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42 BULLETIN OF FRIENDS' HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION Katharine C. Ricks, Librarian of Guilford College, is desirous of completing a file of the Bulletin of Friends' Historical Association for the college library. At present their collection contains only the following numbers: Vol. 1, nos. 1 and 2; Vol. 5, no. 2; Vol. 10, no. 2; Vol. 11, nos. 1 and 2; Vol. 12, nos. 1 and 2. Any readers of the Bulletin who have preserved the back numbers and desire to give some of them to the Guilford College Library, please address the Librarian, Guilford College P.O., North Carolina. ITEMS FROM PERIODICALS The Friend (Philadelphia) —On the afternoon and evening of Tenth Month 5, 1929, special exercises were held to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the first religious meeting held in Chester Friends' Meeting House, 24th and Chestnut Streets, Chester, Pennsylvania. Members of both branches of Friends took part in the program, and presented papers and addresses on the history of Chester meeting and on affairs of present-day interest and importance. At both of the sessions the meeting house was entirely filled with members and visitors, not only from Chester but from other Friends' communities. A picture of the meeting house accompanies the account in The Friend.—10 mo. 24, 1929, p. 196.—See also Friends' Intelligencer, 10 mo. 19, 1929, p. 839. A copy of the paper by Charles Palmer, read on the above occasion, is available in the library of Haverford College. It is entitled, " Historic Sketch of Friends' Meeting House, 24th and Chestnut Streets, Chester, Pa." —In a paper entitled progress of " Interracial Good-Will in North Carolina ," Clara I. Cox traces the recent progress of friendly cooperation between the white and colored races in that state. By way of historical background, she refers to the early stand against slavery taken by Friends in North Carolina, due largely to the influence of John Woolman during his visits there in 1746 and 1757.—10 mo. 31, 1929, p. 210. —An important event in Quaker history is the dispersion of the old Friends' Library at 142 North 16th Street, Philadelphia. Henry J. Cadbury has prepared a valuable paper on the history of the library and the recent distribution of a large part of its Quaker books. These books were given to the libraries of Haverford, Swarthmore, Guilford, and Earlham colleges. A residue remains to be disposed of by the committee in charge. Many of the more modern books were retained to form a part of the library of Friends' Select School. Henry Cadbury's paper was read at Philadelphia Quarterly Meeting, Second Month 4, 193?, and was printed in The Friend (Phila.), 3 mo. 27, 1930, pp. 459-461. ITEMS FROM PERIODICALS43 —A noteworthy article on "The Friends' Theory of Worship" by President William W. Comfort, of Haverford College, was published in The Christian Century, 3 mo. 19, 1930, and reprinted in The Friend (Phila.), 4 mo. 10, 1930, pp. 483-484. It is to be hoped that this pointed and discriminating exposition will be made available in pamphlet form, for the use especially of inquiring non-Friends. —Items on the history of Friends' Free Library, Germantown, which now contains 40,000 volumes. In its history of eighty-five years only two librarians have been appointed, William Kite, in 1869, and Hannah M. Jones, in 1898. Hannah Jones' connection with the library really began in 1875 when she was appointed Assistant Librarian. A warm tribute is paid to her helpful and efficient service during this period of forty-five years.— 4 mo. 17, 1930, p. 502. Friends' Intelligencer —When the new fireproof building was erected for Friends Historical Library at Swarthmore College, it was planned to make it a central depository for the completed manuscript records of Friends' meetings. In accordance with this plan, locked steel cases were provided for the storing of these records, where they would not only be safe from any danger of loss but would also be accessible to any one who wished to consult them. The following meetings have placed all or part of their records in this library: Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (Race Street); Abington, Concord, and Western Quarterly Meetings; Burlington, Chester (Pa.), Concord...

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