Swarthmore College Special Collections, Collection Details
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- Friends World Committee for Consultation: RG 1/01
- A Quaker Action Group, 1965-1973. Collection: RG 074
Friends World Committee for Consultation. Section of the Americas Records, 1933-2000. RG 1/01
Region: Asia
(Key: Box #; Box Description; Year; Box Concerns what country/region)
36. London office: Secretary's travels. Includes Herbert Hadley's Travel Diary of his visiting journey to Asia, Australia, and the Pacific Area. Year 1959.
80. World Conference of Friends: Finance: South and Southeastern Asia. Year 1966. Concerning: Asia
Box 87. World Conference of Friends: Publicity: Asia. Year 1967. ConcerningAsia
140 Sessions of World Committee: Twelfth Session: Asian Conference in midst of sessions 1973
140 Sessions of World Committee: Twelfth Session: Asian Conference in midst of sessions: Mailing. Includes "Quakerism in Asia" by Marjorie Sykes 1972-1973
143 Correspondence: Asia and West Pacific Section 1977-1978
144 Correspondence with Japanese, Korean, and Chinese individuals
155 Correspondence: Douglas and Dorothy Steere. Includes travel journals written during his travels in Japan, India, Hawaii, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Thailand, Nepal, Kenya, Germany, England, and South Africa 1970-1976
93 Correspondence: Errol T. Elliott. Includes a series of sixteen “Interpretation reports” written during Errol T. Elliott’s intervisitation travels to Hawaii, Japan, Hong Kong, Korea, India, Africa, and Athens 1960-1961
148 Correspondence: T. Canby Jones. Includes "Visits with Friends in East Asia: Japan, Korea, Taiwan" by T Canby Jones, and "Korea is Lamb's War Country" by T Canby Jones 1970-1976
Region: China
7 Letter to Friends in China 1943
31 China Delegation 1958
73 United Nations, Quaker Program minutes and reports. Includes "Some Questions regarding the position of QUNP on the subject of China representation at the UN" 1960
Region: Japan
18 Japan Friends News 1945-1949
22 Committee on Paul Sekiya 1954
25 Japanese Conference against atomic and hydrogen bombs 1956-1957
26 Peace Conference in Japan 1953
42 Correspondence: Paul Sekiya. Includes "Japanese Reaction to Rearmament," including a handwritten draf, by Paul Sekiya 1954-1956
43 General Correspondence: Tr-Tz, 1950-1959. Includes "Friendly Travels: Notes from Japan" by Gretchen Tuthill 1950-1959
53 Correspondence: Japan projects, 1956-1957 1956-1957
67 Japan Friends News 1950-1951
75 Inter-Faith Colloquia in Japan and India: Christians and Zen Buddhists 1966-1967
100 Correspondence: Levinus Painter. Includes “Travel Epistles” of Levinus Painter from his travels in 1964 through Japan, Egypt, Greece, and Kenya 1964
148 Correspondence: Japan Committee 1970-1973
82, 88, 91 Papers relating to World Conference of Friends: Japan 1967
Region: Korea
56 General: United Nations: "Background Papers no. 79: The Question of Korea (1950-1953) 1950-1953
75 Conferences: Quakerism in Korea 1969
88 World Conference of Friends: Korea 1967
92 Correspondence: Herbert and Gertrude Bowles. Includes "History of Spiritual Growth of Friends in Korea" by Herbert and Gertrude Bowles 1963-1964
96 Correspondence: Korea Friends 1965-1966
102 Correspondence: Douglas Speere. Includes Reports of Douglas Steere's intervisitation trips taken to...Korea 1967
108 Correspondence: International Quaker Aid: Korea 1966-1969
109 Korea Reserve Fund 1963-1965
118 Seoul [Korea] Monthly Meeting 1961-1969
131 Ad Hoc Committee to consider Persons, needs, projects, related to Seoul Friends Meeting, Korea minutes 1974
144 Correspondence with Janice Clevenger, 1974-1976. Janice Clevenger was a Friend who spent a large amount of time in South Korea, particularly Seoul, and these files chronicle her extensive interaction with South Korean Friends 1974-1976
150 Korean Friends, 1969-1974. Includes a report of Floyd H. Sidwell's visit to Korea 1969-1974
Region: Vietnam
74 United Nations: Quaker Program minutes and reports. Includes "The Civil War in Vietnam: Background and Prospects" by Robert S. Browne 1964
112 General: United Nations: Vietnam. Includes "American Quakers and Vietnam" by Revecca Timbers Taylor and L. Emerson, Lamb 1967-1969
128 Mailings (literature): "Three Months in Vietnam" by Stephen G. Cary 1966
A Quaker Action Group, 1965-1973. Collection: DG 074
