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Manuscript. Most pages labeled "Incident" and "From diary" with date: 1844, 1846, 1848, 1853, n.d. Digital

Item — Box: 1Identifier: MC 234, 12.
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Six volumes and one folder of diary entries document the importance of religion in her life and her opposition to the system of slavery, as well as her travels and daily activities. Davison wrote of well-known personalities and events of the slavery controversy: for example, of hearing Frederick Douglass speak, of reading Harriet Beecher Stowe's Dred, and of the 1856 presidential election. She also observed slave life closely and visited free blacks in Philadelphia...

Manuscript. Pages dated 1849, 1853?, 1855, n.d. Digital

Item — Box: 1Identifier: MC 234, 13.
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Six volumes and one folder of diary entries document the importance of religion in her life and her opposition to the system of slavery, as well as her travels and daily activities. Davison wrote of well-known personalities and events of the slavery controversy: for example, of hearing Frederick Douglass speak, of reading Harriet Beecher Stowe's Dred, and of the 1856 presidential election. She also observed slave life closely and visited free blacks in Philadelphia...

Manuscript. Pages numbered 18-25. n.d. Digital

Item — Box: 1Identifier: MC 234, 14.
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Six volumes and one folder of diary entries document the importance of religion in her life and her opposition to the system of slavery, as well as her travels and daily activities. Davison wrote of well-known personalities and events of the slavery controversy: for example, of hearing Frederick Douglass speak, of reading Harriet Beecher Stowe's Dred, and of the 1856 presidential election. She also observed slave life closely and visited free blacks in Philadelphia...

Manuscript. "Chap 3d, Nashville," pages numbered 43-52, 57-62. 1845, n.d. Digital

Item — Box: 1Identifier: MC 234, 15.
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Six volumes and one folder of diary entries document the importance of religion in her life and her opposition to the system of slavery, as well as her travels and daily activities. Davison wrote of well-known personalities and events of the slavery controversy: for example, of hearing Frederick Douglass speak, of reading Harriet Beecher Stowe's Dred, and of the 1856 presidential election. She also observed slave life closely and visited free blacks in Philadelphia...

Manuscript. "Chap 4th, New Orleans," pages numbered 63-66, 71-77, 81. 1846-1847. Digital

Item — Box: 1Identifier: MC 234, 16.
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Six volumes and one folder of diary entries document the importance of religion in her life and her opposition to the system of slavery, as well as her travels and daily activities. Davison wrote of well-known personalities and events of the slavery controversy: for example, of hearing Frederick Douglass speak, of reading Harriet Beecher Stowe's Dred, and of the 1856 presidential election. She also observed slave life closely and visited free blacks in Philadelphia...

Manuscript. "Chap 8th, Sailing of the Zebra," pages numbered 87-90, 1853; pages numbered 100-102, 1853; other pages and page fragment, n.d. Digital

Item — Box: 1Identifier: MC 234, 17.
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Six volumes and one folder of diary entries document the importance of religion in her life and her opposition to the system of slavery, as well as her travels and daily activities. Davison wrote of well-known personalities and events of the slavery controversy: for example, of hearing Frederick Douglass speak, of reading Harriet Beecher Stowe's Dred, and of the 1856 presidential election. She also observed slave life closely and visited free blacks in Philadelphia...

Manuscript. "Chapter 11th, Traders Yard and Arcade." 1853. Digital

Item — Box: 1Identifier: MC 234, 18.
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Six volumes and one folder of diary entries document the importance of religion in her life and her opposition to the system of slavery, as well as her travels and daily activities. Davison wrote of well-known personalities and events of the slavery controversy: for example, of hearing Frederick Douglass speak, of reading Harriet Beecher Stowe's Dred, and of the 1856 presidential election. She also observed slave life closely and visited free blacks in Philadelphia...

Manuscript. "Chap 13th, Visit to Philadelphia." 1853. Digital

Item — Box: 1Identifier: MC 234, 19.
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Six volumes and one folder of diary entries document the importance of religion in her life and her opposition to the system of slavery, as well as her travels and daily activities. Davison wrote of well-known personalities and events of the slavery controversy: for example, of hearing Frederick Douglass speak, of reading Harriet Beecher Stowe's Dred, and of the 1856 presidential election. She also observed slave life closely and visited free blacks in Philadelphia...

