Briefer Notices

Research in Progress121 ing records which may show Friends associated with Philadelphia School of Design for Women, 1848-1890. Her address is 502 Harrison St., Ridley Park, PA 19078. Also, Christopher Dixon, of the School of History, University of New South Wales, Kensington, NSW 2033, Australia, is writing his Ph.D. dissertation , using material on abolitionist women, many of whom were Friends, and their attitudes to marriage. He is seeking references to and comments on their own, and other, marriages. And, another look at nineteenth-century Quakers analyzes the approach of the Society of Friends to conflict resolution , giving attention to Wilmington (DE) Monthly Meeting during the Separation , and especially Orthodox families such as the Hilles family. Verna M. Cavey is a graduate student at Syracuse University, and lives at 12724 Fork Rd., Fork, MD 21051. She welcomes correspondence. Meredith Baldwin Weddle, a Ph.D. candidate at Yale University, is examining material on seventeenth-century Quaker pacifism in England and America, especially Yorkshire, Somerset, and Bristol; New York, East and West Jersey, and North Carolina. Correspondence may reach him at 66 Kipp St., Chappaqua , NY 10514. Two Quaker schools are the subject of current study: John Emerson Lamb and the Milton School for Boys, c. 1850-1851, is the interest of Michael W. Kauffman, 35 Twinbrook Drive, Waldorf, MD 20601. The second is a study of Malone College, with special emphasis on John Walter Malone and Emma Brown Malone, founders of the college in 1892, first known as The Cleveland Bible Institute. This work is being done by John Oliver, a faculty member of Malone, and his address is 2521 Landscape NW, Canton, OH 44709. John Woolman is an inexhaustible subject of Quaker research. Joseph Mathews, a teaching assistant at Rutgers University (Camden), is hoping to publish the "Last Essay (Written in England)" of Woolman, presently out of print. His address is Clover Hill Apts., IC, P.O. Box 594, Mt. Holly, NJ 08060. Another book, planned for publication in 1989, analyzes the manuscript forms of John Woolman's Journal. This study is being done by Joseph Fichtelberg, of Fordham University, Bronx, NY. His address is 57-28 226th Street, Bayside, NY 11364. Briefer Notices By Barbara L. Curtis Crosslands #188 Kennett Square, PA 19348 Thomas Hamm of the History Department, Earlham College, Richmond, IN 47374, chair of the Steering Committee for the 1990 Conference of Quaker Historians and Archivists, reports that the dates for the 1990 gathering have been settled as June 22-24 at George Fox College, Newberg, OR. As announced earlier, the Conference will be in session at the same time as the Friends Association for Higher Education, and in conjunction with the one hundredth anniversary of Friends education in the Pacific Northwest at George Fox College. Proposals for papers to be considered for delivery at the Conference are 122Quaker History welcomed by the Steering Committee, c/o Thomas Hamm, P.O. Box 154, Spiceland, IN 47385. The annual spring meeting of Friends Historical Association was held jointly , as is the custom, with members of the Friends Social Union. The group gathered at 10:30 on Sunday, May 14, 1989, at Green Street Meeting House on Schoolhouse Lane, Philadelphia. After the close of meeting for worship, members and their guests joined Friends from the host meeting for a picnic lunch, supplemented by beverages and desserts generously provided by Green Street Friends. After lunch, Margaret H. Bacon, president, called the meeting to order and introduced the program, "300 Years of Quaker Education." To open, R. Bruce Jones shared with the group his work on a comprehensive history of Green Street Meeting. The theme of the day was then presented by Carole Hadley Brown, for Friends Select School, and by John Burkhart, for William Penn Charter School. Both institutions had recently published their histories, which may be obtained from the respective schools. From Peter Bien of the English Department of Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, comes the following notice about a hitherto unidentified appearance of Virginia Woolf, British author, in the pages of a Quaker publication: "Robert Tod, writing from Birmingham, England, calls attention to an obituary notice that V.W. wrote for her Quaker aunt Caroline Stephen reprinted in...