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  <titleInfo>
    <title>Frederick Joseph Libby papers, 1846-1973 (bulk 1890-1970)</title>
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    <namePart>Libby, Frederick J. (Frederick Joseph)</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1874-1970</namePart>
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    <extent>45 1</extent>
    <extent>18.2</extent>
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  <abstract>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.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Most maps transferred to Library of Congress Geography and Map Division.</note>
  <note>Most photographs transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.</note>
  <note>Clergyman and pacifist; died 1970.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
  <note xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms003063">Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms003063</note>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Gray, Harold Studley</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1894-</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Richards, Leyton</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1879-1948</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Stackpole, Markham W. (Markham Winslow)</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Libby family</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>American Friends Service Committee.</namePart>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>National Council for Prevention of War (U.S.)</namePart>
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    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>Phillips Exeter Academy.</namePart>
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    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>Union Congregational Church (Magnolia, Mass.)</namePart>
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      <title>Bible</title>
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    <topic>Study and teaching</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Birth control</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Child labor</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Military readiness</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Pacifism</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Pacifists</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Peace</topic>
    <topic>Societies, etc</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Peninsular Campaign, 1862</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Private schools</topic>
    <geographic>New Hampshire</geographic>
    <geographic>Exeter</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Prostitution</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>East Asia</geographic>
    <topic>Description and travel</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Europe</geographic>
    <topic>Description and travel</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Middle East</geographic>
    <topic>Description and travel</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Southern States</geographic>
    <topic>Description and travel</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>Civil War, 1861-1865</temporal>
    <topic>Campaigns</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Virginia</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>Civil War, 1861-1865</temporal>
    <topic>Campaigns</topic>
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    <occupation>Clergy</occupation>
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  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Pacifists</occupation>
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      <title>Abial Libby diary. 1862</title>
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