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Elizabeth Marsh Jensen (1900-1999), daughter of Fred and Ivy Crites Marsh, was born in Nebraska. She graduated from Nebraska Central College (which merged in ca. 1963 with William Penn College), taught school in Nebraska, 1918-1922, and received a Master's in Economics from Haverford College in 1925. A Quaker, she was a member of Nebraska Yearly Meeting (see Nebraska Yearly Meeting folder dated La Grange, Wyoming, 1979). She served in Five Years Meeting of Friends (now Friends United Meeting), and as Young Friends Secretary from 1925 to 1930. She worked towards the establishment of an adult Quaker study center near Philadelphia, Pendle Hill, in 1930, and served on its Board until her marriage, continuing on committees thereafter. After her marriage to Daniel Jensen in 1935, they established the T-Box Ranch near Fort Morgan, Colorado, where their daughter Karen was born in 1936. Jensen worked for the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) in several capacities: as Home Service and Personnel Director, 1930-1935, and Personnel Director again in 1948. Jensen and her husband served in Mexico for two years, 1940-1941, working with Spanish Civil War refugees, and returned to Colorado in 1941. She worked for the AFSC in Richmond, Indiana, for four months to solicit gifts in kind (grain, potatoes, tomatoes, etc.) in 1946; and in Philadelphia, helping to find staff to work with Palestinian refugees on the Gaza Strip in the late 1940s. Jensen worked for the Des Moines office of AFSC (at least in 1958, possibly for longer). She served on the National AFSC and Des Moines AFSC Boards beginning in 1967. In 1949, the family moved west again, setting up the Double Slash J Ranch where many visitors found hospitality. She served as a delegate to Friends World Committee in 1967, and held many offices in local organizations. Jensen received an honorary doctorate from William Penn University. She often referred to herself as a "ranch wife."
Daniel Jensen (1893-1971) attended Wesleyan University and worked in several capacities for the YMCA. After 1929, he started in the ranching business. He also worked for AFSC for two years among Spanish refugees in Mexico, 1940-1941. He served as YMCA secretary in Omaha, Chicago, Monterey, and Mexico.
(Biographical information from registration forms for the Fourth Friends World Conference, 1967; In Memoriam for Daniel Jensen; EMJ obituary in Friends Journal, February, 2000; and other internal evidence)
Correspondence, diaries, articles, and speeches relating to the service work and interests of Elizabeth Marsh Jensen, as well as of Daniel Jensen, her husband.
Collection includes biographical information about Jensen (including her own summary description of her life written in 1987) and her work, beginning as a teacher, and especially her work for the American Friends Service Committee in the U.S. and Mexico, including her work with Spanish Civil War refugees. Materials document the Jensens' life and work on ranches in Colorado and Wyoming, and her political activism. Included is material on the period in 1928, which Jensen spent at the Quaker adult study center in England (Woodbrooke) and at the Quaker adult study center in the United States (Pendle Hill). The collection documents her work as representative to several Quaker organizations, such as Nebraska Yearly Meeting, Friends Committee on National Legislation, and her activities with the Quaker Young Friends group.
Correspondents include: Elizabeth Marsh Jensen, Daniel Jensen, Richard Cheney, Clifford Hansen, Gale McGee, Alan Simpson, Malcolm Wallop, Horace Alexander, Hans Buchinger, Emma Cadbury, Henry Cadbury, Colin Bell, Stephen G. Cary, Harold Chance, Wanneta Chance, Bronson Clark, Eleanor Stabler Clarke, Edwin Duckles, Garnet Guild, Lewis Hoskins, Clarence Pickett, J. Passmore Elkinton, Joan Mary Fry, Herbert Hadley, Alfred Jacob, Elmore Jackson, Margaret Jones, Levi Pennington, Lilly Pickett, Domingo Ricart, Heberto Sein, Suzanne Sein, Gilbert White, E. Raymond Wilson, Asia Bennett, Errol Elliott, Edward F. Snyder, John F. Rich, Jose Ignacio, Indalecio Prieto, Jose Puche, Alfonso Reyes, Herman Reissig, Jose Carner, Gutierre Tibon, Ricardo Viños, Ruth Ivor, Anna Brinton, Howard Brinton, Henry Hodgkin, and Jonathan Rhoads.
