HISTORICAL NEWS The Annual Meeting of Friends Historical Association was held Eleventh Month 27, 1972, at the Friends Meetinghouse, 304 Arch Street, Philadelphia, foUowing a supper. In addition to the election of the 1975 panel of Directors, Howard H. Brinton and Henry J. Cadbury, both past presidents of the Association and distinguished authors and historians, were proposed and approved as Honorary Members. The address of the evening was given by Algie I. Newlin, professor emeritus of history at Guilford CoUege, who spoke on "The Migration and Settlement of Quakers on the Upper Waters of Cape Fear." * # # The foUowing change in the Constitution of the Friends Historical Association was proposed at the meeting of the Board of Directors on Second Month 1, 1973, to be acted upon at the annual meeting on Eleventh Month 26, 1973 : Article IV, paragraph two, Directors and Officers "The Directors shall elect every three years from their number, or from the membership at large, a President, two Vice-Presidents, a Secretary and a Treasurer, who shall serve as the officers of the Association and of the Directors. The Directors may fill vacancies in their number." The change substitutes the phrase eveiy three years for annually. # # * We note with deep regret the death, on October 2, 1972, of Richmond P. Miller, formerly Associate Secretary of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, a long-time member and former president of Friends Historical Association. Arthur E. James, Quaker historian of Pennsylvania clocks and paper makers, is now preparing, with George E. Moore, of Milwaukee , an article on Thomas Wagstaffe (1724-1802), a London Quaker and clockmaker. The authors have found a number of Wagstaffe's taU clocks in Quaker homes in the Philadelphia area and are anxious to know of, and to examine, others in that area or, as seems likely, in Rhode Island, where Quakers purchasing clocks 51 52QUAKER HISTORY in London may have carried them. Any helpful information should be sent to Arthur E. James, 408 South Walnut Street, West Chester, Pennsylvania 19380. The WilUam Penn Papers Project, described to the Friends Historical Association at its Spring Meeting in 1968 by the chairman of the Project, CaroHne Robbins, professor of history at Bryn Mawr College, has since that time virtuaUy completed its task of gathering in one place photocopies of all known Penn letters and documents. They have been gathered from some sixty depositories in the United States and abroad. Over 2700 photocopies (many of them unpublished) are now housed in the Project's headquarters at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia, which will now be the indispensable source for scholarly work on William Penn. The Journal and Major Essays of John Woolman, edited by PhiUips P. Moulton (Oxford University Press, 1971), has received an Award of Merit from the American Association for State and Local History. A portion of the introduction to this volume was delivered by Phillips Moulton at the annual meeting of Friends Historical Association in 1970, and appeared in Quaker History in 1971. ...