STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MISSOURI RESEARCH CENTER-ST. LOUIS
UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-ST. LOUIS
For a list of the images in this collection click here and go to the SHSMO photograph database
James F. Hornback donated the records of the Ethical Society of St. Louis to the Western Historical Manuscript Collection-St. Louis on February 24, 1984.
The Ethical Society, a liberal religious community, has emphasized humanistic principles and social service over particular religious dogmas, rituals, and traditions. Members from all religious backgrounds have attended its Sunday meetings, schools, young people's organizations and adult discussion groups. The Society has organized speakers on public issues to address the membership at its meeting hall at 9001 Clayton Road. Many local civic leaders have belonged to the Society, including Alexander Langsdorf, one of the founders of the Committee for Nuclear Information, peace sociologist Theodore Lentz, anti-nuclear activist Kay Drey and environmentalist Barry Commoner.
Felix Adler (1851-1933) founded the Society for Ethical Culture in New York City in 1876. Born in Germany, Adler came with his parents to America in 1857 when Temple Emanu-El appointed his father, Dr. Samuel Adler, as rabbi. Early experiences with his parents helping the poor in New York's tenements, his marriage in 1880 to Helen Goldmark, who actively participated in community service, and his exposure to Immanuel Kant and socialism at Columbia College helped lead Adler to develop a philosophy of ethics and social reform.
After Adler completed his doctorate in Semitica at Heidelberg in March 1873, Cornell University appointed him to a non-resident lectureship in Hebrew and Oriental Literature. On return weekend trips to New York, Adler's informal meetings with friends developed into the Society for Ethical Culture, formally established with approximately one hundred members on May 15, 1876. The Society began a "Workingman's School" and a kindergarten to teach ethical values and religious fellowship that did not depend on dogma or theological creed.
Adler unsuccessfully attempted to organize a similar group in St. Louis in June 1883. The organization dissolved shortly thereafter due to Adler's philosophical differences with the atheism of its leadership. Adler did organize an Ethical Society in Chicago and appointed William Salter (1853-1931), a former Unitarian minister, as lecturer. Another former Unitarian, S. Burns Weston (1855-1936), helped organize the Society for Ethical Culture in Philadelphia in 1885.
In April 1886, Weston invited Walter L. Sheldon (1858-1907) to give a lecture series on the aims of the Ethical Society to an audience of fifty people in St. Louis. Weston had met Sheldon four years earlier while studying philosophy in Berlin. After the lecture series, supporters of the movement founded the Society for Ethical Culture of St. Louis. Felix Adler provided the new society's opening address. Upon the group's invitation, Walter Sheldon became the lecturer and leader of the St. Louis society in November 1886. He remained in that position until his death in June 1907.
Sheldon was raised in Vermont and received his undergraduate education at Middlebury College and Princeton. He enrolled in October 1881 at the University of Berlin where S. Burns Weston introduced him to the Ethical Movement. Sheldon returned to New York with Weston in 1883 and began work with the Ethical Society as an editor and director of the Young Men's Union. After his appointment to the St. Louis Society, Sheldon lectured at the Pickwick Theatre on Washington Avenue until a permanent residence for the Society was established at the original St. Louis Art Museum's Memorial Hall on 19th and Locust.
The St. Louis society adopted a constitution and bylaws at a meeting chaired by Mr. James Taussig in November 1886. It incorporated under the name "Society for Ethical Culture in St. Louis" on May 14, 1887. The Society formally changed its name to the popularly used "Ethical Society of St. Louis" in August 1896.
In addition to Sunday lecture series and services, the Ethical Society organized clubs and classes to discuss politics and literature from an ethical standpoint. In 1891 it founded the Greek Ethics Club, a women's group directed by Walter Sheldon in the study of Greek and World literature. The Political Science Club was founded in 1892 to arrange speaking engagements by political leaders, scholars and local citizens. In January 1901, the Society founded the "Colored People's Self-Improvement Federation" which organized an annual course of lectures for blacks. Blacks were excluded from the Society's regular programs.
In March 1888 the Society opened free reading rooms for wage earners on the second floor of a dairy located on Franklin Avenue. It also established a kindergarten for children under six years old directed by its Ladies Philanthropic Club under the leadership of Society member Martha Fischel. In December 1888 the Society created the Domestic Economy School to teach homemaking skills to working class women for personal use and self-reliance, not as training for employment.
As the practical philanthropies of the Society grew, it rented a building on 18th and Washington and opened a "Self-Culture Hall," or free community school for working people. The Self-Culture Hall offered lecture programs for working women on Thursday evenings, another lecture series on Friday, a variety of social activities including concerts and excursions, and provided reading rooms for use by men on evenings and Sundays. The Society incorporated a separate Self-Culture Association in June 1893 which bought the rental property three years later.
Walter Sheldon hired E.N. Plank as assistant lecturer and assigned him to direct the work of the hall. Plank was later succeeded by the Ethical Society's Sunday School superintendent W. H. Lighty. Roger Baldwin, who later became president of the American Civil Liberties Union, also served as a director of the Self-Culture Hall. The Association opened a second Self-Culture Hall in South St. Louis in 1895. Several other halls were opened and closed in St. Louis neighborhoods as community interests dictated. The Self-Culture Hall was subsumed by St. Louis' Neighborhood Association on North 21st Street in 1911.
Sheldon led the Self-Culture Association until the fall of 1905, thereafter remaining as an ex-officio board member while continuing his work as lecturer and leader of the Society. In addition to his Sunday lectures, Sheldon published addresses and pamphlets on ethical culture and wrote several books: An Ethical Sunday School (New York: 1900); Lessons in the Study of Habits (Chicago: 1903); A Study of the Divine Comedy of Dante (Philadelphia: 1905); and Summer Greetings From Japan (St. Louis: 1908). After a nine-month illness, Walter Sheldon died in June 1907 of "a complications of diseases caused by overwork" according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Shortly after his death, Sheldon's widow, Anna Sheldon contributed an endowment to the Society for the construction of a permanent office on Washington Boulevard. With matching funds raised from its membership, the Society built and moved into the new facility, named the Sheldon Memorial, in 1912.
Percival Chubb replaced Sheldon as the leader of the Ethical Society in 1911. Born in Devonshire, England in 1860, Chubb received his education in the English Civil Service and served for ten years on the Local Government Board of London. Chubb became a charter member of the Ethical Society of London. He came to America in 1889 and worked actively with Felix Adler and the New York Society.
After his appointment as leader of the St. Louis Society, Chubb revived the Greek Ethics Club, which had lanquished after Sheldon's death. The group shifted its focus to the study of fiction, poetry and essays and was renamed the Contemporary Literature Circle. Chubb also led the society in pacifist resistance to World War I. In June 1916 he organized an anti-war demonstration at the St. Louis City Hall; in January 1917 the Society hosted a rally by the National League to Enforce Peace. After the war began, however, the Society contributed to relief efforts, encouraged the purchase of liberty bonds and otherwise patriotically supported American involvement in the war.
In 1913, Chubb served on the executive committee of the St. Louis Federation for Good Citizenship, a group that distributed information on public office holders and political candidates. In 1915 and 1916, he directed a city flag design competition for the St. Louis Pageant Association. During the Depression, Chubb spoke against disregard of Prohibition and was critical of the press and the educational system. He also chaired the League for Independent Political Action in the 1930s. Chubb's book, On The Religious Frontier: From An Outpost of Ethical Religion, was published in 1931.
Chubb retired in 1933. He was replaced by J. Hutton Hynd who had also been active in the London society. Hynd became permanent leader in February 1933 and remained in that position until 1950. J. F. Hornback became the Society's leader in September 1951. Hornback joined the Chicago Ethical Society in 1941, served as leader-in-training with the New York and Brooklyn Societies from 1942 until 1944, and was appointed leader of the Westchester County Ethical Society in 1947. (see collection sl 667)
Under Hornback's leadership, the Society moved from its location at the Sheldon Memorial in 1964 to its current facility on Clayton Road, a site considered a local architectural landmark. The Society continued to use the Sheldon Memorial for chamber music concerts for the next ten years. Subsequent owners have continued to use the building, noted for its acoustics, to present concerts.
In 1983 Hornback submitted his dissertation, The Philosophic Sources and Sanctions of the Founders of the Ethical Society to Columbia University. Hornback retired as director of the Society in November 1984 and was replaced by his assistant, John Hoad.
SCOPE AND CONTENT
The Ethical Society of St. Louis Records, 1880-1986, documents liberal religion in St. Louis. The records primarily document the development of the St. Louis Society from its founding in 1886 to the present. Addresses by Felix Adler, founder of the national movement, and some early newsletters from the Ethical Societies in Brooklyn, Chicago, Philadelphia and New York have been retained with the collection.
