Special notes: RMJ is used throughout for Rufus Matthew Jones. Other
abbreviations are EBJ for Elizabeth Bartram Cadbury Jones; MHJ for Mary Hoxie
Jones; SCJ for Sarah Coutant Jones; AFSC for American Friends Service
Committee; PYM for Philadelphia Year Meeting; HC for Haverford College; BMC for
Bryn Mawr College; AF for
Names are sometimes gleaned from evidence and normally would then appear in square brackets ([]), but for purposes of sorting, these brackets are removed in the finding aid, but appear on the physical item.
Sometimes letters by one person are sorted by personal name, and sometimes by corporate name as appropriate (e.g. M. Carey Thomas and Bryn Mawr College). Such arrangement reflects fonds organized by EBJ and MHJ which have not been significantly altered.
All dates are standardized rather than transcribed, viz: yr mo/day.
Though not all letters are listed individually, those that are highlighted are done so on the basis of content of the letter or historical importance of the letter writer.
Jones extended family members' letters, offering family news, are occasionally listed for recognition, but there is more frequency than citation.
When information repeats, for instance letters lauding a book by RMJ, only an example might be given rather than all the letters.
Letters to RMJ are filed alphabetically within chronological arrangement; letters by RMJ are filed chronologically.
The symbol + is for Haverford College use only.
+ suggests potential for History 361
Materials are arranged in the following series:
Gifts of Mary Hoxie Jones<-->, 1980-1998. Accession # 4097. Gift, . Accession # 7060.
There have been many accessions of RMJ materials over the years;
this is the major one in June of 1980.
Rufus Matthew Jones was born on January 25, 1863 in South China, Maine. His parents were Edwin and Mary Gifford Hoxie Jones. Their family had been Quakers, and he was brought up in a spartan and religious household. By his own estimate, Jones was deeply influenced as a child by his Aunt Peace Jones for her life of Quaker homily and, as a young man, the spirituality and philosophical powers of oratory and discourse of his other aunt and uncle, the ministers Eli and Sybil Jones. He attended Oak Grove Seminary, later Moses Brown School, and then Haverford College, where he received a B.A. in history in 1885. He wrote his senior thesis "Mysticism and its Exponents" under Prof. Pliny Earle Chase. After graduation, he taught Greek, Latin, German, surveying, astronomy, and zoology at Oakwood Seminary from 1885-1886 and received an M.A. from Haverford in 1886. He went abroad in 1886-87 with his friend Charles Jacob to study German and philosophy at Heidelberg University and to visit Ellen Claire Pearsall in Scotland, though he had been offered the position of principal at Damascus Academy in Ohio. During a month in France, he had a mystical experience in the bosky environment of Dieu le Fit during which he realized his life's work was in the realm of mystical religion. During his years of study of mysticism, he developed criteria by which the objectivity of a mystical experience might be verified.
Jones visited Karl Schmidt and Paul Sabatier and attended the University of Heidelberg where he studied with Kuno Fischer and decided to study philosophy.
Upon his return, Jones received a teaching post at Providence Friends School. There he met George Barton (Haverford 1882), who became his close friend. He remained at Providence from 1887-89.
In 1888, Rufus Jones married Sarah Coutant. In that year, he wrote the biography of his uncle and aunt, Eli and Sybil Jones.
From 1889-1893, Jones served as principal at Oak Grove Seminary. In 1890, he was recorded a minister at South China, ME Monthly Meeting and Vassalboro Quarterly Meeting.
Lowell Coutant Jones was born in 1892.
In 1893, Rufus Jones simultaneously was made editor of
In 1894,
In 1897, Jones went to England, Italy, Ireland and Switzerland where he met various English Friends, including John Wilhelm Rowntree. He attended London Yearly Meeting, went to Oxford with Thomas Hodgkin, and went to Switzerland with Rendel Harris.
Sarah C. Jones died of tuberculosis in 1899. Rufus Jones declined an offer of the presidency of Earlham. He had determined his mission was to unite all the Yearly Meetings in America. “Shall there be a Central Body”? was his presentation at the Indianapolis Quinquennial Conference in 1897. He worked on this statement with James Wood (“most weighty Friend in America”), and finished and published in 1900 the Uniform Discipline by which: birthright membership discontinued; employment of pastors was provided for; and vote rather than consensus of delegates, as well as statement of belief.
In 1898, he became a trustee of Bryn Mawr College upon the death of James Carey Thomas and was also elected to Haverford's ΦBK.
In this period, summer schools on Quakerism were established. This was the result of the Manchester Conference in 1895 which demanded of Friends that they become involved in the work of the world with greater knowledge of their own heritage and analysis of the Bible through scientific eyes and to deal with social questions and social needs. It may be said that the long range result of this same conference was the AFSC.
Rufus Jones became engaged to Ellen Wood; Wood died in 1900 of typhoid
fever. Jones published
In 1900-1901, he attended Harvard to study under Josiah Royce, George Palmer and George Santayana and had hoped to study under William James though the latter was not there in this period.
In the summer of 1901, he was in England with his son Lowell and stayed with J.W. Rowntree. He lectured at Scarborough Summer School and became friends with Joan Mary Fry, Arnold Rowntree (John Wilhelm Rowntree's cousin), and Violet Hodgkin.
Woodbrooke was established for the study of Quakerism and its principalship was offered to Jones. In July of 1902, soon after Rufus Jones married Elizabeth Bartram Cadbury, he went to England to consider the proposition, decided against the post, but agreed to be there for the opening during which time Lowell died.
Rufus Jones looked for “the more” in people (more than what they were); also incorporated Kant's philosophy that consciousness depends on God rather than God on consciousness and Barclay's notion that the inner light was not a foreign implantation causing duality in man, but of one, active not passive dwelling. The test is not only one of life-results, but by spirit in many men -- a sharing in a wider spiritual order.
In 1904, Rufus and Elizabeth Jones' daughter, Mary Hoxie, was born and John Wilhelm Rowntree died. Rufus Jones wanted to continue his history of Quakerism as an evolution in a series of volumes with himself as editor and writer of several volumes along with William Charles Braithwaite.
He was lecturing a great deal and convincing audiences of “modern thought” and living religion.
In 1907, he was again in England to study at the Bodleian; he gave the
first Swarthmore lecture and finished
Jones denounced hysteria (visions, trances, auditions, etc.). He believed ecstasy a false trail. As Elizabeth Gray Vining stated “Not ecstasy, but an enhanced and unified personality and increased energy to carry out God's purposes in the world were to him the hallmarks of the mystical experience,” while Jones expressed it as “the power of the experience of the Divine Presence among the members.”
In 1911, he was in Germany, visiting with Theodor Sippell whom he had met formerly. Sippell postulated that Casper Schwenkfeld was the intellectual forebear of the Westmoreland Seekers whose thoughts later impressed George Fox.
In 1912, Jones relinquished the editorial post with the
Rufus Jones suffered a concussion in 1914 as well as a drain on his physical and emotional condition. He and Elizabeth Jones built a cottage at South China, ME, named Pendle Hill after the place where George Fox had his vision.
In 1915, Jones helped to start the Fellowship of Reconciliation with Henry Hodgkin. Jones became chairman of the Board of Bryn Mawr College in 1916 and maintained a close relationship with M. Carey Thomas. He attended the All-Friends Conference in London in 1920 to discuss fundamental problems of war and peace from a Quaker perspective. On the conference eve, he gave the Swarthmore Lecture on “Nature and Authority of Conscience.”
In 1917, Rufus Jones investigated the concept of alternative service
and organized the Emergency Unit at Haverford College providing students with a
course of physical hardening and a training in mechanics and agricultural
skills for volunteer work. Jones' idea of relief work in France was approved
and this was the absolute beginning of the American Friends Service Committee.
Morris E. Leeds and J. Henry Scattergood were the first to go to France. Some
were appointed to go to Russia. Rufus Jones became the first chairman of the
AFSC. The relief work was in the categories of medicine, agriculture, relief,
and building and reconstruction. Jones made a follow-up trip to France after
armistice and worked with others on reconstruction. He wrote a history of this
period of the American Friends Service Committee,
In 1919, Hoover suggested that the AFSC take over the childfeeding program in Germany. 40,000 Germans assisted in the preparation of food for 1,000,000 children daily.
In 1921, Jones published the last two volumes in the Quaker History
series
In 1921, Jones went to Germany to inspect needs, then to Poland Austria. He negotiated to get the AFSC into Russia for child feeding by joining with Hoover's American Relief Administration which ran into problems because of Hoover's anti-Communist leanings and because of the destruction of Russian transport systems during the war with the result that food remained loaded on ships in the harbor.
In 1922, Rufus Jones received honorary LL.Ds. from Swarthmore and
Haverford Colleges. In 1923, he was struck by an automobile, but in recovery,
felt an increase in vitality and had a mystical experience. He also went to
Greece, well-read in its history and then to Constantinople, Damascus,
Ramallah, Jerusalem, Cairo (where he saw Rendel Harris), Rome and Oxford (where
he worked on
In 1926, he was scheduled to give the quadrennial lecture of the
National Council (Y.M.C.A.) in China. He also was in Japan and visited with
Japanese Quakers, speaking also with Viscount Shibusawa on Nippon-American
relations. His lectures, published as
In 1928, Jones retired as chair of AFSC and the committee itself was divided into four sections: foreign, interracial, peace and home service. The latter worked for miners. Henry J. Cadbury became the chair of AFSC and Clarence Pickett, executive secretary.
In 1929, Jones gave the “New Era Lectures” at the University of Southern California School of Religion; he also lectured at Harvard and in Athens during a trip that took him from London to Greece and Assisi. Rufus Jones wrote a paper in 1929 in which he spoke of the need for better training of missionaries, so they would have a wider vision in their work.
In 1930, Pendle Hill, an adult Quaker study center established in 1928, opened for religious and social studies with Henry Hodgkin as its first director.
In 1932, Jones traveled to Asia. At the same time, Japanese were invading China. The Joneses moved through devastated areas and reached Hong Kong, then went to Japan and Honolulu. A member of the Laymens Foreign Mission Inquiry, the group published Rethinking Missions as a result of their inspections and analyses. Essentially, the work stated that missionaries should be acquainted with the country in which they are proselytizing.
Rufus Jones retired from teaching at Haverford College in 1934. He went to England, giving lectures at Woodbrooke, Copenhagen, Germany, Prague, London, Ireland, Strasbourg, Berlin, Vienna, Italy, France, Switzerland and researched 14th century mystics along the way.
He was named editor of the Great Issues of Life series, but the war ended this project.
Jones recognized the meaning of mysticism through reading Emerson, through his mystical experiences at Dieu-le-Fit and prior to his son, Lowell's, death, proclaiming “quiet mystical receptivity,” i.e. without event, its measurement on a scale from simple awareness to rapt consciousness. He suggested that mysticism not the whole of religion which has full intellectual involvement. Thus for Jones, the definition of mysticism was the conviction of an individual that the human spirit and Divine spirit have met. There are two types of mysticism: negative or denying of self; and Jones' type, affirmative or union with God without loss of personality. The mark of the affirmative mystic is a transformed personality, radiance, vitality, and energy. Jones distrusted ecstasy as a symptom of hysteria and abnormality. He thought of George Fox as an affirmative mystic. He believed mysticism flourished best in groups.
In 1935, Jones again became chair of AFSC and sought to help Jewish refugees. He was also presiding clerk of Five Years Meeting.
In 1936, he resigned as chair, but remained on the Bryn Mawr College Board of Trustees. He still gave plenty of lectures at age 73. He met with Theodore Dreiser (at Dreiser's request) as AFSC gave aid in Spain and Dreiser wanted a committee set up of prominent citizens to provide civilian relief in Spain.
Jones was interested in bringing together people attracted to Quakerism and its philosophy, but who were not members of a Quaker meeting. This resulted in Wider Quaker Fellowship and, in 1936, the American Friends Fellowship Council.
Jones presided at the second Friends World Conference held at Swarthmore College in 1937.
In 1938, Jones was invited to South Africa by South African Quakers. He traveled to Capetown to meet with members of that meeting and also of Johannesburg and other South African meetings. He met with Senator Reinhault Jones who represented non-European races in Parliament and Gen. Jan Christian Smuts, minister of Justice and Deputy Prime Minister. Jones lectured at all the universities there, then went on to Singapore and Canton, Shanghai and Tokyo.
After the Day of Broken Glass (Kristallnacht) in Germany (Nov. 9 & 10, 1938), a special refugee division of AFSC was established. Three men were chosen to analyze the situation in Germany. These were Rufus M. Jones, D. Robert Yarnall, a businessman, and George Walton, principal of George School. Discretion was overturned by a newspaper account of their venture. The AFSC had already opened a refugee center in Berlin. The three men visited Jewish leader Wilfred Israel who reiterated that emigration was vital, much more so than food relief. They saw Consul General Raymond Geist who promised to assist them. They saw Myron Taylor, head of the Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees in London, who agreed with their plan. Geist arranged for their meeting with assistants of Heydrich, the real head of the Secret Police and “hangman” in charge of Dachau. After their presentation, the assistants conferred with Heydrich and he granted them investigation of “sufferings of Jews and to bring such relief as they see necessary.” Unfortunately, their effort brought no such results.
In the 1940s RMJ wrote and spoke extensively, mainly interpreting the Quaker stand on war and peace. He received the Philadelphia Award in 1939 and the Theodore Roosevelt Award for distinguished service in 1942. In 1945, he was made honorary chairman of AFSC to raise money to feed German children.
In 1947, General Meeting between the Hicksite and Orthodox branches of Quakers was established. Already the meetings had united their committees on peace, social order, race relations, but not discipline or finance.
In 1948, Jones organized a meeting of religious Christian leaders who would communicate with Palestinian religious leaders to somehow call an end to the fighting in the Middle East. An appeal was signed and sent to the Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem and head of the Supreme Moslem Council The former answered with approval; the latter thought the appeal was pro-Jewish.
Before his death in 1948, a Rufus Jones chair of philosophy and religion was established at Haverford. Among his numerous achievements were the publication of more than 50 monographs; within 7 years of his death, the Hicksite and Orthodox Quaker branches in Philadelphia Yearly Meeting achieved unification.
(Biographical information from Elizabeth Gray Vining's
Society of Friends; [1981, c1958]
The collection consists of Rufus Jones' correspondence, diaries, financial papers, manuscripts, Haverford College class notes, short talks, photographs, medals and artifacts and material relating to Jones. In addition, there are the correspondence and photographs of Elizabeth Bartram Cadbury Jones, his wife, and of Mary Hoxie Jones, his daughter. Topics of importance in this collection are Rufus Jones' teaching, his writing and editing, his religious beliefs, his efforts toward the reunification of branches within the Society of Friends, his work for various service organizations, peace issues, his friendships and his family.
Some correspondents include: AFSC, M. Catherine Albright, All Friends,
Selected subjects:
See also the finding aids for collection 1009: Jones Family Papers at http://www.haverford.edu/library/sc/faids/jones.html and for collection 1172: Jones-Cadbury Family Papers at http://www.haverford.edu/library/sc/faids/jonescadbury/jonescadbury.html
[has been to Congress of Orientalists at Stockholm and Christiania; submitted notice of RMJ's book for publication]
[concerns an exam, perhaps for a student RMJ recommended for Haverford]
[on practical life vs. religious]
[concerns cost of education at Oak Grove; and decision of RMJ to leave Oak Grove and come to Haverford College]
[approves of
[congratulates on success of
[re
[pleased with tone of
[increasing subscriptions to
[heard him preach; tells him to be humble]
[sets down ideals of the “new”
[RMJ has been elected to position of editor of
[advice on running
[cautious about the direction of the new editor of
[poem about “deposed ministers”]
[Asks him to write a review Of Friends' education Since Wm. Penn]
[makes similar request of RMJ as of Sharpless]
[would like to contribute & find contributors for
[in defense of pastors]
[about her book of poems]
[birthright membership in Quakerism]
[of bringing “glow & enthusiasm” & spiritual power of George Fox to current meetings]
[plans laid out for energizing & nationalizing of
[money for
[have secured barely sufficient funds, but want RMJ in
Philadelphia to take up
[offers 2 rooms for residence of Joneses in Founders Hall]
[re Joel Bean and his doctrine of restoration]
[on the subject of Divine Immanence]
[re funds from the Miles White Beneficial Society toward
[success best obtained by merging
[re
[several years ago, had proposed starting a Friends'
journal, but not wishing to compete with
(there are many letters giving opinions of the
[concerning the merging of
[
[sympathizes with his effort to combine diverse elements in
the Society of Friends; change from
(printed) [concerning their deposition by Iowa Yearly Meeting]
[re William Penn Charter School and Richard Mott Jones]
[report of Friends Rally at Cleveland]
[re
[re
[re proposed merger of
[re advocacy by one Dr. (Dougan?) Clark of water baptism]
[attests to presence of RMJ at Iowa Yearly Meeting at this time]
[re merger of
[family news]
[family news]
[suggests symposium on an educational topic]
[encloses letters of J. Walter Malone and others concerning
needs of western Friends,
[baptism ceremony conducted by Dr. Clark]
[Memo of a conference in New York [concerning publication of
[re merger of
[concerning deposing of Joel Bean and that action of Iowa Friends not inquisitorial]
[re direction for
[needs of western Friends]
[concerning new
[perturbed by tolerance expressed by
[at a meeting to put in writing something about the discipline of Friends, and that several friends be requested to write on the topic “why I am a Friend?”; asks that RMJ write on one of the topics]
[articles on Quakerism he is writing]
[would like to see young people writing on the subject “why I am a Friend?”]
[approves of idea of one periodical to replace
[approval of tone of
[approves of attitude of American
[unhappy with presentations
[report of the financial problems of Wamsutta Mills and
impact on all concerned; not used by RMJ for
[re
[re
[interpretation of structure and discipline of meetings, and whether men's clerk is presiding in joint meetings or either men's or both men's and women's clerk; reference to the Dougan Clark water baptism case]
[concerning investment property in Sioux City]
[concerning a call for a peace meeting between different Friends sects]
[concerning use of prepared notes by Friends minister]
[re Dougan Clark case article in
[glad
[would RMJ come to speak at KYM]
[would like RMJ to come speak at meeting and to students]
[about his work for Providence Friends School and those who come to it]
[home news]
[re putting Dougan Clark case in perspective by publication of a statement prepared by “law and order” Friends]
[on the work of foreign missions and the need for intelligent, consecrated mission boards to formulate policy]
[will try to submit her paper shortly to
[Manchester Conference of Friends addressed the issue of the
future of the Society and RMJ must make use of the results in the
[encloses printed statement of Dougan Clark]
[thanks for good review of her book in
[urges display of tolerance in the
[appreciates difficulty of his position, but that he must not try to please all factions, but state his own opinion]
[hopes reaction against pastoral method will increase]
[looking for new principal for Oak Grove School -- wishing RMJ would serve]
[on having no officiating at a marriage]
[re: investments]
[British Friends and Armenia]
[encloses his article for the
[observation of ordinances and other outward symbols]
[expenses and receipts at farm at South China]
[family news]
[family news]
[wants to publicize Penn College and other business and will
try to buy out
[liberal vs. traditional ideology of Friends church]
[the
[has encountered criticism because of his religious philosophy]
[praise for the job RMJ is doing as editor of
[pleased with RMJ's handling of
[feels the views supporting Dr. Clark's cause should be
represented in
[suggests a “grand educational conclave” for 1900]
[re an appeal for funds]
[does not feel new publication
[sends list of books on mysticism]
Contains letters to and from Sarah H. Coutant (Jones) and items about her, not including from RMJ, 1882-1898.
[has been chosen to be the teacher in a new school]
[speaks of love between them]
[mentions Indian Conference at Lake Mohonk]
[puts RMJ at ease with the idea that while she will always want to be as one with him, she will not be confined to “women's” activities]
[trip to New York's Metropolitan Museum, particularly exciting to see Rosa Bonheur's Fair,” one of “the most famous pictures of the 19th century”]
[Belva Lockwood campaigning in New Paltz]
[Coutant is “not a full fledged Friend” and hopes her certificate will not need to be carried to his Meeting. “Thou can get consent (for their marriage) of thy meeting, and I will elope”]
While RMJ is in England, Switzerland and Germany, she writes re people she is seeing such as the Bartons, Batteys, personal news
[RMJ must send religious articles, not impressions, for
[spending time in Wernersville in a house with many boarders, for her health]
[tells that she will need to go to Adirondacks to be under the care of a lung specialist]
Relate to conditions and surroundings where she is residing at Saranac Lake, N.Y. for her health.
Continued letters from Saranac Lake, N.Y.
[urges RMJ to exercise care in his editorial statements]
[thanks him for confidence in her work]
[had Quaker input in address to Queen on the 60th year of her reign]
[re a meeting on peace and arbitration; attendance issue if held at Race Street Meetinghouse]
[paper covering territory of Iowa Yearly Meeting, Kansas
Yearly Meeting and Penn College named
[would prefer to see Peace and Arbitration meeting held a 12th St. Meetinghouse]
[re: dwindling number of ministers in Phila.]
[thinks RMJ must lead in conciliation of Quaker factions]
[will be glad to write an article about his experience in the ministry]
[re: call for Peace and Arbitration meeting]
[re: Peace and Arbitration meeting]
[corn for distribution to (Asian) Indians] +
[re RMJ's defense of the pastoral system in the
[Hopes RMJ will stop to hear talks in social sciences in Halle as well as go to Leipzig to hear Wundt]
[money arrived to help their orphans]
[summer school (at Scarboro) came off really well]
[he has been urged to write his memoirs]
[is handling RMJ's property, advising on harvest, etc.]
[would not object to having his name used in connection with the call for the meeting on peace and arbitration]
[is experiencing opposition because of some of his philosophies, including evolution]
[there will be a proposal to send epistles to all American Friends, including Hicksites]
[discusses attack on
[apparently holds property in Nebraska in which RMJ has part ownership]
[as a large stockholder in
[recommends places to see in Europe]
[death of James Carey Thomas]
[biographical highlights of James Carey Thomas]
[willing to have named used in connection with call for meeting on peace and arbitration]
[effect of regional Friends' papers drawing support away
from
[
[the soul is forged in the fire of tribulation; new translation of the Bible]
[all well at Oak Grove Seminary]
[unhappy with his criticism of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting]
[does not feel his side in the controversy should have to be silent to save the whole]
[RMJ elected a trustee of Bryn Mawr College upon the death of James Carey Thomas]
[is taking care of good little Lowell (RMJ's son)]
[would like to see a Friends University established; lamentable that Haverford College only has 116 students enrolled]
[Isaac Sharpless withdraws from nominating Committee on Overseers and appointment of overseers]
[is leaving for Palestine, Egypt, etc.]
[on writing new Discipline by the Committee on Discipline of which they are both members]
[family news and failing health of Sarah C. Jones (RMJ's wife)]
[is sending a poem for inclusion in
[RMJ elected to Phi Beta Kappa]
[illness of RMJ's wife]
[tells of poor situation in school at Vassalboro]
[gift of property on which site would be Friends National University and something of its operation]
[Joel Bean disowned from Iowa Yearly Meeting because he was out of unity with it and especially with evangelistic work; accusations of sound and unsound teachings]
[Friends ministers must be highly intelligent or the Society is lost]
[is glad he was appointed to Bryn Mawr College's Board of Trustees]
[issues arising from naming of overseers by a monthly meeting]
[hopes RMJ will not take Earlham presidency as he is too much needed where is]
[copy of minute disowning Joel Bean et al from New Providence (Iowa) Monthly Meeting]
[money should be raised to save Penn College]
[re: Joel and Hannah Bean's disgraceful ousting from New Providence Monthly Meeting]
(copy) [Beans have been reinstated as members of New Providence Monthly Meeting]
[will be coming to U.S. to collect information on Quaker ministry; gives itinerary; English Quaker ministry does not address modern needs; wants to see how ministry operates in all its forms and conditions; schedule of investigation attached]
[follow-up on trip to U.S.]
[some acerbic remarks being leveled against Bryn Mawr College]
[reasons why College Park Friends (including Joel and Hannah Bean) were dropped from New Providence membership]
[expresses the type of dissatisfaction with
Continued letters from Saranac Lake, N.Y., including:
[relates reaction of other house residents to RMJ's statement with regard to Spanish-American war that it would be best if the “naval battle might occur and squelch the Spaniards”]
[doesn't understand the fuss over the nature of evolution]
[changes locations for salubrious reasons to Bloomingdale, N.Y.]
(Gap in letters for July - August, 1898)
Continues narrative of medicinal applications
[giving information on studying at Oxford (Balliol College) with assurance of assistance if RMJ comes]
[comments on need for sensitivity in
[is coming to the States where he may present some Quaker lectures]
[has not brought enough lectures with him]
[inviting him to come to Wellesley]
[have received his series of papers “Spiritual Christianity”
(published as
[sends copy of comments on
[thanks him for his
[does not feel there would be financial justification for a
new edition of Fox's
[congratulates him on formulation of discipline; concerned with idea of merging of Yearly Meetings]
[Lowell (Jones) entering Friends School (at Providence)]
[discusses events at home while Rufus is away (at Harvard)]
[has examined religious experience through a psychological approach]
[has placed RMJ on program to speak at New Bedford]
[problems with accepting theory of evolution over story of creation]
[re: women's suffrage and rights and women in Quaker church]
[coming to America to present his paper on the Free Ministry in the Society of Friends]
[RMJ elected to vice-chairman of the Laymen's Missionary Meeting]
[sorry RMJ has had return of malarial trouble and advising method of cure]
[skeptical until facts revealed -- details of a case involving a professor of English in which she was charged with persecution; every student at Bryn Mawr is a “sacred trust...”]
