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MS 1936/1/1/13

1741-1798

Includes transcripts of letters and testimonies of Friends, a poem by Joseph Brown and John Pemberton's concern to visit the Highlands and Isles of Scotland, with a letter from him to Martha Routh aft...

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MS 1936/1/1/14

1797-1798

Comprises transcripts of letters from Joseph Wood to various correspondents including three to Martha Dickinson. The cover of the volume is made of a contemporary 18th century decorative paper with a...

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MS 1936/1/1/7

1754-1791

Includes various accounts, testimonies and letters including an 'Account of subscription for rebuilding Highflatts Meetinghouse', an 'Account of subscriptions for building Lumbroyd Meetinghouse', 'Acc...

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MS 1936/1/2/1

1748-1776

Contains 'A letter to the Methodist Preachers belonging to the Foundery especially to John and Charles Wesley from Thomas Burton', 'writing by Mary Collier' and 'A short Testimony dropt by Elizabeth W...

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MS 1936/1/2/2

1727

Contains 'An Abstract of divers Particulars of Advice at sundry times from the Yearly and Quarterly Meetings' by Thomas Hammond. The date 1690 in a circle is written in pencil on the front cover of t...

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MS 1936/1/2/3

1773-1776

Comprises several accounts of journeys undertaken by Joseph Wood including travel to meetings at Balby, Brighouse and Monyash. The dates 1773 and 1776 are written in pencil on the front cover. There...

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MS 1936/1/2/4

1773-1776

Comprises several accounts of journeys undertaken by Joseph Wood primarily to meetings at York. Also includes a description of a journey to the Welsh Yearly Meeting at Newtown, Montgomeryshire, in 17...

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MS 1936/1/2/5

1775

Comprises an account of Joseph Wood's journey to the yearly meeting in London in 1775. The journal describes the various people he met, and the places he stayed in during his travels. The volume is ...

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MS 1936/1/2/6

1671-1680

Comprises a treatise 'On marriage by William Edmonson', 1680 and 'Friends keep to the Antient Principle of Truth', by George Fox, dated 1671. Also includes an account 'On the death of Joseph Earnshaw...

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MS 1936/1/2/7

1770-1777

Includes 'Lines sent to John Barclay by a Gentleman on Reading Robert Barclays Apology', 'A Short Address to the English Colonies in North America' and two letters. The volume is bound in a contempor...

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MS 1936/1/2/8

1738-1780

Includes 'A Letter from the Yearly Meeting of Women Friends London to the yearly Meeting of Women Friends in Wales, 1776, 'Letter to the Womens Meeting in Dublin' 1753, 'Address occasioned by the eart...

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MS 1936/1/2/9

1780

Comprises a copy of 'Christopher Batty's letter to Betty Lonsdale' and 'C. P.'s Answer to C. B.'s Letter'. The letters concern a book written by Hugh Turford. '1780' is written on the front cover in...