[references to Young Friends, Yearly Meetings and many references to well-known Quakers]

[describes her trip from America, Meeting for Worship, travel through England and then Germany]

[Woodbrooke memories and reunion; Young Friends from 10 Yearly Meetings met and shortly will have a conference of which she is manager]

[reports on field trips for AFSC as Home Service volunteer, including 87 personal interviews]

[prominent Quaker women of the day]

[responds to his letter describing situation in Germany; enormous amount of activity of AFSC, including coal work]

[in Germany Wilhelm Hubben's school dissolved, Hans Albrecht's salary cut, Corder Catchpool arrested, persecution against liberals severe, as it is against Jews; attaches a letter from Johannes Schwagen and wife with a proposal for German Friends to consider]

[Peace and Home Service Sections of AFSC have been experimenting with Quaker pacifist technique in conflict situations in social and economic areas. -- the peace caravaners have concentrated particularly on international relations -- and thinking of establish a Peace Work Camp]

[announces plans to marry Daniel Jensen]

[Sr. Prieto is said to be ready to save refugees "abandoned" by Dr. Puche's outfit, providing them with living quarters, health services, etc.; other daily events] +

[rumors that left-wing Spaniards are mobilizing in France to be back into Spain] +

[pleased response to Sein's feeling that work should be continued in Mexico by Friends and description of some of the work]

[re Domingo Ricart; the Spanish migration to Mexico in the past two years was significant for Mexico, in cultural & spiritual terms] +

[spends her time in meeting with Yearly or Quarterly Meeting groups]

[criticizing one of his programs while appreciating him in general]

[Family matters as well as AFSC matters, including inviting EMJ to participate in a Friends' mission to Cuba (1963)]

Several topics, including: [AFSC Palestine operation (1950); Stephen Cary arrested along with Rev. Ralph Abernathy (1968)]

[re Seneca Indians and Congressional stalemate over reparations to them for the building of the Kinzua Dam on their reservation]

[on his appointment as AFSC chair]

[VISA volunteers there for training, some of whom leave for Tanganyika]

[news from the AFSC -- hope that EMJ would serve in Des Moines for a month (1957), that EMJ and Daniel Jensen might consider a stay at the Casa in Mexico City; personnel news items]

[mentions many people within AFSC, projects and his own travels for the organization; discusses racial tensions in the country (1970 8/4)]

[Hungarian refugee resettlement]

[on a variety of personnel issues, in some instances responding to EMJ's suggestions of new personnel, including: urgent need for additional top-level personnel in Palestine and German (Nov. 22, 1949)]

[typed note stating the nature of her work for AFSC and that Jensen's AFSC correspondence is in AFSC files]

[would EMJ consider a visit to the work camp on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and that the Executive Comm. of the Tribal Council said they were interested in a recreation program for children as well as construction of shelters where children wait for the school bus; includes description of some work accomplished at Pine Ridge] (EMJ responds with interest in visiting)

[on starting a Friends' Colorado Committee of the AFSC]

[responds to request for information about bringing a displaced person's family to U.S.; refugee program "about over" (1956)]

[thanks EMJ for persuading him to undertake new job at AFSC]

[1958 letter relates to work of EMJ in the Des Moines office of AFSC]

[indications that UN will take on work in Palestine (sic), already requesting assistance of AFSC reps.] +

[work among Native Americans; Russell Means]

[1961 letter welcomes EMJ to AFSC Program Priorities Committee]

[2 refugee categories and resettling Dutch Indonesian refugees] +

[sends information on prisons toward talk by EMJ]

["hot spots" where AFSC conducts programs: in race relations: Cicero, Ill. and Florida; in urban problems of Native Americans: Rapid City, S.D.]