Materials in the collection are arranged in five series: Education and biographical information, Articles, addresses, and other writings, Correspondence, Subject files, and Diaries. Within each series, materials are arranged alphabetically or chronologically.
Gift of Elizabeth Marsh Jensen, 1987
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Nebraska grade school materials (ca. 1912) and Nebraska elementary school teaching items,including teaching certificate, class photo (1918-1922), letter to EMJ, 1986.
Essay "Development of the English Ballad"; 1924 Nebraska Central College yearbook; exam in Quaker History, Haverford College,1925; oratorical speech: "The most powerful force in theworld; thesis: "Friends and Temperance", for M.A., Haverford College, T. Wistar Brown Graduate School
AFSC, trip to Europe, Young Friends, marriage, etc., Also memorial leaflet with biographical information about Daniel Jensen.
Topics include: Quaker "spiritual giants", Mexico, World friendship, Friends, Christianity, AFSC, Military, Religious work, German crisis, Futility of war, Conscientious objectors' service, Peace training for leadership, Women; also 2 letters to EMJ on these topics and newsletters and other printed materials from which she took quotes for these topics.
On Young Friends matters (printed), from the period when Jensen was the Young Friends Secretary.
Notes for talks
Notes with titles (on Japanese, work with AFSC, Quakerism, World Community Day, peace, travels, prisons, Mexico, Korea, Palestine, war, social creeds, faith and practice, George Fox, Rufus Jones, Africa, Christianity) and locations of EMJ talks
Mary. The Bee Hive: [references to Young Friends, Yearly Meetings and many references to well-known Quakers]; Mary Elliott Edmondsen. Nurnberg to Buckeberg: [describes her trip from America, Meeting for Worship, travel through England and then Germany]; Olive Alexander: [Woodbrooke memories and reunion; Young Friends from 10 Yearly Meetings met and shortly will have a conference of which she is manager]; Ruth Outland Maris: [reports on field trips for AFSC as Home Service volunteer, including 87 personal interviews]; Margaret D. Webb; Wilhelm Hubben: [responds to his letter describing situation in Germany; enormous amount of activity of AFSC, including coal work]; M. Kiser, E. Linton, R. Outland & C. Cunningham: [in Germany Wilhelm Hubben's school dissolved, Hans Albrecht's salary cut, Corder Catchpool arrested, persecution against liberals severe, as it is against Jews; attaches a letter from Johannes Schwagen and wife with a proposal for German Friends to consider]; Olive Alexander: [Peace and Home Service Sections of AFSC have been experimenting with Quaker pacifist technique in conflict situations in social and economic areas. -- the peace caravaners have concentrated particularly on international relations -- and thinking of establish a Peace Work Camp]; John and Ruth; Daniel [Jensen] [Mexico]: [Sr. Prieto is said to be ready to save refugees ""abandoned"" by Dr. Puche's outfit, providing them with living quarters, health services, etc.; other daily events, 1940] and [rumors that left-wing Spaniards are mobilizing in France to be back into Spain, 1940]; Suzanne [Sein]; ""dear Friends"": [re Domingo Ricart; the Spanish migration to Mexico in the past two years was significant for Mexico, in cultural and spiritual terms]; Mary Hoxie [Jones]. Richmond, Indiana: [spends her time in meeting with Yearly or Quarterly Meeting groups]; Danny Kaye. La Grange, Wy: [criticizing one of his programs while appreciating him in general]
Duplicated Christmas letters giving family news of Elizabeth, Daniel and Karen written in the form of radio announcements; 1 EMJ Christmas card.
Carbon copies of typescript letters from Ft. Morgan, Co. about ranch life and thoughts on issues.
