Peace Testimony Archival: F-J

The Quaker Testimony for Peace:
Archival Resources at Swarthmore College

Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Swarthmore, Pennsylvania 19081

F - J

A - E

F - J

K - O

P - Z

Archival collections are listed alphabetically below; see notes under each collection for restrictions, microfilm availability, and online finding aids

Kinzua Dam Protest by Seneca Indians and Philadelphia Quakers, August, 1961

Chuck Fager; Quaker writer, publisher, educator, and activist; graduated from Colorado State University and attended Harvard Divinity School. After working for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in Selma, Alabama, he performed

Vietnam

conscientious objector alternative service at Friends World College in 1966. He left FWC the following year, devoting his time to writing and freelance work. In the mid 1980s Fager started Kimo Press, a small publishing operation, and began to edit A Friendly Letter, an independent Quaker periodical which was discontinued in early 1993. In 1994, Chuck Fager joined the staff of Pendle Hill, a Quaker center for study and contemplation near Philadelphia, as coordinator of the Pendle Hill Issues Program.

The collection includes the personal papers of Charles E. Fager, as well as the records of Kimo Press and A Friendly Letter. The collection reflects his interest in Quaker organizations and concerns.

Organized into ten series: 1. A Friendly Letter; 2. Topical Folders; 3. Kimo Press/Quaker catalogs; 4. Fleecing the Faithful; 5. The Friends United Meeting/"Realignment" controversy, 1990-1993; 6. AFSC: Quaker concerns and critiques, 1961-1993; 7. Friends Bible Conference, 1989; 8. CPS Oral history project; 9. Other Quaker organizations; 10. Miscellaneous correspondence and personal files.

Fair Housing Council of Suburban Philadelphia
Records, 1956-
15 linear ft.

Fair Housing Council of Suburban Philadelphia; a private, non-profit group working since 1956 to promote freedom of residence; works for compliance with fair housing laws in the Pennsylvania counties of Delaware, Montgomery, Chester, and Bucks. Previous names: Friends Suburban Housing, Inc., Suburban Fair Housing, Inc., Fair Housing Council of Delaware County, Inc. Founded under the auspices of the Society of Friends (Quakers).

Includes annual reports, correspondence, administrative files, newspaper clippings, periodicals, publicity materials, and subject files.

Quaker activist, absolute pacifist, advocate of neighborhood conflict resolution programs.

Papers document Ross Flanagan's involvement with Quaker-sponsored peacemaking projects. The Friends Mississippi Project (1964-1965) provided material assistance in the reconstruction of African-American churches which had been damaged by anti-civil rights disturbances. A Quaker Action Group (AQAG) shipped token amounts of medical supplies for the relief of Vietnam War victims (1965-1969), including a voyage of the yacht Phoenix to North Vietnam. The Quaker Project on Community Conflict, CLASP (Citizens Local Alliance for a Safer Philadelphia) and the Block Association of West Philadelphia (1966-1978) were neighborhood safety programs which provided training for nonviolent conflict resolution. Some items from SNAP (Safer Neighborhoods are Possible) are also included. There is one item from the Interfaith Peacemakers Association. Papers include correspondence, memos, progress reports, news releases, financial reports, newspaper clippings, and photos. Correspondents include Herbert Huffman, Stewart Meacham, Frances E. Neely, David L. Newlands, Lawrence Scott, Lee Stern, Ellie Wegener, and George Willoughby.

Organized in one series. Documents are arranged chronologically by project, then chronologically within each project.

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LOCATION: Peace Collection Archives, DG 64.

Theodore Foulk and his wife Mabel, a Quaker, provided funds for the use of the

United States

government to provide civilian relief; to the American Friends Service Committee for European relief work; and directly to French Ambassador Jusserand to aid and educate French war orphans.

The Swarthmore College Peace Collection is not the official repository for the papers of this individual.

Frankford Friends Forum Committee (Green Street Monthly Meeting of Friends (Philadelphia, Pa.))
Records, 1930-1980, (Bulk 1940-1950).
30 folders (in 3 boxes).

The Frankford Friends Forums were hosted by the Frankford Friends Forum Committee under the care of Green Street Monthly Meeting. They were held approximately six times a year in the meeting house at Unity & Waln Streets, in the Frankford section of Philadelphia. The Forums would often feature a lecture on social issues, economics, peace, justice, or politics.

