Letters to HJC: L-Z, 1918-1974

Note: Two items at the end of the S-Z section are a fragment with no name and firstname only letter Letter writers include: L P. Laithwaite, Mary Layman, Joseph Lippincott M G. H. MacGregor, Macmillan (Ellen Shippen), Edward Manice, Arnold Marsh, David McCord, W.B. McDaniel, Millicent McIntosh, Stephen Meader, Arthur Mekeel, Nan Michels, Maurice Mook, J. Floyd Moore, Russell Mortimer, N Nancy and Gerard Negelspach, John L. Nickalls O Mike Owen P Theodore Paullin, Norman Penney, Phila. Yearly Meeting (Mary Ogilvie), Bertram and Irene Pickard R Religion in Life (Jean Hager), Isabel Ross S George Selleck, Roberta Selleck, Krister Sheedahl, Shirley Showalter, Timothy Shrout, Susanna Smedley, Willard Sperry, Krister Stendahl, Warren Smith, Edward Snyder, Edmund Spaeth, Willman Spawn, Willard Sperry, Douglas Steere, Alfred Stefferud, Edith Stratton? T Taber, William, Christopher Taylor, Marshall Taylor, H. St. J. Thackeray, Fred Tolles U U.S. War Dept. (A.S. Dewees, O.R. Davis), University of Wyoming (Gene Gressley) V Vaux, Mrs., Vermont American Corp (Lee Thomas) W Walter Whitehill, Janet Whitney, Alice Whittelsey X Xerox Corp (Richard Wood) Y Robert Yarnall Highlights include: Laithwaite, P. Lichfield [Eng]. [response to query by HJC on the Lichfield Cathedral] Lippincott, Joseph. Rancocas, N.J. [sends along postcards with Quaker printing, including postmark with Quaker dating] MacGregor, G.H. Glasgow [Scotland], 1957 1/3. [neo-Biblicism vs. radical historical criticism] Macmillan Co. (Ellen Shippen). 1937. 4 items. [re publication of HJC’s The Peril of Modernizing Jesus] Manice, Edward. New Have, Conn. [re William Edmondson] Marsh, Arnold. [on Penn portraits and his own publication] fragment McCord, David. 1956 11/7. [hopes to persuade Robert Frost to write something about J.H. Whittier] McDaniel, W.B. Philadelphia, 1971 11/8. [response to HJC’s request for information on Friends’ opposition to life insurance] Mook, Maurice. Williamsport, PA 1972 1/12. [Amish attitude toward insurance] Mortimer, Russell. Leeds, 1974 7/20. [re meeting of Friends’ Historical Society and Yearly Meeting] Negelspach, Nancy and Gerard. Montblanc, 1974 9/19. [Domingo Ricart has been coming to their Meetings] Nickalls, John L. 1941-1948. 5 items. [meaningful time with HJC at Woodbrooke; pacifism and war; policy, politics and diplomacy with attention to the war with Germany; answers to some queries by HJC; work on George Fox’s Journal] Paullin, Theodore. Washington, Conn., n.y. [re HJC’s lecture at the International Service Seminar] Penney, Norman. England, n.d. 4 items. [various questions or issues relating to publications, including on his biography of Deborah Darby] Selleck, Roberta. N.p., n.d. [has met regularly with Friends in Helsinki, and mentions specific members of the Meeting] Shrout, Thomas. Columbia, Mis., 1955 10/5. [on his research] Smedley, Susanna. Westtown, Pa., [1948?] [about a poem about Ann Carlisle] Smith, Warren S. Lemont, Pa., 1963 11/19. [indication that (George Bernard?) Shaw read George Fox’s journal] Spaeth, Edmund B. Philadelphia, 1971 2/16. [resignation by HJC from board of trustees at Bryn Mawr College announced, and asks if HJC wants to become an emeritus trustee] Spawn, Willman. N.p., n.d. [has written about the Log Cabin on the grounds of Friends Select School to Friends Journal and encloses copy of his text] Sperry, Willard. Tamworth, N.H., [ca. 1946] and n.d. 3 items. [1946:refers to HJC’s role in the American Revised Version of the Bible and that Seelye will be leaving the working group; n.d.: thinks HJC’s work on synoptic gospels is excellent and other critique of his work, perhaps on The Peril of Modernizing Jesus (1937)] Steere, Douglas. N.p., [1954?] (fragment) [interest in Mary Knowles; has just taken the chairmanship of the board at Pendle Hill and hopes for HJC’s help to students interested in Quaker history] Stefferud, Alfred. Buckinghamshire, Eng., 1974 9/26. [mentions revision of the booklet on the history of Jordans] HJC’s essay on Jordans for his “Letter from the Past” accompanies Taber, William Barnesville, Ohio. 1971 12/17. [on the Quaker attitude toward insurance] Taylor, Christopher. Birmingham, Eng., 1955 12/4. [on the proposed work on the History of Friends in China] [Taylor, C. Marshall. N.Y., 1950-1054. 2 items.. [on John G. Whittier and the introduction of music at Moses Brown School in Providence R.I.] Tolles, Fred. Swarthmore, PA., n.d. [comments on HJC’s Woolman manuscript] U.S. War Dept. 1918. 2 post cards allowing HJC’s status as a C.O. University of Wyoming (Gene Gressley). Laramie WY, 1973-74. 2 items. [hopes HJC will deposit his papers of their university since they are attempting to collect on religion and diversity; understands why HJC will deposit his papers at Haverford College] Vaux, (Mrs.). Bryn Mawr, Pa., n.d. [family has only loaned the George Fox portrait by Peale and a silver signet which George Vaux Jr. bought from the family in England which had owned it since George Fox’s time] Whitney, Janet. 1965. 7 items. [an exchange with HJC in which Whitney asks HJC if he could do his research in fields other than John Woolman about whom she is writing, since he has opportunities she does not have]