscientious objectors and their status. Three of the reports address the Selective Service Act and continued amendments thereto concentrating on the portions of the law that applied to religious objectors to military service and changes that affected objectors during the early years of the war. The first these issued in March 1942 first outlines the changes made to the draft law during December 1941 in the wake of the attack on Pearl Harbor and the declaration of war on the Axis powers and then provides an extensive step-by-step procedure for the application process to become a conscientious objector. Two further lengthy "memoranda" explain the rights of conscientious objectors as of December 1942 and March 1943 when each report was produced and gives advice for completing the objector application as well as for preparing supplementary documents and written statements. The other report in this group dated September 1941 gives an outline of the finances and disposition of the Civilian Public Service the system of labor camps for conscientious objectors on the eve of the war including lists of camps already in operation their capacities and statistical charts of objectors already registered and camp populations and assignments. These reports are quite striking as first-hand evidence of the role played by the Society of Friends administration in counseling their members to become conscientious objectors. Finally there is an interesting group of Quaker anti-conscription ephemera from World War II consisting of nine pamphlets that outline the pacifist views of the Society of Friends and the reasons behind them. The works go on to detail how these beliefs necessitate the Quakers' refusal to be conscripted into the American armed forces and defend this stance. Two pamphlets deal specifically with the opposition to peacetime conscription which became a political issue towards the end of the war. The individual titles are as follows: 1 "Why They Cannot Go to War." Philadelphia: American Friends Service Committee 1940. 2 "Why We Oppose Conscription." Philadelphia: American Friends Service Committee 1941. 3 "United States of America vs. Arle Brooks." Philadelphia: American Friends Service Committee 1941. Two copies. 4 Royden A. Maude. "An Unarmed State." Philadelphia: American Friends Service Committee N.d. 5 Muste A.J. "Conscription and Conscience." Philadelphia: American Friends Service Committee 1944. Two copies. 6 "Peace Time Conscription.A Problem for Americans." Philadelphia: American Friends Service Committee 1944. 7 "Permanent Conscription." Philadelphia: American Friends Service Committee 1945. 8 "No! To Peacetime Conscription." Philadelphia: American Friends Service Committee 1945. 9 "Advices on Conscription and War." Philadelphia: American Friends Service Committee 1954. unknown books
ref. 202570London Luke Hinde 1760. 372pp. 8vo. Full leather slightly rubbed and edgeworn. Ink inscription to ffe. Some scattered foxing. A very good copy. London, Luke Hinde, 1760. hardcover
1821ref. 1015808vo leather spine label gilt lines on spine 184 pp. Top hinge cracked some minor wear to extremities volume slightly bent small hole through pages 7 and 8 some slight foxing but internally generally bright and clean. This is a collection of short biographies of notable Quakers who passed away between 1783 and 1820.While much of the text appears to talk about the personal challenges these people faced some comments are directed at their works with others including native Americans. Solomon W. Conrad,
1821ref. 1015808vo leather spine label gilt lines on spine 184 pp. Top hinge cracked some minor wear to extremities volume slightly bent small hole through pages 7 and 8 some slight foxing but internally generally bright and clean. This is a collection of short biographies of notable Quakers who passed away between 1783 and 1820.While much of the text appears to talk about the personal challenges these people faced some comments are directed at their works with others including native Americans. Solomon W. Conrad, books
