Historical News

.HISTORICAL NEWS The Spring Meeting of Friends Historical Association was held, with the Friends Social Union, on Fifth Month 11, 1969, at Haverford, Pennsylvania. After a picnic lunch at Stokes Hall, Haverford College, the meeting convened in the Stokes Hall auditorium. The president, Frederick B. Tolles, presided. Edwin B. Bronner, Curator of the Quaker Collection of the Haverford College Library, described the history and the holdings of the Collection, and Mary Hoxie Jones spoke about the Rufus M. Jones Collection, also in the Library. The attendere then adjourned to the Quaker Collection Treasure Room for tea. * * * Each year Haverford College awards the T. Wistar Brown Fellowship to a scholar working in some aspect of the history and thought of Friends, with the understanding that the recipient would come to Haverford College to work in the Quaker Collection of the Library. The Quaker Collection contains 25,000 volumes, 85,000 manuscripts and such special collections as the papers and writings of Rufus M. Jones. The College Library contains 275,000 volumes and provides a broad source of material to supplement the specialized Quaker library. The current holder of the Fellowship is Professor Kenneth L. Carroll from the Department of Religion at Southern Methodist University. The 1968-'69 Fellow was Larry Gara, Professor of History at Wilmington College. Errol T. Elliott held the T. Wistar Brown Fellowship while writing Quakers on tL· American Frontier. Letters of inquiry may be directed to the office of the provost, Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania 19041, or to Edwin B. Bronner, Librarian and Curator of the Quaker Collection. The T. Wistar Brown Fellowship is usually awarded to postdoctoral candidates and carries a stipend of $6,000. 115 ...