- PEACE
- JOINT COMMITTEE ON PEACE OF THE TWO NEW YORK YEARLY MEETINGS
- FRIENDS INTERNATIONAL PEACE ASSOCIATION
- JOINT PEACE COMMITTEE OF THE ASSOCIATED AMERICAN YEARLY
MEETINGS
- COMMITTEE ON PEACE OF THE ASSOCIATED AMERICAN YEARLY MEETINGS
- PEACE ASSOCIATION OF FRIENDS IN AMERICA
PEACE (Boxes 68-71)
Under this heading are folders of papers of the following:
JOINT COMMITTEE ON PEACE OF THE TWO NEW YORK YEARLY MEETINGS
FRIENDS INTERNATIONAL PEACE ASSOCIATION
JOINT PEACE COMMITTEE OF THE ASSOCIATED AMERICAN YEARLY MEETINGS
COMMITTEE ON PEACE OF THE ASSOCIATED AMERICAN YEARLY MEETINGS
PEACE ASSOCIATION OF FRIENDS IN AMERICA
Background: Wood has all of the papers of the above named committees
(and variations on the above) filed together under "PEACE,"
frequently, there is more than one organization represented in
a folder. In order to make the files easier to understand, a chronology
of the committees, based on evidence in the papers themselves,
follows:
1910
- The JOINT COMMITTEE ON PEACE OF THE TWO NEW YORK YEARLY MEETINGS,
of which Wood was Secretary, asked the various Yearly Meetings
to appoint delegates/committees to come to a Peace Conference
of all branches of the Society of Friends to be held July 15-16,
1910, sponsored by the JOINT COMMITTEE.
- One of the results of the Peace Conference is the formation
of the FRIENDS INTERNATIONAL PEACE ASSOCIATION "representing
the 21 Yearly Meetings and Associations of all branches of the
Religious Society of Friends" [July 16, 1910]. Wood is
Secretary of FIPA.
1911
- At the Jan. 6, 1911 meeting of the "Executive Committee
of the Friends International Peace Association" it is decided
that in future work they will be know as the "Executive
Committee of the COMMITTEE ON PEACE OF THE ASSOCIATED YEARLY
MEETINGS OF FRIENDS" and that further discussion on the
name will take place at the 1912 conference.
- The above named committee is also referred to in letters of
1911 as the "JOINT PEACE COMMITTEE" [context of letter
identifies it as either the Joint Committee on Peace of the
Associated Yearly Meetings or the Joint Committee on Peace of
the two New York Yearly Meetings].
- [Oct. 31, 1911] Wood is "Secretary of the Executive Committee
on Peace appointed at the Conference of all branches of Friends,"
held July 1910.
1912
- August 9, 1912, name appears as COMMITTEE ON PEACE OF THE
ASSOCIATED AMERICAN YEARLY MEETINGS [memo "A meeting of
the representatives of the Committee on Peace of the Associated
American Yearly Meetings"]
- Aug. 12, 1912 letter of Wood to members of the Executive Committee
"notice of the meeting of the representatives of the JOINT
PEACE COMMITTEE OF THE ASSOCIATED AMERICAN YEARLY MEETINGS."
- In Nov. 1912, Wood is elected to the Executive Committee of
the PEACE ASSOCIATION OF FRIENDS IN AMERICA, which is the Peace
Board of the Five Years Meeting. A letter of Nov. 25, 1912,
states that the Peace Association of Friends in America and
the Joint Committee on Peace are two separate organizations
and how can they best co-operate?
1913
- After 1912, most of the papers relate to Wood's involvement
with the Peace Association of Friends in America.
I. PEACE - Joint Committee on Peace of the two New York Yearly
Meetings - Correspondence, etc., 1908-1913. [4 folders in Box
68]
Notes on contents: primarily letters, also minutes from Friends'
Meetings, Friends pocket almanac (used for addresses of Yearly
Meetings), petitions, printed items, misc. undated items.
