Quaker Research in Progress

88 BULLETIN OF FRIENDS HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION ready to return before this time, but it is yet very uncertain, as it appears mortifyingly evident that "Large Bodies move slow"— With plenty of kisses for our Little dears & love for our relatives I remain most affectionately Thine CCJr. J. B. ( ?) Eves 23 & Wife arrived in Town yesterday— Happily for our Philadelphia Quaker lobbyist, his exile in Washington ended here, for the day after this last letter was written, victory came to the merchants. The House, acting in Committee of the Whole, rejected Gallatin's suggestion to require half payment on the bonds by a vote of fifty-two to forty-nine, and on December 15th, by the same narrow margin of three votes, concurred with the Senate in remitting all forfeitures on goods owned by Americans which were shipped from England before the declaration of war became known there. For a lively account of the whole affair, see Henry Adams, History of the United States During the Administration of James Madison (New York, 1930), book vi, chapter 20. QUAKER RESEARCH IN PROGRESS THE following list of present or recent studies in Quakerism 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 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 38, Massachusetts. Alice F. Brinton, 213 Euclid Avenue, Haddonfield, New Jersey. A Study of Quaker Costume and the Philosophy of the Quakers Concerning Dress. (A comparison of the Quaker costume with the fashionable dress of different centuries—emphasizing the philosophy of the 23 Possibly Joseph B. Eves, listed as a merchant of 9 North Front Street in the Philadelphia Directory ior 1809. Vol. 34, Autumn 1945 QUAKER RESEARCH89 Quakers for maintaining simplicity. Illustrated with drawings and photographs .) Drexel Institute of Technology; Home Economics, M.S. 1942. Manuscript completed. Mary C. Campbell, R. F. D. 3, Norristown, Pennsylvania. Dangers and Hardships of Travel as Indicated in Eighteenth Century Quaker Journals. (The author is a student at Columbia University.) Research commenced. James Dudley, The Woodlands, Cartmel, Grange Over Sands, England. The Life of Edward Grubb. A Spiritual Pilgrimage. (The spiritual development of Edward Grubb and his influence on the Society of Friends during the years 1895-1935, with an account of his contribution to American Quakerism.) Manuscript completed. Winnifred C. Emerson, 906 Old Lancaster Road, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania . History of Friends' Central School. (A history of the Friends' Central School with some reference to the Central School system from 1845 to the present.) Research and writing commenced. Helmut von Erffa, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. (1) Benjamin West, His Drawings. (A catalogue of drawings in the collection of Swarthmore College.) (2) West's Treatment of Subjects from Spenser's Faerie Queene. (This study is now an article and may turn into a book.) To be published in the College Art Bulletin early in 1946. Dorothy Lloyd Gilbert, Guilford College, North Carolina. Quakers on the Western Waters. (An account of the migration of North Carolina Quakers into the Holston River Valley in Tennessee about 1786.) To be published in the East Tennessee Historical Publications, 1946. Isabel Grubb, Seskin, Carrick on Suir, County Tipperary, Ireland. Leaves from the Diary of Mary Leadbeater. (Extracts from the diary of one who was herself an author of repute in her time, and who was the daughter of Richard Shackleton, the eighteenth century Quaker schoolmaster. The diary gives a vivid picture of Irish country life betweeh 1770 and 1826, with references to well-known literary persons.) Ready for publication. L. Violet Holdsworth, Bareppa House, near Falmouth, England. Gulielma. (A story of the life of the Penns and Peningtcns, as nearly as possible in their own words.) To be published in 1946. Manuscript partially completed. Thomas Kimber, 849 N. Mariposa Avenue, Los Angeles, California. The Treatment of the Quaker as a Character in American Fiction. (Present study is from 1825-1900.) University of Southern California; English, thesis for Ph.D. Research in progress. Vol. 34, Autumn...