Carbon copies of typescript letters from Ft. Morgan, Co. about ranch life and thoughts on issues.
Carbon copies of typescript letters from Ft. Morgan, Co. about ranch life and thoughts on issues.
Correspondence with state and national elected officials revealing political concerns
Correspondence with state and national elected officials revealing political concerns
Correspondence with Adolph, Lydia; Aldrich, Dorothy; Alexander, Horace: [re Spanish refugees, Domingo Ricart; visit to India]; Alexander, Olive; American Red Cross (Bob Sigler); Archivard, Anne; Associated Executive Committee of Friends on Indian Affairs (Lela Mills): [program of Hominy Friends on behalf of Native Americans. Paul Pitts, a Chief of the Osage Nation and a Quaker is clerk of the Monthly Meeting in Kansas; in Wyandotte, pastors offer religious education classes for about 100 of the 178 Indian Government School children; hopes Jensens can visit the four centers of Oklahoma Native American work they are operating (2/3/61); Committee and pastors are cooperating]; Azim, Mohd Yasin. Student from Afghanistan.
Correspondence with Bacon, Margaret; Baily, John: [Baily informs Jensen she has been named to the Board of North Central Region of American Friends Service Committee] EMJ accepted; Baker, Marvel L: [in Turkey and later India as a consultant, apparently on agriculture or animal husbandry]; Barnett, Virginia; Beede, Juanita B; Beerits, Henry C.: [about both of their services on behalf of AFSC]; Beidler, Margaret (dean of women, Earlham College); Bell, Jim (District Administrator, Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands) & Bonnie: [requests assistance in getting some basic tools, including a wind charger]; Biehle, Martha (Dean of Students, Stephens College); Binford, Raymond; Blair, Roy; Bliss, George I; Bloedorn, Alvin.
Correspondence with Blunson, Annie; Booth, Nora (International Student Program, A.F.S.C.); Borden, Joseph L; Borton, Hugh; Bracey, Bertha; Branson, Julia; Breder, Golse; Bristol, James E: [working for and with AFSC support toward repeal of the draft as national organizer of the National Council to Repeal the Draft]; Brown, Elvira; Buchinger, Hans: [life in his small community of Witzenhausen and studies at Göttingen (1929); one of his professors is Mommsen, son of the famous historian; Germany's passive resistance to the occupation of the Ruhr district in 1923 and the devaluation of the Mark; all students now obliged to become members of an organization; after the war "marvelous recuperative power of our nation... from utter apathy caused by starvation and exhaustion to the heights of world-wide enterprise" (1930) +; anxious to join "peace caravans" (1931); farmers in Germany prefer Nazis and the von Papen party]; Burtt, Lucy M; Byerly Family.
Correspondence with C., Jan; Cadbury, Emma; Cadbury, Henry J; Cadbury, Jack and Tessa; Cadbury, Jeanette; Cadbury, Lydia C; Castro, Capt; Centre Quaker International (Louise?); Cepuda, R.C. Mexico; Clark, Rebecca Timbres; Clarke, Eleanor Stabler; Coleman, John R.; Collier, Dorothy: [AFSC work camps and politics]; Comfort, Forrest & Edith. Whittier, Cal.; Cook, Hattie; Cooperative Committee Against Lynching; Crosfield, George B; Cudworth, Helen; Curtis, E. Lewis B.; Cutler, Dorothy.
Correspondence with Daltabuit, Maria; Danilevsky, Nadia; Davis, Robert L; Dewees, Susan; Dickey, John B [pres. Dartmouth College; does not believe that pacifism can conquer evil]; Donoso, Santiago Martin to Daniel Jensen; Gutierrez; Dungan, Ralph A. (Special Assistant to the President): [quotes (Kennedy): "...if we can in every land and office look beyond our own shores and ambitions -- then surely the age will dawn in which the strong are just and weak secure and the peace preserved", a response to Jensen's approval of Kennedy's UN speech]; Durgin, Margaret; Duryee, Nancy.
