THE SOCIETY OF FRIENDS:
THE SOCIETY OF FRIENDS: EXTRACTS OF LETTERS FROM SARAH R. GRUBB. Manuscript volume so titled, comprising, on 143-pages, transcripts of numerous letters from Sarah Grubb, and also letters of T. Hoyland, Henry Tuke, Tabitha Middleton, Elizabeth Tuke and others.
4to, contemporary half crimson roan, marbled boards. The paper water-marked 1827; transcribed about this date. The letters from which these are transcribed, ca. 1778 – 1795. We have been unable to establish whether the original letters from which these transcripts were made are extant.
From a letter from Sarah Grubb
to Robert Valentine, 8 mo 24th 1786:
“… … … Since I wrote thee
last I have accompanied our beloved friend Rebecca Jones in a visit
to all the meetings in the nation of Ireland, wherein we had Geo.
Dilwyn a fellow-labourer and acceptable companion, having reason to
believe that we were rightly banded together in that land, and at
some other times since we left it, which was in the 12th
month last, having been about five months in visiting the meetings
there.
After we returned to England, my dear friend Rebecca
Jones went about doing good in Yorkshire for three months – during
which I had an opportunity of spending a little time at home, and at
last assisting in giving up an hour at Foston though without any
clearness where our next place of residence would be… … … Since we
left Yorksh. Last 3rd mo. We have come through Cheshire
and Staffordsh. Shropsh. and North Wales, to Cardiff – where the
Welsh Yearly Meeting was held this year, and from whence we came to
Bristol, went through parts of Wiltshire to London … … from London
we came through Hampshire, part of Dorsetshire, Somerset and Devon,
into Cornwall where we were comforted in finding a visited and
rightly exercised seed, to whom we feel our minds nearly united –
especially to Jos. Tregellis’s family of hopeful young people.
We are now going towards Bristol and expect to be there next
week – and from there to go to the Western Circular Yearly Meeting
to be held at Gloucester where we have some little expectation of
Christiana Hustler meeting us and to rejoin my dearly beloved
companion to whom my mind is nearly united………
We were greatly surprised a few days ago to see our
dear friend Wm. Mathews who was expected had sailed from Bristol
last week, which he was prepared for, but feeling a stop in his
mind, accompanied with distress in the prospect of going in that
vessel, he was persuaded upon to give it up, of which many of his
friends are glad, believing that therein he was right. It is now
likely he may attend the Circular Meeting, after which his way may
appear open to America with renewed clearness or some service to
detain him. We have
lately heard that Jno Pemberton is in the Orkney Islands … … Thomas
Cash is with him, also Alex’r Cruikshank ……”
*Sarah Grubb (1756-1790; Quaker minister and writer) married Robert Grubb of Clonmel, Co. Tipperary in 1782. In 1786 she accompanied Rebecca Jones of Philadelphia on a visit to Wales and in 1787 to Ireland; in 1788 she accompanied the Americans George and Sarah Dillwyn to the Netherlands, Germany, and France. [see D.N.B.]
** Rebecca Jones (1739-1818) a Quaker educator and minister of Philadelphia. She travelled to Quaker Meetings throughout America, England and Ireland during the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
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