Seventeenth Annual Meeting

54BULLETIN OF FRIENDS' HISTORICAL SOCIETY. " Sixth. Occasional meetings for addresses, conferences, exhibitions of lantern slides, the subjects not necessarily restricted to the past, but illustrating present conditions, and revealing history in the making. " Such are a few suggestions offered for the consideration of the Society." SEVENTEENTH ANNUAL MEETING. The Seventeenth Annual Meeting of the Friends' Historical Society of Philadelphia was held at the Meeting House at Fifteenth and Race Streets, n mo. 29th, 1920, at 7.45 P.M. The usual business was transacted, and we print herewith the report of the Treasurer, that our members may appreciate the condition of our finances. The President and other officers were reelected, and six new Councillors to serve for two years. The address of the President Lucy B. Roberts, reviewed the work accomplished in the period of the Society's existence ; she said in part: " Its start, due to the activity of President Isaac Sharpless of Haverford College, was the direct result of the Centennial celebration at Arch Street Meeting house in 1904, which touched a note of sentiment and memory that bore abiding fruit in the existence of this Society. The first public meeting in 1906 was given over to the account of the efforts of Dr. Franklin and Dr. John Fothergill to avert the Revolutionary war, and like many meetings since, the minutes add, ' those who attended were fully repaid for their willingness to ignore the storm ! ' In the summer of that year the excursion to the Manor at Pennsbury took place, amid much enthusiasm and many surprises. The next years record successive studies of Nantucket, and Rhode Island history , and the celebration of the Philadelphia Tea Party, predecessor to the no more important but more famous one in Boston, and exhibitions of relics associated with this event. The 1910 meeting was a very successful exhibition of relics explained by their owner, a supper, and an admirable address by Rufus M. SEVENTEENTH ANNUAL MEETING.55 Jones on the Quakers in Public Life in Early Rhode Island. The summer excursion was an enormous affair, ably managed by the local committee at Haddonfield, when the fascinating history of that old town and the romance of Elizabeth Haddon were delightfully laid before us. Suppers and exhibitions of pictures and lectures follow for the next year or two, Dr. Turner of Bryn Mawr speaking on the Attitude of Friends toward Slavery after the Revolution. " A red letter day was that on which we had a visit from Norman Penney of London, Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, and of the Royal Historical Society. His account has left us with the wish that one day this Society might do for American Quakerism what the wonderful collection under his care at Devonshire House, London, has done and is doing for the English Friends. It is the most extensive collection of Friends' books and literary treasures in the world. At the supper that midwinter , the young women dressed in the costumes of their grandmothers . The Journal of Margaret Morris in the Revolution which was read, became very vivid, as the gowns of her contemporaries and in several cases, of her relatives and friends, adorned the figures of her listening descendants! " There have been addresses by Governor Pennypacker, Professor Kelsey, Arthur Parker of Albany, a Seneca Indian, Dr. Robert Ellis Thompson, and A. C. Myers. A most delightful evening was that in which we heard from Mary Willitts Brown about the Amsterdam Quaker School founded by John Warder, followed by an address on Friends in Holland from Dr. W. I. Hull. No livelier meeting was held than that which had for its subject the old graveyard at 4th and Arch Streets, with brief notices of some of the prominent persons buried there, beginning with Thomas Lloyd. Interspersed with all these are summer excursions to Burlington, to Newcastle, and Byberry and Birmingham, and when ' Quakerism in France ' called our attention , as the war began to take our men overseas. Stenton, the home of James Logan, welcomed us one pouring summer day in the 6 mo. of 1919, where a great fire in the library and little supper tables grouped about, made the setting for anecdotes 56BULLETIN OF FRIENDS' HISTORICAL...