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Title: Barclay, James J. to William Parker Foulke
Description: Hopes that the circular and certificate prove what Foulke wished.
Subject: Prison reformers--Pennsylvania
Date: 1852-10-23

Title: Foulke, William Parker to Andrew Clerk
Description: List of publications sent to Clerk by the Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons.
Subject: Prison reformers--Pennsylvania
Date: 1859-12-22

Title: Clerk, Andrew to William Parker Foulke
Description: Thanks Foulke for publications. Refers to his British India contact as his cousin, Dr. Stuart Clark "who has long held a civil appointment in India and who has given some attention to the refreins of prisons there." Note: seems that this should be "reforms" but appears to be "refreins."
Subject: Prison reformers--Pennsylvania
Date: 1859-12-24

Title: Foulke, William Parker to John Bell
Description: Referring to the editing and completion of an article authored by Foulke.
Subject: Prison reformers--Pennsylvania
Date: 1849-12-17

Title: Clerk, Andrew to William Parker Foulke
Description: A friend in British India would like information on prisons in the United States. Mr. Gaddis of Trenton State Prison referred him to Foulke.
Subject: Prison reformers--Pennsylvania
Date: 1859-11-26

Title: Foulke, William Parker to Henry C. Carey
Description: Prison Society. Thanks him for sending plans for new prison near Copenhagen.
Subject: Prison reformers--Pennsylvania; Reformers--Pennsylvania
Date: 1859-12-30

Title: Foulke, William Parker to Dorothea Lynde Dix
Description: Foulke writes of need for legitimate studies of the penitentiary system, laments the “public misconception” of separate confinement.
Subject: Reformers--Pennsylvania; Prison reformers--Pennsylvania
Date: 1846-01

Title: Chandler, L.A. to Benjamin Buckley
Description: Letter of introduction for William Parker Foulke who is engaged in efforts toward penitentiary reform. Sent on behalf of W.A. J. Olmstead.
Subject: Prison reformers--Pennsylvania; Reformers--Pennsylvania
Date: 1861-01-28

Title: Foulke, William Parker to John N. Conyngham
Description: Has heard of plans for new Luzerne County prison and offers suggestions.
Subject: Prison reformers--Pennsylvania; Reformers--Pennsylvania
Date: 1859-06-13

Title: Coppeé, Henry to William Parker Foulke
Description: Thanks for Foulke's paper on "Cellular Separation." Concurs with his views and hopes that this is but part of a more complete work on prisons and prison discipline. Comments that Dickens "cannot strike anyone as doing more than most unworthily to excite our sympathy for criminals and such." Foulke's "management of his remarks is skilful and entirely satisfactory."
Subject: Prison reformers--Pennsylvania; Reformers--Pennsylvania
Date: 1861-02-25

Title: Foulke, William Parker to Richard Vaux
Identifier(s): text:143428
Description: Pennsylvania Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons
Subject: Prison reformers--Pennsylvania; Prisons--Pennsylvania; Reformers--Pennsylvania
Date: 1861-10-01

Title: Foulke, William Parker to John Holloway
Description: Interest in Eastern State and Philadelphia prison documents from directors in Denmark, Sweden, Kentucky, and British India.
Subject: Eastern State Penitentiary of Pennsylvania.; Prison reformers--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History.
Date: 1860-01-06

Title: Foulke, William Parker to Dorothea Lynde Dix
Identifier(s): text:141097
Description: Concerns the Journal of Prison Discipline and Eastern State Penitentiary. Foulke feels "personal responsibility" to Dix to fight for prison reform.
Subject: Eastern State Penitentiary (Philadelphia, Pa.); Prison reformers--Pennsylvania
Date: 1846-01-26