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Box 28

 Container

Contains 14 Results:

Copies of lectures, 1928-1933

 File — Box: 28
Scope and Contents

Printed copies of: "Can we achieve a spiritual religion?" by A. Bruce Curry (1930), "The Vale of Beavor Today" by Elbert Russell (1931), "The Dimension of the Eternal" by Herbert H. Farmer (1932), "The Eternal Spring" by John A. Hughes (1933). Two typed drafts, with corrections, of "The Restatement of Truth" by Augustus Taber Murray (1929). Clipping of "Seekers, then and now" by Rufus M. Jones (1928).

Dates: 1928-1933

Correspondence, 1915-1919

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Chiefly correspondence concerning Friends efforts to preserve the John Woolman House in Mt. Holly, N.J. (built by Woolman). Correspondents include Edward Cornell, Amelia Mott Gummere and others.

Dates: 1915-1919

Correspondence, 1926-1932

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Scope and Contents

Notes on contents: letters, brochures, etc. related to British Friends efforts to preserve the character of the land surrounding the Meeting House and burial place of William Penn. Correspondence discusses the possibilities of interesting American Friends in the venture, includes letters from J. Edward Hodgkin and others.

Dates: 1926-1932

Correspondence, 1912-1913

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Includes copies of statements and letters of support to be presented to Andrew Carnegie in 1912 asking for financial help, letters discussing proposed investment of Julius Rosenwald. Correspondents include Charles Banks, Isaiah T. Montgomery, Fred R. Moore ("New York Age") and others.

Dates: 1912-1913

Clippings, calendar, pamphlets, etc., 1911-1915

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Clippings, 1913 calendar "Farmers' Co­operative Mercantile Co." with portrait of Montgomery (OVERSIZE), prospectuses, postcard. Advertising Mound Bayou, Isaiah T Montgomery, and Booker T Washington.

Dates: 1911-1915

Correspondence, 1922-1929

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Mainly LHW inquiries into Dr. Peter M. Murray; Includes letters of Grace Abbott (U.S. Dept. of Labor) and James Hardy Dillard.

Dates: 1922-1929

Correspondence, 1930-1934

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LHW correspondence with Dr. Peter M. Murray and others; seeking to have Murray appointed to the White House Conference on Child Health and Protection (related challenges), Includes account of Dr. George S. Moore (Clinical Director of U.S. Veterans Hospital, Tuskegee, Alabama) telling of death of his son from neck injury and the refusal of white hospitals to admit and treat his son. Includes letters of Grace Abbott (U.S. Dept. of Labor), James Hardy Dillard.

Dates: 1930-1934

Correspondence, "claim against Robertson", 1923-1928

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Scope and Contents

Correspondence chiefly discusses legal matters.

Dates: 1923-1928

Correspondence, 1925

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Mainly correspondence about the problems arising when Albert De Silver, the original trustee of the fund, died.

Dates: 1925

Correspondence, 1926-1927

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Contains correspondence describing National Bail Fund financial troubles, chiefly correspondence between LHW and Kathryn Fenn; some correspondence about providing bail and receiving money back.

Dates: 1926-1927