Day Six

After a relaxing weekend, I came back to work on the Eastwick collection. I catalogued a journal about a love affair, a travel log and among other things, a letter of disownment to Charles J. Wister from the Society of Friends. Here is the letter with the original punctuation:

At a monthly meeting of Friends of Philadelphia held 25th of 11th Month 1803 the following Testimony was agreed to : and a Copy directed to be delivered to the party

"Charles Jones Wister, of this City Merchant,
"Who had a birthright in our Religious Society, hath
"deviated from our peaceable Principles, by paying a
'Militia Time in lieu of personal service for which he
"hath been tenderly recited with but not appearing
"duly sensible of the nature of our Testimony in this
"Respect, We tertify that he hath separated himself
"from us, and we no longer consider him as retaining
" a Right of Membership amoung us, nevertheless
"devise he may become convinced of his Error

"and seek to be Restored.

I found some images of watercolors from the period of many of the letters I catalogued. They are interesting and help give an idea of what life was like.