YOUNG FRIENDS (Boxes 79-81)
Background: Most of this material relates to Wood's work with
the Young Friends Board of the Five Years Meeting. Thomas Elsa
Jones was the Field Secretary of Young Friends Board and also
a missionary to Japan (later president of Fisk and Earlham). Lillian
E. Hayes was Office Secretary of Young Friends Board. Wood appears
on 1914, 1917 letterhead of Board of Young Friends Activities
as member of Executive Committee and served as Treasurer. [Note:
all of the following folders came from an accordion folder labeled
by Wood "Young Friends - All papers other than miscellaneous
correspondence"]
I. YOUNG FRIENDS - "Pictures, pamphlets, etc.,"
ca. 1903-1917. [2 folders in Box 79]
Notes on contents: pamphlets, brochures, programs, broadsides
and other printed material. Also photographs, drafts of promotional
brochures, history of Quakerism course outline, drafts of articles,
notes, itinerary, clippings and other misc. items related to Young
Friends.
- Drafts of articles, photographs, notes, clippings, memoranda,
etc., ca. 1903-1917. Includes "The old apple tree: a parable"
by Wilson S. Doan.
- Printed items: pamphlets, brochures, etc., ca. 1903-1917.
II. YOUNG FRIENDS - "List of Young Friends and schedule
of pilgrimages," ca. 1912-1916. [1 folder in Box 80]
Notes on contents: lists of Young Friends, plan for letterhead
of Young Friends, schedule of pilgrimages under charge of Joint
Fellowship Committee of New York Yearly Meetings (1914), letter
of Anna L. Curtis with list.
III. YOUNG FRIENDS - "Western Trip - Correspondence,"
1913 (March - July). [1 folder in Box 80]
Notes on contents: letters to Wood related to Young Friends trip
to the West to visit meetings.
IV. YOUNG FRIENDS - "Western Trip - Memos, pamphlets,
itinerary, etc.," 1913. [1 folder in Box 80]
Notes on contents: photograph, postcards, issue of Pacific Friend
(6/1913), bill, list, notes, accounts, itineraries, program, brochures.
Also "The Sign of the Peel" marked "Y. F."
by Wood on cover (London Young Friends?).
V. YOUNG FRIENDS - "Quaker Chair" - correspondence,
1913-1914. [1 folder in Box 80]
Notes on contents: 3 letters to Wood discussing Society of Friends
possible contribution to endowment at Hartford Theological Seminary.
VI. YOUNG FRIENDS - "Child Labor" - correspondence,
1913-1914. [1 folder in Box 80]
Notes on contents: 4 letters, list, annual report of National
Child Labor Committee "Child Labor in 1912."
Letters are in response to Wood's inquiry re: feeding of school
children in foreign countries.
VII. YOUNG FRIENDS - "Notices of Pilgrimages and Posters,"
1914-1915. [1 folder in Box 80]
Notes on contents: letters, posters, brochures, drafts.
Related to Joint Fellowship Committee of the two New York Yearly
Meetings, Wood apparently chairman of committee on pilgrimages
[Friends Fellowship Committee? same as Joint Fellowship Committee?].
VIII. YOUNG FRIENDS - Young Friends Conferences, 1914-1918.
[1 folder in Box 80]
Notes on contents: typed program, pamphlets, brochures, bulletin,
newsletters, etc. related to Young Friends conferences. Includes
brochures for "General Conference for Friends Young People"
held at Cedar Lake, Indiana, Aug. 3-12, 1917.
IX. YOUNG FRIENDS - Reports from Board of Young Friends Activities,
ca. 1916. [1 folder in Box 80]
Notes on contents: typed report from Thomas E. Jones, reports
of Lillian E. Hayes, report of Commission on Program, Perry D.
Macy, chairman.
X. YOUNG FRIENDS - Thomas Elsa Jones - Correspondence re:
donations to pay his salary, 1915. [1 folder in Box 81]
Notes on contents: letters, account, list.
Primarily correspondence of Wood with contributors and potential
contributors (Young Friends) to a fund of $2,000 for Jones "for
the expenses of his office and travel among the meetings during
the coming year" (1915).
XI. YOUNG FRIENDS - Thomas Elsa Jones - "Re: T. Jones's
salary," 1917. [1 folder in Box 81]
Notes on contents: letters, financial papers, notes, lists of
contributors.
Primarily correspondence of Wood with contributors and potential
contributors to a fund of $1,000 so Jones can receive his full
salary ("to make up the deficit in salary and disbursements
which the Young Friends Board did not meet last year").
XII. YOUNG FRIENDS - "Young Friends" - correspondence,
1917. [1 folder in Box 81]
Notes on contents: letters, reports, brochure "American
Friends Reconstruction Unit, Information for Applicants"
re AFSC reconstruction training at Haverford College.
Primarily responses to Wood's letter of April 21, 1917 mailed
to Friends at colleges across the country in which he invites
them to think about the Society of Friends during "this present
excitement," inviting them to write to him. Replies frequently
touch on the War and alternative service. Includes two letters
from Friends at United States Military Academy, West Point. Report
of Thomas E. Jones for June states that the month was largely
spent helping the AFSC in its efforts to select 100 young Friends
for Reconstruction Work in France. Correspondents include Lillian
E. Hayes, Thomas E. Jones and many college students.
XIII. YOUNG FRIENDS - "Young Friends Board - Finances"
1917. [1 folder in Box 81]
Notes on contents: letters, financial papers, lists of contributors,
program, Young Friends Conference News-Bulletin, monthly reports
and letters of Jones as Field Secretary, notes.
Wood is treasurer of the Young Friends' Board of the Five Years
Meeting. Primarily letters from Lillian E. Hayes and Thomas E.
Jones; also letter of Henry J. Cadbury.
