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Edward Thomas and Margaret Loring Thomas Collected Papers

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Call Number:
CDG-A.Thomas, Edward.Margaret Loring Thomas
Repository:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Extent:
0.25 linear ft. (3 linear in.)
Preferred Citation:
[Identification of item], in the Edward and Margaret Thomas Collected Papers (CDG-A), Swarthmore College Peace Collection.
Date:
1917-1952 (inclusive)
Creator:
Thomas, Edward, 1877-1962, Thomas, Margaret Loring, and Blickenstaff, Harold
Abstract:
Edward Thomas was a chemist and chemical patent lawyer in New York City. His wife Margaret Loring Thomas had been active in settlement work and a teacher of home economics before marriage. Both were activist, pacifist Quakers.

Edward Thomas was a patent attorney in New York City. He was married to Margaret Loring, who had been active in settlement work and a teacher of home economics. Both were involved in peace efforts connected with the American Friends Service Committee. No other biographical information is known.

This collection includes Edward Thomas's correspondence on behalf of refugees and prisoners of war, 1917-1918, through the Emergency Committee for the Assistance of Germans, Austrians, and Hungarians in Distress. There is also correspondence with conscientious objector Harold Blickenstaff, 1943-1945. The collection also includes writings of Edward and Margaret Thomas and material about the Institute of Politics, 1926.

The Swarthmore College Peace Collection is not the official repository for these papers/records.

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Processed by SCPC staff; this checklist created by Anne M. Yoder, Archivist, February 1998

American Friends Service Committee: Civilian Public Service / Prison Service Committee Records (DG 002)

A photo of Harold Blickenstaff was removed to the Photograph Collection. The scrapbook of newsclippings was removed to the Oversize Scrapbook Collection.

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Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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None

Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendents, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Use Restrictions

None

Collection Inventory

General correspondence, 1917-1931, 1934, 1952.
Box 1
Correspondence on behalf of refugees and prisoners of war, 1917-1918.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

at the request of the Prisoners Aid Society (Knockaloe, Isle of Man) and the Emergency Committee for the Assistance of Germans, Austrians and Hungarians (London, England)

Correspondence with Harold Blickenstaff, 1943-1945.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Blickenstaff was a conscientious objector who took part as a human guinea pig, for six months, in starvation experiments conducted by the University of Minnesota; photo of Blickenstaff, taken in 1945 (July), removed to Photograph Collection

Writings by Edward Thomas.
Box 1
Writings by Margaret Loring Thomas.
Box 1
Writings by Edward and/or Margaret Thomas.
Box 1
Work re: Institute of Politics, 1926.
Box 1
Miscellaneous.
Box 1
Scrapbook of newsclippings, 1916-1923.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Removed to Oversize Scrapbook Collection

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