Papers, 1736–1973, 47 boxes. Includes some items pertaining to the Doukhobors following their emigration from Russia.
Janney-Timbres
Papers, ca. 1920–75, in process. Papers of Harry Garland Timbres, Quaker doctor, who died in Russia in 1937, and also of his wife, Rebecca Janney Timbres Clark. Included are several articles by Rebecca Janney Timbres Clark about life in the Soviet Union in the late 1930s. (Record Group 5)
John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892)
Papers, 1790–1957, ca. 700 items. Quaker poet and abolitionist. Includes letter of 22 April 1891 to Francis J. Garrison in which he admits misgivings about the Society of American Friends of Russian Freedom's campaign against Russian lack of freedom because "our treatment of seven million of colored Americans" was so similar; and a letter of 3 July 1891 to Garrison concerning Russian political exiles, Russian despotism, and George Kennan.
Lucy Biddle Lewis (Biddle Papers)
Lewis papers, ca. 1919, 24 items (of ca. 1,000 items in the Biddle Manuscripts). Member of the Swarthmore College Board of Managers. Includes 3 letters discussing Russian relief; a typescript (by John and Lydia Rickman?) entitled "Conditions in Eastern Siberia and Manchuria in the Autumn of 1918"; An Eyewitness from Russia, published by the People's Information Bureau (London, 1919); and a photostat of "Picture of Russian peasant life in the period August 1916-September 1918," apparently written by John and Lydia Rickman. 2 ALS, 26 and 30 April 1919, are to Lydia Rickman. The first speaks of an interview with Dr. Fridtjof Nansen and Herbert Hoover about Russian relief (Nansen headed the Neutral Commission to get supplies into Russia). The second recounts a meeting with Jane Addams, Lillian D. Wald, Emily Greene Balch, and others concerning relief efforts. Another letter of 30 April 1919 to Wilbur K. Thomas again concerns the interview with Nansen and Hoover. (NUCMC 60–2194, in part)
Miers Fisher
Sr. Journals, 1803–18, several vols. Quaker. On 30 September 1813 he reports learning of the death in St. Petersburg of his son, Miers, Jr. (Manuscript Journals)
Rebecca Timbres Clark
Papers, 1853-1999 [bulk 1920-1990]. 35 boxes; 18 linear ft. Rebecca Timbres Clark's long life spanned the twentieth century and reflects the humanitarian and social work undertaken by the American Friends Service Committee and other Quaker organizations, as well as the personal life of a family with many ties to the Philadelphia and Baltimore Quaker communities, including the Janney, Sinclair, Turner, and Holmes families. The collection contains extensive correspondence, journals (1913-1989), biographical data, articles, speeches, reviews, poetry, pictures, and memorabilia. The collection covers in detail her relief work in eastern Europe and Russia, undertaken by Clark and her first husband, Harry Garland Timbres, a Quaker physician, under the auspices of the American Friends Service Committee. The collection includes material relating to their medical and social work in India working in a school founded by Rabindranath Tagore whose poetry deeply influenced the couple. Rebecca wrote a book, We Didn't Ask Utopia, published in 1939, which describes her work and life with Harry Timbres. Rebecca's subsequent work in Hawaii, as well as later correspondence concerning her work with Friends World Committee and other Quaker organizations, is also covered by collection. In her later years, she worked on her autobiography which remains in multiple draft form. Correspondents include Charles Freer Andrews, Rabindranath Tagore, and Horace Alexander. Finding aid available: http://www.swarthmore.edu/library/friends/ead/5026ticl.xml
Rotch-Wales Collection
Papers, ca. 1780–1882, ca. 22 ft. on 4 microfilm reels. Includes correspondence of William Rotch, Sr. and Jr. to Thomas Rotch, 1802 and 1812, that relate to commerce with Russia. Originals in the Massillon (Ohio) Public Library. (NUCMC 72–964, for Massillon Public Library)
Thomas Clarkson
Material on his interviews with Alexander I at Paris, 23 September 1815, and at Aix-la-Chapelle, 9 October 1818. They discussed the slave trade and peace. (Miscellaneous Manuscripts)
Wheeler Manuscripts
Ca. 1 in., 1820–43. Quaker family. Includes description, dated 19 December 1832, of the death of Jane, wife of Daniel Wheeler (1771–1840) at Shoosharry (Shusharri), near St. Petersburg. Also a letter 13 January 1833 by daughters Jane and Sarah to an aunt, H. Brady, about the illness of their brother Charles and the need for postponing the burial of their mother. (Small Collections)
Wilbur Kelsey Thomas (1882-1953)
Papers, ca. 1915–34, 1 ft. Executive secretary of the American Friends Service Committee, 1918–29. He was active in post-World War I relief efforts for Russia and Germany (the Friends Feeding Mission). A portion of his letters, addresses, and writings pertains to this humanitarian work and other public service. Unpublished checklist (NUCMC 67–2115).
William Allen
Quaker. Extracts from his memorandum book concerning a visit to Westminster Meeting in London by Emperor Alexander I and an interview with him, 19–21 June 1814. (Miscellaneous Manuscripts)
William Hubben (1895-1974)
Quaker writer and editor, emigrated from Germany in 1933. Collection includes unpublished typescript, 304 pp., "The Making of the Russian Mind: Profiles from the Russian Past" and several articles about Russian history and literature, especially concerning the writings of Dostoevskii [Dostoevsky/Dostoyevskii/Dostoyevsky] and Soloviev. (Record Group 5)
