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BRIEFER NOTICES Prepared by Barbara L. Curtis The annual meeting and dinner of the Friends Historical Association was held at the Arch Street Meeting House in Philadelphia on Monday, November 10, 1986. Barbara Curtis, the president, introduced visiting members from Missouri, Illinois, Ohio, New York and Maryland, following which committee chairpersons reported on the activities of the association during the past year. The address of the evening was given by Jean Soderlund, curator of the Swarthmore Peace Collection and author of the recently published Quakers and Slavery. She presented an interesting account of research she had completed in collaboration with Gary Nash on a study of Quaker anti-slavery efforts in the latter part of the 18th century. An important archival project relating to the papers of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting and its constituent quarterly and monthly meetings has been launched by the Quaker Collection at Haverford College and the Friends Historical Library at Swarthmore in association with the Records Committee of the Yearly Meeting. Partial funding has been secured from the Pitcairn-Crabbe Foundation and from Philadelphia Yearly Meeting with the purpose of completing the organization and indexing of the papers. It is hoped that a final product will be the publication of a guide to the papers by the end of 1988. Jack D. Eckert is project archivist. The seventh biennial meeting of the Conference of Quaker Historians and Archivists will take place at Pickering College, Newmarket, Ontario, Canada, in June 1988. Thomas D. Hamm of Indiana University at Indianapolis is serving as program chair. Papers may be submitted to him at 6240 Newberry Road, #802, Indianapolis, IN 46256 until August 10, 1987. After that they may be sent to Carol Treadway, Guilford College, Greensboro, NC 27410. Exeter (Oley) and Maiden Creek Monthly Meetings will hold a two-day celebration , June 13 and 14, commemorating their 250 years of QUAKERISM THEN AND NOW, the setttlement of Oley Valley in Berks County by English and Irish Quakers and the subsequent establishment of Oley and Maiden Creek Meetings. 77 ...

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