Records of the Frankford Friends Forum Committee, 1930-80. The bulk of the material in this collection is from the files of Walter Cook Longstreth, the Forum organizer from 1930-51. The records include correspondence files and lecture summaries. Lecturers included Henry J. Cadbury, Bayard Rustin, Douglas Steere, William Wister Comfort, Rachel Davis DuBois, Clair Wilcox, E. Raymond Wilson, Scott Nearing, and many others.

Quaker; lawyer and professor; expert on conscription law; opposed conscription, favored amnesty and arms control; helped found the Emergency Peace Campaign, the Pacifist Research Bureau, the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors, and the War Resisters League.

Papers of Dean Freiday, including correspondence, manuscript writings, and other miscellaneous records. The collection reflects a wide range of Freiday's involvement in numerous Christian organizations and discussion groups especially the National Council of Churches of Christ, Friends General Conference, and the Commission on Faith and Order. Correspondents include Arthur Roberts, Douglas Steere, and Larry Miller. Topics range from the Society of Friends to interfaith issues of ecumenism, eschatology, peace, and the sacraments.

Friendly Association for Regaining and Preserving Peace with the Indians by Pacific Measures
Records, 1758-1762.
ca. 1 in.

Association of Quakers, Mennonites, and other sectarians in Pennsylvania, formed to serve as an intermediary between the Delaware Indians, colonial governments, and British authorities.

Correspondence, including that with civil and military authorities, accounts of preliminary meetings with Indian delegates, and invoices, relating to the Treaty of Easton.

Volunteer medical aid group; ran field hospitals and medical camps as well as ambulance services; created in 1914 by Friends at Haverford college to offer aid to war victims in France and Belgium; reformed in 1939 to offer aid all over Europe, Asia, and Africa; some collaboration with the American Friends Service Committee; continued for a time after the war.

LOCATION: Peace Collection: Collected Document Groups: International. Gt

Britain

Arose from a 1973 concern at the half-yearly meeting of Arizona Friends; goal of influencing Arizona state law with Friends’ concerns.

Friends Committee on National Legislation (

U.S.

)
Records, 1940-[Ongoing].
198 linear ft.

Quaker lobby established in 1943 to bring conscience and spiritual values to the political process in Washington; grew out of the work of Friends War Problems Committee.

Chiefly correspondence and reference files including materials about and correspondence with other organizations including American Friends Service Committee, A Quaker Action Group, Friends Coordinating Committee on Peace, and other organizations of the Society of Friends; information on Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors, Committee for Nonviolent Action, Consultative Peace Council, Federal Council of Churches (later National Council of Churches), Fellowship of Reconciliation, National Council for Prevention of War, National Peace Conference, National Service Board for Religious Objectors, SANE, and Women's International League for Peace and Freedom; material of and relating to FCNL staff members including E. Raymond Wilson, Edward F. Snyder, George I. Bliss, Wilmer A. Cooper, Jeanette Hadley, Charles H. Harker, and Frances E. Neely; records and correspondence of several affiliated committees including Friends Committee on Legislation of Northern California, Friends Committee on Legislation, Southern California Section, and Illinois-Wisconsin Friends Committee on Legislation; records of Friends War Problems Committee; and material from Civilian Public Service Fund Committee of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (1941-1946). Includes reference files relating to disarmament, conscription, universal military training, conscientious objection, pacifism, United Nations,

Vietnam

war, civil liberties, civil rights, food supply, and Indian rights.

Correspondents include Stephen L. Angell, Emile Benoit, Charles J. Darlington, Thomas A. Foulke, Paul Comly French, Hugh B. Hester, Dorothy H. Hutchinson, J. Stuart Innerst, Homer A. Jack, Samuel R. Levering, Mary Cushing Niles, Philip Noel-Baker, Victor Paschkis, Lawrence Scott, Annalee Stewart, John M. Swomley, and George Willoughby.

Friends’ Conference on Disarmament (Germantown, Ohio : Mar. 13-16, 1958)
1 folder (.125 in):
Pamphlet.

Friends Conflict Resolution Programs
Records, 1974-[ongoing].
4 linear feet.

