The Annual Meeting of Friends' Historical Association, 1933

Volume 22, No. 2 Autumn Number, 1933 Bulletin of Friends' Historical Association THE ANNUAL MEETING OF FRIENDS' HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION, 1933 Friends' Historical Association held its annual meeting at the Friends Institute, 20 South Twelfth Street, Philadelphia, on Second-day, Eleventh month 27, 1933. Charles Francis Jenkins, President of the Association, presided at the business meeting. The annual reports of the President and Treasurer were given, and Directors of the Association were elected for the ensuing year. The President's report outlined the activities of the Association for the year, which included the erection, in cooperation with Friends of monthly meetings in the neighborhood of Fallsington, of a marker commemorating the establishment of Falls Monthly Meeting in 1683; the issuance of two numbers of our Bulletin ; and the distribution of 250 acorns gathered by English Friends from trees in the Penn country of Buckinghamshire in England —many of which, unfortunately, had not germinated. The President also referred to the continuing desire of the Association to find more suitable headquarters, and to the part which members of the Association had taken in the festivities commemorating the 250th anniversary of the founding of Falls Monthly Meeting. The meeting expressed cordial appreciation of the services of I. Thomas Steere, Treasurer, and of Anna B. Hewitt, Secretary. Several members spoke of the deep loss to the Society incurred through the death, on October 7, 1933, of Dr. Norman Penney ; and the following minute was adopted : Norman Penney At the annual meeting of Friends' Historical Association held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Eleventh Month 27, 1933, reference was made 100 BULLETIN OF FRIENDS' HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION to the death of Norman Penney at his home in Bournemouth, England, Tenth Month 7, 1933. It was the united wish of the members present to record their sense of loss and sorrow at his death and their deep appreciation of his life. For some years Dr. Norman Penney has been the only Honorary Member of Friends' Historical Association, a distinction conferred upon him because of his unique contribution to Quaker history. The products of his researches were of the lasting kind. He was a builder of foundations . His painstaking editorial work was of inestimable value, as exemplified in the Journal and Short Journal of George Fox, as well as in the Journal of Friends' Historical Society. His devoted labors as Librarian of Friends Library, London, and more particularly his emphasis on indexing and cataloguing, were of great and enduring worth. Historians of Quakerism for years to come will begin their work where he left off, building on the foundations he laid. Therefore, the members of Friends' Historical Association desire to pay their tribute of love and gratitude to Norman Penney—a true friend, a tireless scholar, and an eminent contributor to the historiography of Quakerism.1 The Chairman of the Friends' Records Committee, Albert Cook Myers, brought to the meeting three handsome bound volumes of photostats recently prepared under his direction. These volumes contained photostats of the Men's Minutes of Nottingham Monthly Meeting, 1730-1756; Women's Minutes of Nottingham Monthly Meeting, 1730-1778; and Marriage Register of Warrington Monthly Meeting, York County, Pennsylvania, 17481849 . He reported that these volumes were the property of Friends' Historical Association, but that arrangements had been made to deposit them for safekeeping with the collections of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, at 1300 Locust Street, Philadelphia. The first part of the evening's literary program consisted of a paper by Joshua L. Baily, Jr., entitled Friends and Music. The paper was read by Albert L. Baily, Jr., and was listened to with great interest, not only because it was recognized as a sound and valuable contribution by the author in a neglected field of Quaker historiography, but because of the skilful rendition of selected cases of Quaker musical intoning by the reader. The paper will probably be printed in full in the next issue of the Bulletin. 1 For a further note on Norman Penney, see page 143. THE ANNUAL MEETING101 For the second part of the literary program, Dr. Henry J. Cadbury reported orally on some of his recent discoveries concerning the lost writings of George Fox. His investigation began, he said, with an...