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Robert Hood Papers

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Robert Davis Hood (November 11, 1916 - July 24, 1994) was born and raised in Pittsburg, Kansas. Hood earned a B.A. from the University of Kansas in 1941 and an M.A. in Educational Psychology from Kansas State University in 1963; he additionally attended Garett Theological Seminary. Hood became a conscientious objector after being drafted during World War II and joined Civilian Public Service from 1942 to 1946. As part of CPS, he worked at the Philadelphia State Hospital at Byberry for two years. He was at that time also an active member of the Universal Fellowship of Love. Hood married Margaret McCoy in 1942 and then Barbara Ellerbeck in 1957, and had three sons and one daughter. His son John Hood was also a conscientious objector during the Vietnam War. He primarily worked as an educator and counselor, both in the United States and New Zealand. Hood taught at Wesley College in Auckland, New Zealand, and later worked extensively as a counselor in various high schools in Salt Lake City. He also served as director of the Wesley Foundation, a Methodist organization.

The collection primarily contains extensive correspondence of Hood and his immediate family. Content additionally includes biographical information about himself and his family, including his educational work and invovlement with the Wesley Foundation, and Hood's personal diaries and notes spanning 1934-1953.

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Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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All or part of this collection is stored off-site. Contact Swarthmore College Peace Collection staff at peacecollection@swarthmore.edu at least two weeks in advance of visit to request boxes.

Collection Inventory

Archival Resource Key. Biographical information; miscellaneous involvements.
Box 1 [SCPC-6700]
Archival Resource Key. Biographical information: schooling; preacher's license.
Box 1 [SCPC-6700]
Archival Resource Key. Biographical information: divorce from wife Margaret, January 1961.
Box 1 [SCPC-6700]
Archival Resource Key. Biographical information on children and wife Barbara.
Box 1 [SCPC-6700]
Archival Resource Key. Biographical information: son John Jeffery Hood as C.O., 1965-1968.
Box 1 [SCPC-6700]
Archival Resource Key. Biographical information: death of wife Barbara, Feburary 17, 1993.
Box 1 [SCPC-6700]
Archival Resource Key. Involvement/work: Wesley Foundation.
Box 1 [SCPC-6700]
Archival Resource Key. Miscellaneous writings; excerpts from other writer/s.
Box 1 [SCPC-6700]
Archival Resource Key. Paper written "The Development of the Idea of Unilateral Disarmament Since World War II", 1963.
Box 1 [SCPC-6700]
Archival Resource Key. Selections of daily "Thoughts we like and /or don't like".
Box 1 [SCPC-6700]
Archival Resource Key. Diaries, 1934, 1939, June 14, 1939 – July 12, 1940.
Box 2 [SCPC-6701]
Archival Resource Key. Diaries, 1942, January-April 1943.
Box 2 [SCPC-6701]
Archival Resource Key. Diary, January-June 1945.
Box 2 [SCPC-6701]
Archival Resource Key. Notebook, 1940-1942.
Box 2 [SCPC-6701]
Archival Resource Key. Bob: letters from parents, 1936.
Box 3 [SCPC-6702]
Archival Resource Key. Bob: letters from parents, 1937.
Box 3 [SCPC-6702]
Archival Resource Key. Bob: letters from parents, 1938.
Box 3 [SCPC-6702]
Archival Resource Key. Bob: letters from parents, 1939-1945.
Box 3 [SCPC-6702]
Archival Resource Key. Bob: letters from mother (Prechie), 1956-1967.
Box 3 [SCPC-6702]
Archival Resource Key. Bob: letters to/from Margaret McCoy (fiancee/wife), 1941-1942.
Box 3 [SCPC-6702]
Archival Resource Key. Bob: letters to/from Margaret (wife), 1943-1953.
Box 3 [SCPC-6702]
Archival Resource Key. Bob: letters to/from Margaret (ex-wife), 1956-1959.
Box 3 [SCPC-6702]
Archival Resource Key. Bob: letters to/from Margaret (ex-wife), 1960-1969.
Box 3 [SCPC-6702]
Archival Resource Key. Bob: letters to/from Margaret (ex-wife), 1981-1994.
Box 3 [SCPC-6702]
Archival Resource Key. Bob and Margaret: letters from Margaret's parents, 1942-1958.