1954ref. 4307Philadelphia 1954. About very good. Thirty-five printed and typescript items approximately 150pp. total. Some staples old folds. Scattered contemporary ink stamps. Light toning and minor wear heavier in places. Scattered chipping and occasional short edge tears. A fascinating and scarce group of newsletters pamphlets and ephemera published by the American Friends Service Committee during and after World War II comprising thirty-five printed and typescript items. The Committee administered roughly one third of the camps in the Civilian Public Service system which was established to provide a means of non-military service to religious conscientious objectors during the war and also played a significant role in the anti-draft anti-conscription movement. The first group of material present here includes seven issues of the Civilian Public Service Friends Newsletter. These provide a detailed contemporary account of the overall state of the camps including camp populations incoming "campers" camp openings and closures and the financial situation. The newsletters also include news relating to the administration of the camps and developments regarding their operation and the activities of the interned objectors. Included as well are a promotional report issued on the two-year anniversary of the Service's inception and an elaborate four-page solicitation for donations to the CPS both also issued by the American Friends Service Committee. The issues of the newsletters present are: No. 5 October 30th 1942; No. 6 December 21 1942; No. 8 February 25 1943; No. 9 March 15 1943; No. 10 April 21 1943; No. 12 July 12 1943; No. 13 August 23 1943. A substantial run of a scarce and short-lived newsletter. We locate individually catalogued groups of these reports only at Bethel College and the University of Oregon and not in the Swarthmore Peace Collection. A second group of newsletters contains three issues of a weekly periodical Information and eleven issues of its monthly offshoot Information Digest dating December 1943 to July 1945 with two issues from later in 1946. These issues document the administration process of the CPS camps and contain reports on various facets of their operation including finances fundraising working and social conditions religious life and legal issues. Amongst these are reports on internal efforts and negotiations to fund the camps both within the Society of Friends and in partnership with other pacifist religious sects such as the Mennonites who were involved in camp operations. The December 2 1943 issue of Information for example contains a detailed narrative of the negotiation to fund the camps in 1944. The newsletters also contain a wealth of information on developments initiatives and daily life at the camps which include some particularly interesting reports on mental health among internees and on civil rights as the issue related to conscientious objectors but also to racial equality in the United States during the war era. OCLC locates holdings of this periodical at just a small handful of institutions. The third group of material comprises four scarce typed reports prepared and distributed by the AFSC during the war regarding the rights of conscientious objectors and their status. Three of the reports address the Selective Service Act and continued amendments thereto concentrating on the portions of the law that applied to religious objectors to military service and changes that affected objectors during the early years of the war. The first these issued in March 1942 first outlines the changes made to the draft law during December 1941 in the wake of the attack on Pearl Harbor and the declaration of war on the Axis powers and then provides an extensive step-by-step procedure for the application process to become a conscientious objector. Two further lengthy "memoranda" explain the rights of conscientious objectors as of December 1942 and March 1943 when each report was produced and gives advice for completing the objector application as well as for preparing supplementary documents and written statements. The other report in this group dated September 1941 gives an outline of the finances and disposition of the Civilian Public Service the system of labor camps for conscientious objectors on the eve of the war including lists of camps already in operation their capacities and statistical charts of objectors already registered and camp populations and assignments. These reports are quite striking as first-hand evidence of the role played by the Society of Friends administration in counseling their members to become conscientious objectors. Finally there is an interesting group of Quaker anti-conscription ephemera from World War II consisting of nine pamphlets that outline the pacifist views of the Society of Friends and the reasons behind them. The works go on to detail how these beliefs necessitate the Quakers' refusal to be conscripted into the American armed forces and defend this stance. Two pamphlets deal specifically with the opposition to peacetime conscription which became a political issue towards the end of the war. The individual titles are as follows: 1 "Why They Cannot Go to War." Philadelphia: American Friends Service Committee 1940. 