Letters to Anna Shipley Cox Brinton, A-Be, 1917-1964

Where available, ASCB's responses are included. Letter writers include: Elizabeth Abbott, Irwin Abram, Anne C.S. Allinson, Francis G. Allinson, Mrs. E. Page Allinson, American Association of University Women, American Friends Service Committee, American Nobel Anniversary Committee, M.B. Anderson, Yoshio Aoki, Charles S. Ball, George Barrus, Henry Bartlett, Albert and Edith Bean, F. Beck, Horace V. Beck, Margaret Beidler, Theodor Benfey, H.B. Bennett, Mary Woods Bennett, Ernest H. Bennis, Walter Bethel. Allinson, Francis G. Berkeley, California. 2 items [sends an elegy to her in Greek; personal news], 1917-1923; American Association of University Women (Mary Smith). Washington, D.C. [Anna Shipley Cox Brinton is life member], 1935 May 30; American Friends Service Committee (Wilbur K. Thomas). Philadelphia. 3 items [re fund-raising for the child feeding program in Germany], 1921; American Friends Service Committee (Rufus M. Jones). Haverford, Pennsylvania [have been unsuccessful in securing any money from Hoover drive for student feeding in Germany; hostility to German student feeding pronounced in the meeting of the European Council as well as by Hoover, 1921 March 1; American Friends Service Committee. Berlin [letter of thanks for her work with the Mission, signed by members, including Carolena Wood, Hertha Kraus, Gilbert MacMaster and many others], 1921 July 7; American Friends Service Committee (Clarence Pickett). 3 items [April 7, 1949, asks Anna Shipley Cox Brinton to serve on committee to determine long-range use of Davis House], 1941-1949; American Friends Service Committee (Ed and Jean Duckles). Mexico [report on the work of the Committee in Mexico for the year], 1964 October; American Friends Service Committee (Margaret E. Jones). Philadelphia, 2 items [recent repatriation of Japanese Americans from the Seagoville, Texas Internment Camp and Japanese Americans and Germans at Crystal City Internment Camp (Texas) who would want to hear Anna Shipley Cox Brinton speak], 1945; American Nobel Anniversary Committee [invitation to anniversary dinner], 1947; Ball, Charles S. Whittier, California [he did give prayer at Republican Convention, and offered "constructive" criticism of A.F.S.C.], 1960 August 15; Barrus, George. Rochester, New York [asks Brinton to lend her "vigor and understanding" to their Meeting where a new clerk is not more definite against war; also a farm house perhaps to turn over to Friends for multi-purpose uses; getting various societies interested in American Indians, 1949 February 13; Bennis, Ernest. Limerick, Ireland [remarks that Peter the Great, while in London, attended Friends Meeting at Deptford, later entrusting reclamation of the Shoosharry marshes to Quaker minister, Daniel Wheeler and continuing to respect Friends; later Russian emperors continued this tradition – Bennis gives multiple examples], 1952 February 4