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Letters between Michael Tolley of the Young Friends Central Committee and Keith Wedmore (August-November 1960) that arranged for an article on TQVOS to be published in Young Quaker magazine.

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Keith Wedmore Papers

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Young Friends Central Committee
Young Quaker
16-8-1960

Dear Keith Wedmore,

Wanting a follow-up article of that on "Towards a Quaker View of Sex" in The Friend. It wrote to Mary Rowntree as one involved with this at an early stage, and she suggested that I ask you for an article, as you were on the committee which made the report. What I am particularly interested to know is the future work of the committee, and anything useful which has been obtained on a practical level, though I gather that the main purpose of the committee was simply to draw the attention of Friends to the problem.

I should be very grateful if you could give us a personal account and opinion of the work in which you have been involved. I do know know enough to direct the article towards a particular slant, or to suggest the just boundaries of words and compass. So I leave you free as to the length and plan of the article. But I shall be very grateful if you could produce one for us, as this is a new venture about which we ought to know more.

Yours sincerely,
Michael J. Tolley


Michael Tolley
9, Warner Road,
Pogmoor,
Barnsley, Yorks.
20th August, 1960

Dear Michael Tolley,

I shall be glad to let you have an article, although not at once, as I am away on holiday; I will let you have something within three weeks.

You will appreciate that the Committee was particularly interested in homosexuality, although it found it necessary to deal with sexual problems generally and I shall, therefore, do the same in whatever I send you.

Yours

sent 3/11/60 KW



17th October 1960

Dear Michael Tolley,

I am sorry for the delay in dealing with your article; you will have it within two weeks positively!

Yours sincerely,

Michael Tolley
9, Warner Road
Pogmoor
Barnsley,
Yorks.



Young Friends Central Committee
Young Quaker
14-11-1960

Dear Keith Wedmore,

Many thanks for your excellent and informative article, which I am glad to say is just what I wanted. The article will appear as soon as I can fit it in; I cannot problem when, as there are a great many articles etc to cope with, but I shall arrange for 3 copies to be sent you when the issue appears.

Mary Rowntree, apparently, was only engaged in an early discussion group or something, and was not on the committee at any time.

Thank you again! It is a pleasure to edit work which is so splendidly presented in triple-spaced type.

Yours ever,
Michael J. Tolley




14th November 1960

Dear Michael Tolley,

With reference to the article I sent you some two weeks ago, could you be to find as to let me know whether you received it, it is suitable for your purpose, and that you will be able to let me have three copies of the issue in which it appears?

Yours sincerely,


Michael Tolley,
9 Warner Road,
Pogmoor,
Barnsley,
Yorks.


Young Friends Central Committee
Young Quaker
18-11-1960

Dear Keith Wedmore,

As I sent my letter to you on the same day as you wrote to me, I trust that you have now received the answer to your three questions, which are (a) Yes, I have received it, (b) the article is most suitable, and I'm very grateful for it, (c) I shall make arrangements to let you have three copies of the issue in which the article appears.

I am very sorry that I kept you waiting so long for a reply; my only defence can be that (a) I have a lot of correspondence to deal with; (b) I was away for five days. I shall endeavor to be more efficient (and courteous) in future.

I hope my negligence does not too much mar my gratitude for what you have so well done.

Yours sincerely,
Michael J. Tolley


20th November, 1960

Dear Michael Tolley,

Don't fret, I was quite happy with your last letter which I took as being the answer to mine. You were not in the least discourteous.

Your sincerely,