Correspondence (1908-1909) is chiefly letters to Wood from clerks
of various Yearly Meetings (includes foreign Meetings) responding
to Joint Epistle of the two New York Yearly Meetings (sent out
over Haviland's and Wood's signatures) that all Yearly Meetings
appoint special peace committees and attend a Peace Conference;
proposal for a Joint Peace Committee of the Yearly Meetings; responses
to proposed Joint Committee meeting, Jan. 28, 1910; correspondence
re: Yearly Meetings appointing delegates/committees to attend
a Peace Conference of all branches of Friends, July 15-16, 1910
in NYC, sponsored by the Joint Committee on Peace of the two New
York Yearly Meetings, etc.
Correspondents include H. Lavinia Bailey, A. Morris Carey, William
Cooper, Henry M. Haviland, Mary M. Hobbs, Jesse H. Holmes, Augustus
T. Murray, Timothy Nicholson, Arthur Perry, Robert E. Pretlow,
Alfred G. Scattergood, Henry H. Swift, J. Barnard Walton and many
others.
- Correspondence, 1908.
- Correspondence, 1909.
- Correspondence, 1910.
- "Samples of petitions, samples of literature," ca.
1908-1913; also misc. undated items.
II. PEACE - "Lists" ca. 1909-1910. [1 folder in
Box 68]
Notes on contents: typed and handwritten lists of names of those
on peace committees, list of chairmen of committees, members of
executive committee, Yearly Meetings replying to invitation of
New York Yearly Meetings, etc.
III. PEACE - Friends International Peace Association - "Copy
Resolution and request, President's reply" July 1910. [1
folder: 3 items in Box 68]
Notes on contents: copy of resolutions, copy of letter sent to
President regarding resolutions of Friends Peace Conference [July
1910] and request that a Friend be appointed to proposed Peace
Commission; reply from President's Secretary.
IV. PEACE - [Joint?] Committee on Peace of the Associated
Yearly Meetings of Friends - "Executive Committee correspondence,"
1910-1911. [1 folder in Box 68]
Notes on contents: letters, lists of names and form letter.
Topics include protest against fortification of Panama Canal.
Includes letters to Wood as Secretary of "Friends International
Peace Association." Correspondents include Sarah C. Fox,
William I. Hull, Arthur Perry, Jonathan K. Taylor, Benjamin F.
Trueblood and others, including U.S. legislators.
V. PEACE - [Joint?] Committee on Peace of the Associated Yearly
Meetings of Friends - "Answers of Committee," correspondence,
1911. [1 folder in Box 68]
Notes on contents: letters.
Chiefly letters [of members of Executive Committee] to Wood responding
to his letter calling for a meeting of representatives of all
churches to plan action for peace and to influence the Senate
to approve the arbitration treaties.
VI. PEACE - Joint Peace Committee of the Associated American
Yearly Meetings - Correspondence, 1911-1912. [2 folders in Box
69]
Notes on contents: letters, petition [from California Friends],
brochures, printed items, clippings, printed "Directory of
members of New York Monthly Meeting ... (1912)." Includes
papers of Friends International Peace Association, Joint Committee
on Peace of the two New York Yearly Meetings.
Issues discussed include protest against fortification of Panama
Canal (1911), promoting ratification of arbitration treaties with
Great Britain (1911); correspondence of Wood with various representatives
of the Committee on Peace of the Associated American Yearly Meetings
re: planning for Conference on Peace to be held in connection
with the Chautauqua Conference of Friends at Chautauqua, N.Y.,
Aug. 29, 1912; corresp. with other Peace groups; corresp. re:
lining up speakers for Chautauqua conference; history of Friends
Peace Association of Philadelphia (from Yarnall); Wood elected
to Executive Committee of Peace Association of Friends in America
(Oct. 1912).
Correspondents include Martha H. Bell, Arabella Carter, Henry
M. Haviland, Allen D. Hole, Hilda P. Holmes, William I. Hull,
Augustus T. Murray, Timothy Nicholson, Arthur Perry, Henry H.
Swift, Jonathan K. Taylor, Anna Braithwaite Thomas, Stanley R.
Yarnall (Pennsylvania Arbitration and Peace Society) and many
others. Includes letters (May 1911) to James Woods from various
U.S. Senators.
- Correspondence, 1911.
- Correspondence, 1912.
VII. PEACE - Joint Committee on Peace of the Associated American
Yearly Meetings - "Correspondence regarding Conference,"
1912. [1 folder in Box 69]
Notes on contents: letters, clipping.
