Articles in Quaker Periodicals

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ARTICLES IN QUAKER PERIODICALS By Lyman W. Riley Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College The American Friend In "Quaker Memorials in Russia" Gilbert McMaster tells of visiting Leningrad in 1930 and seeing near there the graves of the wife and four of the children of Daniel Wheeler.—Feb. 3, 1949, p. 38. (Also in The Canadian Friend, Feb., 1949, pp. 6-7) . The Friend (London) "Bernard Barton, Quaker Poet" by Doris N. Dalglish is an account of a 19th-century Friend, no great poet himself, who was a link between Quakerism and the culture of his day.—Feb. 18, 1949, pp. 127-129. The Friend (Philadelphia) Henry J. Cadbury, answering the question, "Why Re-edit Fox's Journal," gives a brief history of its formation and early editions.— May 5, 1949, pp. 355-356. Henry J. Cadbury's Yearly Meeting lecture, "The Unity of World Quakerism after Three Hundred Years," contains illuminating illustrations of this theme from various fields of Quaker history.—May 19, 1949, pp. 373-376. "Divisions in the Society of Friends" by William Bacon Evans names and describes briefly fifteen separations.—May 19, 1949, pp. 377-379. Friends Intelligencer "Fifty Years of Quakerism in Cuba" by Samuel J. Bunting, Jr., summarizes the story of Friends on the island as told in issues of El Amigo Cubano.—Jan. 8, 1949, p. 19. "Petrus Stuyvesant" (Letter from the Past No. 98), the governor of New Netherlands, was an "inveterate persecutor of Quakers," and therefore the occasion for some interesting episodes in Quaker history.— Jan. 22, 1949, p. 48. Editorial notice is taken of a Philadelphia exhibition of Edward Hicks' paintings, and comments on his life and art are added.—Feb. 5, 1949, p. 80. The judges who condemned Charles II of England to death in 1649 were contemporaries of the first Friends. "Now and Then" contrasts the spirit of this execution with Quaker principles; "The Regicides and Others," (Letter from the Past No. 99).—April 30, 1949, pp. 247-248. 127 128Bulletin of Friends Historical Association Floyd S. Piatt, in "Pennsbury Manor, a Memorial," traces the history of the property which William Penn planned for his country home, and gives the story of its restoration as a memorial to him.—May 14, 1949, pp. 272-274. In Letter from the Past No. 100, "Now and Then" asks, "Why Not, as Well as Why?"—why has history not pursued a different course? In particular, he reflects on why the early Friends were not as radical in economic and political affairs as they were in religion.—May 21, 1949, p. 289. "Founding Father of Westtown" was George Churchman, who worked for years prior to 1799 to have a school for "guarded education" established. Evidence of his labors is to be found in some letters and a journal which have recently been discovered (Letter from the Past No. 101.)—May 28, 1949, pp. 302-303. Letter from the Past No. 102 ("On Being Impressed") reproduces two documents of 1748 relating to the imprisonment of a Massachusetts Friend for refusal of military service.—July 23, 1949, p. 409. "A Letter of Benjamin Hallowell . . ." by Frederick B. Tolles tells of the effort put forth by this Friend to persuade Congress to support President Grant's Indian policy.—July 23, 1949, p. 410. Edith M. Cooper tells of the building of Prospect Avenue Meeting House, West Grove, Pennsylvania, in a brief article, "History of West Grove Preparative Meeting."—July 30, 1949, p. 422. "Goethe and the Quakers" by Otto Neuburger shows that the German poet and philosopher had some knowledge and appreciation of Quakerism ; in particular, he admired both the work and the personality of Luke Howard, the English Quaker meteorologist.—Aug. 20, 1949, pp. 463-464. "Now and Then" also calls attention to the correspondence between Luke Howard and Goethe (Letter from the Past No. 103.) —Aug. 20, 1949, pp. 465-466. The Friends Quarterly William E. Wilson, in "Rendei Harris, Quaker & Evangelical," the Rendei Harris Lecture for 1948, points out the similarities between Evangelicalism and Quakerism, in particular drawing an interesting comparison between Wesley and Fox.—Oct., 1948, pp. 205-217. "William Cobbett and Quakers" by Eric Baker is an appreciation of Cobbett...