Box 62

Scope and Contents May 1923 letter from Frank Aydelotte (President of Swarthmore College from 1291-1940) to Governor Pinchot regarding steps to improve prison conditions (mentions Thomas Mott Osborne and National Society for Penal Information). 1921 Letters from Walter H Abell (Editor of the Friends’ Intelligencer journal) regarding article by Morris called “The Ballot and the Prison.” June 1923 letter from Frank Aydelotte to Morris proposing a collection devoted to prison control information in the Friends...

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Correspondence with F. Lovell Bixby, Field Secretary of the Osborne Association; Sanford Bates, first Director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons; James H.S. Bossard, Professor of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. Letter from Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia appointing Morris a member of the Philanthropic Committee for the term of 1914-1917.

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Correspondence with Frank Bartram of Kennett Square, member of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting—discussion of prison reform through committees.

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Correspondence with Howard Comfort of Haverford College; E.M. Cope Letters regarding involvement with National Probation Association. Letter from Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends about November 1923 meeting of Committee on Philanthropic Labor.

Scope and Contents Pierce C. Wetter, convicted under the Espionage Act of 1917 in Chicago 1918 (Offense: Seditious conspiracy, involvement in IWW): Letters, various articles, and “The Men I Left at Leavenworth” (of miscellaneous interest: article mentioning Wetter’s relation to President Franklin Pierce and birth in Madagascar) Correspondence with Susan and Floyd Beebe regarding appeal for Floyd Beebe’s commutation. Letters from/concerning Henry Evans and Samuel Ross (Western State Penitentiary...

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Letters from William Bankard Cox (1884-1942), secretary of the National Society of Penal Information. Various minutes of Board of Directors meetings for National Society of Penal Information

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November 10th 1932: National Society merges with Welfare League to form the Osborne Association. Feb 5th article describing Cox’s work in prison reform