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Correspondence mainly addressed to E S Whiting (44 items), including letters from E Ronald Morris, Llanfyllin and Llanidloes (8) 1950-61, Emyr Wyn Jones, Liverpool (9) 1959-60, and A R Lewis Saul, Welshpool (8), 1959-60.

Documents relating to Quakerism, including an epistle to Friends, 1689, by William Fell (No 1); a letter (19th cent copy) from John Lock, Grays Inn, 1699, to Rebecca Collier (No 3); an epistle to the Herefordshire Quarterly Meeting from the Yearly Meeting held in Bristol, 1721 (No 4); outline of a sermon by Sarah Grubb at the Friends' Meeting, Birmingham, 1839 (No 14); and a poem 'Testimony concerning Francis' by Thomas Langhorn and Thomas Carlton (No 17).

Research papers of Evelyn Southall Whiting, 1689-1970, relating to the history of Quakerism in Wales and the Welsh Border, including documents, 1689-1839, relating to Quakerism; papers and notes on Quakers and Quakerism in Wales, 1875-1970; and correspondence, 1950-1969.

Notebooks and files containing notes on Quakers and Quakerism in Wales and the Welsh Border. Subjects include religious leaders of the Welsh Border (No 19), half-yearly meetings for Wales (No 20), Herefordshire and Worcestershire meeting houses (Nos 21,22,28,29), Welsh Quaker links with America (No 27), women Quakers (No 31), and Quaker sufferings in Wales (No 32).

Papers on Quakerism in Merionethshire including 'The story of Llwyngwril Quakers' by Bob Owen, Croesor (typescript copy by Canon J Hughes-Jones, Llwyngwril).

Papers on Quakerism in Radnorshire including articles on 'Pales Meeting House', 'The valley of the Windy Ways', together with two articles by H D Phillips, 'Account of Llandrindod Wells and Llanyre Meeting, 1894-1934', and 'The beginnings of Quakerism in Radnorshire'.

Papers on Quakerism in Wales and the Border, including an article, 'The Yearly Meeting for Wales : 1682-1797' (four typescript copies) together with two radio talks 'The Quakers of Wales' by Trevor Jepson (typescript) and 'The Quakers in Wales' by Jonathan Lloyd (printed).

Papers relating to Quakerism in Herefordshire, including articles entitled 'Bromyard Meeting House' (from Hereford and Radnor Monthly Newsletter, January 1970), 'Lucton Friends Meeting House', and 'The Brampton Bryan enclosure'.

Papers relating to the history of Almeley Meeting House, Herefordshire, including Edwin Lloyd's bill of costs, 2 Nov 1875, for drawing up title deeds relating to the meeting house.

Papers relating to Welsh Quakers in America, including a typescript and offprint of an article 'The Welsh settlers in Pennsylvania, an experiment in communal living', Friends' Quarterly, July 1960.

Typescript copy of D E C Eversley, The demography of the Irish Quakers. Evaluation of family data relating to a religious sect in Ireland in the 17th and 19th centuries (a discussion paper circulated to the Colloquium in Historical Demography to be held in Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest, 23-6 September, 1965).

Typescript copy of John Humphreys, 'A brief narrative of the sufferings of the Christian people called Quakers at Llwyn Grwill (sic) in Merionethshire' from Howard H Jenkins, Historical collections relating to Gwynned (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1897).