Frederick Joseph Libby papers
Contributors: Libby, Abial
Language: eng
Number of pages: 10000
Subjects: Correspondence; Societies; Child labor; Description and travel; Bible; Pacifists; Union Congregational Church (Magnolia, Mass.); American Friends Service Committee; Phillips Exeter Academy; Peace; Pacifism; Peninsular Campaign, 1862; Campaigns; Private schools; Study and teaching; Prostitution; Birth control; National Council for Prevention of War (U.S.); Military readiness; History
Description: Correspondence, diaries, articles, essays, sermons, notes, financial papers, printed material, broadsides, ship's papers, maps, and other papers relating chiefly to Libby's life and work as a peace activist and executive secretary of the National Council for Prevention of War (1921-1970).  Includes material pertaining to his years as pastor of the Union Congregational Church, Magnolia, Mass. (1905-1911), and as a faculty member at Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, N.H. (1912-1920), to his travels in East Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and the South, and to war relief service with the American Friends Service Committee (1918-1920).  Topics include Bible study, birth control, child labor, military preparedness, pacifism, and prostitution.  Also includes a diary kept by Libby's father Abial Libby as a surgeon with Union forces during the Peninsular Campaign in Virginia in 1862.  Correspondents include Markham W. Stackpole, pacifists Harold Studley Gray and Leyton Richards, and members of the Libby family.
Notes: Open to research.

Gift and deposit converted to gift, Faith Ward Libby, 1971-1977.

transferred to Library of Congress Geography and Map Division.

transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

Clergyman and pacifist; died 1970.

Collection material in English.

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