Letters from HJC, 1940-1974

In the summer of 1940, HJC spent that August with AFSC and he wrote frequently to his daughter, Elizabeth, and to Lydia, on various family events. In the section of n.d. letters are a number of letters from HJC to editors of Friends periodicals on a variety of Quaker topics. Some letters are also written by LCC. Highlights include: To Elizabeth [Jones]. Cambridge, 1947 12/20. [refers to and describes trip to Oslo and events relating to award of Nobel Prize to AFSC, noting that representatives of Russia were not present] To Arthur Mekeel. Cambridge, Mass., n. y.]12/17 and 5/22. [comments re Mekeel's dissertation on Quakers and the American Revolution] To Elizabeth. On board S.S. Deutschland, n.y. 6/1. [en route to Glasgow via England] To Rachel King. Cambridge, Mass., n.y. 6/8. [asks for King’s opinion on the extent of the meaning of the light within, and whether it was protective of others’] To Keiser. Haverford, Pa., n.y. 2/3. [re Lincoln’s Quaker ancestry] To editor of Quaker Life. N.p., n.d. [re Quakerism in Jamaica]