Began as an attempt to utilize Quaker insights to address and solve disputes in local communities. Initially named the Friends Mediation Service, the Friends Conflict Resolution Programs acquired its current title in 1991. Its mediators work with both Quaker and non-Quaker organizations and communities and have published two manuals, The Mediator's Handbook (1982), Peacemaking In Your Neighborhood (1987), and School Mediation Trainers' Manual (1995) . In 1998, at the time of the reorganization of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, the Friends Conflict Resolution Programs were placed under the Peace and Concerns Standing Committee.

Divided into series: I. Administrative files; II. Programs and Case Files; III. Publications; IV. Miscellaneous. Friends Conflict Resolution Programs, part of the Friends Suburban Project from 1977 to 1983,. Includes financial and other administrative files, programs and case files, and material related to the publication of the Mediator's Handbook, 1974-1991. Divided into series: I. Administrative files; II. Programs and Case Files; III. Publications; IV. Miscellaneous. The Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records Committee restrict access to certain materials with implications for personal privacy. Details available in the repository.

Friends Coordinating Committee on Peace (

U.S.

)
Collection, 1951-1987.
5 linear in.

Umbrella organization dedicated to promoting peace and the peace testimony; includes various committees, organizations, and meetings; representatives from the following Quaker organizations: American Friends Service Committee; Friends Committee on National Legislation; Friends World Committee for Consultation; Board on Peace and Social Concerns (Five Years Meeting); Peace and Social Order Committee (Friends General Conference); and Friends Peace Committee (Philadelphia Yearly Meeting) formed the Friends Coordinating Committee. It served liaison, coordination, and clearinghouse purposes for the constituent groups. It worked for the development and promotion of ideas and activities in peace work.

The Swarthmore College Peace Collection is not the official repository for the records of this organization.

LOCATION: Peace Collection Collected Document Groups, U.S.
and Friends Historical Library: Pamphlet Group 3

Founded in Great Britain in 1918 to oversee the establishment of Quaker embassies around the world; oversaw British Friends’ relief work after World War I and World War II, as well as other projects in international service.

Based in Louisville, Kentucky; non-profit umbrella group founded in 1977; promotes peace education, cooperative housing, and school reform.
Pamphlets, letters.

Friends' Emergency & War Victims' Relief Committee (London,

England

)
1 folder (.125 in):

British organization of Friends dedicated to easing the suffering brought on by World War I, especially famine in

Russia

in the early 1920s.

LOCATION: Peace Collection: Collected Document Groups: International. Great Britain.

Started in 1981 when the American Friends Service Committee had to close its Minnesota office due to lack of funds; a peace resource for the midwest; notable programs include People Camp, Youth and Militarism, and the Mother’s Day March.

Committee of Friends General Conference; organizes peace meetings and activities at General Conference meetings.

Friends General Conference. Peace and Social Order Committee
1 folder (.25 in):

Committee of Friends General Conference; focuses on issues relating to the peace testimony.

Began in the late 19^th century; organization to support British Friends teaching in secondary schools; concerned with religious, moral, and peace issues.

LOCATION: Peace Collection: Collected Document Groups: International. Great Britain

Organization of British Friends dedicated to using World War I as an opportunity for ministry at home.

LOCATION: Peace Collection: Collected Document Groups: International.

Great Britain

Group of international Friends, notably from the American Friends Service Committee and the Friends Service Council (London) in Geneva from 1926 to 1939; supported the League of Nations and the Disarmament Conference; worked on the problem of stateless peoples.

LOCATION: Peace Collection: Collected Document Groups: International. Switzerland

Friends Meeting for Sufferings of Vietnamese Children
Records, 1966-1969.
4.8 linear ft.

Founded in 1966; also called Meeting for Sufferings of Vietnamese Children (MSVC); purpose was to bring injured and orphaned Vietnamese and Amerasian children to the United States for medical treatment, placement in foster homes, or permanent adoption; worked in cooperation with Welcome House in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, and with other organizations, including the Committee of Responsibility, the American Friends Service Committee, International Social Service, and Physicians for Social Responsibility; disbanded in October 1969.

