Box 10

Scope and Contents This folder includes index cards used to record visits made by Gilbert Bowles and others to assess Japanese need for relief in Hawaii. Most of the cards have demographic information filled out on the front with description of the circumstances found during the visit on the back. Some of these visits were made to ask if the individual knew of others in need, and some contacts were to assess the need for relief of the person or family being visited. These cards were marked as active prior to...

Scope and Contents This folder includes index cards used to record visits made by Gilbert Bowles and others to assess Japanese need for relief in Hawaii. Most of the cards have demographic information filled out on the front with description of the circumstances found during the visit on the back. Some of these visits were made to ask if the individual knew of others in need, and some contacts were to assess the need for relief of the person or family being visited. These cards were marked as active prior to...

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Includes the visitation index cards and correspondence related to the case of Fred E. Brown, a Black man charged with sodomy. Most of the correspondence is between Brown and Gilbert Bowles during the process of appeal and sentencing.

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Includes correspondence between Gilbert Bowles, Virgil Mcdorman (a white man charged with forgery and conspiracy charges at the Oahu prison in Hawaii), members of Mcdorman's family, and state officials related to the prison and parole board. Much of the correspondence focuses on Mcdorman's parole and the Bowles frequently gives advice and encouragment on cultivating Christian character and morals.

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Includes visitation index cards, letters from Gilbert Bowles to Ernest E. Weiss, and one letter from Weiss to Bowles. The visitation cards describe case of Weiss as charged with alleged sodomy and the letters are written primarily after his release from prison.

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This folder contains a booklet, correspondence, and document on the subject of visitations to institutions (primarily jail). The document is titled, "This is Your Jail".

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This folder includes two copies of a report made by the Executive Board of the American Friends Service Committee titled "American-Russian Relations Some Constructive Considerations." (On the inside of one of the reports is a pasted in piece of paper which describes that the Pan Pacific Women's Association of Honolulu, Hawaii ordered 100 copies of this report.) This folder also includes a newspaper clipping from 1956 with an editorial titled "Need We Butter Up Russia's Red Overlords?"

Scope and Contents Includes: "Brief Historical Sketch of the Fellowship of Reconciliation in Japan" dated 1929 and signed by Gilbert Bowles; a summary of the activity of the Japanese Fellowship of Reconciliation, "The First Ten Years (1948-1958)," by Paul M. Sekiya; "The Japan Fellowship at Reconciliation in 1958" also by Sekiya; a letter from Paul M. Sekiya to Gilbert Bowles discussing the Fellowship and offering his condolences for the death of Minnie Bowles; document titled "Fellowship of Reconciliation...

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Includes correspondence, a few newsletters, and documents about the Lighthouse for the Blind in Osaka Japan. Focus especially on life story of founder Takeo Iwahashi.

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This folder includes reports and other documents on the history and standing (as of the 1920s and 1930s) of the movement towards peace in Japan as led by Christians and Quakers.