Box 3 [SCPC-6702]
Archival Resource Key. Margaret: letters to parents/family, 1942-1943.
Box 4 [SCPC-6703]
Archival Resource Key. Margaret: letters to parents/family, 1944-1945.
Box 4 [SCPC-6703]
Archival Resource Key. Margaret: letters to parents/family, 1946-1949.
Box 4 [SCPC-6703]
Archival Resource Key. Margaret: letters to parents/family, 1950-1954.
Box 4 [SCPC-6703]
Archival Resource Key. Margaret: letters and cards to parents/family, 1955-1956.
Box 4 [SCPC-6703]
Archival Resource Key. Margaret: letters and cards to parents/family, 1957-1959.
Box 4 [SCPC-6703]
Archival Resource Key. Margaret: letters from parents, 1953-1959.
Box 4 [SCPC-6703]
Archival Resource Key. Margaret: letters from Bill (brother), 1942-1946.
Box 4 [SCPC-6703]
Archival Resource Key. Margaret: letters to Bill (brother), 1942-1950.
Box 4 [SCPC-6703]
Archival Resource Key. Margaret: letters of Bill (brother) to/from parents, 1953-1954.
Box 4 [SCPC-6703]
Archival Resource Key. Margaret: letters to/from Bob's parents, 1942 - circa 1953.
Box 4 [SCPC-6703]
Archival Resource Key. Margaret: letters to/from children, 1961.
Box 4 [SCPC-6703]
Archival Resource Key. Margaret: miscellaneous letters written and received, undated.
Box 4 [SCPC-6703]
Archival Resource Key. Bob: letters written, 1936-1941.
Box 5 [SCPC-6704]
Archival Resource Key. Bob: letters written, 1942-1943.
Box 5 [SCPC-6704]
Archival Resource Key. Bob: letters written, 1944.
Box 5 [SCPC-6704]
Archival Resource Key. Bob: letters written, 1945-1946.
Box 5 [SCPC-6704]
Archival Resource Key. Bob: letters written, 1948-1949.
Box 5 [SCPC-6704]
Archival Resource Key. Bob: letters written, 1950-1959.
Box 5 [SCPC-6704]
Archival Resource Key. Bob: letters written, 1960-1962.
Box 5 [SCPC-6704]
Archival Resource Key. Bob: letters written, 1963-1969.
Box 5 [SCPC-6704]
Archival Resource Key. Bob: letters written, 1970-1979.
Box 5 [SCPC-6704]
Archival Resource Key. Bob: letters written, 1980-1989.
Box 5 [SCPC-6704]
Archival Resource Key. Bob: letters written, 1990-1993.
Box 5 [SCPC-6704]
Archival Resource Key. Bob: letters written, 1994, undated.
Box 5 [SCPC-6704]
Archival Resource Key. Bob: letters written to sons John and Chris, 1963.
Box 6 [SCPC-6705]
Archival Resource Key. Bob: letters written to sons John and Chris, 1964.
Box 6 [SCPC-6705]
Archival Resource Key. Bob: letters written to sons John and Chris, 1965.
Box 6 [SCPC-6705]
Archival Resource Key. Bob: letters written to sons John and Chris, 1966.
Box 6 [SCPC-6705]
Archival Resource Key. Bob: letters written to sons John and Chris, 1967.
Box 6 [SCPC-6705]
Archival Resource Key. Bob: letters written to sons John and Chris, 1968.
Box 6 [SCPC-6705]
Archival Resource Key. Bob: letters written to sons John and Chris, 1969.
Box 6 [SCPC-6705]
Archival Resource Key. Bob: letters written to son Chris, 1970-1978.
Box 6 [SCPC-6705]
Archival Resource Key. Bob: letters written to son John, 1970-1979.
Box 6 [SCPC-6705]
Archival Resource Key. Bob: letters written to sons John and Chris, 1980-1989.
Box 6 [SCPC-6705]
Archival Resource Key. Bob: letters written to John, 1990-1994.
Box 6 [SCPC-6705]
Archival Resource Key. Bob: letters from sons John and Chris, 1957-1961 circa.
Box 6 [SCPC-6705]
Archival Resource Key. Bob: letters from sons John and Chris, 1964-1965.
