Reel 26: "Slaymaker Papers "Society for Promotion of Industry & Prevention of Pauperism in Lancaster County"
Reel 27: "Splicing error at beginning. Should be at end. Ephrata Springs. S.C. Slaymaker Diaries 1831-1894. Honduras [????] Diary. Rebecca[?] Slaymaker. Normal School. House of Representatives 1856-1861"
Contains customers names and amounts paid. Also includes notes and quotations from wiritings of Sir Joshua Reynolds, receipts for mixing colors and directions for preparing canvases.
Original manuscript in collection of Historical Society of Pennsylvania .
Labeled on box # 244.
Table of contents found in William Henry Papers. 926 H525.
Photocopy of some of correspondence is found in oversize collection. 926 H525 v. 1-6.
See also Microfilm 244A for additional manuscript material on William Henry.
Description found in Guide to the Manuscript Collections in the Historical Society of Pennsylvania : "William Henry Papers, 1759-1812. Correspondence and other documents relating to Henry's political interests in Lancaster County and his activities during the Revolution; there are, also, a few additional items of a miscellaneous character. The papers include: letters, documents, and accounts, 1759-1812; ledger, 1777-79; a record of the "disbursements of the Hide Department,"1779-83; Lancaster County doket, 1774-80; J. J. Henry's journal of the campaign against Quebec, 1775; his notes for a history of the Indian nations, with maps of Pennsylvania counties; sixteen letters to William Henry, 1777, 1783, published in P.M.H.B., XXII(1898), 106-113.