- FRIENDS WORLD CONFERENCE (1ST : 1920 : LONDON)
FRIENDS WORLD CONFERENCE (1ST : 1920 : LONDON) (Boxes 33-34)
Background: originally scheduled for August 22-24, 1919 at Devon
House, London and called "Peace Conference of All Friends
After the War called by London Yearly Meeting" [letterhead
5/23/1919].
Wood appointed to "Committee of Arrangements for the London
Conference" at general meeting of AFSC, which was asked to
take charge of all arrangements. First organizational meeting
held Jan. 6, 1920. Wood appointed April 8, 1920 as one of the
American members of the Business Committee. Letter (April 16,
1920) has Wood writing "as Chairman of the American Committee
in preparation for Conference of All Friends After the War Called
by London Yearly Meeting" to be held August 13-20, 1920.
Both the English and American Friends put together a set of reports,
prepared by commissions. The commissions were assigned topics
all centering on the Peace Testimony of the Society of Friends.
The American Commissions were chaired by the following: Rufus
Jones, Commission I; Isaac Sharpless, Commission II (A and B);
William I. Hull, Commission II (C); Jesse H. Holmes, Commission
III; George A. Walton, Commission IV; Henry J. Cadbury, Commission
V; Elbert Russell, Commission VI.
I. FRIENDS WORLD CONFERENCE (1st : 1920 : London): "Miscellaneous
correspondence," 1918-1920. [10 folders in Box 33]
Notes on contents: letters, brochures (including "Some particular
advices for Friends & a statement of loyalty for others :
being the views of some members of the Society of Friends regarding
its attitude toward the present crisis" 1918, Phila., Baltimore),
drafts of commission reports, draft of pamphlet on "Peace
Testimony" section of English commission reports, copy of
essay "Quakerism at present and one hundred years ago"
by C. A. Zavitz (Genesee Yearly Meeting), essay on English Friends
point of view on conference by Edith J. Wilson (6/16/1920), drafts
of essays from various perspectives on conference, lists, accounts.
Labeled by Wood as "Miscellaneous correspondence,"
these folders are papers of the Committee on Arrangements.
Topics include including Young Friends in the delegations, work
of the various commissions, appointment of delegates, postponement
of conference until Aug. 1920, plans for Nov. 1919 meeting of
members of the Committee of English Friends and American Commissions,
difficulty of Wood in getting information on plans of English
Friends, arrangements for visit of English Friends, planning for
Friends World Conference.
Wood asks for articles on conference expectations from different
Quaker viewpoints (Orthodox, Hicksite, Young Friend, Militaristic,
Women, etc.) and from a non-Friend. Wood asks Herbert Hoover,
Jane Addams and others to write letters stating why Friends should
attend (gets replies from Hoover, Addams, etc.), view from Berlin
in letter of sister Carolena M. Wood, etc.
Correspondents include Edward Backhouse, Lindley M. Binford,
Henry J. Cadbury, Edward Grubb, Allen D. Hole, Jesse H. Holmes,
Herbert Hoover (TLS, 6/16/1920), Rufus M. Jones, W. Blair Neatby,
Vincent D. Nicholson, S. Edgar Nicholson, Robert E. Pretlow, George
A. Walton, J. Barnard Walton, Carolena M. Wood (Berlin, 7/4/1920),
Walter C. Woodward and many others.
- Misc. correspondence, 1918, 1919 (January - February).
- Misc. correspondence, 1919 (March).
- Misc. correspondence, 1919 (April).
- Misc. correspondence, 1919 (May - June).
- Misc. correspondence, 1919 (July - August).
- Misc. correspondence, 1919 (September - October).
- Misc. correspondence, 1919 (November - December).
- Misc. correspondence, 1920 (January - May).
- Misc. correspondence, 1920 (June).
- Misc. correspondence, 1920 (July - December).
II. FRIENDS WORLD CONFERENCE (1st : 1920 : Swarthmore): "Pamphlet,
lists of names and mems., etc." ca. 1916-1920. [1 folder
in Box 34]
Notes on contents: minutes, draft of program, printed circulars,
brochures (includes Hoover letter), pamphlets, handwritten and
typed notes and lists, reprints, clipping. Items are related to
planning the Conference.
III. FRIENDS WORLD CONFERENCE (1st : 1920 : Swarthmore): Pamphlets,
printed letters, brochures, ephemera, ca. 1920. [1 folder in Box
34]
Notes on contents: primarily printed items related to Friends
World Conference of 1920 and to other Friends conferences occurring
at the same time. Includes printed letters, pamphlets, programs,
reprints, etc. Wood's label "London Conference" [these
look like items he may have collected before the Conference or
while at the Conference?]
IV. FRIENDS WORLD CONFERENCE (1st : 1920 : Swarthmore): "Re:
Delegates - Memo. - Conf. of Delegates at 12th St. Meetinghouse,"
1919. [1 folder in Box 34]
Notes on contents: memoranda (including meeting at 12th St. Meetinghouse
of Delegates, program lists Wood as presiding at this "Conference
with Delegates and Commissions"), certificates authorizing
Wood, James Wood and Carolena Wood as delegates to London Conference,
program, article by Wood, typed lists, notes, printed preliminary
plan, printed letter from London Committee.
V. FRIENDS WORLD CONFERENCE (1st : 1920 : Swarthmore): "Re:
Delegates," correspondence, 1919-1920. [1 folder in Box 34]
Notes on contents: letters.
Correspondence of Wood with delegates, committee members and
others, re: delegates, transportation, expenses, etc. of trip
to the Conference in London.
VI. FRIENDS WORLD CONFERENCE (1st : 1920 : Swarthmore): "Requests
for information and mailing lists," correspondence, 1919.
[1 folder in Box 34]
Notes on contents: letters. Correspondence asking for programs,
Commission reports, information on traveling to Conference, etc.
[Note: no lists in this folder].
VII. FRIENDS WORLD CONFERENCE (1st : 1920 : Swarthmore): "Correspondence
re: reports of English Commissions," 1919-1920. [1 folder:
11 items in Box 34]
Notes on contents: letters, requesting copies of reports.
VIII. FRIENDS WORLD CONFERENCE (1st : 1920 : Swarthmore):
"Receipts, etc. - Thos. Cook & Sons bill for Trans-Atlantic
passages of English Friends" 1919-1920. [1 folder: 11 items
in Box 34]
Notes on contents: bills, receipts for printing brochures, travel,
etc.
IX. FRIENDS WORLD CONFERENCE (1st : 1920 : Swarthmore): "Contributions
for expenses to attend London Conference," correspondence,
1920. [1 folder in Box 34]
Notes on contents: letters.
Correspondence with persons contributing toward expenses of various
Friends' trip to London Conference.