Manuscript. "Chap 16th, Miscellanies." 1854. Digital

Item — Box: 1Identifier: MC 234, 20.
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Six volumes and one folder of diary entries document the importance of religion in her life and her opposition to the system of slavery, as well as her travels and daily activities. Davison wrote of well-known personalities and events of the slavery controversy: for example, of hearing Frederick Douglass speak, of reading Harriet Beecher Stowe's Dred, and of the 1856 presidential election. She also observed slave life closely and visited free blacks in Philadelphia...

Manuscript. "Chap 18th, Cuba." 1855. Digital

Item — Box: 1Identifier: MC 234, 21.
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Six volumes and one folder of diary entries document the importance of religion in her life and her opposition to the system of slavery, as well as her travels and daily activities. Davison wrote of well-known personalities and events of the slavery controversy: for example, of hearing Frederick Douglass speak, of reading Harriet Beecher Stowe's Dred, and of the 1856 presidential election. She also observed slave life closely and visited free blacks in Philadelphia...

Manuscript. "Chap 19th, A Visit to the Colored People of Princeton." 1855. Digital

Item — Box: 1Identifier: MC 234, 22.
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Six volumes and one folder of diary entries document the importance of religion in her life and her opposition to the system of slavery, as well as her travels and daily activities. Davison wrote of well-known personalities and events of the slavery controversy: for example, of hearing Frederick Douglass speak, of reading Harriet Beecher Stowe's Dred, and of the 1856 presidential election. She also observed slave life closely and visited free blacks in Philadelphia...

Manuscript. "Chap 26th, Homeward Bound." 1856. Digital

Item — Box: 1Identifier: MC 234, 23.
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Six volumes and one folder of diary entries document the importance of religion in her life and her opposition to the system of slavery, as well as her travels and daily activities. Davison wrote of well-known personalities and events of the slavery controversy: for example, of hearing Frederick Douglass speak, of reading Harriet Beecher Stowe's Dred, and of the 1856 presidential election. She also observed slave life closely and visited free blacks in Philadelphia...

Manuscript. "Chap 27th, Diary Continued." 1856-1857. Digital

Item — Box: 1Identifier: MC 234, 24.
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Six volumes and one folder of diary entries document the importance of religion in her life and her opposition to the system of slavery, as well as her travels and daily activities. Davison wrote of well-known personalities and events of the slavery controversy: for example, of hearing Frederick Douglass speak, of reading Harriet Beecher Stowe's Dred, and of the 1856 presidential election. She also observed slave life closely and visited free blacks in Philadelphia...

Manuscript. "Extract from Fredrika Bremer's Homes of the New World" and other pages, n.d. Digital

Item — Box: 1Identifier: MC 234, 25.
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Six volumes and one folder of diary entries document the importance of religion in her life and her opposition to the system of slavery, as well as her travels and daily activities. Davison wrote of well-known personalities and events of the slavery controversy: for example, of hearing Frederick Douglass speak, of reading Harriet Beecher Stowe's Dred, and of the 1856 presidential election. She also observed slave life closely and visited free blacks in Philadelphia...

Manuscript. "The Story of Gilbert." n.d. Digital

Item — Box: 1Identifier: MC 234, 26.
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Six volumes and one folder of diary entries document the importance of religion in her life and her opposition to the system of slavery, as well as her travels and daily activities. Davison wrote of well-known personalities and events of the slavery controversy: for example, of hearing Frederick Douglass speak, of reading Harriet Beecher Stowe's Dred, and of the 1856 presidential election. She also observed slave life closely and visited free blacks in Philadelphia...

Manuscript. "Conclusion." n.d. Digital

Item — Box: 1Identifier: MC 234, 27.
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Six volumes and one folder of diary entries document the importance of religion in her life and her opposition to the system of slavery, as well as her travels and daily activities. Davison wrote of well-known personalities and events of the slavery controversy: for example, of hearing Frederick Douglass speak, of reading Harriet Beecher Stowe's Dred, and of the 1856 presidential election. She also observed slave life closely and visited free blacks in Philadelphia...

Notes on The Bible, 1852 and 1861. Digital

Item — Box: 1Identifier: MC 234, 28v.
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Six volumes and one folder of diary entries document the importance of religion in her life and her opposition to the system of slavery, as well as her travels and daily activities. Davison wrote of well-known personalities and events of the slavery controversy: for example, of hearing Frederick Douglass speak, of reading Harriet Beecher Stowe's Dred, and of the 1856 presidential election. She also observed slave life closely and visited free blacks in Philadelphia...

