Box 7

Correspondence and other related records for the shipment of used medical texts to the Librarian of University College in Ibadan, Nigeria--an initiative undertaken by the Friends Medical Society

This folder includes a wide array of correspondence, reports, and newsletters from the formation and first two years of the Friends Medical Society. There are letters and typed notices for the first meeting at Pendle Hill where the Society was established, a document with responses to a survey, and other correspondence between officers of the Society and inquirers seeking information or membership in the Society.

Two letters addressed to Dr. William Plummer, from L. Selim Glick, an organizer in the The Moslem American Citizens Union, on the subject of medicine

Letters between members of the Friends Medical Society and individuals at the National Association for Mental re: the establishment of the Society and possible information for the Society's work with conscientous objectors

Correspondence between Dr. J. Huston Westover and members of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in which Westover inquired about possible opportunities for service for doctors

Includes: reports on the subject of the doctors' draft, selective service and conscientous objectors, and the work of the Service Board to help conscientous objectors. Also includes numerous copies of The Reporter: For Conscience' Sake, a publication of on the draft.

Agendas, minutes, and pamphlets related to meetings of the New England regional Friends Medical Society in 1956 and 1961, held at Woolman Hill, Derfield, Massachusetts

Agendas, minutes, and pamphlets related to meeting of the New England regional Friends Medical Society in 1962. There are also miscellaneous documents related to topics on the agenda for the meeting

A set of letters re: a request for possible work opportunities in New Mexico

Handwritten drafts and final copies of a Friends Medical Society newsletter dated April 15, 1962. It is unclear where oil leases in New Mexico are mentioned.