The records are divided into sixteen series: (1) Addresses and Pamphlets by Felix Adler, 1880-1921 (f.1-4); (2) Addresses, Pamphlets and Lectures by Walter Sheldon, 1888-1924 (f.5-70); (3) Addresses, Pamphlets, Lectures and Memorials by Percival Chubb, 1898-1940 (f. 71-81); (4) Addresses and Radio Talks by J. Hutton Hynd, 1948-1953 (f.82-84); (5) By Laws, Constitution and Statements of Purpose, 1892-1955 (f. 85); (6) Annual Reports, 1887-1904 (f. 86-89); (7) Correspondence, 1887-1902 (f. 90-154); (8) Membership Applications and Subscriptions, 1896-1930 (f. 155-196); (9) Membership Lists, 1888-1901, (f. 197-210); (10) Meeting Minutes, 1907-1958 (f.211-266); (11) Financial Ledgers, 1899-1934 (Volumes 1-6); (12) Sheldon Memorial, 1910-1927 (f. 267-286); (13) Histories and Papers, 1954-1983 (f. 287-290); (14) Newsletters, Bulletins and Programs, 1888-1986 (Volumes 1-20, some programs appear in Series 15); (15) Scrapbooks, 1895-1957 (Volumes 1-46); and (16) Photographs 444.1 to 444.44.
The first four series document the ideas and lecture styles of the society's founder and the earliest directors of the St. Louis society. The Felix Adler series dates from six years prior to the founding of the St. Louis society. It reflects Adler's ideas on the Workingman's School and Free Kindergarten, the aims of the ethical culture movement, disarmament, gambling and patriotism. The addresses appear in pamphlets published by the Society and in issues of Ethical Addresses, its monthly lecture supplement.
The Walter Sheldon series, the largest of the four, contains Sheldon's typewritten lecture scripts. Topics include literature, politics, religion, education and psychology. Percival Chubb's addresses concern childhood education, literature and memorials for deceased members of the Society. The collection does not contain a large amount of material from the Society's fourth leader, J. Hutton Hynd. The Hynd series includes eight lectures by Hynd and radio talks prepared in the 1940s for KMOX Radio's "Church of the Air" program broadcast in the 1940s and KWK Radio's "Religion In Life" series in the 40s and 50s. The series also contains addresses and broadcasts by Alexander Langsdorf, R. Walston Chubb and other Ethical Society leaders.
Series 5 and 6 comprise the administrative files of the Society. Series 5 includes published statements on the society's purpose and aims, its constitution and its bylaws. This material primarily dates from 1892-1919; it includes a constitution and bylaws of the American Ethical Union from 1953. Series 6 contains annual reports from 1887 to 1904.
Series 7 includes correspondence from Walter Sheldon to executive committee member Robert Moore, secretary Paul Coste and other members of the Society about financial matters, meeting hall arrangements, and marriage laws, 1888-1906; inquiries about the Society from members and interested parties; member resignations; correspondence from James Taussig, W. E. Fischel, Fred Herzog and other early officers of the society; the 1912 invitation to Percival Chubb to lead the St. Louis society; and correspondence on the opening of the Sheldon Memorial in 1912; correspondence with Chubb, 1911-1930s, including letters documenting the St. Louis Pageant's flag competition, 1915; the League to Enforce Peace, 1917, and Chubbs' support of independent presidential candidate, Robert M. LaFolette in 1924. The series also includes correspondence with Martha Fischel, A. S. Langsdorf and other Ethical Society leaders.
Series 8 and 9 consist of applications for membership in the Ethical Society, subscriber contribution forms from 1896 to 1930 and membership lists from 1888 to 1936 and 1951 to 1952. The membership lists, Series 9, also contain committee and club memberships and files on deceased and former members from 1900 to 1980 selected by James F. Hornback. These files include correspondence, biographical data, newsclippings, photographs, obituaries and memorial service programs.
Series 10 includes meeting minutes of the Society's Drama League, Executive Committee, councils and clubs, the St. Louis Community Forum and Peace Group, the St. Louis School of Social Economy, the United Nations Discussion Group, the Women's Auxiliary, and the Young People's Assembly. The series contains only a small amount of material from the Self-Culture Association, including an annual report, budgets and bulletins. The collection does not include material from the Society's "Colored People's Self-Improvement Federation."
The Ethical Society's financial ledgers from 1899 to 1934 comprise Series 11.
Series 12, contains bids, building plans, contracts and specifications, correspondence, newsclippings, financial records and dedication literature on the construction and opening of the Sheldon Memorial in 1912. It includes some blueprints and floor plans of the building, its windows and its elevators. The series also contains literature on the Society's farewell to its Memorial Hall headquarters on 19th and Locust.
Undated note cards for a proposed paper on the history of the St. Louis society, a paper on the social life of St. Louis written by a former president of the society, and J. F. Hornback's dissertation, Philosophic Sources and Sanctions of the Founders of Ethical Culture, constitute Series 13.
The Newsletters, Bulletins and Programs series, Series 14, includes pamphlets, circulars and bulletins from the Ethical Societies in London, Brooklyn, Chicago, Philadelphia and New York from the late 1800s to the early 1900s. It also includes some non-Ethical Society literature, possibly used in the Self-Culture Hall reading rooms. However, the series primarily contains Sunday Program cards, 1894-1928, 1912-1954, and 1954-1956; issues of the Ethical Record, 1899-1902; monthly bulletins 1914-1932; Anniversary Programs, 1916-1936; the Children's Sunday Assembly Twice A Year newsletter, 1922-1926; Chamber Music Concert Programs, 1930-1980; and the St. Louis Society's weekly bulletin and newsletters, including The Ethical Record, 1899-1902; the News Letter, 1909-1914; Bulletins, 1931-1952; News Notes, 1938-1961; and Ethical Weekly, 1972 and 1985-1986.
Series 15 contains scrapbooks reflecting the activities of the Ethical Society and its leaders. The series is divided into two sub-series: Scrapbooks, 1895-1958 (vols. 1-38); and Junior Sunday Assembly Scrapbooks, 1923-1946 (vols. 39-46). The first series provides a particularly valuable source for documenting Percival Chubb's relationship to the local press and his direction of the St. Louis Pageant's flag competition in 1915-1916. In addition to newsclippings, the scrapbooks contain meeting notices, programs, convention publicity material from the society's forty-fifth anniversary in 1931 and its fiftieth anniversary in 1936. The second series contains Junior Sunday Assembly registers, programs, calendars and announcements, 1923-1942.
The final series, Photographs 9263-9307, includes photographs from the 1920s to the 1950s of the Ethical Society's original meeting place at the Museum of Fine Arts' Memorial Hall, Sheldon Memorial, a portait of Walter Sheldon, photos of the society's members and its Boy Scout troop.
SERIES DESCRIPTION
1. Felix Adler, 1880-1921, folders 1-4. Divided into two sub-series: Addresses, 1880-1924, folders 1-3; and Pamphlets, undated, folder 4. Both series arranged chronologically.
2. Walter Sheldon, 1888-1919, folders 5-70. Divided into four sub-series: Pamphlets and Addresses, 1888-1908, folders 5-8; Lectures, undated, folders 9-68; Books, 1900-1919, folder 69; Memorials, 1907, folder 70. Arranged chronologically except the Lectures series, which is divided into the following subject categories:
The Bible, folder 9.
Biographies, folders 10-12
The Body, the Mind and the Intellect, folders 13-14
Children's Material, folder 15
Civil War, folder 16
Civilizations, folders 17-18
Eastern Religions, folders 19-20
Ethics for the Young, folder 21
Ethics and Liberal Religion, folders 22-24
Evolution, folder 25
Evolution of Religion, folders 26-27
Evolution of Religious Beliefs, folder 28
Greeks, folder 29
Literature, folders 30-35
Literaure and Art, folder 36
Love of One's Country, folder 37
Marriage and Family Life, folder 38
Miscellaneous, folders 39-47
Philosophy, folders 48-51
Plea on Behalf of Moral Training In The Public Schools, folder 52
Prophet Elijah, folder 53
Psychology, folder 54
Psychology of Feelings, folders 55-56
Quotations, folder 57
Relation of Ethics To Science, folder 58
Relationship Between the Sexes, folder 59
Religion of..., folders 60-61
Social and Economic Reform, folders 62-64
Social Rights and Duties, folder 65
Socrates, folder 66
Study of Habit, folder 66
World Affairs, folder 68
The lectures are arranged alphabetically by title within the folders.
3. Percival Chubb, 1898-1924, folders 71-81. Divided into six sub-series: Pamphlets and Addresses, 1898-1924, folders 71-73; Lectures, 1923-1936, folders 74-74; Child Study, 1916-1933, folder 75; Memorials by Chubb, 1912-1924, folder 76-79; On The Religious Frontier (New York: 1931), folder 80; and Mrs. Anna Hartshorne Sheldon Chubb Memorial Service, 1924, folder 81. Arranged chronologically.
4. J. Hutton Hynd, 1936-1953, folders 82-84. Divided into two sub-series: Addresses, 1948-1953, folder 82; and Radio Talks, 1942-1953, folders 83-84. Arranged chronologically.