Correspondence with E., Ada, Edwards, Earle; Edwards, Sara: [Chicago department stores beginning to change policy on hiring African Americans]; Elkinton, Howard W; Elkinton, J. Passmore and Anna; Elkinton, Katharine Mason; Emerson, Elizabeth; Emmons, James: [a student at Haverford College with experience building a community center for a Spanish-American community, he is interested in a job at the Jensen ranch]; Estal, H; Evans, Art[hur]; Evans, Dette.
Correspondence with Fairbrother, E.; Floyd, Vircher; Friends United Meeting (Herbert S. Huffman); Fry, Joan Mary.
Correspondence with Gafen, Rachelle; Galarza, Ernesto; Gargett, Eric; Gillie, Helen: [on being a Quaker when Quakerism is popular]; Godfrey, Marsie; Gusturson, Edna and Gus.
Correspondence with Hadley, Herbert; Hamm, Hans; Hansen, Matilda; Harris, Dorothy; Harvey, Tom; Haslam, Fred; Hathaway, Stanley K. (Gov., Wyoming); Hawkes, Kenneth; Heelas, Terence; Heinrich, Hertha: [thanks for care package; describes members of her family and that her husband was taken prisoner at the end of the war; they are Quakers]; Heusel, Lorton; Hiatt, Mary Lane; Hughes, John; Harrison, Hilda.
Correspondence with Harrison, Renata; Illowy, Paul: [Austrians all feel they are by nationality German, though many despise Hitler, and there is nothing like an Austrian nation; since the February revolt, nobody dares express views loudly if opposed to the government]; Ivor, Ruth.
Correspondence with Jacob, Alfred; Jackson, Elmore; Jehle, Herbert; Jennings, Agnes; Johanson, John P; Jollikoff, Mary; Jones, Christina: [crisis of mails in Palestine; situation has grown worse since announcement of Partition; some of the worst aspects of Nazism haunt the land; panic about British forces leaving upon whom barbarous acts have been done; Hagannah are shooting from a colony on the way to Jerusalem; Middle East has lost faith in America (1948)]; Jones, Margaret; Jones, Mary Hoxie.
Correspondence with Karsner, Kitty; Kelsey, A. Edward; Kenschler, Carl: [mentions Wall Street stock market crash; in addition to other work, has been on a committee to abolish compulsory military training in schools and description of her work at AFSC]; Kenworthy, Leonard S; King, Martin and Gretell; Kirby, Doris; Kobori, Takeshi and Masa; Krekler, Exelee; Kuchler, Wilhelm: [description of his travels in the Caribbean and South America; the politics of food distribution; revolution in Paraguay and call for war with Bolivia (Oct. 24)]; Lado Blamco, Francisco; Lands, R. to Daniel Jensen; Liesveld, Ried; Lirhu, Winifred; Lotspeich, Bill; Lutz, June.
Correspondence with Macy, A.J.; Maier, William; Marsh, Donald F.; Marsh, Fred A.; Marsh, Glenn; Marshall, Gertrude; Mather, Merlin and Eloise; Mattson, Ronald E.; Maynard, M.A.B; Methuselah, John; Miller, Carolyn; Mills, Lowell; Morris, Elliston; Myers, James.
Correspondence with Narris, Elizabeth Chace; NBC (Sally McGraw); National Committee for a Political Settlement in Vietnam/Negotiation Now (Clark Kerr); O'Kelly, K.H; Outland, Ruth; Oye, Kaz.
Correspondence with Painter, Lilan; Pardo, Ezequiel Lacedonia; Parker, Margaret R. Kaimosi Mission Station: [description of a wedding] Included are photos of newly-married couple, children and locusts]; Pendle Hill (Robert Lyon); Pennington, Levi T; Perera, Charles; Perez, Luis B; Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. Friends Peace Committee. (Mary Bye); Pickett, Lilly P; Precious?, Edith; Probst Family; Pulwer, Gertrud H; Purdy, Alexander; Pyles, Hamilton.
