The Industrious Bee:

Francis Daniel Pastorius, His Manuscripts, and His World

This conference is free and open to the public, but advance registration is required. To register, to request access to the precirculated papers (which will not be read aloud at the conference), or for other information, please see the conference Web site, http://www.mceas.org/pastorius, or contact mceas@ccat.sas.upenn.edu.

Presented by:The McNeil Center for Early American StudiesThe University of Pennsylvania Libraries With support from:

University of PennsylvaniaThe Department of EnglishThe Department of Germanic Languages and LiteraturesThe Department of HistoryRebecca Bushnell, Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences

Above Image: 1715 Germantown Deed, Henry H. Houston Estate Papers, University Archives and Records Center, University of Pennsylvania

Inside Image: Seal of the Corporation of Germantown (adopted 1691), from a 1703 deed, Germantown Historical Society.

Program DescriptionFrancis Daniel Pastorius (1651-1719) left behind a formidable body of writing that is only now beginning to be adequately studied, but which touches upon virtually every cultural, social, philosophical, religious, and political question relevant to life in early America. German-born cosmopolitan lawyer, farmer, schoolmaster, poet, and founder of Germantown, PA (1683), Pastorius’s encyclopedic body of work ranges from the first antislavery tract in America to children’s ABC primers, legal texts, poetry, gardening manuals, and a massive commonplace book, “The Beehive.”

Rich as they are in their own right, Pastorius’s manuscripts also offer a fascinating vantage point from which to view the transmission of knowledge from Europe across the Atlantic to early America. In addition, Pastorius’s methods of information storage, while informed by the humanist tradition, merit new scrutiny in the digital age. In conjunction with the appearance of a new, web-based edition of his major work, “The Beehive,” this conference brings together scholars from a wide range of disciplines and institutions, speaking on a variety of topics connecting Pastorius with literary history, history of the book, intellectual history, legal history, horticulture, and pedagogy. There will also be the opportunity to view some rarely-seen Pastorius manuscripts.

Program Committee:

Max Cavitch, J. M. Duffin, David McKnight, Brooke Palmieri, John Pollack, Nancy Shawcross, Daniel K. Richter, and Dan Traister

Cover: Pastorius, “The Young Country Clerk’s Collection”, [1692-1719], Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Pennsylvania. 1686 Germantown Deed, Germantown Historical Society.Conjectured image of Pastorius, photograph of a bas-relief, artistunknown, ca. 1897, Library of Congress.

23-24 October 2009, Philadelphia

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