Box 37

Responses to proposed Joint Committee meeting, Jan. 28, 1910; correspondence re: Yearly Meetings appointing delegates/committees to attend a Peace Conference of all branches of Friends, July 15-­16, 1910 in NYC, expenses list for peace conference

Misc. items found at beginning of 1908-1913 files, undated

Typed and handwritten lists of names of those on peace committees, list of chairmen of committees, members of executive committee, Yearly Meetings replying to invitation of New York Yearly Meetings, etc.

Copy of resolutions, copy of letter sent to President regarding resolutions of Friends Peace Conference [July 1910] and request that a Friend be appointed to proposed Peace Commission; reply from President's Secretary.

Topics include protest against fortification of Panama Canal. Includes letters to Wood as Secretary of "Friends International Peace Association." Correspondents include Sarah C. Fox, William I. Hull, Arthur Perry, Jonathan K. Taylor, Benjamin F. Trueblood and others, including U.S. legislators.

Chiefly letters [of members of Executive Committee] to Wood responding to his letter calling for a meeting of representatives of all churches to plan action for peace and to influence the Senate to approve the arbitration treaties.

Issues discussed include protest against fortification of Panama Canal (1911), promoting ratification of arbitration treaties with Great Britain (1911); correspondence of Wood with various representatives of the Committee on Peace of the Associated American Yearly Meetings

Re: planning for Conference on Peace to be held in connection with the Chautauqua Conference of Friends at Chautauqua, N.Y., Aug. 29, 1912; corresp. with other Peace groups; corresp.; history of Friends Peace Association of Philadelphia (from Yarnall); Wood elected to Executive Committee of Peace Association of Friends in America (Oct. 1912); Directory of Members of New York Monthly Meeting 1912

Chiefly response to Wood letter of August 12, 1912, to members of the Executive Committee, calling for conference at Chautauqua, N.Y. (Joint Committee on Peace of all the Yearly Meetings). Some responses with suggestions to Wood's subjects for discussion. Correspondents include Arabella Carter, Elmer D. Gildersleeve, John F. Hauson [?], Jesse H. Holmes, William I. Hull, Arthur Perry, Robert E. Pretlow, Henry H. Swift and others.

Minutes of Peace Association of Friends in America; correspondence between Wood and other members of the group regarding times to meet, and the group's goals