5. By Laws, Constitution and Statements of Purpose, 1892-1955, folder 85. Arranged chronologically within the folder.
6. Annual Reports, 1887-1904, folders 86-89. Arranged chronologically.
7. Correspondence, 1887-1902, folders 90-154. Arranged chronologically.
8. Membership Applications and Subscriptions, 1896-1930, folders 155-196. Arranged chronologically.
9. Membership Lists, 1888-1901, folders 197-210. Arranged alphabetically by club, committee and group title.
10. Meeting Minutes, 1907-1958, folders 211-266. Divided into five sub-series: Drama League, 1913-1925, folders 198-224; Executive Committee, 1904-1925, folders 225-231; Other Groups, 1905-1958, includes Advisory and Planning Council, American Ethical Union, Boy Scout Troop 21, Contemporary Literature Reading Circle, Greek Ethics Club, Library Committee, Men's Club, St. Louis Community Forum and Peace Group, St. Louis School of Social Economy, Sunday Morning Assemblies, United Nations Discussion Group, the Women's Auxiliary, folders 232-249; Self-Culture Association, 1892-1905, folders 250-254; Young People's Assembly, 1904-1950. Folders arranged alphabetically within each series.
11. Financial Ledgers, 1899-1934, 8 volumes. Arranged chronologically.
12. Sheldon Memorial, 1909-1927, folders 267-286. Includes bids, building funds and plans, contracts and specifications, correspondence, dedication literature, library book lists, lighting plans, Memorial Hall Farewell, newsclippings, blueprints, window and elevator plans. Arranged alphabetically by form.
13. Histories and Papers, nd, 1954, 1983, folders 287-289. Includes undated history project note cards by Robin Jones; "St. Louis: The Social Life of A Modern Metropolis" by David Carpenter and Stuart Queen; and J. F. Hornback's 1983 dissertation The Philosophic Sources and Sanctions of the Founders of the Ethical Society. Arranged chronologically.
14. Newsletters, Bulletins and Programs, 1888-1986, Folder 290, 19 volumes. Includes non-Ethical Society publications from America and England, 1884-1938; Program Cards, 1894-1956; Newsletters and Monthly Bulletins, 1899-1986; Anniversary Programs, 1916-1936; and Chamber Music Concert Programs, 1930-1980. Arranged chronologically. Microfilm.
15. Scrapbooks, 1895-1957, 42 volumes. Includes meeting notices and newsclippings, 1896-1958; St. Louis Pageant newsclippings, 1914-1916; Anniversary Convention Publicity scrapbooks, 1931 and 1936. Arranged chronologically. An enrollment book from 1910-1913 appears on microfilm at the end of the series.
FOLDER LIST
BOX 1 (124493)
SERIES 1 - FELIX ADLER, 1880-1921, FOLDERS 1-4
Folder 1. Addresses by Felix Adler, 1880-1905: The Workingman's School and Free Kindergarten, 1880, Address of May 15, 1876 Twentieth Anniversary of the Society for Ethical Culture of New York, June 1896, Marcus Aurelius: A Philosopher on the Throne, Jan., 1900, Changes in the Conception of God, Dec. 1902, The Punishment of Children, Nov. 1905,
2. Addresses by Felix Adler, 1906-1909: Twentieth Anniversary Celebration, May 5, 1906, The Moral Effect of Gambling, Sept. 1908, Foreign Experiences and Loyalty to American Ideals, Oct. 1909, The Aim of the Ethical Culture Societies, 1909
3. Addresses by Felix Adler, 1911-1924: The Point of View of the Ethical Culture Societies, Sept. 1911, The Ethical Culture Movement, Dec. 1911, Ethical Development Extending Through Life, Sept. 1912, False Ethics in Social Reform Movements, Nov. 1913, The Ethical Society, What It Means, 1915, Religion and the Joy of Life, 1919, Disarmament: Its Ideals and Possibilities, 1921, The Ideal of Culture for Business Men, 1924,
4. Pamphlets by Felix Adler, n.d.: An Ethical Programme for Business Men, Ethical Religion and the Child, A New Rule of Ethical Living, The Purpose of the Ethical Movement.
SERIES 2 - WALTER SHELDON, 1888-1919, FOLDERS 5-70
5. Pamphlets by Walter Sheldon, n.d., 1886-1894: An Ethical Movement, A Volume of Lectures, n.d. Ethical Culture, Its Threefold Attitude, 1886, The Meaning of Ethics, 1888,
Ethics in the Sunday School, 1888, The Meaning of the Ethical Movement, 1891, Ethics and the Belief in a God, 1892, A Plea for the Ethical Valve of Poetry, 1893, True Heroism and What It Means, 1893, True Liberalism, 1894,
6. Pamphlets and Addresses by Walter Sheldon, 1894-1897: What Does It Mean To Be Religious, and What Is Religion?, 1894, Marriage and Its Ideals, 1894, What We Mean By Duty, Jan. 1895, Don't, 1895, Never, 1895, Sayings from Mohammed, 1895, Sentences from the Brahman's, 1895, Sentences from Buddhism, 1895, Thoughts from the Chinese Sages, Confusius and Mencius, 1895, What Good You Do in Becoming a Member of an Society, 1895, What an Ethical Society Is Not, 1895, What Is an Ethical Society, 1895, What To Believe, 1895, What To Remember, 1895, What To Think, 1895, Well Known or Important Passages from the Writings of Herbert Spencer, n.d., Does Justice Triumph in the End?, A Study of Shakespear's Lear, Dec. 1897
7. Pamphlets and Addresses by Walter Sheldon, 1898-1899, "The Songs of Nature, Audobon the Naturlaist," 1898-1899, Reasons for Hope and Cheer for Everybody, 1899-1900, A Summary of the More Recent Views Concerning the Bible I, II, March-April, 1899, Why Prosperity Does Not Always Bring Happiness, November 1899, The Wage Earners' Self-Culture Clubs of St. Louis, March 1900, The Belief in One God, April 1901, Hawthorne's "Scarlet Letter," November 1901, The Marriage Problem of To-Day, Feb.-Mar. 1902, What Makes Life Worth Living, Jan. 1903-1908,
8. Pamphlets and Addresses of Walter Sheldon, 1903-1908, The Story of Daniel, December 20, 1903, Some Characteristic Selections from the Writings of Immanuel Kant, February 12, 1904, What It Means to Work for a Cause, December 1904, A Graded Course of Moral Instruction for the Young, April 1905, What the Ethical Idealist Has to Fight for, Sept. 1905, A Personal Request from Mr. Sheldon to the Members of the Ethical Society to Commemorate the Anniversary, April 16, 1906, Poem Read by Mr. Sheldon on the Closing Sunday of His 21st Year as Lecturer of the Ethical Society, May 5, 1907, Ethical Aspect of the Belief in Immortality, April 1908
LECTURES OF WALTER SHELDON
Folder 9. The Bible; Garden of Eden; King David; Proverbs; Psalms; Samson; Use of the Bible for Ethical Purposes
10. Biographies: John Adams; Barney Barnato; Marie Bashkirtseff; Otto Von Bismarck; Napoleon Bonaparte; Charles Darwin; Ralph Waldo Emerson; Benjamin Franklin; Galileo
11. Biographies: Gladstone; David Harum; Oliver Wendell Holmes; Immanuel Kant; Sir Isaac Newton; Saint Paul; Spinoza; Alexander Von Humboldt;
12. Biographies: Von Moltke; George Washington; A Season's Lessons in Biographies Connected with some of the Rudiments in the Evolution of Ethical Theories
Folder 13. The Body, The Mind, The Intellect, Parts 11-13
14. The Body, The Mind, The Intellect, Parts, 14-32
Folder 15. Children's Material: The Flax; The Mountains and the Sea; The Oak Tree and the Ivy; The Teapot; Big Clock's Prejudice; The Glory of Prickly Bear; How Should We Supplement the Story of Jesus in the Religious Education of the Young; Little Grains of Sand; Pear Tree
16. Civil War: Battles of the Civil War; The Fight for Missouri and the Opening Battles There
17. The Civilizations of Cuba and Venezuela; The British Empire; The German Empire; Italy
18. The Civilizations of Japan: Japan and Russia; South America; The Story of the Struggle for Liberty in the History of the Human Race
19. Eastern Religions: Brahmanism; Buddha and Buddhism; Confucius and the Religion of China
20. Eastern Religions: Ancient Egypt; Mohammed and Mohammedanism; Zoroaster
BOX 2 (124494)
21. Ethics for the Young, Sixth Series, the Evolution of Belief Concerning the Deity
The Advisability of Teaching Ethics in the Public Schools, Outline of Two Lectures Given at Des Moines on Teaching Ethics in Public Schools, March 1904
22. Ethics and Liberal Religion: Ethics of Communism and Socialism; Ethics of Greece; God of the Bible Contrasted with the God of History; Moral Significance of the Design Argument in the Belief in a God; The New Liberalism in Religion; The Question of Cain: "Am I My Brother's Keeper?"; The Question of Pontius Pilate: "What Is Truth?"
