Group of family correspondence written mainly by female members of the White Family, Quakers from Wilmington, Delaware and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania dated between 1842 and 1858.

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31 Letters, 80 manuscript pages, three pages of manuscript poetry, in very good, clean and legible condition. This group of correspondence was mainly written by members of the White Family, Quakers from Wilmington and elsewhere in Delaware, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The letters are mainly sisterly letters between the White sisters, Ruth Ann, Amelia, Sarah Jane, to each other and other sisters, including one, Deborah, who emigrated to Illinois. The letters contain family news, discussions of social and domestic life, current events in Wilmington, Philadelphia and Illinois, amongst other topics. The White family were Quakers and were engaged in farming, manual labor, storekeeping and school teaching in Wilmington and in Kent County, Delaware, and in Philadelphia. Deborah White, Alphonso and later Amelia White later moved to Jacksonville, Morgan County, Illinois, where they established a farm. Sample Quotes: Philadelphia 3d Mo. 15th, 1842, to Amelia H. White, Wilmington, Del. "My dear Sister, … you would oftener receive a letter from me but the same duties are gone through day after day but this is one of more interest because long anticipated Alphonso is once more a dweller under his mother's roof after dinner today he bid adieu to W. C. Betts and has launched upon the world I hope his may be a prosperous voyage that no adverse gale make shipwreck of his and our hopes and such will be my desires for thee if thy life should be prolonged until that day and I would like to i

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