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Creator
Forster, Josiah, 1782-1870
Call number
Pforz Ms
Physical description
1 item
Preferred Citation
Josiah Forster manuscript material : 1 item, Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, The New York Public Library
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Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle
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Josiah Forster, prominent British Quaker. He served as presiding officer over the yearly meeting of British Quakers from 1820-1831. He was the brother of William Forster, philanthropist and Quaker minister. · To Robert Were Fox, English Quaker geologist and physicist : 1 autograph letter signed : 12 Mar 1819 : (MISC 1992) : requesting money to support the continental performance of French Quaker missionary Stephen Grellet. Additionally signed by Luke Howard, Quaker chemist and meteorologist, and Thomas Christy (probably Thomas Christy, b. 1801, of the London Quaker hat maker Christys). Attached to a third person letter addressed to Mrs. Robert Fox from "Lt. Gov. Melville," 28 Apr 1810 (MISC 1993), regarding an allowance from the Society of Friends. Both letters were formerly attached to (G 0305).

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Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788
Third Floor, Room 319

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