Mary Hoxie Jones: articles, essays, book chapters on various Quakers, AFSC
Contents include:
Arranged alphabetically by subject.
Biographical Writings About Quakers
"Susan J. Dewees" memorial, 2 copies of typed carbon draft [June 1953; published The Friend, 7/23/1953]
[for MHJ's writings on Henry Joel Cadbury, see box 79]
"Eli and Sybil Jones" typed draft with numerous corrections [not dated]
"material re: Sybil Jones by MHJ for Dictionary of Notable Women" 1962 corresp. re: to above entry for "Notable American Woman, 1607-1950: a biographical dictionary"
"Lowell Coutant Jones: January 23, 1892 - July 2, 1903" [typed carbon draft of chapter on RMJ and his son intended for a book edited by J. Edgar Williams on parents dealing with death of children, ca. 1953; includes corresp. with Williams]
"Rufus Matthew Jones by Mary Hoxie Jones" typed carbon draft [preface dated 1953] with corrections and annotations, note of Mary Hoxie Jones on original envelope "RMJ Ms. put as a pamphlet by Friends Home Service London 1955" [note: this differs from draft in folder 6]
"Rufus Matthew Jones by Mary Hoxie Jones" typed carbon draft [preface dated 1953] with corrections and annotations, note of Mary Hoxie Jones on original envelope "Ms. of RMJ pamphlet" [note: this differs from draft in folder 5] Also includes: "Rufus M. Jones" 3 published reviews of above, printed as a pamphlet by Friends Home Service Committee, 1955 [clippings and "Science of thought review" for Sept. 1955]
"Rufus M. Jones (June 16, 1848 - June 16, 1958)" typed carbon draft with note of Mary Hoxie Jones "for Friends Journal" [published June 7, 1958]
[Story of four Quakers working for the AFSC in 1941] edited by Mary Hoxie Jones. ca. 1958
"Arthur Henry Swift" typed draft [not dated] [Swift (1866-1909) missionary in Jamaica]
"Elizabeth Gray Vining: the measure of a life" draft of chapter for book edited by Leonard Kenworthy ["Living in the Light: Some Quaker Pioneers of the 20th century" (1984)]; includes corresp. (1982-1983) with Kenworthy and Elizabeth Gray Vining.
"Elizabeth Biddle Yarnall: March 22, 1897 - March 25, 1975" typed carbon draft of memorial with note of Mary Hoxie Jones "Pendle Hill Board minute April 1975"
[untitled] typed carbon draft [incomplete? undated] re: Robert Yarnall and Pendle Hill
American Friends Service Committee
"The American Friends Service Committee": 3 typed and carbon drafts of a chapter for proposed volume by P. Henry Lotz; includes 2 letters (1939) from Lotz; Mary Hoxie Jones's research notes [this material labeled by Mary Hoxie Jones as "never used"]
"Philadelphia Yearly Meeting and American Friends Service Committee": 4 drafts (typed, carbon, handwritten and photocopied; all with annotations) of chapter on AFSC which appeared in "Friends in the Delaware Valley" (1981) with related correspondence (1980-1981).
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