Box 6 [SCPC-6705]
Archival Resource Key. Bob: letters from sons John and Chris, 1966.
Box 6 [SCPC-6705]
Archival Resource Key. Bob: letters from sons John and Chris, 1967-1968.
Box 6 [SCPC-6705]
Archival Resource Key. Bob: letters from sons John and Chris, 1973-1979, 1993 (1973-1979).
Box 6 [SCPC-6705]
Archival Resource Key. Letters between sons.
Box 6 [SCPC-6705]
Archival Resource Key. Bob: letters received, 1936.
Box 7 [SCPC-6706]
Archival Resource Key. Bob: letters received, 1937.
Box 7 [SCPC-6706]
Archival Resource Key. Bob: letters received, 1938.
Box 7 [SCPC-6706]
Archival Resource Key. Bob: letters received, 1939.
Box 7 [SCPC-6706]
Archival Resource Key. Bob: letters received, 1940-1941.
Box 7 [SCPC-6706]
Archival Resource Key. Bob: letters received, 1942-1944.
Box 7 [SCPC-6706]
Archival Resource Key. Bob: letters received, 1945.
Box 7 [SCPC-6706]
Archival Resource Key. Bob: letters received, 1946-1949.
Box 7 [SCPC-6706]
Archival Resource Key. Bob: letters received, undated [circa 1940-1953].
Box 7 [SCPC-6706]
Archival Resource Key. Bob: letters received, 1950-1954.
Box 7 [SCPC-6706]
Archival Resource Key. Bob: letters received, 1955-1959.
Box 7 [SCPC-6706]
Archival Resource Key. Bob and Barbara: letters received, 1960-1969.
Box 8 [SCPC-6707]
Archival Resource Key. Bob and Barbara: letters received, 1970-1987.
Box 8 [SCPC-6707]
Archival Resource Key. Bob and Barbara: letters received, 1988-1989.
Box 8 [SCPC-6707]
Archival Resource Key. Bob: letters received, 1993-1994, undated.
Box 8 [SCPC-6707]
Archival Resource Key. Bob: letters from Eunice McElroy, June 1936.
Box 9 [SCPC-6708]
Archival Resource Key. Bob: letters from Irene Brannum (girlfriend), 1936-1938; letter to August 29, 1938.
Box 9 [SCPC-6708]
Archival Resource Key. Bob: letters to Irene Martin (girlfriend), June-September 1939.
Box 9 [SCPC-6708]
Archival Resource Key. Bob: letters from Irene Martin (girlfriend), January-July 1939.
Box 9 [SCPC-6708]
Archival Resource Key. Bob: letters from Irene Martin (girlfriend), August-December 1939.
Box 9 [SCPC-6708]
Archival Resource Key. Bob: letters from Irene Martin (girlfriend), February-August 1940, July 25, 1942 (February-August 1940).
Box 9 [SCPC-6708]
Archival Resource Key. Bob: letters to Molly [Mary Ellen] Cunningham (girlfriend), 1939-1940.
Box 9 [SCPC-6708]
Archival Resource Key. Bob: letters from Molly [Mary Ellen] Cunningham (girlfriend), (1939-1940, 1942).
Box 9 [SCPC-6708]
Archival Resource Key. Bob: letters to/from Elizabeth Daley (girlfriend), June 1940 – October 1941.
Box 9 [SCPC-6708]
Archival Resource Key. Bob: letters from Barbara, 1955-1957.
Box 10 [SCPC-6709]
Archival Resource Key. Bob: letters to Barbara (and Jamie), 1956-1958.
Box 10 [SCPC-6709]
Archival Resource Key. Bob: letters to/from Rhoda Reith (sister?), 1945-1960.
Box 10 [SCPC-6709]
Archival Resource Key. Bob: letters to/from Rhoda Reith (sister?), undated.
Box 10 [SCPC-6709]
Archival Resource Key. Bob: letters from Bonnie, 1957?.
Box 10 [SCPC-6709]
Archival Resource Key. Bob: letters to Barbara from friends etc., 1959-1963.
Box 10 [SCPC-6709]
Archival Resource Key. Bob: letters to/from Marlena and Francisco Montoya (Costa Rica), 1956-1958.
