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Articles and Publications Prepared by Mary Ellen Chijioke and Claire B. Shetter Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College 500 College Avenue, Swarthmore, PA 19081-1399 Since one ofthe first steps ofresearch is finding out where to look for relevant material, scholars should welcome recent publications describing Quaker research libraries and repositories. The Library Quarterly published in two parts (60. 1-2 (1990):44-65, 139-158) "Research Notes: Resources for Scholars: Four Quaker Collections in theUnited States,' ' inwhich thecollections atGuilford, Swarthmore, Earlham, and Haverford Colleges are described by Carole E. Treadway, Albert W. Fowler, Thomas D. Hamm, and Diana Franzusoff Peterson respectively. Elizabeth H. Moger has updated her article from Tree Talks 25.1 (1985) on "Records of New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends, and the Haviland Records Room, New York City." Besides describing the holdings of the Records Room, the article provides a witty introduction to Quaker genealogical research. Copies are available from the Haviland Records Room, N.Y.Y.M., 15 Rutherford Place, New York, NY 10003. The entire January 1990 issue of The Pennsylvania Magazine ofHistory and Biography (114, no. 1) is devoted to the Pennsylvania Historical Society, in honor ofits first long-term exhibition , "A History of Philadelphia, 1638-1876," which opened on December 5, 1989. There is a continuingstream ofpublications providing access to Quaker records. Ann and Conrad Burton's Michigan Quakers: Abstracts ofFifteen Meetings of theSocietyofFriends, 1831-1960(Decatur, MI: Glyndwr Resources, 1989) includes not just the information important to genealogists (in the style of Hinshaw and Heiss), but also significant historical activities of the meetings. In her compilation of QuakerMarriage Certificates: Pasquotank, Perquimans, Piney Woods, andSuttons CreekMonthly Meetings, North Carolina, 1677-1800 (Bowie, MD: Heritage, 1988), Gwen Bjorkman includes both the key portions ofthe text ofeach certificate andthe full list ofsignatories, intheoriginal order. Loren Fay's Quaker Censusofl828:Members oftheNew York YearlyMeeting . . . at the Time ofthe Separatio? of1828(Rhinebeck, NY: Kinship, 1989) putsinto name order thelists made to determine which members ofeach meetingjoined each faction. To assist theproducers offuturerecords, North CarolinaYearlyMeeting has published ''Unforeseen Joy, ": Serving a Friends Meeting as Recording Clerk, by Damon D. Hickey (Greensboro, NC, 1987). A Reader's Companion to GeorgeFox's Journal, by Joseph Pickvance (London : Quaker Home Service, 1989) is aunique reference work, with essays on the religious background to Fox's life, an analysis ofthe mainthemes ofthe Journal, a glossary of terms that might be obscure to the modern reader, a chronology of events in English history during Fox's lifetime, and an "Annotated Word and Phrase List (Concordance)." Anumberofpublications will makeQuaker classics andoriginal sources easily available to a wider audience. New reprints include George Fox's The Power of theLordisoverAll(Richmond, IN: FriendsUnitedPress, 1989); SamuelBownas, A Description ofthe QualificationsNecessary toa GospelMinister(Philadelphia: TractAssociation ofFriends and Pendle Hill Publications,1989); and a compendium , Women SpeakingJustifiedandOtherSeventeenth Century Quaker Writings about Women (London: Quaker Home Service, 1989). ThePublic YearsofSarah Articles and Publications1 1 1 andAngelinaGrimké: Selected Writings, 1835-1839, editedandannotatedbyLarry Ceplair (New York: Columbia University Press, 1989), brings together both published and unpublished writings of two highly influential southern Quaker feminists and abolitionists. Several Quaker journals and memoirs are available in print for the first time. RichardHutton'sComplaintsBook: TheNotebookoftheStewardoftheQuaker Workhouseat Clerkenwell, 1711-1737, edited by Timothy V. Hitchcock (London: London Record Society, 1987) is aunique source forthe actual operation ofearly English Quaker philanthropy. TheJournalofChalkley Gillingham:Friendin the Midst of Civil War (Springfield, VA: Gillingham Fund, 1989) documents the devastating effect ofthe conflict on the Quaker community in Virginia. Life in Victorian Oxfordshire is recalled in Caroline Westcombe Pumphrey's The Charlbury ofour Childhood (York: Sessions Book Trust, 1990). BaltimoreYearly Meetinghaspublishedvolume 2 ofThe Carey Memorial Lectures (1989), covering the years 1972-1988. (Volume 1 for 1947-1971 was published in 1971.) Thomas C. Kennedy's "History and Quaker Renaissance: The Vision ofJohn Wilhelm Rowntree,' ' JournaloftheFriends'HistoricalSociety (London) 55 .1-2 (1986): 35-56, tracesthe scheme for the Rowntreeseries inQuakerhistoryto a belief that progressive Friends required roots in a vision of their history if the Society were to survive in Britain. As usual, biographies span the full range of Quaker history. In his article "Toward a Biography [not Bibliography, as listed in the Table of Contents...