Minutes (1966-1968), correspondence (1966-1969), mailings, newsletters, reports, questionnaires, clippings, photos, fund-raising information, card files, and reference material on Vietnam and adoptions, relating to the group's work to arrange permanent adoptions in the U.S. of orphaned Vietnamese and Amerasian children through the efforts of Morgan Sibbett and the cooperation of Welcome House, an adoption agency; provide foster care for war-injured and burned children brought to the U.S. for treatment and/or convalescence through the Committee of Responsibility; and explore ways of providing rehabilitation and education for school-age children in Vietnam. Includes papers of Morgan Sibbett and material relating to American Friends Service Committee, International Social Service, and Physicians for Social Responsibility. Correspondents include Barbara R. Burr, Jan De Hartog, Marjorie De Hartog, Rachel De Leeuw, Carla Dietz, Wendy Grant, Mary L. Graves, Ruth Hartsough, C. Frank Ortloff, Morgan Sibbett, and Phyllis B. Taylor.

Organized in eight series: I. Organization; II. Correspondence (except Finance); III. Adoption Documents/Lists; IV. Memoranda/Reports/Notes; V. Finance; VI. Reference Material about Adoption; VII. Card File (sample); VIII. Morgan Sibbett Papers, 1965-1976. Bulk of records are arranged in chronological order. One box of financial correspondence from Friends Meetings is in alphabetical order by Meeting.

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LOCATION: Peace Collection Archives, DG 111.

Based in Wrightstown, New Jersey; non-profit, located next to Fort Dix; created in 1974; dedicated to providing understanding, information, and practical and moral support to people troubled or distressed as a result of being a part of the armed forces.

Started in the summer of 1964; organized by New York Yearly Meeting, Pacific Yearly Meeting, and Philadelphia Yearly Meeting; consisted of teams of volunteers who went to Mississippi to restore and rebuild churches destroyed in the civil rights conflict there.

Friends National Conference on the Draft and Conscription (Richmond, Indiana : Oct. 11-13, 1968)
1 folder (.125 in):

Organized by the Friends Coordinating Committee on Peace; called for Friends everywhere to refuse to cooperate with the Selective Service Act and to refuse to pay war taxes.

Friends National Conference on World Order (Richmond, Indiana : Oct. 23-25, 1961)
1 folder (.25 in):

Statements, notes, reports, pamphlets.

LOCATION: Friends Historical Library: Pamphlet Group 3

Friends National Peace Committee (

U.S.

)
Collection, 1915-1918.
2.5 linear in.

A conference of Friends was held at Winona Lake, Indiana in 1915; from it was formed the Friends National Peace Committee, the predecessor of the American Friends Service Committee. Henry J. Cadbury was Chairman; Lucy Biddle Lewis was Secretary.

The Swarthmore College Peace Collection is not the official repository for the records of this organization.

Friends' Peace and International Relations Committee (London Yearly Meeting)
3 boxes (15 in):

Began in the mid-1890s as a joint committee of the Meeting for Sufferings Committee and the Women’s Yearly Meeting Committee of London Yearly Meeting; heavily involved in all manner of Friend’s peace work, including work against conscription, in favor of international cooperation, against arms proliferation, in the alleviation of suffering peoples, in favor of disarmament, to further East-West dialogue during the Cold War, and towards the achievement of peace and justice.
Pamphlets, letters, minutes, newsletters, reports, news articles, manuscripts.

LOCATION: Peace Collection: Collected Document Groups: International. Great Britain

Discussed peace in and for the United States in the context of current events.

Friends Peace Teams Project. African Great Lakes Initiative
1 folder (.5 in):

Created in 1998; dedicated to working with Burundi Yearly Meeting of Friends to help Friends in Africa deal with the conflict there; conducts trauma healing, non-violence, and Alternative to Violence Project workshops; organized the Kamenge Reconciliation and Reconstruction Project in 1999; ran the Uganda project in 2000; working on building a Trauma Healing and Reconciliation Center in Burundi as a long range project.

British organization of Friends dedicated to easing the suffering brought on by World War II throughout Europe.

LOCATION: Peace Collection: Collected Document Groups: International.

Great Britain

Formed in 1927 from the union of the Friend’s Foreign Mission Association and the European Branch of the Council for International Service; oversaw international work of London and Dublin Yearly Meetings, and international service in the British Isles; worked with the American Friends Service Committee during and after World War II, and won the 1947 Nobel Peace Prize along with that organization.

LOCATION: Peace Collection: Collected Document Groups: International.

Great Britain and
Friends Historical Library: Pamphlet Group 3

British Quaker organization; publishers; part of the Friends’ Service Council.