Box 10 [SCPC-6709]
Archival Resource Key. Bob and Barbara: letters from/about Orion Sherwood (re: Golden Rule and time in jail), 1958.
Box 10 [SCPC-6709]
Archival Resource Key. Barbara (mostly): letters of Barbara to/from Patti Fernandez, 1956-1958.
Box 10 [SCPC-6709]
Archival Resource Key. Barbara (mostly): letters of Barbara to/from Patti Fernandez, 1960-1961, undated.
Box 10 [SCPC-6709]
Archival Resource Key. Bob: letters from Betty _____, 1980-1994.
Box 10 [SCPC-6709]
Archival Resource Key. Bob: letters to Joan Thomas, 1977-1979.
Box 10 [SCPC-6709]
Archival Resource Key. Bob and Barbara: letters from Joan Thomas, 1977-1979.
Box 10 [SCPC-6709]
Archival Resource Key. Bob: letters to Joan Thomas, 1983-1989.
Box 10 [SCPC-6709]
Archival Resource Key. Bob and Barbara: letters from Joan Thomas, 1983-1993.
Box 10 [SCPC-6709]
Archival Resource Key. Bob and Margaret: letters from Edward Sakers, 1943-1947.
Box 11 [SCPC-6710]
Archival Resource Key. Bob and Margaret: letters from Edward Sakers, 1948-1949.
Box 11 [SCPC-6710]
Archival Resource Key. Bob and Margaret: letters from Edward Sakers, 1950.
Box 11 [SCPC-6710]
Archival Resource Key. Bob and Margaret: letters from Edward Sakers, 1951-February 1956.
Box 11 [SCPC-6710]
Archival Resource Key. Bob and Barbara: letters from Edward Sakers, May 1956-1957.
Box 11 [SCPC-6710]
Archival Resource Key. Bob and Barbara: letters from Edward Sakers, 1958 circa.
Box 11 [SCPC-6710]
Archival Resource Key. Bob and Barbara: letters from Edward Sakers, 1959-1960.
Box 11 [SCPC-6710]
Archival Resource Key. Bob and Barbara: letters from Edward Sakers, 1961-1963 circa.
Box 11 [SCPC-6710]
Archival Resource Key. Bob and Barbara: letters from Edward Sakers, 1973 circa – 1977 circa.
Box 11 [SCPC-6710]
Archival Resource Key. Bob and Barbara: letters to Edward Sakers, 1938-1956.
Box 11 [SCPC-6710]
Archival Resource Key. Bob and Barbara: letters to Edward Sakers, (1957-1976).
Box 11 [SCPC-6710]
Archival Resource Key. Typed notes from books (pages 13-80), October 13, 1940 – November 29, 1941.
Box 12 [SCPC-6711]
Archival Resource Key. Typed notes from books (pages 81-136), December 6, 1941 – May 27, 1942.
Box 12 [SCPC-6711]
Archival Resource Key. Typed notes (pages 137-223), June 3, 1942 – April 6, 1944.
Box 12 [SCPC-6711]
Archival Resource Key. Typed notes (pages 224-300), June 3, 1944 – October 30, 1944.
Box 12 [SCPC-6711]
Archival Resource Key. Typed notes (pages 301-383), November 4, 1944 – April 11, 1945.
Box 12 [SCPC-6711]
Archival Resource Key. Typed notes (pages 384-448), June 19, 1945 – October 19, 1948.
Box 12 [SCPC-6711]
Archival Resource Key. Typed notes (pages 449-523), January 12, 1949 – September 29, 1949.
Box 12 [SCPC-6711]
Archival Resource Key. Typed notes (pages 524-563), October 25, 1949 – October 24, 1950.
Box 12 [SCPC-6711]
Archival Resource Key. Typed notes (pages 564-629), January 22, 1951 – November 28, 1953.
Box 12 [SCPC-6711]
Archival Resource Key. Reference material: miscellaneous undated.
Box 13 [SCPC-6712]
Archival Resource Key. Reference material: Coshocken CPS Camp, 1940-1947 circa.
Box 13 [SCPC-6712]
Archival Resource Key. Reference material: Conference on The Church and War (Detroit, Michigan), 1950.
Box 13 [SCPC-6712]
Archival Resource Key. Reference material: Conference on The Church and War study materials, 1950.
Box 13 [SCPC-6712]

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