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Elbert Russell Writings

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Held at: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College [Contact Us]500 College Avenue, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania 19081

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

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Elbert Russell (1871-1951) was a Quaker teacher, historian, and writer. His was a leading voice in bringing the insights of liberal, British Friends on the primacy of revelation and the importance of scholarship in the renewal of faith into American Quakerism. Russell accepted the pastoral system but was opposed to the revivals of the holiness movement. Starting iin 1895, he was a professor of Bible at Earlham College, where he also served as chaplain. He resigned his position in 1915 after his proposal to strengthen the Quaker nature of the college, by building a large meeting house on campus for both students and the yearly meeting, was rejected. He later taught at Johns Hopkins, then became Dean at Duke University.

This collection contains primarily published articles, sermons, stories, and poems by Elbert Russell.

Donor: Marcia Russell Gobbel, 1965

Collection was arranged in categories when received. Described and stored in Record Group 5.

Publisher
Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Finding Aid Author
FHL staff
Finding Aid Date
19650
Sponsor
Encoding made possible by a grant by the Gladys Kriebel Delmas Foundation to the Philadelphia Consortium of Special Collections Libraries
Access Restrictions

Collection is open for research.

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Collection Inventory

Archival Resource Key. My Genia, 10/1893.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. An Apparent Failure, 5/1899.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. In the April Snow, 3/1912.
Box 1

Archival Resource Key. Simplicity, 1941 or 1942.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Truth and Truthfulness, 1941 or 1942.
Box 1

Archival Resource Key. Until Death Do Us Part, by 1926.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Our Quaker Ideals of Marriage, 9/1949.
Box 1

Archival Resource Key. Quaint Old Kendal of Kendal Green Fame, 1909.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. The Little Girl God Forgot, probably 1925.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. If Mother Were Not my Mother, 2/19/1927.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Published in the Friends Intelligencer

Archival Resource Key. Washington's Greatness, 1934 (?).
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. East of Suez, 3/3/193.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Sent to American Friend and Friends Intelligencer.

Archival Resource Key. Gone With the Wind, 1944 (?).
Box 1

Archival Resource Key. Esau and Jacob, 9/4/1902.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. The Opening of Eyes to the Blind, 4/28/1910.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. The House of Omri, 1912.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Lot, 8/17/1911.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

The American Friend

Archival Resource Key. Isaac and Rebecah, 1-12-1911.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Walking With God, 3/8/1924.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Not This Man But Barrabbas, 1925 (?).
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Possibly published elsewhere or unpublished.

Archival Resource Key. Mary and the Master, 8/8/1925.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. At the Sign of the Pitcher, 9/5/1925.
Box 1

Scope and Contents

All published in the Friends Intelligencer except "An Appreciation."

Archival Resource Key. Dare We Trust Them With It, 1921.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. The Appeal of the Far East, 2/26/1921.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. An Appreciation (Marcia Doan), 7/22/1921.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Published in The Quaker.

Archival Resource Key. The Cult of Pleasure, 1/19/1929.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. A New World Power at Geneva, 12/13/1924.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. The Price of Free Institutions, 10/16/1926.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. The Good Citizen's Oath of Office, 1/12/1929.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Social Repentance, 6/7/1930.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Man or Mule, 8/23/1930.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. The Human Element in Industry... The Laundryman's Guide, 1/1932.
Box 1

Archival Resource Key. Keeping the Faith, 10/4/1924.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Published in the Friends Intelligencer

Archival Resource Key. What Christmas Brought, 1927.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Published in the Friends Intelligencer

Archival Resource Key. The Door Being Shut in Fear, 9/22/1928.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Published in the Friends Intelligencer

Scope and Contents

Published in Beacon Lights No.3

Archival Resource Key. Others, 1934.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Published in Beacon Lights No.4

Archival Resource Key. St. Paul on Sectarianism, 8/17/1939.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Published in The American Friend

Archival Resource Key. The Teaching of Jesus, ca.1942-45.
Box 1

Archival Resource Key. A Society of Peace-makers, 4/5/1919.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Published in the Friends Intelligencer

Archival Resource Key. Allen Jay, 6/9/1910.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Published in The American Friend

Archival Resource Key. An Appeal to Young Friends, 3/17/1910.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Published in The American Friend

Archival Resource Key. The Christian Life, 1916.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

First William Penn Lecture

Archival Resource Key. The Quaker Challenge to a World of Force., 4/1921.
Box 1
Physical Description

pamphlet

Archival Resource Key. The Quakerism of George Fox, 1/14/1922.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Published in the Friends Intelligencer

Archival Resource Key. Meeting for Worship, 6/24/1922.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Published in the Friends Intelligencer

Archival Resource Key. Attitudes of Worship.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Continued as part of a series.

Archival Resource Key. Worship and Christian Living.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Public Prayer, 10/13/1923.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Published in the Friends Intelligencer

Archival Resource Key. As Truth Leads, 7/14/1928.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Published in the Friends Intelligencer

Archival Resource Key. Impressions of the Friends World Conference, 10/2/1937.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Published in the Friends Intelligencer

Archival Resource Key. Quakerism and Modern Bible Study.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Published in the Friends Intelligencer 7/7/1951; also in The Washington Conference by William I. Hull

Archival Resource Key. From a series called "The Seed Picker" by Spermologos for over a year in the Friends Intelligencer., 1926.
Box 1
Physical Description

2 articles

Archival Resource Key. The Pattern of Christianity, 5/15/1913.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Also published in The American Friend.

Archival Resource Key. Thou Hast Gained a Brother, 6/29/1929.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Condensed in Christian Brotherhood No. 38 and in Friends Intelligencer.

Archival Resource Key. Stories written mostly at Earlham College for presentation in Chapel.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

List of titles in folder.

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