Explaining William Penn on the 350th Anniversary of His Birth: An Interview with Richard S. Dunn
Posted by William Kashatus on Nov 26, 2013 in | Comments Off on Explaining William Penn on the 350th Anniversary of His Birth: An Interview with Richard S. Dunn In his journal entry of December 29, 1667, noted seventeenth century English diarist Samuel Pepys (1633-1703) wrote that his young neighbor William Penn “has returned from Ireland a Quaker – or some very melancholy thing – that he cares for no company, nor comes into any.” For Pepys, who despised the nonconformist Quakers, Penn’s reclusiveness was “a...read more