Letters from Rufus M. Jones, 1917

To Ruth Fry. [the American Red Cross has offered to use Quaker unit for reconstruction work -- asks for information on establishment of the English version of American Friends Service Committee], 1917; To ?. [on the structure of emergency unit at Haverford and request for funds to sustain it], 1917 April 9; To Emma Cadbury. [working on a study of Quaker opposition to war. Fellowship of Reconciliation brought into prominence the personality argument against war. George Fox and early Friends gave almost no reasons for their opposition to war, never basing it on the sacredness of personality, although that is implied], 1917 April 18; To Violet Hodgkin. [tells of establishment of emergency unit training at Haverford and selection of 100 young Friends for reconstruction work], 1917 July 26; Draft of a wire or memo. [re request to President Wilson to send workers into Russia], 1917 August 21; To Woodrow Wilson from Rufus M. Jones? or W.W. Comfort? (on latter’s stationery). [hopes he will support Lord Lansdowne’s appeal to restate war and peace aims of the Allies, that Kerensky’s failure at a restatement of war aims was the reason for his downfall], 1917 December 1