Historical News

JiISTORICAL NEWS The Annual Meeting of Friends Historical Association was held Eleventh Month 30, 1970, at the Friends Meetinghouse, 304 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, preceded by a supper in the East Room for about eighty-five people. A new documentary film on the Society of Friends, past and present, prepared for visitors to the meetinghouse, was shown after supper. Friends then adjourned to the Monthly Meeting Room, where Willman Spawn, a member of Philadelphia Monthly Meeting, welcomed the Association and read a paper on his extensive research in the archives at 302 Arch Street, in which he had found much interesting material on the early meetinghouses in Philadelphia—Arch Street itself, the Greater Meetinghouse (1755), and the later building presently at 20 South 12th Street. The principal address was given by Phillips Moulton, professor of philosophy at Adrian College, on "The Influence of the Writings of John Woolman." The paper appears in this issue of Quaker History and will be included, in somewhat different form, in Phillips Moulton's edition of the Journal and Major Essays of John Woolman, to be published in 1971. 48 ...