Box 8

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The Foreword noted that the cookbook was a project of Friends Cooking School at the CPS camp in Powellville, Maryland.

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Brinton traveled in Michigan and New England. In June he attended a conference on Cooperatives in Wisconsin.

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Letters from Big Flats C.P.S. Camp. Brinton was critical of the AFSC's supervison of the camps, and he served on a committee to suggest better use of manpower.

Scope and Contents Brinton's notes on camp discussion on issues such as labor problems and expectations. The journal begins on August 26, 1942, his first week at Big Flats and contains his detailed assessments. Bayard Rustin, Barnard Walton, and others spoke at the Camp. Brinton presided over camp meetings. He noted efforts to release Japanese Americans from internment camps and that some prisoners had been sent to Chicago. Most of the volume is empty, and the final entry is May 10, 1943, in which he...

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Most entries were dated only by month. Brinton continued his criticism of the American Friends Service Committee and their administrative of Civilian Public Service and Selective Services under-utilization of able and willing volunteers. Brinton worked at the Pownal State School, Maine.

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Includes 1943 correspondence concerning his being reported AWOL when he attended Yearly Meeting without being granted an emergency furlough. 1945 letter from Ruth [Cadbury], Worcester, England, whom he had met at Woodbrooke.

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Typed carbons. Brinton studied archival training at the Library of Congress after the War and briefly worked for the Swarthmore College Peace Collection when his cousin Anna Brinton was Curator.

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Typed carbon of Brinton's letter in opposition to Vietnam War and Richard Nixon

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Travel notes from road trips