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Scope and Contents To Mary Hoxie Jones. [spoke at Westtown; has been reading students’ theses and recognizes many of his ideas, hopes to get some writing done on heretics; going to Toronto to give sermon], 1924 January 17; To Mary Hoxie Jones. [giving lectures at Oberlin], 1924 February 12; To Mary Hoxie Jones. [arrives to teach at Vassar], 1924 February 16; To Mary Hoxie Jones. [going to Yale to give lectures], 1924 April 27; To Mary Hoxie Jones. [addressed Westtown alumni], 1924 May 25; To Mary Hoxie Jones....

Scope and Contents To China Monthly Meeting. [overview of his work and the work of American Friends Service Committee], 1924 January 8; To Henry [T. Brown]. [had a General Committee meeting of American Friends Service Committee to discuss work in Germany--insufficient funds, use of cod liver oil for tuberculosis cases, work of Henry T. Brown and William Eves; help Westminster Meeting to be more hospitable], 1924 January 25; To Edward Farr. [will give commencement address at Oak Grove], 1924 May 27; To Harry...

Scope and Contents To Mary Hoxie Jones. [Rufus M. Jones will speak at Ogontz School and spoke at Lansdowne re American Friends Service Committee], 1925 January 11; To Mary Hoxie Jones. [element of Rufus M. Jones’s searching nature], 1925 February 8; To Mary Hoxie Jones. [Rufus M. Jones to speak at Community Centre House, Moorestown], 1925 February 22; To Mary Hoxie Jones. [Elizabeth Bartram Cadbury Jones creating index for his book on heretics; will give Founders Lecture at Bryn Mawr College], 1925 March 1; To...

Scope and Contents American Friends Service Committee. [epistle to be carried by Lloyd Balderston as representative of American Friends Service Committee to China on mission of good will], 1925; To friend. [letter sent to 50 people soliciting funds toward a space in new headquarters of Society of Friends in London] List appended, 1925; To friend. [the direction of American Friends Service Committee has changed from relief and reconstruction and directing work for c.o.’s to prevention of war and better...

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To Wilbur K. Thomas and Margaret E. Jones. approximately 20 items. [reports on progress and impressions of his trip through Japan, China, Philippines, Ceylon, India, Jerusalem, Ramallah, Egypt, and on the uses of science and religion and building a new civilization; Oct. 16, 1926: “with all the upsets, military battles, floods, bandits, strikes and other obstacles, I have never missed an engagement or failed to be at an appointed meeting”], 1926 July 2

Scope and Contents To Mary Hoxie Jones. [lectured at Wellesley and at Philips Brooks’ House; meaning of religion], 1926 April 18; To Elizabeth Bartram Cadbury Jones. [addressed Virginia Theological Seminary], 1926 April 21; To Mary Hoxie Jones. [had an “interesting” meeting with President Coolidge], 1926 May 30; To Elizabeth Bartram Cadbury Jones. As from Shantung Christian University, Tsinan, [has given his first talk successfully], 1926 August 5; To Elizabeth Bartram Cadbury Jones. Tsinan, China, [finds the...

Scope and Contents To Siddons Harper. [cannot find Harper’s Plato thesis, but is willing to judge it from Harper’s notes]. [In 1984, Harper, in a note, commented this response added to his admiration of Rufus M. Jones], circa 1926; To Mahatma Gandhi. [would like to see him when in India], 1926 April 20; To Bertha Farr. [tells of beginning of their journey for Laymens Foreign Missions Inquiry], 1926 July 2; To Margaret Jones. [describes visit to Gandhi and his ashram, work and crops, school -- all toward...

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To Elizabeth Bartram Cadbury Jones. [Herbert Hoover was on the same train as Rufus M. Jones, but was busy playing cards], 1927 April 22

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To Charles F. Jenkins. [“Our real mission as a Society of Friends in the world today is to help form the right spirit and the right atmosphere for the bringing of a better civilization for which we long”. Rufus M. Jones would like to call members of the Social Union to a cultivation and practice of this spirit], 1927 June 14

Scope and Contents To Walter C. Woodward. [in response to question re Rufus M. Jones’s opinion of Herbert Hoover as president, feels he has the qualifications and recommends him heartily], 1928 April 27; To George Wolkins. [under the will of Eli Jepson, money was left for the care of Pond (Maine) Monthly Meeting House and graveyard. As the sum has grown, China Monthly Meeting would like to use surplus for education], 1928 August 29; To Edward Evans. Haverford College, [Committee nominates Morris E. Leeds as...