Cooperation in Collecting Historical Material

34BULLETIN OF FRIENDS' HISTORICAL SOCIETY. Lehigh River crossed ................. 35.4 Catasauqua Creek crossed ........... 42.4 Hokendauqua Creek crossed ........ 45.9 Lehigh Gap ......................... 54.1 Bowmanstown ....................... 59.9 At this point, owing to the road being torn up, the measurements stopped. It was seven miles more to Mauch Chunk, and the walk is said to have extended four miles beyond the site of that town, so that by this measurement the total distance walked in eighteen hours would have been 71 miles. William J. Buck states in his History of thé Indian Walk (1886) that the total distance was 66^2 miles. The walkers stopped fifteen minutes for dinner on the first day at Springtown, 25.7 miles from starting point. They spent the night at Hokendauqua after twelve hours of walking, thus making 45.9 miles in the twelve hours, and leaving about 21 miles for the six hours on the second day. Albert Cook Myers is making a special study of the Indian towns known to or visited by William Penn and the above expedition was in furtherance of this research. COOPERATION IN COLLECTING HISTORICAL MATERIAL. By Amelia M. Gummere. Under the new President of Swarthmore College, Dr. Frank Aydelotte, an effort is being made to revive interest in the Quaker collections of an historical character, now housed at that college. Dr. J. Russell" Hayes, Librarian, has appealed to Friends generally for old relics, family papers, diaries, journals and letters which are valuable historical records of the manners and customs of our Quaker ancestors. This paper long since made such an appeal to its readers and to Friends generally. The subject is now most timely, in a period of transition like the present, when, if not actually as migratory as much of our population is growing to be, many persons of Friendly affiliations are yet on the move, either to apartment houses, or {o other sections of this great country. A general sentiment that such things are "in the way" has often been heard. We would point out that there are several places where such possessions would be joyfully received, and carefully guarded, until the time when the historian of a later day has need of them. Moreover, it is often the most insignificant thing which will prove to be of greatest value, as when a tiny post office receipt at ¦ a New Jersey town, in the days of Benjamin Franklin, located a well known Tory, then COLLECTING HISTORICAL MATERIAL.35 in hiding, for the late Wstorian, Moses Coit Tyler. Cooking receipts, doctors' prescriptions—everything has its value, and if not "old enough," time will make it so. The Friends' Historical Society, Friends' Library of Philadelphia, The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Swarthmore College and Haverford College, with Westtown and other Friendly centres or schools, can all receive and safeguard such material. We are just now most interested that somewhere this shall be preserved. If, as is proposed, the Friends' Historical Society of Philadelphia is to become the Friends' Historical Society of America, this point must be doubly urged. The collection of Quakeriana at Haverford College is the largest and most valuable in the United States. If, as we hope, all these various headquarters, to name only those in Pennsylvania, become the receiving centres for the efforts of residents in their vicinity, or, for any reason, of persons most interested in those particular collections, the great object will have been attained. This magazine should be the medium of information regarding such work, reporting receipts and aiding collectors. With such cooperation, in prospect of a growing membership in the Society which this publication represents, there are great possibilities before us. Therefore, let all Friends or those who are descendants of Friends, and who are interested in Quaker history, see to it that their heirlooms reach a place of security during their lifetime. WOOLMAN MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION. The Fifth Annual Report of the Trustees of the John Woolman Memorial Association was issued in the Twelfth Month, 1921. As usual it is full of interesting information and forward looking promise. The Annual Meeting was held Tenth Month, 15, 1921, at Mount Holly, N. J., in the Memorial House, " which John Woolman erected in the...