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Fry, Elizabeth, (1780-1845), penal reformer and philanthropist

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Alternative name(s):	Gurney (Maiden Name)
Surname:	Fry
Forenames:	Elizabeth
Gender:	Female
Date:	1780-1845
Biography:	ODNB link for Fry, Elizabeth (1780-1845) nee Gurney, Prison Reformer and Quaker Minister
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/P135955 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/P10782 )
Online related resources	Bibliography of British and Irish History link for Elizabeth Fry

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference	Further information
1	1796-1845: copy of diary made by daughter	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MSS 47456-57	See HMC Papers of British churchmen 1780-1940, 1987
2	1797-1845: diaries and corresp	Religious Society of Friends Library	MS Vols s 255-73; Gurney MSS	NRA 20017 Friends register
3	corresp	Religious Society of Friends Library	Gurney MSS	NRA 41687 Gurney MSS See NRA 20017
4	1816-22: journals	Norfolk Record Office	MC 519
5	1816-46: journals, notebook, papers and corresp	Norfolk Record Office	RQG	NRA 15293
6	papers	Norfolk Record Office	ACC 2005/362	See Annual Return 2006
7	1830-36: extracts from journals (microfilm copy)	Religious Society of Friends Library		See HMC Papers of British churchmen 1780-1940, 1987
8	papers and corresp (17 items)	Boston Public Library		NRA 11046 Boston Library
9	1845: misc family papers including those rel to her death	Somerset Heritage Centre (South West Heritage Trust)	DD/OB	NRA 12408 Osborne
10	1700-1872: letters (115), with other corresp of Fry and Gurney families	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Egerton MSS 3672-75
11	c1816-45: corresp	Religious Society of Friends Library	Temp MSS 4A, 9, 10, 24, 30, 61, 64, 73	NRA 20087 Friends inventory
12	letters and annotated Bible	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MSS 73528-73533	See Annual Return 1997
13	1815-45: family corresp (17 items)	Devon Archives and Local Studies Service (South West Heritage Trust)	3352M	NRA 25518 Fry
14	1821-70: letters and misc family papers	Norfolk Record Office	MC 511
15	1810-24: letters to Jonathan and/or Hannah Backhouse	Durham University Library and Collections	BAC	NRA 628 Backhouse
16	1807-45: corresp with Thomas Fowell Buxton and letters to her sister Hannah Buxton and niece Priscilla Buxton	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MSS Brit emp s 444, 558	NRA 24097 Buxton
17	1842-43: letters to Lord Stanley	Liverpool Record Office	920 Der 14, box 140	NRA 20084
18	c1826-50: papers of her niece Elizabeth Gurney, incl papers rel to Continental travel, and letters from Elizabeth Fry to the Queen of Denmark	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections		NRA 20352 de Bunsen

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