22. Notes on Clarkson's "A Portraiture of Quakerism"

Elizabeth Phillips Payson was a member of the Charlestown (Massachusetts) Female Reading Society from 1812 to 1825. Here she copies facts and excerpts from the three-volume work by Thomas Clarkson (1760-1846), A Portraiture of Quakerism: Taken from a View of the Moral Education, Discipline, Peculiar Customs, Religious Principles, Political and Civil Economy, and Character, of the Society of Friends (1808) and adds brief comments of her own, such as: "very good" or "Do they observe this in practice or in theory." She indicates her source in the header of the page and has numbered the page of her notebook.