Friends' War Victims' Relief Committee records 1914-1923

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Friends' War Victims' Relief Committee records 1914-1923

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Reports, correspondence, descriptive accounts, and meeting minutes relating to work conducted by the Friends' War Victims' Relief Committee during World War I and in its aftermath. Includes documentation of Quaker relief and rebuilding efforts in France, Germany, Austria, Holland, Hungary, and Poland.

2 manuscript boxes.; (0.8 linear feet)

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Hoover Institution Archives

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Friends' War Victims' Relief Committee (London, England)

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Society of Friends World War I relief organization. From the description of Friends' War Victims' Relief Committee records, 1914-1923. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754867172 Historical Note The Friends' War Victims' Relief Committee was originally established by the London Yearly Meeting in 1870 to assist civilian towns damaged by the Franco-Prussian War. This Quaker relief effort is particularly notable because it esta...

Society of Friends

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The Society of Friends (or 'Quakers') was formed by George Fox (1624-1691), a shoemaker from Nottingham. In the 1640s Fox travelled throughout England delivering sermons in which he argued that individuals could have direct access to God without the need for churches, priests or other aspects of the established Church. Fox's followers became known as the 'Friends of Truth' and later the 'Society of Friends'. Fox developed rules for the management of meetings, which were printed as 'Friends Fello...

Friends' Emergency and War Victims' Relief Committee (London, England).

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