Wellesley Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends) Records
1954-2018
5 vols., 4 boxes (2.75 linear feet)
Call no.: MS 902 W455
The Wellesley Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends) was set off from
Cambridge Monthly Meeting in 1958 after fourteen years of worship. Since the outset, Wellesley
has been a member of Salem Quarterly Meeting and since 1992, it sponsored a worship group (now a
Recognized Meeting) at the Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Norfolk until 2020.
The records of Wellesley Monthly Meeting are comprised of relatively complete set of meeting minutes from 1954 (when Wellesley was a Recognized Meeting under the care of Cambridge) to 2004, along with newsletters from 1965-2011.
Abbie Loring in Cape Cod Quaker attire, ca.1930. Photo by Alton H. Blackington
The Wellesley Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends) was set off from Cambridge Monthly Meeting in
1958 after fourteen years of worship. Since the outset, Wellesley has been a member of Salem
Quarterly Meeting and since 1992, it sponsored a worship group (now a Recognized Meeting) at the
Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Norfolk until 2020.
Scope of collection
The records of Wellesley Monthly Meeting are comprised of relatively complete set of meeting
minutes from 1954 (when Wellesley was a Recognized Meeting under the care of Cambridge) to 2004, along with newsletters from 1965-2011. The newsletters start with "volume 3," are otherwise nearly complete, lacking only part of 1989 and 2006-2007.
Inventory
Wellesley Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends): Minutes
1954-2004
Wellesley Monthly Meeting: Minutes
1954 Oct.-1958 Sept.
Box 1: 1
Wellesley Monthly Meeting: Minutes
1958 Oct. 29-1964 June 25
Bound vol.
09:E3
Wellesley Monthly Meeting: Minutes
1964 Sept. 24-1966 Dec. 31
Bound vol.
09:E3
Wellesley Monthly Meeting: Minutes
1967 Jan.-1969 Dec.
Bound vol.
09:E3
Wellesley Monthly Meeting: Minutes
1970 Jan.-1973 Dec.
Bound vol.
09:E3
Wellesley Monthly Meeting: Minutes
1974
Box 1: 2
Wellesley Monthly Meeting: Minutes
1975
Box 1: 3
Wellesley Monthly Meeting: Minutes
1976
Box 1: 4
Wellesley Monthly Meeting: Minutes
1977
Box 1: 5
Wellesley Monthly Meeting: Minutes
1978
Box 1: 6
Wellesley Monthly Meeting: Minutes
1979 Jan.-1979 June
Box 1: 7
Wellesley Monthly Meeting: Minutes
1984 Sept. 13-1988 May
Bound vol.
09:E3
Wellesley Monthly Meeting: Minutes
1988 Sept.-1988 Dec.
Box 1: 8
Wellesley Monthly Meeting: Minutes
1989
Box 1: 9
Wellesley Monthly Meeting: Minutes
1990
Box 1: 10
Wellesley Monthly Meeting: Minutes
1991
Box 1: 11
Wellesley Monthly Meeting: Minutes
1992
Box 1: 12
Wellesley Monthly Meeting: Minutes
1993
Box 1: 13
Wellesley Monthly Meeting: Minutes
1994-1995 May
Box 1: 14
Wellesley Monthly Meeting:
Minutes
1995
Box 4
Wellesley Monthly Meeting:
Minutes
1996
Box 4
Wellesley Monthly Meeting:
Minutes
1997
Box 4
Wellesley Monthly Meeting:
Minutes
2000 Sept-Dec
Box 4
Wellesley Monthly Meeting:
Minutes
2001 Jan-Apr
Box 4
Wellesley Monthly Meeting: Minutes
2001 May-2001 Dec.
Box 1: 15
Wellesley Monthly Meeting: Minutes
2002
Box 1: 16
Wellesley Monthly Meeting: Minutes
2003
Box 1: 17
Wellesley Monthly Meeting: Minutes
2004 Jan.-2004 Apr.
Box 1: 18
Wellesley Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends): Other records
1988-1995
Wellesley Monthly Meeting: Committee reports
1994
Box 1: 19
Wellesley Monthly Meeting: Member directory
1988, 1995
Box 1: 20
Wellesley Monthly Meeting: State of the Society reports
1990-1995
Box 1: 21
Wellesley Monthly Meeting:
Recorder's book
undated
Box 4
Wellesley Monthly Meeting:
Photograph and address book
Cite as: Wellesley Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends) Records (MS 902 W455). Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries.
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Subjects
New England Yearly Meeting of Friends
Quakers-- Massachusetts
Society of Friends--Massachusetts
Wellesley (Mass.)--Religious life and customs
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