Quaker Research in Progress

Quaker Research in Progress The following list of current or recent studies in Quaker history continues the series of such notices appearing from time to time in the Bulletin. It is of course improbable that the list is complete, but it is interesting as showing where the present frontiers of Quaker research are. Information concerning other Quaker studies in progress but not published should be sent to Henry J. Cadbury, Chairman of the Committee on Historical Research, Pendle Hill, Wallingford , Pennsylvania. Walter Forrest AItman, Department of English, Florida State University , Tallahassee, Florida. Woolman's Reading. (A study of every book Woolman is known to have read, quoted, or been exposed to). Florida State University: English, thesis for Ph.D. degree. 1956. Ralph Paul Bohn, 1645 Berwyn Avenue, Chicago 40, Illinois. The Controversy between Puritans and Quakers to 1660. (A study of the theological differences manifested in the polemical writings of the early Friends and their Puritan critics). University of Edinburgh: thesis for Ph.D. degree. Completed. Beatrice E. (Spring) Borchardt, Box 37, Alpaugh, California. Marcus and Rebecca Buffum Spring of Eagleswood. (Study of their Quaker background, and their connection with the Raritan Bay Union, Utopian community at Eagleswood, New Jersey, and other organizations). Robert S. Burgess, 20 Lincoln Avenue, West Barrington, Rhode Island. Mary Dyer. (For the early teen-age reader). To be completed in 1956. Hardy Carroll, Box 19, Guilford College, North Carolina. The Treatment of Temptation and Sin in Early Quakerism. University of Edinburgh: Divinity, thesis for Ph.D. degree. 1956. Hugh M. Cronister, 788 West End Avenue, New York 25, N. Y. The Journal of John Woolman: A Re-estimation of Its Merit. Columbia University: English Literature, thesis for M.A. degree. Completed. Alan Cole, 4 North Terrace, Cambridge, England. The Quakers and Politics to 1660. Cambridge University: History, thesis for Ph.D. degree. 1955. James H. Duckrey, State Teachers College, Cheyney, Pennsylvania. Life of Richard Humphreys. (Founder of State Teachers College, Cheyney [d. 1832]). 38 Quaker Research in Progress39 Mrs. George H. Eckhardt, 530 Bellevue Avenue, Hammonton, New Jersey. John Woolman in relation to the Old School House in Mount Holly. S. H. Fang. History of Friends in China. (Mainly about West China Friends). Larry Gara, 912 South Main Street, Eureka, Illinois. The Legend of the Underground Railroad. (An attempt to separate the legend from the historical institution and to trace the growth and uses of the legend from ante-bellum days to the present). Dorothy G. Harris, 209 Garrett Avenue, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. Factors Influencing the Architecture of Nineteenth-Century American Quaker Meetinghouses. (An analysis of the change in meetinghouse design, with 93 illustrations). University of Pennsylvania: American Civilization. Ruth A. Heaton, St. Mary's College, Durham University, Durham, England. The Organization and Discipline of the Society of Friends in the Eighteenth Century, with Particular Reference to Newcastle Monthly Meeting, 1765-80. Durham University: History, thesis for B.A. degree. Alex M. Hitz, 1516 Peachtree Street, N.W., Atlanta 9, Georgia. The Quakers' Town and Township known as Wrightsborough. (Georgia before and during the Revolution.) William R. Hughes. How Seekers Find. (A study of the conversion experiences of Friends, based on Quaker journals.) Woodbrooke. 1953. (Copy at Friends Historical Library, Swarthmore.) Caroline N. Jacob, West Chester, Pennsylvania. William Edmondson, "Hammer of Ireland." Sydney V. James, Jr., 204D Holden Green, Cambridge 38, Massachusetts . Quaker Humanitarianism in Colonial America. Harvard University : History, thesis for Ph.D. degree. Henrietta Stratton Jaquette, 101 South Chester Road, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. Friends Association of Philadelphia for the Aid and Elevation of the Freedmen. Francois Laplanche, 11 place Bretonnaise, Cholet, Maine et Loire, France. L'enseignement de Moyse Amyraut, professeur à l'Académie protestante de Saumur sur la grâce et le prédestination. [William Penn studied under Amyraut at Saumur in 1663.] Université catholique d'Angers: Divinity. 1955. Bradford Lyttle, 5729 Dorchester Avenue, Chicago 37, Illinois. The Participation of Quakers in Civil Government. (An historical survey covering the period 1656-1900 with generalizations drawn therefrom.) Copy at Friends Historical Library, Swarthmore. 1956. Jean Bruce McClure, 17 New Street, Newark, Delaware. Benjamin Ferris and the Paul and Amicus Letters. (The life of Benjamin Ferris and his contribution to early nineteenth-century Quaker liberalism.) 40Bulletin...