2 "Why We Oppose Conscription." Philadelphia: American Friends Service Committee 1941. 3 "United States of America vs. Arle Brooks." Philadelphia: American Friends Service Committee 1941. Two copies. 4 Royden A. Maude. "An Unarmed State." Philadelphia: American Friends Service Committee N.d. 5 Muste A.J. "Conscription and Conscience." Philadelphia: American Friends Service Committee 1944. Two copies. 6 "Peace Time Conscription.A Problem for Americans." Philadelphia: American Friends Service Committee 1944. 7 "Permanent Conscription." Philadelphia: American Friends Service Committee 1945. 8 "No! To Peacetime Conscription." Philadelphia: American Friends Service Committee 1945. 9 "Advices on Conscription and War." Philadelphia: American Friends Service Committee 1954. unknown
1925ref. 26813London: Friends' Council for International Service 1925. Offprint. Octavo 20.5cm.; bifolium. Fine. "The efforts for pressing reforms in the women's prisons of Paris to which Garda Kappenburg has devoted all her time have at last been crowned with success. A committee has been formed of which the Dean of The Faculty of Law Monsieur Barthelemy is Honorary President and Mr. Donnedieu de Vabre Professor of Criminology actual President. A well known lawyer and a woman barrister are secretaries. The scheme of reform worked out at the instance of Garda Kappenburg and afterwards in the course of several personal interviews submitted to the Minister for Justice Pierre Laval seems to have met with complete success." 1925 Annual Report of The American Friends Service Committee. Article first published in the World Outlook Section of The Friend March 1925. Gerda Kappenburg De Hass's dedication to prison reform and the reduction of criminal behaviour through attacking root causes like poverty and lack of social mobility clearly knew no bounds and her unique determination achieved considerable results. Currently there is only a single institutional holding in a US institution NYPL. Friends' Council for International Service unknown books
ref. 53519P., Fischbacher, 1924, in 12 broché, 130 pages ; couverture et dos effrangés.
1830ref. 8959New York: Isaac T. Hopper 1830. Unbound. Very Good binding. Octavo. 8 pp. Folded sheet never bound; untrimmed. Separation at the folds of the outer two leaves; toning and soiling; pencil notations. A laudatory biography of Elias Hicks who had led a umber of Quakers into schism. Sabin 31718; American Imprints 1510. Isaac T. Hopper unknown
1780ref. 8847London: James Philips 1780. Original Wrappers. Good binding. Octavo. 32 pp. In original plain wrappers; original stitching perished now renewed. Generally edgeworn and soiled with six-digit number rubber-stamped on the front wrapper; some dog-earing shallow closed tears and chipping. Originally issued in 1666 this is an important publication by the 17th century Quaker who at the time was urging member to follow the central tenets of the Quaker faith and not put trust wholly in the clergy of whom he was suspicious. The preface of this copy points to the insecurity around the American Revolution. It states: "The ensuing Tract is re-published at the Request of several Friends who thought it might be of Service to settle the the sic Minds of many in these unstable Times and incline them to look Home to that Rock which has been is and will be the only Safety for the Righteous in all Storms and Trials of every Kind which may attend them in this Life: and it thought necessary to reprint it for the general Service at this Time wherein there are such Commotions Wars and Rumours of Wars in the Earth" p. 3. An import tract reissued in an important time. ESTC N9235. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. James Philips unknown
1925ref. 26813London: Friends' Council for International Service 1925. Offprint. Octavo 20.5cm.; bifolium. Fine. "The efforts for pressing reforms in the women's prisons of Paris to which Garda Kappenburg has devoted all her time have at last been crowned with success. A committee has been formed of which the Dean of The Faculty of Law Monsieur Barthelemy is Honorary President and Mr. Donnedieu de Vabre Professor of Criminology actual President. A well known lawyer and a woman barrister are secretaries. The scheme of reform worked out at the instance of Garda Kappenburg and afterwards in the course of several personal interviews submitted to the Minister for Justice Pierre Laval seems to have met with complete success." 1925 Annual Report of The American Friends Service Committee. Article first published in the World Outlook Section of The Friend March 1925. Gerda Kappenburg De Hass's dedication to prison reform and the reduction of criminal behaviour through attacking root causes like poverty and lack of social mobility clearly knew no bounds and her unique determination achieved considerable results. Currently there is only a single institutional holding in a US institution NYPL. Friends' Council for International Service unknown
