American Communal Societies Quarterly Publications
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- From the Editor
- Sally Dean and Her Letter to “Respected Friend Phineas”
- Introduction by Glendyne Wergland 99
- Reprint of letters 105
- The Shaker Leaf Song: Solving a Perplexing Puzzle by Roger L. Hall
- Church of Christ unto a People in Kentucky
- Introduction by Ralph Stenstrom
- Reprint of document
- Comment
- Hamilton College Library “Home Notes”
- Hamilton College Acquires The Shaker Messenger Archive
- Communal Societies Collection: New Acquisitions
Front cover illustration: [Photograph, 1920s]. House of David baseball players. Front row, l. to r.: Dutch Faust, shortstop; Cookie Hannaford, outfielder; David Harrison, third baseman; back row: Zeke Baushke, second baseman; and Andy Bell, utility player. The House of David barnstorming baseball team was famous for its pepper game and performed from ca. 1912 to 1936. Faust, who may have been the best natural athlete at the House of David, and Baushke were known as the “diamond cutters” for their prowess at turning the double play. Photo from Clare Adkin’s House of David collection, which was recently acquired by the Hamilton College Library. More information about the collection will be available in a future issue of the Quarterly.
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- From the Editor
- The Copley-Lyman Shaker Family of Enfield, Connecticut:
- An Annotated Genealogy
- Genealogical Charts by M. Stephen Miller
- Michigan’s Siberia: The House of David on High Island by Clare E. Adkin, Jr.
- News and Notes by Walter A. Brumm
- Hamilton College Library “Home Notes”
- Communal Societies Collection: New Acquisitions
- News from the Communal Studies Association
Front cover illustration: [Product label, detail]. “Pure Cayenne, put up in the United Society, Shirley Village, Mass. Address John Whitely.” Detail of an uncut sheet of five labels, 10” x 8”, each label 3 1/8” x 1 7/8”. The labels date from ca. 1875-1885. Note the “e” missing from “Village” in the bottom label. Brother John Whitely (1819-1905) joined the South Family at Shirley in 1849 and moved to the North Family in 1861 where he became first elder. He was appointed to the Harvard/Shirley ministry in 1871.
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- From the Editor
- The Road From Harmony by Eileen Aiken English
- Mother Lucy’s Last Visit to Watervliet
- Introduction by David D. Newell
- Reprint of manuscript
- A Sampling of Rare Shaker Broadsides by Christian Goodwillie
- Hamilton College Library “Home Notes”
- Hamilton College Library’s Special Collections: An Overview
- Communal Societies Collection: New Acquisitions
Front cover illustration: Card. A Tribute of Thanks to our Neighbors. New Lebanon [N.Y.], 1852. See p. 32 for full description.
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- From the Editor
- Introducing the Richard W Couper Press
- William Scales' 1789 "Mystery of the People Called Shakers"
- Introduction by David D. Newell
- Reprint of Scales' article
- News and Notes by Walter A. Brumm
- Hamilton College Library "Home Notes"
- The Shaker Manifesto Digitized
- New Acquisitions by Hamilton College Library's Communal Societies Collection
- Subscription information
Front cover illustration: Hamilton College Library recently acquired Honey: Soul of Flowers to Sweeten the Soul of Man, a four-page price list from Mount Lebanon. The cover illustration is unusual and striking. Mary Richmond notes (Shaker Literature, no. 340) that W H. Cathcart attributes the cover design to "Brother Peter Neagoe, a Roumanian living at the North Family, Mount Lebanon, N.Y in 1906."