Chiefly response to Wood letter of August 12, 1912, to members
of the Executive Committee, calling for conference at Chautauqua,
N.Y. (Joint Committee on Peace of all the Yearly Meetings). Some
responses with suggestions to Wood's subjects for discussion.
Correspondents include Arabella Carter, Elmer D. Gildersleeve,
John F. Hauson [?], Jesse H. Holmes, William I. Hull, Arthur Perry,
Robert E. Pretlow, Henry H. Swift and others.
VIII. PEACE - "Minutes of Conference and Executive Committee"
1910-1912. [1 folder in Box 69]
Notes on contents: primarily typed copies of minutes, resolutions;
also brochure for Friends General Conference at Chautauqua, N.Y.,
1912; copies of circular letters sent by Wood as Secretary; notice,
program and minutes (typed and Wood's handwritten notes) of Friends
Peace Conference and Executive Committee of same (1910), etc.
IX. PEACE - Peace Association of Friends in America - Correspondence,
1913-1922. [6 folders in Boxes 69-70]
Notes on contents: primarily letters, minutes, clippings, drafts
of Peace advertisement "A message from the Society of Friends
(Quakers) in America" from Friends National Peace Committee,
drafts of articles (including Allen D. Hole's article "Conscientious
objectors and alternative service"), typed and handwritten
draft of Wood's article for Oct. 1914 issue of Messenger of Peace
"What is Peace," copy of petition, printed items, poetry,
50 pfennige note of city of Gotha honoring Quaker relief work,
other papers. Includes some Joint Peace Committee papers.
Topics include conscription, Panama Canal, U.S. conflict with
Mexico, proposal to combine Peace Association of Friends into
other Boards of the Five Years Meeting, conscientious objectors
and alternative service, writing and publishing Peace advertisement,
publication of "Messenger of Peace," London Conference
of All Friends (1920), correspondence 1920-21 discusses planning
a Disarmament Conference in Baltimore.
Includes correspondence with other Peace groups [3.25.1914 letterhead
of "Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America
- Commission on Peace and Arbitration" lists James Woods
and Wood as members], letters from various U.S. Senators and Congressmen.
Correspondents include A. Morris Carey, Arthur M. Dewees [Friends
Washington Peace Conference, Wood on Committee], Allen D. Hole,
Hilda P. Holmes, Anna Braithwaite Thomas [Emergency Committee
for the Assistance of Germans, Austrians, and Hungarians in Distress],
J. Barnard Walton and many others. Also includes a few letters
of Gilbert Bowles, Henry J. Cadbury, Arabella Carter, John B.
Garrett, Rufus M. Jones.
Folders 1-2 (Box 69), folders 3-6 (Box 70).
- Correspondence, 1913.
- Correspondence, 1914.
- Correspondence, 1915.
- Correspondence, 1916.
- Correspondence, 1917.
- Correspondence, 1918-1922.
X. PEACE - Peace Association of Friends in America - "Winona
Lake Conference, 1915." [1 folder in Box 71]
Notes on contents: letters (April 22-July 20, 1915), also printed
programs, booklets and other items.
Topics include planning for "6th Annual Summer Conference
for Young Friends, July 26 - Aug. 1 - National Peace Conference
for Young Friends, July 23-26" [at Winona Lake, Indiana,
1st conference was held July 1910; from booklet - Henry J. Cadbury
Secy., also Thomas E. Jones, George A. Walton, Wood involved].
Correspondents include Henry J. Cadbury, Allen D. Hole, Thomas
E. Jones and others.
XI. PEACE - Peace Association of Friends in America - "Church
Peace Association," 1915-1916. [1 folder: 7 items in Box
71]
Notes on contents: letters, minutes, position statements.
Concerns the work of the Commission on Peace and Arbitration
of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America.
XII. PEACE - Peace Association of Friends in America - "Correspondence,
1916 re: The Survey and Mexican Scholarships." [1 folder
in Box 71]
Notes on contents: ca. 11 letters.
Letters discuss situation between Mexico and U.S., Philadelphia
Yearly Meeting Peace Committee developing scholarships for Mexican
students to come to U.S. colleges, educational help for Mexico.
Correspondents include Paul U. Kellog at The Survey who is interested
in response of Quaker colleges (includes letters from Haverford,
Whittier and Earlham).
