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Gilbert and Minnie Pickett Bowles Family papers
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Gilbert Bowles (1869-1960), the son of Quakers Ephraim and Elizabeth Epperson Bowles received his B.A. from Penn College in 1898 and his M.A. in 1899/1900. He received a Litt.D. in 1938, an LL.D. from Whittier College in 1917 and another from Haverford College in 1938. He married Minnie M. Pickett in 1898. He arrived in Tokyo as a Quaker missionary in 1901 and spent 40 years there. He helped restructure Friends Meetings in Japan after the 1890s war with China. A teacher, leader, and administrator of Tokyo Friends Girls School, he was chairman of the trustees Friends' Girls' School, 1901-41. He helped lay the foundation of the present Tokyo Friends Center program. He strongly believed that international problems could be solved through concerted peaceful efforts, and in the case of Japan, would provide solutions to its international problems. He was a founder of the Japan Peace Society in 1906, which he served as corresponding secretary and director. In 1924, the Japan Peace Society transferred its work to the League of Nations Association of Japan and Bowles served as the Executive Secretary of its Foreign Section. Bowles promoted peace through the Japan branch of the Fellowship of Reconciliation. He strove to reduce Japan's differences with Korea, China, and the U.S. He opposed the U.S. Immigration Act of 1924, suggesting it would strengthen Japan's military cult.
In 1941, Gilbert and Minnie Bowles removed to Hawaii where they worked with Japanese and Japanese-Americans who suffered from U.S. forced removal and incarceration policies. After the war, Bowles participated in various relief and rehabilitation projects in Japan, including work with the Licensed Agencies for Relief in Asia (LARA). Gilbert Bowles was the author of Jamaica and Friends Missions, 1899; and The Peace Movement in Japan.
Minnie Pickett Bowles (1868-1958) arrived to teach in Japan in 1893. During her long career at the Friends Girls School in Tokyo, Japan, Minnie Bowles taught Bible classes to more than 2,000 young men. Minnie also taught classes in cooking and sewing.
Gordon T. Bowles (1904-1991) was the son of Gilbert and Minnie Pickett Bowles. He married Jane Thomas in 1932. He received his B.A. from Earlham College, 1925 and Ph.D. from Harvard University, 1935. Bowles played an important role as a liaison officer representing the Department of State and an advisor to the Educational Mission to Japan. At Harvard, he was a research associate in the Division of Anthropology, 1935-38; then assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Hawaii, 1938-42. He served with the U.S. Foreign Economic Administration, Washington, D.C., 1942-44 and with the U.S. Department of State, Washington, D.C., 1944-47 then with Associated Research Councils, Conference Board, Washington, D.C., 1947-51. He was a visiting professor at the University of Tokyo, 1951-58; and then at Columbia University, New York, NY, 1959-60. He was professor of anthropology at Syracuse University, 1961--. As a Field researcher, he worked in West China and East Tibet, 1930-32, and in the Himalayas and North Burma, 1935-37. Bowles was author of New Types of Old White Americans (at Harvard and Eastern Women's Colleges), Harvard University Press, 1932; (Editor with Earl Wendel Count) Fact and Theory in Social Science, Syracuse University Press, 1964; and The People of Asia, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, Scribner, 1977.
Jane T. Bowles helped to open the Hawaii Branch of the American Friends Service Committee, a group which supported those in need in Japan and Hawaii, especially during the war years.
Herbert E. Bowles, a physician, assisted with medical and social service, chiefly in Hawaii.
(Information from internal evidence; Contemporary Authors (online); Biographical Dictionary of Modern Peace Leaders (Greenwood Press, 1984).
The papers document the lives Quakers Gilbert Bowles (1869-1960) and Minnie Picket Bowles (1868-1958), missionaries and ministers in Asia and Hawaii for over 60 years, from 1896-1960. The majority of the collection originates during their life in Honolulu, where they moved in 1941 from Tokyo. There is an approximate split in which the first half of the collection regards Gilbert Bowles's "professional" work as part of Licensed Agencies for Relief in Asia (LARA), American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) Hawaii Branch, and the Honolulu Monthly Meeting and his work visiting Japanese and Japanese-Americans in Hawaii during World War II. The second half of the collection includes family letters from Gilbert and Minnie, daily memorandum diaries of Gilbert, guest books, and memorials and tributes re: Gilbert's death. Materials are also included from Gordon T. Bowles and Herbert E. Bowles, sons of Gilbert and Minnie. Topics of broader interest include the forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans by the United States government during World War II, Quaker mission work in Japan, and relief efforts after World War II.
Gift of Gordon and Jane Bowles and Helen Bowles Nicholson et al., 1989
Original processing information unknown. Reboxed and finding aid revised by Lily Sweeney, May 2021.
People
- Bowles, Gilbert, 1869-1960
- Bowles, Gordon Townsend
- Bowles, Herbert E.
- Bowles, Jane T.
- Bowles, Minnie, 1868-1958
Organization
- American Friends Service Committee
- Friends Girls School (Tokyo, Japan)
- Honolulu Friends Meeting
- Japan Peace Society
- Japan Yearly Meeting (Society of Friends)
- Licensed Agencies for Relief in Asia
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Japan Committee
- Friends' Centre (Shanghai, China)
- Tokyo Friends Center
- American Peace Society of Japan
Subject
- Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945
- Society of Friends -- Japan
- Quakers -- Japan
- Quakers -- Hawaii -- Honolulu
- Society of Friends -- Hawaii -- Honolulu
- Quaker missionaries
- Missionaries
- Society of Friends -- Missions -- Japan
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Japan
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Civilian relief
- Incarceration
- Publisher
- Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections
- Finding Aid Author
- Lilian Sweeney
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Collection Inventory
Letters to and from Gilbert Bowles with: Adkinson, Mrs. Edwin [Viola Pearl?], 1957; Advertiser, 1933; Advocate, 1936; American Baptist Foreign Missionary Society, 1943; American Friends Fellowship Council, 1944; American Peace Society of Japan, 1920; Anderson, Minnie, 1944; Anthony, Mrs., 1946; Aoki, Tadashi, 1948-1954; Apo, Li Leialoha, 1954; Arnold, Harry L., 1949; Ashahina, Alice Aiko, 1946; Asahina, Sanford,1945; Axling, William, 1933; Ayusawa, Iwao and Fukuko; 1941-1953, Azumi, Tokuya, 1953.
Letters to and from Gilbert Bowles with: Baker, Elizabeth N., 1945-1949; Barth, Eliz. W.,1947; Beals, Hannah Day, 1946; Bell, Elaine and Colin., 1973; Bennett, John C.; Bernstein, H. H., 1947; Binford, Gurney, 1948; Blake, Mary, 1949; Borton, Hugh, 1947; Bowles, (Elihu, 1945-51; Herbert and Gertrude,1933-45; Jane T.,1958; Janie, 1942); Bowles, (Levi and Eliz., 1942-43; Luanna J. 1949); Boulding, Kenneth, 1954; Bracke, Helmut, 1934; Brailsford, John A., 1946; Bray, William G., 1945-53; Brinton, Howard and Anna, 1953; Brown, William Jones,1945; Burling, Richard L. n.d.
Letters to and from Gilbert Bowles with: Calif. Dept. of Education, 1945; Carter, Arabella,1921; Dexter, Walter F, Channel, Roberta and Bill, 1955; Kadaira, Kunio and Church Peace Union, 1949; Clark, Rosmond, Clark, Roy, 1956; Cleveland Bible College, 1945; Colburn, G.B.1945; Cole, Clifford W. and Edith Tschudi, 1955; Cole, Everett and Helen, 1955; Collins, Julia Cope, 1939; Cook, Lester M., 1944; Cox, Catherine E. B., 1951.
