Quaker Research in Progress or Unpublished

44 BULLETIN OF FRIENDS' HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION QUAKER RESEARCH IN PROGRESS OR UNPUBLISHED THE following list of present or recent studies in Quakerism continues the series of such notices that have appeared in recent issues of the Bulletin. It is of course improbable that the list is complete; but it is interesting as showing where the present frontiers of Quaker research are. Information of other Quaker studies in progress but not published should be sent to Henry J. Cadbury, Chairman of the Committee on Historical Research, 7 Buckingham Place, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Moses Bailey, Hartford Theological Seminary, Hartford, Connecticut. Early Relations of Quakerism and Islam. (The author hopes to gather evidence of contacts between the two groups up to the time of the establishment of the Ram Allah and Brummana missionary developments.) Research begun. Martha Bunting, 1520 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 7"Ae Bunting - Ridgway - Andrews - Lloyd Families, with Closely Affiliated Families. (Brief sketches of the events in which they played a part and of the Friends' meetings to which many belonged.) Manuscript almost completed. To be privately printed. Thomas B. Foster, Jr., 600 W. 122d Street, New York, N. Y., The Ethics of Quakerism. (Historical development of the ethical aspect of the Quaker faith, with a probable emphasis on the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.) A paper prepared for a course in Christian Ethics at Union Theological Seminary. Nelson B. Gaskill, 726 Jackson Place, Washington, D. C. (1) Biography and Bibliography of Stephen C. Ustick. (Appreciation of the Quaker printer, of Mount Holly, New Jersey, who lived in the late eighteenth century.) Manuscript partly completed. (2) The Two Locations of Mount Holly (New Jersey) Meeting. (Location and boundaries in relation to the development of roads in Burlington County, New Jersey.) Arthur D. Graeff, 5740 Oxford Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (While studying in Europe as a Fellow of the Oberlaender Trust, Arthur Graeff secured 2500 microfilm copies of manuscripts in depositories at London and The Hague, on the subject of Palatine migrations to America. These copies are being studied, with a view to the preparation of an article on the part played by the Palatines in the settlement of Pennsylvania.) QUAKER RESEARCH45 Lloyd Wilfred Griffen, 34 Haseltine Street, Bradford, Massachusetts. "Ethan Spike": Matthew Franklin Whittier. (A study of M. F. Whittier's life, literary work, and associations with his brother, the poet.) University of Maine, English, Senior Essay, 1941. Research just begun. Francis Harper, 224 South Chester Road, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. Manuscripts of John and William Bartram. (Preparation for publication, with editorial notes and illustrations, of a John Bartram MS of 1765-66 and a William Bartram MS of 1773-75. Each manuscript deals with travels and observations, particularly on natural history, in the southeastern states.) Material half completed. Herbert Heaton, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Anglo-American Trade in Textiles, 1770-1850. (Based partly on business records of Thompsons, Crowthers, Wrights, and other Quaker families living in New York or Yorkshire.) Material almost completed. Oliver S. Heckman, 3105 Chestnut Street, Camp Hill, Pennsylvania. Northern Church Penetration of the South, 1860-1880. (This study includes the activities of Northern religious groups and nondenominational organizations in the South during the War between the States and reconstruction .) Duke University, History, Ph.D. 1939. Helen G. Hole, Westtown School, Westtown, Pennsylvania. (1) History of Westtown School, 1799-1940. Material partially completed. (2) Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck (née Galton). (The story of her life, circle and writings.) Columbia, Philosophy, M.A. 1938. Glenn P. Holman, 37 Port Norfolk Street, Neponset, Massachusetts. Early Quakerism as Exemplified in the Life and Thought of Isaac Penington. Edinburg, Church History and Theology, Ph.D. 1939. Burton Alva Konkle, 307 So. Chester Road, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. David Lloyd and the First Half-Century of Pennsylvania. (Showing how Lloyd made the "Holy Experiment" a permanent reality between 1656 and 1731.) Leonard C. Lashley, 385 Grand Avenue, Brooklyn, New York. Anthony Beneset and the Anti-Slavery Crusade. (Influence of Benezet in the antislavery movement in Pennsylvania and elsewhere.) Fordham University , History, Ph.D. 1939. S. Rowland Morgan, 431 East Willow Grove Avenue, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Psychic Element in Quaker Ministry. (A comparison of psychic manifestations in the history of (1) the Society of Friends; (2...