Rufus M. Jones papers, 1860-1997 [manuscript]

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Rufus M. Jones papers, 1860-1997 [manuscript]

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Papers include: correspondence, manuscripts, diaries, financial papers, Jones' notes in preparation for classes taught at Haverford College, lectures and short articles, medals and other artifacts, photographs and materials about him compiled primarily after his death. In addition, there are the correspondence and photographs of Jones' wife, Elizabeth, and of daughter, Mary Hoxie. Topics of importance in this collection are Rufus Jones' teaching, his writing and editing, especially of The American Friend, 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. In addition to Rufus Jones himself, his first wife Sarah, wife Elizabeth and daughter Mary Hoxie, some correspondents include: American Friends Service Committee, The American Friend, M. Catherine Albright, Hannah Bean, Joel Bean, Gilbert Bowles, J. Bevan Braithwaite, William Charles Braithwaite, A. Neave Brayshaw, Howard H. Brinton, Bryn Mawr College, Henry J. Cadbury, Corder Catchpool, John Henry Douglas, Theodore Dreiser, Joseph Elkinton, Edward L. Farr, Fellowship of Reconciliation, Five Year's Meeting, Harry Emerson Fosdick, Friends Foreign Missionary Association, Joan Mary Fry, A. Ruth Fry, Mahatma Gandhi, John B Garrett, Edwardd Grubb, J. Rendel Harris, Henry Hartshorne, Henry Hodgkin, L. Violet Hodgkin Holdsworth, Herbert Hoover, Aldous Huxley, Allen Jay, Peace Jones, Augustine Jones, Eli Jones, Rheinallt Jones, Richard Mott Jones, Thomas R. Kelly, Laymen's Foreign Missions Inquiry, J. Walter Malone, Katharine E. McBride, A. J. Muste, Fridtjof Nansen, New England Yearly Meeting, Henry Stanley Newman, Violet Oakley, Kirby Page, Marion Park, Francis G. Peabody, Hubert Peet, Pendle Hill, Norman Penney, Levi T. Pennington, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, Clarence Pickett, Esther Tuttle Pritchard, P. W. Raidabaugh, James. E. Rhoads, Theodore W. Richards, Abby A. Rockefeller, John D. Rockefeller, Arnold Rowntree, B. Seebohm Rowntree, John Wilhelm Rowntree, J. Henry Scattergood, Isaac Sharpless, Theodor Sippell, Douglas Steere, Rabindranath Tagore, M. Carey Thomas, Wilbur K. Thomas, Agnes L. Tierney, Khalil Totah, D. Elton Trueblood, Evelyn Underhill, Elizabeth Gray Vining, Carolena M. Wood, James Wood, D. Robert Yarnall.

157 boxes (78.5 linear feet).

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