Quaker Research in Progress or Unpublished

QUAKER RESEARCH37 QUAKER RESEARCH IN PROGRESS OR UNPUBLISHED FOLLOWING a precedent started ten years ago (Bulletin, XVII, 79f.) we publish below a list of recent studies either unfinished or unpublished on subjects of Quaker interest. Where the work is being prepared or has been accepted in partial requirement for a degree, the facts are noted, as also whatever plans for publication have been made. Further lists of this sort are likely to follow (it is hoped at shorter intervals than heretofore !). Information of other studies in progress should be sent to Henry J. Cadbury, Chairman of the Committee on Historical Research, 7 Buckingham Place, Cambridge, Mass. The citations include the following information to the extent that it is available : name and address of author ; subject of study, with a further definition of its scope; whether a thesis for a degree, and if so, specification of university, department, degree, and date of previous acceptance or future submission; state of progress toward publication. Lewis V. Benson, Pendle Hill, Wallingford, Pa. (1) Book of Meetings for Both Philadelphia Yearly Meetings. (Editing and bringing up to date statistical and general information about each meeting, including historical sketches and a map.) To be published in Philadelphia, about September 1938. (2) Source Book of Quakerism. (Quotations from early Quaker writings, to 1720, giving the message of early Friends in their own words.) Rebecca K. Bonner, Torresdale, Philadelphia, Pa. A Bibliography of Job Scott, an Eighteenth Century Quaker, 1751-1793. (Includes, as far as possible, all editions of any of his writings, and much of the literature about him.) Drexel Institute of Technology, essay in course, 1937. Completed , but additional material being added. Carl Bridenbaugh, Department of History, Brown University, Providence , R. I. (1) Cities in the Wilderness: The First Century of Urban Life in America, 1625-1742. (Study of physical, economic, ¡social, religious and cultural development of Boston, Newport, New York, Philadelphia, and Charles Town, South Carolina. Awarded Justin Winsor Prize by American Historical Association, 1937.) Harvard, History, Ph.D. 1936. Ronald Press, New York, October, 1938. (2) Second volume in progress, covering period 1742-1776. 38 BULLETIN OF FRIENDS* HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION Anna Cox Brinton, Pendle Hill, Wallingford, Pa. (1) Spiritual Exercise in the Meeting for Worship. (A compilation of evidence from Quaker journals.) Ready for publication in a Quaker periodical, 1938. (2) Quaker Children's Books in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries . (A descriptive list.) Material partly collected. Howard H. Brinton, Pendle HJH, Wallingford, Pa. (1) Study Outline of the Theory and Method of the Quaker Meeting for Business. Manuscript completed. To be published as a Pendle Hill pamphlet. (2) (Jointly with Clarissa Browning Brown) : The Quaker Journalist. (A study of religious experience as recorded in Quaker autobiographies.) Henry J. Cadbury, 7 Buckingham Place, Cambridge, Mass. (1) The Annual Catalogue of George Fox. (An edition of the MS. Catalogue prepared in 1694-8, omitting printed pieces and adding references to extant copies.) Friends Book Store, Philadelphia, 1938. Ready for press. (2) Swarthmore MSS. in America. (The text, with notes, of over thirty manuscripts formerly in the great collection at Swarthmore Hall, but now in America.) Journal of Friends Historical Society, London, 1938. Nearly ready for press. (3) Quaker Relief during the Siege of Boston. (A narrative of the organization by Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of a relief fund distributed by New England Friends, with complete lists of beneficiaries.) Publications of Colonial Society of Massachusetts, Boston, 1939. Completed. (4) The Great Journal of George Fox and other Narrative Fragments. (An edition of his Great Journal, his Book of Miracles, his History of Quakerism, and other unedited biographical pieces.) Cambridge University Press, England, 1939. Texts assembled ; introductions and notes still to be written. (5) Anthony Benezet, Unpublished Correspondence . (A supplement to the recent biography by George S. Brookes.) Considerable material collected. (6) Census of Lists of Visits of Publick Friends. (Brief description of each known list of ministering Friends who visited a locality.) Information has been secured regarding fifty such lists. Mary Campbell and Hjazel Wigham, c/o J. Cuthbert Wigham, Friends House, Euston Road, London, N. W. 1., Eng. Simplicity. (A list of Friends' writings on plainness and simplicity, with representative quotations arranged chronologically.) Pendle Hill pamphlet...