Founded in 1927 in Geneva, Switzerland under the auspices of the International Service of the Society of Friends; a residential and educational setting for visiting students, both Friends and non-Friends, from all over the world.

LOCATION: Peace Collection: Collected Document Groups: International. Switzerland

Began in 1968; based on civil rights concerns in Philadelphia Yearly Meeting; a Quaker project on community peace and justice issues in Delaware and Chester counties, Pennsylvania; chiefly concerned with conditions in local prisons; work also includes civil rights and the abolition of the death penalty.

Friends War Problems Committee
1 folder (.125 in):

Philadelphia-based organization; supported conscientious objectors.

Pamphlet.

Began in 1940 to perform relief work in

Britain

. After World War II its service spread throughout Europe. Most notably provided clothing and emergency housing, especially for children, families, and the elderly.

LOCATION: Peace Collection: Collected Document Groups: International. Great Britain.

Friends Washington Peace Headquarters
Collection, 1916.
3 linear in.

The Headquarters was opened in the Library of the Friends Meeting House, Washington, D.C., 1916. Its purpose was to enlist the

U.S.

Society of Friends against any increase in the army and navy by means of a writing campaign to members of Congress.

The Swarthmore College Peace Collection is not the official repository for the records of this organization.

Formed in 1961 from the Committee for a Quaker Peace Witness; organized a major march focused on disarmament in Washington D.C. from April 28 to May 1, 1962 which included a meeting with President Kennedy.

Minutes, financial records, correspondence, statements, releases, news articles, registration forms, misc. mss.

Friends World Committee for Consultation. America Section
4 folders (6 in):

Friends World Committee for Consultation in the Americas.

Friends World Committee for Consultation. European and Near East Section
1 folder (.125 in):

Friends World Committee for Consultation in Europe and the Near East.
Pamphlets, letter.

Friends World Conference (4th : Greensboro, North Carolina : July 24-Aug. 3, 1967)
2 folders (4 in):

Included Friends from all over the world and many non-Friends as well; covered a wide range of topics, notably the Vietnam War, about which there were remarks by U Thant, the Secretary General of the United Nations; “probed into problems of all mankind” – Greensboro Daily News.

Pamphlets, guides, reports, songbook, programs, news articles, government documents, statements, attendance list.

English Quaker peace activist and author. As a commissioner for the Friends War Victims Relief Committee in World War I, she traveled through Europe and

Russia

. She also served as secretary of the National Council for the Prevention of War and as treasurer of War Resisters' International.

Manuscripts and typescripts as well as published copies of Fry's works, reflecting her activities as writer, activist, and lecturer on international peace; autobiographical materials including sketch and several journals written during her travels in Russia, France, Morocco, and South Africa; scrapbook compiled by Fry; photos and clippings recording activities of Friends relief work in Europe (1918-1921); and other papers. Includes material relating to her work during and after World War I as honorary general secretary of the Friends War Victims Relief Committee (later Friends Emergency & War Victims Relief Committee), active role in international relief projects, secretary of National Council for Prevention of War, treasurer of War Resisters' International, and work with the Women's Peace Campaign. Correspondents include William A. Albright, Grace M. Beaton, and H. Runham Brown.

Organized in seven series. Important series are: I. Biographical information; III. Correspondence (1918-1948); IV. Writings by A. Ruth Fry (1905-1957).

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Conscientious objector to World War II, served three-year prison term as a result; professor of history and government at Bluffton College (Ohio) and Wilmington College (Ohio); Quaker; writes on war resistance, history of dissent, and anti-slavery movements.

Includes two typescripts: Amnesty and Reconciliation, and Peace Testimony: Root and Branch [annotated photocopy]; leaflet and periodical with mention of Gara’s conscientious objection; slide set titled Active Nonviolence.

The Swarthmore College Peace Collection is not the official repository for the papers of this individual.

Pacifist and peace activist; Quaker; active in New York Friends Group, World Without War Council, Negotiation Now!, and many other organizations promoting peace and social change.

Includes correspondence, reports, memoranda, press releases, financial files, newsletters, reference files.

A charitable fund created by British Quakers in 1986; designed to remove income before taxes and divert it to peace building activities, thus decreasing the funding received by the British military.