1901ref. 20890291901. London: Headley Brothers. 1901. 8vo. Original decoratively gilt-stamped white cloth the upper board somewhat marked top edge gilt; pp. 90 2 portrait photo frontis and 8 other b/w photo plates; inscribed in pencil to the recto of the ffep 'Barrow Cadbury Birmingham'; endpapers lightly embrowned else a bright copy.First edition. One of a limited edition of 250 numbered copies. This copy numbered in pencil 175. A collection of addresses made to the Sovereign between 1654 up to the address made to King Edward VII in 1902 by the Deputation of the Society of Friends The Quakers.Barrow Cadbury 1862-1958 was the head of the chocolate factory and founder of the Barrow Cadbury Trust. The Cadburys were a leading Quaker family and George Cadbury Barrow's uncle was one of the Friends that formed the deputation to Edward VII. hardcover
1787ref. 15881Philadelphia: Printed by Joseph Cruikshank 1787 First edition. Contemporary calf burgundy morocco spine label. Octavo. With alphabetical index. Bottom corners rubbed small chip at foot of spine some light browning. Contemporary ink inscription on front free endpaper. A very good copy. An interesting collection of short biographies of early American Quaker ministers. Over fifty of the people discussed are women. Printed by Joseph Cruikshank unknown
1787ref. 15881Philadelphia: Printed by Joseph Cruikshank 1787 First edition. Contemporary calf burgundy morocco spine label. Octavo. With alphabetical index. Bottom corners rubbed small chip at foot of spine some light browning. Contemporary ink inscription on front free endpaper. A very good copy. An interesting collection of short biographies of early American Quaker ministers. Over fifty of the people discussed are women. Printed by Joseph Cruikshank unknown books
1800ref. 11885New York: Printed by Isaac Collins 1800. Hardcover. Very good. First edition. viii 141 pages. Evans 37474. Printed on heavy paper with one or two leaves bound between each of the chapters. According to a note following the introduction "The book is printed with blank pages for the purpose of making future additions which are to be inserted in the manner and in the page in which they will be directed to be placed by the yearly meeting. No other additions are to be made.". The present copy is annotated and corrected in various ways presumably by someone who attended this annual meeting. On the first free endpaper there is a contemporary annotation: "Abraham Barker Lives in Ohio Huron Co. Town of Brunson." On the blank leaf following p. 50 there is the note: " To the monthly Meeting of . . . Dear friend We the subscriber A B son of . . . . do propose taking each other in marriage between us which we submit to your approbation then dated AB / CJ"; the inscription is somewhat illegible owing to some soiling; however it follows the chapter on "Marriages" and reproduces in part the "Form of Marriage Certificate" that appears on p. 49. In the next chapter "Removals and Certificates" at the top of the page the following annotation is added: "it shall be the duty of such monthly Meeting to accept the same unless there be some manifest objections." On p. 123 in the chapter "Queries" the following annotation appears at the bottom of the page: "B. Are the answers to the Queries introduced to the Quarterly and Yearly Meetings the substance of and founded on the answers from the prepositive Meetings." On the preceding page three lines of text have been x'ed out and an "a" has been inserted before the word "priest" in the second line from the bottom and the words "or magistrate" have been crossed through. And on p. 124 the last page of this chapter the entire ten lines of text have been crossed out. Similar crossings have been made to the chapter "Meetings of Ministers and Elders". It would appear that these annotations and corrections were made by one of those attending the Meeting in New York presumably perhaps Abraham Barker. The chapters in the book cover the following topics which however do not appear in the order given in the Table of Contents: Appeals Apprentices Books Burials Certificates Civil government Children Dealing with offenders Differences and Arbitrations