Letters to and from Gilbert Bowles with: Danforth Foundation Fellowship, 1942-42; Danforth, William H; Douglass, Ruth; Dann, Robert and Lyra, 1955; Davis, Jerome, 1946; Decker, J. W., 1933; Downs, Darley and Lucille, 1945-55; Douglas, Paul H., 1949; Dye, Jane B., 1934; Christian University.
Letters to and from Gilbert Bowles with: Eastern Clergy Bureau,1948; Ebisawa, Akira, 1948-54; Edgerton, Russell and Mae, 1951; Emergency Service Committee, 1943; Evans, William Bacon, 1950.
Letters to and from Gilbert Bowles with: Farmington, J. R., 1943-45; Field, Robert S., 1933; Fisher, H. H., 1944; Fox, Morris, 1952; Fraser, I. M., 1946; The Friend, 1950-51, n.d.; Friends Bookstore, 1948; Friend's Intelligencer, 1951; Friends School, 1947-50; Fujisaki, Seiichi, 1954; Fukuda, David, 1953; Fukumoto, Mrs.,1946; Fukuhishi, Moto, 1954; Fukushima, Yoshikiyo, 1950; Furukawa, Yoji, 1953.
Letter from Gilbert Bowles to Gustavus A. Gedat
Letters from Gilbert Bowles to Euell Gibbons and members of the Gibbons family
Letters to and from Gilbert Bowles and Euell Gibbons
Letters to and from Gilbert Bowles with: Gilbert, George and Simone, 1958; Grew, Joseph Clark, 1944-45; Gulick, Sidney L., 1944-45; (Fisher, Galen; Iglehart, Charles; McWilliams, Carey; Prejudice: Japanese-Americans....) Gwinn, Alice E., 1950.
Letters from Gilbert Bowles to: Hai, Mr. n.d.; Hamai, Shinzo, 1948; Handsaker, J. J. 1945; Hannaford, Ruth E. and Howard D. 1948; Harrison, Thomas Que., 1941; Hartshorne, Henry, 1896; Harvey, William B., 1921; Hashibe, Charles H., 1948-50; Hawaii (State) Amer. Assoc. for the United Nations, 1950; Hawaii (State) Honolulu Board of Water Supply, 1953; Hawaii Interracial Comm., 1950; Hayashi, Fred 1942; n.d.; Hayashi, Tatsuesi, 1953; Hayman, Lester A., 1954; Hayman, Victor J., 1945-6; Jones, Mary Hoxie, Whiteman, George W.; Hirakawa, Seiju and Ume, 1941-60; Hirshberg, Walter, 1946; Schneider, Louis, Ho, Robert, 1953-58; Honolulu Council of Church Women, n.d.; Honolulu Council of Churches, 1944; Howell, Charles. R., 1953; Hull, William I., 1935; Hunt, Dorothy, 1955.
Letters from Gilbert Bowles to: Iida, Soichiro, 1950; Imai, T. 1953; Imaoka, Nobuichiro, 1932; Inagaki, Marikatsu, 1947-9; Inoyue, Hide, 1949; Institute of Japanese Language & Culture,1947; International Assoc. of Japan, 1933; International Missionary Council, 1933; Isenberg, Dora R., 1948; Ishida, Toshiko, n.d.; Ishii, Viscount, 1933; Isobe, Harry E.,1946-49; Itai, Kiyoshi, 1948; Ito, Eikichi, 1959; Iwahashi, Takeo and Kiyoko, 1948-56 (Lighthouse for the Blind).
Letters from Gilbert Bowles to: Japan Christian Peace Society, 1949; Jenkins, Charles F.,1933; John Milton Society, 1948; Johncox, Clifford Francis, 1954; Jones, (A. Hillard and Christina.1956.; E. Stanley, 1941; Esther B. 1942; Evelyn. n.d.)
Letters to and from Gilbert Bowles with: Kagawa, Toyohiko, 1937-54; Kahananui, Dorothy M., 1957; Kaifu, Tadayoshi, 1949; Kakuya, Saburi, 1949-51; Kashiwa, Yoshiko Irene and Madorah E. Smith. n.d.; Kato, Noriyoshi, 1948-1952; Kelburn, Elizabeth, 1945; Keller, Mrs. 1946; Kenworthy, Leonard S., 1944; Kieslich, Reinhold and Charlotte, 1954; Kikuchi, Yoshiro, 1950?; Kimura, Bhikkhu Nichiki, 1953; Kimura, Tamotsu, 1949; Kitazawa, Sukeo, 1953; Kitzmiller, Virginia, 1948; Kiyoka, Eiichi, 1952-3; Kobayashi, (G. n.d.; Mineko, 1947; Peter Mikio, 1952; Seizo, 1947-53); Kobayashi, Zenzo, 1953; Kodaira, Kunio, 1948-49; Kojima, Shigeo, 1949-51; Kondow, Kotara, 1946, n.d.; Kora, Tomiko, Wada and Makiko, 1948-53; Koriki, Sumiko, 1951; Koshio, Kanju; 1946-53; Koyama, Goichi, 1948; Kozaki, Michio, 1946; Kumatsu, Rengo, 1948-1949; Kunii, Michitaro, 1948-49; Kurai, Yasuo, 1954; Kurama, Kikue, 1949.
Letters to and from Gilbert Bowles with: Lantz, Elizabeth, 1952; Law, Robert, 1946; Lester, Muriel, 1956; Lindberg, Mrs. Eric, 1950; Lowe-Levai, Michael Victor, n.d.; Luchenbach SS Lines, 1949; Lumpkin, Estelle, 1943.
Letters to and from Gilbert Bowles with: Maier, William Morris, 1957; Manley, Lucille, 1957; Maretzki, Thomas, 1948?-57; Mark, H. F., 1952; Maruyama, G., 1951; Mather, Rufus G. and Winifred, 1944; Matheson, Joan, 1955; Matthewman, Frieda, 1946-49; Matsumura, George Y., 1948; Matsuo, Takao, 1951; Matsuzawa, Kazuo, 1951-53; Maui Home Council, 1949; Mayeda, Miyoko, 1945; Melvin, Bruce L., 1946; Methodist Board of Temperance, 1952; Miho, Fumiye, 1950-1962; Mishima, Ko, 1957-70; Miskelly, W., 1934; Mitchell, Arthur and Shirley, 1945-58; Miyago, Michie, 1949; Miyamori, Asataro and Tami, 1948-49; Mori, Victor, 1949; Morikawa, Masame, 1951; Morrill, Douglas, 1950; Morris, Homer L., 1946; Mott, Joanna Bowles, 1942-54; Murakami, Kaoru, Catherine, 1956; Murata, Kazuko, 1951; Muste, A. J., 1946.
Letters to and from Gilbert Bowles: Nakamura, Mansaku, 1952-55; Nakashima, Hiroshi, 1950; National Service Board for Religious Objectors, 1949; Nawa, Toshio, 1951; Newton, Ray, 1949-50; Nicholson, Helen Bowles, n.d.; Nicholson, Herbert V. and Madeline W., 1945-53; Nishida, Tenko, 1953; Niwa, Tenko, 1953; Nomura, Hana, 1948; Nunokawa, Kimiko, 1948.
Letters to and from Gilbert Bowles with: Oae, Shigeru and Akiko, 1946; O'Fallon, Mary Hull, 1945; Ogawa, Chizuko, 1955; Ogawa, Seido, 1950; Okuma, Shigenobu, 1913; Okuma, Thomas, 1948; Ossipoff, Glafirn, 1955; Otsuji, Kimiko, 1952; Oyaizu, Ryuko,1946-7.
Letters to and from Gilbert Bowles with: Philadelphia Inquirer, 1952; Pickard, Bertram,1933; Pickett, Jon and Marion (to CEP), 1974; Pickett, Ralph and Margaret (to CEP), 1973-4; Pierce, Jane Hoag, 1945.
