Briefer Notes

BRIEFER NOTES105 then. Several interesting letters are printed, with portraits, reproductions, a picture of Lower Merion Friends' Meeting House, erected in 1695, and a picture of the Harvey Homestead in Merion, erected in 1700. A N ARTICLE by Frederick D. Tolles, entitled "Emerson and Quaker-¦*¦*· ism," in vol. 10 (1938), no. 2 of American Literature, pp. 142-165, has been reprinted by the Friends' Book Store, 302 Arch Street, Philadelphia . It is based on a study of Emerson's journals and more formal works, and points out that Emerson knew and studied Quaker writings, especially Sewel's History, Tuke's Memoirs of the Life of Fox, Clarkson's Life of William Penn, and Woolman's Journal, and that he admired various Friends, including Lucretia Mott and Mary Rotch. TPHE TRUSTEES of the John Greenleaf Whittier Homestead, of Haverhill, Massachusetts, have printed a mimeographed descriptive catalog of rare Whittierana at the Whittier Homestead, on the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the building of the Homestead itself. The catalog is preceded by a brief history of the house in which Whittier was bcrn ; and lists items on exhibition on October 1 and 2, 1938. The twenty pages of the catalog give many interesting biographical and bibliographical notes about Whittier's best known poems and volumes of poems. BRIEFER NOTES THE Year Book of the Dutchess County Historical Society for 1936 contains an article on "Our Palatine Ancestors" by Helen Reed de Laporte; "The North Boundary Line of Dutchess County" by Helen Wilkinson Reynolds; and "Events on Hudson's River in 1777." As a supplement the society has printed extracts from the minutes of the Quarterly Meeting of 1779 held at the brick Quaker Meeting House at Oblong, N. Y. Dealing with one of the antecedents of New England Quakerism is an article in the New England Quarterly, XXX (1937), 000, by Edmund S. Morgan: The Case against Anne Hutchinson. Robert P. Falk writing in the Pennsylvania Magazine of History, 62 (1938), 52-63 on the alternative Thomas Paine—Deist or Quaker? asserts that his socialism was more important than his individualism, and that for his social ideals he was mainly indebted to Quakerism. Charles Osborn in the Anti-Slavery Movement, by Ruth Anna Ketring, is a monograph published at Columbus by the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society in 1937. In less than one hundred pages she follows the career of the North Carolina Friend who in organizing manumission societies in Tennessee and founding The Philanthropist in 1817 became "the first impulse in a long train of anti-slavery activity." 106 BULLETIN OF FRIENDS' HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION We are indebted to Dean J. E. Pomfret for two articles in the Pennsylvania Magazine of History, 61 (1937), in which are published with comments two very rare papers by or about Edward Byllynge. The first (pp. 88-92) is a printed letter of 1681 in which he offers 100,000 acres of New Jersey land to indigent Friends. The second (pp. 325-331) reproduces an imperfect copy of Thomas Budd's "True and Perfect Account of Byllynge's Proprieties in West Jersey, 1685." No perfect copy is known. A publisher of Friends' books, and closely in touch with Friends at Philadelphia, if not actually a member, Samuel Kenner deserves the fresh study devoted to him in the Pennsylvania Magazine of History, 61 (1937), pp. 357-386), written by C. Lennart Carlson of Colby College. English and American Friends figure conspicuously in two studies in the Pennsylvania Magazine of History, 60 (1936), by Michael Kraus. They are Slavery Reform in the Eighteenth Century: An Aspect of Transatlantic Intellectual Cooperation (pp. 53-66) and Eighteenth Century Humanitarianism: Collaboration between Europe and America (pp. 270-286). A general account of The Society of Friends in Maryland was contributed by D. L. Thornbury to The Maryland Historical Magazine, XXIX (1934), 101-115. An account of Friends' vicissitudes in England under the Conventicle Act of 1664 is given by W. R. Hughes in Blackwood's Magazine, 243 (January, 1938) pp. 82-95, under the caption Captain May's Passengers. In Chronicles of Oklahoma, X (1932), pp. 204-218, will be found an account of work done in 1869-1878...