Mary Hoxie Jones: articles, essays, book chapters on Friends in China; Friends School; S. China, Me., etc. Also reviews, editorials, play, etc.
Contents include:
Arranged by subject.
Friends in China
"One hundred years of Anglo-American cooperation medical service in China" typed draft [not dated but ca. 1935]
Friends School, Haverford
[untitled] for "The Friends School, Haverford" typed carbon draft of essay [1984] labeled by Mary Hoxie Jones "For Miriam Brown's book 'The Friends School, Haverford'" ["The Friends School, Haverford, 1885-1985" by Miriam Jones Brown, 1985]
South China, Maine
"Draft material for South China - Jones History" includes: Mary Hoxie Jones's notes, correspondence with Mrs. C. N. Webber, "Punch" Grow, photocopy of Mary Hoxie Jones's chapter titled "The descendants of Thomas and Thankful Jones who settled in the town of China, Maine between 1804 and 1814 and their families who lived in China, China Neck, South China, Dirigo and Branch Mills by Mary Hoxie Jones, 7th generation from Thomas and Thankful Jones" [ca. 38 pp.], handwritten and typed working drafts, etc. [this is material from above labeled 1st of 2 envelopes]
"Draft material for South China - Jones History" includes: Mary Hoxie Jones's notes, correspondence (1971-1973) with Marion Thurlow, Mary Grow, Marguerite G. Jones re: writing town of China, Me.'s history, typed draft of chapter on Jones family titled "The descendants of Thomas and Thankful Jones who settled in the town of China, Maine between 1804 and 1814 and their families who lived in China, China Neck, South China, Dirigo and Branch Mills by Mary Hoxie Jones, 7th generation from Thomas and Thankful Jones" [ca. 47 pp.]; also material on China, Me. by others [this is material from above labeled 2nd of 2 envelopes]
[untitled] on South China, Me. typed draft of essay on life in South China, Me. [undated but ca. 1945?]
Spiritual in Nature
"Monotony" handwritten essay [not dated]
"Mysticism in Dante" typed draft [not dated] (a college paper?)
"O spring, I know thee" typed carbon draft [not dated]
"Unexpected glories" typed carbon draft [not dated] of essay on finding the unexpected joys in life (intended for a Friends newsletter?)
Book Reviews
"Henry T. Hodgkin, a memoir" by H. G. Wood (1937) typed carbon of a book review [published Friends Intelligencer 11/20/1937]
"Let this life speak, the legacy of Henry J. Cadbury by Margaret Hope Bacon" typed review of book [not dated but ca. 1987]
"Mr. Whittier, a biography, by Elizabeth Gray Vining" typed carbon of book review [not dated but ca. 1974]
"Six hundred ships by James David Andrews" typed carbon draft of review with note of Mary Hoxie Jones "March 1976 for Friends Journal (not yet published)"
Editorials
"Editorial" typed carbon draft [not dated] of editorial on war (mentions conflicts in China and Spain) intended for a Friends newsletter ?
"Editorial" typed carbon draft [not dated] intended audience Haverford Meeting?
Play
"The King's Missive" [1931] 2 typed drafts of a play, with annotations; a published version appears in The American Friend, Sept. 24, 1931
Poetry Related Essays
[untitled] typed essay [not dated] beginning "Freedom in poetry is dangerous as, indeed, is freedom in anything."
"The myths of Plato" by J. A. Stewart, 1905 typed essay [not dated] discusses book and effect of poetry and music on people's lives [a college essay?]
"The contribution of poetry to religion" typed essay [not dated] with note by "RSW" [a college paper?]
"Unpublished poems of Emily Dickinson" subtitled "Measuring the sun" 2 typed drafts of essay, not dated, with comments by her teacher [was this when Mary Hoxie Jones was in N. Y. City at Columbia for an English course in spring 1935-36?]
[untitled] handwritten draft [undated] tells of Mary Hoxie Jones's visit to home of Alice Meynell and meeting with Wilfrid Meynell
"George Henry Boker" typed carbon draft [not dated but article discusses book "Sonnets, a sequence on profane love by George Henry Boker," edited by Edw. S. Bradley (1929)] (a college paper?)
"Heaven lies about us" typed carbon draft [not dated] re: poetry
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