Letters to and from Gilbert Bowles with: Rodemaker, John A., 1946; Reischauer, Dr., 1937; Rhoads, Esther Biddle, 1946-60; Ritter, Richard, 1951; Robbins, Stella, 1945; Robertson, Grace. M., 1950; Rockefeller Foundation, 1948; Rogers, Mary M., 1941; Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1948; Rural Life Institute, 1943.
Letters to and from Gilbert Bowles with: Sage, Jimmie, (to CEP) 1924; Saiki, Tadsu, 1936; Saito, Soichi, n.d.; Sakamoto, James. G., 1941-6; Sakatani, Baron Y., 1921-41; Saksena, S. K., 1952; Sanders, Edwin, 1949; Sawada, Setsuzo and Rengo, 1946-73; Sayre, Nevin, 1933; Schmoe, Floyd W., 1942-50; Schneder, D. B., 1933; Schroer, Gilbert W., 1943; Sekiya, Paul M., 1948-59; Shamazaki, Orie, 1948-50; Sharpless, Edith F., 1944-45; Sherpick, Nelle E., 1956; Shidachi, T., 1933; Shinada, Fukuhei, 1957; Shinada, Naohei, Tadashi, and Seihei, 1949-72; Shipley, Mary, 1956; Shiras, Alice. M., 1952.
Letters to and from Gilbert Bowles with: Society of Friends. Australia General Meeting, 1949; Society of Friends. Friend's Center (Shanghai), 1945-6; Society of Friends. Friend's Center (Tokyo), 1940-49; Society of Friends. Friend's Committee on National Legislation, 1954; Society of Friends. Friend's House (London), 1932-47; Society of Friends. Friends World Comm. for Consultation, 1943-60; (Bowles, Gilbert; Elkinton, J. Passmore; Friends in the Orient and Pacific Areas; Hadley, Herbert; Rhoads, Esther Biddle; Schmoe, Floyd W.; Shaffer, Leslie D.); Society of Friends. Friends Center (Mita, Daimachi, Minatoku, Tokyo); Society of Friends. Hijirizaka Friends Meeting, n.d.; Society of Friends. Ishiaka Friends Meeting, 1948; Society of Friends. Japan Yearly Meeting (1933-73); (GB; MPB; Clark, Rebecca T.; Hirakawa, Seiju; Hirakawa, Ume; Japan Friends News; Kurama, Kikue).
Letters to and from Gilbert and Minnie Bowles with: Society of Friends. Minato Friends Meeting, 1948; Society of Friends. New York Monthly Meeting, 1958; Society of Friends. Oskaloosa Monthly Meeting, 1942; Society of Friends. Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, Japan Committee Aug. 1951-1960 and 1970-71. (GB; Brinton, Anna; Elkinton, J. Passmore; Rhoads, Esther Biddle; Wallen; Sylvan E.). Sylvan E. Wallen is the most common correspondent (noted as secretary of the PYM's Japan committee). Included in this folder is also copies of minutes of the PYM Japan Committee from 1959, 1960, 1970, 1971.
Letters to and from Gilbert and Minnie Bowles with: Society of Friends. Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, Mission Board, 1890 and 1934-Mar. 1951, (Gilbert Bowles; Minne P. Bowles; Cooper, Clarissa, Richards, Theodore; School of Japanese Language and Culture; Sharpless, Edith F.; Takemura, Toyotaro; Wallen, Sylvan E.); Society of Friends. PYM. Peace Committee, 1927; Society of Friends. PYM, Temperance Association, 1948-49; Society of Friends. Shimodate and Shimotsuma Friend's Meetings, 1948-53; Society of Friends. Tokyo Monthly Meeting, 1950-7; Society of Friends. Tsuchira Friends Meeting, 1948; Society of Friends. Young Friends Committee (Tokyo), 1953;
Letters to and from Gilbert and Minnie Bowles with: Soga, Yasutaro, 1956; Soyeda, J., 1921; Stabler, Arthur P., 1945-6; Stalin, Joseph, n.d.; Steere, Douglas and Dorothy, 1960; Stevens, Kenneth E. and Dorothy, 1945-55; Strawbridge, Anna Estis, 1956; Student Goodwill Mission to Japan, n.d.; Suehiro, Hannah, 1946; Sugiyama, Chigoro, 1950; Suyekane, Toshio, n.d.; Sakamoto, Giko; Suzuki, Chiyomatsu, 1946-50; Suzuki, Yasukuni, 1946, n.d.; Swarthmore College Peace Collection (Brinton, Ellen Starr),1946.
Letters to and from Gilbert and Minnie Bowles with: Tagore, Rabindranath, 1916; Takagi, Yasaka and Nabuko, 1948-51; Takahashi, Tame, 1946; Takemura, Toyotaro, 1948-55; Takino, Masuichi, 1951; Tamura, Paul, 1944; Tanimoto, Kiyoshi, 1952-53; Tarr, Bertha, 1952; Tatsuguchi, Roland K., 1952-55; Thomas, Frances, 1950-56; Toda, Kenji, 1936; Tokyo Friends Girls School, 1952; Tomiyama, Setzo, 1949; Townsend, Henry, 1933; Trott, Stanton and Mary, 1949; Tschudi, Heinz and Maria, 1955; Tsunekawa, Mr., n.d.; Tsuruda, Noboru, n.d.
Letters to and from Gilbert and Minnie Bowles: Ueda, Tatsunosuke, 1948; Uehara, Kikuye, 1949; Ukaji, Kyoshi, 1948; United States Department of State, 1951; US. Foreign Policy Association, 1927; US President (Truman: 1945-52); United Temperance Movement of Minnesota, 1948; Vallance, Martha,1955.
Letters to and from Gilbert and Minnie Bowles: Walker, R. B.,1945; Watanabe, Kei, 1946; Watanabe, Riochi, 1956; Watanabe, Shichiro, 1940; Watanabe, Yoshiro, 1957; Webster- Smith, Irene, 1952; Welton, Elis, 1946; Wheldon, Evelyn, 1946; Whitney, Mary Caroline, 1935; William Penn College, 1946; Williams, Lloyd G., 1953; Wood, Richard R., 1953; Woodard, William P., 1945; Worldover Press, 1942-46; Allen, Devere; Maier, Wm. Morris; Yamada, Paul, 1945; Yamamuro, Bufo, 1948-52, n.d.; Yamamuro, Gumpei; Yamanouchi, H., 1948; Yamashiro, Mrs., 1953; Yashida, Koichi, 1948; YMCA (Honolulu), 1947; YMCA (Japan), 1949; Yoshida, Tatsuhiko, 1954; Zako, Mr., 1933. "Unidentified" (Kotoko.1946; Ruth.1969-70)
Typed copies of letters written by Gilbert Bowles while treveling to and living in Japan from February to July of 1947. The letters were intended to be a journal of his travel and stay. This folder also includes a schedule for Bowles's visit to Philadelphia from September to November of that same year.
Typed copies of reports made by Gilbert Bowles to the American Friends Service Committee. The reports primarily tell stories from each year's work and often include exposition on Bowles's thoughts and reflections on mission work.
This folder includes typed copies of reports written by Gilbert Bowles after trips while on furlough. Locations and report dates include: Korea, Manchuria, China, 1917; England, Germany, 1920; United States, Canada, 1931; India, Palestine, Departure from Japan; China, 1946; Japan, 1951.
This folder primarily consists of correspondence between members of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) and the Pan Pacific Union. (The most frequent people are Colbert N. Kurokawa, noted as the Assisstant Director of the Pan Pacific Union, and Wilbur K. Thomas, Executive Secretary of AFSC.) The correspondence and other documents revolve around plans proposed by the Pan Pacific Union for scholarship or other support for the education of Japanese and Japanese-American students at universities in the United States.
