A Correction

75 H Correction In the article in Bulletin No. ? on "The Progress of the Temperance Cause Among Friends of Philadelphia" an error was made as to the relations between the (English) "Friends' Temperance Union" and the London Yearly Meeting. Frank Dymond , the secretary of the Union, writes me :— "You are hardly correct in writing of the Friends' Temperance Union as 'the creature of the Yearly Meeting.' It is a distinct organization, appoints its own officers and committees and collects its own funds, but on the other hand is most cordially supported and encouraged by the Y. M., and has the right of laying any communication or propositions before the meeting that it wishes, and holds its annual meeting by established rule during Yearly Meeting week." It is with great pleasure that I recall some of the particulars of the annual meeting of the "Union" held during Yearly Meeting week at Leeds in 1905. The Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress of Leeds had planned a reception for the Friends in attendance at the Yearly Meeting. The annual meeting of the Friends' Temperance Union had been appointed for the same evening. It was arranged that both should be held in the "City Art Galleries ," the one at 7 and the other at 8 o'clock. I feared that there might be some interference of the one with the other, but there was none. The Lord Mayor and his Lady were prompt to the time named and in the course of an hour took by the hands, according to estimate, about 1,500 Friends and others who had been invited . The central court had been prepared with seats for about 800 persons, and these were all occupied by 8 o'clock when the Lord Mayor and the Lady Mayoress, accompanied by the selected speakers, appeared on the platform. By invitation the Lord Mayor presided, and he made a most happy introductory address, welcoming the Friends to Leeds, and then branched out on the topic of the evening, with which he showed himself to be quite conversant. Most pleasant it was to his audience to hear him declare that he had been a total abstainer all his life. Four addresses followed, all of them, I thought, much above the average quality usual on such occasions. At the close of the meeting the Lord Mayor invited the com- 76 pany into the adjoining banquet room, where he had prepared for his guests a bountiful repast. I do not know but that such an occasion was not without precedent among our English friends, but I have never known of any such elegant hospitality at Yearly Meeting time in any municipality this side the water. Joshua L. Baily. Philadelphia, ? Mo., 1907. IHotee Can any one give information of a Life of William Penn, by Kennersley, published, presumably in London, about 1740 ? Agnes Strickland quotes it several times as authority in her Queens of England, but so far, no copy has yet been located by the inquirer.A. M. G. The old Coddington graveyard, in Newport, is a most quaint and interesting spot, with space for not more than twenty or twenty-five graves. The name ' ' Coddington ' ' is cut in the stone pillars of the gate, and along the little wall are the names of Governor Easton and several other Governors. William Coddington 's tombstone is just inside the gate ; the stone is very plain, and the inscription runs : ' ' Erected by the citizens of the town of Newport, in memory of William Coddington, that illustrious man who purchased the island from the Narragansett Indians in 1639."A. M. G. Some Recollections of John Dickinson. Our father used to tell us of John Dickinson, who was Governor of our State at one time, and lived at the corner of Market and Eighth Streets, Wilmington, Delaware, where our Public Library now stands. He was considered a great man in his day as a statesman and political writer, though not a very staunch Friend, as to peace principles. He had for his daughter's use a "Narragansett pacer," upon whose back she often took the air as, with his head down, he swung gently along in a manner most pleasing and...