Notes and Queries

NOTES AND QUERIES.107 ing : " Silent Sectaries," in The Fortnightly Review, 4 mo., 1923, p. 625 ; and " The Way of Plain Friends," in The Atlantic Monthly, 6 mo., 1924, p. 773. (The editor wishes to acknowledge the efficient help of Susan J. Dewees in the preparation of the above Items from Periodicals.) NOTES AND QUERIES. The group portrait of the four original surviving members of Friends' Historical Association, used as a frontispiece in the Bulletin, 13 (1924), Spring Number, was secured through the efforts and generosity of Lillian W. (Mrs. Edward) Woolman, of Haverford, Pennsylvania. Another view of the same group, beautifully framed, was presented by Mrs. Woolman to the Association on the occasion of the Tercentenary Meeting, 5 mo. 17, 1924. What makes this portrait doubly valuable is that the donor secured the autographs of the four surviving members, each one writing his name on the border below his picture. The value of such a memorial increases by rapid progression as the years pass. An appeal has been sent out recently by the Trustees of the John Woolman Memorial Association for definite annual contributions for the maintenance of the Woolman Memorial at Mount Holly, New Jersey. The following paragraph from the appeal should be read and pondered by all who care for Quaker history: " We would lay great stress upon the important fact that in this modest little dwelling we have the only home preserved to the memory of a great American Quaker, except that of the poet Whittier in New England, which has not received the financial support it so richly deserves. Our English Friends have secured for preservation the beautiful homes associated with George and Margaret Fox, and with William Penn, in Swarthmoor Hall and Jordans, which makes their strong appeal to every American who visits them. The Trustees are making a very great effort to keep green the name and work of our own great Quaker philanthropist, in the house where he lived and the restoration of the garden which he loved. They are depending upon a sufficient support to maintain this Memorial to John Woolman ." The following types of membership are offered, with the annual dues as indicated: Annual, $2.00; Sustaining, $10.00; Contributing, $25.00; Supporting , $100.00. One becomes a Founder by contributing $500.00 to the Endowment Fund, in which case annual dues are omitted. Those interested should address Amelia M. Gummere, President, or Edward Woolman, Treasurer, both at Haverford, Pennsylvania. io8 BULLETIN OF FRIENDS HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION. Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends, Fifteenth and Race Streets, gave special attention to the George Fox tercentenary in its sessions of 1924. An attractive folder was published containing a program of the evening meetings, which were devoted to addresses on the life and message of Fox and to Quaker problems of the present. Liberal Friends also remembered the anniversary by having a George Fox pageant at their General Conference at Ocean City, in the Seventh Month, and one at Buck Hill Falls a short time later. Buck Hill Falls is the summer settlement founded and operated by Liberal Friends in the mountains of eastern Pennsylvania, about one hundred miles north of Philadelphia. Here a neat little cottage, re-named " Foxhowe ," has been set aside for the use of visiting Friends who are invited to come and lecture on the history and message of Friends and on related subjects. The " Foxhowe Program" during the summer of 1924 provided something like eighteen lecturers and more than twenty-five lectures. In compiling reference notes for the Bulletin concerning prominent Friends, now deceased, the Editor has more than once regretted that no adequate biographical sketch is in print concerning Thomas Wistar Brown (1826-1916), the great benefactor of Haverford College and of many other worthy institutions and causes. For the information of those interested it may be stated that there is a type-written paper of five pages, bound in pamphlet form and preserved in the Library of Haverford College . It is a brief, appreciative, biographical sketch by Richard M. Gummere , prepared soon after the death of T. Wistar Brown, in 1916. The action of Haverford College in awarding the honorary degree of LL.D. to Norman Penney...