[
[
[will be visiting charitable and reform institutions prior to the opening of their Reformatory for Women]
[position of
[asks if arrangements could be made to provide a Missionary
Department in
[hopes he will give a talk thus furthering the “evangelization of Haverford College”]
[RMJ admitted to Harvard masters' program]
[re: RMJ's building cottages in South China (Me.) to be rented out]
[reserving cabins for his trip to England]
[sends in article for publication in
[
[comments on appreciation of his lectures at Scarborough]
[formal presentation of the gym at Haverford College;
[modern investigation of the Bible only means of holding intelligent people to Christianity]
[those who cannot follow quest of “higher criticism” should
be forced to do so -- and that more than 90% of
[suggests schedule for RMJ's lectures at Scarborough]
[encourages RMJ in his struggle to modernize thinking about
religion through
[appreciated his new book
[encouragement for RMJ's efforts in
[RMJ should not worry about cleavage in the Society]
[Indiana Yearly Meeting has decided to accept Uniform Discipline]
[Lowell granted scholarship at William Penn Charter School]
[compliments on
[would like him to reduce his best sermon to writing for inclusion in a book]
[sends article to
[new paper will be issued early in next year]
[English brought low by Boer War; has been recorded a minister] +
[will have to see doctor in Chicago; if RMJ works slowly,
may achieve goal of “new learning” and summer school movement with
[his disease is not checked]
[sending article to
[RMJ's
[there are 6,000 subscribers to
[RMJ's title for 1901-02 would be associate professor, probably of philosophy and biblical literature]
[Would RMJ take classes in English Bible while another faculty member on leave]
[re: Committee of Oversight for First Day School Bible class at 12th St. Meeting, and would RMJ teach the class]
[is glad he is marrying “a college woman and a Bryn Mawr woman” (Ellen Wood)]
[for herself, less interested in religious denomination than in people; perhaps RMJ should start an independent paper in which he could fearlessly express his views]
[re: Yearly Meeting in Canada]
[work concerning reformatory and district nursing]
[thanks him for his talk on temperance causing temperance work to be put on a sounder footing; RMJ and James Wood will be giving talks on peace]
[will be speaking to Friends Missionary Association]
[will not be able to write editorials for
[Uniform Discipline turned down by North Carolina Yearly
Meeting; article on “belief” may be the point of dissension and he is sending
an article for
[difference of opinion on the doctrine of the atonement]
[statement of causes of the western Friends in
[grandeur of Athens]
[re: finances of
[recounts some of events of Rufus and Elizabeth's wedding]
[H.L. Wilson, clerk of Meeting for Sufferings at London Yearly Meeting will be speaking to RMJ about coming to Woodbrooke]
[would like him to come to England for a month in the summer]
[sorry RMJ will not come for a year to England; feels America has freedom, while England has given up to formalism]
[Ferris & Leach will print his
[sorry he will not stay on after settlement is over the following summer]
[re: English edition of
[will not publish his
[route of George Fox in New England]
[more on George Fox]
[George Barton to be charged with heresy]
[proof that he and RMJ are descended from colonial governors of Rhode Island]
[may publish his edition of
[re: publication of
[George Cadbury offering his house, Woodbrooke, with the objective of forming a permanent settlement for Bible study; proposed purpose for Woodbrooke; RMJ requested as principal of Woodbrooke]
[definitions of Woodbrooke Settlement School]
[in receipt of RMJ's letter declining position at Woodbrooke; state of American Quaker statesmanship]
[the Woodbrooke Committee has offered J. Rendel Harris a permanent lectureship at Woodbrooke]
[agrees with RMJ that importance of Christianity lies in worship and ministry and that education will solve rest; can't help him decide whether to take Woodbrooke post]
[annoyed at review of George Barton's book (BMC) which will hurt their Semitic Dept., though she entirely agrees with it]
[re: her election to Bryn Mawr's Board of Trustees]
[last sentence makes this letter worth reading]
[mentions peace conference in which RMJ partook]
[reasons why he should not take Woodbrooke post and why he should stay in America]
[Ellen's mother objects to their marriage, not on a personal basis, but because she doesn't want her daughter to marry anyone]
[death of Ellen Wood after she had nursed a sick fisherman on ship board whose disease was likely typhoid of which he died]
[re: trip to Jerusalem]
[deliberations on a philosophical book]
[accepts RMJ's marriage proposal]
[mentions dropping a contingent of the contributors to the
[grateful for his Woodbrooke lectures and reference to the death of Jones' son, Lowell] Many other letters of condolence on death of Lowell
[on a trip to the Middle East]
[reports that Joel and Hannah Bean have been restored to membership in Dover Monthly Meeting (New Hampshire) and gives outline of entire Bean case]
[re: Woodbrooke and talks given; disappointed in Rendel Harris]
[family letter, relating to Lowell's death]
[discusses RMJ's decision to cease being editor of
[on a Josiah Royce lecture on mysticism]
[diatribe against books recommended by RMJ]
[gratitude expressed for Jones' Woodbrooke lectures] exemplifies opinions of many of his correspondents
[re: publication of Jones' book
[on the proposed subjects of his talks for Woodbrooke]
[on the past Woodbrooke Summer School's activities]
[will probably be in U.S. to study prison matters, lynching, convict leasing, etc.]
[discusses Jones' book
[hopes RMJ will give a lecture to Home Mission Committee while in England]
[on “affirmative” mysticism]
[is temporarily to become Warden at Woodbrooke]
[description of fire and destruction at Woodbrooke]
[will not publish
[their school (Roxbury, Mass.) is declining in excellence and they wish RMJ would take up its management]
[Yearly Meeting has been held in London since 1672, while at Skipton (Yorkshire) from 1659]
[materials available on George Fox]
[praise for
[under doctor's care in Chicago which restricts activities]
[re work on a history of American Quakerism “incorporating a critical examination of the different theological developments and changes in ecclesiastical polity” and some detail on contents]
[is able to do a little work on George Fox and suggestions]
[form letter asking for critical assistance on work on American Quakerism “as an evolution” - describes work proposed]
[addresses Tallack's comments on format of proposed history of Quakerism]
“A Study of the Development of Quaker Thought and Practice”[details of proposed subjects of work on Quakerism]
[wonders whether ministers and pastors in U.S. could help discourage use of work Reverend as applied to Friends]
[condolences on Lowell's death]
[appreciation for his lectures] exemplifies many other such letters sent to Jones
[disappointed with review of his book (
[judgments being passed against Jones re
[re: Jones' work on George Fox; thinks history of Society's discipline a good subject for him to write about next]
[gratified by receipt of his book
[mentions death of RMJ's father]
[protest of the Meeting against definitions of atonement as
set forth in
[will not be able to come to America this year]
[Jones'
[appreciates and describes Jones'
[re: his resignation as principal of Providence Friends School and on his emotions from the unpleasant event]
[continues discussion of his ousting from Providence Friends School]
[re: life and death of RMJ's father who was killed by a train]
[congratulations on the birth of Mary Hoxie Jones]
[RMJ's book
[re: publicity for Woodbrooke]
[has heard several lectures on Bible, including at Woodbrooke]
[requesting RMJ give an address on peace]
[the search committee is most anxious to have RMJ be a candidate for position of principal at Friends School]
[if RMJ will not seek position at Providence Friends School, would he support Walter Meader]
[thinks there has been deception on the part of the search committee]
[Friends School not prospering; Augustine Jones not accommodating to new ideas; while having nothing to do with Augustine Jones' ouster, would like to have his position]
[complains about new principal, Seth Gifford]
[on morality, sin and atonement]
[expressions on religion resulting from sermon preached by RMJ]
[disagrees with Jones' theme in his book that all souls will ultimately be saved]
[her portrait of Lowell is completed]
[discusses content of Jones' book,
[re: circulation of
[distressed by idea of an
[takes issue with Jones' “non-Scriptural” positions in
[cites scope of his work on history of Quakerism]
[thanks Jones for his book and discusses its contents]
[encourages RMJ to continue as editor of
[on the reunification of the branches of Quakers]
[hopes Summer School settlements will form all over U.S.]
[sorrow at death of John Wilhelm Rowntree]
[impact of Jones'
[religious philosophy]
[stresses the usefulness of his lectures at Woodbrooke]
[“The future of Quakerism depends largely, possibly mainly, on its maintenance in America...”; fellowship of American and English Friends must be nurtured through exchange of visits]
[worked on information for early period of Quakerism for vol. 1, second vol. to cover religious state of England, etc.]
[proceedings at Woodbrooke]
[opposition to stands taken in
[re: teaching at University Latin School in Chicago]
[would like him to give commencement address at Women's Medical College or Penna]
[discusses certain philosophical issues in Jones'
[grateful for RMJ's existence]
[elements in his
[organization of Woodbrooke after death of John Wilhelm Rowntree]
[could Society of Friends be run in manner similar to the Sunday School, i.e. without actual membership, but just a laisser faire attitude]
[would RMJ inform him of subjects for his lectures at Sidcot Sunday School]
[discusses aspects of
[offers RMJ choice of topics to be included in the Dictionary of the Bible]
[re: publication of
[letters of gratitude for his contributions to the success at Woodbrooke]
[family newsletters]
[family news]
[feels good about the work she is doing]
[wishes to have an exhibit of Friends educational work in the country, e.g. M. Carey Thomas]
[would RMJ speak at North Carolina Yearly Meeting]
[can't decide whether to come to England for summer school sessions or not]
[commentary on
[is glad RMJ will write for Friends Historical Society Journal about Hai Ebn Yokdan]
[wonders on what RMJ bases his criticism of the theological method of exposition]
[discusses methods of Pinkham vs. Rowntree; doubts possibility of unification of Orthodox and Hicksite Friends]
[
[death of cousin John Wilhelm Rowntree]
[hopes RMJ will come to Scalby Sunday School]
[offers hospitality for months or years if he would come to Scalby Sunday School]
[itinerary when in America. Sunday School and Yearly Meeting
at Leeds (Eng.), both desiring his presence, has written a paper for
[re: history of Quakerism undertaken by John Wilhelm Rowntree, and which they are pleased will be furthered by RMJ]
[state of Meeting at Long Beach, CA]
[RMJ is invited to give commencement address]
[received gift from Rockefellers for R. Hall completion of interior and wing of library]
[would be delighted if RMJ were really to teach upper classes at William Penn Charter School in Scripture]
[elements of the Revivalist movement in the mid-west]
[sends essay on the rise of the Revival movement among Friends in the West which also tells the story of the Beans' trials] +
[very much pleased with editorials in the
[has been approached by Headley Bros. to edit a book on mysticism, though Binns thinks RMJ better qualified and Binns has other chestnuts in the fire]
[death of Bevan Emmott]
[progress of work on history of Quakerism]
[his position in the matter of beliefs as contrasted with RMJ's]
[sends $500 to be used for
[Levi Barr is an imposter with an alias]
[hopes Mary Hoxie's health will improve; speaks of the writing of a history]
[praise for his editorial work on
[thanks him for sending on two papers; lectures in American Friends' colleges]
[perhaps they will meet at Bakewell Sunday School; birth rates declining]
[working on the history, describes her research]
[refers to his part in the writing of the history]
[has published his
[at a conference of ministers of Indiana and Western Yearly Meetings -- sympathies of the ministers with the “old school”]
[concerned with the anti-Quakerism expressed in a history by Elson; a letter from Augustine Jones appended speaks to the issue]
[hopes he can give a series of lectures on Friends' colleges -- Haverford being the only one with high educational standards]
[London Yearly Meeting did not pick up on Five Years Meeting invitation]
[thanks him and partially refutes RMJ's criticism of unitarianism]
[must leave Pacific College because of overwork]
[would RMJ come to talk to their Boston Friends Social Union]
[publication of
[RMJ to give national lectures under auspices of Five Years Meeting]
[thinks varied Friends publishing concerns should have closer ties, locating in mid-west]
[progress of Quaker History project]
[meeting of all the workers on the Quaker history project]
[description of their Yearly Meeting (Calif.)]
[gossip going on about what was said at a trustees meeting]
[philosophical letter]
[discussion on accuracy of the Bible]
[just finished a portrait (of Augustine Jones)]
[encloses letter of William Hare, who sets forth his ideas of what a series on mysticism should include]
[would RMJ come to their Sunday School at Weston Super Mare (Eng.)]
[headway on the history]
[on “higher criticism”] +
[Society of Friends in Ohio in discouraging condition and will look to Philadelphia Yearly Meeting to show right example -- which must be one of unity and proper worship]
[discussion of divergent stands by
[RMJ was working on general equipment of the Society of Friends for Five Years Meeting, including educational institutions statistics (answer directly on RMJ's letter] Answers from other institutions scattered throughout 1907.
[portrait of Augustine Jones by Percy Bigland completed]
[has attended peace conference at The Hague]
[RMJ has been to Western colleges to “stem the tide of
ranterism”; hopes he will visit pacific coast;
[cannot give time to work on Quaker history]
[Swedenborg treats several questions raised in
[his quarrel with RMJ has never been as editor or with editorials - does not want RMJ to retire]
[battle in western Yearly Meetings, one faction resolved to
run the
[thinks promotion of Herman Newman to editor of
[Pres. Stanley of Friends University is going east to rally backing for his position in the coming Five Years Meeting]
[has done research for RMJ on original (as imported) Quakerism and its evolution in New England] Several letters during this year discuss details.
[talks about his portrait being painted by Percy Bigland]
[on Eli and Sybil Jones and other family members]
[history of Friends Meeting house, China, Me.]
[William L. Pyle, most important man in preserving equilibrium in Western Yearly Meeting is dead; tension (at Earlham) pretty severe]
[formal division (of the Society) will occur; property must be kept in the proper hands, when the break comes]
[would like very much to proselytize” for the
[have successfully blocked Rosenberger, so John H. Douglas et al will suggest Albert Brown (currently pres. of Wilmington College)]
[have had their Yearly Meeting at Indiana and forces of higher criticism have prevailed]
[“you have got them (
[is trying to promote the message of
[he and some others are thinking of starting “Barclay” lectureship, the lecture on some aspect of Quakerism to be delivered the night before London Yearly Meeting, later to be published; they hope RMJ will be the first lecturer]
[meeting of those interested in the history; writers must keep in close touch with each other]
[sorry to hear of RMJ's accident]
[Board has authorized RMJ's absence for the balance of the year]
[problem in change of personnel in deans' office to be remedied by a change in title]
[appreciates his note about her address in memory of David Scull who had restored himself to her friendship after being on the wrong side of the Houghton appointment struggle]
[seat of dissension in Cleveland; glad RMJ went to mid-west as his visit smoothed out many misunderstandings of terms; able men in teaching and pastorate -- ministers are second-rate and misrepresent their localities]
[wants to get the “Bryn Mawr business” settled (Houghton appointment?) and names and describes people involved in negotiations]
[Oak Grove Seminary in a fiscal crisis]
[sending him her sketch of Charlbury where he stayed]
[proceedings at
[is grateful he will visit the school at Darlington]
[will be pleased to have RMJ attend his lecture] There are several letters from professors at Oxford indicating RMJ's interest in attending lectures there]
[will start work on mystics (for the history) after they talk]
[is pleased he will give talks at Woodbrooke]
[replies in answer to RMJ's inquiry concerning accommodations in Oxford; lengthy account of his work to date on the history]
[grateful for copy of his Swarthmore Lecture]
[re RMJ's book] In French
[about his various speaking engagements]
[would like RMJ to speak at Manchester; is reviewing his book
[greatly interested in his idea of joint Sunday School in America]
[is glad RMJ will be addressing them at Reading (Eng.)]
[has read the chapters RMJ has sent and has made some few corrections]
[has read proofs of RMJ's new book,
[will be glad to read and criticize some chapters of RMJ's new book]
[responds to RMJ's inquiry concerning Anabaptists in New England]
[visited Swarthmoor Hall and found it in complete disarray -- why couldn't Friends buy it and put it to some educational purpose]
[will be publishing his
[has read and enjoyed chapters of his unpublished book]
[wishes to expedite all matters connected with the printing of the history]
[they have been sending out printed proofs of thus-far produced chapters of the history for criticism by historians]
[sends editorial comments on RMJ's introduction to his volume of the history]
[would like to have printed RMJ's talk on an aspect of “new thought”]
[is sending passes to House of Commons so that RMJ may hear Prime Minister Balfour and leaders of the temperance movement] +
[has suggested that Rufus Jones has attempted to control Five Years' Meeting by influencing young Friends]
[sets out topics to be addressed by RMJ at Scarborough Sunday School]
[the
[wants RMJ to choose great American Quaker literature for inclusion in a Quaker anthology]
[ministerial association of Western Yearly Meeting met and
wants bitter rancor shown at times by
[encloses his paper on emblems used as watermarks]
[names completed chapters and those yet to be written in the Quaker history book]
[supports American Friends financially and ideologically]
[re teachers' fund]
[re initiation of a summer school]
[attaches report prepared in 1896 on religious life at Bryn Mawr College]
[Carnegie Foundation for Advancement of Teaching will not make non-denominational endowment]
[encomiums for RMJ's printed addresses]
[appended to letter from Isaac Sharpless to RMJ in which Kelsey's application to teach at Haverford College is considered - “he is likely to be a good teacher, but not a very great scholar”; Kelsey explains Haverford College position would be best opportunity for growth]
[re publication of RMJ's
[rebuff to RMJ about his addressing Haverford Meeting -- with note elucidating issue by RMJ]
[their representative from Publishing Association of Friends to American Friend Publishing Co. was excluded, so while they would hold stock in latter, do not know what is going on financially]
[glad RMJ has gotten over attack of rheumatism; discussion
of preface to RMJ's
[would like to take his photo for their authors and editors series]
[writes to RMJ as a member of the World Missionary Conference Commission]
[re 250th anniversary of New England Yearly Meeting]
[is glad RMJ will write introduction to Jacob Boehme volumes]
[running reports on his progress on the history]
[re rewards to accomplished students of biblical literature and philosophy at Haverford College]
[read in an editorial RMJ has ceased some activity -- but the “battle” will go on]
[is preparing Swarthmore lecture and needs his help]
[some members of the
[discusses his editorial work on RMJ's book
[appends typescript of Board of the Training School for Christian Workers to the Board of Trustees at Whittier College, including J. H. Douglas, desiring the establishment of a college to give religious instruction on evangelical lines]
[Arnold Rowntree and Edmund Harvey have been elected to Parliament]
[notes that RMJ endorses proposal to publish works of William Penn]
[agrees that Theodor Sippell should be hired to contribute information on Jacob Boehme for the history of Quakerism series]
In German & translated. [would like to publish in an American journal the results of his research on Dutch forerunners of the Seekers and Quakers as well as about the greatest English mystic before RMJ publishers any further volumes]
[scholarly information on forerunners of Quakerism; discusses his contribution to history of Quakerism series] There are 12 letters in this year from Sippell delving into his research at some length.
[salary for woman to be principal of the Phoebe Ann Thorne Practice School; inadvisability of hiring a man for the position as he would soon be snatched up elsewhere at a much higher salary]
[letters concerning corrections to galley proofs of Quakerism series]
[comments on RMJ's
[relates intense division evidenced at Yearly Meeting]
[re reprint of
[discusses problems of Yearly Meeting seeing them as “new life”]
[information on Quakers in Maryland]
[re marriage ceremony of Friends] +
[re the question of the pastoral system in the Quaker system -- to be discussed at the next Five Years Meeting
[might be able to come to Haverford to deliver a lecture on Loyalty and Religion]
[Jacob Boehme brought the idea of inner light to England while his other religious ideas were already present] His other letters discuss related research.
[sorry
[good reviews for his book]
[poems by and excerpts from his diary]
[sends copy of his address which might be entitled “The message and mission of Quakerism today”]
[more on the stand of the evangelicals, as opposed to those
of the higher criticism; “Friends witness” has been started to counter, or add
to, the effect of
[in the spirit of Friendly teachings, he (Grant) must learn
to be loyal to the new
[wants RMJ's advice before giving a course on Quakerism]
[the idea of the location of the “Mother Yearly Meeting” in Newport, R.I. earlier than it was held in London has not been received favorably in England]
[Eli Jones came to the Richmond Friends Conference in 1887, but had not been a member due to oversight, but participated mightily at the Peace Meeting]
[in 2 articles, RMJ seems to favor those who readily have mystical experiences, while there are thousands who never have; so such experience should be part of the definition of a true Christian]
[hopes a unifying conference will take place -- their position is to include the doctrines of Christ, while RMJ suggests better service “not of doctrine”]
[article in
[without RMJ's service as editor, there would have been another separation] +
[excerpts from his North America diary]
[mostly business letters re the Quaker history]
[sends new material on the Ranters; Braithwaite's
[further new material transmitted]
[sad that Mr. Comfort and Mr. Bettle no longer on Board of Trustees]
[about various requests made on his financial resources]
[differs with positions taken in
[referring to a meeting last evening, it is his
understanding that the
[impressed with proofs of RMJ's book on spiritual origins of Quakerism]
[will happily contribute to RMJ's new proposal]
[considerations on Ross Hadley for Friends General Secretary]
[is preparing a manuscript for publication in
[thanks him for a list of schools and pastors which he will use to their benefit]
[hopes to be able to contribute to
[cannot take the time to serve on the editorial board of
[is writing a piece on silence]
[has been offered position (by Carolena Wood) of assistant superintendent of (New York Colored Mission?) school for black orphans; or to join English department at Penn]
[will do research for RMJ towards the history of Quakerism]
[would RMJ permit his name to be presented for appointment to the Board of preachers to Harvard University] RMJ accepts
[doesn't at all like the new
[accepts invitation to give address at Bryn Mawr College]
[would like very much for RMJ to be on program at Reading (Eng.) Sunday School] RMJ accepts
[interprets concerns of RMJ in taking on the editing of
[is very pleased with use RMJ made of material he has sent] Also 11 other letters giving information on Quaker predecessors.
[will not be able to attend commencement because of an operation]
[problems concerning vacancies in English and French departments]
[asks his advice on business matter -- the new labor law for women as applied to domestic help hired by the college] +
[improvements made to physical plant were expensive, but necessarily so; thinks women and men should both have 8-hour working days, and there should be no special legislation for women; wages and women in the working place] +
[is against Bryn Mawr College policy to have teaching staff take other positions, so declines his request to lecture at Chicago University if he intends to stay on at BMC]
[would very much like to have RMJ teach a course in philosophy or religion] RMJ declines
[appreciated very much his editorials and tells of his experiences with “radical” elements in Friends Church in Oregon and California who sought to destroy unity] +
[will be pleased to write for the new
[will be pleased to write for
[asks RMJ if he will write an article for the new American Friend]
[organizing a conference of Quaker men]
[sends copy of an appeal for peace by Joseph Alexander of British Society of Friends and wants to know RMJ's opinion]
[must resign as treasurer of Commission on Social Service to chairman RMJ]
[would like to write an article “Christian Educator” for
[England responding well financially to involvement in war; Friends petitioned strongly for peace] +
[his work has dealt with 17th century, which he hopes to write up and have published]
[hopes RMJ will sit on panel to judge manuscripts for the Bross Prize] RMJ agreed
[re building of cottage at South China]
[is pleased RMJ liked her
[has visited meetings in Scotland]
[will be pleased to send an article for
[Tom Jones considered for General Secretary of Friends]
[gives background on himself for possibility of accepting position of secretary of Commission on Social Service]
[would like RMJ to review his manuscript prepared for publication in a book on all church denominations]
[conferences are planned to help organize church work -- this year's theme is social service work]
[discussion on possible changes to
[would RMJ come to lecture] RMJ agreed
[RMJ doing an article on mysticism for the Review]
[would be pleased to be on editorial board of Present Day Papers and would like to write article]
[hopes he will write the article on mysticism for
[protest to be organized against the flagrant abuse of internal law and Hague Convention by Germany] +
[before taking on position of secretary of Commission on Social Service, wants to know the attitudes of other members of the Commission to various issues that may arise]
[has written for Five Years Meeting Committee on Robert Barclay, Mary Dyar [sic] and John Greenleaf Whittier]
[gives genealogy of Jones family, trying to link up with William Robinson, 17th century martyr]
[has wanted to begin the work she promised to do for him, but feels she must work for relief of “Alien Enemies”]
[writing from Palestine, describes the scene]
[has published
[he has been asked to become president of Guilford College -- what does RMJ think]
[is considering post of secretary of the Committee (Social Services?), perhaps for himself, perhaps for others]
[could RMJ use his article for
[asks RMJ's advice on what could be done to help the college financially]
[glad RMJ was able to visit them in Toronto; perhaps Thomas Kelly's schedule could be changed to “utilize his services”]
[comments on format of
[description of war and her son's activities in it]
[comments on
[RMJ one of very few to discover what he meant in his book; literary art, outside the novel, almost dead in America]
[congratulates RMJ on being University Preacher at Harvard; much discussion on his book]
[holds RMJ as “foremost among my earthly masters”]
[material on which he has been working]
[doesn't feel his research has been given sufficient credit in RMJ's book]
[a new school for Social and Religious Education is planed at Swarthmore -- would RMJ give a course of lectures] RMJ agrees
[letters dealing with Meetings in Massachusetts]
[comments on
[would RMJ write a pamphlet for
[is working hard to get him information from Hicksite records on their view of the separation]
[the Bernard Berensons are staying with her; resolutions re salary payment to faculty]
[matters pertaining to operations of Bryn Mawr College; she is pres. of National College Equal Suffrage League]
[cannot give Founders Lecture at Bryn Mawr College as pressed for time]
[re governance and constitution of the university] +
[is writing a paper on the humanization of war]
[he and wife will begin as wardens at Woodbrooke]
[has been trying to determine whether he would have the time to adequately serve as superintendent of two Quarterly Meetings]
[invites RMJ to preach for 3 days as “minister-in-residence”]
[will be glad to have RMJ stay with them for two weeks]
[has talked with E. Grubb and agrees
[re enlisted young people technically Friends, failure of Adult School group (Newman, Braithwaite, A. Rowntree) and lack of piety in Adult School]
[disgruntled by practice that anyone who claims to follow the “Light” is ipso facto a Friend -- many of these have enlisted; the events at Yearly Meeting]
[has accepted position at Guilford, so can't join ambulance corps]
[would like him to be chairman and coordinate evaluations]
[re his company insuring Red Cross work in Belgium] + (resemblance to AFSC R&R)
[problems in setting up comparative literature course because of determination of M. Carey Thomas to have them organized only her way]
[re joining ambulance unit]
[research on John Bowne]
[research on Francis von Helmont]
[would RMJ join her and some others in an effort to elucidate prayer in book form and also a conference] RMJ agrees
[comments of the conference on RMJ's paper on prayer and mysticism]
[he and Pres. Kelly of Earlham have parted company over what policy in re Quaker standards at Earlham should be]
[volunteers himself for Quaker war effort in Belgium]
[reorganization of boards of Five Years Meeting]
[RMJ's statement on the peace message will be incorporated in text to be prepared by Five Years Meeting when all other statements have been submitted]
[has forwarded RMJ's name to sit on commission at a world conference on Faith and Order]
[has decided to go to Belgium with unit of Friends]
[working in Middle East to make society aware of the needs of the Moslem world]
[invitation to RMJ to speak]
[hold up on sending any more volunteers for service in France as there is some technical difficulty in accepting them]
[there is need for relief work of all kinds in Europe]
[
[hopes to expand his lectures into a book]
[is having a chapter on war from his book published and has expounded on the Quaker peace stand]
[exposition on philosophy of Bertrand Russell]
[re
[
[feels moved to visit America and talk to groups of Friends (both Orthodox and Hicksite) about fundamentals]
[glad RMJ will be visiting the college to make commencement address in June]
[RMJ is not able to come because of his health, but Isaac Sharpless coming in his stead]
[hopes RMJ will write a chapter of a book on prayer] RMJ agrees
[change in philosophy at Guilford -- with which she is most unhappy]
[sending memo for Fellowship of Reconciliation that may be
suitable for
[will be visiting Friends in America; Fellowship of Reconciliation progressing well]
[conference of Friends and others he had anticipated organizing not meeting with success]
[is unsure about future of Fellowship of Reconciliation movement]
[re leading of movement in American and England and its meaning]
[poetic analogy between illness and health and a starfish and the ocean]
[wants to take on the job of field secretary for New England Yearly Meeting]
[wants to know whether Friends in America might be interested in supporting the conversion of the high school into a Quaker college]
[hopes RMJ will contribute some biographical essays on early missionaries] RMJ declined for health reasons
[tells of the lacunae in her son's spiritual education and hopes RMJ can help; a follow-up letter expresses gratitude and amazement at his interest in their problem]
[hopes he has recovered after his fall; war and other matters]
[family genealogy and lore]
[has discussed young people's work with Tom Jones and suggests a committee meeting for this purpose -- to make New England meetings grow; has visited nearly all the meetings in his field]
[his plans include summer at Woodbrooke, 3 years at seminary and mission work in Japan] +
[re Haverford College seniors going to work in Belgium] +
[hopes RMJ will be able to lecture]
[as territorial superintendent, sends some statistics on four northern Quarterly Meetings and elicited needs and conditions of the meetings] (several reports on local meetings follow)
[lectures he will present to RMJ's class in his absence]
Ambulance train #16 B.E.F. France. [while traveling with
wounded, will try to write an article about his work for
[conditions under which he would allow Felix to join War Victims Relief Corps]
[re changes considered for the school, specifically subject of present coed being changed to all boys]
[has read his paper on mysticism, feels she has to make changes in her own views]
[pleased that RMJ agrees with his position and hopes there will be more who perceive the vision of social reconstruction upon the program of the New Testament]
[glad RMJ will write a pamphlet on definition of Friends church]
[re bringing Americans into Friends Ambulance Unit]
[reports on Friends Ambulance Unit, Society of Friends in England under war pressures, etc.] +
[wants RMJ to send article for
[appreciates RMJ's position on mysticism, especially vis à vis that espoused by Evelyn Underhill which is much more dogmatic]
[gives report of activities as one of four Haverford students who joined Friends Ambulance Unit in France] +
[thanks RMJ for congratulations (on Nobel prize?)]
