Quaker Research in Progress or Unpublished

QUAKER RESEARCH47 A LTHOUGH it belongs to local Episcopal histories, the book entitled Crown of Life: History of Christ Church, New Bern, N. C, 17151940 , by Gertrude S. Carraway (New Bern 1940), contains in its earlier pages many references to Quakerism in the colony and the neighborhood. TVJOT ONLY as English background will students of early Quaker¦*¦ ' social theory find much of value in The Social Ideas of Religious Leaders 1660-1688 by Rich. B. Schlatter (Oxford 1940), with profuse citations from Baxter, Bunyan, Tillotson, and their less famous contemporaries . The Quakers' views are summarized in some detail in a separate Appendix III (pp. 235-243), which though it is confessedly secondary, relying mainly on W. C. Braithwaite and Isabel Grubb, clearly shows the attitude of Friends in the Restoration period in comparison with their parallels. QUAKER RESEARCH IN PROGRESS OR UNPUBLISHED THE following list of present or recent studies in Quakerism continues the series of such notices that have appeared in recent issues of the Bulletin.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 of 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 , Massachusetts. Waldo Beach, 409 Prospect Street, New Haven, Connecticut. The Meaning and Authority of Conscience in Seventeenth Century English Protestant Thought. (A study of the nature of "conscience" as variously conceived by Anglicans, Puritans, Baptists, Quakers, Levellers, Diggers, etc., with its relationship to the problem of religious liberty.) Yale, Religion, Ph.D. Material being gathered. Harry D. Berg, Durham, New Hampshire. Merchants and Mercantile Life of Colonial Philadelphia, 1748 to 1763. (A study of the business mechanism and its operation.) University of Iowa, History, Ph.D. 1940. Completed. George DeCou, 36 E. Main Street, Moorestown, New Jersey. Burlington City, a Provincial Capital. (Sketches of early Burlington and its neighborhood.) Practically completed. Vol. 31, No. 1. Spring 1942 48FRIENDS HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION John Hope Franklin, St. Augustine's College, Raleigh, North Carolina. The Free Negro in North Carolina, 1790 to 1860. (A critical study of the growth and distribution of the group, and of their legal, social, and economic status. Includes some account of the part played by Friends in manumission and colonization.) Harvard, History, Ph.D. 1941. Completed. J. Calvin Keene, Colgate University, Hamilton, New York. The Doctrine of Guidance in the Oxford Group Movement. (This work includes an appendix entitled, "The Doctrine of Guidance in the Early Quakers," pp. 281-303.) Yale, Philosophy of Religion, Ph.D. 1937. Completed. Glenna Vere Kneeland (Mrs. Richard C), 6187 S. E. Taylor Court, Portland Oregon. (Research on social aspects of eighteenth-century Philadelphia, with special reference to the interest of Friends in the reform of hospitals for the treatment of mental diseases. Material being ,gathered in preparation for the writing of a novel, to be completed in two or three years.) Fred Landon, Librarian, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada. The Life of Benjamin Lundy. (A study of his travels and activities in furtherance of the antislavery cause in the United States.) Material partly gathered and writing commenced. Henry G. Russell, 11 Belmont Street, Brunswick, Maine. Quaker Opposition to Oaths in its Historical Setting. Research commenced. Constance Spink, 468 Gerhard Street, Roxborough, Philadelphia, Pa. The Great Schism of 1828. (Emphasis is placed on what is being done to reunite the various groups of Friends, particularly the Hicksite and Orthodox branches.)· Completed. John Joseph Stoudt, Allentown, Pennsylvania. The Dialectical Mysticism of Jacob Boehme. (In three sections: empirical, speculative, and critical.) University of Edinburgh, New College, Philosophical Theology, Ph.D. 1942. Nearly finished. Theodore G. Thayer, 305 West Green Street, Ithaca, New York. Israel Pemberton, King of the Quakers. University of Pennsylvania, History, Ph.D. 1942. Completed. Esther Clark Wright (Mrs. C. P.), 82 Waterloo Row, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. The Loyalists and Pre-Loyalists of New Brunswick . (An account of the Friends' settlement at Beaver Harbour, Charlotte County.) Research partly completed. James Harvey Young, 1103 Cottage Hill Avenue, Decatur, Illinois. Anna Elizabeth Dickinson and the Civil War. (A study of the oratorical efforts of...