THE QUAKERS IN THE AMERICAN COLONIES

London: Macmillan, 1911. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition, 8vo,blue cloth, gilt spine titles, xxxii, 603, (2), 4 foldout maps at page 580. Font hinge slightly reveled, solid, clean copy. INSCRIBED by Jones on the ffe: "With best wishes of his friend and teacher. Rufus Jones". Laid-in are two, ANS from Jones on Haverford College stationary addressed to "friend" dated Jan 19 and Jan 30, 1929 about details involved in Jones speaking appearance on "The Challenge of the Closed Door". Both notes are folded and in an envelope postmarked Jan 21, 1929 with Rufus' printed name and return Haverford College adress, hand-adressd to George Montgomery at West Philadelphia High School. envelope da Rufus Matthew Jones (1863 - 1948) was an American religious leader, writer, magazine editor, philosopher, and college professor. He was instrumental in the establishment of the Haverford Emergency Unit (a precursor to the American Friends Service Committee). ones was born into an old Quaker family in South China, Maine where he attended services at the Pond Meeting House and then the newer South China Meeting House. In 1885 he graduated from Haverford College in Pennsylvania, and stayed on to earn his M.A. there in 1886. From 1893 to 1912 he was the editor of the Friends' Review (later called The American Friend); from this position he tried unsuccessfully to unite the divided body of Quakers. In 1901 Jones received another M. A., from Harvard. He also began teaching philosophy and psychology at Haverford in 1893 and continued to do so until retiring in 1934.