[tells of the work of the AFSC in Italy (9/16/54, 5/30/59 & 1/4/61]

[asks EMJ how AFSC can best assist refugees in Latin America]

(Arranged chronologically. 1 folder)

EMJ served on the board of the Iowa, later North Central, regional office of AFSC. Primarily correspondence, mostly to EMJ, arranged alphabetically. Concerns EMJ's work for and issues of the regional office, particularly personnel issues; relationship of AFSC and Society of Friends; some confidential. Correspondents include: Garnet Guild, Cecil Hinshaw, Rupert Stanley, Wilmer Tjossem, Mike Yarrow. Also includes newsletters, memoranda, minutes, attenders list, copy of petition to Dwight D. Eisenhower on disarmament in 1957.

Five letters to EMJ, including from Asia Bennett and Mel Zuck, 1983-6; concise histories of AFSC by Edwin Bronner and Stephen Cary presented at a Public Meeting with Haverford College Community, 1983; memoranda and reports on AFSC topics.

Includes letter from Frank Hunt in 1964 indicating that EMJ has been made a member of the Program Priorities Committee; recommendations for priorities in 1963 - 1967 and funding allotments; 2 meetings' minutes; 1966-67 committee members. Some material marked "confidential"

Gilbert White was chair of this committee, EMJ a committee member. Included are minutes, 1964-67 (probably not complete, some confidential), notes taken by EMJ, letters to EMJ, including from Dorothy Collier, Barrett Hollister and Gilbert White, and other, related AFSC information.

2 copies of Friends Committee on National Legislation documents concerning the cost of armaments.

Primarily letters to EMJ, 1959-68, as one of the members of the National Advisory Committee for the Center from Elizabeth Hendricks, Margaret Jones and John Yungblut in reference to purchase of a building which would become Quaker House; Heberto Sein's visit to Atlanta; newsletters and other information about Quaker House.

Copy of a presentation made by Henry Cadbury in court in January, 1949, on behalf of a young man being tried for civil disobedience in refusing to fight. 1 item.

Insurance and stock information re Panhandle Cooperative Association and Farmers Co-operative. 3 items.

Letters and memos to EMJ who served on the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors from Lyle Tatum and George Willoughby; other related information.

A note by EMJ laid in: "In 1941 EMJ was asked by AFSC to visit Cuba, en route home from a year's work among Spanish refugees in Mexico, and report to Phila. on conditions there, especially among Spaniards there. DJ had to have surgery and could not make the journey from Mexico to the CO ranch alone, so I did not go to Cuba". Letters and memos to EMJ from Colin Bell, Cecil Evans, Barrett Hollister, George Loft and Mike Yarrow re an AFSC mission to Cuba; minutes of an ad hoc committee on Cuba, and a statement of purpose of such a mission.

Letters to EMJ in 1954 re impending visit to Europe, and in 1958, EMJ's refusal to take oath against Communism in order to obtain passports resulted in a letter from Senator Joseph O'Mahoney citing Paul Robeson as an example of denial of passport. (See also EMJ diaries) +

EMJ was a representative of Nebraska Yearly Meeting to Five Years Meeting. Letters to EMJ from Errol Elliott, Herbert Huffman, Jack Kirk and others on topics such as Quaker Life, projects which EMJ supported financially and other topics, 1953-1985, 23 items; unattributed "A Suggestion for Relationship to other Yearly Meetings of Friends and to other Religious Groups" (Ts., 2 p.); program information for Five Years Meeting, 1935 and 1955 (Ts.); copies of information produced by Five Years Meeting and Friends United Meeting.

Friendship House (Freundschaftsheim) in Germany was established to study issues of peace, world order and human cooperation. Three letters to EMJ, 1958-61, who supported FH; newsletters of FH, 1952-57 and of Bruderhof, 1953, a friendship community in Paraguay; informational material, including from Grace Rhoads.

Correspondence, including EMJ to Sen. Milward Simpson, on the need to compensate the Seneca for land confiscated from them; also matters relating to the Associated Executive Committee of Friends on Indian Affairs. 6 items. Also some printed material re AECIA, newsletters (2 from Indian Reservations) and clippings.

Letters and documents, referring, in part, to EMJ's columns on Bear Creek in the Torrington Telegram.

