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Scope and Contents Two letters to James and Anne Forsythe at the Friends' Student Hostel in Geneva. The first is from J. Passmore Elkinton (Philadelphia), with references to her brother in Berlin and Quakers traveling "to the Reich."The second is, from Lilly P. Pickett (Wallingford, Pa.), contains congraulations on the birth of the Forsythe's daughter and references to Race Street Yearly Meeting and the American Friends Service Committee, Gift of Anne Briggs (acc....

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Photocopy of telegram sent to President Hoover commending him for his efforts to reduce the Navy and taxes. Original in the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library, West Branch, Iowa.

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"Member of Society of Friends Thinks Dr. Holmes Production Shows Clouded Spiritual Vision."Gift of Henry J. Cadbury, 1964

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Regarding the Downingtown Industrial School and mention of an article by Jesse Holmes concerning the "Negro problem" in the Swarthmorean. Enclosure: Note from J.H.N. Warring, principal of the Downingtown Industrial School to Mrs. Charles Paxson, undated. Gift of Eleanor Keighton, 1972

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To Samuel Price Wetherill, Jr.

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Concerning Stavanger Monthly Meeting, Iowa. Includes: Ms. copy of letter from B.L. Wick to [Lizzie Olson], 3mo 14 1931; clipping from The Friend, 2mo 17 1931, regarding Stavanger Meeting and including verse by Lizzie Olson. Also includes A.L.S. typescript Walter L. Moore to Lizzie Olson, 1-15-1931, concerning his revisions to her poem. Gift of Helen Downing, 1963

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Setting up an appointment. Gift of Barbara S. Jacobson, from the estate of Harry Sprogell, 1973

Scope and Contents Note: "The Edith to whom the letter is addressed was my mother, Edith J. Steel nee Edith Rawson Janes, Swarthmore 1909. Edward and Robert and Helen were her husband and children. My family had moved to Bremerton, Washington, in about 1925 and had become friends with Mr. Paschall, who lived near Bremerton, and with his daughter, Patience, and his daughter and son-in-law, Mary and Bill Remy. This friendship was particularly close because there weren’t many other liberal-minded people in that...

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Expressing President Hoover’s enjoyment of Mary Paxson: her book, 1880-1884, Garden City, 1931. Gift of Mary W. Dickinson, 1975

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Includes mention Yearly Meeting at Brummana [Syria] and visits with Friends throughout the Middle East and parts of Europe. 2 enclosures: 1. "Trip to Memel and Kowno," Richard L. Cary, Berlin, 5-12-1932. 2 "Effie D. McAfee’s report," [1932], includes travel and Yearly Meeting at Brummana. Gift of E. Raymond Wislon, 1974