There is a biographical sketch of Sir William Keith in the Penna. Historical Society’s _Memoirs_ (vol. i.). There is a pencil-drawn portrait of Sir William Keith, with a painting made from it, in the gallery of the Penna. Hist. Society. Cf. _Catal. of Paintings, etc._ (nos. 77, 162), and Scharf and Westcott’s _Philadelphia_ (i. 177). Some of the rare tracts in the controversy of Governor Keith and Logan are noted in the _Brinley Catal._, ii. pp. 197-8. Cf. Hildeburn’s _Century of Printing_. As to the position of the Quakers upon the question of defensive war, there is an expressive letter, dated in 1741, of James Logan, who was not in this respect a strict constructionist of the principles of his sect, which is printed in the _Penna. Mag. of History_ (vi. 402). Much of this controversy over military preparation is illustrated in the autobiography and lives of Benjamin Franklin; and the issues of Franklin’s _Plain Truth_ (1747) and Samuel Smith’s _Necessary Truth_, the most significant pamphlets in the controversy, are noted in the bibliographies.[537] Sparks, in a preliminary note to a reprint of _Plain Truth_, in _Franklin’s Works_ (vol. iii.), states the circumstances which were the occasion and the sequel of its publication. In _Ibid._ (vii. 20) there is a letter of Richard Peters describing the condition of affairs. A mass of papers, usually referred to as the Shippen Papers, and relating to a period in the main antedating the Revolution, have been edited privately by Thomas Balch as _Letters and Papers relating chiefly to the Provincial History of Pennsylvania, with some notices of the writers_. (Philad., 1855, one hundred copies.) * * * * * First of importance among the published travels of this period is the narrative of an English Quaker, Thomas Story, who came over in 1697. From that time to 1708 he visited every part of the colonies from New Hampshire to Carolina, dwelling for much of the time, however, in Pennsylvania, where he became, under Penn’s persuasion, a public official. The _Journal of the life of Thomas Story, containing an account of his remarkable convincement of and embracing the principles of truth, as held by the people called Quakers, and also of his travels and labours in the service of the Gospel, with many other occurrences and observations_, was published at Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1747.[538] George Clarke, born in 1676, was made secretary of the province of New York in 1703, and came to America, landing in Virginia. We have an account of his voyage, but unfortunately the book does not follow his experiences after his arrival;[539] but we have the _Letters_ of his private secretary, Isaac Bobin, which, under the editing of Dr. O’Callaghan, were printed in a small edition (100 copies) at Albany in 1872.