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1 THE Pennsylvania Magazine OF HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY OCTOBER ` 1967 A PENN PORTRAIT AT HOLKER? Francis James Dallett 393 PHILADELPHIA'S COMMERCIAL EXPANSION, James G. Lydon 401 VIEWPOINTS OF A PENNSYLVANIA LOYALIST Wallace Brown 419 TEACHING IN THE FRIENDS' LATIN SCHOOL OF PHILADELPHIA IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY Jean S. Straub 434 PRESIDENT PIERCE'S MINISTERS AT THE COURT OF ST. JAMES Sister Theresa A. Donovan 457 REVIEWS 471 PUBLISHED SINCE 1877 BY THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PENNSYLVANIA VOLUME XCI NUMBER 4

2 BOOK REVIEWS PAGE DUNN, William Penn: Politics and Conscience, by Joseph E. Illick 471 BALDERSTON, ed., James Claypoole's Letter Book, London and Philadelphia, , by Gary B. Nash 472 BARROW, Trade and Empire: The British Customs Service in Colonial America, , by Wallace Brown 473 SIRMANS, Colonial South Carolina: A Political History, , by Joseph G. Tregle, Jr. 475 ALDRIDGE, Benjamin Franklin and Nature's God, by Ralph L. Ketcham 476 SHUMWAY, DURELL, and FREY, Conestoga Wagon : Freight Carrier for 100 Years of America's Westward Expansion, by William N. Richards 477 DE VORSEY, The Indian Boundary in the Southern Colonies, , by Roger L. Nichols 479 CLARK, ed., Naval Documents of the American Revolution, Vol. a, by Stephen T. Riley 480 GUTHORN, American Maps and Map Makers of the Revolution, by Nathaniel N. Shipton 482 DOWNER, ed., The Memoir of John Durang: American Actor, , by Barnard Hewitt 484 HARRIS, The Artist in American Society, The Formative Years, , by John W. McCoubrey 485 WILBURN, Biddle's Bank: The Crucial Years, by John M. McFaul 487 SANBORN, Robert E. Lee: A Portrait, , by Edwin B. Coddington 488 OESTE, John Randolph Clay: America's First Career Diplomat, by David Montgomery 490 MORRISON, Democratic Politics and Sectionalism: The Wilmot Proviso Controversy, by Frank B. Evans 491 RATNER, Pre-Civil War Reform: The Variety of Principles and Programs, by Daniel R. MacGilvray 493 MAGDOL, Owen Lovejoy: Abolitionist in Congress, by Ira V. Brown 494 PATRICK, The Reconstruction of the Nation, by Larry Gara 495 CALVERT, The Mechanical Engineer in America, , by John W. Maxson, Jr. 496 BALDWIN, With Brass and Gas: An Illustrated Embellished Chronicle of Ballooning in Mid-Nineteenth Century America, by Constance Wolf 498 GRIMES, The Puritan Ethic and Woman Suffrage, by Elizabeth M. Geffen 499 RAMMELKAMP, Pulitzer's Post-Dispatch, , by Pierre C. Fraley 501 JUERGENS, Joseph Pulitzer and the New York World, by John Tebbel 502 ADAMS, Here We Have Lived: The Houses of the Massachusetts Historical Society, by Nicholas B. Wainwright 503 TAXAY, An Illustrated History of U. S. Commemorative Coinage, by Richard T. Hoober 504 GOLDEN, The Death of Tinker Bell: The American Theatre in the 20th Century, by Calvin Lee Pritner 505 ROSENBERGER, ed., Records of the Columbia Historical Society of Washington, D. C., , by John Beverley Riggs 507 KENT, ed., Records of the Provincial Council, , and Baynton, Wharton, and Morgan Papers, both on microfilm, by Nicholas B. Wainwright 508 LANE, Policing the City: Boston , by Clifford K. Shipton 509 THE PENNSYLVANIA MAGAZINE OF HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY is published each quarter in January, April, July and October by THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PENNSYLVANIA, 1300 Locust Street, Philadelphia, Pa Yearly subscription, $5.00; single numbers $1.50. Communications should be addressed to the Editor. The Editor does not assume responsibility for statements of fact or of opinion made by contributors. Second class postage paid at Philadelphia, Pa.

3 THE PENNSYLVANIA MAGAZINE OF HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY VOLUME October, 1967 NO. 4 NINETY-FIRST YEAR OF PUBLICATION Publications Committee ROY F. NICHOLS FREDERICK B. TOLLES THOMAS C. COCHRAN R. N. WILLIAMS, 2D NICHOLAS B. WAINWRIGHT 1? Editor NICHOLAS B. WAINWRIGHT

4 Contributors FRANCIS JAMES DALLETT, Research Associate of the American Museum in Britain, Bath, England, is a former Librarian of the Athenaeum of Philadelphia as well as a former contributor to this Magazine. JAMES G. LYDON, Professor of History at Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, has concerned himself with colonial economic and maritime developments, with emphasis on the relationship of North America to the economy of the Atlantic community. WALLACE BROWN, author of The King's Friends: The Composition and Motives of the American Loyalist Claimants, has just joined the History Department of the University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. JEAN S. STRAUB, whose article "Quaker School Life in Philadelphia before 1800" was published in this Magazine in 1965, is an Associate Professor of Psychology, and also of Higher Education, at Ohio State University. SISTER THERESE A. DONOVAN is a member of the Department of History at Boston College and is engaged in post-doctoral research in Anglo-American relations prior to the Civil War. PRINTED IN u. s. A. by The Winchell Company, PHILADELPHIA, PA.

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