This folder contains: membership list of a Friends Meeting (presumably Honolulu), a document labelled as a directory of Meetings in Pacific Ports, correspondence around tensions in the Pacific re: war, general letter from Rufus Jones from Dec. 9th, 1941 emphasizing that Friends help those referred to as "enemy aliens" after war was declared on Japan; correspondence discussing conflict between ongoing war and the pacifism in Quaker beliefs; reports of Honolulu Friends Meeting for each year; mailing list for members of the Honolulu Meeting. (The Bowles Family were members of the Meeting.)
Includes: correspondence between members of the Honolulu Monthly Meeting and the American Friends Service Committee; reports and memos about a Friends Center in Honolulu; a document titled "Appraisal of Honolulu Friends Meeting House," dated 1953; miscellaneous Friends bulletins
Honolulu Friends' Bulletin for March 1958 through April 1960 (has most months, but not every single one); correspondence with members of the Honolulu Meeting; list of books in the Friends Library in Honolulu; mailing lists or address information for Meeting members.
Treasury reports, vouchers, and receipts for the Honolulu Monthly Meeting. Most of the expenditures were made for telephone bills, advertisement of the Meeting, contributions to other organizations, and transportation.
Primarily correspondence between members of the American Friends Service Committee and the American Red Cross, mostly about donations made by members of the Honolulu Monthly Meeting.
This folder consists of correspondence between James Vail, part of the American Friends Service Committee in Philadelphia, and William Morris Mair, Executive Secretary of the Hawaii Branch of the AFSC. The two men correspond about the projects of the Hawaii Branch and their work around the U.S. Government's forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans.
This folder consists of correspondence between James Vail, part of the American Friends Service Committee in Philadelphia, and William Morris Mair, Executive Secretary of the Hawaii Branch of the AFSC. The two men correspond about the projects of the Hawaii Branch and their work around the forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans by the U.S. government. Mary Hoxie Jones and Gilbert Bowles are also occaisional correspondents.
This folder includes three "Occasional News Bulletin" from the American Friends Service Committe Hawaii Branch from 1944. Additionally there is a transcript of a "Radio Address" attributed to Clarence E. Pickett and a list of names and addresses titled, "Emergency Service Committee."
This folder consists of correspondence about the work of the American Friends Service Committee's Hawaii Branch, the political circumstances of the time, and the closure of the Hawaii Branch. The letters regarding the closure of the branch detail William Maier Morris's desire to resume his law practice in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, and the continuation of Gilbert Bowles's visits to families under other Friends' organizations.
Includes documents on taxes, the victory tax and employee pay withholding as related to the American Friends Service Committee's Hawaii Branch.
This folder includes correspondence, speeches, information booklets, and other documents related to the celebration of the 300th anniversary of William Penn's birth. The documents include planning details for the American Friends Service Committee Hawaii Branch's celebration and more general material as sent by other groups re: the celebration.
Includes press releases and policy statements of the American Friends Service Committee and the Friends Committee on National Legislation. The topics include post-war military policy and conscription, the occupation of Japan after the end of World War II, and relief work in Finland.
This folder consists of the typed minutes for the meetings of the American Friends Service Committee's Board of Directors and the Foreign Service Executive Committee for meetings from December 1944 to October 1945.
This folder includes copies of two American Friends Service Committee publications: Attendant and Information. The Attendant, described as "A Publication of The Mental Hygiene Program of Civilian Public Service," spans from December 1944 to June 1945, one for each month. Copies of Information, "A Weekly news Service of Friends Civilian Public Service," are included from Dec. 1943 and Dec. 1944 through October 1945.
Includes: "Handbook for Relief Workers," a manuscript describing the advice and guidelines for relief workers as wrtiten by the executive staff of American Friends Service Committee's Foreign Service; documents describing care packages to Germany and guidelines for clothing relief (includes information and diagrams about baling clothing).
This folder includes correspondence and reports connected to the Honolulu Friends Service Committee (branch of American Friends Service Committee). Gilbert Bowles (Executive Secretary of the Hawaii branch) and Mary Hoxie Jones are prominent actors.
This folder includes reports, correspondence, and news bulletins related to the Honolulu Friends Service Committee. Topics include the activities of the Honolulu FSC and other organizations concerned with relief effort including the American Friends Service Committee.
This folder includes reports, correspondence, and news bulletins related to the Honolulu Friends Service Committee. Topics include the activities of the Honolulu FSC and other organizations concerned with relief effort including the American Friends Service Committee.
This folder includes reports, correspondence, and news bulletins related to the Honolulu Friends Service Committee. Topics include the activities of the Honolulu FSC and other organizations concerned with relief effort including the American Friends Service Committee. Also includes minutes from the AFSC Board of Directors.
Includes receipts for accounts held by Gilbert Bowles in connection with the Honolulu Friends Service Committee and the American Friends Service Committee.
This folder includes miscellaneous documents related to relief work of the American Friends Service Committee and the Hawaii Branch specificially. Documents are related to relief work in Europe, especially Germany, and a clothing relief campaign for the Philippines.
Includes correspondence (and the occaisional newspaper clipping or memorandum) between various parties of the Licensed Agencies for Relief in Asia (LARA). Gilbert Bowles, members of the American Friends Service Committee's Committee on Japan (including Esther Rhoads), and other organizations involved with relief efforts in Asia (primarily Japan and Korea) are the main creators. A letter from David C. Walden, Finance Secretary of the AFSC, dated August 9, 1946, says there were 13 organizations (including AFSC) that were part of LARA.
Includes correspondence, memorandum, and the occaisional newspaper clipping between various parties of the Licensed Agencies for Relief in Asia (LARA). Gilbert Bowles, members of the American Friends Service Committee's Committee on Japan, and other organizations involved with relief efforts in Asia (primarily in Japan) are the main creators. Most of the correspondence deals with the logistical organizing of clothing and food relief for Japanese people post-World War II.
Includes correspondence and memorandum between various parties of the Licensed Agencies for Relief in Asia (LARA). Gilbert Bowles (as a member of the Hawaii Branch of the AFSC), members of the American Friends Service Committee's Committee on Japan (Edward Peacock is most prominent), and other organizations involved with relief efforts in Japan are the main creators. Most of the correspondence deals with the logistics of bringing clothing and food relief overseas.
Includes correspondence, memorandum and financial documents between various parties of the Licensed Agencies for Relief in Asia (LARA). Gilbert Bowles (as a member of the Hawaii Branch of the AFSC), members of the American Friends Service Committee's Committee on Japan (Edward Peacock is most prominent), and other organizations involved with relief efforts in Japan are the main creators. Most of the correspondence deals with the logistics of bringing clothing and food relief overseas and the financial details of shipping and freight. Also includes an application to the Appeals Review Board of the Chamber of Commerce of Honolulu on the part of the Hawaii Committe on Relief for Japan and Korea.
Includes correspondence, memorandum and financial documents between various parties of the Licensed Agencies for Relief in Asia (LARA). Gilbert Bowles (as a member of the Hawaii Committee on Relief for Japan and Korea), the American Friends Service Committee's Committee on Japan, and other organizations involved with relief efforts in Japan are the main creators. Most of the correspondence deals with the logistics of bringing clothing and food relief overseas and the financial details of shipping and freight.
Includes correspondence, memorandum and financial documents between various parties of the Licensed Agencies for Relief in Asia (LARA). Gilbert Bowles (as a member of the Hawaii Committee on Relief for Japan and Korea), the American Friends Service Committee's Committee on Japan, and other organizations involved with relief efforts in Japan are the main creators. Most of the correspondence deals with the logistics of bringing clothing and food relief overseas and the financial details of shipping and freight.
