A collection of Townsend family letters, 1810-1858
Subtitle: letters provided by Charles Townsend Spackman, Frederick Townsend Spackman and Donald Townsend Little
By: transcription and commentary by Dana Dunbar Howe
Series: Collection of Townsend family letters -- v. 1; Collection of Townsend family letters -- v. 1
Publisher: D.D. Howe?
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Richmond, VA?
Language: eng
Number of pages: 210
ISBN-13: 9780615317717
Subjects: Correspondence; Corrspondence; Quakers; Quaker women; Society of Friends; History
Other titles: Townsend family letters, 1810-1858
Description: Includes 42 letters written by the Townsend family of Philadelphia between 1810 and 1858, covering the topics of travel, life at boarding school, advice against worldly fashions, sibling relationships, human rights, domestic concerns, and weather.
Notes: Two CD-ROMs containing scans of the letters, mounted in sleeves on the inside back cover.

"...the first of five volumes to be comprised of letters, diaries, journals, and poetry written primarily during the first half of the nineteenth century by members of a Philadelphia Quaker family." -- Letter from Dana Dunbar Howe, Oct. 3, 2009.

Series title from letter from Dana Dunbar Howe, August 31, 2011.
Table of contents: title: Table of contents; title: Transcriber's notes; title: Charles and Priscilla Kirk Townsend; title: Anna and Edward Townsend; title: John Kirk Townsend; title: Hannah Townsend; title: Mary Townsend; title: Elizabeth Townsend; title: Appendix: Compact Disc A, reference code: T-00a; title: Appendix: Compact Disc B, reference code: T-00b.