Articles in Quaker Periodicals

ARTICLES IN QUAKER PERIODICALS By Lyman W. Riley Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College The Canadian Friend "William Wetherald, a Force for Unity" is a memorial to this 19th-century Friend, a teacher and minister.—April, 1950, pp. 3-4. The Friend (London) Walter S. Rowntree, "Looking Back Over 90 Years," remembers vividly many well-known Friends of the 80's and 90's. Particularly noteworthy is his account of John Bright.—April 7, 1950, pp. 247-249. "Wordsworth and His Quaker Friends" by Doris N. Dalglish treats of two admired acquaintances of the poet, Thomas Wilkinson and Charles Lloyd, who essayed some poetry themselves.—April 21, 1950, pp. 281-283. Isabel Ross writes a letter to the editor telling of new evidence of Wordsworth's contacts with Friends; John H. Brocklesby, however, in the next issue disagrees with her interpretation of the evidence .—May 12, 1950, p. 354; May 19, 1950, p. 370. An appreciation of Katherine Bruce Glasier, a Friend who was one of the founders of the Socialist movement in Britain, is written by Fenner Brockway.—June 23, 1950, pp. 471-473. The Friend (Philadelphia) The question "Why Re-edit Woolman's Journal?" is answered by Henry J. Cadbury, who points out that there is no sound yet popular edition of the Journal now in print. He takes up, too, some interesting questions about other editions of the Journal.—May 18, 1950, pp. 355-356. Alfred C. Ames describes a pilgrimage to the graves of Woolman, Penn, and Fox: "Three Quaker Graves in England."—Aug. 24, 1950, pp. 51-53. Friends Intelligencer Letter from the Past No. 108 quotes in full a recently-discovered letter of the Princess Marianne, daughter of the Landgraf of HessenHomburg , which tells of the visit of Elizabeth Fry—whom she calls "the beloved Fry"—and other English Friends to her castle in 1840.—April 1, 1950, p. 181 Hobart C. Jackson writes briefly of the history of the Philadelphia Home for Aged and Infirm Colored Persons, now eighty-five years old, in the inception and continuing support of which Friends have been active.—April 15, 1950, pp. 216-217. In a new department, "Questions and Answers about Quakers Past and Present," Frederick B. Tolles answers two questions, "What was the origin of the name 'Friends'?" and "Did many Friends fight in the American Civil War?"—April 29, 1950, p. 246. 125 126Bulletin of Friends Historical Association In "Questions and Answers about Quakers Past and Present," Frederick B. Tolles gives some statistics on the distribution of Friends in the United States, shows that Benjamin Franklin was not a Quaker, and says that, although individual English and American Friends have visited Russia, there have been no organized Friends groups in Russia.— May 13, 1950, p. 274. "Now and Then" decides that the date of George Fox's remark that he "lived in the virtue of that life and power that took away the occasion of all wars" cannot be determined exactly. He finds that the idea and similar wording occur a number of times in Fox's writings : Letter from the Past No. 110.—July 15, 1950, pp. 414-415. Letter from the Past No. Ill takes the occasion of the bicentenary of the death of Johann Sebastian Bach to commend for further study the liberalizing of the Quaker conscience as shown in the changed attitude toward music.—July 29, 1950, p. 447. Horace Mather Lippincott describes "Old Conanicut Meeting," giving some detailed information about the history of Friends on the Island of Conanicut in the State of Rhode Island.—Aug. 12, 1950, pp. 475476. "The So-called Quaker Bibles" is an interesting account of the first printing of the Bible in New Jersey by Isaac Collins in 1791, and of the translation of the Bible made by Anthony Purver and published by Dr. John Fothergill in 1764.—Aug. 19, 1950, pp. 488-489. Bradford Smith gives an eloquent description of "An Unknown Meeting House," the one at Adams, Massachusetts, unused for worship for almost a hundred years.—Sept. 2, 1950, p. 520. The Friends' Quarterly "Some Quaker Characters" by Howard E. Collier treats in general of the Payions of Dudley, and in some...