Correspondence, covenants, diaries and journals, financial and legal papers, hymns and hymnals, church orders and instructions, poetry, spiritual communications, inspirational writings and drawings, essays, biographical and historical sketches, memoirs, registers, clippings, and other papers, primarily relating to and emanating from Shaker communities at Enfield, Conn., Pleasant Hill and South Union, Ky., Canaan and New Lebanon, N.Y., and Union Village, Ohio, reflecting many aspects of Shaker belief, life, history, and custom. Includes additional material relating to other communities at Alfred, Me.; Busro (West Union), Ind.; Canterbury and Enfield, N.H.; Hancock, Harvard, Pittsfield, and Tyringham, Mass.; Watervliet, N.Y.; and Watervliet and Whitewater, Ohio. Prominent Shakers represented include Giles Bushnell Avery, David Darrow, Calvin Green, Matthew Houston, Rebecca Jackson, Susanna C. Liddell, Richard McNemar, Joseph Meacham, R.W. Pelham, Seth Y. Wells, and Isaac N. Youngs.