23. Ethics Of Liberal Religion: The Religion of Agnosticism; The Religion of Today; The Self-Made Man; Spiritualism and What There Is To I; The Study of Nature as an Influence on the Mind and Character; A Universal Interpretation of the Christmas Festival
24. Ethics of Liberal Religion: What Does It Mean to be Happy and What is a Happy Life?; What Is True Culture?; What Is the True Way To Keep Sunday?; Who Did Sin That This Man Was Born Blind?
25. Evolution: The Evolution of Human Society; The Evolution of Justice; The Evolution of Life; The Evolution of Man; The Religion of Charles Darwin; The Theory Of Evolution--Herbert Spencer; A Tribute to Herbert Spencer
26. Evolution of Religion: "The Bible Is Passing Out of Use..."; Does It Make Any Difference What A Man Believes, So Long As He Is Sincere?; The Evolution of Religion; The Greatest Sin In All the World
27. Evolution of Religion: How Can One Be Reverent Without Being Superstitious?; The Most Important Thing in All the World; Mythology Versus Philosophy in the History of Religion; Pessimism; What Is the Highest of All Virtues?
28. Evolution of Religious Beliefs: The Beginnings of Religion; Evolution of Religious Beliefs (incomplete); The God of the Bible and the God of Natural Science; Religion In The Early World;
29. Greeks: Aeschylus and the New Gods; Ancient Greece and the World of Homer; Plato; Sophocles
30. Literature: Frances Bacon; Balzac, "Pere Goriot"; William Cullen Bryant; Bryant's "Thanatopsis"; Lord Bryon; Winston Churchill, "Crisis"; Dante's Conception of Sin And Its Punishment
31. Literature: Charles Dickens' "Bleak House"; "David Copperfield"; "The Old Curiosity Shop" by Charles Dickens; "A Tale Of Two Cities" by Charles Dickens; The Religion Of George Eliot; The Views Of Life As Held by George Eliot; George Eliot's "Middle March"; Points to be Discussed in Reference to Felix Holt; Goethe, Trilby; Some Great Thoughts from Goethe; Goethe, 150th Anniversary; The Wisdom of Goethe; The Classic Poem, "The Elegy Written in a Country; Churchyard" by Thomas Gray; Nathaniel Hawthorne;
32. Literature: Victor Hugo's "Les Miserables"; Victor Hugo's "Notre Dame De Paris"; Quotations From "Life and Letters of Thomas H. Huxley"; The Plays of Ibsen; Omar Khayyam; "The White Man's Burden" and "The Recessional" by Kipling; James Russell Lowell Manner, Lord Chesterfield's Letters;
33. Literature: Paradise Lost by John Milton in Contrast with the Divine Comedy by Dante; Friedrich Schiller;
34. Literature: Anthony and Cleopatra; Shakespeare as a Religious Teacher; "As You Like It"; Cymbeline; Shakespeare's "Measure for Measure"; Merchant of Venice; Shakespear's "Othello"; The Play of "Othello"; Shakespeare's "Taming of the Shrew";
35. Literature: The Poetry of Tennyson; Tennyson's "Princess" as a Problem Poem; Thackeray's "Vanity Fair" and the "Vanity Fair"of Real Life; "The Resurrection" by Tolstoy; Quo Vadis;
36. Literature and Art: Audobon the Naturalist, Songs of Nature; John Bunyan, What Can Be Learned from "The Pilgrim's Progress"; Hall Caine's Christian; George Eliot, Notes for a Talk on "Adam Bede"; What We Owe to the Late John Fiske; Hawthorne's "Scarlet Letter"; Hawthorne's "Marble Faun"; Charles Kingsley, "Hypatia"; The Message of the Poetry of Longfellow
37. Love of One's Country
BOX 3 (124495)
38. Marriage and Family Life: The Family and the Home; History and Development of the Institution of Marriage; Religious Education Of Children; The Story of the Evolution of Marriage
39. Miscellaneous: Agnosticism; Angelus; The Art of Keeping Perpetually Young; Averbach, "On The Heights"; The Bible of Christian Science; Carlyle, Thoughts Upon "Sartor Resartus"; Childhood, Youth, Middle-Life and the Last Years: A Monologue; Children of the Ghetto; The Choice of Hercules; Contrast of the Views of Life as Held by Thackeray and Hawthorne (An Ethical Sermon); Crime And What Is To Be Done About It
40. Miscellaneous: Definitions of Justice from Various Authors; Different Kinds of Heroes; Robert Elsmere; Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine; Ethical Views of the Poet Goethe; Extracts from the lecture on "The Feeling Of Love"; First Year's Work of the Society; Alexander Hamilton; The Heart and How It Works;
41. Miscellaneous: How Should We Deal with the God Idea in the Religious Education of Our Children; Influence of the Mind Over the Body; Influence of Webster; The Inspiration That Comes from the Knowledge of Astronomy; Instinct and Habit; The Institution of the State; The Interest of Civilization In the Past and Future of Russia; The Jefferson Bible; Life and Work of the Teacher
42. Miscellaneous: Light of Asia, Edwin Arnold; Little Dorritt; London; Meaning of the Springtime Festival; Memorial Services; The Mind and What There Is in It; The Mississippi Valley; The Month of April and Its Meaning In Human Life; The Moral Significance of the Idea of Providence in the Belief in a God; The Mystery of Life
43. Miscellaneous: The New Testament from a Human Standpoint; Notes ; Notes for a Talk to the Students at Lebanon on the "Pleasures of the Intellectual Life"; Notes of a Lecture Given to the Predagogical Society; Our Country and Our Devotion to Our Country; The Outlook for Religion at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century; Plea for the Chinese
44. Miscellaneous: Points Concerning the "Ethik" by Haoefeding; The Real Washington; The Religion of To-Day as Contrasted with that of Fifty Years Ago; Romola; Royce's "The World and the Individual"(ten minute paper read at Professor Lovejoy's Philosophical Club, Oct. 1902); Schiller, Aesthetic Culture, Ninth Letter; Selections from the Ethics by Wundt; The Self or the Soul; Shakespeare's Hamlet; Silken Cord of Love;
45. Miscellaneous; The Soul of Man in its Abnormal State; Spain; Special Suggestions to Teachers Using These Lessons in "Duties Pertaining to One's Self"; Spinoza; The Teachings of Spinoza, Their Success and Failure as Illustrated in Auerbach's novel, "On The Heights"; A Study of the Heroes and Explorers of the Mississippi Valley; Suggested Answers to the List of Questions on "Henry Esmond"; Thanksgiving Day, 1901; Thirty Centuries of Human Progress; Thought and Where it Starts from; To Be a Man with Thy Might
46. Miscellaneous: To Have Lived in the Nineteenth Century; To What Extent is Democracy a Failure?; The Truth And Error in the Saying That Might Makes Right; Twelve Sayings from Amiel
47. Miscellaneous: What Can Be for the State a Religion for Everybody; What is Conscience?; What Makes Life Worth Living?; What One Learns As One Gets Older; Why the American People Sympathize With Japan; Why the Sun Shines Alike Upon the Just and the Unjust; The Will and What it Can Do; Young Men and Their Interest in Art;
48. Philosophy: Brahamanism; Buddhism; Cause of Causes of Panics and Hard Times; Concerning the Unsatisfactoriness of the Classification of Duties and Virtues in Many of the Modern Treatises on Ethics; Criterion of a Good Form of Government; Dante's Conception of Good Conduct and its Reward Compared with the Teachings of the Present Day; Ralph Waldo Emerson; Sentences from Emerson
49. Philosophy: Euripides and a Picture of Athens at the Close of its Renaissance; The Forerunner of the French Revolution Rousseau; Sentences from Huxley; Sentences From Locke; The Influence of James Russell Lowell; Sentences from Milton; Modern Scepticism - Is It Dangerous?; Sentences From Montaigne
50. Philosophy: Notes for "The Americanism of Emerson and Whitman"; Notes for a Talk About Goethe; Notes for a Talk on Hawthorne; Plato the Father of Philosophy; Plato, The Greatest of All the Philosophers; Plato's Republic; Preliminary Talks: Golden Age; Ideas of the Deity; Ages of History; Sacred Books; Proverbs
51. Philosophy: Seneca; Sentences from Rousseau; Sentences and Paragraphs from Jeremy Taylor and Sir Thomas Browne; Sheldon's Study of Special Habits and Sheldon's Duties in the Home and Family; Socrates and Greek Culture in the Age of Pericle's; The Work of Thomas Jefferson;
52. A Plea on Behalf of Moral Training on the Public Schools
53. The Prophet Elijah
54. Psychology: The New Psychology
55. Psychology of Feelings: Points of the Lesson; Dislike, Aversion and Hate; Fear; The Feeling of Love
56. Psychology of Feelings: Feelings About the Beautiful; Pleasure and Pain; Religious Feeling
57. Quotations
BOX 4 (124496)
58. Relation Of Ethics To Science
59. Relationship Between The Sexes
60. Religion of Marcus Aurelius; Napoleon Bonaparte ; Giordano Bruno; Epictetus; Epicurus And The Epicureans; Ralph Waldo Emerson
61. Religion of Goethe; Hamlet; Nathaniel Hawthorne; Victor Hugo, As Suggested by "Les Miserables" Dec. 7, 1902; Abraham Lincoln; "Marcella"; Rousseau; Socrates; Success and Failure of the Sermon on the Mount
62. Social And Economic Reform: The Columbian Anniversary; Contrasts Between Social Conditions and Social Reform Movements in England and the United States; Contrast Between the Social Reform Movement in Movement in England and the United States; Devotion to our Country; The Good Side to Prosperity; Life and the Struggle To-Day Compared With Life and the Struggle one Hundred Years Ago; Meaning and Significance of the Coal Strike; Quixotic Tendencies of the Nineteenth Century
63. Social and Economic Reform: Notes for a Talk on Criminology; The One Truth in All Social Theories; The Right And Wrong of an Income Tax; The Struggle Between Science and Religion; The Struggle One Hundred Years Ago; What Do We Mean By Success?;
64. Social And Economic Reform: What Is Right Action?; What Is the True Love of Country? What Would Be the Best Way to Improve the World?; What We Spend Our Money How Can We Do It At the Same Time In Such A Way As Best To Help Our Fellow Men?
