Eye - 06 December 2024

Eye dives into the archive - all the way back to a tongue-in-cheek piece from 1843; Friends share their limericks; and Eye spies a Quaker cameo

by Elinor Smallman 6th December 2024

On this day

December of 1843 saw the twelfth edition of the then-monthly Friend appear.

As serious and weighty as much of the content had been in that first year, December’s edition had its tongue firmly in cheek, relating the contents of ‘a rather remarkable meeting’ by ‘A Friend of Letters’.