Includes correspondence, memorandum and financial documents between various parties of the Licensed Agencies for Relief in Asia (LARA). Gilbert Bowles (as a member of the Hawaii Committee on Relief for Japan and Korea), Esther Rhoads (as a member of the American Friends Service Committee's Committee on Japan), and other organizations involved with relief efforts in Japan are the main creators. Most of the correspondence, written by Rhoads and Jack Cadbury, deals with the logistics of bringing clothing and food relief overseas and the financial details of shipping and freight.
Includes correspondence, memorandum, and financial documents re: relief efforts in Japan facilitated by organzations of Licensed Agences for Relief in Asia (LARA). Jack Cadbury (American Friends Service Committee) and Esther Rhoads (AFSC Japan Desk) are prominent correspondents. Also includes multiple copies of a summary of relief shipments from 1946 to 1952 (includes date, ship, quantity, articles, value, freight, and tonnage).
This folder includes: correspondence re: the end of Licensed Agencies for Relief in Asia (LARA) and the provision of relief after that change; a notebook labelled, "M. P. Bowles Notes 1949-53 Clothing Collection"; a small number of documents related to the shipping of relief goods.
Includes: memorandum and correspondence of the Okinawa Clothing Relief Committee, also includes a photograph of the members of the Committee; correspondence between (primarily) Gilbert Bowles and others re: the logistics of collecting and shipping items for relief to Okinawa.
This folder includes correspondence about the relief efforts in Hawaii for Okinawa. Gilbert Bowles is the most common correspondent. Most of the correspondence is related to shipping and the logistics, but also includes discussion of the work of Dr. and Mrs. Shusei Yamashiro with the Widow's Mite Society (Japanese name was, according to Bowles, Repta Kwai). (Within that discussion are a set of letters from Bowles vouching for their conduct with the authorities on Okinawa. There seemed to have been an issue with a passport.) Also included are copies of freight receipts for 1950 including the logistical planning for the shipment of organs (the instrument).
Includes correspondence and freight bills for shipment of relief materials to Okinawa; a newspaper clipping on the Ryuku Kingdom and disputed claims to Okinawa; a report on blind children in Okinawa from Seiryo Adaniya
This folder includes documents about relief efforts made by the Hawaii Chapter of American Relief for Korea/Hawaii Relief for Korea. (Name of the organization changes in 1953.) Notable correspondents include Gilbert Bowles (secretary of the ARK/HRK) and George Cannon (chairman of the ARK/HRK). Documents include a list of correspondents, correspendence re: shipment and logistics of relief efforts, and freight bills/other receipts.
Includes correspondence, memorandum, and reports on the subject of relief efforts for Korea as coordinated by the Hawaii Relief for Korea and other organizations. Most of the relief items were clothing. This folder also includes a number of newspaper clippings on the relief efforts.
This folder contains: correspondence, memorandum, and receipts for shipping and logistics of clothing relief to Korea; list of officers and committee members of Hawaii Chapter of American Relief for Korea (same organization, older name)
Includes: minutes of the meeting of the Executive Committee of Hawaii Relief for Korea (and American Relief for Korea Hawaii Chapter) as created and signed by Gilbert Bowles as Secretary; call for meetings or meeting notice slips
This folder includes correspondence and other documents primarily related to aid for individuals affected by the U.S. federal government's forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II: Akizaki, Takeo and Yoshio (former incarcerees), 1944-45; Ansai, Takeshi (incarceree), 1946; Arakaki, Seiki (social assistance), 1942; Asakura, Seiju (social assistance), 1942; Asao, Shigeo (incarceree), 1946; Cadbury, William Warder and Catherine (incarcerees), 1943; Deki, Ichiro (arrested for possessing camera equipment), 1942-43; Jones, Mary Hoxie; Donnan, James F. (social assistance), 1942. Ekimoto, Toyokichi and Tomi (social assistance), 1945; Freeth, Erika (social assistance), 1946; Fujii, Richard (social assistance), 1942; Fujimoto, K. (social assistance), 1942; Fukuda, Mantaro and Natsu 1944-1945; Fukumoto, M. Shizuo (social assistance), 1946; Burke, Francis Harte; Vellom, Beety J.; Conrad, Joseph; Tree, Alfred E.; Hawaii (Terr.) Office of Governor; Fuyumuro, Mrs. (social assistance), 1946; Gokan, Josephine (social assistance) 1946; Hashibe, Mitsuyo, (social assistance), 1943-45; Hashimoto, Koji and Hanako (incarceree), 1944; Hayashi, Frederick (social assistance), 1942-43; Hirata, Teruo (social assistance), 1942; Honda, Kaneki (social assistance), 1946; Richards, Theo; Hawaii (Terr): Central Identification Bureau; Asst. Provost Marshal; Jones, Mary Hoxie; Shimotori, Takeo.
This folder includes correspondence and other documents primarily related to aid for individuals affected by the U.S. federal government's forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II: Ito, Eikichi and Mitsu (social assistance), 1945-46; Kameda, G. H. (social assistance), 1943; Katsumma, Yoshiko (social assistance), 1946-47; Kawamoto, Masaichi (social assistance), 1945; Kawasaki, Edith Setsuko (social assistance), 1945-46; Hawaii (Terr.): Dept of Atty Gen; Dept of Pub. Welfare; Jameson, Ron B.; Ottman, Margaret; Browne, Ann B; Fawcett, Margaret; AFSC: N. Calif. Branch; Kida, Matsu, (social assistance), 1942; Kido, H. (social assistance), 1942; Kimura, Yuki (social assistance), 1946; Kobayashi, Shizuo (social assistance), 1946; Komagata, Zenkyo (incarceree), 1944; Suehiro, Hannah; Towle, Mildred; McKim, Bessie; Hawaii (Terr.): Office of Internal Security; Kondo, Yakeo (social assistance), 1945-46; Kono, Tadami (incarceree), 1943; Kumai, T. (incarceree), 1942; Kuniyoshi, Shinju (conscientious objector), 1945-46; Conrad, Joseph; Fort, Robertson; Omer, Guy; Kurakake, Toraichi (social assistance), 1942; Kurokane, Maru (incarceree), 1946; Loscutoff, Jack (conscientious objector), 1953; Maekawa, Tadashi and Ellen (incarcerees), 1942-46; Mori, M.; Maier, Wm Morris; Matano, Konin and Albert (incarcerees), 1942-46; Miyazaki, Takamatsu (social assistance), 1942; Mori, Hitoyo (social assistance), 1945; Morikami, Shigehiro (social assistance), 1942; Morisaki, Shizuka Dorothea (social assistance), 1944-45; Sata, Zen.
This folder includes correspondence and other documents primarily related to aid for individuals affected by the U.S. federal government's forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II: Murata, Ryoichi (incarceree), 1945; Naganuma, Uyeno (social assistance), 1944-45; Nakagawa, Helen Shizuko (former incarceree), 1944-45; Nishi, Kenzo (social assistance), 1942; Fort, Robertson; Cloward, Ralph B; Hawaii (Terr.): Military Government Office of Internal Security; Nishi, Torakichi (social assistance), 1942; Nishiguchi, Sueka (social assistance), 1942-45; Nishihira, Shuko (social assistance), 1943; Oki, Shigeo (social assistance), 1945; Onishi, Sannosuke (social assistance), 1942; Risinger, Russell L. (conscientious objector), n.d.; Sakata, Tadakazu (social assistance), 1946; Sano, Waichi (former incarceree), 1944; Sarae, Tsuukichi (social assistance), 1942; Omer, Guy; Sasaki, Atsuro (social assistance), 1942; Shigematsu, Masataro (social assistance), 1942; Shimizu, Wataru (social assistance), 1942; Soga, Yasutaro and Shigeo (incarceree), 1944-46; Sumida, Shinzabura (incarcerees), 1945; Swinton, Ray Stanley (POW), 1943; Tada, Kusuo (incarceree), 1946; Takahashi, Haruko (former incarceree), 1944-45; Takenaka, Shigeru (social assistance), 1945-46; Yarnall, D. Robert; Fada, Mitsuru; Trueman, G. Ernest; Jones, Mary Hoxie; Pammetl, H. O.; Canada Dept. of Labor: Japan Division; Hawaii (Terr.): Office of Military Governor; Office of Interior Secretary.
