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Mary Hoxie Jones: articles, essays, book chapters on travel, etc.

 File — Box: 81

Contents include:

Arranged by subject.

Travel

"Travels with a spinster: in London by M.H.J., with apologies to E.M. Delafield" typed draft with corrections [undated but ca. 1933-1934?; 121 pp., written about her experiences living in London at that time; also published version in "The Watling Resident" vol. 7, Jan., Feb., March, May, Aug., Oct. 1935 issues]

"Travels of a spinster: from London to Vienna, with apologies to E.M. Delafield" 2 typed and carbon drafts with corrections [undated but ca. 1934-1935?; 27 pp. and 28 pp., written about her experiences in London at that time]

["In London"] typed carbon draft [Feb. 7, 1934; 4 pp.] describes Mary Hoxie Jones's life in London [published The Friend, 3/1/1934]

"Chinese Quaker funeral" 3 typed drafts [undated but 1935; 9 pp., written about her experiences in China at that time]

"Summer in Cornwall" 3 typed drafts [undated but describes same incidents as in "Travels of a spinster" 1934; 37 pp., 36 pp., 36 pp.]

"Walking to and fro upon the earth" typed essay [not dated, but ca. 1953?] intended for publication in British journal? re: her experiences traveling, cultural and religious differences encountered

"A pagan pilgrimage" [to Greece] typed carbon draft [not dated] (a school paper?)

"A Quaker pilgrimage: September 11 - 14, 1929" typed carbon draft [undated, ca. 1929?] tells of trip with parents, Ernest Taylor and Christopher Rowntree to places significant to Quakerism.

Miscellaneous Essays

"Sidney Down: the biography of a cat by M.H.J. Born South China, Maine, June 1931; Died Haverford, Penna. November 26, 1934" 2 typed drafts [undated]

"More dealings with peddlers" typed and carbon drafts [with note of Mary Hoxie Jones "Sent to 'Atlantic Monthly' with some alterations - Jan. 11, 1939"]

Other

Notebook of handwritten drafts of essays by Mary Hoxie Jones.

Clippings of published articles, 1928-1984.

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