SOCIETY OF FRIENDS. Ill 



letter from Joseph John Gurney, on Friend 

 T. P. Cope, a leading merchant in Philadel- 

 phia. 



As the great-great-grandson and lineal de- 

 scendant of " the Apologist," I found my ap- 

 pearance in the great Quaker city hailed as a 

 sort of event, and welcomed with kindness and 

 hospitality, and nowhere more cordially than 

 in the family of Friend Cope in whom I was 

 happy to meet a person much looked up to by 

 all classes, for his integrity, kind-heartedness 

 and benevolence. He is now a man of seven- 

 ty has been eminently successful in the 

 world is of frank and easy manners, and pos- 

 sessing extensive information, has the rare 

 talent of communicating it mingled with amus- 

 ing anecdote altogether^he is the most cheer- 

 ful of the cheerful a noble instance of a well 

 spent life. His spouse, dressed more in the 

 primitive simplicity of the Quakers, than 

 any one I had yet seen in the States, evinces 

 much of the kindness and affability peculiar to 

 females of that persuasion. 



Friend Cope no sooner learnt that my chief 



