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118 BULLETIN OF FRIENDS' HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION neighboring province, is very agreeable and satisfactory to us. We earnestly desire the two G—rs we have thus distinguished, may as they seem to be united in design, be united in affection, and answer fully the great purpose of their appointment; and among other things, protect in your several jurisdictions, our persuasion, in all their enthusiastic peculiarities; and especially secure to us the effects of that pretended liberty of conscience, which was really designed to lay the burden of our defence on our poor fellow-subjects, while we enjoy the fruits of peace and security. With sincere love to Thee, we conclude, and remain thy assured Friends. Signed in and on behalf of our said Yearly Meeting, by our Clerk.* Arthur J. Mekeel ITEMS FROM PERIODICALS By Thomas E. Drake The Friend (Philadelphia) ATTENTION is called by George DeCou in the issue of 7 mo. 1, 1937 „ (pp. 7-8) to "The Quaker Experiment in West Jersey" as the forerunner of the "Holy Experiment" which was later undertaken on the west bank of the Delaware. Popular German opinion of Quakers in the early nineteenth century is illustrated by a widely read tale, "The Sly Quaker," by Johann Peter Hebel (1760-1826). The story, which has been translated by Herbert Hubben, a student at George School, tells of the outwitting of a robber by an English Quaker. It appears in the issue of 11 mo. 4, 1937, p. 172. An editorial, "The Rejection of Whitman," 11 mo. 18, 1937, pp. 179-180, comments on the refusal of the Friends of Whitman's generation to accept him as their own, in spite of the Quaker penchant for poetry and poetical expression. It is suggested that the underlying reason for this rejection is that Whitman's mysticism was essentially pantheistic and therefore lacked the element of moral judgment which is an essential part of the theistic basis of Quakerism. Friends Intelligencer SHORT article by John A. Hughes of York, England, in the issue of 1 mo. 2, 1937, pp. 7-8, recalls the contributions of the Dixon the Moses Brown School, Providence, Rhode Island.) Copies of these epistles were sent down by the Yearly Meeting to all the subordinate meetings, and anyone living in a community with Friends would have the opportunity to know of their position and official statements. 6 The fact that this document is unsigned by the clerk is another evidence of its spurious character. ITEMS FROM PERIODICALS119 family of County Durham to coal mining and railroad engineering. The family name appears in American annals by reason of the work of Jeremiah Dixon (1733-1779), who together with Charles Mason made the famous survey of the boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland. Hans Albrecht, Clerk of German Yearly Meeting, is the author of a short historical survey of "Quakerism in Germany" in the issue of 10 mo. 16, 1937, p. 709. The Editor inserts the following note: An article by Thomas E. Drake, of Haverford College, in the issue of 9 mo. 18, 1937, p. 637, entitled "Historic Manuscripts at the World Conference ," refers to the manuscript treasures in the Swarthmore and Haverford College libraries ; and describes more in detail a special historical exhibit, the gift of Friends in London, consisting of photostatic facsimiles of historic documents of interest to world Quakerism. "Friends at the Conference found their chief pleasure ... in seeing and reading the documents themselves, puzzling out the quaint handwriting, and enjoying the flavor of the language. Something of the inspiration and consecration of the early Friends glows in the very words themselves." The American Friend AREPORT in the issue of 10 mo. 14, 1937, pp. 442-443, tells of the memorial service in honor of Thomas Beals (1719-1801), first Quaker to preach in the Northwest Territory. The occasion was the dedication of a marker at his grave which was recently discovered near Richmond Dale, Ohio. Dr. Harlow C. Lindley, of the Ohio State Museum, told of Beals' Ohio journey of 1775, and recalled a long series of Quaker "firsts" relating to Ohio. These included the first Quaker travellers, Zebulon Heston and John Parrish, who visited the Delaware Indians in 1773...