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NOTES AND QUERIES93 sylvania along with the Friends who settled here. There is therefore a close kinship with Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, in the outward as well as the inward. May the spirit of friendship, finding expression and receiving strength at every opportunity, by informal as well as formal visitation, bind us more closely together. BURLINGTON, 1681-1931 By Mary Hoxie Jones Fallen the house they made, Gone every rafter. Nothing is left for us Who have come after. Built with hands dedicate, Raised for their Master, All is destroyed of wood, Of brick and plaster. Yet did their hands erect, Although unknowing, What cannot fall, but keeps Living and growing. Fallen the house they made, Door-sill and rafter. Love, strength and wisdom last Forever after. NOTES AND QUERIES Ernest H. Bennis, an Irish Friend, has presented to Friends Historical Library, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, a valuable manuscript entitled " Some Reminiscences of Limerick Friends." The records of Limerick Meeting go back to 1653. His paper covers historical and genealogical accounts of the Taverner, Alexander, Baylee, Bennis, Davis, Evans, Fisher, Fayle, 94 BULLETIN OF FRIENDS' HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION Grubb, Harvey, Jacob, Malcolm, Newsom, Pease, Pike, Sikes, Unthank families. The manuscript is full of interesting anecdotes of Irish Friends and Irish Meetings. Friends' Historical Association has in its files a fairly good assortment of the printed programs of the meetings of recent years. Some programs are, however, missing from these files. It would be greatly appreciated if members of the Association, who have copies of former programs, will send them to the Secretary of the Association, Miss Anna B. Hewitt, Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania. Arrangements were made for a professional photographer to take pictures of the historical tableaux given in connection with the meeting of Friends' Historical Association at Burlington, N. J. Any one desiring to secure copies of these pictures should communicate with the photographer, Mr. W. E. Bonsor, 3805 Myrtle Avenue, Camden, New Jersey. An interesting booklet has been published recently (1931) under the title of Problems of Quakerism. It is by D. Elton Trueblood, and it discusses pointedly and suggestively twenty-six problems, such as: Are the Ancient Testimonies Still Valid?—What New Testimonies Should Next Emerge?— What Can Friends Do About Their Divisions?—Can a Friend be a Good Citizen? The booklet is admirably adapted for the use of Quaker study circles. It may be had at the rate of $5.00 a dozen by addressing the Young Friends Movement, 1515 Cherry Street, Philadelphia. Letitia A. Humphreys, of Philadelphia, has recently published, privately, a brief sketch of her great uncle, Charles Humphreys (1796-1870). The family descended from Daniel Humphreys, "who came from Dolgelly, Merionethshire, Wales, in 1682, and settled in Haverford Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, about seven miles from Philadelphia, where he had grist and fulling mills on Cobb's Creek." Charles Humphreys was a commission dealer in flour and grains, who spent most of his active business life in Philadelphia. He was an active and generous supporter of many philanthropic and progressive enterprises. Vol. VII of the Dictionary of American Biography contains the following biographies of persons who were Friends or of Friendly connection: Robert Wilkinson Furnas (1824-1905); Bartholomew Fussell (1794-1871); Thomas Garrett (1789-1871); Abigail Hopper Gibbons (1801-1893); James Sloan Gibbons (1810-1892); William Gibbons (1781-1845); Mabel Gillespie (18671923 ); Henry Dilworth Gilpin (1801-1860); William Gilpin (1813-1894); John NOTES AND QUERIES95 Goddard (1723/4-1785) ; Pliny Earle Goddard (1869-1928) ; Henrietta Howland Robinson Green (1834-1916); Josiah Gregg (1806-1850); William Gregg (1800-1867); John Milton Greist (1850-1906); Stephen Grellet (1773-1855). The Haverford College Library received in 1923 from Friends Library, London, a manuscript journal in two volumes, of unknown origin and authorship . It was an interesting and valuable account of a journey made by a southern gentleman from Charleston, South Carolina, through several of the northern states to Quebec, Canada, and back to Charleston. The Curator of Quakeriana at Haverford made intensive efforts to discover the author of the manuscript and was aided in his search by various scholars in South Carolina and elsewhere. Recently Professor J. H. Easterby, of the College of Charleston, South Carolina, discovered another manuscript copy...

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