23 Programmatic Efforts: China Project: sponsorship of Sharon Willoughby (to join Phoenix crew on personal voyage of Earle Reynolds to China), 1969 [includes 1968 voyage by Earle & Akie Reynolds] 1969 China
Concerning China
40 Reference Materials: China
Concerning Japan
20 Correspondence: Japan
20 Correspondence: Japan: Beheiren [Japan Peace for Vietnam Committee] 1967-1969
20 Correspondence: Japan: Nicola & Walton Gieger
23 Programmatic Efforts: Okinawa, Japan Project [proposed and discussed only]
35 Programmatic Efforts: Aid To Vietnam Through "Phoenix" Voyages: Phoenix Project/s: correspondence with Beheiren (Japan) Asia: Japan & Vietnam
35 Programmatic Efforts: Aid To Vietnam Through "Phoenix" Voyages: Phoenix Project/s: Phoenix Project/s: correspondence with World Friendship Center (Japan)
40 Reference Material: Japan
44 Reference Material: Beheiren (Japan “Peace for Vietnam” Committee) Asia: Japan
ALL This is a collection of materials from a group focused on Vietnam. Search the finding aid for more specific references Vietnam
23 Programmatic Efforts: Asia Committee Asia
36 Programmatic Efforts: Aid To Vietnam Through "Phoenix" Voyages: Phoenix Project/s: correspondence with crew members: Carl Zeitlow (AQAG Field Representative. in Asia), Jan.-Aug. 1967 1967 Asia
Elkinton, RG5/37
Abbreviated Finding Aid (Number at beginning indicates the box number in which the items are found)
- 17. Travel Diary, 1952, Japan
- 23. Pictures Taken on Trip to Orient and Described in letters (moved to PA 60)
- 27. China correspondence
- 28. Vietnam, Friends Service Council (36) re: China
- 29. With Hirakawa, Seiju, and Umeko: correspondence with Anna G. Elkinton, 1940-1959; Japan
- Japan ('53-'65)
- Kamiyo, Micko Maida
- Orient, correspondence: Trip Jan.-May 1931
- 30. Travel Letters
- 37. Speeches
- 1931. 11 mo. 25. China and Japan. Article in Evening Public Ledger
- 1958. 3 mo. 19. Notes for a talk to a group of Presbyterian women, on Japan
- 1966. 3 mo. 16. "A Chinese Quaker"
- 38. China Workshop, 1967
- 48. Travel Journal, Japan and Hawaii, 1984 (David Cope Elkinton)
- 49. Correspondence: Mary Nitobe while in Japan - 1935-'36
- 31-33. J. Passmore Elkinton Correspondence
- 34-36. Anna Grissom Correspondence
- Books: Forty-three years in Japan (Binford, 1950), Japan (Borton, 1950), Japan Since 1931: Its Political and Social Development (Borton, 1940), etc.
Examples from Quaker Journals found in the Friends Historical Library
Vol. 94, 1937
A Letter from China (William W. Cadbury)
Those of us who have spent years in Chian are able to realize the magnitude and importance of the present conflict better than you who have never lived in the Far East. For more than twenty years Japan has been preparing for the subjugation of the Chinese race…
Within an area of a block these three bombs destroyed more than 100 hourses and killed between 300 and 400 men, women, and children. Here is an unprecedented example of deliberate murder upon defenseless and peaceful citizens…
Those of us representing the ideals of freedom and democracy to the Chinese, in some cases during twenty or thirty years of intimate contact with them, have grown to greatly admire the people of this nation; and especially during the past few years, under the leaderhip of Generalissimo and Madame Chiang kai Shek, we have observed the rapid upbuilding of a great people, among whom the principles of democracy hold the first place in the minds of the rulers…
The Friend [London]
Vol. 95, 1937
Quakerism in Japan (Seiju Hirakawa, Clerk of Japan Yearly Meeting)
…In the land of Japan, long before this Quaker seed was sown, there were the Wang Yang Ming school of Confucianism, and the Zen sect of Buddhism, which taught that the way is open for men’s hearts to receive immediate guidance by practicing silent meditation. Granted that this conception was not a popular one, there was yet a common basis for exchange with the principles of Friends…
It cannot be denied that Japan is militaristic and imperialistic. But it is also a fact which must not be overlooked, that there is in the country a strain of peace principle and liberal thought…
There is need for economic and political cooperation. But the most essential thing is spiritual co-operation. The Christianisation of the world must be the joint responsibility and the co-operative task of Christians. Without the Christian transformation of the world, world peace will not come. Without the transformation of Japan by the Christian gospel, true peace will not come to the Far East.