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Elliston P. Morris Collected Papers

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This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held at the Swarthmore College Peace Collection. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in their reading room, and not digitally available through the web.

Overview and metadata sections

Call Number:
CDG-A.Morris, Elliston P.
Repository:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Extent:
0.41 linear ft. (1 box)
Preferred Citation:
Cite as: Swarthmore College Peace Collection, Elliston P. Morris Collected Papers (CDG-A)
Date:
1918, 1942-1968 (inclusive)
Creator:
Morris, Elliston P. (Elliston Perot), 1899-1980
Abstract:
Elliston P. Morris was a Quaker conscientious objector during WWII.

Elliston Perot Morris Jr. born 1899, son of Marriott C. Morris; volunteer with the Quaker Reconstruction Unit for a year or more in France during/after WWI; graduate of Haverford College in 1922; conscientious objector to World War II: in 1942, he declined to register for the military draft, and was sentenced to prison for a year and a day; married to Anna Saylor; had four children; lived in Feasterville, Bucks County, Pennsylvania; dedicated member of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), as well as active in numerous community organizations, including the Southampton Volunteer Fire Company, the Bryn Gweled community, and the Pennsylvania Mental Health Association; died 1980.

This collection consists mostly of letters, newsclippings and other material that help to document Morris' stance as a conscientious objector during WWII, and his arrest and imprisonment in 1942 at Danbury prison.

The Swarthmore College Peace Collection is the official repository of these papers.

Gift of David Marriot Morris (son), September 2019 (acc. 2019-072)

Collection processed and finding aid produced by Anne Yoder, January 2020

One (8"x10") photo of Morris was removed to the Photograph Collection (collective CDGA box)

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Access Restrictions

Collection is open for research without restrictions.

Copyright to the Elliston P. Morris Collected Papers created by Elliston P. Morris has been transferred to the Swarthmore College Peace Collection. Copyright to all other materials is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
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None

Collection Inventory

Personal and family biographical information.
Box 1
Statement re: conscientious objection to war (versions), 1942.
Box 1
C.O. stance and memories of prison.
Box 1
Media coverage of trial and imprisonment, 1942.
Box 1
Court document, 15411.
Box 1
Official documents.
Box 1
Imprisonment at Danbury prison, 1942.
Box 1
Parole / conditional release from Danbury prision, 1942.
Box 1
Correspondence with father.
Box 1
Correspondence with mother.
Box 1
Correspondence with extended family.
Box 1
Correspondence: letters to wife Ann [while in local jail and in Danbury prison], 1942.
Box 1
Correspondence: letters from wife Ann [while in Danbury prison], March-December 1942.
Box 1
Correspondence of wife Ann with friends and others, 1942.
Box 1
Correspondence with friends, etc., 1942-1943, 1951-1968.
Box 1
Correspondence with J. Passmore and Anna Elkinton.
Box 1
Correspondence with Edward W. Evans (Religious Society of Friends, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania).
Box 1
Correspondence: letter from George H. Hallett Jr. (Camp Lee, Virginia), 6868.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Letter added to website Conscientious Objection and the Great War: 1914-1920

Correspondence with Walter C. Longstreth (lawyer).
Box 1
Correspondence with Ray Newton (American Friends Service Committee).
Box 1
Correspondence with Edward C.M. and Betty (Elizabeth) Richards.
Box 1
Correspondence with Fred H. Richards; trial of FHR while student at Swarthmore College (1941), 1942-1957.
Box 1
Correspondence with Ralph and Lila Templin (The School of Living, Suffern, New York).
Box 1
Correspondence with Evan Thomas, 1942.
Box 1
Correspondence between miscellaneous people.
Box 1
Notes taken.
Box 1
Reference material.
Box 1

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