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 &quot; the Apologist,&quot; 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 Jie 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 