65. Social Rights and Duties: Meaning and Ideal of Justice; Social Rights and Duties; The Wheel of Fortune or the Ties or Distinctions Made by Nature or Necessity;
66. Socrates (incomplete)
67. Study of Habit, 1902-1903: Ambition; Power of Habit; Pride; Pursuit of Pleasure: When It Is Right and When It Is Wrong; Self-Control
68. World Affairs: Ethical Considerations in the Irish Home-Rule Question; The German Emperor's New Stop in the Social Problem; Outcome of the War with Spain
69. Books by Walter Sheldon, 1900-1919: An Ethical Sunday School, New York, 1900; Lessons in the Study of Habits, Chicago, 1903; A Study of the Divine Comedy of Dante, Philadelphia, c.1905; Summer Greetings from Japan, privately printed, c.1908; Story of the Life of Jesus for the Young Philadelphia, 1909; Thoughts from the Writings of Walter L. Sheldon, selected by C.B., St. Louis, 1919
SERIES 3 - PERCIVAL CHUBB, 1898-1924, FOLDERS 71-81
70. Memorials, 1907: Walter L. Sheldon, An Appreciation, by Professor Frank Tilly of Cornell University, 1907; In Memorium, Pamphlet, June 5, 1907; Ethical Addresses, Vol. XV, No. 11, Sept. 1907; Funeral Service of Walter L. Sheldon; Words Spoken at Funerals by Mr. Sheldon; Marriage ceremony by Mr. Sheldon; Ethical Addresses, Vol. XV, No. 2, Oct. 1907; Walter L. Sheldon Memorial Addresses; Felix Adler: W.A. Brandenberger; William M. Salter: Fanny M. Bacon; John Lovejoy Elliott: George R. Dodson; Robert Moore: Samuel Sale; William Taussig: M. Anesaki; S. Burns Weston: M. Anesaki; Memorial Meeting, December 1907
71. Pamphlets and Addresses by Percival Chubb, n.d.: An Ethical Critique of Atheism, Theoretical and Pratical; Ethical Societies and the Child; The Function of the Festival in School Life; A Gospel for Days of Doubt and Disillusion; The Larger Fellowship; The Mission of the Ethical Movement of the Child; Moral Instruction in Ethical Culture Schools (Chapter XIV) A Naming Service; Our Ethical Faith: A Religion for the Unchurched; The Spirit of Ethical Fellowship; The Teaching of English in the Elementary and Secondary School, n.d.
72. Pamphlets and Addresses by Percival Chubb, 1898-1918: The Conservative and Liberal Aspects of Ethical Religion, December, 1898; Tolstoi's Resurrection, June, 1903; Parsifal and the Quest of the Holy Grail, May 1904; Our Mission and Opportunity, Jan. 1907; Our Ultimate Faith and Alfred R. Wolff Memorial, Feb. 1909; Forerunners of Our Faith: I - Thomas Carlyle and Ethical Conversion, May, 1910; Forerunners of Our Faith: II - Mathew Arnold and Ethical Clarification, June 1910; Dedication of the Meeting-House of the New York Society for Ethical Culture, Oct. 1910; The Origin and Growth of the Ethical Movement, Oct. 1910; The Re-Interpretation of Thanksgiving, Nov. 1910; The Religion of Young America During the War - And After, December 1918; To the Members, Sept. 1918; To the Members, Sept. 1919-1926
73. Pamphlets and Addresses by Percival Chubb, 1926-1940: In Memoriam, John H. Gundlach, April 11, 1926; After Forty Years, 1926; Outline of the Course in Ethical and Religion Education Followed by the Children's Assembly of the Ethical Society of St. Louis, 1926; To the Members, Sept. 1927; To the Members, Sept. 1928; To the Members, Sept. 1929; The Festival: A Project in World Mindedness in School and Home, Vol. XIV, No. 45, May 1930; To the Members, Sept. 1930; The Spirit of Thanksgiving, A Comment on the Sources and Conditions of Gratitude, December 12, 1931; After Thoughts, Some Harvestings from the Field of His Stewardship During Twenty-two Years of Service in the Ethical Society of St. Louis, 1932(?); In Our Time - What We Found and What We Have Eighteenth Birthday Celebration Address, April 28, 1940;
BOX 5 (124497)
74. Lectures and Writings of Percival Chubb: "I Hope in These Days We Have Heard the Last of Conformity and Consistency...," n.d.; Havelock Ellis: Some Reminiscences and Interpretations, c.1923; Let There be Light, Words and Music by Percival Chubb, n.d.; Literary Criticism, etc. Rough Book, c.1895; Notes for Address on the Genius of England, n.d.; Synopsis of Mr. Chubb's Address on "Prayer," n.d.; Richard Wagner's Significance for the Culture and Religion of Today, n.d.; S. Burns Western Memorial, July 1936;
75. Child Study, 1916-1933
76. Memorials by Percival Chubb, 1912-1919
77. Memorials, 1920-1926
78. Memorials, 1927-1930
79. Memorials, 1931-1938
80. Book by Percival Chubb: On the Religious Frontier, New York, 1931
81. Memorial Service in Honour of Mrs. Anna Hartshorne Sheldon Chubb, April 27, 1924
SERIES 4 - J. HUTTON HYND, 1936-1933, FOLDERS 82-84
82. Addresses, 1936, 1948-1951
83. Radio Talks, 1942-1951
84. Radio Talks, 1951-1953
SERIES 5 - BYLAWS, CONSTITUTION AND STATEMENTS OF PURPOSE, 1892-1955, FOLDER 85
85. By Laws, Constitution and Statements of Purpose Aims of the Ethical Movement Its Aims and Ideas; Purposes of a Movement for Ethical Culture; Purposes of a Society for Ethical Culture; What is the Ethical Society?; Constitution and Bylaws of the Society for Ethical Culture, June 15, 1982; The Basis of the Ethical Movement, April 1, 1883; What it is and its World, 1893; Constitution of the American Ethical Union, September 30, 1893; General Aim and Special Aims of the International Unon of Ethical Societies; Items in Connection with the History of the Ethical Society, April 1906; A Historical Sketch by Robert Moore, May 5, 1906; Aims of the Ethical Movement, c.1906; Constitution of the International Union of Ethical Societies, July 1906; The Ethical Society of St. Louis, its Aims and Ideals, February 1908; A Statement of its Purpose and Ideals, November 1910; Constitution and Bylaws, November 15, 1909; Bylaws Amendments, October 2, 1914; Aims of the Ethical Movement, Nov. 29, 1919; Bylaws, 1926-1927; Constitution and Bylaws, 1926-1927; American Ethical Union, Pre-Amble and Bylaws, May 1953; Building an Ethical Society, April 1955 Constitution
SERIES 6 - ANNUAL REPORTS, 1887-1904, FOLDERS 86-89
86. Annual Reports, 1887-1904
87. Annual Reports, 1904-1914
88. Annual Reports, 1915-1916;
89. Annual Reports, 1916-1954
SERIES 7 - CORRESPONDENCE, 1887-1952, FOLDERS 90-154
90. Correspondence, 1887
91. Correspondence, 1888
92. Correspondence, 1891
93. Correspondence, 1892
94. Correspondence, 1893
95. Correspondence, 1895
96. Correspondence, 1896
97. Correspondence, 1897
98. Correspondence, 1898
99. Correpondence, 1899
100. Correspondence, 1900
101. Correspondence, 1901
102. Correspondence, 1902
103. Correspondence, 1903
104. Correspondence, 1904
105. Correspondence, 1905
106. Correspondence, 1906
107. Correspondence, 1907
BOX 6 (124498)
108. Correspondence, 1908
109. Correspondence, 1909
110. Correspondence, 1910
111. Correspondence, 1911
112. Correspondence, 1911
113. Correspondence, 1911
114. Correspondence, 1911
115. Correspondence, 1912
116. Correspondence, 1912
117. Correspondence, 1913
118. Correspondence, 1913
119. Correspondence, 1913
120. Correspondence, 1914
121. Correspondence, 1914
122. Correspondence, 1915
123. Correspondence, 1915
124. Correspondence, 1916
125. Correspondence, 1916
126. Correspondence, 1917
127. Correspondence, 1917
BOX 7 (124499)
128. Correspondence, 1918
129. Correspondence, 1918
130. Correspondence, 1919-1922
131. Correspondence, 1923
132. Correspondence, 1924
133. Correspondence, 1924
134. Correspondence, 1925
135. Correspondence, 1925
136. Correspondence, 1925
137. Correspondence, 1925
138. Correspondence, 1926
139. Correspondence, 1926
140. Correspondence, 1927
141. Correspondence, 1927
142. Correspondence, 1928
143. Correspondence, 1929
144. Correspondence, 1929
145. Correspondence, 1930
146. Correspondence, 1930
BOX 8 (124500)
