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Scope and Contents To Edward Farr. [on getting together with other graduates of Providence Friends School] (Several other letters relating events and people at the school follow, often mentioning his friend, Charles Jacob), 1881 July 3; To Edward Farr. [invites Farr to come hear him speak at Haverford College on the poet James Russell Lowell], 1884 April 8; To Edward Farr. [“I have a pretty exalted idea of love, but your idea is practical and mine is only a theory...”], 1884 September 28; To Edward Farr....

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To Uncle. [daily activities and having enough money to go for one term of school], 1875 March 1

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These transcriptions were created by Mary Hoxie Jones and are likely a first draft of those appended to the original letters.

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These excerpts were likely created by Mary Hoxie Jones and possibly intended for publication.

Scope and Contents Academy of Arts and Sciences (M. Hess). Los Angeles, [honorary degree of the Academy conferred on Rufus M. Jones], 1948 July 3; "American Friend" (Errol Elliott, editor). Richmond, Indiana, [has never read anything by Rufus M. Jones more moving than his most recent article for the "American Friend"], 1948 February 24; American Friends Fellowship Council (Hannah Stapler). [current transactions and personnel business of the Fellowship Council], 1948 April 23; American Friends Service Committee...

Scope and Contents Dominican Republic Settlement Association (Ruby F. Moses). New York, [Rufus M. Jones reelected a Director of the Association], 1948 April 6; Elkinton, J. Passmore. [gratitude for Rufus M. Jones’s life and work], 1948 January 14; Emerson, Elizabeth. Las Vegas, New Mexico, [on her book "The Good Crop" and a second one which uses a quote from Rufus M. Jones], 1948 January 16; Five Years Meeting (Errol Elliott). [invitation for Rufus M. Jones to speak on united Society of Friends], 1948 February...

Scope and Contents Leitle, Hans to Elizabeth Bartram Cadbury Jones. Vienna, [thanks for care package], 1948 May 6; Lutoslawski, W. Cracow, Poland, [an author of a philological work, he has no means to buy books since the war and requests books by Rufus M. Jones] (Rufus M. Jones sends 9 books). 5 additional letters, 1948 January 24; Macmillan Co. (R.L. De Wilton). [re publication of Rufus M. Jones’ smanuscript, “A Call to What is Vital”], 1948 January 21; Macy, Herman (Pastor, Denair (California) Friends...

Scope and Contents Radhakrishna, S. Oxford, [England]. [hopes for Rufus M. Jones’s help with a book on Christian mysticism], 1948 September 6; Rockefeller, David to Hugh Moore. carbon copy. [sends stock for Socony-Vacuum Oil for use by American Friends Service Committee], 1948 March 25; Rockefeller, John D. Jr. [hopes Rufus M. Jones will continue to serve on fund-raising committee for the United Negro College Fund], 1948 January 20; Rowntree, Arnold, 1948; Sayre, Francis B. (U.S. Mission to the U.N.). [before...