[Fellowship of Reconciliation plans to launch a monthly
journal to be called
[re death of Joshua Rowntree]
[re printing some “lines” in
[would like to have his article on Friends and war reprinted]
[on question whether American Friends would be interested in joining an American Friends Ambulance Unit for service in Belgium, would find it hard to encourage students to join, but feels everyone must follow his conscience]
[memo re addition of monthly supplement in
[feels an American may be better able to make peace inroads in Europe than an Englishman -- and suggests RMJ might be the one]
[Bryn Mawr College business - appointment] (there are several letters discussing Bryn Mawr business)
[tragic death of Mary Garrett]
[looking for a new president at Whittier]
[re book being published on the present message of Quakerism]
[what should he do if offered the position of head of Biblical Department at Earlham]
[money collected for Friends Ambulance Unit]
[hopes RMJ will continue to write for
[re conscientious objectors and government]
[appreciative of money collected for British dependents of conscientious objectors]
[re pamphlet for Fellowship of Reconciliation]
[involvement of youth in the work of the church is being emphasized in America; progress on current volume of Quaker history series]
[activities of Yearly Meeting at Scarborough including discussions of alternative service]
[strain between British Service Committee and Friends Ambulance Unit which nominally allows other than Friend participants and virtually has almost all Friends putting others onto civil employment]
[much on alternative service and conscientious objection in England; accompanying letter are notes of April 1916 Meeting for Sufferings] +
[matters taken up by the Yearly Meeting]
[continued discussion on alternative service vs. prison and other related issues]
[time prevents his researching migrations east and west for RMJ, but will get to it]
[comments on William Wistar Comfort as teacher at Cornell and potential president of Haverford College]
[re finances requested for Committee on Efficacy? by RMJ from Bible School Committee]
[pleased RMJ will write for the conference held at Swanwick; quotes comments from RMJ on mysticism and spirituality]
[suggests the writing of a short biography of cousin Charles Jacob] RMJ agrees (filed here are letters from Charles Jacob's widow)
[would like RMJ to represent Society of Friends on Council of Churches] (canvass of members of executive committee of Five Years Meeting unanimously approve)
[Friends Ambulance Unit discrimination between Friends and others]
[material related to the appointment of Thomas Jones for general secretary of Five Years Meeting]
[material concerning the consideration of Walter Woodward for general secretary (of Five Years Meeting)]
[sends thanks for cheque from American Friends for Friends Ambulance Unit]
[hopes RMJ will review Henry Hodgkin book]
[Peace Committee has approved idea of a conference; has written books now on Quaker faith and William Penn; conscientious objectors' morale in good shape]
[if military compulsion bill is passed, conscientious objectors might be shot as deserters] +
[RMJ will give major address at a national church service]
[would he make some changes in his chapter on prayer to make it more personal]
[pleased RMJ will lecture]
[Harvard Theological Review will be pleased to receive his article on Quietism]
[pleased Fellowship of Reconciliation progressing so well in America]
[glad RMJ's Lowell lecture (Harvard) well received]
[Post card showing rite of passage of young boys in African Kavirondo tribe] +
[glad RMJ will write devotional articles for them]
[is working in Indiana where he does not see sufficient spirituality and wants to work toward greater spirituality]
[sees the country church as greatest problem in Society and wants to work on a farm, learn agriculture and take pastorate of a rural meeting there in Indiana] +
[re publication of RMJ's
[recites a method of recruiting for the Quaker church and, in subsequent letters and reports, questions from the “field”; including report based on 10 months traveling within New England Yearly Meeting]
[tells of experience with Friends Ambulance Unit in England] +
[talk of closing Oak Grove]
[would like to build up a file of correct analyses based on RMJ's expertise]
[is pleased his work for Fellowship of Reconciliation has been considered useful]
[sends extracts of his son's letters from London with Friends Ambulance Unit]
[knowing what he does, he would be among the first to join the army if America declared war on Germany; thanks to Haverford College donors for the things sent to an orphanage of children saved in Belgium]
[is pleased RMJ plans to write frequently for
[with the Quaker histories nearing completion, Rowntree would like to record his debt to Jones -- the only way seems to be money -- would Jones accept]
[analyzes the introductory writing course at Bryn Mawr College and offers solutions to difficulties]
[on Book of Revelation; peace vs. war candidates for president; pastoral system]
[correspondence re Bryn Mawr business, including cases of
allegedly undeserved dismissals written up by the
[because of non-denominational make-up of Bryn Mawr board of directors, Bryn Mawr should not be regarded as a denominational institution] (Isaac Sharpless notes to RMJ “is Bryn Mawr to be allowed to withdraw itself entirely outside the pale of Quakerism”)
[thanks him for kind remarks on her administration made to alumnae -- may she reprint them]
[re coeducation of Moses Brown School]
[would RMJ send something for the magazine]
[could not continue on Bryn Mawr board with new regulations]
[pleased RMJ succeeds him as chairman of Bryn Mawr board]
[
[Salem Meeting house almost completed. Would like RMJ to give opening address]
[hopes RMJ will come to the meeting; talks of signing declaration against war]
[will be glad to serve on peace commission and to write on a topic related to peace]
[will be glad to be of service on the commission]
[on mysticism and writers on same]
[will be glad to serve on the commission]
[military exemption bill now pending is worded to exempt on grounds of creed, not conscience -- suggests delegation be sent to appear before Congress to appeal wording before passage of the bill] +
[sorry he will not be able to work in the training of the Reconstruction Unit at Haverford] +
[pleased RMJ will speak]
[dismayed at report in
[hoping to get Yearly Meeting to make a pronouncement in favor of disarmament]
[at his urging, (London) Yearly Meeting made suggestions to be included in peace treaty re future peace and disarmament; progress of Quaker history]
[conference of all Friends on peace, personalities involved]
[events at Yearly Meeting and personalities]
[re teaching at Canton Christian College]
[hopes to get into the army, though sympathizes with reconstruction work]
[re an old Quaker map she has in her possession]
[progress on building of his cottage]
[on his selection as president of Haverford College]
[sends new “group” effort,
[would RMJ write an article on the Reformation for the Friendly Press]
[would take part in a conference of FOR]
[RMJ as chairman of Literary Committee of FOR and his committee should consider the production of a proposed book; also establishment of a magazine or other method of expression of FOR message]
[at a general meeting of FOR, RMJ made chairman of a committee to arrange conference of FOR]
[RMJ as chairman of a commission representing Friends to the World Conference on Faith and Order has prepared a statement on the fundamental doctrines; would he transmit a statement on progress of work of the commission to AF]
[with engagement of America in war imminent, refers to suggestions from Carolena Wood concerning an advisory board for Friends, including uniting of all Friends groups] +
[on presentation of committee reports at Five Years Meeting]
[RMJ meeting members of the executive committee of Five Years Meeting by virtue of his being chairman of AFSC, on making Walter Woodward editor of AF]
[re articles by RMJ]
[responding to Jones' inquiry, does not know if authorities will allow American Friends to join English FAU and why has an American FAU been disallowed] +
[when both George Barton and RMJ are at meeting of Ministers and elders, their strength often deters younger or lesser men from speaking]
[Isaac Sharpless has just visited -- his leaving Haverford
will mean a great upheaval; it was right to discontinue the
[Would RMJ care to give the Swarthmore Lecture]
[pleased RMJ agrees to give the special Swarthmore lecture at the opening of the Peace Conference]
[extends request to RMJ to become pres. of Guilford]
[RMJ will be giving four lectures at the Seminary]
[RMJ is resigning from the board]
[writing stories for children based on 17th century Quakers, “Book of Quaker Saints”]
[would like RMJ to submit another article]
[Would RMJ work with committees to bring evangelistic message to students]
[re Jones ancestry] (also several succeeding letters)
[is enthusiastic to preach (in England with Y.M.C.A.), but feels inadequate; is unsure of his future]
[with Friends Ambulance Unit in France, describing the suffering]
[work undertaken as Secretary General to the Young People's Christian Assoc. in France -- visiting prison camps in Germany] +
[is being sent by English Foreign Office to visit universities and large cities to speak on moral issues of the war, etc.]
[reports of meeting of the executive committee of joint efficiency and evangelistic committee]
[as editor of a proposed dictionary on religion and ethics, asks RMJ to contribute]
[(apparently RMJ was spearheading a fund-raiser for Sharpless Hall) will contribute towards Sharpless Hall]
[are Friends planning alternative service in case conscription bill is passed]
[re establishment of a central office for New England Friends]
[why have American Friends neglected to support and join Friends Ambulance Unit]
[his father has been replaced as editor of the
[re RMJ's research]
[death of Isaac Sharp]
[sends money towards construction of Sharpless Hall]
[son Laurie has been killed in war; he had been with Friends Ambulance Unit and felt need to do more, so joined army]
[will be perusing minutes of Meeting for Sufferings from 1800-1900, apparently for RMJ]
[expresses appreciation for RMJ's book
[can't face the idea of killing in the war and asks about reconstruction work]
[would RMJ write introduction to a book on John W. Rowntree]
[disappointed about a position Haverford College has taken re conscientious objectors]
[Bryn Mawr College business; because of a situation involving library practice which arose, Thomas requests of RMJ that she be made a member of the Directors' Committee on the Library so as to have influence on library procedures] (there are several letters on this topic from Thomas in 1917)
[writes from Japan on college matters: during her continued absence, college business letters are undersigned by Prof. C.A. Scott et al]
[if everyone refuses to fight, it will be the end of war; she worked for the suffrage movement when the idea was despised] +
[will be speaking for RMJ on disarmament]
[includes his paper on “Education for Peace”]
[continued needs from American Friends for relief work in France]
[thanks for American Friends' aid, past and future]
[RMJ is commencement speaker]
[RMJ is named to board of managers]
[will be working on a report on Hicksite Friends]
[wants to publish a book on Pres. Lincoln and the Quaker conscience]
[RMJ has written an introduction to above book]
[re planning for conference]
[with peace comes opening for Friends' work in relief, but also ideals and methods; there has been a proposal to set up a monthly meeting in Paris]
[re reports from all commissions working toward conference]
[gives purpose of and agenda of All Friends' Conference]
[re work with which she is involved as it relates to RMJ's writing]
[missionary is returning to Middle East -- would there be two Friends to assist him in his work; enclosed is information on work of the committee]
Printed booklet. [describes the work of the AFSC; meant for use by Bible School Superintendents]
[re a commission established on the order of that of AFSC by Walter Taylor to study conscientious objection; AFSC commission would report to war department]
[reports trial and sentencing of two conscientious objectors] +
[work of reconstruction in France and interaction with Red Cross]
[hopes RMJ can be present at anniversary exercises of Rochester Theological Seminary] RMJ did come
[will be ordained as church deacon and hopes RMJ will be present]
[is sending abstract of his book in order for RMJ to be able to write introduction]
[acknowledges and praises RMJ's introduction]
[post war conditions and work of Friends and different personalities]
[how time should be used and to what ends by Bryn Mawr Board of Trustees]
[change in Bryn Mawr charter to comply with Carnegie Foundation grant requirements]
[his opposition to the position of Friends on war]
[would RMJ by commencement speaker at Vassar]
[death of RMJ's brother, Herbert]
[would RMJ speak at Washington (D.C.) Quarterly Meeting]
[will send any information RMJ needs on migration of Friends in New York]
[is working on biography of John Bowne]
[RMJ has agreed to write on several topics for the Dictionary]
[hopes to have a large gathering of concerned Quakers to discuss various issues]
[sorry RMJ could not be at a meeting of the board of
[do not feel they can have a conference without RMJ's help]
[the League of Nations in its most powerful form will fall short of FOR ideals, with possible opposition from FOR] +
[efforts by Horace Lippincott to discredit certain meetings]
[re a site in Richmond for the new offices of Five Years Meeting]
[thanks for article by RMJ]
[would RMJ attend FFMA meeting]
[RMJ will be speaker at the Moses Brown School centennial at which Augustine Jones' portrait will be dedicated]
[glad RMJ will present the Swarthmore Lecture]
[would like to go to France for R & R]
[studying college and university governance and financing]
[wants to organize an Anglo-American university in Plymouth]
[Board of Managers decided against having a student army training corps at Haverford] +
[re reprinting of several of RMJ's books]
[will RMJ write something on position of FOR for a series of books]
[will RMJ be able to come to England in connection with reconstruction work]
[she is slated to give 1919 Swarthmore Lecture and plans to do it on history of silent worship]
[glad RMJ will be coming to give an address]
[in view of anti-pacifist feelings in Iowa as a result of the war, feels RMJ should defer his visit to another time] +
[has checked the minutes of Miami (Ohio) Monthly Meeting for the Civil War period in which no one suffered for conscientious objection, while prior to Mexican War, Friends' properties were sometimes seized if they did not register]
[is working on material Isaac Sharp had thought to be important for RMJ]
[mentions RMJ's relief mission to France and that it is a joint mission with England -- “I feel the recultivation of land and the clearing of it as vital as the homes”; she is working in a hospital in France as a masseuse] +
[is involved in prison work in Paris; recollections of his school days at Westtown and particularly with RMJ at Haverford]
[very much interested in RMJ's book
[continues to report on his field work on behalf of Friends Church, in particular at South China, Me.]
[on the impact of RMJ's books] (very much represent the feelings expressed in letters from other of RMJ's readers)
[would RMJ write an article on origins of Protestantism] RMJ agrees
[RMJ will speak at conference on ministry]
ff. [letters dealing with research information for RMJ]
[RMJ to be their commencement speaker]
[disappointed with the work of the (English) Ministry for Reconstruction]
[RMJ's next volume deals with Benjamin Lundy]
[in China teaching at newly established Fukien Union Arts College] +
[series of modern Quaker books to be produced using both previously published and not-yet published works under Sharpless' editorship]
[re reorganization of Friends Foreign Missionary Association] +
[hopes RMJ will give lecture at Yale on either Fox or Boehme; would RMJ prepare a volume on Fox for a series] RMJ agrees
[apparently Perry Macy and Wilbur Thomas not working in former capacities for New England Yearly Meeting; requests RMJ to come to their conference or send message to be read] RMJ does latter.
[quotes letter speaking to the difference between American Red Cross and Society of Friends in France]
ff. [letters about administration of Bryn Mawr College, particularly economics and need to change with the times]
[male professors prefer to teach men, so if one of Bryn Mawr College's male professors is allowed to teach elsewhere in addition, his interest will slack off at Bryn Mawr]
[reports on the apathy of New Zealand Friends]
[expresses impact of RMJ's lectures at Haverford on him]
[sends information on Friends' part in the Civil War] +
[hopes RMJ will address the Quarterly Meeting in Baltimore]
[on the publication of a biography of Cyrus Pringle who faced the same problems of conscience as presentday c.o.'s]
[on war and conscientious objection]
[hopes he can convert some members of New York Monthly Meeting from idea that reconstruction work is a “nice easy backstairs out of military service for young men who don't want to fight”]
[Violet Oakley, working on murals for Harrisburg would like confirmation of a story about the assistance of a Friend in freeing a shipload of slaves -- if true, Oakley would use for her painting]
[further organization toward the eventual world conference]
[at a conference of Young Friends, there is a plan to discuss the fundamentals of Quakerism to deal with questions such as why God has permitted war, etc.]
[answers basic questions concerning the conference]
[in order to spur enough interest in America for the conference, does Wood think AFSC would be the best arm for publicity]
[letters received by Rhoads which she feels may be used to raise money from non-Friends for AFSC containing descriptions of relief and reconstruction work in France and description of maternity hospital in Chalons] +
[wants to work in Russia, but would like RMJ's opinion on her qualifications]
[V.D. Nicholson and others arrived (in France) from London ready to work. Ruth Fry and Thompson Elliott returning from America having been unable to see Pres. Wilson] +
[glad AFSC will cooperate with her agency, Friends War Victims Relief Committee, especially with work in Germany; glad Americans may join their Polish unit; request for workers in Serbia has come through] +
[some profit from Record of a
[there will be a meeting to determine future of AFSC -- Woodward feels it should be made permanent, presenting ideas for future organization] +
[encloses article he wrote for New York Evening Mail on the work of AFSC, including interview with RMJ]
[has found and arranged for a t.b. sanitorium in Germany]
[re some Russian friends who might be interested in the Russian reconstruction unit]
[feels service committee too much in the hands of Philadelphians to be truly representative of all Friends in the country] +
[describes how grain was purchased for famine relief in Russia] +
[describes relief work in Poland] +
[on relief work in France and need for more men; hopes a new president of Bryn Mawr may be found from among Friends before Miss Taft is appointed] +
[J.H. Scattergood had an interview with Herbert Hoover, but it opened no doors, though Hoover changed his attitude later, possibly because of endorsement of Friends' work by Jane Addams, and saw Hoover again who promised to give them his special food commission passport. Addams to work for Friends; surveys of needs being made in Vienna and Warsaw] ++
[timetable for work in France; hopes America and France can work together in Germany as they have in France, though Rachel Braithwaite who would be in charge seems to be difficult to cooperate with; any spare money should be used for starving German children; summarizes field reports from Poland, Vienna, Serbia, Chalons Maternity Hospital] +
[are there cases, other than Sgt. York, who were religiously opposed to war, but when given an opportunity to decide for themselves, chose to serve and became good soldiers]
[feels it an honor to collaborate on a history of Friends' work in France]
[continued delay in beginning Hoover's German relief plan, and if Carolena Wood and a group including Jane Addams are unable to buy food from Hoover, Wood will join English and French for the work; re proposed construction of new maternity hospital at Chalons] +
[building program going so well, they are looking a little further afield] +
[report synopsis of meeting of committee to decide on future of AFSC and appointment of a permanent secretary] +
[apparently HJC has publicly associated Herbert Hoover's name with Friends' cause, specifically citing publication stating Hoover would give Jane Addams et al passports to Germany] +
[concerning her mission work in Palestine] +
[he will continue as chief of the Friends Bureau of the American Red Cross (in France), if it is desired, but would like to return if not, perhaps to re-enter his former law office]
[German shipment of clothing sent -- 100 cases which the Relief Agency is handling for them; supplies and two doctors for Serbia]
[sees utilization of young workers in France as inspiring speakers at Friends Meetings who would keep idea of service fresh]
[reminds RMJ of contributions possible from among members of Baltimore Yearly Meeting in providing leadership, and that Wilbur K. Thomas is certainly the best man for executive secretary of AFSC]
[has been made chairman of committee overseeing relief work in Europe and hopes they can work with AFSC] +
[Clarence Pickett will be traveling to all colleges having any Friends for vocational counseling]
[meeting is called to discuss request of Herbert Hoover that AFSC become his agents for distribution of relief to children of Germany] +
[description of foreign service work of AFSC and desire to have young Friends engaged in described types of domestic service; “Service” magazine is being issued, meant to be an alumni bulletin for returning workers]
[describes Service work in Poland] +
[conference with some English Friends to take place in Richmond, preparatory to All Friends following year]
[tells of personnel assignments in Germany and some activities]
[re subscriptions toward the erection of an American-made statue memorializing the French stand against the Germans on the Marne]
[RMJ will be preaching at Amherst]
[plans to visit Philadelphia and Baltimore Yearly Meeting]
[Yearly Meeting dealt with c.o.'s who did not conform in practice to their Quaker conventions and other matters, including the League of Nations] +
[he has declined job of secretary of (F.H.A.?), neither has a call to teach or study elsewhere; he had been thinking of volunteering to work in France as pastoral visitor or office supervisor because since war, the heroism of staying here has disappeared]
[re petition recommending that a small committee be sent to Mexico to study the results of a possible intervention by the U.S. in affairs of Mexico] +
[is going to do service work in Germany; praise for the work of Carolena Wood]
[peace conference of all Friends postponed for a year because of world conditions]
[feels he would have a difficult time writing the history of Friends' work in France.]
[has been in Holland, met with missionaries there; there is thought to starting a weekly magazine for Fellowship of Reconciliation]
[hopes to get to France to meet war victims workers]
[includes letter from Keel Bolke stating that, as Christians, Friends should stay out of public arena as it is based on violence]
[gave her George Fox lecture]
[feeding program touches about 3 million children; would like Society of Friends to handle overhead expenses of accounting and of the administration in Germany] +
[in RMJ's writings, he says mysticism is empty unless enriched by outward and historical revelation]
[re the religious metamorphosis of George Barton]
[conditions and Friends work in Palestine]
[glad he is considering the giving of several Bible talks at her home]
[re RMJ's book for their
series, Christian Revolution, possibly to be titled
[re 250th (?) anniversary of New England Yearly Meeting at which RMJ will speak]
[hopes RMJ will write on
[will be coming to Haverford College for a lecture]
[there is thought to the translation of RMJ's book
[letters from the man whom Edward Grubb was trying to have employed in Friends' service]
[includes letter of James Babbitt which says he has found cause of TB among Russian prisoners] +
[is to be in U.S. for lecturing]
[publishing dates for his (RMJ's) book following publication of William Charles Braithwaite's volume]
[has read RMJ's ms. on George Fox and forwards suggestions]
[re Friends in Canada]
[re getting young Friends to do service -oriented work]
[records volume of sales of
RMJ's
[how does RMJ feel about having
his
[discussion of RMJ's George Fox and an expanded version with introduction by George Newman]
[wants comments on his booklet describing Friends work in India; he and wife are carrying on the work in Calcutta]
[RMJ invited to preach sermon] RMJ declined
[hope he can speak to them on work of AFSC reconstruction]
[re project on which she will assist RMJ]
[RMJ to give Swarthmore Lecture]
[hoping RMJ will give William Penn lecture on the topic “what is religion”]
[letters relating to Bryn Mawr business]
[Thomas announces to faculty year's leave of absence to go on world trip; Dean Taft appointed acting president]
[asks RMJ to serve on business committee for conference to be held in London in Aug.]
[thrust of conference should be on peace testimony and other matters which should be mapped out in advance]
[re proceedings of the Confeence]
[hopes RMJ will contribute articles for the encyclopedia, specifically on history of Friends]
[re Friends' work in Poland]
[contains list of delegates to the second All Friends Conference]
[asks if problem of starving Germans in Switzerland falls under aegis of AFSC]
[talk entitled “Idealists in Prison or Conscientious Objectors” given by Bearman in Paris]
[preparing a history of the mission in France]
[planning to organize a relief effort for Austria, Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Germany to which German organizations are willing to turn over money raised by them -- this may have the happy result of international amity] +
[complex issue of American Friends working with English Friends or as part of Hoover program causing a good deal of bitterness among English Friends]
[discussion of continuation of German work for another year the subject of a conference in Berlin; wants to be the one to promote the need for instruction in consular and diplomatic service in colleges]
[would like RMJ's opinion on the re-establishment of international student relationships with scientists with no political overtones]
[wants to talk with him about the Polish relief situation]
[has been named commissioner to replace William Albright]
[no money has recently been received for the Serbian unit]
[acting for League of Nations, went to Russia to negotiate with Soviet Government for repatriation of German and Austrian prisoners; appealing for aid from AFSC to help those who will not have been returned before winter sets in; he has formed an agency, Nansen Relief, to distribute supplies to at least 80,000 men] +
[would like to have particulars of Herbert Hoover's offer to buy supplies at cost and ship without expense in order to send appeal to churches for aid to Germany and Austro-Hungary] +
[would like to join German unit] +
[part of his “Serbian” diary about obtaining and distributing supplies] +
[further word on personnel and administration of relief work in Germany]
[has little esteem for most of the English Friends involved in relief work as being unadaptable, poor manners]
[means by which views of Friends could influence the public through a daily newspaper]
[making preparations for the arrival of RMJ and Herbert Hoover in Portland, Me.]
[states fact that Herbert Hoover has asked AFSC to take over American Relief Administration work and administer all child feeding work in Europe and that AFSC has agreed] +
[rescind of above transfer which has caused embarrassment, but will allow them to enter Russia as soon as way opens] +
[feels his knowledge of agriculture and machinery will be useful in Russian work, now that Polish work coming to a close; feels bringing books to Poland, which has paucity, important politically] +
[declines service in Germany]
[the substance of the conference was on the challenge of Quakerism and influence of some “consecrated” persons]
[P.M. Lloyd George's policy of hatred after the war typified by election stunts such as “Hang the Kaiser” and “Make Germany Pay” reflected in peace treaty, unemployment rampant] +
[sends information re Friends in military during civil war] +
[would like RMJ to write on Christian mysticism for Review]
[Newport Meeting House has been purchased apparently by them to save it from a “disgraceful end” and may be used as library and museum]
[tells of how day is spent by William Warder Cadbury at Canton Christian College from her perspective]
[re references made by RMJ in an article which he feels are inaccurate]
[hopes he will write stories of
biblical heroes for
[notes honorary degree awarded by Harvard to RMJ]
[re title for statement on Quaker position on war evolving from the All-Friends Conference]
[RMJ selected to receive D.D. on commencement day]
[hopes RMJ will be a speaker when he comes to their conference]
[has read RMJ's Quaker conception of the church]
[has read proofs for RMJ's
[on the work he is doing on behalf of Quakers]
[considers himself a Friend more than any other kind of person]
[requests RMJ to be the speaker at the Ministerial Union of the Unitarian Churches]
[re death of Isaac Sharpless]
is writing a biography of Bishop Greer; would RMJ set down his recollections of the Bishop] (RMJ complies)
[sends remuneration for article on the “Mysticism of George Fox”; asks RMJ to write another on Meister Eckhart] (RMJ does)
[has had little time to work on Fox etchings since the war; this letter and others deal with the sale by Spence of the “Spence Manuscripts” which Friends hoped to keep under the Society's care] +
[wants to know if Friends would be interested in buying the Swarthmore Manuscript of George Fox (“Spence Manuscripts”), but doesn't feel they have much interest in their history]
[George Fox Journal will be auctioned by Southeby's; would any American Friends be interested; he has been bombarded by letters from English Friends]
[re RMJ's lecture, with comments by John Harvey and Edward Grubb and John Graham]
[RMJ's book
[would like to see “St. Paul the Hero” translated into Spanish, which could be done through PYM or Book Association of Friends]
[has been in Middle East and Europe; she is going to write an article on the Zionist question for the Endowment Fund Publication; does not feel the Board should be committed in advance of its action on choosing a new president for Bryn Mawr; feels he and others directed Friends well on the subject of conscientious objection during the war; (further letters deal with Bryn Mawr business, including more later from acting president Helen Taft)
[re her nephew Wilbur Ufford]
[includes her poem on the birthday of RMJ]
[on the decision to allow women at Cambridge]
[having witnessed some events about
which RMJ has written, sends notes on Youths Meeting at Richmond,
[would RMJ like to have his manuscript read for comments by any English Friends before he presents it as the Swarthmore Lecture at the All-Friends Conference; they are hoping to arrange a summer session at Woodbrooke -- would RMJ be able to participate]
[RMJ has been elected a member of one of their committees]
[has spoken as a witness to the famine in Russia and written to W.K. Thomas fully about it; RMJ's decision to proceed with Russian relief under Herbert Hoover, separately from English Friends, but questions the slow pace at which workers are being sent; other related matters] +
[Itinerary for RMJ, Germany to Poland]
[would like RMJ to be a member of ARA]
[paints a bleak picture of the situation in Austria]
[agrees to take on work in Poland as RMJ requests it]
[feels Poland has suffered the most devastation after France from the war]
[feels much thought should be given to permanent work to be performed (by Friends in Germany) after Am. Friends are withdrawn in July]
[re formation of the Union of the war victims and the Council for International Service]
[report on relief work in Germany; question of redistricting Upper Silesia either to Germany or Poland; good will being spread and attributed to Quakers] +
[London Committee has decided to send Clark and Edith Pye to America to understand Am. point of view]
[encloses copy of her letter to Jane Addams telling of her and Edith Pye's accomplishments while in America -- discussed disarmament with Secretary of State Hughes, saw Herbert Hoover who felt Am. relief should be withdrawn from Austria with which she very much disagrees] +
[her impressions of Poland and Friends' work there] +
[hopes RMJ will speak when he comes to Austria]
[fears her work in Poland has been inadequate]
[the work of Friends during the Irish Famine continues to be remembered; it would be good if Eng. and Am. Friends could unite in some relief work in Ireland]
[includes a letter from Paul Helbeck discussing arrangements for a conference (in Germany) on Quakerism which Heath hopes RMJ will attend]
(1) [confirms that efforts to secure charitable subscription by AFSC for famine relief in Russia have his complete support]
(2) [confirms the fact that a letter he has given RMJ establishes the relationship between AFSC and ARA. “I do not want this thing to be constantly turning up because a militant group of red minded people are trying to undermine the ARA through the [A]FSC”] +
[has no reservations about AFSC, “right-mindedness of the people with whom I have been born and raised”; is glad to know that the propaganda in the “Red” press and New Republic is not supported by AFSC; there is a “red” group sent to America to foment dissension and cause difficulty for “religious” and “bourgeoisie” efforts] +
[differs with RMJ on best way to organize famine relief]
[discussion re formation of Friends Disarmament Council]
[admires Hoover, but feels that his actions in Hungary compromise his position as sole director of Russian relief in U.S.]