Letters and documents.

Letters and documents, including constitution & bylaws of the Community House and play produced to raise money for the Community House in the 1950s.

Primarily printed poems.

Letters and short printed history of Farmers Union, including information that EMJ and Daniel Jensen were on Farmers Union leadership team to Colombia in 1963.

Letters from Sen. Alan Simpson, and document describing W.C.H.

Musical performances in which EMJ participated (hymns) and in which she was interested.

Letters, show script, historical background of the group founded in 1959, with EMJ a founding member in Goshen Co. Relates to the role of ranch women in Wyoming during the 1950s and 1960s.

EMJ served on the FCNL General Committee. Correspondence, primarily letters to EMJ and DJ, 1944-1986, including from: Milton Hadley, Edward F. Snyder, E. Raymond Wilson on such topics as the SALT II Treaty, militarism, EMJ's service on the Committee; a statement of legislative policy for FCNL, 1981; preparatory materials and minutes of the 1985 annual meeting and a statement by Edward Snyder on behalf of AFSC and FCNL before the Senate Judiciary Committee, 1979; FCNL Congress, 1982.

Letters to EMJ re the planning of both these conferences; photo of FWC attenders; EMJ's registration form for FWC which contains biographical information;

Primarily letters to EMJ regarding her interest in having a part-time apartment at this retirement community in Greensboro, N.C., including a brochure on the community.

EMJ was a representative to FWCC from Nebraska Yearly Meeting in 1986. Minutes and members of several committees in this period; outline for a history of FWCC by Herbert Hadley marked "complete, but imperfect"; "Our trip to the States from Mollie & Miguel Figuerola"; and miscellaneous other information.

Except for a list of 1986 committee members and representatives to FWCC (EMJ was on the Finance Committee), correspondence, almost exclusively letters to EMJ, including from Edwin and Anne Bronner, correspondence with FWCC Executive Secretary, Gordon M. Browne, Herbert Hadley, Robert Rumsey, James Walker and others, often relating to personnel matters and visits by well-known Friends.

Includes letters from Barry & Kay Hollister, David Scull, Hannah Stapler, some of which may be confidential; job description, some minutes and other materials used in the search for a new Executive Secretary, Section of the Americas. This person would replace Herbert Hadley. EMJ was a member of the committee.

Report of Joseph Coble on his summer work at the Big Jim Friends Mission in Oklahoma, May-August, 1935 and the response of his supervisor, Ruthanna Simms (in typescript); duplicated nos. of serials: "The American Work Camp", 1935, "Camp Robin", 1936, "Friends Service Camper", 1935, "Home Service Robin", 1933-34. EMJ wrote for the latter.

Primarily personal letters from Ivor, an artist, to EMJ, including a report of anti-Semitism at the University of Colorado in 1949 and EMJ's letter in support of Ivor. Some copies of clippings on/by Ivor.

Letters to EMJ, including (1942) from a Japanese evacuee describing the situation in an internment camp and from Margaret Jones (1950) on Friends in Japan; also a 1942 report by Homer and Edna Morris on the Japanese Evacuation and Friends' work.

1952 report by Jonathan Rhoads and Lewis Wadilove on Korea and possible Friends' work there; 2 items of background information on Korea

Information on the Law of the Sea; possibly a report on the New York Law of the Sea session indicates that EMJ attended, but at least was interested.

Correspondence, including EMJ letter to Major Walsh, 10/23/83, about her outrage concerning proposed MX, and other letters on this topic, 1983, mostly facsimile.

Letters to EMJ about the status of her alma mater, the merger of N.C.C. with William Penn College, fundraising and other issues, including from William Penn College president, John Wagoner, informing EMJ that she would receive an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from them in 1984; correspondents also include earlier William Penn College president, Gus Turbeville.

Letters to EMJ from members of NYM, especially Central City, on issues relating to the Meeting, 1962-1984; "The History of Central City (Neb.) Monthly Meeting, 1898-1908" (copy of Ts.)