LOCATION: Peace Collection: Collected Document Groups: International.

Great Britain

Michigan Quakers; war tax resisters who were involved in a long legal battle with the Internal Revenue Service in the late 1970s.

Operated by the Canadian Friends Service Committee from 1964 to 1974, then the Canadian Peace Research institute until 1975, and then the Grindstone Island Peace Centre, Inc.; site of peace education, workshops, retreats, and the 1965 Grindstone Experiment in social defense.

Griscom, Anna Bassett, 1889-1974
Papers, Ca. 1914-1962.
2 linear ft. (2 boxes).

Anna Griscom Elkinton was a prominent American Quaker, particularly active in the peace movement. She graduated from Friends Central School, Swarthmore College, and the University of Pennsylvania. She was an Executive Secretary of the Friends General Conference, Chairman of a committee to organize the Friends World Conference held at Swarthmore College in 1937, Chairman of the Friends Peace Committee of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, and a founder of the Fellowship of Reconciliation. She married J. Passmore Elkinton in 1931.

Correspondence, speeches and writings, and miscellaneous manuscripts of Anna B. Griscom. Of particular interest is material relating to Woodbrooke, a Quaker study center in England where she worked in 1914, and of the Friends World Conference in 1937.

Born in Hungary, emigrated to Switzerland, and later to Sweden; associated with the Friends' Geneva Centre, the United Nations, the American Friends Service Committee Department of Research and Information in Geneva, the International Peace Bureau, and other peace organizations; member of the Society of Friends.

Includes correspondence, reports, minutes of meetings, publications, and newspaper clippings, primarily about Hamori's work with the United Nations. The Swarthmore College Peace Collection is not the official repository for the papers of this individual.

Quaker; war tax resister since 1959; in a landmark 1975 case, won a long legal battle with the IRS that had lasted since 1968.

Hornell Hart was a Quaker and Professor of Sociology at Duke University.

The Swarthmore College Peace Collection is not the official repository for the papers of this individual.

Quaker; worked with the Omaha Action Group from 1959; imprisoned in 1960 for trespassing on a missile base; coordinator of the Everyman III project, which sailed into Leningrad to call for an end to Soviet nuclear testing in 1962; war tax resister from 1963.

Convinced Quaker; teacher; secretary of the National Peace Council; conscientious objector in World War I; created the Quaker Embassies after World War One; concerned with military issues.

LOCATION: Peace Collection: Collected Document Groups: International. Great Britain

Theodore Brinton Hetzel; born in Germantown [Philadelphia], Pennsylvania; professor of engineering at Haverford College; executive secretary and general secretary of the Indian Rights Association; served on the Indian committees of the American Friends Service Committee and the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends.

One folder of material, primarily obituaries upon the death of Theodore Hetzel; some information about his peace activism; see also the Theodore Hetzel photograph collection.

The Swarthmore College Peace Collection is not the official repository for the papers of this individual.

Wealthy Quaker from North Carolina; failed effort to create a peaceful Quaker community turned into an art museum; built “American Stonehenge” in memory of local World War I dead; very concerned with having good roads.

Quaker; physician; involved in the Student Christian Movement; involved in the founding of the Fellowship of Reconciliation; secretary of the Friends Foreign Mission Association; involved in missionary and education work in China; one of the Secretaries of the National Christian Council of China from 1922 to 1929; Director of Studies at Pendle Hill until his death.

LOCATION: Peace Collection: Collected Document Groups: International. Great Britain

Detailed account of Hoffman's conscription into 304th Engineers, (based at an unnamed camp half way between Baltimore and Washington D.C.) and his experiences as a conscientious objector there and in

France

and

Belgium

(1918) working for the Friends Bureau Office of the American Red Cross.

William B. Webb was a druggist and member of Philadelphia Monthly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite). He married Rebecca Turner in 1853. Their youngest daughter, Rebecca St. Claire Webb, married Jessie Herman Holmes in 1892. Holmes was a prominent Quaker, taught philosophy and religion at Swarthmore College, and was active in AFSC relief in Europe after World War I. He also served as President of the National Federation of Religious Liberals and was an active member of the Socialist Party.

