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Letters between Rufus M. Jones, Elizabeth Bartram Cadbury Jones, and Mary Hoxie Jones, 1921

 File — Box: 33, Folder: 12

Scope and Contents

To Mary Hoxie Jones. [en route to Europe; hopes she will do well with exams, “the habit of winning out at whatever one goes in for is an import habit to form”], 1921 May 18; To Elizabeth Bartram Cadbury Jones. [has been reading "Anna Karenina" which he finds inspiring and its effect lasting], 1921 May 20; To Elizabeth Bartram Cadbury Jones. [having arrived in London, spoke at Westminster Meeting], 1921 May 22; To Elizabeth Bartram Cadbury Jones. [at Yearly Meeting], 1921 April 26; To Elizabeth Bartram Cadbury Jones. [has spent the day in Berlin visiting feeding centres], 1921 April 28; To Elizabeth Bartram Cadbury Jones. Frankfurt, [He and W.K. Thomas have been to Dresden visiting feeding centres, then to Chemnitz, Marienberg, Bohemia, Leibzig; he then went on to Marburg and saw Frau Happich and Frau Sippell], 1921 June 3; To Mary Hoxie Jones. [250,000 children being fed in Ruhr Valley; will be leaving for Poland], 1921 June 7; To Elizabeth Bartram Cadbury Jones. [describes mode of travel in Poland, conferred on the future of the mission, personnel and leadership must be decided; meeting to take place with Polish leaders to explain their religious position; a similar meeting will take place in Vienna; may perhaps go to Switzerland en route to Paris; has been an experience not to be missed], 1921 June 13; To Elizabeth Bartram Cadbury Jones. [he and Harrison Barrow have made speeches in Warsaw to Friends and president of the city; will be traveling to some of the most devastated areas of Poland], 1921 June 13; To Elizabeth Bartram Cadbury Jones. [visiting various missions in Poland which have given out rations to refugees, looked after refugee children, plowed their fields and helped them build their cottages, given medical exam; decision made to make Florence Barrow head of the mission. The number of personnel greatly reduced and work will cease January 1], 1921 June 18; To Mary Hoxie Jones. [has been in Vienna and Austria], 1921 June 21

Dates

  • Creation: 1921

Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open for research use.

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