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BOX 38-40 REEL 31-32 ITEM 356-370 Addition, 1806-1905
Correspondence, hymns, prayers, spiritual communications, recipes and instructions, scrapbook, bibliography, and other writings.
Arranged numerically.
BOX 38 REEL 31 ITEM 356 Miscellany: newspaper accounts of a vision, apparently from the Raleigh (N.C.) Register and North Carolina State Gazette, 1806; correspondence, 1825; and a hymn, undated
ITEM 357 Letter from Seth Y. Wells [?] at New Lebanon, N.Y., to Eleazar Wright at Union Village, Ohio, 1831
ITEM 358 "A book concerning the use of strong drink, tobacco, swine's flesh, etc.," 1841
BOX 39 REEL 31 ITEM 359 "Divine instructions from Holy Mother Wisdom; also various communications from the Holy Angels. Church at Harvard, 1841"
ITEM 360 "Inspired anthems. Given on gold plates; Aug. 30 1846, Union Village, Ohio," Charles D. Hampton
ITEM 361 "A hymn book containing a collection of ancient hymns, recorded by Paulina Bryant, Pleasant Hill, June 1854."
BOX 39 REEL 32 ITEM 362 Evening prayer and poem for children, undated
ITEM 363 Writings including directions for using and preparing vegetable medicines, food, copies of letters, extracts from sermons, and other material, circa 1840-1845
(1 vol.)
ITEM 364 "Receipts and practical instructions upon blue dyeing, written Aug. 1854, by Abigail Crossman," and copies of letters and other writings, 1854-1875
BOX 40 REEL 32 Recipes for marking steel or iron, mending kettles, making soap, and other items, 1860[?]
ITEM 365 (1 vol.)
ITEM 366 Recipes for food, undated
(1 vol.)
ITEM 367 Letters, mostly to David Meacham and the elders at New Lebanon, N.Y., from Betsey Bates, Luther Coply, Garret Lawrence [?], Eleanor Potter, Hannah Reed, Seth Y. Wells [?], and others from Enfield and Canterbury, N.H.; Alfred and Hancock, Maine; Union Village, Ohio; and Watervliet, N.Y. [?], 1833-1837
ITEM 368 Report of the Commissioner of Patents for the Year 1858. Agriculture. (Washington: James B. Steedman, 1859. 551 pp.), used as a scrapbook for clippings, circa 1878-1886
ITEM 369 Scrapbook, circa 1832-1845
(1 vol.)
ITEM 370 A Bibliography of Shaker Literature, by John Patterson MacLean (Columbus, Ohio, Fred J. Heer, 1905. 71 pp.), heavily annotated
BOX OV 1-OV 2 Oversize, 1807-1858
Correspondence (photocopies) and a watercolor painting.
Arranged and described by item number and according to the series and containers from which the items were removed.
BOX OV 1 REEL 6 ITEM 107-118 Correspondence, photostatic copies (Container 8)
BOX OV 2 REEL 8 ITEM 135 Watercolor painting, "A gift and roll from Holy Mother Wisdom . . . , 1858" (Container 9)

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