Includes correspondence of the Webb and Holmes families, journals of Jesse Herman and Rebecca W. Holmes, and other miscellaneous materials. Of particular interest is the correspondence between the Holmes during his trip overseas and several letters from S. R. Sharma concerning the early Indian self-determination movement and the work of Mahatma Gandhi from 1930 to 1934.

Prominent Quaker educator, speaker, editor of Friends Intelligencer and later the Friends Journal, and author of books and articles in the fields of religion and literature. Before emigrating from

Germany

in 1933, he had been the editor of the German Quaker Monthly, Der Quaker. Born in

Germany

in 1895, William Hubben joined the small but growing movement of German Quakers in 1923 and participated in a number of international religious and peace conferences. In 1928 he was appointed principal of one of the largest public schools. His political involvement with the Social Democratic Party caused his dismissal in 1933 by Hitler's government. He emigrated to the

United States

with his wife, Maria, and children soon afterward, and in 1935 was named Director of Religious Interests at George School in Pennsylvania. He became the editor and manager of Friends Intelligencer in 1943, and remained as editor of its successor, Friends Journal, until 1963, and as contributing editor until his death in 1974. He was chosen by Friends World Committee as Quaker observer to the Vatican Council in 1962. He also taught from 1963 to 1973 at the William Penn Charter School in Philadelphia. His autobiography, Exiled Pilgrim, was published in 1943.

Correspondence (1906-1976), manuscript and published writings (1924-70), editorials, reviews, speeches, notes, pictures and memorabilia, and reference materials of William Hubben. Correspondents include C.F. Andrews, Pearl S. Buck, Henry J. Cadbury, Richard L. Cary, Fritz Eichenberg, Rufus M. Jones, Clarence Pickett, and Alexandra Tolstoy. Topics covered in his manuscript writings include German Catholicism and the rise of Hitler, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Russian Quakerism, Kafka, Dostoevsky, Kierkegaard, Soloviev, Russia, Vatican Council, and many other topics. Manuscript The Making of the Russian Mind is restricted. Consult curator for details.

Absolute pacifist, suffrage leader, and policymaker and national officer of Women's International League for Peace and Freedom; member of the Society of Friends (Quakers).

Correspondence (1892-1956), speeches, articles and manuscript notes (1925-1958), biographical materials, family papers (1891-1911), clippings, and photos. Correspondence chiefly relates to Hull's activities with Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and contains substantial exchanges with Jane Addams, Emily Greene Balch, Carrie Chapman Catt, and Dorothy Detzer. Includes materials relating to the WILPF including financial statements, press releases, programs and invitations from the Geneva Disarmament Conference (1932), and files documenting attacks on the WILPF (1924-1937) and its relations with National Council of Women (1924-1925); pamphlets on woman suffrage (1909-1913), proceedings of several women's conferences in India (1927-1928); and information on the development of Swarthmore College Peace Collection (formerly Jane Addams Peace Collection), Senator Gerald P. Nye's munitions investigations, and rescue attempts of German political emigrés. Other correspondents include Alice Hamilton, Lida Gustava Heymann, Lola Maverick Lloyd, Lucia Ames Mead, Jeannette Rankin, Rosika Schwimmer, Anna Garlin Spencer, Ellen Gates Starr, and Mary E. Woolley.

Entire collection excluding one folder of correspondence available on microfilm (6 reels.) Available on interlibrary loan from the Swarthmore College Peace Collection.

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LOCATION: Peace Collection Archives, DG 16 ; use microfilm, Reels 75.1-75.6.

William I. Hull, a Quaker pacifist, taught history at Swarthmore College from 1892 until his death in 1939. He was the Librarian of Friends Historical Library and also authored numerous books and articles, particularly on the subjects of Quakers in Holland, William Penn, peace, and international relations. Hull was born in Baltimore, attended Friends' schools and John Hopkins University, and married Hannah Hallowell Clothier in 1898.

