Letters from Rufus M. Jones, 1932

To Editor of the News (H.K. Dugdale). Nara, Japan, [Written while on the Laymen’s Foreign Missions Inquiry Commission in Japan where the Commission reviewed 3 months of their work in China before beginning the study of Japan. Jones met with 70 missionaries from Western Japan and explained the purpose of the Commission. After Nara, he will study problems in Kobe, then Kyoto and Tokyo, then to Honolulu to work on Commission report], 1932 May 3; To Clarence Barbour (president of Brown University). [is willing to be a life trustee of Brown], 1932 October 6; To Helen R. Bryan. [would not like to see summer school projects overdone], 1932 December 2; To Eugene Exman. [objects strenuously to editorial changes made to his chapter of the commission’s report], 1932 October 5; To Paul A. Hill. [impressions of Woodrow Wilson: while highly intellectual and honest, he would have been a better leader had he relied on other great statesmen for counsel and fellowship], 1932 December ?; To T. Iwahashi, Osaka, Japan. [Rufus M. Jones will write a short preface for his book], 1932 December 14; To John D. Rockefeller Jr. [is having a paper “The Background and Objectives of Foreign Missions in Modern Times” printed hoping to get criticisms prior to his departure with Laymen Foreign Missions Inquiry], 1932 January 6; To W.O. Carver. [wonders whether a series of lectures he is preparing would be appropriate for the Norton Lectures], 1932 October 14; To Rupert Stanley. [does not feel the position of president of a college should be applied for], 1932 November 9; To Alvin T. Embrey. [Quakers have always stood for complete separation of church and state], 1932 September 21