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N-Z, 1944

 File — Box: 27, Folder: 8

Scope and Contents

NBC (Max Jordan). [asks Rufus M. Jones to speak on radio program on pioneering America], 1944 April 21; National Committee on Conscientious Objectors (Roger Baldwin). [re a proposal to change system dealing with conscientious objectors to be presented to the president and hope that Rufus M. Jones would accompany group carrying proposal], 1944 February 19; National Committee on Conscientious Objectors (Randolph Phillips). [encloses copy of a letter by FDR responding to suggestions by Rufus M. Jones, Ernest Angell and W. Appleton Lawrence re treatment of conscientious objectors. Phillips interprets the letter to mean that further suggestions may yet be made], 1944 May 31; Philadelphia Year Meeting (Richmond Miller), 1944; (Pickett, Clarence) Henry J. Morgenthau. [requests Rufus M. Jones to urge Clarence Pickett to take post with War Refugee Board], 1944 February 14; Pratt, Henry. [gentle letter saying he will probably never return to Haverford College], 1944 December 16; Rockefeller, Abby Aldrich. L.S, 1944; Roosevelt, Franklin D. to J.G. Magee. [while he is very much concerned about feeding populations, especially children of occupied countries, he does not want supplies to aid enemy], 1944 January 10; Rowntree, Arnold. Thornton LeDale, [personal and war news], 1944 June ?; Rush, N. Orwin. [has written foreword to bibliography of Rufus M. Jones’s works], 1944 May 26; Soltan, Roger, 1944; South African Institute of Race Relations (J.D. Rheinallt Jones), 1944; Sperry, Willard. [still refreshed by Rufus M. Jones’s Ingersoll Lecture at Harvard Divinity School which they would like to publish], 1944 January 14; Sperry, Willard. [grateful for Rufus M. Jones’s service at Harvard and saddened that Jones had decided to make it his last official visit], 1944 June 2; Steere, Douglas. Mackenaw City, Mich., [letter of appreciation of a meeting of a group including Jones family at Ocean Park; re American Friends Service Committee camp in Maine and women’s Relief and Reconstruction projects], 1944; Stimson, Henry L, 1944; Swarthmore Press Ltd. London, [re reprinting of selections of Rufus M. Jones’s "Stories of Hebrew Heroes"], 1944 April 18; Taylor, C. Marshall. [has seen letters of Whittier at Harvard and Yale and evidence that Whittier knew Dr. Bushnell], 1944 October 28; Taylor, Ernest E. New York, England, [does not feel George Newman will be able to continue editing the "Friends Quarterly Examiner"], 1944 June 23; Taylor, Ernest E. [thanks for Rufus M. Jones’s contribution about William Penn; wonders if Rufus M. Jones would like to have new selections published much like “The Abundant Life” of a previous time], 1944 October 24; Thompson, Joseph. New York, [grateful for Rufus M. Jones’s service at Town Hall Temple], 1944 March 6; Wilson, Roger. [problems with English Quakerism and encloses letter about Quakerism and Quakerism in the non-Anglo-Saxon world], 1944 July 2; Yarnall, D. Robert, 1944

Dates

  • Creation: 1944

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