[gives a run-down of recent activities of AFSC, including formation of Friends Disarmament Council]
[re temporary affiliation with Hoover for Russian famine relief of necessity if work is to continue and gives conditions of operation]
[includes copy of letter from W.K. Thomas on sphere of Russian work to be occupied by AFSC; also objection of some committee members in “working with the Jews”]
[encloses copy of letter from Lewis Gannett saying it would make matters simpler to subsume under Hoover for Russian famine relief organization and erase AFSC identity] +
[considering Oscar Moon to replace William Fogg as commissioner in Poland]
[includes letter of agreement signed by Herbert Hoover between ARA and AFSC]
[finds top personnel of ARA sure that the Soviets were using AFSC for political purposes, playing AFSC against Mr. Hoover and the State Department]
[most definitely disagrees with joining of AFSC with ARA, as Hoover has not only supported war, but also used food as a means of coercing populations, as in Hungary] +
[requests RMJ to write for a Methodist Episcopal publication] (RMJ agrees)
[thanks RMJ for article on mystical experiences]
[has been before the armaments commission to argue for acceleration of disarmament] +
[wants to write some books on China which is in political and financial turmoil, but needs support] +
[compliments RMJ on his work on the Rowntree history and comments on the lack of dynamics in J.J. Gurney's doctrine]
[is writing a chapter on quietism; will send RMJ some of his books]
[working in Upper Silesia, noting strong aversion of Poles and Germans to each other] +
[lengthy letter on what role the next president of Bryn Mawr College should fulfill and what Bryn Mawr has been, become and continues; fear of faculty that the new president may be as bad as the old, or worse, manipulated by the former president; depicts M. Carey Thomas as “the will” and the faculty as her “brains” whom she consults and then acts either in accordance or not; mentions some good potential presidents, including RMJ]
[includes copy of her letter to Asa Wing stating that “various things that have happened” make her believe a change in administration is in order] (and many letters pertaining to the business of the college written by M.C. Thomas and others, including several echoing the sentiments of the Parris letter (see above))
[re political situation in Canton and Canton Hospital, work of William Warder Cadbury, especially on his treatment of lepers] +
[on making decision to stay at Andover rather than going to Woodbrooke]
[thanks RMJ for article on psychology and spiritual life which will be published by them]
[would like to have an article from RMJ on a theme topic]
[would RMJ be willing to write a weekly or bi-weekly editorial for them]
[re the question of a representative of AFSC being placed in Richmond to work in developing the field of Five Years Meeting and feels S. Edgar Nicholson should be the one]
[re movement for formation of council]
[would RMJ give commencement speech]
[wishes she had a college degree as she could then join college women's group which does so much to encourage young women toward an education] +
[feels there is work for RMJ in China at some future date to bring Christian thought to China] +
[includes a copy of his letter to W.F. Nicholson detailing his recent China activities]
[sorry he will be giving up chairmanship of AFSC]
[refers to her approaching marriage to John Holdsworth]
[hopes RMJ will consider writing a book on the boyhood of Christ for them]
[proposes that RMJ come to Stanford to preach and give some lectures]
[would like RMJ to give commencement address at the school]
[as dean of girls, gives news of Oak Grove Seminary]
[reference material for RMJ's
[M. Ethel Crawshaw has replaced him as librarian at Friends Library and John Nickalls has come in as asst. librarian]
[information re new editor of
[asks RMJ to give baccalaureate address]
[letters concerning publication of
RMJ's
[asks RMJ as president of the society for advice]
[believes
[would RMJ meet with others to discuss holding a conference on Christian politics, economics and citizenship]
[Carolena Wood's suggestions for continued assistance to Germany]
[has heard Herbert Hoover criticized a good deal lately and feels this should stop if the spirit of the AFSC is to prevail]
[Exec. Comm. has been requested by Herbert Hoover to respond to the New York Call which had attacked him -- they are trying to write a judicious response]
[re opening of the maternity hospital]
[ties should be maintained in Europe even though relief work ceasing]
[future of AFSC should lie in missionary work]
[includes notes on British and American Quakers as co-workers in the relief efforts]
[has sent her report on conditions in Russia; mentions death of W.C. Braithwaite]
[Quaker work in Germany has officially been terminated]
[appoints RMJ to a committee of distinguished citizens to work on Middle East relief] +
[says he will temper a former statement on transportation of supplies in Russia; depressed by attitude taken by some Quakers showing lack of knowledge of the Russian situation] +
[sorry if any of his statements during meeting with Hoover offended any other members of the party]
[despite Hoover's announcement that he will make no further appeals for foods for Russia, the appeals continue despite the fact that Russian transportation facilities already glutted with available foodstuff; Hoover is trying to squeeze AFSC out of feeding program and trying to limit Friends to appeals for medicine and clothes; AFSC will be allocating all clothing] +
[is there any truth to rumor that funds sent to Friends for Russian relief are diverted for other needy people; if these remarks unture, would he use his influence to put a stop to them] (H.H. replied that all money going to Friends gets “most economical and splendid administration”)
[explains his stand on facilitation of Russian relief; will release a statement on arrangements between ARA and AFSC; sorry he ever started on a project “so pregnant with mud and personal vilification...”; hopes Quakers can maintain distance from radical groups (Soviets)] +
[either Friends should stop
propaganda that he has tried to embarrass them, or retard their work, or else
they should disassociate themselves from ARA; if they are to continue to work
together, Friends must deny statements such as those made in the
[writes to Hoover as a member of Andover Theological Seminary faculty asking about the situation in Russian relief -- whether a donation to AFSC for foodstuffs was advisable; negative answer from Christian Herter appended] +
[sends copy of letter he wrote to W.K. Thomas, asking why Thomas had questioned Hoover's plan of distribution sites when he was fully aware of actual facts]
[attaches copy of letter from Herbert Hoover saying their organizations must work independently as of Sept. 1] +
[appointment of Murray Kenworthy as field secretary]
[advices of personnel and area for service in Russia and elsewhere]
[tells of travels and possible position at Stanford U.]
[has been elected Lord Mayor of Birmingham]
[mentions his auto accident in which ribs & legs were hurt; writes from Poland on plight of refugees in Europe]
[would like RMJ to write an article on mysticism; is interested in RMJ article on the mysticism in poetry of Robert Browning]
[would RMJ speak at Bluffton]
[death of William Braithwaite]
[has been awarded honorary D. Theol. from Marburg (Germany)]
[wants RMJ's advice on ways to attack the writing of his thesis on Jacob Boehme]
[wonders if RMJ will follow up his Quakerism series with a more psychological and philosophical investigation of Quakerism]
[hopes RMJ will come to Harvard to look at some candidates for pres. of Bryn Mawr, giving some names and qualifications]
[declining presidency]
[saying she would decline if nominated for the presidency]
[she will see him at Radcliffe]
[will take position as president of BMC]
[hopes Pres. Lowell (of Harvard) will not give speech at her inauguration as his attitude toward women's education is so grudging]
[explains what he feels is
worthwhile in
[asks advice for publication of some lectures given by Albert Schweitzer at Woodbrooke]
[mentions RMJ's new work,
[Meeting in Baltimore moving into new Meetinghouse --would RMJ deliver a gospel message]
[hopes he will speak to their Mothers in Council Meeting]
[would he object to being on their editorial council]
[RMJ will be reading a paper on the mystical aspects of religion]
[hopes RMJ will come to give a talk at the college]
[reports on the publication of her book meant to further the cause of peace]
[RMJ will be writing introduction to her book on Quakerism]
[re round the world tour on which RMJ would give a lecture on Athens]
[situation has arisen questioning allotment of general funds, especially for missionary purposes]
[should there be control of newspaper reports dispatched while Five Years Meeting is in session]
[would RMJ read her book with an eye towards criticism]
[long letter on her contentions concerning Quakerism]
[expresses influence RMJ had on him as a teacher]
[same as Harris]
[by request of senior class, wishes RMJ to deliver commencement address]
(Printed) [covers his activities in China]
[further information on his activities in the Orient] +
[further information on his activities in the Orient] +
[re his ms. on American Indian Eloquence]
[letter from Friends Palestine Mission] +
[cannot be at inauguration of Marion E. Park] (See Park's letter under Bryn Mawr College)
[would like to put out popular editions of 2 of RMJ's books]
[hopes his influence will raise funds for these people, victims of economic situation resulting from Versailles Treaty] +
[hopes RMJ will speak at the college]
[“The Holy Experiment” portfolio is completed]
[is submitting his chapter on immortality for RMJ's book]
[is going to be at Harvard studying in preparation for teaching at Earlham]
[thanks him for article to be published in the Ledger]
[re the continued existence of the paper]
[speaks of going to Washington for a presentation to Pres. Harding and Sec'y Hughes]
[re arrangements to have RMJ preach at Seal Harbor]
[glad RMJ will be at Bootham Centenary]
[studying under John Dewey who “for a humanitarian is a most unhuman teacher”]
[is to be Swarthmore lecturer and wants to discuss the rise of the idea of service while underrating the impetus of religion in English Quakerism -- wonders if the same situation exists in America. Neave Brayshaw and Edward Brugg have reported a good deal of this tendency. Her argument will turn on the sanction for altruism]
[re RMJ's trip which will include Turkey]
[Swarthmore would like to present RMJ with honorary L.L.D. -- recognition for his contributions to the history and interpretation of Quakerism, including European relief efforts]
[would RMJ come to a conference of New England Friends and bring some English Friends to boost them to new levels of work]
[would RMJ write a preface to a book on Friends and peace and war]
[considering going to Germany for service]
[would RMJ preach at the University one Sunday]
[would RMJ address Westtown School on Quakerism]
[would RMJ write article on God's Way of treating offenders for W.T.]
[RMJ invited to give Nathaniel W. Taylor Lectures at Yale Convocation] (RMJ accepts)
[will be publishing RMJ's article “The American Parent and Child”]
[hopes RMJ and EBJ will be able to visit Warsaw Mission]
[report of his visit to missions in Europe -- Austria, Russia and difference between American and English approach to relief efforts] +
[re Wilbur K. Thomas]
[re work in Germany]
[RMJ invited to speak at Central Presbyterian Church] (There are many other requests of RMJ throughout the year to be a speaker)
[on a western trip, finds much to praise at Meeting in Denver, CO]
[re work of AFSC with orphans in Mexico] +
[letters in re business of operating the college]
[John Harvey has taken post of secretary of Woodbrooke Council; still hoping for RMJ's assistance]
[martial law proclaimed in China and other news from Canton, including printed letter] (other letters follow) +
[touching on a few topics,
including his work on
[invites RMJ to join the Ozone Club]
[RMJ appointed “friendly visitor” to foreign churches]
[re relief work in Russia; Peace Conference at the Hague presided over by Jane Addams] +
[sorry RMJ will not be AFSC representative visiting Russia; Wilbur K. Thomas will visit accompanied by Clement Biddle; need to have Anglo-American unity on decision to close out work in Russia]
[feels Woodbrooke would benefit from RMJ's leadership]
[re Friends relief work in Austria]
[glad RMJ will be able to take part in the Haverford Summer School]
[New Zealand Meeting in a “state of indifference to the things we care for most -- poetry, art, science, history, literature -- as well as religion and the unseen”]
[will give a large space to
George Fox tercentenary, even though
[communications concerning publication of RMJ's Religious Foundations and The Mysticism of Robert Browning and reprinting of other of his books]
[pleased RMJ will write book on The Church's Debt to the Heretics, not a “popular” theme]
[Having left Bryn Mawr College to teach at University of Toronto, comments that philosophy and psychology ought not to be required subjects at Bryn Mawr College]
[tells RMJ how much his association as a student with him at Haverford has meant to his life]
[RMJ has agreed to be Haskell Lecturer for 1923-24 at Oberlin]
[wonders whether it is accurate to cite Friends as witnesses, not only to spiritual experience, but to liberal Christianity -- does that bring them into too close relationship with Unitarians]
[re RMJ's preaching at Northeast Harbor and Seal Harbor, Me.]
[appreciation for RMJ's presence at London Yearly Meeting]
[re cost of new editions of some of RMJ's books]
[describes beauties of tropical seas and lands; will be traveling with Alys Russell and Helen and Fred Manning]
[Since occupation of the Ruhr, situation for Americans in Germany has worsened -- hears denunciations of Wilson's “betrayal of Germany,” including Theodor Sippell; spoke to children at a “Free School” Barmen about Russian schools, American life and Quaker methods of teaching; thinks it would be most useful to have someone good among German pacifist and other organizations to give Quaker pacifist message]
[more appreciation of RMJ expressed at Indiana Yearly Meeting than he had every heard]
[hopes RMJ will write an article on getting rid of armaments, espionage, etc. in Europe]
[RMJ will deliver Nathaniel Taylor Lectures at Yale]
[re Young Friends Conference]
[cannot travel with Wilbur Thomas]
[found his travel with Wilbur Thomas and Carl Heath rewarding and hopes it was of service]
[participation in certain situations in Poland and Russia not initiated by Friends and not working well]
[problem about publicity agent Mr. Keen; prices in Germany have risen so that present allowance may not be sufficient for their workers]
[new German self consciousness, revival of national pride] +
[report of field work -- child relief -- in Europe] +
[encloses “field” letter to Carl Health, especially their work at the International Friends Institute]
[re child feeding program and arrival of Robert and Eliz. Yarnall]
[Buzuluk field notes]
[re p.o.w.'s still in jail, mostly in Germany]
[re continued service of AFSC and re organization]
[encloses history of the Baptist movement in Russia] +
[field notes] +
[European field observation notes]
[AFSC national projects, future and present]
[would like RMJ to write a book for Indian public on George Fox] +
[would like RMJ to write a book on Quaker peace principles for school use]
[RMJ will be contributing to
the volume
[has heard of a plan whereby graduates of Swarthmore-Haverford-Bryn Mawr Colleges would do social or humanitarian work abroad for a year after graduating]
[re publication of George Fox]
[gratitude for eulogy for Edward Farr]
[does not want RMJ to resign from the Exec. Comm.; the next meeting is of great importance as a question has arisen as to whether a decision made in 1922 was made in good faith, e.g. the decision of keeping Dr. Walter Woodward on as editor of AF]
[RMJ named to committee to make a study of Friends' educational institutions]
[pleased RMJ will write essay “Why I am a Friend”]
[thanks for hospitality during her visit]
[re George Fox and
[re important
diary discovery which should be added to
[“a new era for missions is dawning when we shall find our way more directly to the mind and heart of sincere people in other faiths”]
[wants to publish a study connecting Tolstoy with the Quakers]
[pleased with his visit to Haverford College]
[Friends Social Union will be discussing the state of the Society]
[will apply for service in Germany through AFSC]
[report on his stay in Germany; the difficulty of achievements in “message” work as opposed to relief work]
[re information from Ram Allah; enclosed is letter with meeting statistics]
[re publication of RMJ's Haskell and Taylor lectures and others]
[re publication of RMJ's The Church's Debt to Heretics]
[would RMJ serve on committee to arrange the 6th international congress of philosophers to be held in 1926]
[re situation of Meeting in Detroit]
[Ralston Thomas offered principalship of M.B.S.]
[now serves a Labor Govt.; Janet Campbell has been ennobled for her work on behalf of mothers and children]
[will be glad to speak at George Fox tercentenary celebration]
[circular letter re his tour of Europe]
[re publication of the RMJ memorial book on George Fox]
[he will be chairman of Haverford alumni committee to have prepared a new history of the college -- they feel RMJ the best person to write it]
[ideas for improvement of communication in American Quakerism, e.g. a central house]
[on way, with Eliz. Yarnall, to Germany to be of service in kinderhilfe program]
[current AFSC news from Philadelphia]
[re possibility of translating Tolstoy into English, enclosing lengthy letter on the subject from A. Tchertkoff to Ruth Fry] +
[RMJ will write a book about George Fox for an Indian series, the Bhktas of the World]
[re publication of the history of the Baltimore Association]
[re issue of allotment of Rhodes Scholarship funds to Germans]
[the state of Quakerism and other topics]
[re dissolution of Andover Theological Seminary]
[re his book on John Bowne and on Quakerism in New York]
[wants RMJ to write a summary of the issues in the Scopes trial and gives a list of subjects to be covered]
[for a committee serving to consider the divisive situation in the Five Years Meeting, he wishes RMJ to write a statement on Friends opportunities and obligations]
[is sending him the Ts. of her
book on the work of AFSC in Europe (
[the translation of Otto's Haskell lectures in which it is hoped RMJ will take part]
[on the work he means to do at Swarthmore]
[a discussion of truth, beauty and goodness; problems of health]
[what should Friends' activities be in the cause of peace]
[information on re-establishment of the T.W. Brown fund for a graduate course in religious study, 1906] +
[opinions on living artists, apparently in preparation for a commission]
[he is on a fellowship at Woodbrooke]
[there is currently an anti-Christian movement in some centers of China, stimulated by financial aid from Russia; probably a part of the Boxer indemnity] +
[politics in China involving
U.S. and Britain; encloses copy of a letter he had written to
[would RMJ be willing to write on the topic off why he is a Q. for an anthology dealing with all significant Christian bodies in America and Great Britain] (RMJ agrees)
[pleased that RMJ has been awarded Doctorate of Sacred Theology from Marburg University]
[RMJ appointed to Religious Committee of the Sesquicentennial International Exposition of Philadelphia]
[RMJ's
[unless the two Philadelphia Yearly Meetings can reach union at a higher plane than compromise, the “Reconciliation of 1927” will not be of any value] +
[re publication of RMJ's
[re commission from Woman's Home Companion for him to paint RMJ's portrait]
[re establishment of a Moses Brown Girls School in Providence]
[Moses Brown School will purchase the Lincoln School and Oak Grove will become a girls' school]
[concerns issues pertaining to South China (Me.) Monthly Meeting and why the pastor is withdrawing his membership.
[all kinds of financial and other arrangements]
[re death of Joseph Rowntree]
[reactionary forces that would “take it out of the Five Years Meeting”; with RMJ going to California and Tebbetts to New England, it will be an “exchange of heretics”]
[death of her brother, Harry; agrees with RMJ on the “steady progress stamped on the universe”]
[includes her poem, “Dogwood”]
[RMJ's visit has made him realize the degree of isolation of Whittier from Am. Quakerism and the larger educational world -- would like to arrange for scholars to come to California during winter months to give lectures]
[wonders whether it would be possible for RMJ to go to China to speak to such issues as “state of Christianity”]
[financial strain might be eased if all Quarterly Meetings were allocated a specific budget]
[issue of whether Wilbur K. Thomas should continue as Exec. Sec'y of the General Committee]
[proposal before the Foreign Committee to train nurses in Moscow subsidized by AFSC, which Biddle feels should not be undertaken]
[report on AFSC, including committee decision to keep Wilbur Thomas on as Exec. Sec.; a peace movement among Blacks would probably not succeed because they have gained stature and economic improvements as a result of the war]
[feels the Friends General Conference just held to be one of the great conferences held by Friends (also several other letters concerning the work of the AFSC while RMJ traveling abroad]
[had conference to consider possibility of organizing a peace movement among Blacks in America to which 13 of 50 invited Black leaders came -- feels Blacks are “susceptible” to the idea of a peace movement]
[eager request for RMJ to give some lectures while in India]
[Changsha is the seat of Yale in China; people he has met, especially some Chinese Quakers] +
[re RMJ's invitation to speak before the National YMCA in China]
[thoughts and activities of their work] +
[pleased RMJ considers his ms. on Jacob Boehme worthwhile]
[feels Europeans still want Americans in Europe for good-will purposes; Russian situation] +
[had a visit from Felix Morley; medical work of missionaries appeals to Chinese; Gen. Lei Fuk Lam wants Cadbury to be superintendent of a large hospital at the college when it is built] +
[political information, including visit of Bolshevist Russians to introduce Communism] ++
[tells of Chinese-American relations and that Lingnan University has remained open in all the turmoil by abiding by Chinese law rather than turning to American consul for aid; Gen. Lei has given his son to the Cadburys so he may be raised as a Christian American; hope to establish a branch of Fellowship of Reconciliation in Canton] +
[sudden strike prevented workers from working at College Hospital was frightening, but now over; it was reported that Chang Kai-shek was killed which would be a great blow to the cause of the Southern Expedition] +
[would RMJ allow
[has written to Pres. Coolidge to request that he see RMJ before he leaves for the Orient; also other government offices including T.L.S. from George Pepper, Sen. from Penna.] +
[would like more information on the Quakers]
[will be glad to meet RMJ at his ashram Sabarmati]
[Hicksite Friends want Graham to analyze their situation and prescribe any cures] +
[his work in Reading is progressing]
[working on a study of William Law]
[changes he feels are needed in RMJ's talk to fit the Chinese audience] +
[on his work in China and in England for China] (several other letters concerned with plans for RMJ's trip to China)
[hopes RMJ will contribute a paper on mysticism]
[RMJ contributing a book to the
series
[plans for RMJ's visit in Japan]
[feels it was well worth RMJ's while to visit Karuizawa in order to meet with Soetsu Yangi, a writer very popular with young people]
[activities in China]
[urges RMJ to keep a diary of his Asian trip] (he does)
[plans for conducting RMJ's class in his absence]
[re plans for RMJ's visit to India]
[concerns withdrawal of Oregon Yearly Meeting from Five Years Meeting and related matters] +
[“I hear you have been in China, but what you are doing there I cannot at all understand”; will be in America to lecture at Yale on citizenship]
[political problems in Syria against the French have not seriously disrupted them] +
[includes his photograph]
[requests that RMJ contribute some written lessons for an adult class entitled “Adventures in Faith”] (RMJ declines)
[is preparing a monograph connecting the Liberty Bell with William Penn]
[pleased particularly by 4 events: Y.M. recognition of Hicksites and H.J. Cadbury's appointment at Bryn Mawr among them] +
[RMJ is the one man in the world to bring the Christian message to China]
[importance of RMJ's visit to China]
[inestimable communist influence in China and effort to destroy the Christian movement. An emergency student program under T.Z. Koo has been established to counteract that activity to educate young people] +
[happy RMJ will be in China for the convention in Tsinan and for lectures]
[his work on behalf of Quakerism in India] +
[work of AFSC in Bulgaria] +
[re German Yearly Meeting]
[letters concerning work of the
AFSC; including
[RMJ invited to Mills Lecturer in Phila. for 1st semester]
[on changes for second edition
of his book
[RMJ elected a trustee of Brown]
[writing from Mohonk, comments he has known 3 generations of Smileys]
[asks RMJ to suggest names of people he feels would be suitable as treasurer of BMC. RMJ appends a list]
[praise for summer school at Haverford]
[will be attending a meeting which will be lead by Mrs. Chang. on the development of the nationalist government in China, from which he hopes a paper will be developed for publication in USA; this is being done in the name of FOR] +
[responding to proposal that a historical survey of charitable and humanitarian efforts during and at end of WWI be made seems an important possibility]
[everyone is pleased with the visit of Wilbur Thomas and the topics he covered in his talks]
[3 letters concerning the health of her mother, Connie Rowntree]
[on the last days and death of Phillip Wicksteed]
[encloses portions of a speech by a prominent Nicaraguan to FOR on how America can have a conciliatory rather than a military presence in Latin America and in helping conduct Nicaraguan elections of 1928] +
[encloses information concerning the Central American mission of friendship engaged in by both AFSC and FOR] +
[comments on poor U.S. diplomatic situation in Nicaragua] +
[preliminary plans for establishment of Pendle Hill]
[would a representative of AFSC be sent to celebrate the centenary of Brahmo Samaj, as British Friends will be sending one]
[writes a recommendation of Douglas Steere]
[encloses verses about RMJ & EBJ]
[re his book,
[discusses topic of a new book on the type of men needed to face problems of the day and hopes RMJ will write a preface]
[situation in China]
[initial inquiry concerning projected Jerusalem meeting of the Council on comparative religions]
[explanation of the purpose of the inquiry]
[RMJ has contributed a paper for the Jerusalem Conference “Secular Civilization”]
[re the joining together of the two Miami, Ohio, meetings]
[re publication of RMJ's book
[re RMJ's book
[thanks RMJ for article for
[appreciates article from RMJ
for
[...“I conclude that it is easy to name one of the six prophetic minds of our time and country. Indeed, I think that in case we cannot find five others, you had better be set down as two”]
[pleased RMJ will be their commencement speaker]
[a tongue-in-cheek letter to RMJ and Wilbur K. Thomas as to why AFSC is not on the “hate” list of an apparently ultra-right wing organization in California to which Thomas responded in a serious and defensive way probably, as he states, because several people have asked the same question]
[RMJ apparently their commencement speaker]
[she as a member of WILPF will be going to China on a goodwill mission]
[sends a sizable sum to support Fellowship of Reconciliation]
[praise for RMJ's book
[proposes that RMJ write a biography of John Wilhelm Rowntree] (RMJ accepts)
[improvements to physical plant at Friends Boys School, Ramallah]
[interested in relationship of Quakerism and organization]
[responds to a question from RMJ concerning the number of people in Great Britain who are Christians]
[hopes RMJ will become a contributing editor of their new magazine] (RMJ agrees)
[present situation in China] +
[asks RMJ if he will preside over worship for the Conference of Eastern University and College President] (RMJ agrees)
[requests RMJ to contribute editorials to AF]
[Arthur Mekeel wants to join Peace Caravans]
[upset by news of RMJ's resignation as chairman of AFSC, with appreciation of his work]
[agenda for Peace Section includes question of extent that the Pocono Manor Peace Conference should be open to Blacks] +
[RMJ will be made honorary chairman and ex-officio member of all committees]
[AFSC will make a statement in regard to Hoover's able assistance through ARA with AFSC German child feeding work; Jack Hoyland will be offered chair at Earlham by dint of AFSC search] +
[maintaining AFSC after conclusion of relief work will keep Friends together or revival if another emergency arises]
[on unlikelihood of raising large funds for AFSC in New York]
[on his replacement as exec. sec'y a topic which caused some tension]
[introduces Setsuichi Aoki, Dir. of Tokyo Office of League of Nations; will be traveling on a mission through Russia and Far East] +
[personal news from Japan]
[thanks RMJ for foreword to her book on Richard Hubberthorne]
[news from Vienna and use of League of Nations in settling the issues surrounding Chinese invasion] +
[anti-foreign feeling is disappearing in China and, in fact, they seem to desire foreign help] +
[RMJ elected a member of the Committee of advisers of the Chinese Student Association]
[RMJ asked to become a member of the Commission which he accepts]
[re death of her mother, Connie Rowntree]
[RMJ will take Fosdick's place preaching at Park Ave. Baptist Church while latter at Harvard]
[re emigration of Nazarenes; wishes to have conference to include Herbert Hoover to acquaint him with the situation of the Nazarenes whose doctrines are similar to the Quakers]
[there is evidence that Walt Whitman's “early hearing of Quaker language had a distinct effect upon his poetry and diction”]
[RMJ to give Gates Foundation lectures at Grinnell]
[on his research; current policy is leading Britain and America to ward against each other based on “the freedom of the seas”]
[working in the field of mysticism]
[friend of Gandhi and Tagore, C.F. Andrews is coming to America and would like to meet with Friends]
[working on the teaching of Karl Barth]
[printed letter from Shanghai]
[requests RMJ to write foreword
to his book
[Herbert Hoover can continue to be of use to Quakerism and his candidacy should be supported; RMJ had said he would do anything to help Hoover's being elected] +
[thanks RMJ for letter sent to Indiana in support of his candidacy]
[needs some statistics on Quakers for “a friend”]
[sends a clipping reporting ire of a Quaker receiving a Quaker publication attacking Hoover's presidential opponent, Gov. Smith, for his religion; Hoover implies he would appreciate it if RMJ responded as he cannot]
[“I am deeply grateful for your kind message”]
[just returned from India, but cannot go back because of poor health; would like to work in a Friends college; will give Swarthmore lecture]
[paean to RMJ as teacher at H.C.]
