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38 BULLETIN OF FRIENDS' HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION The following articles have been presented to Friends' Historical Association by a friend who did not wish her name known : Money scales and weights which belonged to Stephen Grellet. Compass which belonged to Stephen Grellet, with initials " S. G." engraved on the bottom. Mother-of-Pearl card case which belonged to Mary Anna Longstreth , who was born in 1811 and who died in 1884. She taught school for fifty years in Philadelphia and conducted the best known private school for girls in her time. These are very interesting and valuable historic relics, and Friends' Historical Association is deeply grateful to its unknown friend. Some years ago each member of Friends' Historical Association received a gift of the book by Charles F. Jenkins entitled Tortola, A Quaker Experiment of Long Ago in the Tropics. Friends in England have now discovered about 50 copies of this booklet, constituting a remainder of those distributed to members of Friends Historical Society in that country. These copies are now available, by the kindness of the author, for distribution as gifts to those who have joined Friends' Historical Association in recent years and who have not received a copy of this interesting and valuable book. Any one who would like to have a copy should address the Secretary of the Association, Miss Anna B. Hewitt, Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania. ITEMS FROM PERIODICALS Friends Intelligencer —In the issue of 11 mo. 7, 1931, p. 941, is a notice of the two hundredth anniversary of Mansfield Meeting in Burlington County, New Jersey. The anniversary meeting was held on 10 mo. 25, 1931, and the house was filled to its capacity with Friends of the neighborhood and from more distant parts. The old meeting house was started in 1725 and completed in 1731. A brief historical sketch of the meeting was given by Edith S. G. Reeder, and an address, " Looking Forward," by G. Harvey Bortón. —In response to the invitation of Friends Historical Library at Swarthmore College, a movement is under way for the copying of gravestones in Friends' burial grounds. The stones in several of the meeting house grounds have already been copied, and the records are being filed systematically in the Library. This is an important piece of historical work, and the Librarian of Friends Historical Library is to be commended for carrying it on.—11 mo. 14, 1931, p. 960. ITEMS FROM PERIODICALS39 —Friends at Millville, Pennsylvania, have recently been making an effort to improve the condition of the old graveyard at Catawissa, one of their subordinate meetings. It would be a splendid thing if this movement for the preservation of old burying grounds would spread among Friends.—11 mo. 28, 1931, p. 1002. —The issue of 2 mo. 20, 1932, contains an article entitled " Quaker Contacts with Washington." It mentions incidents culled from the recent book by Charles F. Jenkins entitled Washington Visits Germantown. It refers also to various other historical events concerning the relation of Washington to Friends, taken from various historical works. The article is interesting and very timely, in connection with the two hundredth anniversary of George Washington's birth. —A series of articles entitled " Voltaire and the Quakers " began publication in the issue of 2 mo. 20, 1932. After the introduction, Benjamin R. Burdsall, the author, gives translations of Voltaire's letters concerning the Quakers in Lettres Philosophiques, from an edition published in Paris in 1924. Voltaire's description of Andrew Pitt, a Friend whom he visited on arriving in England, may be of interest : " He was dressed like all those of his religion, in a coat minus the pleats on the sides, and without buttons on the pockets or on the sleeves, and he wore a big hat with a wide brim like our churchmen. He received me with his hat on, and advanced towards me without making the least inclination of the body. But there was more politeness in the frank and benevolent expression of his face than there is in the custom of drawing up one leg behind the other, and carrying in the hand that which is meant to cover the head." The Friend (Philadelphia) —Beginning in 1924, Friends...