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104 BULLETIN OF FRIENDS' HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION NOTES AND QUERIES The spring pilgrimage of Friends' Historical Association was held on Fifth Month 25, 1929, and consisted of a motor trip to Springfield Meeting House, at Marple, and Providence Meeting House, at Media, both in Delaware County, Pennsylvania. Members and guests assembled first at Springfield Meeting House and listened to five papers telling of the beginnings of Springfield Meeting and of some of its prominent families. After the reading of these papers the meeting adjourned to Providence Meeting House where two papers were read on the history of Providence Meeting. At the conclusion of the exercises at Providence Meeting House, Friends adjourned to a picnic supper on the lawn under the shelter of the meeting house trees. The golden sunshine of a perfect spring day, the beautiful grounds around both the old meeting houses, and the inspiring accounts of worthy forebears united to make the occasion one of the most successful in the history of Friends' Historical Association. The new publication entitled Dictionary of American Biography was referred to in the last issue of the Bulletin. In the two volumes available at this writing appear the following biographies of people who were Friends or of Friendly connections: William Allen (1803-1879); John Archdale (1642-1717); Wilmer Atkinson (1840-1920); John Bartram (1699-1777); William Bartram (1739-1823); Anthony Benezet (1713-1784); Clement Biddle (1740-1814); James Biddle (1783-1848); Nicholas Biddle (17501778 ) ; Nicholas Biddle (1786-1844) ; David S. Bispham (1857-1921) ; Elizabeth Powell Bond (1841-1926) ; Daniel Boone (1734-1820) ; John Bowne (1627/28-1695) ; William Bradford (1663-1752) ; William Bradford (18231892 ). Some Friends who have contributed to these volumes are Amelia M. Gummere, Hannah Clothier Hull, John Cox, Jr., and Frederic L. Paxson. The articles thus far appearing seem to be of a good order of excellence. One serious omission is that in the sketch of John Archdale, no mention is made of the fine collection of Archdale papers formerly owned by Charles Roberts of Philadelphia and now in the Library of Congress. (These papers formed a part of the Roberts Collection that did not come into the possession of Haverford College.) The twelfth annual report (1928) of the John Woolman Memorial Association is at hand. There have been almost 4000 visitors at the Memorial House in a period of 14 months. These visitors hailed from many countries, including England, Germany, Ireland, Scotland, Holland, Egypt, France, Japan, South America, Canada, and Porto Rico, as well as 32 states of NOTES AND QUERIES105 the Union. Through the kindness of Henry T. and James M. Moon, a piece of low unattractive land has been made into a beautiful amphitheatre. The Memorial House is still a problem financially, but one feels on reading the report that well disposed Friends will ultimately take proper care of this fine and significant Quaker memorial. Norman Penney writes that there are now about 400,000 entries in the card catalogue at Friends Library, Euston Road, London. We hope this will be an encouragement rather than a discouragement to Quaker librarians in other parts. Dr. Adolf Gerber, formerly Professor of German in Earlham College but now retired and living in Germany, is continuing the literary activities of his earlier years. He was a collaborator in preparing Lists of Swiss Emigrants in the Eighteenth Century to the American Colonies (1925). This book contains extensive and important information on immigrants to Pennsylvania, and some reference to Friends : for example, a Swiss " commission against Quakerism, illicit gatherings, and schisms in doctrine"; also a prospective emigrant who had to "answer a charge of Quakerism, though the Coventus Ecclesiasticus declared him to be innocent of it." Dr. Gerber has also supplied similar data from the old Wiirtemberger church books, published in two pamphlets (1927-1928) entitled Beiträge and Neue Beiträge (respectively) zur Auswanderung nach Amerika in 18. Jahrhundert. Another publication, this one put out by the Indiana Historical Society in 1927, is The Journey of Lewis David von Schweinits . . . in 1831. This is a translation of the report made by von Schweinitz to officers of the Moravian Church on a journey made by the writer from Bethlehem, Penna., to Goshen, Indiana, and...

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