[wants to know if RMJ will be going to Jerusalem for a meeting of IMC]
[IMC meeting in Jerusalem very productive, “drawing together Christians of different lands and races”]
[will be in area promoting “adult education”]
[encloses a letter which includes a lengthy spiritual autobiography] +
[is going to publish a Scandinavian periodical to which he hopes RMJ will contribute]
[has read RMJ's good paper “Christianity and Secular Civilization” and discusses same]
[on the use of “wast” in
[re publication of RMJ's
[wonders whether Haverford College would want to have the Rendel Harris collection cataloged and edited by Prof. Sprengling and others]
[wants to strengthen Washington Meeting so that Herbert Hoover will have good representation of Quakerism as president] +
[would serve at Washington Meeting if that would prove fruitful]
[lays out detailed plan for Pendle Hill and asks Hodgkin to be its first director] (Hodgkin accepts) +
[further groundwork for the establishment of Pendle Hill]
[re paper RMJ gave in 1926 on the 175th anniversary of the Hospital]
[RMJ chosen as 1 of 15 “Prophets of this Age” by 763 ministers and educators]
[on foundations of Quakerism]
[invites RMJ to give a course of lectures in religion] (RMJ accepts)
[concerns his teaching which is to begin at Haverford] (series of 9 letters)
[having previously requested RMJ's help, is pleased with foreword Jones has written to Elsie Brockbank's book on Richard Hubberthorne]
[re plans for the Lowell Jones Room at the Friends Boys School]
[on the death of his wife Ermina]
[values RMJ's friendship; on her new book “though I don't think you will agree with my philosophy, I hope you will find things in it that you like.”]
[his school “is the recognized centre for the spreading of Quaker spirit” in the region]
[activities of YMCA, especially in face of revolution and civil war] (also letters of T.Z. Koo)
[lays out plan for survey of foreign work of YMCA's and YWCA's and asks RMJ to serve on committee] (RMJ accepts
[signed declaration of affection by many attenders]
[reports on his visits to Friends Centers in Moscow and Warsaw; feels Friends can make little impact because of the political situation, but feels effort is worthwhile] +
[assessment of the Friends Center in Geneva]
[operation of a summer school under auspices of Society of Friends]
[re admission and residence of a Black woman at Bryn Mawr College]
[RMJ listed as supporting a proposal to recognize Soviet Union. Burton gives reasons why this should not happen]
[mentions that request for the (local?) WILPF has not been granted]
[as Jones' agent, gives financial information]
[re meeting to discuss future of missionary work and theological education]
[RMJ offered position of president]
[the importance of having RMJ as president of Earlham; “distressingly large number of the members of the `Quaker Church' participate in Ku Klux Klan”]
[what YMCA is trying to accomplish in Latin and South America] +
[the Society of Friends in the 19th century through the letters of his grandmother and grandfather, John and Sarah Grubb]
[glad RMJ will write a book for them on the life of George Fox]
[Haverford College wants to give Herbert Hoover an honorary degree]
[re Thomas R. Kelly's application for a scholarship at Harvard]
[feels it would be better to wait until Haverford College centennial to give him an honorary degree]
[would like to find employ for Wilbur K. Thomas with Pres. Coolidge or Pres.-elect Hoover]
[the School of Religion at Athens is looking forward to his visit]
[inspirational visit to Middle East]
[RMJ has agreed to give the Russell Lectures at Auburn Theological Seminary in 1930]
[status of “New World Series” in 12 volumes to which RMJ was a contributor]
[activities at the school; hopes to have Lou Henry Hoover at their commencement exercises]
[invitation to view paintings by Oakley on the life of Moses]
[he has visited Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore among others; gives a detailed description of visit with all of them, particularly the former] +
[glad RMJ will give an address on the BBC]
[emerging plans for Pendle Hill, including courses of study]
[glad RMJ will be in Geneva in January and will give a talk on Penn and Pennsylvania]
[re their move from Earlham to Philadelphia]
[glad RMJ is coming and wishes him to speak at their meeting] (RMJ sends date of his arrival)
[sends p.c. from her son, Charles, which speaks of the influence RMJ has had on him while at Haverford College]
[pleasure experienced reading
RMJ's new book
[impact RMJ's presence at Woodbrooke made on his daughter; Sippell's publications]
[RMJ will be giving a series of lectures and Fisher needs to know his topics. RMJ makes holograph list on the letter]
[appreciative comments on RMJ's lectures which will be published by Abingdon Press]
[sends his preface to RMJ's life of George Fox]
[“I have received your letter
of
[appreciates address Jones gave at the opening of their Biddle Library]
[“No one can have traveled abroad as much as I have without realizing the terrible menace of the Catholic Church to independent thought study of social problems;” “women as well as men on a Board of Trustees of a college should themselves be college graduates”; inestimable value of RMJ as a Board member]
[impact RMJ made on his audience]
[would like RMJ to write an article on silent worship for the magazine] (RMJ accedes)
[thanks for sermon RMJ gave at commencement]
[requests that RMJ write an article on what he believes about prayer] (RMJ did write it)
[on George Fox research of Theodor Sippell; re Horace Alexander]
[may Jones' name be used again as patrons of their Birth Control Conference]
[continuing preparations for establishing Wider Quaker Fellowship]
[quotes Gandhi in a letter to him about remaining non-violent in the face of great violence around him]
[Proposed constitution and many letters on the subject of the Association of which RMJ became president and Mary E. Woolley vice-president.]
[appreciation for RMJ's visit]
[appreciation for RMJ's visit in Geneva]
[hopes RMJ will (“feel) free” to impress upon attorney George Wickersham the importance of general proclamation concerning restoration of rights to people convicted during the war under the Espionage Act. Wickersham was to be in contact with the President] +
[the President decides on individual amnesty, but as he has not yet made his decision public, perhaps they could present a case for the 1,500 people involved (Espionage Act?). Asks RMJ to head such a delegation] +
[sends honorarium for speech RMJ gave at Homewood Meeting]
[RMJ has written introduction
to Bennett's
[re book he is writing on mysticism to which RMJ wrote an introduction]
[RMJ has agreed to serve on Board of Trustees of Friends Meeting of Washington, D.C., Inc.]
[would like to continue serving as representative of the college on committee of the Thorne School]
[Paul Robeson has visited]
[has to decide whether to go to Harvard or Yale, though he doesn't want to leave Bryn Mawr College -- leaning toward Harvard where he would eventually get the “Ropes” chair]
[Printed letter from Lingnan Hospital in Canton, China.]
[has been to Europe with the Chinese delegation to the League where he met one of the Morleys]
[RMJ will address the Mysticism Conference and Chase needs to know title of talk. RMJ notes it as “The God of Mystical Experience”]
[would RMJ join a committee towards a study of Friends' institutions]
[delighted with RMJ's part at his inauguration and pleased he can come to lecture for a week the following fall]
[glad RMJ agrees that a group, including himself, should be convened on behalf of Dr. McIntosh, whose case dealing with the pacifist nature of his citizenship application will come before the Supreme Court] +
[delighted RMJ will speak at Riverside Church in their course on fields that make life worth living]
[re interest expressed at London Yearly Meeting in Wider Quaker Fellowship]
[greetings to RMJ, first president of Friends Social Union]
[could they not find a way to draw those interested in Wider Quaker Fellowship and the “scientifically-minded” into one fellowship]
[asks advice on books and periodicals for philosophy and psychology dept.]
[re publication of RMJ's
[asks for a list of young men who are making important contributions in the ministry and would then write for Harper's-- RMJ annotates letter with his list of 8]
[RMJ appointed Wm. Belden Noble Lecturer at Harvard for 1930-31]
[a summary of Brown's work during the 16 years he was at H.C.: motion of the moon as disturbed by sun -- for use in RMJ's history of the college]
[will use parts of EBJ's letter at meeting; family news]
[grateful to RMJ for his address before Friends Forum]
[solicitation for funds for American Foundation for the Blind]
[grateful to RMJ for his advice on going to Harvard; reports on his courses]
[appreciates message RMJ gave at their service]
[missionary work can only be effective if basic needs are already met (Food, health, etc.]
[hopes RMJ will accept membership on commission which will visit Japan, China and India]
[conference which undersigned wish RMJ to attend on peace and reduction of armaments]
[thanks for service RMJ gave]
[re publication of RMJ's new
book,
[will be reissuing RMJ's
[Signed “As always, in status pupillari”]
[invites RMJ to speak on the topic “Religion as a Personal Resource”] RMJ accepts
[Printed letter re Pendle Hill.]
[requests RMJ to meet with students and faculty to discuss the long range plan for Pendle Hill]
[RMJ to teach a course at Pendle Hill]
[invites RMJ to speak before them] (RMJ accepts)
[will be glad to print RMJ's article “Mysticism in India”]
[invites RMJ to speak at Princeton] (RMJ agrees)
[“on your last appearance here you made a deeper impression on the students than any outside speaker during the year”]
[invites RMJ to address them] (RMJ agrees)
[sends a report of the purpose and method for Laymen's Foreign Missions Inquiry]
[courses he might teach at Union Theological Seminary]
[future of the school expressed in minutes of the Comm. on Education]
[would RMJ be willing to act as a consultant in his field of expertise] (RMJ agrees)
[philosophical response to
Brinton's
[RMJ's Noble lectures will touch on the relation between mysticism and democracy; discussion on mysticism]
[says that Mrs. Rockefeller did not have the courtesy to sign a letter (in response to his), but that it was signed by her attorneys; he does not feel that a European would have treated him in this way]
[has spoken to the President who does not feel there should be a general amnesty for persons convicted under the Espionage Act] +
[re retreat]
[to whom should W.Q.F. appeal]
[re H.C. people and events]
[upcoming conferences described, inviting RMJ as speaker] (RMJ agrees)
[telegram solicits contribution from RMJ, a member of its board and education group, so it will not have to cease publication]
[requests RMJ's participation in a symposium for which he would write a chapter on “Education for Human Brotherhood”] (RMJ agrees)
[RMJ has written an article for their budding publication]
[re citizenship cases and pacifism to be appealed before the Supreme Court]
[re defamation of Gandhi's character based on his apparel & morals]
[activities on behalf of the Association]ca. 100 letters filed here by Doan and some others, including copy of letter from Inazo Nitobe and Tayohita Kasawa [asking for information on the Association] attached to Mar. 10, 1931; Charles Ewald's report, June 25, 1931 [on his activities on behalf of the Association]; [statement of purpose of the Association renamed Fellowship for Christian Cooperation], Dec. 1931.
[RMJ will speak at Ministers' Association of Springfield, Mass.]
[thanks RMJ for commencement address]
[RMJ will speak at joint BYM session on “What is a Spiritual Religion”]
[gratitude for preface RMJ wrote to her husband's book “A Philosophical Study of Mysticism.']
[Penn College (Iowa) will be closing for lack of funds]
[appreciates RMJ's
[grateful for introduction RMJ wrote to his book]
[mentions Edward Grubb]
[re building of a new science building at Bryn Mawr]
[will be having a dinner at which (Frederick?) Libby will speak on disarmament]
[with regard to the Laymen's Foreign Mission Inquiry, she feels the mission in Vienna has changed in recent years due to development and non-development of the mission]
[re grant to Haverford College]
[ca. 10 items, including topics for consideration by officers and faculties as discussed at Earlham and Whittier Colleges]
[concerns the beginning of his
work towards
[on giving credit to students studying the arts (probably at Haverford College)]
[would like RMJ's help in getting Alexander Purdy to come to Earlham]
[would like to bring Dr. Kagawa to U.S. as a Christian missionary, and would like Association for Christian Cooperation Directors to consider this idea]
[re study by Council of the relation of Church to State in which RMJ is invited to participate]
[would like to edit book on Contemporary American Theology to which he hopes RMJ will contribute] (RMJ accepts)
[wish RMJ's presence in discussing spiritual problems confronting the Society]
[has reported to their committee on RMJ's expression of the importance of the life of the home church in the whole missionary enterprise]
[has become editor of
[same as above]
[about new Quaker meeting which has sprung up in Amsterdam]
[very glad RMJ will be in Toronto to speak about the mystical experience; Dr. Kagawa will be there as well]
[on his article on John
Graham's books and for the
[would like to publish a book of RMJ's sermons]
[would RMJ write a book for them of his impressions, in a religious context. when he returns from Asia]
[re publication of RMJ's Noble lectures]
[some financial issues at H.C.]
[comparison of Zen Buddhism and Quakerism] +
[is starting on a book about China and a poem “South China Lake”]
[Printed letter about Pendle Hill]
[commentary on purpose of mission work]
[has talked with Mahatma Gandhi who is still disinclined to come to America; because they felt Gandhi would be exploited in America, he, RMJ et al had previously cabled him advising him not to come] +
[has had a visit from Gandhi]
[as a Quaker conscientious objector, she has applied for a passport because she has a teaching appointment in Jerusalem; it will not be issued if she does not take an oath of allegiance -- wonders what to do] +
[Japan Yearly Meeting would like to institute a lectureship on the order of the Swarthmore Lectures, and they would like RMJ to give the first lecture]
[has written some material on Japan, including an account of Kagawa]
[does not know why Pres. Hoover would not give RMJ a position in the state department; has assured a Congressman that Hoover does not have blind favoritism for Quakers]
[has agreed to teach at Wellesley as a visiting professor, enabling him to study at Harvard and then return to Earlham]
[sends first draft of his article on Job Scott]
[has accepted chairmanship of Appraisal Commission]
[preliminary organizational points about which each commissioner should be thinking]
[Mary Woolley has had to withdraw as one of the commissioners because of commitments at Mt. Holyoke]
[RMJ was Sage Chapel preacher at Cornell; RMJ's forthcoming book of great importance and should be distributed to “selected leaders” before he departs]
[has arrived in Calcutta;
very much appreciates RMJ's new book
[has written some Quaker stories for girls]
[Dutch Friends would like to
translate RMJ's
[re publication of
[approval for RMJ's book
[invites RMJ to meet with the club comprised of leading men of the city]
[requests that RMJ write a message full of his “usual wit, enthusiasm, sparkle and spiritual uplift” for the old scholars of the school. RMJ's message annotates the letter]
[RMJ to address the college]
[thanks for article for
[thanks RMJ for favorable review of
her book in
[would like RMJ to become a
contributor to her volume
[a copy of
[re RMJ's pending address at the Causey Conference]
[has gotten a group together including T.S. Eliot, Bronislaw Malinowsky et al for theological discussions]
[his party, Agrarian Party, has been successful in Bulgarian elections against a dictatorship] +
[is convinced Friends' approach to God is the one most likely to appeal to educated and religious Hindu]
[re the current limitation on immigration of Japanese nationals to the U.S.] +
[re review RMJ has written of
Tennant's
[thanks RMJ for reading and commenting on her manuscript]
[is drawn toward position at Earlham, but that he was advised by one faculty member that he was being used to defeat the liberal group at Earlham]
[will finance RMJ's book
(Preface to
[will be glad to finance a work on the function of foreign missions]
[underwriting trip for Mary Hoxie to accompany her parents to Asia]
[is writing a book which he would like to dedicate to RMJ having been to Scott what Plato's teachers were to him -- teaching him to think]
[will be returning to China]
[thanks RMJ for cordial reception of guests in this country, Stoyan Omarchevsky and Nicola Nicolov, who are in the U.S. from Bulgaria making contacts with peace organizations]
[congratulates RMJ for being selected by Rabbi Wise one of the 10 greatest religious leaders in America]
[Stanley has been suggested for the post of secretary in the American Tagore Society]
[asks RMJ to edit and/or add material on Arthur H. Swift of Jamaica for publication] (RMJ agrees)
[asks RMJ to endorse plans for the Society of Spiritual Art, document of which is enclosed]
[discusses the results of the Delaware Conference at which Bishop McConnell warned against mysticism]
[hopes to bring about through the American Tagore Association an intimate fellowship between the east and west, asks for RMJ's guidance and interest]
[is translating RMJ's
[is inviting RMJ & Richard Roberts to give them spiritual nourishment] (RMJ agrees to come
[hopes RMJ can speak at Vesper service] (RMJ agrees)
[thanks RMJ for inspirational meeting and hospitality of Haverford College]
[would like RMJ to send ms. of his address to the world conference of YMCA so that it may be translated into French & German]
[is grateful for RMJ's contribution at the world's conference]
[would RMJ act as a sponsor for
the
[RMJ's article “Education for world brotherhood” of such important that they would like to reprint it for wide distribution]
[re survey of personnel, RMJ a member of the survey committee]
[re his book which RMJ has endorsed]
[form letter signed re opposition to the registration of aliens]
[as a Baptist minister and researcher for a thesis, would like information on Friends & baptism by water]
[requests RMJ recommend books on the philosophy of religion for a course he is teaching in a Calcutta College]
[has represented the International Labour Office at the Conference of the Institute of Pacific Relations in Shanghai; situation in Manchuria & Shanghai aggravated -- Japanese committing a major “blunder”, partially from lack of faith in the League of Nations] +
[is in sympathy with their suggestion that there be a world fellowship of friends, beginning with friends who do not wish to affiliate themselves with just one of the two Yearly Meetings of Philadelphia]
[honorarium to RMJ for Eli Lamb lecture at their Yearly Meeting]
[encloses a plan of instruction for western students in Japanese studies] +
[concerning proposed work at Pendle Hill]
[has been happy working and teaching at H.C.]
[would like to make RMJ a life member of their Corporation]
[tells of her travels and events at Bryn Mawr.]
[problems concerning Bd. of Directors meetings and discussions of committees of the Board & their members]
[re Yearly Meeting at Bad Pyrmont]
[on the eve of a “momentous undertaking”; the probability of (AFSC) continuing with coal relief is uncertain; federal relief will be administered by the states] +
[pleased RMJ will give the opening address a their church]
[request RMJ to speak at their meeting] (RMJ agrees)
[RMJ has written an article on
George Keith for
[Meeting of the Committee on Function and Structure which he feels it would be important for RMJ to attend]
[what should the responses of the Federal Council be to the military situation in the Far East] +
Approx. 30 items, including:
[is writing to all contributors to series “Contemporary American Theology”]
[how Friends may be really and constructively Christian in 1932; RMJ should play a large role in their work having completed survey of the Laymen's Commission of Religion in American and in Far East]
[glad RMJ will be speaking at Riverside Church]
[would RMJ contribute an article for their literary number, perhaps an evaluation of Wm. Penn]
[would RMJ comment on reports already in hand on 4 Quaker colleges]
[would RMJ speak at Arch St. Meeting re Foreign Mission work, especially dealing with its most modern applications]
[is sending his pamphlet re Barth and glad RMJ requested the one on Gandhi]
[is looking forward to reading Laymen's Mission Report which is causing a furor among British Missionary Council secretaries]
[encloses his article on German war reparations]
[re Rudolf Eucken-Hans] In German.
[have been preparing Laymen's report for publication since meeting at Mohonk]
[re publication of RMJ's Wm. Belden Noble Lecture]
[requests RMJ to set down his impressions of Woodrow Wilson for publication]
[gives news of Pendle Hill]
[appreciates the fact that RMJ will teach a course at Pendle Hill in the absence of 3 staff members]
[printed letter re Pendle Hill activities]
[asks RMJ to sign a petition by which Italian educators would not have to take an oath of allegiance to the Fascist government] +
[re activities at HC for the History of HC] +
[hopes RMJ will meet with Dr. Ly while in China]
[does not think there is much hope in the present church in China for a large fellowship; at least in China the emphasis of the church has been on a spoken profession of belief rather than on right living; thinks a change might be made “but I am convinced a woman can't do it”] +
[activities of L.M.F.I.] +
[re Christianity in China]
[sorry to hear of RMJ's hospitalization while in Peking]
[concerning appropriation and disbursement of funds for missionary work]
[re changes in organization of churches]
[proposed topics for discussion re missionary work in Japan]
[is writing chapter for report of L.M.F.I.; there has been a change in missionary goals over time, a result of reflection and experience]
[the dictum “scope of missions must expand to touch the whole of life” must consider political aspect as met in India]
[kudos for RMJ's chapter]
[report to be published as religious Book of the Month]
[has read report with much satisfaction]
"Summary of Principal Conclusion [of the L.F.M.I.] and “Report of Women's Interest & Activities in China” & Report of Women's Interests & Activities in Japan”
[re her new book; the following letter bears a copy of a letter to her from Helen Keller]
[hopes cricket can be continued at HC]
[thanks RMJ for donation which has allowed a destitute child to attend the school]
[appreciation for RMJ's service for worship at the school]
[time of day when RMJ would be teaching at Pendle Hill]
[will now be accepting students on work-study program]
[requests RMJ to give a Sunday morning service[(RMJ agrees)
[asks RMJ if he would want to sign a letter recommending A. Schweitzer for Nobel peace prize]
[RMJ elected to board of the Phila. Award]
[would RMJ come to preach at Sherbourne Church in Toronto] (RMJ agrees)
[has read RMJ's “Background and objectives of Foreign Missions in Modern Times” with admiration]
[is sending proof for RMJ's
chapter in the
[report on the Eucken-Haus at Jena]
[requests RMJ to give the Norton Lectures]
[is thinking about the position of president at Whittier College which has association with the Y.M.C.A. there]
[re Friars castle in Bristol]
carbon copy. [re moving of the dispensary and gathering information for malaria survey] +
carbon copy. [results of medical work; discussions with Rabindranath Tagore and others concerning changes in the constitution of Visra-Bharati and other actions concerning his institution, Santiniketan; list of interesting visitor] +
[re China famine relief]
[they are going to publish his father's (Booker T. Washington) most important addresses]
[Albert Einstein has spoken to his group on disarmament; he said “the principles of the Quakers show what religion ought to be.”. They would like to send Einstein a memento including one of RMJ's books autographed] +
[invites RMJ to attend bicentennial ceremonies]
[appreciation for his message in Japan]
[appreciation for his exposition on the situation in Japan at the Fellowship Dinner]
[is sending a copy of his book]
[has been nominated to serve on their committee on Pacific Relations]
[her book will be published and she is grateful for his introduction to her effort in interpreting Quakerism]
[enjoyed RMJ's visit; they are proud of the Christian spirit of their institution]
[appreciation for RMJ's talks at the National Masters Conference]
[encloses minutes of the
Committee on the International Survey,
(Many letters interspersed here congratulating RMJ on his 70th birthday, including those from: Catherine Albright, Hannah Clothier Hull, Lucy Backhouse, Clarence Barbour, Florence Barrow, J. Henry Bartlett, George Barton, Raymond Binford, Anna Brinton, Howard Brinton, George L. Crosman, J. Passmore Elkinton, Gertrude Ellis, Ruth Fry, Joan Mary Fry, Seth Gifford, Edward Grubb, Richard Mott Gummere, J. Rendel Harris, T. Edmund Harvey, David Hinshaw, Ernest Hocking, L Violet Hodgkin, Herbert Hoover, W.R. Inge, Robert Kelly, A. Edward Kelsey, Arthur N. Leeds, A.T. Murray, Thomas Newlin, Herman Newman, Robert & Eva Owen, Marion Park, Francis Peabody, Hubert Peet, Norman Penney, Levi Pennington, Clarence Pickett, Charles J. Rhoads, Lucy B. Roberts, Arnold Rowntree, Henry Scattergood, Harry Silcock, Douglas Steere, Ernest Taylor, M. Carey Thomas, Agnes L. Tierney, German Ambassador Friedrich von Prittivitz, Amy Wallis, H.G. Wood, L. Hollingsworth Wood, Walter Woodward)
[appreciation for a speech by RMJ and centenary of Haverford College]
[thanks RMJ for writing Herbert Hoover re Allinson's qualifications to vote as a c.o.]
[suggests it may be helpful if some members of AFSC were to visit the German president offering “material aid and sympathy to the distressed elements of the population.” Feels international public opinion important and money must be raised] +
[encloses letter inviting Harper Sibley to the Board]
[encloses a letter from Irving Kelsey on a plan for unification of work in Palestine]
[a group is working to have the League of Nations appoint a high commissioner for German refugees; hopes RMJ will write to Sec'y Hull to get U.S. endorsement]
[re situation in Germany and various people and projects of AFSC in Europe]
[commends AFSC on work in coal mining regions]
[hopes RMJ, as a trustee of the school, will contribute to the school]
[writes of current projects such as a book of Christian instruction for Hindu converts]
[recommendation for a replacement for HJC at BMC]
[re case of c.o. Brent Allinson]
[appreciates RMJ's service at the Seminary]
[invites RMJ to speak at college]. (RMJ agrees)
[thoughts on Re-Thinking Missions}
[work of Japan Committee]
[hopes RMJ will come for December convocation] (RMJ agrees)
[re turning over the Deanery to Alumnae Association while she is abroad]
[appreciates RMJ's letter to her]
[says he need not rush into her translation of a book on China; thinks a committee to interpret the Mission Report is a good idea]
[working on uncovering all of George Fox's writings which amount to 6,000 entries; has been approached again by Harvard]
[in considering position at Harvard, questions whether the Harvard Theological School has a bright future or whether technical education for the ministry has a future -- “this doubt is added to my natural Quaker prejudices” -- and other thoughts]
[at an excavation, he is reconstructing where St. Paul spoke and other related information]
[Printed letter from Lingnan University.]
[tune from which town derived its name]
[RMJ to receive honorary doctorate of Sacred Theology]
[would like RMJ to come to Duke to discuss Missions Report to University community]
[would like to publish a sermon by RMJ in a collection] (RMJ agrees)
[Papers including minutes and letters of exec. sec., Charles J. Ewald.]
Included are typed documents: [topics for officers and faculties, discussion of survey topics by officers and faculty of Pacific College; the same for Nebraska Central College and Wilmington College]
[appreciates RMJ's letter concerning her book]
[news of Quakers in that area] +
[praise for RMJ's book on the history of Haverford College]
[re reprinting of some chapters
of
[re his work on mound builders]
[would request a group such as AFSC prepare information on the English-Irish conflict in order to help resolve it]
[has been asked to deliver Cole Lectures at Vanderbilt University]
[Printed letter concerning her husband, Henry Hodgkin's death]
[acknowledging receipt of letter of December 22 signed by members of AFSC]
[will try to come to Haverford College on the invitation of several people]
[when he was in Geneva, a group led by Bertram Pickard et al were working to get Friends to support the covenant of the League of Nations: is glad RMJ is “lending his weight” against American action against Japan]
[asks RMJ to help with questions concerning international, interracial missionary cooperation]
[Includes: printed observations by missionaries in Japan and other groups on the report; papers on meetings of the commissioners, letters in regard to the Inquiry and report.]
