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Box 1

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Contains 8 Results:

Correspondence, 1915-1916

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Scope and Contents Postcards from Newmarket, Ontario, Canada addressed to mother, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Linton, Francis H. Farqubar; handwritten and typewritten letters to mother and father, brother and sister, Frank and Mary written from Ontario. Correspondence adresses his teaching career at Pickering College, a Quaker prep School in Ontario, his desire to teach in Japan, his involvement with the Y.M.C.A. Letter to Rufus Jones about Quakerism 7/18/1916. Letters to family written in Hartford Connecticut,...
Dates: 1915-1916

Correspondence, Jan.-Apr. 1917

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Postcards from Hartford Theoloical Seminary, typed letters to family about studies and activities with classmates; YMCA work; new relationship/love; family ties.

Dates: Jan.-Apr. 1917

Correspondence, May-June 1917

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Handwritten letters to mother (he will go to England with Y.M.C.A.); personal letters to Lael Macy; letters to family about engagement to Lael; letters to family and Lael about trip abroad, to Mr. Macy about entering the warzone; daily letters to Lael throughout June; some letters to mother.

Dates: May-June 1917

Correspondence, July 1917

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Handwriten letters and post cards to Lael Macy (he writes her every day), mother and father, Mary, about arrival and stay at camp at Blackpool, England and duties/activities of the Y.M.C.A there; Letter from Lael to Mrs. Linton about receiving mail; letter to Kelly from classmate;

Dates: July 1917

Correspondence, August 1917

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Near-daily handwritten letters to Lael; letter to Kelly from sister Aug. 11; Letters to family; discuss Frank's enlisting, unreliable mail, daily realities of wartime England, faith, Kelly's transfer to canteen at Barrow camp.

Dates: August 1917

Correspondence, Oct-Nov 1917

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Lael Macy's letters to Tom Kelly--responding to his descriptions of his activities, discussing things at home and other family members. She writes him almost daily.

Dates: Oct-Nov 1917

Correspondence, Sept. 1917

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Letters to mother, discussing life in England, money; letters to Lael Macy about daily happenings, hopes for the future, travel to London, George Fox, views on Quakerism, working with prisoners. Letter from "Nicholson"

Dates: Sept. 1917

Correspondence, October 1917

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Letters to Mary, Lael--discuss Frank's situation and Mary's feelings, money issues, debating patriotism v. Christianity.

Dates: October 1917