Correspondence with Quarton, Laurie; Raiford, Bill; Read, Charlotte B. Read; Reeves, Don; Reynolds, Inez; Rhoads, Grace; Ricart, Domingo; Rich, John F; Ritter, Patricia; Riggs, Ellen R; Robert, S.L: [current situation in India; Gandhi leading figure again in politics and having confidence of the people, and carrying on civil disobedience by breaking the Salt Law, agitation for independence; boycott of foreign cloth; marriage customs]; Rogers, C.J. "Doc" (Governor of Wyoming); Roscoe, Ted; Rumsey, Robert J; Russell, Tom J. Powell
Correspondence with Sabwa, Simeon L. Friends Hospital; Salzer, Tom; Satterfield, William C.; Schwager, Johannes; Sein, Suzanne and Heberto; Shore, Phil; Simms, Ruthanna; Strong, Esther P; Swartzendruber, Joe.
Correspondence with Tasche, Blanche; Taylor, Clare Cadbury; Taylor, Elizabeth; Taylor, Hannah; Taylor, James; Taylor, Joy; Tierney, Agnes; Tinker, Martha.
Correspondence with Trosky, Margaret; Totah, Eva; Trueblood, D. Elton; Trueblood, H. Ward; William Penn College commencement address "Quaker Values Critical for our Times"; Valentine, Edith; Vaughan, Beverly.
Correspondence with Wagner, Margaret C.; Walton, J. Barnard; Walton, Sadie; Ward, Doris and Walter; Waring, Bernard G; Watanabe, Akio and Nabuko; Webb, John R; Webb, Maurice; Welty, Carl; Weske, John; White, Anne; White, Gilbert: [has come to agree with government funding to assist in underdeveloped areas; mentions new graduate program at Haverford which will include women (June 7, 1951)]; Whitely, Paul; Wilbur, Ross T.
Correspondence with Williams, T.F.A, Willoughby, George and Lillian; Wilson, Raymond; Winter, Knud; Wyoming Public Land Users Coordinating Committee; Yamanouchi, Tayeko; Philippa; Garnet; John; Dottie; Knud; Willard & Christina; Jeanette; Margaret; Eleanor; Young, Mildred and Wilmer.
AFSC Correspondence with Andrews, Evelyn; Stephen G. Cary; A. Burns Chalmers; Harold Chance; Wanneta Chance; Bronson Clark; Eleanor Stabler Clarke; Lorraine Cleveland; Pam Coe: [re Seneca Nation and Congressional stalemate over reparations to them for the building of the Kinzua Dam on their reservation]; Wallace Collett; Marthalyn Dickson; Edwin Duckles, Rep. in Mexico.
AFSC Correspondence with Catharine Evans; Harold Evans; Garnet Guild; Lewis Hoskins; Kathleen Hanstein
AFSC Correspondence with Elizabeth Marsh Jensen; Howard McKinney; Matilda Michener; Florine Miller; Sumner Mills; Hugh Moore; Edward B. Peacock; Clarence Pickett; Bernadine Pieper; Rose, Ralph A.
AFSC Correspondence with Sanders, Ed; Louis Schneider; Richard Smith; Kale Williams; Jacques Wilmore: ["hot spots in race relations" where the AFSC conducts programs: Cicero, Ill. and Florida; in urban problems of Native Americans: Rapid City, S.D.]; Louise Wood; Howard Wriggins; Unknown Correspondents
EMJ served on the board of the Iowa, later North Central, regional office of AFSC. Primarily correspondence, mostly to EMJ, arranged alphabetically. Concerns EMJ's work for and issues of the regional office, particularly personnel issues; relationship of AFSC and Society of Friends; some confidential. Correspondents include: Garnet Guild, Cecil Hinshaw, Rupert Stanley, Wilmer Tjossem, Mike Yarrow. Also includes newsletters, memoranda, minutes, attenders list, copy of petition to Dwight D. Eisenhower on disarmament in 1957.
