Series C: Executive Secretaries and Directors of FOR-USA

A.J. Muste's files: Sixteen boxes of his correspondence for 1940-1947 now form part of the Series A of this Document Group 13. These files were received in 1954 and were processed along with historical records, minutes and other core materials of the collection. In the original Checklist they were designated simply as Correspondence, 1940-1947, and not identified as the correspondence of Muste. In the present arrangement these files remain in the same context, with the proper identification added. The absence of Muste's FOR correspondence for 1948-1953 cannot be explained. Additional Muste material is found in the releases from the FOR national office. See Series A-4, Boxes 1-3 for those of the Muste years. There is a block of Muste materials from the 1950s in the files of the Church Peace Mission which Muste served as "missioner". See Section II, Series F, Boxes 1-3. Various Muste items turned up during the processing of the 1975 accessions of FOR records. They were grouped and filed as addenda in Series C. Some are probably be duplicates of items found elsewhere in DG 13 and DG 50 (Muste Papers). J.N. Sayre's files comprise a separate document group, DG 117, which serves as a parallel collection to DG 13 for the years 1915-1967. Also included are personal/family & ecclesiastical materials. Unprocessed files of John Swomley, Richard Deats, Doug Hostetter are provisionally placed in temporary boxes and located in Section IV.