This folder includes correspondence and other documents primarily related to aid for individuals affected by the U.S. federal government's forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II: Takeshita, Hisako (wife of incarceree), 1945; Tamanaha, Toy Eishin (social assistance), 1946; Tamashiro, Yeiichi (social assistance), 1946; Tamayose, Houn (former incarceree), 1944-45; Tamura, Paul Yoshito (social assistance), n.d.; Hawaii (terr.): Office of Internal Security; Taoka, Katsuo (social assistance), 1942; Tatsuguchi, Yoshiko (social assistance), 1942; Teragawa, Wm. H. (MIA), 1943; Teramae, Yoshiichi (social assistance), 1942; Tomatani, Masataro (social assistance), 1942-43; Toyama, Kenji (social assistance), 1944; Toyofuku, Takeshi (social assistance), 1946; Tsubaki, Edward Gumo (former incarceree), 1944-45; Tsuda, Ryuto-Kiyome (former incarceree), 1944-45; Tsunada, Kensaku (incarceree), 1942; Omer, Martha S.; Hawaii (Terr.): Office of Interior Security; Office of Military Governor; Conservation of Work With Blind; Tsuye, Yoshio (Howard) (social assistance), 1944-45; Wakatame, Katsumi (incarceree), 1943; Watanabe, Tesui (social assistance), 1943; Wilson, Hatsu (social assistance), 1946; Wright, Ila E. (conscientious objector), 1944; Robinson, Sabena; Maier, Wm Morris; Kanayanea, Uchi; Kuakini, Hosy; Yabu, Inosuke (social assistance), 1941; Yamamoto, Tetsujiro (social assistance), 1942-43; Yamane, Mrs. (social assistance), 1945; Yamashiro, Matsuke (social assistance), 1942; Yamashiro, Shusei (former incarceree), 1943-44; Morrell, Eldon; Hawaii (Terr): Dept. of Public Instruction, Office of Military Government, Office of Internal Security; Yanagida, Kamamatsu (social assistance), 1942; Yano, Rose (wife of incarceree), 1945; Yokooji, Walter Michio (social assistance), 1945.
This folder includes material about the U.S. federal government's forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. There are documents and correspondence from the Hawaii Branch of the American Friends Service Committee which focus on helping Japanese people find work and includes memorandum on family visitors. This folder also includes copies of the Hawaii military government orders from December 1941 concerning "enemy aliens"; letters from Esther B. Rhoads describing forced removal of people from Los Angeles area into incarceration camps; an unsigned letter from Tulare Reception Center that ends with "If there should ever arise a movment to evacuate Japanese in Hawaii, please exert your influence against it, for I can assure you it is hell"; pamphlet titled "The Japanese Evacuation: A message from the American Friends Service Committee to the Society of Friends and to our fellow Christians"; newsletters and pamphlets describing progression of forced removal and incarceration operations and the response to those operations.
This folder includes pamphlets, correspondence, and memorandum about the U.S. federal government's forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. Some of the documents discuss opportunities for those in incarceration camps to find work elsewhere in the country. Other documents discussion racial tension in the United States and the racism directed towards Japanese Americans.
Includes: pamphlets and memorandum about Japanese people trying to find work in areas they lived in prior to incarceration; correspondence about the transfer of Japanese American students to other colleges and universities; "Report of the Honolulu Friends Service Committee May 31, 1946"; a carbon copy bound address book with names, addresses, phone numbers, and occupations (likely complied by Honolulu Friends Meeting); map (drawn in pencil) of United States map with camps labelled, titled "War Relocation Project Sites"; pamphlets discussing the racist motivation behind the forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans
This folder contains correspondence between Hans Schreiner (in Shanghai) and Gilbert Bowles (in Honolulu) on the condition of Jewish refugees in Shanghai. Also includes a few letters about the circumstances of another refugee Maria Weissenberg.
Miscellenous business cards and small notes
This folder includes index cards used to record visits made by Gilbert Bowles and others to assess Japanese need for relief in Hawaii. Most of the cards have demographic information filled out on the front with description of the circumstances found during the visit on the back. Some of these visits were made to ask if the individual knew of others in need, and some contacts were to assess the need for relief of the person or family being visited. These cards were marked as inactive prior to accession.
This folder includes index cards used to record visits made by Gilbert Bowles and others to assess Japanese need for relief in Hawaii. Most of the cards have demographic information filled out on the front with description of the circumstances found during the visit on the back. Some of these visits were made to ask if the individual knew of others in need, and some contacts were to assess the need for relief of the person or family being visited. These cards were marked as inactive prior to accession.
Index cards with the names and addresses (grouped by region of Honolulu) that Gilbert Bowles visited to assess need for relief aid.
This folder includes index cards used to record visits made by Gilbert Bowles and others to assess Japanese need for relief in Hawaii. Most of the cards have demographic information filled out on the front with description of the circumstances found during the visit on the back. Some of these visits were made to ask if the individual knew of others in need, and some contacts were to assess the need for relief of the person or family being visited. These cards were marked as active prior to accession.
This folder includes index cards used to record visits made by Gilbert Bowles and others to assess Japanese need for relief in Hawaii. Most of the cards have demographic information filled out on the front with description of the circumstances found during the visit on the back. Some of these visits were made to ask if the individual knew of others in need, and some contacts were to assess the need for relief of the person or family being visited. These cards were marked as active prior to accession.
This folder includes index cards used to record visits made by Gilbert Bowles and others to assess Japanese need for relief in Hawaii. Most of the cards have demographic information filled out on the front with description of the circumstances found during the visit on the back. Some of these visits were made to ask if the individual knew of others in need, and some contacts were to assess the need for relief of the person or family being visited. These cards were marked as active prior to accession.
Includes the visitation index cards and correspondence related to the case of Fred E. Brown, a Black man charged with sodomy. Most of the correspondence is between Brown and Gilbert Bowles during the process of appeal and sentencing.
Includes correspondence between Gilbert Bowles, Virgil Mcdorman (a white man charged with forgery and conspiracy charges at the Oahu prison in Hawaii), members of Mcdorman's family, and state officials related to the prison and parole board. Much of the correspondence focuses on Mcdorman's parole and the Bowles frequently gives advice and encouragment on cultivating Christian character and morals.
Includes visitation index cards, letters from Gilbert Bowles to Ernest E. Weiss, and one letter from Weiss to Bowles. The visitation cards describe case of Weiss as charged with alleged sodomy and the letters are written primarily after his release from prison.
This folder contains a booklet, correspondence, and document on the subject of visitations to institutions (primarily jail). The document is titled, "This is Your Jail".
This folder includes two copies of a report made by the Executive Board of the American Friends Service Committee titled "American-Russian Relations Some Constructive Considerations." (On the inside of one of the reports is a pasted in piece of paper which describes that the Pan Pacific Women's Association of Honolulu, Hawaii ordered 100 copies of this report.) This folder also includes a newspaper clipping from 1956 with an editorial titled "Need We Butter Up Russia's Red Overlords?"