[a statement has been ascribed to RMJ that the liturgical form of service was better suited to worship in mission fields in China than a more informal non-liturgical type -- asks RMJ to comment]
[
[asks for advice from RMJ on critical issues in Christianity to be used by educated Chinese Christians]
[letters re publication of
[thanks for services at their convocation]
Printed letter [re conditions in China]
[tells how much RMJ has meant to his son, a student at Haverford College]
[comments on
[hopes he and EBJ will attend viewing of her “Law Triumphant”]
[re RMJ's teaching at Pendle Hill in the coming year]
[thanks for RMJ's services to the peace committees of PYM]
[gives personal news]
[would like to publish RMJ's address given at the Boston School of Preaching] (RMJ agrees)
[gratitude to the members of the Laymen's Foreign Mission Inquiry upon the completion of their mission]
[invites RMJ to speak at their Sunday morning services] (RMJ agrees)
[appreciative of
[feels that
[Henry J. Cadbury accepts post at Harvard]
[tells of call to go work in Berlin and other activities and people]
[thoughts on his and others' courses to be taught at Haverford]
[same as above]
[re Alice Jones Scholarship Fund and other news of the school]
[appreciates RMJ's Haverford history, tells what education at Haverford should be as opposed to what a university education should be]
[thanks RMJ for services at Wellesley College]
[news from that front]
[encloses appeal against Bolshevism] +
[appreciates RMJ's comments about her book]
[appreciate RMJ's services at the college]
[re death of Henry Hodgkin]
[would RMJ be able to come to Woodbrooke thus allowing him to feel comfortable about coming to Pendle Hill]
[requests that RMJ speak at their Chicago session] (RMJ tentatively agrees).
[the University carries on despite Sino-Japanese hostilities]
[RMJ elected to International Committee of YMCAs of U.S. and Canada]
[(RMJ listed for their national committee)notice of meeting with American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee and United Jewish Relief] +
[feels RMJ's ministry is much needed, particularly in Germany; growth of indigenous Quaker groups in Europe between 1930-34; thinks RMJ must circulate widely among Friends in American for his ministry much in need]
[expanding on need for RMJ to circulate among Friends in America: “... there is something of a snag in the sense of unity and also considerable lowering of inspiration and lift which the Society of Friends has had in the past;” line of attack toward this end]
[report indicates that Quakers are the only religious group acceptable for relief service in Russia]
[not only Friends, but the American Protestant Committee have failed to raise money for German refugee placement and work abroad; would like to amend this through contributions from American Relief Administration and the general public]
[have received a note from Herbert Hoover stating that American Relief Administration has no more funds]
(RMJ on their Advisory Council)
[they will be printing RMJ's unification address]
[re suggested move by Iwahashi San to Tokyo to take leadership of Tokyo Friends]
[he as well as great numbers of other students of RMJ have had their lives influenced by the latter]
[RMJ will be lecturing to the International Religious Psychologische Gesellschaft in Vienna and suggests other possible lectures]
[tells of starting teaching at Harvard]
[RMJ's manuscript given for the Unitarians in Copenhagen will be published by them]
[pleased that RMJ will be able to preach there]
[glad RMJ will give the Ayer Lectures at the school]
[letter and statement from Davidson, who was certified insane]
[requests meeting for RMJ]
[an honor society for ministers is being established and RMJ is requested to be a member of the National Senate]
[hopes RMJ can discuss aspects
of transition when he was editor as they would apply to
[information re conference to take place in Prague in August]
[Ascribes current problems in Europe, including in Germany, to heathenism and barbarism; wants to get RMJ and select English Friends to discuss this]
[refers to RMJ's letter to Herbert Hoover concerning funds for relief and that it would be best if such money would pass through London making it a part of a Quaker Relief fund]
[preliminary memorandum re its purposes written by Wm. A Slade incorporating idea of non-technical books on the leading ideas of religion; letters from four people re]
[re his manuscript
[Miss Addams and she wish him success with the German mystics]
[he is getting photos of the newly-found temple]
[concerning RMJ's retirement as professor of philosophy]
[tells about activities at the college]
[tells of the great influence on his life of RMJ]
[David Baumgardt is the only Jew left on the faculty of Berlin University] +
[is translating from the Arabic an Arabic manual of Orthodox Muslim mysticism, and later applying his study to the Hindu-Muslim problem in India; wonders what RMJ thinks of this idea]
[in the face of Hitler's actions, request funds to organize interest toward getting the United States into the League of Nations] +
[re work of Lucy Burtt at Yenching University; hopes RMJ will accept invitation to become representative on the Board] (RMJ accepts)
[several letters re books with which RMJ is involved]
[grateful for his visit and words]
[indebtedness to RMJ for what he has written and what he has done]
[arrangements for RMJ's visit there]
[same as above]
[hopes RMJ will reconsider his rejection of membership on their National Committee as its function is to implement the findings of Laymen's Foreign Missionary Inquiry] (RMJ reconsiders)
[RMJ gave opening address at their conference]
[on the subject of Abraham Gonbach, wonders if RMJ would be interested in meeting with several religious leaders to discuss the situation for Jews in Germany]
[is pleased RMJ will write article for them]
[hopes to see RMJ in Frankfurt]
[great appreciation for RMJ's new book]
[sorry RMJ decided not to take directorship of Pendle Hill, but would he become a Board member]
[were inspired by RMJ's visit]
[thanks RMJ for talk]
[delighted RMJ will come to Geneva and hopes he will be able to make some addresses]
[is delighted RMJ will give Hibbert Lecture at Cambridge]
[would like RMJ to attend their National Committee Meeting]
[in seeking a presidential replacements, wonders what he thinks of Archibald MacIntosh]
[feels he and other members of the (Laymen's Foreign Missionary) Commission are doing great service and traveling about the country to interpret the report]
[re talks RMJ is to give]
[letters concerning RMJ's work on
the book
[re RMJ's need for a translator and request for grant from C.S. Foundation] (RMJ received the grant)
[was enriched by RMJ's course at Pendle Hill]
[is pleased of RMJ's stop to
discuss the report of Laymen's Foreign Missionary Inquiry as part of his
travels on behalf of
[RMJ will preach at Harvard]
[trip to Greece]
[decision to remain at Haverford rather than going to Pendle Hill]
[impressions of recent trends in China] +
[RMJ address at Temple well-received]
[on the organization of the mission] +
[hopes RMJ will come to Palestine as a Quaker ambassador]
[another good example of a student grateful for RMJ's teaching]
[interprets RMJ's
[hopes RMJ will give the unification address in Copenhagen, sponsored by the International Congress of Religious Liberals to advance understanding among creeds] (RMJ agrees)
[requests RMJ to give Cole Lectures] (RMJ agrees)
[about RMJ's trip to Strasbourg]
[delighted that RMJ may be giving a series of lectures at Woodbrooke in the summer] (RMJ confirms)
[RMJ has been made a member of the Board]
[invites RMJ to dinner honoring Jane Addams and the League]
[thanks RMJ for his article for the American Friend “Digging Potatoes”]
[AFSC has been given a house to be used as a Friends Center in Washington]
[re a failed Rockefeller contribution, but a new attempt by Henry Cadbury to get money collected by American rabbis toward a proposed “Brüdder in Not” Fund]
[personnel problem at Berlin Centre]
[requests of RMJ that he once again take on the chairmanship of AFSC] (RMJ agrees)
[re closing of some Meetinghouses for lack of membership and reestablishing others]
[Gilbert MacMaster agrees to conclusion of present arrangement with him; copy of MacMaster letter detailing his activities in Germany and Switzerland]
[current AFSC information]
[resigning chairmanship of Fellowship Committee and glad to see expansion of its scope]
[encloses copy of draft prepared by Clarence Pickett on administration of American Christian Committee funds for the relief of non-Jewish German refugees]
[pleased RMJ will speak to their pastors' convention]
[news from China on their activities] +
[RMJ will be greatly missed when he returns to America]
[about the refugee problem and needed funds] +
[Mary Hoxie Jones will prepare a history of Lingnan Hospital]
[attached is report on the prisons of Lithuania] +
[RMJ will speak to combined N.Y. Friends located around Ithaca]
[RMJ to speak at Cornell]
[re RMJ's talk at Drexel]
[RMJ will be coming to Ellsworth to give a talk]
[RMJ thanked for vesper service at the college]
[by vote, the Fellowship for Christian Cooperation is disbanded]
[would very much appreciate RMJ's presence at an FOR conference, as RMJ one of first FOR members in America]
[RMJ an examiner for an Oxford student whose thesis is on Jacob Boehme]
[RMJ to be keynote speaker at Five Years Meeting]
[RMJ as clerk and LHW as chairman of the business meeting of Five Years Meeting is indicative of the “subsidence of sectional feeling”] +
[hopes RMJ will continue his
interest in
[invites RMJ to become sub-chairman of Commission I] (RMJ agrees. Lists of members of the commission & other information here also)
[the need for a meeting, even if distant, for those looking to Friends & the need for pastoral and message work]
[states that Hoover had written Wilbur K. Thomas a letter in 1922 repudiating his Quaker connections] +
[re modification of naturalization, passport and oath questions for Quakers] +
[if RMJ would agree to mediate as goodwill ambassador between England and Ireland, it may help to settle their dispute]
[encloses paper by David Baumgardt in Berlin on speeches of Prof. Kohler in Germany]
[as no one at Oxford is competent on the topic of Boehme, RMJ will be requested as an examiner for a student whose thesis is on Boehme]
[hopes RMJ will consider writing a biography of Henry Hodgkin]. (RMJ not unable, but will probably write a foreword)
[will be glad to have his name added to “the Committee”, but is unable to raise money]
[cannot undertake to address International Students House]
[asks RMJ to give an address at the Foreign Mission Board's meeting] (RMJ agrees)
[hopes Haverford would want to purchase a bust of Lucretia Mott by Adelaide Johnson. Photo of beautiful marble bust with notes by Johnson on verso]
T.L.S. [requests funds for Am. Foundation for the Blind]
[wants very much to visit German Friends, but is taking a position at the University of Hawaii; while wanting to “stand with the best of philosophers”, he continues to have concern for the “warm, human, personal & religious” and interest in “interculturalism; had hoped some Quaker college would want him on its faculty, but this hasn't happened. Enclosed is a copy of a letter to Prof. Lewis of Harvard in part explaining his move to the University of Hawaii as a need to understand more than just Western thought. His highest hope would be to teach in a northeastern setting, for he hates the Middle West -- “every stick & stone of it.”]
[on relations between China and Japan, mentions that 40+ Christian leaders, mostly Chinese) on Manchuria have been arrested, some tortured and died (this information from a missionary; Japan may make North China an independent country, as they did Manchuria]
[thanks RMJ for eulogy for Alfred Lowry]
[wonders if RMJ would write a novel based on his teaching experience]
[thanks RMJ for eulogy for Alfred Lowry]
[Macmillan's wants to publish
RMJ's
[RMJ's Ayer Lectures to be published by them]
[will be publishing series of 12 books over which RMJ is the editor]
[his portrait of RMJ, $75, will remain at Haverford]
[As Mary Woolley will be retiring as president, would like RMJ's opinion of Dean Anna Cox Brinton of Mills College & Dean Eunice Schenck of Bryn Mawr]
[requests permission to reprint selections from RMJ's book for his textbook which will include lives of Quakers from Edmund Burke to Herbert Hoover] (RMJ agrees)
[thanks for article for
[has returned to his Russian monastery in Athens] +
[arrangements for RMJ to teach at Pitt]
[thanks RMJ for his lectures at a recent conference]
[arrangements for Hibbert Lecture]
[asks RMJ to give an address at Cambridge Friends Meeting on fundamentals of Quakerism] (RMJ agrees)
[re establishing a Friends Centre in London]
[letters re work she is doing for RMJ]
[comments on potential authors
for and handling of
[accepts chairmanship of
committee overseeing
[hopes RMJ can say a good word toward the resumption of the football match between Haverford and Swarthmore as the two student bodies can now be relied on to have a game under entirely suitable conditions]
[re participation in
[re RMJ's receipt of honorary
degree from Yale; Quaker message close in its essential interpretation of life
to several other Protestant messages; is translating Kierkegaard's
[asks if RMJ will give commencement address] (RMJ agrees)
[gives some biographical information on Caroline Hazard]
[thanks RMJ for his message to them]
[problems of personnel at Friends Boys School]
[news from Haverford]
[wonders if RMJ is aware of the work of the Franciscan movement]
[arrangements for RMJ to give Cole Lectures at Vanderbilt]
[includes “a psalm of life” by Wallis written for RMJ]
[she and others are planning a meeting for people within the Quarterly Meeting of Dryderdale. Wallis feels it may cause a split between “English Hicksite-minded and others because it is so difficult to maintain a balance between universal light and the particular”] (other letters on Yearly Meeting, etc.)
[requests RMJ to speak at their vesper service while he will be at the college in December]
[re Leyton Richards to head Pendle Hill; hopes RMJ will come to Woodbrooke the following year]
[instead of a John Bowne Lecture which has been turned down by both Yearly Meetings in N.Y., Wood hopes RMJ will speak at Fellowship dinner]
[thanks for sympathy on the death of Carey Thomas, her sister]
[RMJ to receive honorary D.D. from Yale]
[depression becoming worse in China; large reconstructive program under way; purpose and activities of the YMCA in China] +
[would RMJ become a member of a committee that would raise money to maintain Hull House]
[sends RMJ some work on the mystic Margery Kempe requesting his comments] (several letters follow)
[RMJ's book,
[thanks RMJ for his talk on the purpose of the school]
[encloses copy of a letter from Szechwan Yearly Meeting explaining their need for guidance and a hope that RMJ would make them an extended visit] +
[Pat Malin will represent AFSC at Geneva International Peace Conference]
[activities engaged in]
[quote from cable of John O'Hara Harte who met with Irish president Eamon de Valera re his implacable stand on IRA issue and refusal of Harte as a mediator] +
[local meeting news]
[invitation to RMJ to give an address at Yearly Meeting] (RMJ accepts)
[RMJ elected to Phi Alpha, a fraternity of clergymen]
[tribulations of army uprising in Tokyo] +
[thanks for giving baccalaureate sermon]
[nature of Quaker message]
[re proposed relief in German Czechoslovakia] +
[will be resuming greater activity for Wider Quaker Fellowship Council]
[because RMJ elected to the
editorial board of the Religious Book Club, that Board cannot select RMJ's new
book,
[looking forward to his visit]
[Lincoln School Group would like to join both New England Yearly Meetings consequent to RMJ's talk to them]
[would RMJ offer a short prayer at the Democratic Convention]
[correspondence re disposition of trust fund]
[invites RMJ to preach once again during the summer at North East Harbor] (RMJ agrees)
[John O'Hara Harte on a mission to reduce tension in Ireland]
[would RMJ touch on the implications of Erasmus' theology at a convocation at Columbia University] (RMJ agrees)
[appreciates RMJ's talk at the dedication of their meeting house (Chicago Monthly Meeting)]
[re project “Embassies of Reconciliation” and requests RMJ to become a sponsor]
[re RMJ's tentative agreement to attend]
[thanks for RMJ's address]
[would RMJ write a series of articles on some Friends' biographies] (RMJ agrees)
[questions whether Wider Quaker Fellowship would not become a new and separate body of Friends; does not think Friends around the world could have an organic unity, but might associate voluntarily through their Yearly Meetings]
[Folder contains printed information; outline plan for Fellowship Council; minutes of meetings; letters from involved parties such as Barrow Cadbury, William Wilson, J. Barnard Walton, Anna Griscom Elkinton, Leslie Shaffer et al.]
Folder containing letters from William Slade, Josiah Stamp, Eugene Lyman, Richard Roberts and Robert Wicks et al. [re authoring religious books for a series; also Macmillan Co.'s letter re publication and list of titles and authors]
[edited
[England's sense of security vanishing on the heels of Italy's incursion into Ethiopia; 100,000-member response to Peace Pledge Union subscribing never to support any kind of union. Aldous Huxley and Gerald Heard leaders of the peace movement's research and planning committee] +
[RMJ to speak at Hamilton]
[recollections of Haverford]
[would RMJ write to Herbert Hoover to invite him to Friends' Social Union]
[relays spiritual help received by a blind woman from RMJ's book]
[re books he has authored]
[working on George Fox's epistles]
[George Fox's frequent reference to “the light” towards the end of his life]
[“I never make a speech if I can avoid it or my conscience”]
[gratitude in flowery prose for RMJ's support for blind; re death of companion Anne Sullivan Macy]
[discreet joy at prospect of teaching at Haverford College in collaboration with Douglas Steere]
[will raise question of Wider Quaker Fellowship at his meeting; would like to research the epistemological validity of the mystical experience; has expanded his horizons in Hawaii]
[states he is the first person of 3 million Kenyans to receive an education outside his country; would like RMJ's aid in getting fellowship] +
[studying under Franz Boas to develop a grammar of his tribal language based on international phonetics] +
[re publication of RMJ's
[invites RMJ to be their Earl Lecturer] (RMJ agrees)
[as a Unitarian, offers himself as a candidate of the Wider Quaker Fellowship]
[proposes series of lectures for RMJ to deliver] (RMJ agrees)
[RMJ to make address there]
[wants to belong to Wider Quaker Fellowship]
[as co-conferee at Round Table Conference, discusses what their contributions might be]
[RMJ will preach at Harvard]
[requests RMJ to speak at Harvard in 1937] (RMJ agrees)
[news from Douglas Steere]
[RMJ to speak at ordination of J.J. Stoudt]
[invites RMJ to speak at Stanford for the following year] (RMJ agrees)
[has received ms. of Jones' Cole Lecture delivered at Vanderbilt]
[would like RMJ to lead their retreat] (RMJ agrees)
[invitation to speak at the college] (RMJ accepts)
[RMJ will give various committee addresses at the Yearly Meeting]
[re publication of her book on Elizabeth Gurney Fry]
[hopes RMJ can be present at the centennial of the installation of their President Hopkins] (RMJ agrees)
[Williams College would like to confer honorary LL.D. on RMJ]
[re account of RMJ books published by them]
[Y.T. Wu will attend Earl Lectures and speak to RMJ there (Berkeley). Sylvester Jones reported from Barcelona re Friends' child feeding] +
[attended Foreign Missions Conference of North America and listened to many reports re changes in mission work since Jerusalem Conference in 1928; mentions specific people] +
[Pres. Roosevelt has to see delegates of three peace churches -- suggests RMJ, Morris E. Leeds and some person of military-serving age; sets out purpose of meeting] +
[Albert and Anne Martin have been asked to do their work in Germany]
[select group to meet with Seebohm Rowntree when he comes to U.S.A.]
[re publication by MacMillan's
of MHJ's book,
[confidential reports on events in Germany, including the Finken Krug incident] +
[includes RMJ's concern to go to South Africa and hope that Thomas E. Jones would accompany him; several awards discussed]
[thanks RMJ for talk at a Philadelphia Seminary]
[impressions of Italy]
[as an Australian delegate to Friends World Committee, requests RMJ to visit Australia]
[RMJ's talk to be included on BBC discussing Friends World Conference]
[asks RMJ to write foreword to Murfee's book on Burke] RMJ agrees.
[trip to Spain, etc.]
[some problems raised at their meeting re changes and affiliations within the larger bodies of meetings] +
[re placing her father's papers at Haverford College]
[would be pleased to set up an itinerary for RMJ for his 1938 visit to China]
form letter, signed. [requests RMJ become a member of their group]
[asks RMJ to speak] (RMJ agrees)
[Colby would like to confer on RMJ an honorary degree of doctor of Sacred Theology]
[visiting French Friends]
[re a review RMJ will write for their magazine]
[RMJ's letter to Pres. Roosevelt in the cause of peace has been received]
[would RMJ write articles for their publication] (RMJ agrees to write on Quakers)
[re John Harte's statement to
the Irish press which Douglas considers unfortunate; trusts judgment of Edith
Ellis much more than that of Eamon De Valera] + (See also: Edith Ellis,
[Drake would like to write on
churches' attitude toward slavery and suggests authors for
[re John Harte case]
[interested in RMJ's statement that Fellowship Council was set up as a Central Meeting without power to establish Monthly Meetings]
[hopes RMJ will come to India when he visits Japan]
[proposed delegation constituted of English and American Friends to South Africa; people for RMJ to meet while in South Africa, especially Sen. Reinallt-Jones]
[pleased to have been appointed as RMJ's deputy at FWC -- RMJ served as clerk]
[final letter as chair of the committee] also several other letters re FWC.
[feels greatest use of FWC will be if spirituality is effected, not quantity of publishing]
[his daughter is at Swarthmore College; Wider Quaker Fellowship is growing in Germany; hopes still to come to Philadelphia and Pendle Hill]
[heard RMJ's FWC speech over the radio and thought it very good]
[requests RMJ to give a series of talks at their eastern conference to be held at Haverford College] RMJ declines
[places and people seen in India, including M. Gandhi and J.R. Mott and governor, speaking with the latter about political prisoners, R. Tagore who was bitter about the suspension in Bengal of normal law; lack of understanding by missionaries and others about the drift of young Indians away from the church due, Heath feels, to an inability to synthesize Christianity and Indian life; problems in India] +
[re books, etc. he has written or is writing]
[re possible conversion of Archbishop Temple to “the true faith” and his own inspiration]
[relationship between William Law and Jacob Boehme and other mystics]
[conversion from Methodist religion and great admiration for RMJ]
[gratitude for RMJ's book; pleasure at his desire to have her new book; her book on Fox being prepared for publication]
T.L.S.[re American Children's Fund]
copy. [would feel embarrassed inviting people to lunch and then soliciting funds]
[“who is this nut who ventures to use “thee” & “thou” to cover lies and hate?”]
T.L.S. [in re fund for Spanish children, HCH has directed inquiries to AFSC with which he has identified himself]
[looking forward to RMJ's talk to the Berkeley Council of Church women]
[re RMJ's talk to Ministers' Retreat]
[“there was no other living to whom I would more readily give the name of Master”]
[thanks RMJ for commencement address at Lincoln School]
[results of having contact with RMJ's work]
[spiritual value to her of his books]
[primarily on the
[would RMJ sign a statement against fascist crimes against humanity in Spain]
[learned of the existence and value of inner spiritual consciousness from RMJ]
[would like to form a peace council, but would appreciate pacifist presentation from RMJ]
[hopes to have RMJ at his home when he comes to Northfield]
[hopes to have RMJ stay at her home when he comes to Mt. Holyoke centennial celebration]
[will cooperate in any way possible during RMJ's visit to China, specifically in arranging visits to schools]
[heard RMJ's Friends World Conference broadcast which was an expression of the essence of Quakerism]
[is seeking a new position in which he could serve Quakerism]
[sends copy of program announcing RMJ's course of lectures under the Earl Foundation]
[re Paquet's article on the friendly relations between their two countries; might give a series of lectures in USA]
[can only contribute a small amount to the Spanish Child Feeding] +
[“If I were to tell you that everybody in Oregon Yearly Meeting would welcome you, you would know that I was a liar, just as I would know you were deviating from the part of absolute veracity if you were to tell me that everybody in Philadelphia would be glad to see me”] +
[the question of the pastoral system was not brought up in the open meeting; the ideal condition has not been found, either in pastoral or non-pastoral meetings, though he believes pastoral care necessary; it is true that many pastoral Friends are unfamiliar with the history of Quakerism]
[glad of RMJ's presence at Guilford College commencement]
[RMJ's resignation from their board accepted with regret]
[a member of the editorial committee, RMJ is asked for his vote on their March selection]
[have received RMJ's resignation from their editorial committee which is accepted with regret]
[Ralph Waldo Emerson had read Fox's journals and many other Quaker writers and prepared a lecture on Fox]
[re speaking tour and discussion with RMJ if some opening became available]
[sends a check for relief work in Spain being conducted by Quakers] +
[re admirable participation of RMJ in International House Day concerned with international amity]
[Archbishop of York's decision
not to write a book in the
[has joined Boston Monthly Meeting]
[is about to be married to Dorothy Deane]
[thanks RMJ for all of his aid to her as an alien in the US]
[wants to discuss the situation in the Far East in light of RMJ's upcoming visit there and impact on the establishment of a Friends Centre in Shanghai] +
[would like to present facts to
peace workers in Japan who are distressed by the current war] Accompanying this
letter is one to “dear friends”
[pleased RMJ will spend time in China and feels that many missions and schools would benefit from his visit]
[re personnel for Indian mission at Wyandotte]
[hopes RMJ will have time to read her manuscript on several literary figures]
[pleased with Jones' impending visit; lists clerks and locations of Friends in S. Africa]
[the students of his university will want to hear RMJ's views]
[hopes RMJ will lecture at University of Witwatersrand where he is an honorary lecturer]
[touched by RMJ's and others' expressions of sympathy for the sufferings of his people]
[invites RMJ to speak at Harvard chapel] RMJ accepts
[expresses joy he has felt working with RMJ at Haverford]
[response at hearing RMJ speak over the radio at FWC]
[wonders if enclosed article on “private benevolence and public welfare” could not be republished in America to induce new flow of money to places such as Pendle Hill]
[hopes RMJ will stay with them when he is to speak at the Seminary]
[will be coming as a delegate to FWC] Also other letters with family and meeting news
[has spoken on John Pemberton]
[hopes RMJ will visit their university when he visits]
[delighted RMJ spoke at their Northeast regional conference and expects they will soon have a Yearly Meeting composed of all kinds of Friends]
[has taken over the job of promoting sales of the Quaker Histories from Ernest Taylor]
[if RMJ would write the American portion of his book on Henry Hodgkin, it would add immensely to its interest]
[writing a book on the subject of mysticism]
[the university is so near the center of military operations, most foreign members are being evacuated. RMJ is informed of this as a trustee]
[hopes that RMJ's visit to Africa will continue to foster spirit of unity among Friends missionaries]
[wants to start up a pastoral newsletter to keep Am. missionaries in the field in touch with Friends in America and hopes that RMJ, as clerk of Five years Meeting, will write the first one]
[an effective appeal for relief funds for China has yet to be made; proposal pending to send a delegation to Spain; linking up of Tom Jones, Clarence Pickett & RMJ on the continent] Other letters from AFSC continue to give AFSC news.
[Tom Jones' plans changed and he will be going to S. Africa]
[Sigmund Freud is being observed by the police in Vienna, but nothing untoward has happened to him] +
copy. [re possible approaches
to China relief mission] Appended is a copy of a letter from Shanghai
International Red Cross,
[should Herbert Hoover call back into operation the American Relief Administration which, though not a government organization, handled government funds and how HCH's prestige might raise large sums; work camps are progressing well; nomination comm. will probably recommend RMJ's reappointment as chairman for the following year] +
[invites RMJ to speak at their 50th anniversary celebration]. RMJ agrees.
[asks RMJ for recommendation for a position at Vassar]
[funds from German Friends should not be allocated specifically to either side in the Spanish effort] +
[reveals horrors of Japanese invasion of China and means of relief] Also printed letter on this and other topics. +
[will reply shortly to a request from RMJ and Am. Board of Missions that Friends School at Ramallah not be used as a military barracks]
[re formation of a committee on which RMJ will be a prime mover]
[unable to interest enough people to form a Spanish Relief Comm. because potential members felt it would be a statement of either Fascist or Communist sympathy; has been on a lecture tour presenting his ideas; interested in the Quaker ideal being the road to appreciation of life-giving force] +
[travels from her post in Spain]
[re Fellowship Council meeting]
[re establishment of a Friends Centre in Shanghai with Willard Trueblood as director]
[importance of Friends work in Far East]
4 items [re RMJ's trip to China]
[re plans for work at Shanghai Friends Centre] +
[summary of efforts of their group over a period of some two years, specifically in homesteading]
1 folder. Including letters from P.G.S. Hopwood, Richard Roberts, H. Wheeler Robinson, William A. Slade and Josiah Stamp.
