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Research in Progress by Mary Ellen Chijioke and Claire B. Shetter Jessica Kross (Department of History, University of South Carolina, Columbia , SC 29208) is working on a book on "Living a spiritual life in the world: Henry Drinker, Rebecca Jones, and John Pemberton." She would like information on Rebecca Jones and Hannah Cathrall—"Letters especially welcome." Alan Taylor, Assistant Professor in the Department of History, Boston University (226 Bay State Road, Boston, MA 02215) is working on a number of related topics: William Cooper (1754-1809); Otsego County, NY, 1785-1810; and Burlington, NJ in the 1780s. John Joseph Cunha (P.O. Box 421, Waldo, FL 32694; telephone (904) 468-1937) has several volumes of the journals of Rowland Greene, a key figure in the Gurneyite-Wilburite controversy in Rhode Island, and is preparing to edit them. He would be very grateful for any information on the whereabouts ofother volumes of the manuscript journal. Susan Garfinkel (Department of American Civilization, 301A College Hall, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104) is preparing a dissertation on Philadelphia Quakers, 1756-1827: the relationship of theology to material life, both within the Society of Friends and in the larger context of Philadelphia culture and society. As a specific instance of Quaker material culture, Pamela Powell, Photo Archivist at the Chester County Historical Society (225 N. High Street, West Chester, PA 19380), is studying the work and life of itinerant daguerreotypist George PyIe, who worked from 1846 to 1850, travelling from West Marlboro Township in Chester County, through Lancaster County to Ohio and Indiana. She is seeking any of his daguerreotypes taken during this period. Quaker pacifism continues to stimulate considerable academic interest. Meredith Baldwin Weddle (66 Kipp Street, Chappaqua, NY 10514) is doing research for her dissertation for Yale on "Quaker Pacifism, 1650-1750 in England and America, with special attention to Rhode Island, North Carolina, New York and the Jerseys." Michael Heller, Assistant Professor in the English Department, Roanoke College (Salem, VA 24153-3794) is revising his dissertation, "Soft Persuasion: John Woolman's Rhetoric of Non-Violence," (Arizona State University, 1989) for publication, and would welcome any ideas and suggestions regarding "Woolman's strategies as a social activist and writer, his community of writers, his relationship with his audience, and a Quaker conception of persuasion." Brian Drayton (19 Sanger Street, Medford, MA 02155) has been preparing a transcript, with comments, of Samuel Allinson's 1775 manuscript tract on war taxes. He hopes to have it completed by mid-February 1991 and is willing to supply copies to anyone willing to bear the cost of photocopying and postage. Covering the same period, Jacquelyn Miller (511 Ewing Street, Princeton, NJ 08540) is doing her dissertation for Rutgers University on "Anglo-American relations during the American Revolution, including the correspondence between 60Quaker History Philadelphia and London Yearly Meetings." Dealing with Anglo-American relations in a later period, David P. Billington (29 Wilson Road, Princeton, NJ) is preparing his dissertation for the University of Texas on Philip Henry Kerr, 1 1th Marquess of Lothian, and has been examining Frank Aydelotte's correspondence with Lord Lothian and others in Britain on world peace and international relations. Emma Lapsansky, Curator of the Quaker Collection at Haverford College (Haverford, PA 19041) is conducting research for a book on Friendship Cooperative Housing, Philadelphia, 1946-1960, a Quaker 'intentional community' founded by staff of the American Friends Service Commitee and their friends. She would appreciate comments and contacts from anyone who lived in the community. Another area with significant research activity using Friends materials is Native American history. James Merrell, Associate Professor of History at Vassar College (Poughkeepsie, NY 12601) is working on a book on Indian-White relations in colonial Pennsylvania, with specific attention to traders, interpreters, and other "go-betweens." Beverly Olson Flanigan, Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Ohio University (Athens, OH 45701) is expanding and revising her dissertation (Indiana University , 1981) on "the use of English by American Indians with colonists, traders, missionaries , etc., and among Indians of different tribes; and the varieties of 'broken' or pidgin English which developed." She would like any information or notices of such pidgin English use found in the course of other Native...

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