Includes: "Brief Historical Sketch of the Fellowship of Reconciliation in Japan" dated 1929 and signed by Gilbert Bowles; a summary of the activity of the Japanese Fellowship of Reconciliation, "The First Ten Years (1948-1958)," by Paul M. Sekiya; "The Japan Fellowship at Reconciliation in 1958" also by Sekiya; a letter from Paul M. Sekiya to Gilbert Bowles discussing the Fellowship and offering his condolences for the death of Minnie Bowles; document titled "Fellowship of Reconciliation Members and Sympathizers".
Includes correspondence, a few newsletters, and documents about the Lighthouse for the Blind in Osaka Japan. Focus especially on life story of founder Takeo Iwahashi.
This folder includes reports and other documents on the history and standing (as of the 1920s and 1930s) of the movement towards peace in Japan as led by Christians and Quakers.
This folder includes reports and other documents on the history and standing of the movement towards peace in Japan as led by Christians and Quakers. Special attention is paid towards the rebuilding process post-World War II and how Quakers believe the United States should implement policies for peace and democracy.
This folder includes a small number of articles and reports on the peace movement in Japan.
This folder includes reports, notes and other documents on the history and standing of the movement towards peace in Japan as led by Christians and Quakers.
Three copies of Gilbert Bowles's article titled "The Peace Movement in Japan." Two copies seems to be original pamphlets and the other copy is a photocopied and annotated version.
Includes reports on the Sino-Japanese conflict, most notably a report made by Friends Service Council and American Friends Service Committee titled "Report of the Joint Deputation Sent to China and Japan in the Winter of 1929-1930"
A single pamphlet titled "Temperance Movement in Japan" as published by the Japan Temperance Union, Inc. The pamphlet describes the origins of the Union and requests for help.
This folder contains typed copies of articles on Japan, Christiainty, and education as collected by Gilbert Bowles. Notably it includes "An Account of Our Four Month's Visit to Japan in 1951" by Minnie Bowles.
This folder includes copies of radio addresses made by Gilbert Bowles for mroning, mid-morning, noon, mid-afternoon, and evening "under the auspices of the Honolulu Council of Churches." Most of the addresses focus on Christianity, interpretations of religious values, and the Bible.
This folder contains copies of articles written by Gilbert Bowles on a range of topics, primarily Christianity and the Bible, his experience in Japan and China, marriage, and capital punishment.
This folder contains undated copies of articles written by Gilbert Bowles on the Bible, humanity, and China-Japan relations.
This folder contains letters from Gilbert Bowles to his nieces, nephews, and siblings during his stay in Toyko, Japan. Many of the letters relay stories of happenings with the mission in Japan. (There is a small number of letters from Minnie Bowles.)
This folder contains letters from Gilbert Bowles to his nieces, nephews, and siblings while living in Honlulu, Hawaii. Many of the letters relay stories of happenings with the beginning of World War II, the beginning of the Hawaii Branch of the American Fridns Service Committee, and smaller scale family news. There is a small number of letters from Minnie Bowles on similar subjects.
Includes letters from Gilbert and Minnie Bowles to their extended family (siblings and nephews and nieces) while living in Honolulu, Hawaii. Many of the letters focus on Gilbert's work with the American Friends Service Committee making family visits to help Japanese residents or on family news. The final document is a year in review for 1944.
Includes letters from Gilbert Bowles (there are a small number from Minnie) to the extended family (siblings and nieces and nephews) while in Honolulu and Tokyo. Most of the letters discuss family events and other related news. Also includes Gilbert and Minnie's Christmas and New Year message for 1945, 1946, and 1947.
Includes letters from Gilbert Bowles (there are a small number from Minnie) to the extended family (siblings, nieces and nephews, and grandchildren) while in Honolulu. Most of the letters discuss family events, stories from the goings on in their lives and other news re: health etc . Also includes Gilbert and Minnie's Christmas and New Year message for 1948 and 1949.
Includes letters from Gilbert and Minnie Bowles to their extended family (siblings and nephews and nieces) while living in Honolulu and Toyko. Many of the letters focus on responding to stories and questions from other family members' letters and describing the Bowles's ongoing circumstances.
Includes letters from Gilbert and Minnie Bowles to their extended family (siblings and nephews and nieces) while living in Honolulu. Many of the letters focus on responding to stories and questions from other family members' letters and describing the Bowles's ongoing circumstances. Notably, there is note of the death of Elihu Bowles (Gilbert says he is not used to writing brother instead of brothers.)
Includes letters from Gilbert and Minnie Bowles to their extended family (siblings and nephews and nieces) while living in Honolulu. Many of the letters focus on responding to stories and questions from other family members' letters and describing the Bowles's ongoing circumstances. Notably, Minnie Bowles died in July of 1958 and a number of letters from Gilbert address his feelings about her passing.
This folder contains letters from Gilbert Bowles to his sister Joanna about miscellaneous goings on in Gilbert's life and stories of Gordon Bowles's family (Gordon was son of Gilbert). The letters stop with Gilbert's death in 1960.
This folder includes letters from Gilbert and Minnie Bowles addressed to the Pickett family and other relatives. The letters center around the Bowles's health and well being, work they did with Friends in Japan, and other family news.
This folder includes letters from Gilbert and Minnie (Pickett) Bowles addressed to the Pickett family and other relatives. The letters center around the Bowles's health and well being and other family news.
Includes correspondence from Gilbert and Minnie (Pickett) Bowles to Clarence E. Pickett and Lilly (Peckham) Pickett while the Bowles lived in Japan. Most of the letters discuss the work of the Toyko Friend's Girl School and other Quaker mission work undertaken by the Bowles in addition to discussion of family news. Notably, the first letter from Minnie describes the death of her daughter Helen Joy in 1912.
Includes correspondence from Minnie Pickett Bowles (and a small number from Gilbert) to Clarence E. Pickett and Lilly (Peckham) Pickett while the Bowles lived in Japan and in Honolulu. Most of the letters discuss the work of the Toyko Friend's Girl School and other Quaker mission work undertaken by the Bowles in addition to discussion of family news. Notably the letters discuss the Bowles's transition out of mission work in Japan and their move to Hawaii.
Includes correspondence from Minnie Pickett Bowles (and a small number from Gilbert) to Clarence E. Pickett and Lilly (Peckham) Pickett while the Bowles lived in Honolulu. Most of the letters discuss work of the Hawaii Branch of the American Friends Service Committee, family news, and the health of the Bowles.
Includes correspondence from Minnie Pickett Bowles (and a small number from Gilbert) to Clarence E. Pickett and Lilly (Peckham) Pickett while the Bowles lived in Honolulu. Most of the letters discuss work with the Quaker meeting, family news, and the health of the Bowles. A number of letters discuss Gilbert's trip to Japan in 1948.
Includes correspondence from Minnie Pickett Bowles (and a small number from Gilbert) to Clarence E. Pickett and Lilly (Peckham) Pickett while the Bowles lived in Honolulu. Most of the letters discuss work with the Quaker meeting, family news, and the health of the Bowles. A number of letters discuss the Bowles's trip to Japan in 1951 and there are a few articles and bulletins which were attached to the correspondence.
Includes correspondence from Minnie Pickett Bowles and Gilbert Bowles to Clarence E. Pickett and Lilly (Peckham) Pickett while the Bowles lived in Honolulu. Most of the letters discuss work with the Quaker meeting, family news, and the health of the Bowles. Notably, the last section of letters, written by Gilbert, describe the decline in Minnie's health until her death in July of 1958.
Letters from Clarence E. Pickett to Minnie Pickett Bowles and Gilbert Bowles. Most of the letters are on the subject of family stories and events. Also includes letters about the mission work the Bowles did in Japan and Honolulu.
This folder includes essays, correspondence, and articles written primarily by Gilbert Bowles in reflecting on his childhood and early years. Also includes a set of newspaper clippings and sketches.