Correspondence (1900-1939), diaries (1892-1939), published and unpublished writings, papers relating to conferences and committees in which he participated, reference materials, and study and teaching notes. Of particular interest are his notes on the history of Quakerism in Holland, including files on persons and places as well as a translation of the minutes of Friesland Monthly Meeting of Friends (1677-1701), and a two-volume manuscript of his unpublished history of Swarthmore College. His correspondence primarily concerns his peace activities, particularly his efforts toward limitation of armaments and an advocacy of international arbitration. Correspondents include Jane Addams, Devere Allen, Fannie Fern Andrews, Jacob Billikopf, Percy H. Boynton, Thomas S. Butler, Merle Curti, Paul H. Douglas, Anna Griscom Elkinton, Edward W. Evans, Abraham Flexner, Edwin Ginn, Sidney L. Gulick, Henry S. Haskell, J. Franklin Jameson, George W. Kirchwey, Henry Goddard Leach, Frederick J. MacFarland, George W. Nasmyth, Norman Penny, Elihu Root, L.S. Rowe, Joseph Swain, Benjamin Franklin Trueblood, Oswald Garrison Villard, Thomas Raeburn White, Janet P. Whitney, Richard R. Wood, and Stanley R. Yarnell. Organizations in which he was active with which he communicated include the American Peace Society, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the Church Peace Union, Fellowship of Reconciliation, the Women's Peace Party, and the World Peace Foundation.

Dorothy Hutchinson was a Quaker devoted to peace causes, as well as a civil rights activist, internationalist, writer, and lecturer. She was a founding member of the Peace Now Movement during World War II, president of the U.S. Section of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom from 1961 to 1965, and international president of WILPF from 1965 to 1968.

The Dorothy Hutchinson papers include a manuscript of her autobiography, other writings, speeches, correspondence, and much material and related correspondence about the Peace Now Movement, the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, and the Society of Friends. There are also photographs and a subject file. Correspondents include Gertrud Baer, Edith Ballantyne, Elise Boulding, Stephen G. Cary, John A. Collett, Johanne Reutz Gjermoe, George W. Hartmann, Dorothy Hickie, Fujiko Isono, A.J. Muste, Sushila Nayar, Mercedes M. Randall, and Bessie Simon.

Important series are: I. Biographical; II. By Dorothy Hutchinson; IV. Peace Now Movement (1943-1944); V. Women's International League for Peace and Freedom; VI. Society of Friends activities. Documents are arranged in chronological order.

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LOCATION: Peace Collection Archives, DG 125.

Clergyman, missionary, Quaker, writer, and lobbyist; missionary in Canton, China (1920-1927); left China, returning to a position as chaplain at Otterbein College in Ohio and minister of the Fairview Church in Dayton, Ohio; served as lobbyist for Friends Committee on National Legislation in Washington D.C. in the early 1960s; worked to improve United States policies toward China.

Correspondence (1928-1975), sermons (1927-1959), typescripts of articles, speeches, personal writings and meditations, subject files, newspapers, pamphlets, clippings, and photos, relating to Innerst's work as missionary in Canton, China (1920-1927), college chaplain at Otterbein College (1927-1939) and other pastorates before becoming a Quaker (1943), pastor of First Friends Church in Pasadena, Calif., editor of American Friends Service Committee's Understanding China Newsletter, and lobbyist for Friends Committee on National Legislation. Includes subject files reflecting his

concern with civil liberties, pacifism, Indochina, nuclear testing, world disarmament, capital punishment, and formulation of a new China policy, and China Spectator Papers (1971-1973) contrasting his observations on the China of his missionary days with the People's Republic of China. Correspondents include Jennifer Haines, Charles H. Harker, Chet Holifield, Clare Sturges Johnson, A.J. Muste, Reinhold Niebuhr, Kirby Page, Drew Pearson, Edwin A. Sanders, Edward F. Snyder, Norman Thomas, Arthur J. Wadsworth, and E. Raymond Wilson.

Created by Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (Race Street) to bring people of different races to work together to try to eliminate prejudices and injustices.

Jenkins, T. Atkinson (Thomas Atkinson), 1868-1935
London Conference Project Research Papers, 1917-1919.
ca. 100 items.

Chiefly correspondence, questionnaires, notes, clippings, and other papers, relating to Jenkins's collection of information on Friends' attitudes to the Mexican and Civil wars, information which was designed to be part of the reassessment of the Quaker peace testimony in preparation for the first Friends World Conference (London, 1920). Also includes bibliography of Jenkins's writings on French language and literature.

Quaker; interested in issues of war and peace, and in the direction of Quakerism and Christianity; professor of religion and philosophy at Wilmington College; editor of Quaker Religious Thought; visited Japan, Korea, and Taiwan in 1971 on behalf of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Japan Committee and the Friends World Committee for Consultation.

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