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The Epistle from the Yearly Meeting Held in London [American Revolution]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC07635 Author/Creator: Place Written: London, England Type: Document Date: 1779/05/24-29 Pagination: 4 p. : Height: 27.5 cm, Width: 21.1 cm Order a Copy

Contains a letter to friends at the quarterly and monthly meetings in Great Britain and Ireland: "The sufferings of our brethren in America... have principally arisen from that confusion and distress which are inseparable from war..."; and another letter to friends at their yearly meeting in Philadelphia: "We are sensible, that many are the difficulties and sufferings, which the present unhappy contests and commotions in your land must produce..." Written in the fifth Quaker month.

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