[in reading RMJ's
[advised of RMJ's pending arrival in Germany with D. Robert Yarnall and Bernard Walton]
[The recent General Meeting for Australia will bring new life into the Society in Australia; includes photo of those present and key]
[RMJ is the only person in the world who could move Hitler “and we have faith he can be touched.. do not be discouraged”]
[accepts RMJ's kind offer to write them a letter on their 75th anniversary]
[discussion of Quaker principles mandated by decision; Quaker personnel worldwide] +
[will give Richard Cary lecture at the German Yearly Meeting]
[has this summer experienced a “Sweeping experience of “refreshment of the spirit” so amazing, so sweet and so prolonged...”]
[meetings with Japanese officials re China situation; FOR meeting; last chance for her to write uncensored letters (under British flag)] +
[Committee's idea of having Roosevelt mediate which the Germans would find difficult to refuse, prior to FDR's announcement of a 4-power conference; pacifism as an alternative to militarism] +
[re publishing of
[because of increased duties at Swarthmore, must withdraw from official Quaker responsibilities (he had been vice-chairman of AFSC)]
[will be meeting in Hong Kong with George Shepherd, Chiang Kai-Shek's adviser in connection with the New Life Movement; places he will visit in China; suggestions for Friends' services in China]
[materials needed for stocking the Friends Centre in Shanghai]. Several other letters with related information from Silcock also filed.
[despite events outside the country, life is quiet and orderly in Japan] +
[as a Chinese Quaker, makes recommendations for possible relief efforts in his country] +
[in the past 2 or 3 months, much has happened to relieve the refugee problem; Friends should consider large scale reconstruction work once the war is over]
[re possible assignment to China]
[re American-donated properties in China and initial impressions of China] +
[Pendle Hill matters]
[re Spanish children's relief] +
[sorry to have missed seeing RMJ and Theodore Dreiser when they came to see him concerning Spanish relief. Will not become a comm. member because he has too many other responsibilities]
[wants to continue studies]
[tells RMJ what his spirit and ministry have meant throughout her life]
[touched by RMJ's biography of
Hannah Whitall Smith who was a wonderful woman, one of the best letter writers
and wittiest; he would like to someday publish letters spanning her lifetime
and inquires about an Am. publisher; his recently published
[Friends' problems in S. Africa; meetings with various important people for RMJ]
[sends results of conferences he held in S. Africa and people RMJ should meet]
[racial problems at Alice “not the problem that they are up in Johannesburg and Natal. We are about normal and even friendly”]
[while America has made some protest against German persecutions, France seems to tolerate them for the sake of her trade] +
[Friends' problems in S. Africa] +
[is writing a book on German mystics from Jacob Boehme to Penna. Germans]
[meeting proceedings]
[meeting proceedings]
[would RMJ write an editorial on Quaker relief reflecting their work in trying times] RMJ agrees.
[congratulates him on receipt of Phila. award]
[appreciation of Capper-Johnson]
[sorry RMJ did not get to Kenya, as he would have enjoyed it]
[RMJ as a manager of the Council of the Coordinating Foundation for Refugees; feels there must be something constructive their two countries can do for refugees which would aid world peace through economic means]
[would RMJ write a chapter in his book on Burke] RMJ agrees
Printed. [Friends workers in China] +
[was glad of the opportunity to meet with RMJ and discuss the possible collaboration of their two groups in relief and educational efforts]
[would like RMJ to appear on a program with G.W. Carver among others] +
[with regard to French c.o.s, M. le Directeur makes individual decisions as to whether the c.o. must serve in the army which is unanimous in its desire to “defend civilization against Hitler's methods”] +
[she had an idea that a personal appeal to Hitler might work, brought this up with Horace Alexander and Corder Catchpool and their Peace Committee and all were in agreement]
[has written a letter (copy enclosed) to FDR acknowledging his services to both sides of the Spanish war utilizing Dreiser's plan; delighted to see how RMJ's visit to Germany turned out] +
[he now takes Christianity to mean social ethics and equity introduced into life according to scientific principles]
[pleased RMJ has admitted her
book
[thanks RMJ for an article on Church Unity; would like him to review a book by Victor Murray]
[re Penn craft homestead industrial development]
copy. [narrative concerning Raj in India and M. Gandhi from her own experiences]
[grateful for RMJ's new book on saints; her own work]
telegram. [would RMJ act as sponsor for the Finnish Relief Fund]
[very grateful for RMJ's address at Humanitarian Award Banquet]
[Otto Peetz has been interned in Madagascar and some German men have been interned there] +
[family news]
[Rockefeller has been begged by Netherlands to send oil to Japan, otherwise the latter will overtake them by force; also why Rockefeller could not give money for starving Chinese, etc.; what Christianity should be at this time] +
[while everyone appreciates RMJ's efforts in his visit to the Gestapo, he and his classmates at Hebrew Union College are eager to know of any concrete concessions from the German govt. While grateful for his efforts, he feels that RMJ minimized Nazi persecution of the Jews in his comments to the press, while he (Lorge), a newly emigrated German, has been informed of deaths in the concentration camps; sends two German letters relating personal experiences] +
[would like to talk with RMJ about his new manuscript “Friends of God in the 14th Century”]
[grateful for book RMJ has sent; in African custom, he would stretch out his hands to RMJ -- in writing, he can only say thank you]
[Ngwbo, an African teacher, heard RMJ preach in S. Africa; while in the U.S. would like to stay with RMJ]
[hopes RMJ will give first address in the Heldt Lecture series] (RMJ agrees)
[congratulates RMJ on Bok Award]
[hopes RMJ will deliver an address for their 200th anniversary celebration] (RMJ agrees)
[would RMJ join a conference on Children in a Democracy]
[sends copy of proceedings (not included) during which RMJ received the award]
[dazzling accolade for RMJ's
book
[a niece of Edward Grubb's, she will be writing his biography and hopes RMJ has his letters] (which he does)
[is compiling a festschrift for M. Gandhi and hopes RMJ will contribute] (RMJ agrees)
[looking forward to their visit]
[congratulates on Philadelphia Award]
[appreciation for his church service at Seal Harbor]
[sends $1,000 to AFSC]
[encloses copy of letter from British Military attaché on economic, non-violent solution to German-Italian war engagement]
[turns down offer of service to AFSC]
duplicated letter. [Japanese bombed Chengtu for which they were unprepared, great fires ensued, etc.] +
[“we are all concerned about the hardship being suffered by German scholars...”]
[great gratitude for RMJ's visit]
[invites RMJ to speak again at Harvard in the following year] (RMJ agrees)
[gathering information on existence of Quakers in the Rhineland before Penn's visit] +
[controversy stirred up by possibility that Society of Friends might join Union of Churches, e.g. as when Bishops denounce Russia and bless our means of destruction]
[re political refugees]
[as editor of
[invites RMJ to speak at Stanford while stopping en route to Hawaii]
[Yearly Meeting and other news]
[has just read Quaker History series with great profit and comments on same]
[quotes from letter of William W. Hinshaw who considers RMJ one of the greatest men in America]
[accepted his paper for publication]
[discussions at Whittier College conference on fate of conscientious objectors in next war; request by government pending Congressional approval that AFSC handle all matters relating to c.o.s, but that AFSC may not want to take on this activity; names other people who may be valuable in representing c.o.s, including A.J. Muste]
[re passing of his wife]
[sends on “polemic”, “George Fox and the Light Within” from W.B. Evans]
[re his review of RMJ's
[recommends a book by MacLeish]
[requests assistance for some people arrested in France]
[has been requested to go to Central Europe, but feels perhaps Clarence Pickett would be a better person to go - “American Friends [should] be in Germany and its possessions as long as we can”]
[concern for transporting children out of England; risk of bombing still great, but they are heartened by the work of their air force]
printed letter.
[RMJ elected a member of their board]
[would like a message from RMJ for their yearbook; (RMJ agrees)
[thanks RMJ for his message at their 25th anniversary conference; conscientious objectors attending felt great strides had been made in the pacifist movement]
[RMJ to give an address at their Meetinghouse]
[translating RMJ's
[Foulds is head of the Quaker Evacuation School which needs financial assistance for its maintenance]
[hopes war will come to an end and that all nations will come to their senses; their Meetings have continued to be held]
[still wish to use RMJ's article “Church Unity”]
[have moved temporarily out of London' would like RMJ to write on world Quaker possibilities, spiritual and practical, in 1941 -- RMJ is their most desirable author]
[encloses her account of the bombing of their neighborhood] +
[PYM (or NEYM) has decided to join the World Council of Churches even though RMJ was in opposition]
[hopes RMJ will join them as he did in the previous year for Orphans' Day at the Circus]
[wonders if RMJ would write Edward Grubb's biography] (RMJ not able to do so)
[had been invited to come to Pendle Hill, but war makes this impossible]
[all should urge Franklin D. Roosevelt to push Germany for reconstruction and disarmament]
[American students are still at their school in France; situation of Prof. Koyré, a Jewish author of a book on Jacob Boehme]
Letterhead of Finnish Relief Fund (of which H.H. was chairman). [Finnish Red Cross being supported by American Red Cross and should be able to cooperate with English unit]
[cannot come to Haverford College at this time]
[inquires about “work camps” operated by the Social-Industrial Section of the AFSC]
[war news from England; Germans are war-weary, but feel they have no alternative to Hitler]
[main hope for Christianity lies in continuing the mystical tradition]
[RMJ has written the foreword to her thesis on George Fox and she is grateful; discusses processes by which she arrived at some of her information]
[many have told him of the importance of RMJ's message at a Meeting of the Council of Churches]
[re his new book]
[re impossibility of
reprinting of
(copy).[may get a job in London organizing emergency tea supplies; reactions of the people (his family's in particular) to war bombings]
[thanks RMJ for his note on his (Morley's) appointment as H.C.'s president]
[would like RMJ to submit a
paper to
[thanks him for his approval of her selections for publication and philosophical attitudes]
[re death of her father, RMJ's former teacher and friend, (Francis?) Peabody]
[approves title of RMJ's talk to be presented for U. Pa. bicentennial religious program]
[appreciation for RMJ's contribution; all addresses will be printed]
[gratitude for RMJ's contribution as their baccalaureate speaker]
[requests RMJ to speak at their church at Pocantico Hills, N.Y. for its 50th anniversary] (RMJ accepts)
[would RMJ write his autobiography for them] (RMJ responds, citing “Trail” books)
[family events under war conditions]
[no mail can pass between Sweden & England] +
[states nature of the
Centenary Press which publishes the Christian Challenge Series and their desire
to have RMJ write a book for them] (RMJ agrees to write on
[would like RMJ to give their annual address in their Cathedral] (RMJ agrees)
[RMJ to speak to soc. & phil. classes at Smith]
[writes on behalf of American Theological Society expressing regret and appreciation on accepting RMJ's resignation]
[overview of European situation and possible Quaker efforts]
[question of Friends joining Council of Churches: they feel affiliation with those outside formal church structure would be gained or retained if Friends do not join, making them isolationists; Carl Heath stands for joining, Janet Whitney against]
[re meeting with RMJ and Clarence Pickett]
[encloses report of meeting of S. African Friends in Durban]
[invite RMJ to become an honorary member of their class]
[look forward to RMJ's visit]
[AFSC matters, including Douglas Steere's visit in Europe and conscientious objector sponsors]
[appreciation of RMJ's visit to their work camp]
[have asked Marion Park to stay on for a year as president, because they cannot find a successor]
[thanks RMJ for baccalaureate sermon]
(printed letter, typed & duplicated)
[in search of Quaker traces]
Extracts.[American view of situation in Europe]
[decision for young Friends in England & America]
[uplifted by RMJ's “A Call to Persons of Good Will”]
[pressing RMJ, an honorary graduate of Colby, to speak at their chapel] (RMJ accepts)
[a commission of the Federal Council of Churches, RMJ is on organizing committee]
[pleased with RMJ's review of
[wonders if RMJ might write an introduction to her book for children about the underground railroad] (RMJ agrees)
[hopes RMJ can speak to their group] (RMJ agrees)
[writes to RMJ as a member of the Trust committee]
[having noticed that people might desire to have a small Christmas book to buy in lieu of cards, Costain wonders if RMJ might write on the topic of a Quaker Christmas] (RMJ accepts, writing “The Shepherd who Missed the Manger”)
[re popular lecturer turning over proceeds to AFSC]
[enclosing caricature of RMJ
that appeared in that paper
[re revision to Discipline and request for RMJ's help]
[thanks for article, “Survey of Friends Work”]
[thoughts on war in Europe]
[re “Union Now”]
[re new magazine about to be published]
[appreciates his comments on
her book,
[has unsuccessfully defended a c.o., and would like to discuss with RMJ other cases and a possible appeal for his client] +
In German.
[Rendel Harris' breakdown]
[upon the death of Thomas Kelly. Hopes RMJ can fill the breach at H.C.]
[pleased RMJ liked her book
[thanks RMJ for his book on immortality, a theme old people particularly wish to explore]
[Edward Rich was misquoted
concerning his (Hoover's) organization in the
[“that was a kindly and encouraging note. And I think we all need encouragement if we are to keep this battle up.”]
[restates need for support]
[pleased RMJ liked his statement on the issue of peace or war]
[re use and harvesting of Pond Field at South China, Me.]
[re meeting of the Oxford Group at her home]
[has written the story of their work in France]
[re publication of RMJ's new
book
[pleased RMJ approves of Bryn Mawr College's election of her as its next president]
[his ideals as measured against those around him; local and personal news]
[enjoyed RMJ's book; current preaching duties]
[Health reasons prevent his
writing a book on the Bible for RMJ's
[invites RMJ to speak at semicentennial convocation] (RMJ agrees)
[questions whether method of reaction to conscription law makes a good or bad Quaker]
[notes RMJ's excellent baccalaureate sermon at BMC]
[pleased RMJ will again speak at Seal Harbor]
[has written a book comparing social and economic conditions in York with what they were 40 years earlier]
[sends list of RMJ books at Colby which he asks RMJ to fill in]
[they look forward to RMJ's Flower Sermon; a collection of these annual sermons may be published]
[re c.o. in prison and possibility of parole to a Quaker work camp]
[great need of Northwest Friends to have RMJ visit and speak to their Friends groups] RMJ agrees
[grateful for his visit for their first Friends Meeting]
[has heard an address stating that Gandhi gained his first knowledge of non-violence from a Quaker missionary named Coate -- Sneed wonders if this is true] (RMJ has written Gandhi's address on the letter)
[responds to RMJ's comments on his editorial concerning the need for spirituality as well as service in Quakerism]
[re their thriving little Meeting]
[Russia, as the only large country in Europe, and Friends, as in the best position in the world, would make an important beginning of a peace initiative in Russia] +
[acknowledges RMJ's letter stating there are no Friends in Russia; but perhaps, the matter could be brought up with Stokowski's friend, the Russian ambassador in Washington on humanitarian grounds] +
[invites RMJ to a luncheon honoring Eleanor Roosevelt]
[RMJ elected to their Board of Directors thus joining a coterie of famous people]
[war-related news from England, including positive response of most English Friends to reelection of FDR]
[thank RMJ for an inspiring talk]
[has been appointed professor at Birmingham U.; Woodbrooke still having sessions at which Horace Alexander is director of studies]
[encloses statement “Foundations of Peace, a Christian Basis, Agreement Among the Churches”]
[mission for Quakers during the war]
[re translating of an RMJ book into Spanish]
[does not see possibility for getting Civilian Public Service boys off farm duty in Maine and other C.P.S. information] +
[re return of H. Kershner to France and issues of his position representing AFSC]
[need for Board to discuss issue of Japanese student relocation problem]
[resolution of Kershner case]
[“evacuation” of 10,000+ Jews from France to Poland; AFSC in close touch with Joint Distribution Committee; have decided not to make public protest in order that their feeding program might continue] +
[with Ambassador Hu-Shih returning to China, need his interpretation of Quaker view to Chinese government]
[affiliations of Five Years Meeting and other issues]
[re meeting with Gov. Lehman to discuss relief and reconstruction efforts of AFSC abroad]
[appreciation for Quaker message of condemnation and condolence] +
[
[would like RMJ's advice as to whether he should go into medicine, ministry or history]
[after the death of her husband, George, portions of his autobiography available, while the rest would need to be written for a biography of G.B.]
[their situation and that of others] +
[grateful to RMJ for what he said concerning her presidency]
[RMJ's
[RMJ was awarded one of three Roosevelt Distinguished service medals (another recipient is the U.S. Secretary of War]
[has been depressed and ill]
[encloses discussions of Northeast Friends towards establishing a unified Yearly Meeting]
[AFSC has decided to continue in CPS]
[has been working with the Anglo-American Brains Trust which explains Americans and American ways to English Forces; is working on an exchange plan to foster friendship after the war]
[projects they feel would be effective]
[Mennonites and Brethren seem more willing to go along with government dictums than Quakers so will stay in the program even if Quakers withdraw]
[major problems facing CPS Committee]
[asks RMJ to contribute to a memorial book for her father, John Fenner Brown]
[response concerning founding a spiritual movement]
[would RMJ write a story of AFSC for children]
[delighted RMJ will conduct a vesper service]
[Colgate would like to confer an honorary degree on RMJ]
[appreciation of RMJ's service at his church]
[RMJ's “The Shepherd that Missed the Manger” was one of the most popular in their series]
[thanks RMJ for Thanksgiving Day sermon]
copy.[would like RMJ to sign a letter to Gen. Hershey re alternative service]
[a suggestion to set up a peace institute in the mid-west; question re adequacy of Five Years Meeting and cooperation of AFSC in shared concerns with Five Years Meeting]
[thanks for article]
[history of Friends in Eng. over the last 100 years, summarized; would like RMJ to write on the period 1893-1917 & on J.W. Rowntree] (RMJ agrees)
[detailed discussion of operation of Friends Ambulance Unit and relations between British and American Friends] +
[all but 3 Quaker colleges have applied for army and naval approval in order to maintain student enrollment -- what decision should he make] (RMJ does not think he should look for this approval) +
[on war and love]
[thanks RMJ for letter to Gandhi on his behalf]
[re property in S. China. owned by RMJ]
[would like RMJ who wrote intro. to his book on violence to write Lippincott Co. to give up publishing rights when it is published in several languages]
[delighted RMJ will be coming to Guilford]
[wishes RMJ's opinion on differences, and his perceptions, between Eastern and Western mysticism]
[Christmas greetings & verse]
[a member of the medals committee, glad RMJ received Roosevelt medal]
[Hirabayashi's imprisonment in Seattle because he refused to comply with government evacuation curfew orders; Hirabayashi, a Quaker, assisted with court costs by Society of Friends and ACLU] +
[incredible treasures she has found of George Fox, William Penn, John Woolman, et al.]
[“I, of course, am not a c.o.....”]
[news of Horace Alexander, Woodbrooke, etc.]
[meeting of relief work forces of the American churches; would like RMJ to speak]
[delighted to have been able to present RMJ with honorary doctorate]
[re portrait he had drawn of
RMJ for
[news of people in Middle East]
[re her new book on theology & war]
[pleasure in hearing RMJ at Howard U.] Morley to RMJ [gentle request to RMJ to write a note to Lemus]
[re contract for RMJ's new book
[his son, a c.o., has gone to prison to underscore his absolutist position]
[grateful for RMJ's sermon]
[replacement in various colleges]
[RMJ to participate in 50th anniversary convocation ceremony]
[praise for RMJ's talk to Friends in Jaricho, N.Y.]
[announcement of RMJ's award of the medal of honor of the Roosevelt Mem. Assoc., along with Henry L. Stimson & Booth Tarkington]
[wording of the citation enclosed]
[a letter from the Trust extolling RMJ's virtues & accomplishments]
[thanks RMJ for intro. to Vernier's
[everyone very impressed with RMJ after his visit]
[writes as pres. of Bd. of Trustees of Mass. Gen. Hospital, wondering whether c.o.'s could be used as male nurses]
[his work in China for N.C.C.]
[escape from life-threatening situation at sea]
[gratitude for RMJ's commencement contribution]
[re Howard Kershner; summer
school a success; in order to visit work camps, would RMJ take over one of his
classes at HC; has been invited to give Noble Lectures; Kenneth Boulding left
League of Nations work to visit Friends in the ministry; has read Janet
Whitney's
[thanks for services as an honorary director of the U.C.R.]
[re departed Friends]
[would like RMJ to conduct a service] RMJ agrees
[re RMJ's correction concerning a Cotton Mather letter in her book about John Woolman]
[re NEYM trust funds]
[they would like to publish an
Eng. ed. of RMJ's
[is gathering authors for a
recognition of Woodward who has served 25 years as ed. of
[has heard good things about Harold Butcher and wonders if he could be of use to AFSC]
[responds to RMJ's request that he serve in some fund-raising capacity, but declines]
[would like RMJ to supply one of his best sermons for inclusion in a series of vols.] RMJ agrees
[re relief work in which they are involved]
[is grateful for RMJ's and
other people's efforts toward unification of the Society of Friends, recalling
his courage as editor of
[will be delighted to published RMJ's article on “The Resurgence of a Dynamic Faith...” citing reasons]
[payment for article “Fresh Faith for our Time...”]
[gratitude for RMJ's life's contributions]
Including from:
[BMC to consider having a small chapel or meeting house]
[re an article HJC has written: “if Friends' peace testimony was an evolution, there is no harm in knowing that”; discusses his ms. to which he hopes to get an intro. by RMJ]
[grateful for RMJ's part in arranging for the China Unit] +
Typed copy of letter filed in coll. #130.
[is about to begin writing short biographies to accompany portraits drawn by Emit Kaufman, and would like RMJ to send information on himself]
Appended to letter by RMJ: [re raising money for publication of Kaufman's book] Fisher's response: [RMJ was never meant to search for this financing]
[re use of some articles by
RMJ for
[General Smuts in London]
[re property owned? by RMJ, but mortgaged to Carroll M. Jones of S. China, Me.]
[re his article in
[RMJ's extraordinary contributions to the college; explains that his actions as pres. have all been motivated by a love for the college and that the college's future is bright]
[re RMJ's article in
[attends
[re Rex Stout preaching hate and need for American intervention in the war and announcing himself as a Quaker] +
[thanks for info on Rex Stout]
[in a prison camp with English and Americans, some Friends] +
[sends his blank verse version of George Fox's journal]
[working on a movie with a c.o.
in it, one of only two movies with this theme; taking over editorship of
[asks for RMJ's advice on sending a letter to FDR] (RMJ writes to FDR on his behalf]
Also other Jones family letters.
[sends RMJ a book on China with appreciation for all he has done for Sino-American relations]
[thanks RMJ for essay “Liberalism in the Mystical Tradition” for his book]
[re RMJ's book
[re RMJ's book
[sends info on c.o.'s in Civilian Public Service at a Catholic hospital in Chicago]
[as a German-American, hopes her book about her childhood will depict the true, liberal pre-Nazi Germany]
[re progress in uniting NEYMs of which actions George Selleck will prepare an account]
[re health of George Newman]
[would RMJ prepare a devotional reading for his books?]