This folder contains articles and manuscripts of auto-biographical writing from Minnie Pickett Bowles. Includes: two copies of "The Early Life of Minnie Pickett Bowles Personal Sketch" ; "Minnie Pickett Bowles Personal Experience in the Friends Girls School from 1893 to 1898" ; five copies of "A Brief Life Sketch of Minnie Pickett Bowles" ; "The Life and Service of Minnie Pickett Bowles" ; two other untitled documents with notes on her life.
Includes the original diary of Gilbert Bowles, photocopies of the diary, and a typed transcription of the diary.
A diary of Gilbert Bowles while in Japan, China and Europe--daily memorandum.
Diary of Gilbert Bowles during the year of 1931--daily memorandum
Small diary of miscellaneous notes taken by Gilbert Bowles while traveling in Europe
Two small diaries with daily memorandum written by Gilbert Bowles
Three small diaries with daily memorandum written by Gilbert Bowles
Five small notebooks with daily memorandum written by Gilbert Bowles and an issue of The Exchange (a publication from the Chinese YMCA in Toyko) published in June 1935
Six small notebooks with daily memorandum written by Gilbert Bowles
Six small notebooks with daily memorandum written by Gilbert Bowles
Two small notebooks with daily memorandum written by Gilbert Bowles
One small notebook with daily memorandum written by Gilbert Bowles
Four small notebooks with daily memorandum written by Gilbert Bowles
Seven small notebooks with daily memorandum written by Gilbert Bowles
Three small notebooks with daily memorandum written by Gilbert Bowles
Six small notebooks with daily memorandum written by Gilbert Bowles
Five small notebooks with daily memorandum written by Gilbert Bowles and a small newspaper clipping about the European food crisis
Five small notebooks with daily memorandum written by Gilbert Bowles
Three small notebooks with daily memorandum written by Gilbert Bowles
Three small notebooks with daily memorandum written by Gilbert Bowles
Three small notebooks with daily memorandum written by Gilbert Bowles
Three small notebooks with daily memorandum written by Gilbert Bowles
Three small notebooks with daily memorandum written by Gilbert Bowles
Three small notebooks with daily memorandum written by Gilbert Bowles
Two small notebooks with daily memorandum written by Gilbert Bowles
Three small notebooks with daily memorandum written by Gilbert Bowles
Two small notebooks with daily memorandum written by Gilbert Bowles
Two small notebooks with daily memorandum written by Gilbert Bowles
One small notebook with daily memorandum written by Gilbert Bowles
A small notebook with notes written by Minnie Bowles. Also includes one photograph of Minnie and Gilbert Bowles and a business card.
A typed copy of Gilbert Bowles's autobiography which includes three main parts: Part I "Childhood, Youth, and Young Manhood"; Part IIa "My First Eight Years in Japan"; Part IIb ; Part III "Our Eighteen Years in Honolulu"
Spiral bound notebooks with notes and rough drafts of Gilbert Bowles's autobiography
Spiral bound notebooks with notes and rough drafts of Gilbert Bowles's autobiography
Typed copies of excerpts from Gilberts Bowles's diary
This folder includes typed excerpts from correspondence of Minnie and Gilbert Bowles: correspondence is labelled as "letters and enclosures" from Gilbert and Minnie Bowles to their son and daughter in law Gordon and Jane; "letters and enclosures" from Gilbert and Minnie Bowles just to Gordon their son; "comments on excerpts from letters" ; set of photocopied correspondence from Minnie and Gilbert Bowles to J. Passmore Elkinton, Anna R. Evans, "Tom and Esther," Herbert and Gertrude Bowles.
A notebook with record of letters sent by Gilbert Bowles. Bowles numbered the list and recorded the recipient's name and the date of the letter.
An address book of Minnie Bowles, dated 1946 by a note on the inside cover. Also includes a few letters and newspaper clippings amid the pages.
Four guest books of Minnie and Gilbert Bowles. All of them are full or nearly full of the names and addresses of people who visited the Bowles.
A guest book for friends of Gilbert and Minnie Bowles who called at the Friends Center (presumably in Toyko) to pay respects to Herbert and Gertrude Bowles.
A softcover notebook with numerous newspaper clippings inserted between the pages. There are a few notes on the first pages of the notebook itself, but most of it is blank. The newspaper clippings' topics range from local Honolulu news to articles on world politics to clippings on religious and spiritual topics.
Five passports of Gilbert Bowles for travelling to Japan and elsewhere. Four of the five passports note that Gilbert is accompanied by his wife Minnie Bowles.
A card certifying Gilbert Bowles as a representative of the American Friends Service Committee
A card titled "Territory of Hawaii Identification Certificate" with Gilbert Bowles's name, address, physical description, and fingerprints on it.
Two drawings of Gilbert and Minnie Bowles depicting their mission work in Japan
Cataloguing system for Bowles paper, including lists of letters w/ Japanese descriptions.
Cataloguing system for Bowles paper, including lists of letters w/ Japanese descriptions.
This folder includes: newspaper clippings in Japanese and English celebrating Gilbert and Minnie Pickett Bowles, clippings on Gilbert's 89th birthday celebration, and an article describing October 16 as Gilbert Bowles Day.
Includes: Newspaper clippinng on Elihu Bowles; letters and photographs of Helen Joy Bowles; newspaper clippings, letters, and a book with a register of visitors for Minnie Pickett Bowles; photographs of the tombstones of Gilbert, Minnie, and Helen Joy Bowles; a card for Evan Pickett; a reprint form Provident Score Board on John Way, 1929.
Newspaper clippings and other articles in Japanese and English marking the death of Gilbert Bowles and announcing memorial rites/funeral services.
Includes letters to Herbert and Gertrude Bowles expressing the sender's sympathy for the death of Gilbert Bowles. This folder also includes a list of names of the people and organizations who sent letters of sympathy (which span three folders).
Includes letters to Herbert and Gertrude Bowles expressing the sender's sympathy for the death of Gilbert Bowles.
Includes letters to Herbert and Gertrude Bowles expressing the sender's sympathy for the death of Gilbert Bowles.
This folder includes correspondence, transcripts and excerpts from speeches and tributes, programs, and other notes related to the numerous memorial services and programs for Gilbert Bowles. Also includes a notebook with addresses, names of those who sent letters of condolences and contribution, and a note re: the placement of his ashes.
This folder includes: correspondence about the life and character of Gilbert Bowles from people in the United States and Japan; manuscripts and other documents offering recollections about Bowles's life; newspaper clippings re: Giblert and Minnie Bowles. These materials were used by Errol Elliot for biographical writing and collected by the children of Gilbert and Minnie Bowles.
This folder contains: drafts of writing re: Gilbert and Minnie Bowles's lives; writings and recollections sent to Errol Elliott for the biography he was writing on the Bowles; correspondence re: the research and writing of the biography (primarily between Elliott and Herbert Bowles, also including Jane Bowles, Helen Nicholson, and Setsuzo Sawada).
Includes a draft of Errol Elliott's biography of Gilbert Bowles and correspondence with suggested edits and other critiques of the manuscript.
A certificate for Gilbert Bowles which "certifies that Gilber Bowles Attended School, Church and lived in a Sodhouse [in] Kasnsas, Jewell Gove, Northbranch Gove City and is entitled to Lifetime Membership in [Sons and Daughters of the Soddies]"
A reel recording of Gilbert Bowles and Minnie Pickett Bowls informal talking.
A reel recording of Gilbert and Gordon Bowles talking about Kansas (where Gilbert grew up) and viewing slides. Also includes discussion of "Ginny's Birthday."
A reel recording of a memorial service for Gilbert Bowles in Honolulu, Sept. 1960.
A reel recording of a memorial service held at Central Union Church in Honolulu for Gilbert Bowles on September 22, 1960.