EMJ served on the board of the Iowa, later North Central, regional office of AFSC. Primarily correspondence, mostly to EMJ, arranged alphabetically. Concerns EMJ's work for and issues of the regional office, particularly personnel issues; relationship of AFSC and Society of Friends; some confidential. Correspondents include: Garnet Guild, Cecil Hinshaw, Rupert Stanley, Wilmer Tjossem, Mike Yarrow. Also includes newsletters, memoranda, minutes, attenders list, copy of petition to Dwight D. Eisenhower on disarmament in 1957.
Five letters to EMJ, including from Asia Bennett and Mel Zuck, 1983-6; concise histories of AFSC by Edwin Bronner and Stephen Cary presented at a Public Meeting with Haverford College Community, 1983; memoranda and reports on AFSC topics.
Includes letter from Frank Hunt in 1964 indicating that EMJ has been made a member of the Program Priorities Committee; recommendations for priorities in 1963 - 1967 and funding allotments; 2 meetings' minutes; 1966-67 committee members. Some material marked "confidential"
Gilbert White was chair of this committee, EMJ a committee member. Included are minutes, 1964-67 (probably not complete, some confidential), notes taken by EMJ, letters to EMJ, including from Dorothy Collier, Barrett Hollister and Gilbert White, and other, related AFSC information.
2 copies of Friends Committee on National Legislation documents concerning the cost of armaments.
Primarily letters to EMJ, 1959-68, as one of the members of the National Advisory Committee for the Center from Elizabeth Hendricks, Margaret Jones and John Yungblut in reference to purchase of a building which would become Quaker House; Heberto Sein's visit to Atlanta; newsletters and other information about Quaker House.
Copy of a presentation made by Henry Cadbury in court in January, 1949, on behalf of a young man being tried for civil disobedience in refusing to fight. 1 item
Letters and memos to EMJ from Colin Bell, Cecil Evans, Barrett Hollister, George Loft and Mike Yarrow re an AFSC mission to Cuba; minutes of an ad hoc committee on Cuba, and a statement of purpose of such a mission. In 1941 EMJ was asked by AFSC to visit Cuba and report on conditions, especially among Spaniards there. Daniel Jensen had to have surgery and could not make the journey from Mexico to the Colorado ranch alone, so she did not go to Cuba.
Letters to EMJ in 1954 re impending visit to Europe, and in 1958, EMJ's refusal to take oath against Communism in order to obtain passports resulted in a letter from Senator Joseph O'Mahoney citing Paul Robeson as an example of denial of passport. Daniel, Elizabeth, and Karen spent the summer of 1954 in England and on the continent. Daniel, Elizabeth, Karen, and Fred spent the summer of 1958 in Europe. Stories are told briefly in EMJ diaries.
EMJ was a representative of Nebraska Yearly Meeting to Five Years Meeting. Letters to EMJ from Errol Elliott, Herbert Huffman, Jack Kirk and others on topics such as Quaker Life, projects which EMJ supported financially and other topics, 1953-1985, 23 items; unattributed "A Suggestion for Relationship to other Yearly Meetings of Friends and to other Religious Groups" (typescript, 2 p.); program information for Five Years Meeting, 1935 and 1955 (typescript); copies of information produced by Five Years Meeting and Friends United Meeting.
Friendship House (Freundschaftsheim) in Germany was established to study issues of peace, world order and human cooperation. Three letters to EMJ, 1958-61, who supported FH; newsletters of FH, 1952-57 and of Bruderhof, 1953, a friendship community in Paraguay; informational material, including from Grace Rhoads.
Correspondence, including EMJ to Sen. Milward Simpson, on the need to compensate the Seneca Nation for land confiscated from them; also matters relating to the Associated Executive Committee of Friends on Indian Affairs. 6 items. Also some printed material re AECIA, newsletters (2 from Indian Reservations) and clippings.
