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Volume 27, No. 2 Autumn Number, 1938 Bulletin of Friends' Historical Association THIS ISSUE of the Bulletin appears, contrary to the practice of several years past, -just before.the annual meeting instead of just after it. It is therefore possible to call the attention of members to the date and program. The meeting occurs at Friends' Meeting House, 20 South Twelfth Street, Philadelphia, on Second-day, 11 mo. 28, 1938, at 8.15 p. m. ; after the business meeting there will be an address by Henry J. Cadbury on "The Hangings at Boston (1659-1661) : Motives and Sequels," and appropriate refreshments. Those expecting to attend are asked to notify the Chairman of the Entertainment Committee , Lydia F. Gummere, Shirly Court Apartments, Upper Darby, Pa. "I)LANNED for this issue was an article on the publication of¦*¦ certain volumes of source material for Quaker historians and genealogists, including especially one British book, Quaker Minute Book for the Upperside of Bucks, 1669-1690, and two American works, the history of Hopewell Meeting, in Frederick County, Virginia, published as a bicentennial monument, and William Wade Hinshaw's Encyclopedia of Quaker Genealogy. The first volume of Hinshaw's Encyclopedia was referred to in the Spring Number of the Bulletin ; and it was hoped that the second volume would be published by this time. The magnitude and the complexity of the task proved too great, however, and publication has been delayed beyond our dead line. One of the causes of delay was the discovery, as the manuscript was about to go to press, of two large books of original minutes and records of Burlington Monthly Meeting which had been given up as irretrievably lost, but which now had to be incorporated into the other material. The excerpts from these books made up sixty-four pages of copy. The four locations covered in this volume are of especial interest to Philadelphia Friends—Salem, Burlington, SS 56 BULLETIN OF FRIENDS' HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION Falls, and Philadelphia. Those who have been privileged to see the first volume will look forward eagerly to the second. The Directors of Friends' Historical Association have subscribed to the first volumes, and have directed, since the Association has no facilities for storing reference books, that they be placed on loan with the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. WHEN our leaders in Quaker scholarship leave us, it is fitting that we should review their scholarly careers and leave a record of their published work. Thus there was published in the Bulletin, 9 (1920) : 94-99, an article headed "Contributions to a Bibliography of Isaac Sharpless (1848-1919)"; a tribute to Allen C. Thomas (1846-1920) published in the Bulletin, 10 (1921) : 42ff contained a list of his books and more important articles; and a bibliography of Rayner W. Kelsey (1879-1934) appeared in the Bulletin, 24 (1935) : 27-34. In the present issue is published a similar tribute to the scholarly work of Amelia Mott Gummere (1859-1937), prepared, like the preceding bibliography , by Anna B. Hewitt. As we look over the books, articles, and book reviews in these lists, we obtain some idea of the wide range of interest and study of our past leaders, and comprehend in greater degree, perhaps, the lasting zest and freshness of their own lives as we recall them. OUR FRONTISPIECE is a new Heemskerk picture, which has come to William I. Hull's knowledge since the publication of the series of nineteen reproductions of Heemskerk's Quaker Meeting and its imitations published in our last issue. The picture itself, handsomely framed, now hangs in The Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College. ???? QUESTION of whether the Quakers who settled Ger-¦*¦ mantown were Dutch or German continues to be a live issue. William I. Hull's contention, developed in William Penn and the Dutch Quaker Migration to Pennsylvania, that they were Dutch, has brought forth counterstatements. He has replied to his critics in an article in this issue ; but the last word has probably not been said. A resume of various books and articles on the subject is planned for the next issue. ...

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