147. Correspondence, 1930
148. Correspondence, 1931
149. Correspondence, 1935
150. Correspondence, 1936
151. Correspondence, 1937
152. Correspondence, 1938
153. Correspondence, 1952
154. Correspondence, n.d.
SERIES 8 - MEMBERSHIP APPLICATIONS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS, 1896-1930, FOLDERS 155-196
155. Membership Applications and Subscriptions, 1896
156. Membership Applications and Subscriptions, 1910
157. Membership Applications and Subscriptions, 1911
158. Membership Applications and Subscriptions, 1911
159. Membership Applications and Subscriptions, 1911
160. Membership Applications and Subscriptions, 1912
161. Membership Applications and Subscriptions, 1912
162. Membership Applications and Subscriptions, 1912
163. Membership Applications and Subscriptions, 1912
164. Membership Applications and Subscriptions, 1912
165. Membership Applications and Subscriptions, 1913
166. Membership Applications and Subscriptions, 1913
167. Membership Applications and Subscriptions, 1913
BOX 9 (124501)
168. Membership Applications and Subscriptions, 1913
169. Membership Applications and Subscriptions, 1914
170. Membership Applications and Subscriptions, 1914
171. Membership Applications and Subscriptions, 1914
172. Membership Applications and Subscriptions, 1915
173. Membership Applications and Subscriptions, 1915
174. Membership Applications and Subscriptions, 1915
176. Membership Applications and Subscriptions, 1915
177. Membership Applications and Subscriptions, 1915
178. Membership Applications and Subscriptions, 1915
179. Membership Applications and Subscriptions, 1916
180. Membership Applications and Subscriptions, 1916
181. Membership Applications and Subscriptions, 1916
182. Membership Applications and Subscriptions, 1916
183. Membership Applications and Subscriptions, 1916
184. Membership Applications and Subscriptions, 1916
BOX 10 (124502)
185. Membership Applications and Subscriptions, 1917
186. Membership Applications and Subscriptions, 1917
187. Membership Applications and Subscriptions, 1917
188. Membership Applications and Subscriptions, 1917
189. Membership Applications and Subscriptions, 1917
190. Membership Applications and Subscriptions, 1918
191. Membership Applications and Subscriptions, 1918
192. Membership Applications and Subscriptions, 1918
193. Membership Applications and Subscriptions, 1926
194. Membership Applications and Subscriptions, 1927
195. Membership Applications and Subscriptions, 1929
196. Membership Applications and Subscriptions, 1930
SERIES 9 - MEMBERSHIP LISTS, 1888-1901, FOLDERS 197-210
197. Ethical Society Membership Lists, 1888-1901
198. Ethical Society Membership Lists, 1901-1912
199. Ethical Society Membership Lists, 1913-1926
200. Ethical Society Membership Lists, 1926-1937
201. Ethical Society Members Files, 1900-1980 4 microfilm rolls of 33 folders Members files selected by James F. Hornback from the "Ex-members" and "Deceased members" files, 1900-1980, including correspondence, biographigal data, newsclippings, photographs, obituaries, memorial service programs; Roll 1 Joyce Armstrong-Rose Doyne; Roll 2 Drey Family-Walter Hoops; Roll 3 John Kessler-Margery Kirchner; Roll 4 Frank O'Hare-Jennie Wahlert
BOX 11 (124745)
202. Greek Ethics Club, 1898-1900
203. Membership Committee, 1914
204. Men's Club, 1914
205. Men's Discussion Group, 1902-1905
206. New Members, 1951-1952
207. Political Science Club, 1893-1894
208. Young People's Assembly, Mailing Lists, n.d.
209. Young People`s Assembly, Membership LIsts, 1912-1936
210. Woman's Auxiliary Committee, 1902-1904
SERIES 10 - MEETING MINUTES, 1907-1958, FOLDERS 211-266 DRAMA LEAGUE, 1912-1916
211. Annual Conventions, 1912-1916
212. Bylaws, 1925
213. Correspondence, 1915-1919
214. Boston, 1913-1916
215. Chicago, 1913-1916
216. Cincinnati, 1915
217. Financial, 1915-1917
218. Indianapolis, 1914
219. Literature, 1901-1925
220. Los Angeles, 1914-1916
221. Meeting Minutes, 1914-1916
222. New York, 1914-1916
223. Philadelphia, 1914-1916
224. Washington, 1914-1916
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, 1904-1925
225. Executive Committee, 1904-1913
226. Executive Committee, 1910
227. Executive Committee, 1911
228. Executive Committee, 1912
229. Executive Committee, 1913
BOX 12 (124746)
230. Executive Committee, 1914
231. Executive Committee, 1924-1925
OTHER GROUPS, 1905-1958
232. Advisory and Planning Council, 1949-1950
233. American Ethical Union, 1907-1927
234. American Ethical Union, 1936-1937
235. American Ethical Union, 1947
236. American Ethical Union, 1954-1958
237. Boy Scout Troop 21, 1931-1936
238. Contemporary Literature Reading Circle, 1926-1927
239. Greek Ethics Club, 1911-1912
240. Library Committee, 1932
241. Men's Club, 1915-1917
242. Men's Club, 1930
243. Men's Club, 1932-1937
OTHER GROUPS, 1905-1958
244. Musical Club, 1914-1919
245. St. Louis Community Forum and Peace Group, Meeting Minutes, 1921-1937
246. St. Louis School of Social Economy, 1905-1931
247. Sunday Morning Assemblies, 1934
248. United Nations Discussion Group, 1947-1952
249. United Nations Discussion Group, 1952-1956
250. Women's Auxiliary, 1925-1927
SELF-CULTURE HALL ASSOCIATION, 1892-1905
251. Annual Report, 1901
252. Budgets, 1893-1904
253. Bulletins, 1892-1904
254. Correspondence, 1903-1905
255. "The Technique of Self-Culture," n.d.
YOUNG PEOPLE'S ASSEMBLY
256. Board Meeting Minutes, 1933-1941
257. Constitution and Bylaws, n.d.
258. Correspondence, 1919-1925
259. Correspondence, 1929, 1938-1942
260. Literature, 1912-1924
261. Papers, 1930-1931
262. Program for General Exercises, 1904-1905
BOX 13 (124747)