Primarily personal letters from Ivor, an artist, to EMJ, including a report of anti-Semitism at the University of Colorado in 1949 and EMJ's letter in support of Ivor. Some copies of clippings on/by Ivor.
Letters to EMJ, including (1942) from a Japanese evacuee describing the situation in an incarceration camp and from Margaret Jones (1950) on Friends in Japan; also a 1942 report by Homer and Edna Morris on the Japanese Evacuation and Friends' work.
Correspondence, including EMJ letter to Major Walsh, 10/23/83, about her outrage concerning proposed MX, and other letters on this topic, 1983.
Letters to EMJ about the status of her alma mater, the merger of N.C.C. with William Penn College, fundraising and other issues, including from William Penn College president, John Wagoner, informing EMJ that she would receive an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from them in 1984; correspondents also include earlier William Penn College president, Gus Turbeville.
Letters to EMJ and Daniel Jensen from Esther Harlan, Sister Paul Hirschboeck, Agnes Hole and Ralph Templin on Quaker and other peace initiatives; also "The Report of the Peace Board of the Five Years Meeting of Friends, 1945-1950".
EMJ was an assistant secretary at Pendle Hill in the 1930s and the bulk of the correspondence is from this period. Correspondence concerns applications/admissions process, development, Domingo Ricart, rehabilitation project in Penna. coal field areas (camps). Correspondents include: Anna and Howard Brinton, Henry T. Hodgkin, Joseph E. Platt, Ed Sanders, Dan Wilson; also some scattered minutes, by-laws [1941?] and other miscellaneous.
Issues relating to fund raising for the new center at 15th and Cherry Streets, including letters to EMJ, minutes, committee members and a final report relating to the fund-raising appeal. Letter writers include Hugh Middleton, Jonathan Rhoads and Allen White.
Copy of Clarence Pickett's typed journal kept from Sept. to Oct., 1938 during a trip to Nazi Germany and other European countries; also copy of nos. 1-15 of Pickett's typed journal kept during a trip to various countries, ca. 1950s; memorial meeting at Race Street Meeting, March, 1965 for Clarence Pickett
Letters, some copies, of Reeves to his Aunt Elizabeth (Marsh Jensen) from the midwest and about missionary work in the Philippines, his desire to be a conscientious objector and problems dealing with attitudes towards C. O.s
Invitations and programs sent by EMJ to Friends to participate in a Friends and worship group, responses from invitees, mailing list, possibly a presentation by EMJ at the meeting and miscellaneous
[group of Friends in Mexico City think it time to establish a Monthly Meeting; U.N. organizing, establishing a Trustee Council (1946); text of letter of Pres. Jimmy Carter re appeal for Colegio Cesar Chavez]
Letters, mostly copies, to EMJ in 1985-6, including from chair Anne T. Bronner; a history of WQF on its 50th anniversary in 1986; reports, newsletters, advertising.
A few samples of missives received from Woodbrooke and friends made there
"Some Fundamentals", a talk given by Carl Health at Young Friends Conference, Brussels, 1928; clippings of printed material about Young Friends' conferences written by or about Elizabeth Marsh. Primarily printed material about Young Friends Conferences in 1928.
Primarily wedding, but also other invitations
Notes on bound bibliography: Programs given by EMJ at Intercommunity Music Club 1954-1968 (Bear Creek)
For a paper documenting (to Postmaster General Gronouski, November 26, 19630 please see paper by Henry Haskell in collection 811-1994.
Letters and short printed history of Farmers Union, including information that EMJ and Daniel Jensen were on Farmers Union leadership team to Colombia in 1963.
For a paper on the role of Wyoming ranch women during the 1950's and 60's: "How my document, a press release about the Goshen County Belles, symbolizes the position of ranch women in Wyoming in the 1950's and 1960's" by Chad D. Poist written for History 361, see 811, 1992.