Diversions Defamation and detraction Days and times Distilled spirits &c. Donations Elders Gaming Meetings for worship for discipline of ministers and elders for sufferings; Ministry Meeting-houses and ground Marriages Memorials Overseers Oaths Poor Plainness Priests wages or hireling ministry Queries Requests to be received into membership Removals Scandal publick Slavery Schools Sufferings Subscriptions Scriptures of the Old and New Testament Taverns Trade and commerce Women's meetings War Wills. In the short chapter on "Slavery" it is stated: "No friend is to import buy or sell negroes or other slaves; or hire any that are held in bondage; or wake any that are young or others by indenture or otherwise unless they are first set free. Any friend disregarding the advice above expressed after deliberate dealing with except satisfaction be given is to be disowned. . . ." The Meeting House on Pearl Street was established in 1795-96 but demolished in 1828. Light foxing but a very good copy of a rare publication very few locations known including AAS and Haverford College. Printed by Isaac Collins hardcover
1834ref. 958101834. Third edition. Darton and Harvey London. 1834. Quarto hardback. Bound in full tan morocco gilt to contrasting maroon label piece and gilt border rules to boards. End-papers and all page edges marbled. 335 pages. Index. Presentation copy to Sir Herbert Taylor First Private Secretary to George III IV and William IV from the Quaker philanthropist Peter Bedford - inscription to front free end-paper. Extremities sl. rubbed and prelims foxed. A nice copy. hardcover
1859ref. 000010694Philadelphia: Association of Friends for the Diffusion of Religious and Useful Knowledge 1859. Later edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo. 2 iii-vii 1 9-103 3 pp. Brown publisher's cloth with gold lettering on the front board. Coated yellow endpapers and pastedowns. Excerpts taken from Tracts Illustrating the History Doctrine and Discipline of the Society of Friends published in London in 1851. A few nicks to the cloth; leaves show minor foxing with a contemporary gift inscription on the front flyleaf. Association of Friends for the Diffusion of Religious and Useful Knowledge hardcover
1715ref. 21205London 1715. 4pp. Printed in two columns. Disbound. Small folio. Early folds and early stab holes in left margin. Some foxing. One of Two Known Copies A rare and expansive appeal to Parliament against the 1715 bill to renew the Quakers' right to the "solemn affirmation" in place of the legal oath. In 1696 after experiencing decades of exclusion and imprisonment for conscientiously refusing to take loyalty and court oaths Quakers were granted the right by an act of Parliament to take a "solemn affirmation" in legal situations in place of an actual oath. In 1715 a bill was under consideration in Parliament to renew that act indefinitely. Significantly longer than most lobbying documents from this time this petition asks that Parliament only extend the act if the affirmation be made "of no Force where they are concern'd in Interest but where they only Affirm as Witnesses between others there being no Temptation for them to Lye when it brings no Profit to them." Many Quakers by this time had achieved significant prosperity in manufacturing and commerce adding fuel to their enemies' resentment. The author of this pamphlet charges various Friends with hypocrisy greed and swindling and reprints an earlier petition describing six widows of commanders of two "Guinea ships" allegedly defrauded by Quakers including one Quaker from Maryland. Not listed in Joseph Smith's Biblioteca Anti-Quakeriana or A Descriptive Catalogue of Friends' Books. ESTC records only one copy at Oxford. unknown
1715ref. 21205London 1715. 4pp. Printed in two columns. Disbound. Small folio. Early folds and early stab holes in left margin. Some foxing. One of Two Known Copies A rare and expansive appeal to Parliament against the 1715 bill to renew the Quakers' right to the "solemn affirmation" in place of the legal oath. In 1696 after experiencing decades of exclusion and imprisonment for conscientiously refusing to take loyalty and court oaths Quakers were granted the right by an act of Parliament to take a "solemn affirmation" in legal situations in place of an actual oath. In 1715 a bill was under consideration in Parliament to renew that act indefinitely. Significantly longer than most lobbying documents from this time this petition asks that Parliament only extend the act if the affirmation be made "of no Force where they are concern'd in Interest but where they only Affirm as Witnesses between others there being no Temptation for them to Lye when it brings no Profit to them." Many Quakers by this time had achieved significant prosperity in manufacturing and commerce adding fuel to their enemies' resentment. The author of this pamphlet charges various Friends with hypocrisy greed and swindling and reprints an earlier petition describing six widows of commanders of two "Guinea ships" allegedly defrauded by Quakers including one Quaker from Maryland. Not listed in Joseph Smith's Biblioteca Anti-Quakeriana or A Descriptive Catalogue of Friends' Books. ESTC records only one copy at Oxford. unknown books
