Quaker Research in Progress

QuakerResearchinProgress Information concerning Quaker studies in progress but not published should be sent to Henry J. Cadbury, Chairman of the Committee on Historical Research, 774 Millbrook Lane, Haverford, Pennsylvania. Dorothy Rose Blumberg, 628 West 151st Street, New York, N. Y., 10031. Florence Kelley: The Making of a Social Pioneer. (A detailed examination of the influences which shaped Florence Kelley's social philosophy and led to her lifelong involvement in the battle against child labor.) Columbia University: History, thesis for M.A. degree, 1963. Ready for publication. Ella Cassaigne, 7 Rue Dante, Paris, 5e, France. John Woolman. The Sorbonne : Civilization Américaine, thèse d'Université. Paul Fenimore Cooper and Paul Fenimore Cooper, Jr., P. O. Box 5, Cooperstown , New York. William Cooper of Cooperstown, New York. (Biography of the father of the novelist James Fenimore Cooper.) Mary Maples Dunn, The Library, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania . William Penn: Politics and Action. Dean Freiday, 2 Garfield Terrace, Elberon, New Jersey. Barclay's Apology "transphrased" into twentieth-century English with annotation on points of doctrine and on biographical references. George F. Frick, Department of History, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware. Peter Collinson, 1694-1768. (A biography with emphasis on CoIlinson 's role as a scientific entrepreneur.) Nodlaig P. Hardiman, 188 Rathgar Road, Dublin 6, Eire. A catalogue of the books and pamphlets in the Historical Library of the Society of Friends in Eustace Street, Dublin. (A card catalogue in author sequence with title and subject entries.) Richard F. Hixson, School of Journalism, Rutgers, the State University, New Brunswick, New Jersey. Isaac Collins, A Quaker Printer in Colonial New Jersey. (A biography of the first newspaper publisher in New Jersey, printer of the first quarto edition of the Bible in America, official printer to the colony, and publisher of many books and pamphlets.) Donald D. Lamm, P. O. Box 564, Quincy, Washington. The Evidence and Practice of Spiritual Gifts among Early Friends. Western Evangelical Seminary : Theology, thesis for B.D. degree. 46 Quaker Research in Progress47 Roy Mottahedeh, Wire Mill Road, Stamford, Connecticut. Quakerism in the Fen Country before 1688. (This study, especially concerned with Huntingdonshire , tries to relate the development of Quakerism there to the earlier history of the Fen Country.) James H. Norton, Woodland Drive, Millersburg, Ohio. Ohio Friends before the Civil War. Western Reserve University: Religion, thesis for Ph.D. degree. Levinus Painter, Bagdad Road, Collins, New York. History of Friends in East Africa. Roderick N. Ryon, 117 Sparks Building, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, 16802. Roberts Vaux: A Biography. (A study of the prominent early nineteenth-century philanthropist active in penal, educational , and other reform movements.) Pennsylvania State University: History, thesis for Ph.D. degree. Thomas Howard Smith, 603 West Main Street, Kent, Ohio. The Work of Ohio Yearly Meeting with the Freedmen, 1860-1885. William P. Taber, Jr., 908 North Twelfth Street, Richmond, Indiana, 47374. A History of Ohio Yearly Meeting (Conservative). Earlham School of Religion: thesis for M.A. degree. Edward Teitelman, 7 Fairview Drive, Danbury, Connecticut. Wilson Eyre and the Newton (Camden), New Jersey, Meetinghouse. Mrs. G. R. Womelsdorf, Jr., 3711 39th Street N. W., Washington, D. C. The Nineteenth-Century Antislavery Testimony of the Society of Friends: A Quiet Testimony vs. Abolition. (An attempt to determine whether differences of opinion toward abolition are paralleled in passive and active modes of religion.) Columbia University: History, thesis for M.A. degree. 1963. ...