EMJ served on the FCNL General Committee. Correspondence, primarily letters to EMJ and DJ, 1944-1986, including from: Milton Hadley, Edward F. Snyder, E. Raymond Wilson on such topics as the SALT II Treaty, militarism, EMJ's service on the Committee; a statement of legislative policy for FCNL, 1981; preparatory materials and minutes of the 1985 annual meeting and a statement by Edward Snyder on behalf of AFSC and FCNL before the Senate Judiciary Committee, 1979; FCNL Congress, 1982.
Primarily letters to EMJ regarding her interest in having a part-time apartment at this retirement community in Greensboro, N.C., including a brochure on the community.
EMJ was a representative to FWCC from Nebraska Yearly Meeting in 1986. Minutes and members of several committees in this period; outline for a history of FWCC by Herbert Hadley marked "complete, but imperfect"; "Our trip to the States from Mollie & Miguel Figuerola"; and miscellaneous other information.
Except for a list of 1986 committee members and representatives to FWCC (EMJ was on the Finance Committee), correspondence, almost exclusively letters to EMJ, including from Edwin and Anne Bronner, correspondence with FWCC Executive Secretary, Gordon M. Browne, Herbert Hadley, Robert Rumsey, James Walker and others, often relating to personnel matters and visits by well-known Friends.
Includes letters from Barry & Kay Hollister, David Scull, Hannah Stapler; job description, some minutes and other materials used in the search for a new Executive Secretary, Section of the Americas. This person would replace Herbert Hadley. EMJ was a member of the committee.
Report of Joseph Coble on his summer work at the Mission to Wapameepto's (Big Jim's) band of Absentee Shawnees in Oklahoma, May-August, 1935 and the response of his supervisor, Ruthanna Simms (in typescript); duplicated nos. of serials: "The American Work Camp", 1935, "Camp Robin", 1936, "Friends Service Camper", 1935, "Home Service Robin", 1933-34. EMJ wrote for the latter.
Jewish immigrants to Mexico and particular points of interest to AFSC: settlement of German and Spanish refugees and establishing good will between Mexico and the U.S.; new organization, Junta de Auxilio a Refugiados Espanoles, claiming control over Spanish gold in Mexico; exploitation of forest resources by the Spanish Colony
A rumor that some families are to be returned at once to Spain, that there are no detention camps now, except for those holding known communists; overall report of activities and daily living in Mexico and conditions of living of refugees; issue of Spanish students into American schools; French ship with refugees allowed to land in Mexico; Spanish refugees establish schools in Mexico, including La Academia Hispano-Mexicana and El Instituto Luis Vives
Ca. 40 items relating to Spanish refugees waiting to be brought to Mexico and in Mexico, with references to detention of Spaniards in camps in France
Prieto claims two ships ready to sail from France with refugees if British will give permission for ships to return with foodstuffs; collapse of Rescue Ship Mission; ""all Mexican things depend on politics"" and would like to come to U.S.; Henry Cadbury on Spanish Ship Committee which could bring in Communists and International Brigadists
Suggestions for future AFSC work in Mexico include working among and serving refugees, but also as conciliating agents; importance of allowing Mexicans to play a role in the work; Seins have established Casa Sein for use by Friends while visiting Mexico and Mexican Friends Service Comm. and ask Jensens to serve as directors.
Re AFSC work in Mexico, Jensens' major concern was for the reuniting of divided Spanish families; lives of Spanish immigrants in Mexico; disagreement with Roosevelt's "undemocratic" compulsory peace-time military drill; numbers of Spaniards in Mexico increased to 11,000; many other details
Daniel and Elizabeth Marsh Jensen correspondence concerning Spanish refugees in Mexico whose families remained in Spain. In Spanish.
One letter signed by Ricart; mostly photocopies of Ricart's articles on Friends and Hispanics; also offprint of his "Spanish Religious Writings Read by Early Friends" from Quaker History, v. 66, 1977, p. 98, including information on Juan de Valdes (ca. 1500-1541)).