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, 7 Buckingham Place, Cambridge 38, Massachusetts. Thomas D. S. Bassett, Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana. Middlewestern Quakerism. (The Separation of 1828-29 in the West). Research commenced. Anne Carey, 186, Thorne Road, Doncaster, England. Balby "Children of the Light." (Early Friends in Balby, 1650-60) . In rough draft. Betsy Copping Corner, 4 Merryman Court, Baltimore 10, Maryland. Dr. John Fothergill and the Ideal of Peace (Paper to be delivered before ¡the Royal Society of Medicine, Historical Section, Autumn, 1952, in London). William D. Dwyer, 626 Laughlin Hall, Princeton, New Jersey. Emigration of Spanish Refugees and Their Resettlement in France and North Africa, 1939-40. (Largely based on material in AFSC archives at Haverford). Princeton University: History, thesis for A.B. degree, 1952. Helmut von Erffa, Art Department, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey. A Catalogue of the Drawings of Benjamin West. Outline planned; some material collected. Edmund Goerke, Jr., Monmouth Hills, New Jersey. Friends Meetings in Northern New Jersey. (The location of all thirty meetings in this area has been determined) . Anthony Higgins, R.D. 3, Newark, Delaware. The Corbits on Appoquinimy: A Quaker Family of the Border South. (Socio-economic study, carrying the Corbit family of Odessa, Delaware, from the early eighteenth century down to ca. 1875). Completed. Robert J. Leach, 92 rte de Chêne, Geneva, Switzerland. Quaker Experience in International Affairs, 1914-1953. University of Geneva: Political Science, thesis for Ph.D. degree. Research recently undertaken. Elizabeth M. F. van Mesvannèe, 12 Sweelinckstraat, Den Haag, The Netherlands. The Relation between the Prophetical and Mystical Aspects of Quakerism. Theological Seminary of the Remonstrant Brotherhood: Theology, thesis for Proponent degree, 1952. Hanna Darlington Monaghan, Buck Hill Falls, Pennsylvania. Quaker Prophet: George Fox (A character study of Fox in the light of his miracles) . 136 Quaker Research in Progress137 Saul Sack, School of Education, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 4, Pennsylvania. A History of Higher Education in Pennsylvania . (To include reference to Quaker connections with the Women's Medical College, Haverford, Swarthmore, Bryn Mawr Colleges, and Cheyney Training School for Teachers) . Research partly completed . Mary Paige Ware, 50 East Main Street, Yarmouth, Maine. History of Falmouth Quarterly Meeting (Maine), 1921-46. (Continuing an account of the earlier years prepared in 1920 by Viola K. Rollins). Completed (copy on file at Haverford College Library) . Sarah Porter Whitney, Elwyn, Delaware County, Pennsylvania. History of the Elwyn Training School, 1853-1953. Writing commenced . Bufo Yamamuro, 267 I Chôme Kami-Kitazawa, Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan. A Popular Story of Quakerism. (For the Japanese public). Research commenced. Elizabeth Yates, Peterborough, New Hampshire. Prudence Crandall : Her Life and Work. (For older boys and girls). Research commenced. From Quaker Libraries The Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College reports the recent deposit of nineteen volumes of records of Goshen Monthly Meeting, sixteen volumes of records of Kennett Monthly Meeting, and one volume of records of Woodbury Preparative Meeting ; also the MS minute book of the Acting Committee of the New York Association of Friends for the Relief of Those Held in Slavery, 1839-44; and a MS account of the "White Quakers" of Ireland by Ernest Bennis. The Quaker Collection of the Haverford College Library received as a gift several boxes of letters and papers of Moses Brown (17931878 ), of New Hampshire and Philadelphia, including two letters written by Stephen Grellet, six from Eliza Kirkbride Gurney, and one by Moses Brown of Rhode Island written in 1836 just a few months before his death. Another gift was the marriage certificate of Samuel Pastorius and Hannah Lücken, dated 1716, and signed by Francis Daniel Pastorius, one of the witnesses at his son's marriage. The diaries of Joseph Walton (1817-1898), in nineteen volumes covering the years 1875 to 1894 were another...