Notebook labeled, "Extracts by My Mother, AMH," 2 pages dated 1851 and 1852, most n.d. Excerpts from writings of others re religion, history, war, etc. Digital

Item — Box: 1Identifier: MC 234, 29.
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Six volumes and one folder of diary entries document the importance of religion in her life and her opposition to the system of slavery, as well as her travels and daily activities. Davison wrote of well-known personalities and events of the slavery controversy: for example, of hearing Frederick Douglass speak, of reading Harriet Beecher Stowe's Dred, and of the 1856 presidential election. She also observed slave life closely and visited free blacks in Philadelphia...

Correspondence of Alfred Hennen and his wife Ann Maria Davison Hennen in Echodell (New York?), giving details of deaths, weddings, and other family news, as well as concerns about property and finances following the war, 1862-1866. Digital

Item — Box: 1Identifier: MC 234, 30.
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Six volumes and one folder of diary entries document the importance of religion in her life and her opposition to the system of slavery, as well as her travels and daily activities. Davison wrote of well-known personalities and events of the slavery controversy: for example, of hearing Frederick Douglass speak, of reading Harriet Beecher Stowe's Dred, and of the 1856 presidential election. She also observed slave life closely and visited free blacks in Philadelphia...

Penmanship booklet, with note dated 1814; also notes re grammar, geography, etc., n.d. Perhaps by Davison's daughter? Digital

Item — Box: 1Identifier: MC 234, 1.
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Six volumes and one folder of diary entries document the importance of religion in her life and her opposition to the system of slavery, as well as her travels and daily activities. Davison wrote of well-known personalities and events of the slavery controversy: for example, of hearing Frederick Douglass speak, of reading Harriet Beecher Stowe's Dred, and of the 1856 presidential election. She also observed slave life closely and visited free blacks in Philadelphia...

Diary, March 1847 - November 1850. Digital

Item — Box: 1Identifier: MC 234, 2v.
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Six volumes and one folder of diary entries document the importance of religion in her life and her opposition to the system of slavery, as well as her travels and daily activities. Davison wrote of well-known personalities and events of the slavery controversy: for example, of hearing Frederick Douglass speak, of reading Harriet Beecher Stowe's Dred, and of the 1856 presidential election. She also observed slave life closely and visited free blacks in Philadelphia...

Diary, May 1851 - January 1853; includes description of her encounter with a prostitute. Digital

Item — Box: 1Identifier: MC 234, 31v.
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Six volumes and one folder of diary entries document the importance of religion in her life and her opposition to the system of slavery, as well as her travels and daily activities. Davison wrote of well-known personalities and events of the slavery controversy: for example, of hearing Frederick Douglass speak, of reading Harriet Beecher Stowe's Dred, and of the 1856 presidential election. She also observed slave life closely and visited free blacks in Philadelphia...

Diary entries, May 1853 - November 1854. Digital

Item — Box: 1Identifier: MC 234, 3.
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Six volumes and one folder of diary entries document the importance of religion in her life and her opposition to the system of slavery, as well as her travels and daily activities. Davison wrote of well-known personalities and events of the slavery controversy: for example, of hearing Frederick Douglass speak, of reading Harriet Beecher Stowe's Dred, and of the 1856 presidential election. She also observed slave life closely and visited free blacks in Philadelphia...

Diary, February 1856 - March 1857. Digital

Item — Box: 1Identifier: MC 234, 4v.
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Six volumes and one folder of diary entries document the importance of religion in her life and her opposition to the system of slavery, as well as her travels and daily activities. Davison wrote of well-known personalities and events of the slavery controversy: for example, of hearing Frederick Douglass speak, of reading Harriet Beecher Stowe's Dred, and of the 1856 presidential election. She also observed slave life closely and visited free blacks in Philadelphia...

Diary, April 1857 - February 1858. Digital

Item — Box: 1Identifier: MC 234, 5v.
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Six volumes and one folder of diary entries document the importance of religion in her life and her opposition to the system of slavery, as well as her travels and daily activities. Davison wrote of well-known personalities and events of the slavery controversy: for example, of hearing Frederick Douglass speak, of reading Harriet Beecher Stowe's Dred, and of the 1856 presidential election. She also observed slave life closely and visited free blacks in Philadelphia...