263. Programs, 1909-1936
264. PTA, 1925-1926
265. Youth Encampment, 1948-1950
266. "YPA Yarns," Bulletins and Programs, 1934-1942
SERIES 11 - FINANCIAL LEDGERS, 1889-1939, VOLUMES 1-6, MICROFILM
VOLUME 1. Budgets, 1889-1928
2. Financial Ledger, 1897-1915
3. Day Book Disbursements, 1911-1933
4. Financial Ledger, 1921-1929
5. Chamber Music Concerts, Financial Ledger, 1934-1939
6. Financial Ledger, 1937-1939
SERIES 12 -SHELDON MEMORIAL, 1909-1927
267. Bids, 1910
268. Building Fund, 1915-1916
269. Building Plans, 1909-1910
270. Certificate of Title, 1923
271. Contracts and Specifications, 1911
272. Contracts and Specifications, 1911-1912
273. Correspondence, 1926
274. Correspondence, 1912-1927
275. Dedication Literature, 1912
276. Elevators, n.d.
277. Financial Records, 1911-1916
278. Insurance Records, 1887-1922
279. Sheldon Library Book Lists, n.d.
280. Lighting Plan, 1912
281. Memorial Hall, 19th and Locust, Forewell, 1912
282. Newsclippings, 1909-1913
283. Penny Brigade, 1911
284. Statement of Progress and Prospects, 1911
285. Subscriber Lists, 1909-1910
286. Windows, Blueprints and Subscription List, n.d.
SERIES 13 - HISTORIES AND PAPERS, n.d., 1954, 1983, FOLDERS 287-289
287. History Project Note Cards by Robin Jones, n.d.
288. St. Louis: The Social Life of a Modern Metropolis by David Carpenter and Stuart Queen, 1954
BOX 14(124748)
289. The Philosophic Sources and Sanctions of the Founders of Ethical Culture, by James F. Hornback, 1983
SERIES 14 - NEWSLETTERS, BULLETINS AND PROGRAMS, 1888-1986 MICROFILM
290. Newsletters, February 1, 1987-
1. Publications (England), 1888-1938: Special Report on Elementary Education in Germany, Switzerland and France, by Mathew Arnold, 1888; Emerson, by T.F. Husband, 1892; Seed-Time, The Organ of the New Fellowship, 1893; Democracy in Religion, Education, Art, Industry and Politics, April 13, 1901; The Church of the Past and the Church of the Future, April 1903; Ethics, An Organ of the Ethical Movement, April 11, 1903; Giordano Bruno, by Maurice Adams, 1905; The Ethical World, June 15, 1911; Nietzche and Trietschke, the Worship of Power in Modern Germany, 1914; Beauty or Goodness? - or Both? by John Oakesmith, n.d.; Why We Are At War, by J. Ramsay MacDonald; The Call of the Religion of Humanity To You, by Frederick G. Gould, 1919; Ethnical Religion, by J.S. MacKenzie, March 10, 1920; Religion: Past, Present and Future, by W. Siddle and H. Snell, 1922; The Moral Challenge to the Economic System, by J.A. Hobson, 1933; Distinctive Features of the Ethnical Movement, by Alfred W. Martin, 1938; The Moral Challenge to the Economic System, by J.A. Hobson, 1933; Distincctive Features of the Ethical Movement, by Alfred W. Martin, 1938; Labour Hymns for Labor Church Services, n.d.; Life in Utopia, Old South Leaflet, n.d.; The Land Question, by Henry George, n.d.; 2. Program Cards, 1894-1928
3. The Ethical Record, Dec.1899-Oct/Nov. 1902
4. The Newsletter, Aug. 1909-Oct. 1914
5. News Letter (Brooklyn), 1912-1917
6. News Letter (Chicago), 1912-1918
7. News Letter (International), 1913, 1915
8. News Letter (Philadelphia), 1909-1918
9. News Letter (New York), 1912-1939
10. Sunday Programs, 1912-1956
11. Monthly Bulletins, Oct. 1914-1932
12. Publications (U.S., not published by Ethical Society), 1884-1935: Burns and Religious Matters, by Reverend Dr. W.C. Bitting, Pastor, Second Baptist Church, St. Louis, January 25, 1913; Ethical Theism or Mathew Arnold's Idea of God, A Discourse, by John C. Learned, 1884; Westminster College News Letter, September 1914; Resolutions Adopted at a Mass Meeting of American Citizens at the Coliseum, St. Louis, Missouri, January 10, 1915; America's Just Cause, A Reply to Pacifists, by Horace Bridges, 1917; Westminster College Bulletins, January 1917, March 1917; The Conscience of America Must Answer This Appeal!, Fred Keller, Captain in the Lincoln Brigade Speech at the Sheldon Memorial, n.d.; St. Louis Women At Work, Volume 3, No. 5, December 1921; The Standard, Volume XII, No. 9, May 1926; The Fascist Road to Ruin, by George Seldes, 1935; Right to the Use of the Earth, by Herbert Spencer, n.d.; Single Tax Catechism, n.d.; Single Tax, What It Is and Why We Urge It, by Henry George
13. Anniversary Programs, 1916-1936
14. Twice-A-Year (Children's Sunday Assembly), 1922-1926
15. Chamber Music Concert Programs, 1930-1980
16. Bulletins, 1931-1952
17. News Notes, 1938-1961
18. Program Cards, 1954-1956
19. Ethical Weekly, 1972, 1985-1986
7. Meeting Notices and Sunday Programs, 1922-1925
BOX 15 (124749)
8. Meeting Notices, 1924-1927
9. Meeting Notices, 1924-1928
10. Meeting Notices, 1927-1930
11. Programs and Newsclippings, 1930-1931
12. Convention Publicity, 45th Anniversary, Oct. 9-11, 1931; 50th Anniversary, Nov. 27-29, 1936
BOX 16 (124750)
13. Programs and Newsclippings Scrapbook, 1931-1932
14. Programs and Newsclippings Scrapbook, 1932-1933
15. Programs and Newsclippings Scrapbook, 1933-1934
16. Programs and Newsclippings Scrapbook, 1934-1935
17. Programs and Newsclippings Scrapbook, 1935-1936
18. Programs and Newsclippings Scrapbook, 1936-1937
19. Programs and Newsclippings Scrapbook, 1937-1938
20. Programs and Newsclippings Scrapbook, 1938-1939
21. Programs and Newsclippings Scrapbook, 1939-1940
22. Programs and Newsclippings Scrapbook, 1940-1941
BOX 17 (124759)
23. Programs and Newsclippings Scrapbook, 1941-1942
24. Programs and Newsclippings Scrabpook, 1942-1943
25. Programs and Newsclippings Scrapbook, 1943-1944
26. Programs and Newsclippings Scrapbook, 1944-1945
27. Programs and Newsclippings Scrapbook, 1945-1946
28. Programs and Newsclippings Scrapbook, 1946-1947
29. Programs and Newsclippings Scrapbook, 1947-1948
30. Programs and Newsclippings Scrapbook, 1948-1949
31. Programs and Newsclippings Scrapbook, 1949-1950
32. Programs and Newsclippings Scrapbook, 1950-1951
33. Programs and Newsclippings Scrapbook, 1951-1952
34. Programs and Newsclippings Scrapbook, 1952-1953
35. Programs and Newsclippings Scrapbook, 1953
BOX 18 (124760)
36. Programs and Newsclippings Scrapbook, 1953-1954
37. Newsclippings, 1954-1956
38. Programs and Newsclippings, 1956-1957
JUNIOR SUNDAY ASSEMBLY SCRAPBOOKS, 1923-1946
39. Annual Register, 1923-1931
40. Announcements, 1923-1933
41. Programs and Calendars, 1925-1926
43. "A Record, With A Forward Look," 1934-1936 (includes programs, 1911-1931)
44. Group Activities, February, 1934 (includes programs, 1911-1934)
45. Mailings, 1943-1946
46. Enrollment Book, 1910-1913 (Microfilm)
42. Programs and Announcements, 1932-1942
INDEX
Adler, Felix f. 1-4, 106, 148, 245, series 14, v. 2-3, 5-13, 19 series 15, v. 3, 5, 12, 42
Adult Discussion Group, series 14, v. 10
Advisory and Planning Council, f. 232
Agnosticism, f. 23, 39
American Ethical Union, f. 85, 149, 150, 233-235
An Ethical Movement, f. 99,
An Ethical Philosophy of Life, series 14, v. 10, 11, 19
Anna H. Sheldon Chubb Memorial Window, series 15, v. 9
Anti-Suffrage Movement, series 15, v. 6
Assembly Hall, series 14, v. 10, 13, 18
Baldwin, Roger, f. 120, series 14, v. 2, 4, 10, 17, 18 series 15, v. 3, 29, 36
Barnes, Earl, series 14, v. 10
Bazaar of Nations, series 14, v. 10
Boy Scout Troop 21, f. 237
Boy Scouts, series 14, v. 10, 11
Bridges, Horace J., series 14, v. 10, 12, 17
Business Ethics, f. 3, 4
Business Men's Group, series 14, v. 9
Camp Fire Girls, series 14, v. 11
Chamber Music Concert, series 14, v. 17
Child Care, f. 1, 4, 8, 15, 41, 71
Child Study Group, series 14, v. 10
Children's Sunday Assembly, f. 125, 137, series 14, v. 10, 11, 14 series 15, v. 7, 9, 39, 40
Choral Art Society, series 14, v. 10
Choral Club, series 14, v. 10, 17