Letters to EMJ and Daniel Jensen from Esther Harlan, Sister Paul Hirschboeck, Agnes Hole and Ralph Templin on Quaker and other peace initiatives; also "The Report of the Peace Board of the Five Years Meeting of Friends, 1945-1950".

EMJ was an assistant secretary at Pendle Hill in the 1930s and the bulk of the correspondence is from this period. Correspondence concerns applications/admissions process, development, Domingo Ricart, rehabilitation project in Penna. coal field areas (camps). Correspondents include: Anna and Howard Brinton, Henry T. Hodgkin, Joseph E. Platt, Ed Sanders, Dan Wilson; also some scattered minutes, by-laws [1941?] and other miscellaneous.

Lists of some meetings Jensen attended or committees on which she served, there is also one letter from Wilmington College president, Samuel Marble in 1958 and a copy of an AFSC memo.

One letter signed by Ricart; mostly photocopies of Ricart's articles on Friends and Hispanics; also offprint of his "Spanish Religious Writings Read by Early Friends" from Quaker History, v. 66, 1977, p. 98, including information on Juan de Valdes (ca. 1500-1541)).

N.B. Many of the letters written in Spanish have not been read.

N.B. Many of the letters written in Spanish have not been read. In many cases, it was not clear whether Daniel or Elizabeth Marsh Jensen was the writer.

N.B. Many of the letters written in Spanish have not been read.

Ca. 40 items relating to Spanish refugees waiting to be brought to Mexico and in Mexico, with references to detention of Spaniards in concentration camps in France. +

N.B. Many of the letters written in Spanish have not been read.

Mostly correspondence.

Daniel and Elizabeth Marsh Jensen correspondence concerning Spanish refugees in Mexico whose families remained in Spain. ca. 10 items. Alphabetical arrangement. In Spanish.

Issues relating to fund raising for the new center at 15th & Cherry Streets, including letters to EMJ, minutes, committee members and a final report relating to the fund-raising appeal. Letter writers include Hugh Middleton, Jonathan Rhoads and Allen White.

Copy of Clarence Pickett's typed journal kept from Sept. to Oct., 1938 during a trip to Nazi Germany and other European countries; also copy of nos. 1-15 of Pickett's typed journal kept during a trip to various countries, ca. 1950s; memorial meeting at Race Street Meeting, March, 1965 for Clarence Pickett.

Letters, some copies, of Reeves to his Aunt Elizabeth (Marsh Jensen) from the midwest and about missionary work in the Philippines, his desire to be a conscientious objector and problems dealing with attitudes towards C. O.s

Invitations and programs sent by EMJ to Friends in the sparsely-settled west to participate in a Friends and worship group, responses from invitees, mailing list, possibly a presentation by EMJ at the meeting and miscellaneous.

Typescript poem by Heberto Sein on U.N. with annotation, 1946.

Primarily wedding, but also other invitations

Letters, mostly copies, to EMJ in 1985-6, including from chair Anne T. Bronner; a history of WQF on its 50th anniversary in 1986; reports, newsletters, advertising.

Includes notebook containing notes taken by EMJ while a student at Woodbrooke in 1928; some poems and other writings received by EMJ while at Woodbrooke; typescript of a play by Jolin Huang "China Tea: a Farce in One Act"; lists and other connections with former Woodbrookers.

Typed transcript of interview with Elizabeth Marsh in 1957 about her activities in Young Friends; typed report of meeting of Young Friends at home of William and Ella Firth in Go Home Bay [Can.], 1929; T.D.S. by EMJ on her early years in Young Friends work, 1976.

Ts. of "Some Fundamentals", a talk given by Carl Health at Young Friends Conference, Brussels, 1928; clippings of printed material about Young Friends' conferences written by or about Elizabeth Marsh. Primarily printed material about Young Friends Conferences in 1928. (According to AF article enclosed, EMJ was supposed to be conference manager at Earlham Young Friends, but her note suggests she was at the European Conference).