Briefer Notices

BRIEFER NOTICES Prepared by John and Barbara Curtis Melvin H. Buxbaum is the author of Benjamin Franklin and the Zealous Presbyterians which appeared in 1975 from the Pennsylvania State University Press. A somewhat less benevolent Franklin is drawn tiian the picture Franklin himself created in the Autobiography. There is considerable material on Quakers and on such prominent families as Fothergill, Hunt, Logan, Pemberton and Penn. Pendle Hill publications final pamphlet of die 1975 series is die work of Edwin B. Bronner. Pamphlet no. 204 is entitled William Penn, 17th century founding father; selections from his political writings. Edwin Bronner brings to this task very special qualifications arising from his early extensive works on Penn and his current activity on the preparation of a definitive list of Penn's printed works which is intended for publication at a future date. Word has been received that each issue of Quaker History is analyzed and indexed in the publication "Bulletin Signalétique Sciences Humaines" prepared under die auspices of the Centre de Documentation Sciences Humaines, at their Paris Centre National de la recherche scientifique. Edward Teitleman, M.D., a Friend, is joint author of a valuable photographic study of Architecture in Philadelphia, a guide. M.I.T. Press prepared the book from text and photos supplied by the authors. There is an excellent preliminary text followed by consideration of the city in logical units, each widi its own marked and numbered map referring to individual buildings discussed. Richard W. Longstreth is joint author. In the fall of 1975 Levinus K. Painter published "The Quaker contribution in creating a" new nation." This study, called a Bicentennial Presentation , was given as a lecture at Orchard Park, N.Y. Monthly Meeting. Copies may be obtained at a cost of 500 from R. Forward at 10 Provincetown Road, Orchard Park, N.Y. 14127. David A. Fraser, Associate Librarian at Haverford College, had an article in the Fall, 1974 issue of die Journal of the American Medical Association about the Quaker doctors in the background of the life of Maxfield Parrish, noted illustrator and member of the class of 1892 at Haverford. 57 58QUAKER HISTORY In die Journal of die Lancaster County (Pennsylvania) Historical Society, vol. 79 (1975) p. 150-162 is a scholarly discussion of the family backgrounds of Irish Quakers who emigrated to Pennsylvania. Their commercial activities , their holding of public office, their anti-proprietary attitudes and their cultural contribution to the areas of Pennsylvania where they settled are all considered in the article. Genealogists will find useful a recent publication by Lucy M. Baber and Hazel L. Williamson on marriages of Campbell County, Virginia, 17921810 published by the authors at Lynchburg, Virginia in 1971. Section II lists alphabetically the records of 48 Quaker marriages which took place in South River, Seneca and Hills Creek Meetings during the same period. There is an appendix C which gives information about migrations of Campbell County Quakers from 1760 to 1830. A similar work dealing with Quaker records, and also vestry records of the Anglican Church in Upper Parish, Norfolk County, Virginia, has title Nansemond Chronicles, 1606-1800. Evelyn H. Cross is author and publisher of this work which appeared in Richmond, Virginia, in 1973. A physical piece of Quaker memorabilia met its demise recentiy in connection with demolition of an old building fronting on Third Street in Philadelphia. Nearby, also on ground owned by the Yearly Meeting stood an edifice known genteely as a "necessary," i.e. a privy. Some thought was given to preserving this relic of ancient sanitary facilities, but die foundation and mortar were so far disintegrated that costs of moving and restoration were prohibitive. Not even the National Park Service to whom it was offered felt the "necessary" was worth salvaging! John F. Sutherland gives considerable information about Quaker members of the Parrish and Wharton families in social reforms in housing late in the nineteenth century. Vol. 99, no. 1 (January, 1975) issue of die Pennsylvania Magazine of Hutory and Biography contains Sutherland's article on "The origins of Philadelphia's Octavia Hill Association: social reform in die 'Contented' city." In the same issue of diis magazine appears "Memoirs of William Logan Fisher (1781...