Kelsey, Mary
Person
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Edward W. Evans Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-122
Abstract
Edward Wyatt Evans (1882-1976) was a lifelong member of the Germantown (Pennsylvania) Monthly Meeting and was active in the Friends Peace Committee of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. Evans was instrumental in the founding of the Fellowship of Reconciliation (Fellowship of Reconcilation), and was the executive secretary from 1916-1919. During the 1920s, he was also active in educational and peace programs of the Society of Friends.
Dates:
1916-1922
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Kate Kelsey Collected Papers
Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Kelsey, Kate
Abstract
Collection includes two letters; "Diary of the War" an English translation of news items from "Dresdner Nachtrichten" and "Dresdener Anzeiger"; and articles and half-tone images about World War I from U.S. and foreign periodicals.
Dates:
1914-1919
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Mary Kelsey Collected Papers
Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Kelsey, Mary
Scope and Contents
Includes miscellaneous correspondence; two oversize scrapbooks (ca. 1914-1919) which contain correspondence (some with her relative, Kate Kelsey); articles and half-tone images from U.S. and foreign periodicals about World War I; small posters; sheet music; and material about Woodrow Wilson's 1916 presidential campaign and the Women's March for Woodrow Wilson in Washington D.C., ca. 1917; also small amounts of secondary material relating to the American Friends Service Committee, the...
Dates:
1914-1919
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Charles M. Tatum. American Friends Service Committee Coal Relief Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-262
Abstract
The collection documents the work of the American Friends Service Committee child relief team in the bituminous coal fields of West Virginia and Kentucky, 1931-1933. Of particular interest are (carbon) letters sent regularly to the American Friends Service Committee Coal Committee headquartered in Philadelphia, Pa., recounting almost daily the activities of the team from February-May 1932 as well as the hardships and political unrest. The first year of the program concentrated on feeding and...
Dates:
1931-1941 (bulk 1931-1933)