[thanks RMJ for allowing
Friends Bookstore to publish and take over copyright of his book
[as a doctoral student at New York University in mystical religion, thanks RMJ for allowing him a visit to discuss his work]
[spiritual preparations for end of world war]
[grants permission for 70 volunteers from CPS camps to be sent to work in China]
[a Japanese in an internment
camp, he has translated RMJ's
[agrees that it is the right of U.S. citizens to act against U.S. policy if done in honesty] +
[re RMJ's Ingersoll Lecture and publication of the lecture]
[re source of a story about a religious Saracen woman]
[would RMJ speak to Haverford College students re relief and reconstruction; would he contribute to a book on theology]
(copy). [some activities of Scandinavian Quakers]
[always happy to be of service to the Friends]
[recollections of J.W. Rowntree]
[inspiration from RMJ's lectures in Seattle remain with her still]
[life in S. Africa while working with blind women]
[sends honorarium in appreciation for RMJ's leading vespers]
[re possible proceedings to establish use of Meeting funds]
[receive permission to republish RMJ's “Stories of Hebrew Heroes” from his English publishers]
(copy). [re Sino-American political interaction vis-à-vis Medical Aid Bureau]
[with regard to the work of ABMAC, of which he was a director, Dwight Edward, apparently an AFSC Field Director in China, has made false and misleading statements concerning Chinese medical institutions and other related aspects causing much damage]
[re placement of CPS under non-military supervisory administration]
[requests RMJ to write a history of AF beginning with Friends Review and Christian Worker]
[announcement of intention of RMJ to resign from chairmanship of AFSC]
[agrees with RMJ that
[offers a position to RMJ to fill a gap]
[paean to RMJ as chairman of AFSC]
[their experiences since war began]
[is writing on Saints and Mystics for Friends for Friends General Conference and would like RMJ's comments]
[re his suggested improvements for rural meetings with chart]
[thanks RMJ for agreeing to write an article on the Quaker tradition at BMC]
[re an address RMJ is to give]
[is compiling a RMJ bibliography]
[thanks for RMJ's sermon]
[as editor of
[group of letters re talk by RMJ given at Community Church]
[attendants agreed conference was epoch-making, and lectures, including RMJ's will be printed]
[pleased RMJ will write
introduction to
[grateful for help with cablegram to Lord Lang opposing block bombing of German cities] +
[hopes RMJ will write an article on William Penn for the tercentenary of his birthday]
[thanks for article “The
Winnowing Fan” for
[used RMJ's message “Are We Ready” as a starting point for their discussions]
[writes about Quaker Meeting in Glasgow; decline of the religious aspect of Quakerism]
[in response to Jones' letter, will try to persuade authorities to allow food to be sent into occupied countries; discusses nature of Grant funding] +
[RMJ made an honorary life member of Library Associates]
[thanks for sympathy at the death of Lou Henry Hoover]
[Reed Cary's visits to his c.o. camp improves relations with AFSC; is completing his Nantucket research]
[RMJ's book
[would RMJ lend his name to a committee which advocates the election of Thomas Dewey for president] +
[asks RMJ to speak on radio program on pioneering America]
[re a proposal to change system dealing with c.o.s to be presented to the president and hope that RMJ would accompany group carrying proposal] +
[encloses copy of a letter by FDR responding to suggestions by RMJ, Ernest Angell and W. Appleton Lawrence re treatment of c.o.s. Phillips interprets the letter to mean that further suggestions may yet be made]
[requests RMJ to urge Clarence Pickett to take post with War Refugee Board]
[gentle letter saying he will probably never return to Haverford College]
[while he is very much concerned about feeding populations, especially children of occupied countries, he does not want supplies to aid enemy] +
[personal and war news]
[has written foreword to bibliography of RMJ's works]
[still refreshed by RMJ's Ingersoll Lecture at Harvard Divinity School which they would like to publish]
[grateful for RMJ's service at Harvard and saddened that Jones had decided to make it his last official visit]
[letter of appreciation of a meeting of a group including Jones family at Ocean Park; re AFSC camp in Maine and women's Relief and Reconstruction projects] +
[re reprinting of selections of
RMJ's
[has seen letters of Whittier at Harvard and Yale and evidence that Whittier knew Dr. Bushnell]
[does not feel George Newman
will be able to continue editing the
[thanks for RMJ's contribution about William Penn; wonders if RMJ would like to have new selections published much like “The Abundant Life” of a previous time]
[grateful for RMJ's service at Town Hall Temple]
[problems with English Quakerism and encloses letter about Quakerism and Quakerism in the non-Anglo-Saxon world]
[printed letter of thanks of help of many while in America with A.N.S. stating he hopes AFSC will continue to support work in India]
[those of them who have been working on the atomic bomb project have been meeting to discuss how another, now nuclear war, can be avoided; deliberations on the establishment of a world government] +
[gratitude for RMJ's help to them from Berlin to Woodbrooke to Pendle Hill]
[“I am genuinely happy you were born”]
[hopes to join staff at Woodbrooke]
[RMJ's baccalaureate address was a big success]
[are Quakers Christians or Deists] +
[minor and major problems ensuing from war]
[sends copy of a biography of Edward Grubb with request that RMJ write preface]
[the German people did not know what happened in the concentration camps before the spring of `45] +
[re search for a professor of mysticism at Oxford]
T.L.S., annotated. [thanks RMJ for generous comments about his book and for RMJ's books. A time when governments grasp power through technology, but it must be remembered that humans are a temple of spirit before any other affiliation which may save the world from annihilation] +
[comments on W. Harris'
[re a reissue of Jane Addams'
[glad RMJ approves of his decision to accept presidency of Earlham]
[feels standard of living of inmates in concentration camps better than some Chinese; copy of letter to Paul Sturge sharing information on current status of personnel in China] +
[re
[would RMJ look over Mosely's
chapter in
[thanks for inspiring service]
[pleasure at the commendation RMJ has given to JDR's speech before the Protestant Council]
[will not become a sponsor of aid to India because of prior connection with National War Fund]
[present situation of family and friends in Eng., including deaths of Helen & Hugh Crosfield]
[grateful to RMJ for new insights]
[is compiling a book of anecdotes from the life of Mahatma Gandhi through personal experiences and letters of people such as RMJ]
[relates tales of Swedish courage during the war and dire needs among the Finnish] +
[hopes sometime when
publishing is easier in England to get RMJ's new
[had expected a Conservative majority, but did not like how the vote was handled] +
[has decided to take position of prof. of phil. at Earlham]
[personal news]
[has taken work with the Swiss Mission in S. Africa; Friends' Meetings]
[has an idea to write RMJ biography]
[encloses statement of a group meeting in Richmond (Ind.) after Five Years Meeting to discuss why peace testimony among Friends seems to have weakened]
[RMJ has agreed to write an article “A Society of Human Beings”]
[in contact with Princess Juliana of The Netherlands in connection with a state grant for “Bilthoven work”]
[would RMJ write a foreword to his father's ms. “Quaker Stories”]
[lists languages into which RMJ's books have been tanslated]
[re current books by HJC]
[information re Mary Dyer]
[is running for president and would like RMJ to be his Secretary for Peace] +
[thanks for RMJ's baccalaureate address at Earlham]
[asks questions concerning RMJ's lectures]
[states differences in their views of creation]
[re Emit Kaufman's American Portraits]
[sorry to have missed RMJ lectures at his Riverside Church]
[sends on appreciative comments of RMJ's stories by Reginald Hine]
[church unity is much more likely the result of a more spiritual life than of ordinances]
[refers to a Dr. Goerdeler who was tortured to death during the war and would have been the person to steer Germany into “safer waters”; it is difficult to get into Germany] +
[various noteworthy people in her family including an aunt who obtained suffrage for women in Ireland]
[grateful for RMJ's commencement address]
[a naturalized citizen of Palestine, born a German Jew & converted to Christianity, wants to do good work]
[report of conditions in Finland and what can be done; he proposes to write a book about Finland]
[letter similar to above] +
[a subcommittee to organize program of feeding German children is vital; encloses copy of letter from Harry S. Truman to Sen. Wheeler stating that while we have no desire to be unduly cruel to Germany, noone should be called upon to pay for Germany's misfortunes; also copy of HCH's 1919 statement on why we were feeding Germany] +
telegram, confidential. [without famine relief, chaos and death will occur in India] +
[would RMJ consider writing a spiritual autobiography for a volume they will publish] RMJ agrees
[kindly requests use of RMJ's name in an acknowledgment note to her book]
[sends program of concert at Madison Square Garden at which RMJ spoke to raise funds for German relief]
[as chairman of National Committee of YMCA, China, wants to know how to induce international education and culture between their two countries] +
[is delighted at the prospect
of being able to publish RMJ's new
[would RMJ write introduction to her biography of Thomas Story]
[is trying to track down a quotation]
[grateful for RMJ's service at 2 churches]
copy signed. [re raising money to cover cost of Kaufman's portraits]
[sends copy of his book, with indebtedness for RMJ's writings]
[thanks RMJ for participating in their sesquicentennial]
[RMJ to make an address at Pendle Hill]
[appreciation of RMJ's talk at Skytop]
[is writing a biography of John G. Whittier]
[grateful for RMJ's
introduction to her book
[pleased Jones family will visit them]
[family news]
[of commencing an association in memory of the religious writer Buonainti]
extract [finds simple, direct writings of RMJ purifying]
[re his translation of Boehme]
[would like to discuss with RMJ where he might find Mennonite materials in Quaker records]
[re reprinting of Quaker history series & other RMJ books]
[suggests that if RMJ sat down with labor leaders, might help to end mining strike] +
[Japan's people in a spiritual chaos, should be oriented toward pacifism]
[thanks RMJ for his recommendation of her for the position of tutor to the Crown Prince of Japan]
[has been chosen to teach the Crown Prince] +
[report from Japan, including Esther Rhoads]
[has been touring the U.S. telling of conditions in Europe]
[news of various Friends; she is trying to establish a Zulu school]
[has decided to come to Haverford College as president in part because RMJ has confidence in him] +
[encloses the typescript for a Christmas Pageant which RMJ wrote for her Meeting and might be used elsewhere]
[encloses TS. of 2 poems]
[on the philosophy of Rudolf Steiner]
[appreciation for his lecture which has been printed and is still in demand]
[re attempt to get information on her nephews, Russian POWs]
[most pleased with RMJ's article on faith, but would change the end]
[an enormous tree at their AFSC Interracial camp has been named RMJ]
[re financial progress from their school]
[re depression of Henry Cadbury]
[great impact RMJ's sermons had on him when he was a student at Haverford College]
[grateful for continued care packages]
[wishes that RMJ were going to pick up Nobel Prize in Oslo; tailcoat for the event sent from AFSC storeroom]
[mentions having been interned during the war]
[conveying good wishes, requesting continued aid and telling of impact of war; photo enclosed]
[about painting a portrait of RMJ & EBJ]
[DDE cannot see RMJ because of press of business, but Lt. Gen. Collins could]
[looking forward to RMJ's talk at Academy of Music]
[RMJ selected to be on an important committee, the head of which will be John Foster Dulles]
[re starting a new Yearly Meeting on the Pacific Coast]
[great praise for an RMJ paper]
[re royalties for spiritual autobiography which RMJ agreed to write for their volume]
[praise for RMJ's life's work
and article in
[re the book on Am. Portraits which she worked on with artist Emit Kaufman]
[how International Peace Day should be celebrated]
[will be commencing a new publication and hope for RMJ's subjects and contributions]
[re letter from Fowler on the Go-Preachers who have spiritual similarities to early Quakers]
[relief efforts, both domestic and abroad, have been so great that Meetings are foundering and need spiritual replenishment]
[cut off from his siblings in Germany; thanks for wonderful package]
[sends a bio of RMJ they would use]
[painting portraits though “not Quaker saints like Constance (Drake), which juries in exhibitions “abhor”]
[would like to review RMJ's new
[praise for Hinshaw's
[re speaking engagement].
[has heard Nobel Prize money will be used for relief work]
[has a book coming out,
[he is a missionary among the
Tirurai, grateful for RMJ's
[thanks for care package]
[duplicated letter of events]
[interested to learn of project plans for a Quaker mission to Russia]
[would like some of RMJ's books for his university]
[pleased at receipt of Nobel Prize]
[RMJ's new book
[her book has been accepted for
publication (
[sends copy of program of topics to be studied]
[has inscribed his new book to RMJ]
[invitation to RMJ for dinner]
[RMJ's speech at the dinner will be broadcast on radio]
[would like to have RMJ's article about his day with the German Gestapo translated into Arabic]
[delighted with RMJ's visit and talk at the Academy]
[thanks RMJ for his book]
[does not feel that he wants to contribute to Russian relief fund]
[would like RMJ's aid in presenting the case for Christian pacifism at 2 big church conferences; at a previous church conference, 3 positions from hard line to pacifist were presented; a statement on Christian pacifism is being prepared, and he and others such as A.J. Muste will want to know what RMJ thinks and whether RMJ would be willing to sign it; a book outlining this position will be written and he hopes RMJ will edit it and write preface for his own article; encloses a tentative table of contents; the publication probably rides on his decision]
[delighted that RMJ will write intro. for book on Christian pacifism]
[and 2 other letters. In German.]
[asks for some of RMJ's books for study and notes that things are going from bad to worse -- peace is very far off]
[and 2 other letters. In German.]
[poem entitled “Carey Thomas of Bryn Mawr”]
[gave a talk on Quakerism; comments on German Quaker personnel]
[re reissue of several of the
Quaker history series and
In German. [tells of great needs] RMJ sends care package
[still remembers being taught by RMJ; now hopes for advice because Kansas Yearly Meeting “is a mess”]
[young people in Japan working to further the cause of peace]
[honorary degree of the Academy conferred on RMJ]
[has never read anything by RMJ more moving than his most
recent article for the
[current transactions and personnel business of the Fellowship Council]
[sends names of those holding highest office of Jews and Arabs]
[will gladly meet with RMJ' suggests Reinhold Niebuhr and Moshe Davis as other attenders]
[statement of hope that a “Truce of God” can be established] +
[statement of hope that a “Truce of God” can be established, signed by Archbishop Athenagoras] +
[Archbishops of Canterbury & York have addressed a letter to London Times similar in content]
[Letters of regret: Cardinal Spellman; Henry Knox Sherill, Bishop of Episcopal Church to the AFSC statement of concern +]
[has had a discussion with the Vice-Chairman of the Arab Higher Commission who says the AFSC statement is pro-Jewish because there are more Arabs than Jews in Jerusalem and they, the Arabs, would not be willing to make concessions in Jerusalem if Jews didn't make concessions in Tel Aviv] +
[Pickett was asked by representatives of the UN to serve as Commissioner of Jerusalem. He refused and instead Harold Evans will go and C. Reed Cary as counselor to the Commissioner] +
[would RMJ write review of
book on Swedenborg] Review published
[BMC will establish the RMJ chair of Philosophy and Religion]
[has found source in which George Fox is called a cordwinder]
[printed letter of events from Lingnan University]
[just returned from service in Germany] +
[RMJ “can represent the peace of the world more than anyone living today”]
[RMJ reelected a Director of the Association]
[gratitude for RMJ's life and work]
[on her book The Good Crop and a second one which uses a quote from RMJ]
[invitation for RMJ to speak on united Society of Friends]
[received RMJ's article]
[although meeting at Earlham still flourishes, a separate Meeting is being considered amidst protest]
[reminded of the early cooperative efforts of AFSC & FSC]
[RMJ is asked to join memorial meeting for Gandhi]
[grateful for RMJ's contributions towards book on Gandhi based on reminiscences of his visit to him]
[in their travels in S. Africa felt there was generally more good will toward the natives]
[re sale of property in China, Me. indicating ownership by RMJ]
[there is almost nothing to buy in Germany so they are very grateful for his package] +
[sends honorarium for
introduction by RMJ
[great gratitude for his words which were read at her daughter's wedding]
In German.
[re his book on William Law & also a companion volume by Martensen; in his forward to a book on John Woolman, he mentions RMJ's statement that Woolman and St. Francis were prototypes for Gandhi]
[cannot come and see him on Feb. 10, as under doctor's orders not to travel]
[has read and reread some of RMJ's books and would like to talk with him]
[long, philosophical letter]
[re situation in Middle East as he perceives it and need for assistance] +
[thanks for care package]
[an author of a philological work, he has no means to buy books since the war and requests books by RMJ] (RMJ sends 9 books). 5 additional letters +
[re publication of RMJ's ms., “A Call to What is Vital”]
[Takes exception to an apparently Eastern view of Quakerism as presented in an article, e.g. not all Quakers use the name Society of Friends, as some prefer Friends Church, or that Friends have no creed or that Orthodox & Hicksite Friends have all but reconciled] +
[thanks RMJ for consenting to be their honorary chairman]
[grateful for RMJ's inspiring book Faith and Practice of the Quakers]
[re Dante and philosophy]
[thanks RMJ for his approval of her book Traveling with Thomas Story]
[re RMJ's assistance in the
publication of Hazelton's
[account of RMJ's visit to Gestapo has been translated into Arabic]
[encloses a letter to ministers re Soviet-American relations which Kirby hopes RMJ will endorse for publication]
[re intellectuals' World Congress for Peace]
[hopes for RMJ's help with a book on Christian mysticism]
carbon copy.[sends stock for Socony-Vacuum Oil for use by AFSC]
[hopes RMJ will continue to serve on fund-raising committee for the United Negro College Fund]
[before any telegram from RMJ to Middle East leaders re peace is sent, an emissary should be sent to discuss those matters which are involved]
[“Truce of God never came to fruition although things may happen as a result of RMJ's efforts, e.g. Harold Evans was appointed Municipal Commissioner for Jerusalem]
[re a book RMJ is editing on Christianity and Peace]
[translating a work of Prof. La Piana; has written a review of Georgia Harkness' book]
[has heard that a chair of philosophy and religion has been named for RMJ]
In German. [thanks for care package; article he has written]
[would like to have RMJ contribute a volume in the series Ethical and Religious Classics of East and West]
[has met with Swedish and German Quakers. Suggests a residential center for such small gatherings, but probably not under auspices of AFSC; has finished a book Doors Into Life and a translation of Theologica Germanica; will be working on a devotional series of classics to be edited from Haverford College; working on a book on retreats as an encouragement of the inner life]
[thoughts on a celebration of the religious faith of farmers from England and other countries who would go about the districts and perhaps in Penna. as well]
[story of his extreme deprivation and neediness]
[explanation of the role of Amin Bey in Jerusalem]
[a touching letter on the death of RMJ]
[thoughts from the first Yearly Meeting of the Society of Friends in S. Africa] +
[thanks for suit; Harry Silcock visited]
[describes travels; met by Emily Oliver in Beirut; has evaluated role of crusaders as builders]
[has been working on George Fox Catalog, but must soon prepare for Pendle Hill]
[has been asked to lecture at Woodbrooke]
[Eng.] [describes bout with encephalitis]
[wonders what RMJ feels concerning the fact that no professor of biblical literature has been appointed (presumably at H.C.) and chapel services are disappearing]
[cannot accept the honor of serving on the Exec. Comm. of the Bryn Mawr Directors]
[RMJ's addresses were much appreciated by students]
[daily activities and having enough money to go for one term of school]
[on getting together with other graduates of Providence Friends School] (Several other letters relating events and people at the school follow, often mentioning his friend, Charles Jacob)
[invites Farr to come hear him speak at Haverford College on the poet James Russell Lowell]
[“I have a pretty exalted idea of love, but your idea is practical and mine is only a theory...”]
[Charles Jacob has become principal of a Friends school in Oxford, Pa.]
[expresses gratitude for their friendship over the past 5 years, having come to Providence “a green, backward, awkward boy extremely rustic in all my ways.”]
[enjoy teaching at Union Springs 3 1/2 hours/day, also, a good deal of time spent reading, but hasn't made any fast friends]
[has arrived in Glasgow, Scotland]
[as principal of Oak Grove, writes to thank for gift of books; Charles Bailey has subscribed generously in their fund raising; “I love Friends with a deep love” -- is spiritual]
[grave illness of Eli Jones and death; “I never look for anyone to fill the void he has left... no one else can affect me as he did...”]
[re raising money for Friends Review, mentioning potential donors]
[“If there is an absence of
faith in the usefulness of such a paper (
[after his release as
principal is granted, he will do all in his power to raise funds for
[decision to leave for Phila. has been settled, though many tried to keep him on at Oak Grove, including offer of greater salary]
[hopes very much to live at the college while beginning his career as teacher at Haverford College and editor of Friends Review]
[envies him his flock of children and wishes he had some]
[re having one paper to speak
to all American Quakers; J. Walter Malone considering closing of
[“I have made a good many hundred percent on what I spent to get through Haverford]
[queries deposing of a minister on grounds that he practiced water baptism] +
[some Friends representing both Quaker branches want to consider a meeting on peace and arbitration in order to arouse public sentiment and, if possible to influence the U.S. Senate] (Richard M. Jones replies this joining together on non-theological matters an excellent bonding medium) +
[“I have had the hardest experience of my life since I last saw thee... my education work is very difficult and at times discouraging”]
[responds to criticism of his editorial on a meeting's members naming each other to a committee, which he feels is unquakerly]
[the action of Iowa Friends of ousting Joel Bean with the thought of “purifying” their membership RMJ likens to religious persecution, though it was done without the realization]
[re restoration of Joel Bean to membership]
[“my sympathies always go out to half-formed or partly-formed souls”]
[repudiates idea that
[working on the Discipline;
while an article (in
[if he could have the confidence of the great body of Friends, he would be able to stand any strain or struggle] +
[“with my college work and education work and possibly speaking and discipline making, I am like to becoming a wreck”]
[resigned to a life of wrestling with hard problems of Quakerism -- in fact, should be thankful that he is called to a hard place]
[re J.W. Malone's paper which is cheap and weak, almost beyond belief]
[in response to invitation that he become principal of Woodbrooke, must consult himself and others]
[not happy with outlook in Iowa, though there is evident improvement in Western Yearly Meeting]
[may be coming to England in August]
[comments on
[Isaac Sharpless will be attending Five Years Meeting]
[has done a lot of thinking
about
[is entirely against coeducation, having had 10 years experience with it; his one eye not working]
[Many letters which relate his whereabouts, people he has met and purpose of mission. Also letters from EBJ to RMJ giving personal news.]
[is not in agreement with
Barclay's exposition of Quakerism; while there are “arid wastes” in George Fox,
there is also “mighty seed”; people are reading his
[says Sunday School at Haverford College was a great success-- English Friends added to it, particularly Catherine Albright and Jessie Lloyd]
[announces birth of MHJ and
that he is making a volume from his Woodbrooke and Haverford Sunday School
lectures (
[feels he must spend some time in Germany the following summer to work on mystics; his editorials in AF on the atonement have led to condemnation by ministers and elders of Pasadena Quarterly Meeting through the machinations of J. Douglas] +
[his new book deals with Barclay and his ideas based on the super-natural which “has no message for modern thinkers”]
[on a trip to midwest to talk on Quakerism; Thomas Newlin will be along and will help “in the coming days of battle with the narrow wing”] +
[on his talk at Whittier, successful in winning over California Friends knowing it to be critical and crucial]
[spoke at meeting at Pasadena, attended by John Henry and Robert Douglas which was as strenuous a day as any there; meeting very extreme, the “Blood” came in almost every sentence and every sign of hysterical holiness]
[his temperance talk at Whittier very appreciated; will be giving education talk that evening]
[C.E. Tebbetts spoke highly
at Whittier of
[“I have fought the fight of my life and I have won”]
[tells of awful episodes with asthma]
[will, handwritten, at the time of beginning of an overseas trip]
[meetings at Scalby Street, etc.]
[discussions with Arnold, Seebohm and Joseph Rowntree concerning the history]
[lectures at Street Sunday School have come off very well and appreciated]
[sketches out plan for history of which he is to be the editor and writer of first vol. on social and mystical roots of Quakerism and final volume]
[at Scalby Sunday School]
[“personality is the only truly interesting thing”]
[will be speaking at conference at Moses Brown School]
[reminded everywhere of Lowell (Coutant Jones)]
[Bakewell Sunday School has begun]
[in Scotland where he is most interested in the lives of John Knox and David Hume]
[will be giving commencement address at Moses Brown School and hopes their class can have 25th reunion at the same time]
[has talked to Percy Bigland “the most distinguished Quaker artist we have ever produced” about painting Augustine Jones' portrait to present to Moses Brown School]
[feels united with them in faith and work and though unwilling to sever ties with New England Yearly Meeting, would like to become an associate member of the Meeting]
[the influences of the “Ohio School are very pernicious and are spreading through the rural meetings of the west... it is semi-fanatical and not amenable to rational steering...the task of saving Quakerism in America is gigantic”]
[had a speaking victory in Kansas and feels cause could be won if only more emissaries; Pres. Stanley wholly unfit for his place]
[giving lectures at Bible Institute in Wichita where provincial Friends very much against modern thought though Alfred Ware and Edwin Jay very much for it. Pres. Stanley gave a speech attacking evolutionists and higher critics, inflaming the ignorant, though his (RMJ's) speech had convinced many young people]
[feels he has had greatest triumph in talk at Richmond, Ind., and that his message was accepted]
[has to give lectures at Scarboro Sunday School]
[in England for conference]
postcards and letters to them in Marburg. [telling of wonderful mountains to climb]
[“I believe more and more that the greatest single help to a spiritual life is a deep and living human love for another.”]
[speaks of sights he has seen in Italy; there are 2 types of people working for the militant church: one, uncompromising in ideals (e.g. St. Francis and John Woolman) while the other is bent on getting positive things done -- RMJ feels himself to be of the first type, though feels there is a place for those of the second type]
[hopes Taylor can contribute
to keep
[RMJ's faith has come through the fire and many early faiths burned, leaving a firm core of faith. Feels bound to evolutionary conception of life and higher critical attitude toward the Bible; the important kind of orthodoxy is to be found in the true and loyal swing of the life -- not in the repetition of pious phrases] +
[On a climbing trip in the Canadian Rockies with Arnold Rowntree and George Newman.]
[is discovering clues for his new book]
[gives itinerary of his upcoming trip to England, including Reading Sunday School]
[describes research needs for writing of Quaker history]
[if something isn't done, American Quakerism will drift into senility]
Writes en route and from England and Wales.
[work at British Museum progressing well]
[conference on Quaker history is to take place including Arnold and Joseph Rowntree, William Charles Braithwaite, Edward Grubb et al; then on to Reading Sunday School for which he has less enthusiasm than he used to]
[many attenders at Reading
Sunday School; re conference at Scalby, decision made to transform
[mentions
[writes from Harvard where he is giving a series of sermons]
[has given sermon at Wellesley, then on to see Augustine Jones]
[writes to him about funding
of
[tells of concussion incurred in a fall on ice]
[hopes she will write an
article for
[offering Johnson position of secretary with their commission(?)]
[re disagreement in which Sippell felt he should be given credit for original work which RMJ used in his book and paid for, while RMJ states that to be common practice in America and England]
[Note as member of judging panel for Bross prize eliminating a book from the list of prize winners]
[although he is on the mend after his accident, doctor feels he must have no mental effort and should take a trip (Canadian Rockies trip]
[gives his prospective travel route from Nassau to Miami and north, plans to help him recover from head injury]
[recommends Felix Morley to Friends Ambulance Unit]
[at Battle Creek, Mich., sanitarium for tests for intestinal troubles and rest which he describes]
[at Earlham where he will speak and attend conference]
[at South China writes about beginning the building of their cottage]
[is on the business committee for conference on Faith and Order]
[re crisis (war?) and how its problems must beset the English Parliament; Edward Rice and ambulance unit]
[talks in Boston have gone off well, with major address still to be given]'
[specifications for his cottage, Pendle Hill, in South China, Me.; also floor plan]
[believes Christ could not have been God and man, nor that his body ascended; would not lecture to Taber's class unless he could say what he believed]
[appends report on Moses Brown School, having a coeducational facility adjacent to existing building]
[proposes that Felix Morley, who has just returned from France; come to N.J. (where Farr lives) to give a talk on the work of Relief and Reconstruction]
[re teaching at the summer
school, new book, long talk with Edward Grubb, interest by several people in
“new venture” (
[the American Red Cross has offered to use Quaker unit for reconstruction work -- asks for information on establishment of the Eng. version of AFSC]
[on the structure of emergency unit at Haverford and request for funds to sustain it] +
[working on a study of Quaker opposition to war. Fellowship of Reconciliation brought into prominence the personality argument against war. George Fox and early Friends gave almost no reasons for their opposition to war, never basing it on the sacredness of personality, although that is implied]
[schedule of his day with emergency unit at Haverford; best news is James Babbitt's decision to go to France]
[tells of establishment of emergency unit training at Haverford and selection of 100 young Friends for reconstruction work] +
draft of a wire or memo. [re request to Pres. Wilson to send workers into Russia] +
[hopes he will support Lord Lansdowne's appeal to restate war & peace aims of the Allies, that Kerensky's failure at a restatement of war aims was the reason for his downfall] +
[en route to France on a boat packed with French soldiers and American relief workers]
[arrived in Bordeaux, then to Paris on a train crowded with French soldiers, then to Dole, Ornans, back to Paris, Sermaize and Verdun; after this tour, on to Eng. & back to France for sailing]
[very pleased with her book of Saints]
[will be giving major address at Pan-Quaker Conference on “Silence” and is researching quietists]
[having discussed draft exemption based on conscientious objection with War Dept., their stand is less than comprehensive of Quaker objection not only to killing, but to the whole military system, but feels they must wait until after the government plan is put into effect before raising objections with Pres. Wilson] +
[is seeing the Relief and Reconstruction workers in Paris and will be going to outlying suburbs, Dole & Ornans]
[would have been glad to give an interview for publication in the Christian Commonwealth, but cannot get passage home from France via Eng.]
[gives account of HJC's difficulty at Haverford, but that a large group of alumni have worked to remove him]
[books he is working on; he dislikes H.J. Wells, but reads his books; even as he abominates the life of Goethe, but has “lived in” him]
[tells of his books in
progress and print and of
[announces decision of AFSC to get into work of child relief in Germany in accordance with Hoover's proposals] +
[tells of child feeding program and Hoover's promise to make funds available and transport food, the first unit of distributors has left. Feels it a mark of confidence in AFSC] +
[has had a proposal that AFSC supply cows for Mexico] +
[contains an evaluation of colleges from RMJ's point of view]
[feels he must retire from chairmanship of AFSC -- “it has taken all my strength and energy”]
[hopes Morley will be given clearance to give service in Germany]
[feels Felix Morley is best of Morley sons]
[en route to Europe; hopes she will do well with exams, “the habit of winning out at whatever one goes in for is an import habit to form”]
[has been reading
[having arrived in London, spoke at Westminster Meeting]
[at Yearly Meeting]
[has spent the day in Berlin visiting feeding centres]
[He and W.K. Thomas have been to Dresden visiting feeding centres, then to Chemnitz, Marienberg, Bohemia, Leibzig; he then went on to Marburg and saw Frau Happich and Frau Sippell]
[250,000 children being fed in Ruhr Valley; will be leaving for Poland]
[describes mode of travel in Poland, conferred on the future of the mission, personnel and leadership must be decided; meeting to take place with Polish leaders to explain their religious position; a similar meeting will take place in Vienna; may perhaps go to Switzerland en route to Paris; has been an experience not to be missed]
[he and Harrison Barrow have made speeches in Warsaw to Friends and president of the city; will be traveling to some of the most devastated areas of Poland] +
[visiting various missions in
Poland which have given out rations to refugees, looked after refugee children,
plowed their fields and helped them build their cottages, given medical exam;
decision made to make Florence Barrow head of the mission. The number of
personnel greatly reduced and work will cease
[has been in Vienna and Austria]
[in reference to the suggestion that “red-minded” people were undermining the efforts of American Relief Administration through the AFSC. RMJ states that he has always been a friend to Hoover and his great work and that he has no affiliation or leanings toward reds or pinks and has not been used by them nor has the AFSC been so used to injure Hoover] +
[stands by settlement made with Hoover even if it stops labor contribution]
[would like Yarnall to head Russian relief program]
[does not like Evelyn Underhill's book on mysticism, but likes Hodgkin's comments on his Quaker history]
[feels he cannot drop out as
chairman of AFSC because he has so many contacts with people in Washington and
N.Y. that it would weaken the work to drop out; has written a new
interpretation of mysticism which may be printed in
[feels trustees of Bryn Mawr College are bound by the will of Joseph Taylor to look for a president sympathetic to Taylor's aims requiring someone of great candle power]
[he and W.K. Thomas on behalf of AFSC feel a conference of Friends of all Yearly Meetings in U.S. and Canada should be arranged]
[establishes results of conference with Hoover concerning relief work in Russia and that their efforts would be in medical and clothing relief and assistance in sowing and planting in famine area] +