Box 2

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Letters from Nelson to Marion, including, but not limited to, the following:

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Letters from Nelson to Marion, including, but not limited to, the following:

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Letters from Nelson to Marion, including, but not limited to, the following:

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Letters from Nelson to Marion, including, but not limited to, the following:

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Daily life and activities at Rutgers University where teaching physics

Scope and Contents Daily life and activities at Rutgers; attends his first Quaker meeting in May and also the War Resisters Conference at Northfield camp, N.Y. Many colleges, including Swarthmore, had gone on record supporting the Allies, but he was hoping that Rutgers would remain neutral. NJ State Relief Director gave an order to refuse relief to single persons eligible to enlist in the military. Worked at a Summer Refugee Hostel sponsored by the AFSC on Sky Island, NY, for the summer and attended conference...

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Busy early in the year preparing for CO application, refugees; peace teams, Food-for-Europe; Jesse Holmes spoke at Meeting in March; in July went to Friends work camp in coalfields of Pursglove, W. Va. only to get notice to report to CO camp in Patapsco, Md., administered by the AFSC, working in park there.

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In February, Nelson was selected as a member of a CPS unit for relief work in Canton, China, so was transferred to CPS Camp, Lagro, Indiana. Advises brother Bill (married to Helen) about CPS service, comments on CPS camps. Expresses strong disapproval for internment of Japanese-Americans, hope that War would be over by end of year. In August he was transferred to Columbia University where a group of selected COs began training in International Administration, to prepare for post-war.

Scope and Contents General letter of April recaps his work at Columbia, found the seminar on Relief Administration most interesting. Early April he left the Columbia program to work with AFSC in Philadelphia preparing a new China Unit, was living at Pendle Hill. Bill Fuson joined a CPS unit at Big Flats. On June 30th, Congress cancelled education of COs in colleges and sending them outside of the U.S. for service work. In September he was transferred to the CPS camp at Big Flats, NY, working on a soil...

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In late March, Nelson transferred to CPS Camp #94 in Trenton, N.D., where the project was building an irrigation and co-operative organization. Nelson’s parents returned to Emporia, KS, from their mission in China. Expresses his disapproval of the proposed Universal Peacetime Military Conscription Act.