Quaker Research in Progress

QUAKER RESEARCH IN PROGRESS By John and Barbara Curtis The editore desire to keep this column up to date on any projects involving research in Quaker history. We try to keep informed in a variety of ways^ but we depend largely on information sent to us directly by scholars, as well as data gained from contacts at the two Quaker collections in the Philadelphia area: Haverford College Quaker Collection and Friends Historical Library (Swarthmore College). Please write to John and Barbara Curtis, editors, Quaker Research in Progress at 631 Walnut Lane, Haverford, Pa. 19041. * * » Anne H. Helwig of Adelphi, Maryland 20703, is doing a masters paper in art and architecture for the University of Maryland. She is examining die architectural work of Frederick B. PyIe, 1867-1934, a Quaker architect of Washington, D.C. * * * Mark Kadzielski of Los Angeles, Calif, is a doctoral candidate at the University of Pennsylvania in history. His topic is "A social history of Newtown , Bucks County, Pa., 1683-1813." His research is nearing completion and writing of the finished thesis has begun. * * * Dr. Mary Maples Dunn of St. Davids, Pa., professor of history at Bryn Mawr College, is at work on a study of women and religion in colonial America. Mary Dunn expects to make die study inclusive geographically and by religious body. Publication is anticipated in a year or two. * * * Also concerned about women's activities is Professor Pearl Aldrich of Frostburg State College at Frostburg, Maryland. Dr. Aldrich is investigating the role and responsibility of women's meetings for business in the 17th and early 18th centuries in England and America. * * * Marlene Keller of Berkeley, Calif, is preparing a doctoral dissertation for the University of California on die topic "Female benevolence in Philadelphia 1790-1860." This is a study of the charitable activities of Philadelphia women, focusing particularly on women Friends, such as Lucretia Mott, and the societies and institutions they helped to establish. * * * Quaker History regrets an error in attribution of audiorship in the issue of Spring, 1976. Mickey M. Slimp is in fact preparing a study for Eastern State University at Johnson City, Tenn. on Quakers in that area. It is Joseph L. McDevitt, Jr. who is preparing a thesis for the doctorate at American University with title "William Rotch (1734-1828) Quaker whaling merchant of Nantucket and New Bedford, Mass." The editors of Research in Progress regret diis error. 64 ...