1715ref. 21197London 1715. Broadsheet. 1p. plus printed docket title on verso. Dbd. Early folds and early stab holes in left margin. Moderate toning and foxing. Very good. Quakers seek relief on affirmation. In 1696 after experiencing decades of exclusion and imprisonment for conscientiously refusing to take loyalty and court oaths Quakers were granted the right by Parliament to take a "solemn affirmation" in legal situations in place of an actual oath. Over the next two decades numerous Quakers objected to the invocation of God's name in the official affirmation and refused it as they had the oath. In 1715 a bill was under consideration in Parliament to renew indefinitely the Quakers' right to the affirmation. The Quaker authors of the present petition support the bill but ask that it be amended with a revised affirmation that does not include the name of God. ESTC lists copies at four institutions: the British Library the Library of the Religious Society of Friends the National Library of Scotland and Oxford. Smith A Descriptive Catalogue of Friends' Books Vol. II p.265 listing its imprint at "about 1721". unknown
1715ref. 21197London 1715. Broadsheet. 1p. plus printed docket title on verso. Dbd. Early folds and early stab holes in left margin. Moderate toning and foxing. Very good. Quakers seek relief on affirmation. In 1696 after experiencing decades of exclusion and imprisonment for conscientiously refusing to take loyalty and court oaths Quakers were granted the right by Parliament to take a "solemn affirmation" in legal situations in place of an actual oath. Over the next two decades numerous Quakers objected to the invocation of God's name in the official affirmation and refused it as they had the oath. In 1715 a bill was under consideration in Parliament to renew indefinitely the Quakers' right to the affirmation. The Quaker authors of the present petition support the bill but ask that it be amended with a revised affirmation that does not include the name of God. ESTC lists copies at four institutions: the British Library the Library of the Religious Society of Friends the National Library of Scotland and Oxford. Smith A Descriptive Catalogue of Friends' Books Vol. II p.265 listing its imprint at "about 1721". unknown books
1823ref. 281351823. A three-page manuscript letter from Ephraim Smooth to Bloomfield McIlvaine exhorting him to follow the tenants of meditation and balance inherent in the Quaker tradition. A dance was held at the home of Obediah Sears and Ephraim Smooth writes at length about Quaker tradition of contemplation rejecting "ill-judged indulgence of riot & gaiety" refering to Bloomfield's education he graduated from the College of New Jersey later Princeton in 1812 and his power to influence the youths and finally offers a curative silent meditation with Simon Pure Obediah Broadbrim and himself to "cheerfully join in the dance of the spirit". Dated 5th day 7 month 1823 5 July 1823. Reference is made to the flute and fiddle made in Edenton North Carolina we assume; and addressed to "Bottany Bay" which we assume is the one on Edisto Island South Carolina. Bloomfield McIlvaine 22 Feb 1797- 18 Aug 1826 died at 30 in New Jersey. He married Henrietta Maria Banker in June 1824. His father was Joseph McIlvaine who died a couple hours after his son aged 58. Joseph was a US senator for New Jersey. Bloomfield was a lawyer - his extensive library takes four pages in his will just the books valued at $939.35. He is buried in Saint Mary's Episcopal Churchyard in Burlington New Jersey. unknown
ref. 18208Philadelphia. Friends' Book-Store. 1871. Hardcover. 12mo. 18cm 268p. black pebbled cloth missing front free end paper a fine bright sound clean copy ds1. - A Connecticut Quaker's diary. Samuel Scott was born in London in 1719 and died in 1788 in Hartford Connecticut in 1788. He had been a Quaker minister for thirty-six years. Originally published in Philadelphia in 1809. Philadelphia. Friends' Book-Store. 1871 hardcover
