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News of the Association Hp HE SPRING Meeting of Friends Historical Association was held on Saturday, May 21, 1949, at Pennsbury Manor, the reconstructed country estate of William Penn in what is now Tullytown on the Delaware River. By decision of the Board of Directors no formal program was arranged. It was a fine Spring day and members of the Association and their guests enjoyed the opportunity of walking about the beautifully landscaped grounds. In the mansion itself, recently furnished with appropriate period pieces, Walter Johnson, Floyd S. Piatt, and Charles Henry Moon acted most acceptably and knowledgeably as cicerones. These three Friends, all members of Friends Historical Association, have been closely associated with the reconstruction and furnishing of historic Pennsbury. A box supper at nearby Fallsington meetinghouse completed the afternoon's program; coffee and ice cream were furnished and served by local Friends. * * * The Spring Number of the Bulletin carried an announcement of a plan to raise a sum of money to purchase a microfilm reader for the Library of the Society of Friends at Friends House in London. It is gratifyingto report that over five hundred dollars was contributed by forty-one members of the Association and that the sum has been forwarded to London. A memorial to Rufus M. Jones, the reading machine will be a useful instrument in furthering research in a field in which our beloved Quaker historian made so rich a contribution. 112 ...

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