bMS 16030

Unitarian Service Committee. Correspondence, 1939-1965.

Summary Information:

• Call Number: bMS 16030
• Title: Unitarian Service Committee. Correspondence, 1939-1965.
• Repository: Andover-Harvard Theological Library, Harvard Divinity School, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138-1911
• Quantity: 1 box

Administrative Information:

• Access: There are no restrictions on access to this collection.
• Acquisition Information: Gift of the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee

Historical Note:

The Unitarian Service Committee was formed as a standing committee of the American Unitarian Association in May 1940. Its purpose was to be a committee to investigate opportunities both in America and abroad for humanitarian service. During and after World War II, the Unitarian Service Committee aided hundreds of displaced persons in occupied countries, allowing many of them to find passage to the United States. The present-day Unitarian Universalist Service Committee continues to endeavor to advance human rights and social justice throughout the world.

Scope and Content Note:

This collection consists of letters from well-known people and was culled from other collections and placed here. Most of the letters are directed to staff members of the Unitarian Service Committee.

Container List:

• bMS 16030/1 (1) Adamic, Louis. Six letters to Charles Joy, 1945-1946
• bMS 16030/1 (2) Alvarez del Vayo, Julio. Two letters to Charles Joy, 1944-1945
• bMS 16030/1 (3) Benedict, Ruth. One letter to Edward Cahill, 1944
• bMS 16030/1 (4) Benes, Edward. One letter to Charles Joy, 1946. One letter to Erwin Kohn, 1946
• bMS 16030/1 (5) Biddle, Francis. One letter to Raymond Bragg, 1943
• bMS 16030/1 (6) Bostrom, W. One letter to Charles Joy, 1943
• bMS 16030/1 (7) Brazelton, T. Berry. One letter to William Emerson, 1956
• bMS 16030/1 (8) Buck, Pearl. One letter to Charles Joy, 1943
• bMS 16030/1 (9) Bucke, Emory Stevens. One letter to Mrs. John T. Pitkin, 1945
• bMS 16030/1 (10) Bunche, Ralph. One letter to William Emerson, 1950
• bMS 16030/1 (11) Burton, Harold Hitz. Twenty-two letters to several USC members, 1942-1946
• bMS 16030/1 (12) Cabot, Henry B. One letter to Charles Joy, 1943
• bMS 16030/1 (13) Compton, Karl. Four letters to William Emerson, 1941-1950
• bMS 16030/1 (14) Declaration of Democratic Independence to the President and the Congress of the USA (copy), c. 1943
• bMS 16030/1 (15) Dewey, Thomas. One letter to Irving Murray, 1947
• bMS 16030/1 (16) Dulles, Allen. One letter to Robert Dexter, 1942
• bMS 16030/1 (17) Eisenhower, Dwight D. One cable sent on behalf of Eisenhower to USC, 1947
• bMS 16030/1 (18) Field, Marshall. One letter to Miss Mildred Boie, 1941
• bMS 16030/1 (19) Green, William. Two letters to two USC members, 1942, 1947. One reply from Isabel Harris, 1942
• bMS 16030/1 (20) Haspl, Karel. One letter to Charles Joy, 1946
• bMS 16030/1 (21) Herter, Christian. One letter to William Emerson, 1947, one letter to Mrs. Martha H. Fletcher, 1943
• bMS 16030/1 (22) Hoover, John Edgar. One letter to Edward A. Cahill, 1944
• bMS 16030/1 (23) Hughes, John C. Eleven letters to three USC members, 1942-1943. One reply from Robert C. Dexter, 1942
• bMS 16030/1 (24) Kennedy, Edward M. One letter to Willard Johnson, 1964
• bMS 16030/1 (25) Kennedy, John F. One letter to Merrill E. Bush, 1950. One general memorandum by assistant, 1954
• bMS 16030/1 (26) Lehman, Herbert. Eight letters to Charles R. Joy, 1942-1945. One each to William Emerson 1949; General Sherman, 1942; and a Mr. Leiper, 1943
• bMS 16030/1 (27) Lodge, Henry Cabot Lodge. One letter to Robert C. Dexter, 1939, one letter to Ms. Martha H. Fletcher, 1943
• bMS 16030/1 (28) Long, Breckinridge. One letter each to Robert C. Dexter, William Emerson, and Charles R. Joy, all 1942
• bMS 16030/1 (29) Mann, Thomas. One letter (copy) to Martha Sharp, 1943
• bMS 16030/1 (30) Marshall, George C. Two letters to William Emerson, 1951
• bMS 16030/1 (31) Mathieson, F.O. Two letters to Howard Brooks, 1947
• bMS 16030/1 (32) Mays, Benjamin. Two letters to Mrs. Dudley Moore, 1954
• bMS 16030/1 (33) Meyerhof, Otto. Ten letters to Robert Dexter, 1940-1941, one letter to Waitstill Sharp, 1940
• bMS 16030/1 (34) Morganthau, Henry Jr. One letter to Charles Joy, 1944
• bMS 16030/1 (35) Murray, Irving. Four copies of letters from William Green, Pierce Paassen, James Duff, and Philip Murray (?), 1947
• bMS 16030/1 (36) O'Dwyer, William. Two letters to Howard Brooks, 1945, one letter to Charles Joy, 1945
• bMS 16030/1 (37) Roosevelt, Eleanor. One letter to William Emerson, 1949, two letters by secretary to Charles Joy, 1944
• bMS 16030/1 (38) Saltonstall, Leverett. Four letters to USC members, 1943-1964, one letter to Carlton Fisher, 1950
• bMS 16030/1 (39) Sargent, Porter. One letter to William W. Gallagher, 1943
• bMS 16030/1 (40) Schlesinger, Arthur B. Two letters to Frederick M. Eliot, 1948
• bMS 16030/1 (41) Schweitzer, Albert. Two letters to Howard Brooks, 1945, one to Charles Joy, cc: Protestant Episcopal and Congregational churches USA, 1945. Five to George M. Marshall (and two by Miss Ali Silver, his nurse), 1961-1965
• bMS 16030/1 (42) Sikorski, General. One letter to Unitarian Service Committee, 1943, one letter by secretary to Charles Joy, 1943
• bMS 16030/1 (43) Smith, Margaret Chase. One letter to Rev. Carleton B. Fisher Bean, 1950
• bMS 16030/1 (44) Stimpson, Henry O. One letter to Charles Joy, 1944
• bMS 16030/1 (45) Tolstoy, Alexandra. One letter each to J. Harry Hooper and Charles R. Joy, 1941, one letter to Mrs. Alexis O. Hay, 1944
• bMS 16030/1 (46) Toscanini, Walter. One letter to Charles Joy, 1945, one letter received from Edward Cahill, 1944
• bMS 16030/1 (47) Truman, Harry S. One cable to Irving R. Murray, 1947, one Letter to Lee Marshall, 1947, one undated message
• bMS 16030/1 (48) Unidentified. Four letters to various USC members by unidentified signers, 1945-1947
• bMS 16030/1 (49) Upham, J.H.J. One letter to Charles Joy, 1943. One WWII era policy statement endorsed by National Medical Council on Birth Control, undated. One WWII era statement cosigned by religious leaders, undated
• bMS 16030/1 (50) Wagner, Robert. Two letters to Robert Dexter, 1939, 1944; one unsigned printed American Palestine Committee form, undated.
• bMS 16030/1 (51) Walsh, David. One letter to Seth Gano, 1942.