Briefer Notices

BRIEFER NOTICES Prepared by John and Barbara Curtis About twenty-five historians, archivists, and interested Friends attended a Conference of Quaker Historians and Archivists held at Quaker Hill, Richmond, Indiana, July 9 to 11, 1976. The general theme of the conference was "America's Impact on Quakerism." The program included a paper by Edwin Bronner (Haverford College), on the interrelationships between Quakers and others in the colonial period in the Delaware valley, and a paper by Richard E. Wood (Bethany Nazarene College), on die emergence of revivalistic, pastoral Quakerism in midwestern America between 1850 and 1890. Arthur Worrall, William Taber, and Willard Heiss took part in a panel on the westward transplanting and transforming of Quakerism, in which they traced Quaker migrations to the Hudson Valley, Ohio, and Indiana . The archivists present discussed the problem of the tendency of many meeting records to disappear over time; they agreed to seek funds which would enable Willard Heiss and others to film meeting records nationwide. The Friends World Committee for Consultation, at its subsequent triennial session in Hamilton, Ontario, endorsed diis concern. Those present agreed that future conferences of Quaker historians and archivists should be held, with the next one to come in 1978. They agreed to ask the Friends Historical Association to sponsor tiiis project, which would be carried on by a committee centered in the Richmond, Indiana, area. At the annual meeting of Friends Historical Association in Philadelphia on November 30, this agreement was endorsed. Persons interested in these conferences should contact Hugh S. Barbour, Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana 47374.« « » Philip S. Foner has an article about a niece of Quaker Henry Pemberton, the 19th century scientist. An able but obscure Quaker member of die Socialist Party in the 1890's, Caroline Hollingsworth Pemberton was a dedicated promoter of the rights of Negroes to good education, fair employment , etc. in post civil war America. The article appears in Pennsylvania History, July, 1976, v. 43, no. 3, p. 227-251. * * * DAR's bicentennial gift to Pennsylvania reported in Pennsylvania Heritage v. II, no. 2, March, 1976, was a Colonial Meeting Room in the William Penn Memorial Museum. The room is a scaled down interior of a Quaker Meeting House in natural wood. The benches are the gift of Willistown Mondily Meeting of die Religious Society of Friends, Goshen Road, near Newtown Square, Pa. The bicentennial issue of the same publication appearing as v. II, no. 3, June, 1976, has a long article by J. B. Frantz "Prepare thyself ... to meet the Lord thy God: Religion in Pennsylvania during die Revolution." This 65 66QUAKER HISTORY article devotes considerable space to the position of Quaken and other pacifists in this period, pp. 28-32. In the same issue Caroline Krause writes of "Women in Pennsylvania: The first two hundred years." Lucretia Mott, Quaker leader in anti-slavery and women's rights efforts, is one of the leaders discussed, pp. 49-53. * * * Friends Hospital at Frankford, Pa has issued a pamphlet giving details of the early days of the operation of the hospital : "An account of die events surrounding the origin of Friends Hospital and a brief description of the early years of Friends Asylum, 1817-1820." It was prepared by Kim Van Atta in collaboration with several members of die medical staff. Copies are obtainable from the Hospital at Philadelphia, 19124.» * * Lewis Benson has an article in New Foundation studies published in Gloucester, England, entitled "What did George Fox teach about Christ?" It is taken from the transcript of a weekend gathering held in London in May, 1975. Copies may be obtained from the Friends Book Store, 156 N. 15th Street, Philadelphia 19102 for $1.25 plus handling and postage.» * * The Indiana Magazine of Hutory contains an article of Quaker interest in its issue for 1976, vol. 72, no. 2, pp. .122-137. "Joseph Moore, Quaker evolutionist" by William Cooper tells of Moore's studies at Harvard under Agassiz, Gray and Wyman. Cooper feels that beginning with Moore a faith in the essential unity of all knowledge and truth has been the foundation of a strong scientific tradition at Earlham College. In the same magazine, no. 3, p. 273, there is a notice...