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ITEMS FROM PERIODICALS103 Letter written by Margaret Morris, Jr., to her grandmother, Margaret Hill Morris, dated Westtown, 12 mo. 24, 1807: "There has lately been a new rule made that no good things are to be sent to the girls. Now if convenient we should be very pleas'd to see a prety large bundle before this rule is put in exicution. Aunt Mary Dorsey talk'd of sending us a roast turkey and a mince pye for a Christmas dinner. When the stage comes today we expect to get it." Letter from Margaret H. Smith to her brothers, John and Morris Smith, at Westtown, dated Burlington, 1 mo. 28, 1811: "It is now just 6 o'clock—the sweet hour at which your morning studies commence." Letter written by John Smith to his family in Burlington, dated Westtown, 4 mo. 21, 1811: "We arrived safe yesterday after a journey of 20 miles which we travelled in about 5 hours. . . . We started from town at 1 o'clock with excellent company. I am just now thinking, how far from each other two short afternoons travelling have carried us—yet I hope we shall enjoy each others company by writingat least, and I hope you will write everyopportunity. I think I shall answer them all." Letter written by Rachel Smith to her brothers, John and Morris Smith, at Westtown, dated Burlington, 11 mo. 13, 1810: "I should be very glad to see you at Westtown this winter but the journey is so long in cold weather I do now know how it will be." ITEMS FROM PERIODICALS The American Friend —In Fifth Month, 1930, the Friends of Minneapolis, Minnesota, observed the seventy-fifth anniversary of the founding of their meeting. From the historical papers prepared for this occasion, it may be noted that William D. Wales was the first Friend to settle in this vicinity. He and his family arrived from Indiana in 1851, and were soon followed by other pioneer settlers. On Fourth Month 22, 1855, the holding of regular meetings for worship was begun at the home of Joseph Canney, and by 1860 enough money had been raised by private subscription to erect a small wooden meeting house. The present meeting house was erected in 1895.—6 mo. 12, 1930, p. 491. —-A tablet in honor of Herbert Hoover has been placed in the main college building at Pacific College, Newberg, Oregon, as "a tribute of love and esteem from his boyhood school." This tablet was unveiled on Sixth Month 9, 1930, and the wording of the inscription is given in an account of the dedication ceremonies which has been written by Walter C. Woodward, Editor of The American Friend, who made one of the principal addresses on this occasion. —6 mo. 26, 1930, p. 519. —In the issue of 9 mo. 4, 1930, p. 712, there is an account of a colonnade which was built between the old and new meeting houses at Springfield, North Carolina, as a memorial to Francis T. King, Joseph Moore, and Allen Jay, 104 BULLETIN OF FRIENDS' HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION the three Friends who did such valuable work during the reconstruction period after the Civil War. A bronze tablet was also erected by the Springfield Memorial Association, and was dedicated at its twenty-third annual meeting on Eighth Month 16, 1930. The inscription on the tablet is as follows: Francis T. King, Baltimore Philanthropist. Joseph Moore, Earlham College, Teacher Allen Jay, Indiana, Minister. Representatives of Baltimore Association , for their outstanding services to Friends and others in North Carolina, immediately after the Civil War, 1866-1874. "How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good; that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God liveth." TL· Friend (Philadelphia) —Philadelphias in recent months have been engaged in raising money and making plans for the erection of the Benjamin Franklin Memorial and Franklin Institute Museum on the Parkway. In this connection, it is interesting to recall that Franklin was greatly helped in his achievements by an English Quaker, Peter Collinson. Proof of this statement is brought out clearly in TL· Life of Peter...

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