She was much impressed by some remarks of a travelling minister named Thomas Story
, though she supposed (wrongly) that he spoke from a prepared paper, and guessed that he was not a Quaker at...
Literary responses
May Drummond
Thomas Story
said that at the beginning of her preaching career MD
had a Turn of Expression . . . very taking to most Hearers, especially the more polite sort of both Sexes,
Story, Thomas. The Life of Thomas Story. Isaac Thompson, 1747.
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and...
Textual Production
Bathsheba Bowers
BB
produced many other spiritual texts and letters. Important among her correspondents was Thomas Story
, another noted Quaker preacher in Philadelphia.
American National Biography. http://www.anb.org/articles/home.html.
When she details her reluctance to print, she refers not just to...
Travel
May Drummond
MD
covered great distances in Scotland in the course of her ministry there, and toured southern and western England with Story
in 1733 before moving south to settle in England in 1735. By September that...
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Texts
Logan, James, and Thomas Story. “Letters”. Bulletin of Friends’ Historical Association, Vol.
15
, No. 2, pp. 17-92.
Story, Thomas. The Life of Thomas Story. Isaac Thompson, 1747.