Chubb, Anna Sheldon, f. 120, 121, 123, 125, 128, 130, 132, 158, 172, 176, 179, 185, 186, 187, 188, 245, 285
Chubb, Percival, f. 71-81, 87, 109, 110, 111, 112, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 130, 132, 133, 134, 137, 138, 140, 141, 144, 146, 148, 151, 157, 160, 165, 172, 173, 179, 180, 186, 187, 195, 211-224, 234, 240, 243, 258, 266-285, series 14, v. 2-15, 17, 19, series 15, v. 3-13, 17, 19, 21, 42, 43
Chubb, R. Walston, f. 145, 147, 195, 196, 245, 247, sereis 15, v, 10, 36
Coit, Stanton, series 14, v. 10, 17, series 15, v. 9
Clark, Hattie, f. 133
Commoner, Barry, series 14, v. 17
Contemporary Literature and Reading Circle, f. 238, 240 series 14, v. 11, 14, 17
Convention of the American Ethical Union, series 14, v. 8
Cook, Fannie, series 14, v. 31
Coste, Paul, f. 86, 90, 92-99, 102, 203, series 15, v. 2
Daughters of Ethical Society, series 14, v. 2
Davies, Bernard N. Langston, series 15, v. 10
Disarmament, f. 3
Dodson, George R., series 14, v. 7, 10, 13
Downtown Ethical Society, series 14, v. 9
Drama Club, f. 137
Drama League, f. 120, 211-224, series 15, v. 6, 7
Drama Study Group, series 14, v. 6, 10, 11
Education, f. 1-290
Elliot, John L., series 14, v. 11
Ethical Congress, series 15, v. 2
Ethical Convention, series 14, v. 8
Ethical Culture School, series 14, v. 9, 10, 11, 17, 18
Ethical Declaration, series 14, v. 6
Ethical Society, f. 1-290
Ethical Society Board of Religious Organizations, series 14, v. 11
Ethical Toy Shop, series 14, v. 11
Ethics, f. 1-290
Fischel Lee, series 14, v. 10
Fischel, Martha, f. 132, 133, 136-141, 143, 145-148, 151, 152, 154, 172, 240, 244, 245,
258, series 14, v. 10, 11, series 15, v. 7, 10, 11, 22
Fischel Memorial, series 15, v. 6
Fischel, W. E., f. 90, 130
Flag Competition, series 15, v. 4, 6
Folk Dancing Group, series 14, v. 10
Fortieth Anniversary, series 15, v. 5
Fraternity of Leaders of the Ethical Society, series 14, v. 11
Free Employment Bureau, Urban League, f. 132
Free Kindergarten, f. 1
Galloway, Charles A., series 14, v. 10
Gambling, f. 2
Gellhorn, Edna, f. 245
Girl Scouts, series 14, v. 10, 11
Glasgow, Julian K., series 14, v. 10, 11, 17
Gould, F. J., series 14, v. 10
Greek Ethics Club, f. 202, 239, series 14, v. 2, 4,
Gundlach, John H., series 15, v. 8
Hacknol, Eugene M., series 14, v. 10
Hanke, Harold, f. 258, 264, series 15, v. 28
Heard, Gerald, series 15, v. 35
Henry Booth House, series 14, v. 6
Herzog Memorial Organ, series 14, v. 10
Hoad, John, series 14, v. 19
Hornback, James F., f. 288, series 14, v. 10, 13, 17-19, series 15, v. 32-37
Hynd, J. Hutton, f. 82-84, 89, 150, 152, 255-265, 258 series 14, v. 10, 13, 17, 19, series 15, v. 11, 12, 14, 15-21, 23-28, 41
International Institute of St. Louis, f. 245
International Relations Group, series 14, v. 10, 11
International Union, series 14, v. 11
Inter-professional Group, series 14, v. 11
Jews In St. Louis, f. 90
Junior Assembly, series 14, v. 17
Junior Auxiliary Group, series 14, v. 10
Junior Reading Circle, series 14, v. 2, 10, 11
Junior Sunday Assembly, series 14, v. 10, 17, 41-43, 45
Kayser, Charles F.C., series 14, v. 10
LaFollette, Robert, f. 132
Langsdorf, A. S., f. 143, 148, 149, series 14, v. 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 17, 18, series 15, v. 11, 32, 33
Lectures, f. 9-68
Lentz, Theodore, f. 193
Levis, George S., series 14, v. 10
Liberalism, f. 5, 22, 72
Lighty, M.Y., series 14, v. 8
Lighty, W. H., f. 139, 150
Lovejoy, Owen, f. 147
Lowes, John L., series 14, v. 10
Marriage, f. 6, 7, 38, 103, 104, 107
Martin, Alfred W., series 14, v. 11
Mead, Margaret, series 14, v. 17, series 15, v. 34, 35
Memorial Hall (Musuem of Fine Arts), f. 97, 101, 108, 109, 114, 115, 280, series 14, v. 2
Men's Club, f. 136, 204, 241-243, 205, series 14, v. 4, 5, 10, 11
Mincke Memorial, f. 154, 264, 151
Missouri School of Social Economy, f. 130, 131
Moore, Robert, f. 86, 88, 90-103, 107, 108, 111-115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 123, 125, 225-228, 266-285, series 15, v. 2
Musical Club, series 14, v. 10
Muzzey, David, series 15, v. 35
Neighborhood Association, f. 148, 150, 245
O'Dell, George, f. 129, 143, 144, 146, 148, 149, 170, 172, 193, 234, 240, series 14, v. 10, 11, 13, 17
Pacifism, f. 141, 147
Pageant-Drama Association of St. Louis, f. 122
Parent's Sunday Morning Study Group, series 14, v. 10
Patriotism, f. 2, 37
Payne, George E., series 14, v. 11
Philosophic Sources and Sanctions of the Founders of the Ethical Society, f. 288
Philosophy Group, series 14, v. 10
Pickwick Theatre, f. 86
Political Science Club, f. 444
Post-Graduate Group, series 14, v. 11
Priesler, Paul, f. 128
Public Education, f. 21
Pure Milk Commission, series 15, v. 8
Quiet Sunday, series 14, v. 10
Rau, Nellie, f. 244
Reading Rooms, f. 86
Reed, Edwin A., series 14, v. 10, 17
Religion, f. 1-290
Religious Education, f. 1-290
St. Louis Community Forum and Peace Group, f. 244
St. Louis Pageant and Masque, series 15, v. 4
St. Louis Pageant Flag Competition, f. 122, 123
St. Louis School of Philanthropy, f. 245
St. Louis School of Social Economy, f. 245
Sale, Reverend Samuel, series 14, v. 10, 11
Salter, William M., series 14, v. 10, 17
Schmidt, Nathaniel, f. 139, series 14, v. 10
Schmitz, Adele, series 14, v. 10, 11, 17
School of Social Economy, f. 130, 131
Segregation, series 14, v. 6
Self-Culture Association, series 14, v. 11
Self-Culture Hall, f. 7, 99, 110, series 15, v. 44
Self-Culture Hall Association, f. 250, 251, 253
Sewing Circle, series 14, v. 11
Sex Education, f. 59, series 15, v. 3, 6
Sheldon Auditorium, f. 128
Sheldon Fellowship, series 14, v. 17
Sheldon Library, f. 278
Sheldon Memorial, f. 87, 88, 89, 102, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 121, 122, 123, 124, 142, 144, 147, 156, 158, 160, 161, 162, 174, 181, 185, 193, 195, 225-228, 266-285, series 14, v. 2, 4, 8-11, 13, 15, 17-19, series 15, v. 3, 6, 44
Sheldon Memorial Library, series 14, v. 17, 18
Sheldon Memorial Penny Brigade, f. 282
Sheldon, Walter, f. 5-70, 86, 90, 96-100, 102, 104, 106, 110, 225, 226, 227, 238, 240, 250-253
series 14, v. 2-4, 6, 8-11, 14, 19, series 15, v. 1, 2
Smith, Huston, series 15, v. 33
Social Reform, f. 3, 62, 63, 64, 65
Social Workers Group, series 14, v. 9
South St. Louis Freie Gemeinde, f. 136
South Side Ethical Society, f. 136
South Side Self-Culture Club, f. 108
Sunday School, f. 5, 69, 86
Swift, Edgar, series 14, v. 10
Taussig, Fred, series 14, v. 11
Taussig, James, f. 86, 87, 88, 90, 99, 107-114, 128, 166, 225, 226, series 14, v. 4, 8, series 15, v. 2, 3
Taussig Memorial Window, series 14, v. 10
Thomas, Norman, f. 148, 150
Toy Shop, f. 148
Union of Ethical Societies, series 14, v. 7
United Nations Discussion Group, f. 247-248, series 14, v. 18
Wage Earners' Self-Culture Clubs of St. Louis, f. 7, 250-254
Woman's Union, series 14, v. 5, 6
Women's Auxiliary, f. 210, 243, series 14, v. 2, 4, 10, 11, 13, 15, 17, 18
Women's Conference, series 14, v. 4, 9
Women's Exposition, series 14, v. 11
Workingman's School, f. 1
World Peace Group, series 14, v. 11
Young Couple's Club, series 14, v. 10
Young Men's Ethical Association, series 14, v. 8
Young Men's Shakespeare Class, f. 238
Young People's Assembly, f. 132, 133, 134, 136, 139, 140, 148, 150, 208-209, 255-265, series 14, v. 2, 4, 10, 11, 13, 17, 19 series 15, v. 3, 5, 8, 10, 27, 44, 45
Young People's Assembly, Ethics Group, series 14, v. 10
Young Women's Union, series 14, v. 9
YPA Briefs, f. 265
Zueblin, Charles, series 14, v. 10
STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MISSOURI RESEARCH CENTER-ST. LOUIS
222 THOMAS JEFFERSON LIBRARY
UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-ST. LOUIS
ONE UNIVERSITY BOULEVARD
ST. LOUIS, MO 63121
(314) 516-5143
E-MAIL: whmc@umsl.edu