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Volume 33, No. 1 Spring Number, 1944 Bulletin of Friends Historical Association ANNUAL MEETING 1943 FRIENDS HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION THE ANNUAL MEETING of Friends Historical Association was held in the auditorium of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1300 Locust Street, Philadelphia, on Eleventh month 29, 1943, at 8 o'clock. The business meeting was brief, as members of the Historical Society and the Welcome Society had been invited to attend the entertainment. It included the presentation of the Treasurer's report; the election of the Directors listed on the opposite page ; a report on gains and losses of members, showing a membership as of that date of 580; and the President's report on the activities of the Association during the year. The entertainment of the evening was the first exhibition in this country of a full-length British sound film entitled "The Man of Destiny," based on the early life of William Penn. The film proved to be highly diverting, and may well have served to stimulate in some the urge to find out for themselves what William Penn was really like; for the scenes as shown were somewhat fictional in content and unhistorical in perspective. Penn is shown as a dashing and romantic figure even after his conversion to the despised sect of the Quakers. When Gulielma Springett, a wealthy and much-courted young lady of fashion, comes down to the kitchen from a gay party in her house to see what is delaying the service of her guests, and finds a vagrant Quaker, Penn, whom she has never seen before, preaching to her servants, she sends him emphatically about his business ; but as he goes he looks her in the eye and says, "I've just seen the girl I'm going to marry." Though he does not know it, she is waiting outside for him in a carriage when he is finally freed 4 BULLETIN OF FRIENDS HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION after his famous trial ; and so they are married. But they do not live happily ever after, for she dies just as he returns from his first trip to Pennsylvania ; and he sails back to his colony without her—to seek relief from his sorrow in activity, and to keep his promise to the settlers to build a new world for them to live in. The film is said to have been released under a different title: "The Courageous Mr. Penn." It should contribute its mite toward making the world Penn-conscious at the time of the tercentenary of his birth. T-1HE QUINQUENNIAL INDEX to the Bulletin, covering -^- volumes 26-30 (1937-41), prepared by Helen Barnes Brown, is now ready, from Aberdeen to York (the Zabriskies, Zanes, Zelleys, and Zimmermans do not seem to have figured in these five volumes), and will be sent gratis on request. The cost of editing and printing was met by special contributions from many of the Association's members and friends, to whom scholars, libraries, and casual searchers may well feel much gratitude. A full index of this kind makes available to reference or research a considerable body of scholarship, and the publication of the Index makes the Bulletin additionally welcome to libraries. The Index includes for the first time a full listing of the items given in successive issues of the Bulletin under the heading "Quaker Research in Progress or Unpublished," by both author and title. This entry alone, occupying more than fourteen pages, would make the Index, and the Bulletin, interesting to students of history, especially of religious history. The Index covers not only the names of persons and places, to which too many indexes are unfortunately limited, but also subjects mentioned and books reviewed. Its general practice is to give not merely a series of unexplained page references to a given lead word, but to specify the particular point brought out at each reference. Thus the entry Penn occupies nearly a column, with such subordinate entries as "owned slaves," "views on taxation," "ideas on rights of ownership and of employers of labor," etc. ; the entry Whittier covers more than a column, with subordinate entries "antislavery editorials," "a founder of the Republican party in Iowa," "attitude toward labor...

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