Letters from Mexico, 1920

Note: Letters written while a member of the Friends Mexico Mission, 8 to his wife Elizabeth, also to children and mothers (his and his wife's). As well, there are 4 snapshots of the group, a letter from Elizabeth to Francis and a letter from C.E. Roberts to Arthur Richie, as a member of the mission in 1931 and a printed annotated booklet Friends Mission in Mexico ... Richmond, IN, 1912.

Highlights include:

to Elizabeth. Tamaulipas, Mexico, [1920], no. 3. Discussing feasibility of installing a water or sewage system as part of the mission's effort to help the city.

to Elizabeth. Tamaulipas, Mexico, 1920 3/6. Believes Mexicans have an apparent inability to help themselves and lack newspapers, banks, good reading and appliances for sanitary living. There are 5 American missionaries at that station and how the schools and other things work

to Elizabeth. Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico, 1920 3/11. Inspecting the area for a site for a church.

to Elizabeth. Mexico, D.F., 1920 3/21. Has met 40 missionaries at the 20th annual gathering of all missionaries; visiting a ranch, El Rosario, with great description, and states it is "based upon practical slavery."