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Pacifist, participant in World War I peace movement and later peace activities, member of Fellowship of Reconciliation, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, and Women Strike for Peace. Papers include Correspondence, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, periodicals, reports, photographs, and other materials relating to the International Congress of Women, 1915, the Ford Peace Ship, the American Neutral Conference Committee, the Emergency Peace Federation, and the People's Council of America.

The papers of Rebecca Shelley (1887-1984) were donated by Shelley in several accessions between 1964 and 1984. The papers make up twenty-one linear feet of materials and cover the years 1890-1984, though only a few photographs and printed items predate 1910. Her anti-war activism, legal battles, writing career, and courtships with Franz Willman and Felix Rathmer are all well-represented. In addition to her personal papers, there are groups of material belonging to Emily Balch, Richard Olsen, Felix Rathmer, Paul Shelly, and William A. Shelly.

Many peace organizations are also documented in these papers through flyers, pamphlets, periodicals, newsletters, and correspondence. These include the American Neutral Conference Committee, Emergency Peace Federation, People's Council of America, Fellowship of Reconciliation, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, Women Strike for Peace, and many others. As Shelley served as an officer in the Michigan Fellowship of Reconciliation (F.O.R.) through the 1950s and 1960s, many of the organization's official papers came to be in her possession. Therefore, an effort was made to remove most of these official papers to the separate Michigan F.O.R. collection.

The collection is arranged in eleven series: Biographical; Newspaper Clippings; Correspondence; Topical Papers; Miscellaneous Papers; Papers Of Other Individuals; Printed; Periodicals; Diaries And Notebooks; Photographs; and Writings.

Professor of Speech at the University of Michigan. Correspondence, diaries, an autobiography, photographs.

Correspondence, travel diaries, an autobiography, and other papers relating to his activities at University of Michigan and his travels around the world; also speeches, lecture notes, articles, essays, reviews, mostly relating to oratory and debate; one volume of congratulatory letters, 1942, on the fiftieth anniversary of the Department of Speech; and photographs. Correspondents include: Jane Addams, Clinton P. Anderson, James Burrill Angell, Albert J. Beveridge, Ekaterina Breshko-Breshkovskaia, Wilber M. Brucker, Princess Cantacuzene, Edgar A. Guest, Chase S. Osborn, Lieutenant Governor Sir Robert Stout (New Zealand), William Howard Taft, among others. Photographs include portraits and photos of Trueblood in South Africa and as passenger aboard ship. Also included a recording of selective readings from William Shakespeare.