Letters from Rufus M. Jones, 1921

To Herbert Hoover. [in reference to the suggestion that “red-minded” people were undermining the efforts of American Relief Administration through the American Friends Service Committee. Rufus M. Jones states that he has always been a friend to Hoover and his great work and that he has no affiliation or leanings toward "reds" or "pinks" and has not been used by them nor has the American Friends Service Committee been so used to injure Hoover], 1921 September 16; To James Norton. [stands by settlement made with Hoover even if it stops labor contribution], 1921 August ?; To [D.] Robert Yarnall. [would like Yarnall to head Russian relief program], 1921 August ?; To Violet Hodgkin. [does not like Evelyn Underhill’s book on mysticism, but likes Hodgkin’s comments on his Quaker history], 1921 January 24; To Violet Hodgkin. [feels he cannot drop out as chairman of American Friends Service Committee because he has so many contacts with people in Washington and New York that it would weaken the work to drop out; has written a new interpretation of mysticism which may be printed in "Atlantic Monthly"], 1921 April 17; To Asa Wing. [feels trustees of Bryn Mawr College are bound by the will of Joseph Taylor to look for a president sympathetic to Taylor’s aims requiring someone of great candle power], 1921 May 3