Quaker Research in Progress

Quaker Research in Progress The following list of current or recent studies in Quaker history 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 concerning 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. Leonardo L. Beans, 654 Stuyvesant Avenue, Trenton, New Jersey. The Life and Work of Edward Hicks. (A study of Hicks's life and the art he created, with about fifteen illustrations). To be published in 1950. Elizabeth Brewster, 458 Needham Street, Fredericton, New Brunswick , Canada. The Irish Peasantry in Some Minor Anglo-Irish Writers of the Early Nineteenth Century. (Mary Leadbeater, an Irish Friend|[1758-1826] is included in this study) . Indiana University: thesis for Ph.D. degree. Robert O. Byrd, 5618 Blackstone Avenue, Chicago 37, Illinois. Quaker Alternatives to Official Policy in the Field of International Relations. (Both the alternatives that were followed by Friends and those which they urged upon governmental authorities will be considered ). University of Chicago: International Relations, thesis for Ph.D. degree, 1950. Research commenced. Sally Ann Cahill, 1148 Rossmore Avenue, Cincinnati 37, Ohio. Rufus Jones: Modern Quaker Mystic. (A study, in the light of Rufus Jones's own philosophy, of his contribution to education, the American Friends Service Committee, and the Quaker community in general) . Radcliffe College: History and Literature, thesis for A.B. degree, 1950. Completed. Eufrosina Dvoichenko-Mazkov, 614 West 114th Street, New York 25, N. Y. Quakers and Russia. Much material collected. Paul Held, Laubholzstrasse 45, Zurich, Switzerland. Soziale Impulse des Quakertums im 18 . Jahrhundert. University of Zurich: Philosophy, thesis for Dr. Phil, degree, 1951. Research commenced. 103 104Bulletin of Friends Historical Association Arthur Raistrick, King's College, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England. A History of the Allied Iron Founders' Association. (An account of the works of the Darbys at Coalbrookdale, with the Quaker aspect receiving full attention) . Irving T. Richards, 49 Washington Avenue, Cambridge 40, Massachusetts . The Life and Works of John Neal. (Neal was disowned by Friends in Baltimore in 1820). Harvard University: English, thesis for Ph.D. degree, 1933. Completed. Signe Rooth, International House, 1414 East 59th Street, Chicago 37, Illinois. Fredrika Bremer: An American Centennial. (One chapter will be devoted to Fredrika Bremer's contacts with Quakers and her study of Quakerism). University of Chicago: Scandinavian, thesis for Ph.D. degree, 1952. Research commenced. Robert Schultz, Brothers College, Drew University, Madison, New Jersey. Quakerism and the Economic Order. (A study of the relationship between the religious principles and the economic practices of the members of the Society of Friends). Research commenced. Alwin Thaler, Department of English, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee. Whittier and the English Poets. (A study of Whittier's reading in and his indebtedness to the English poets, including , among others, Sir Philip Sidney, Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Coleridge , and Browning) . Completed. James M. Ward, Union Theological Seminary, 120th Street and Broadway, New York City. Sociology of Quakerism. (An investigation into the relationship between the sociological nature of the Society of Friends, the social action of the group, and its survival in the larger society) . Harvard University: Social Relations, thesis for A.B. degree, 1950. Completed. ...