Research in Progress

Research in Progress Mary Ellen Chijioke and Barbara E. Addison Major early leaders and writers figure prominently in currentresearch in Quaker history. Two researchers are studying James Nayler, for different purposes. Jane Orion Smith (Pendle Hill, 338 Plush Mill Rd., Wallingford, PA 19086) has been awarded a Cadbury Fellowship to work with faculty member Elizabeth Kamphausen on a new edition of Nayler's writings. David Neelon (2773 North Park Blvd., Cleveland Heights, OH 44118) is studying Nayler and his contemporaries in preparation for an historical novel. Two other researchers are studying the writings and correspondence of JohnWoolman: WilliamM. Decker, Associate Professorat Oklahoma State University (1902 W. University Ave., Stillwater, OK 74074); and Drew Lawson (Pendle Hill, RMB 3230, Eaglehawk, Victoria 3556, Australia). Two Japanese historians have been studying early Quaker history. Hiromi Nishimura, who has published a history of early Quakerism for Japanese readers, spent spring term at Pendle Hill while doing research for a biography ofWilliam Penn. Tamaki Yamamoto (8-8, 2-2, Miyanodawa, Nishiku, Sapporo, Japan) has been studying the Quaker background of Inazo Nitobe. Peter Sippel (333 LaceyAve.,D-12, Doylestown, PA 18901) is working ofan edition ofthe sermons and letters ofWilliam Savery. Glenn Oeland, on the editorial staff of National Geographic Magazine (17th St., NW, Washington, DC 20036) is writing a book about another William, William Bartram. Several current research projects concern Quaker reactions to war and politics. Christine Greenland (790 E. Street Rd., Warminster, PA 18974), a Master of Divinity student at Earlham School of Religion, is studying Quakerpeace witnessbefore the French and Indian War, 1730 to the Treaty at Easton, 1762. Thomas A. Mogan (1435 Dalian Rd., West Chester, PA 19382), is writing his master's thesis at Villanova University on Quakers during the American Revolution. James Landers (33 Colonel's Lane, Chartsey, Surrey KT16 8RH, England) is investigating the involvement of Francis Richardson, a Quaker from Chester, Pennsylvania, in Stephen Sayre's 1775 plot to overthrow George III. Maureen Murphy (14 Foster Place, Sea Cliff, NY 1 1579) Professor of English and Secondary Education at Hofstra University, is writing a Research in Progress67 biography of Asenath Nicholson, who worked closely with Friends on matters of abolition, peace, and Irish famine relief. Julie Roy Jeffrey, Professor at Goucher College (Baltimore, MD 21204) has chosen Quaker abolitionist Laura Haviland as her subject. Allison Sneider (1621 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103) has used her semester as Visiting Lecturer at Bryn Mawr College to verify biographical details concerning Susan B. Anthony for the editors of the Stanton/Anthony papers. Scholars continue to consult Quakersources for the study ofothergroups in America. Judith A. Boughter (16805 Pine St., Omaha, NE 68130), InstructorattheUniversityofNebraskaatOmaha, hasbeenusing thepapers of Barclay White, Samuel Janney, and others involved in Grant's Peace PolicyforherstudyofPawnee history. Khalil G. Muhammed (16Roosevelt Place, Apt. C3, Montclair, NJ 07042), doctoral student at Rutgers University , has been using the papers ofAnna Wharton Morris and others for his dissertationresearch on earlytwentieth-century social work among African Americans and Italians. In women's history, Anne Kugler (10200 N. Park Blvd, University Heights, OH 44118), Assistant Professor at John Carroll University, is using Quaker sources for a paper comparing women and aging in early modern England and colonial North America. Current local history and institutional studies with Quaker content include the work of Christopher Jones (P.O. Box 1800, Kimberton, PA 19442), ofthe University ofPennsylvania and Pikeland Historical Society concerningPikelandlocal history, usingtherecords ofPikelandPreparative Meeting and the papers ofthe Lewis-Fussell family. TaylorM. Chamberlin (16158 Clark's Gap Rd., Waterford, VA 20197) is studying the history of Fairfax Monthly Meeting, especially during the periods of abolition, the Civil War and Reconstruction, for a planned book on local history. Despite the vaunted Quaker disdain for the arts, several scholars are studying Quaker connections with art and literary history. Margaretta Frederick Watson (1 101 Corner Ketch Rd., Newark, DE 1971 1) is preparing a book on J.W. Pease and investigating Quaker patronage ofthe arts in nineteenth-century Britain. Ruth Irwin Weidner (511 West Miner St., West Chester, PA 19382), retired Professor of Art History at West Chester University, has been consulting the papers ofSwarthmore Professor Spencer Trotter in her study the career ofPhiladelphia artistNewbold H. Trotter...