Quaker Research in Progress

QUAKER RESEARCH IN PROGRESS By John and Barbara Curtis David Goodman, of the faculty of the State University of New York at Albany, is in the final stage of preparation of a book widi title "Chronicle of a people: history of the Apache prisoners of war, 1886-1914." Research has been completed and writing is progressing on this work which will examine government attitudes to the needs and desires of these Indians. There will also be discussion of the effects on Indian life styles of the contacts with alien white culture. "Philadelphia economic elites, 1775-1800" is the topic for a doctoral dissertation offered by Robert J. Gough, a candidate in the department of history at the University of Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania Quaker business people will be among diose studied in this diesis for which research is nearly complete. A master's degree paper for Yale University will deal with Isaac Hopper, 19th century Quaker anti-slavery activist. Daniel Meaders of 96 Tompkins St., New York, N.Y., 10304, is preparing this study for the History Department at Yale. A 1976-1977 Guggenheim fellowship winner is Dr. Robert G. Pope of die State University of New York at Buffalo. His project is called "The social context of Puritan-Quaker conflict in 17th century New England." Charles A. Gauld of Miami, FIa., is curently at work on a book about Blacks in Florida. He has in his possession a large envelope of newspaper clippings and notes on Quaker visitors to Florida, such as Jonathan Dickinson of shipwreck fame in 1696, the Bartrams, and Jonathan Walker, immortalized in Whittier's poem "The Branded Hand," down to die present time. Gauld offers these to any interested Friend. Write to him at MiamiDade Community College, Miami, FIa. 33176. T. Vail Palmer, professor of philosophy at Rio Grande College in Rio Grande, Ohio, has been appointed the T. Wistar Brown Fellow in Quaker studies at Haverford College for 1976-1977. Dr. Palmer is examining die U9 120QUAKER HISTORY social thought of four Quaker writers, Edward Burrough, John Bellers, Jonathan Dymond and Richard K. UUmann. Pamela M. Oliver of Flemington, Victoria, Australia, is in the final stages of preparing a doctoral dissertation for the University of Melbourne on die subject, "Quaker Testimony and the Lamb's War." It is based on a study of the thought of some fifty early Friends, including all diose in die microfilm series of Early Quaker Writings published by the Library at Friends House, London. ...