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Harold Stauffer Bender Papers
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Bender to Correll

Internal evidence indicates Bender as author (writing in German), to Correll: about his Conrad Grebel work; mention Prof. Köhler [Walter Köhler, Walther Köhler, Walter Koehler]; mention of John Horsch.

Correll to Elizabeth Bender

Correll to Elizabeth [Elizabeth Horsch Bender]: mark that Harold received from the Heidelberg faculty as very remarkable for a non-German; “our Grebel studies” received the “distinction” of Dr. Koehler’s approval; that Harold mentioned the possibility of publishing a translation of Krahn’s dissertation; “Dr. Leibbrandt’s [Georg Leibbrandt] study on the immigration from Russia, which I unfortunately had encouraged to be published in book form two years ago” was still “of great trouble to me” as virtually every section needed “radical revision”; Leibbrandt overlooked sources, etc. etc.

Correll to Bender

References to translating a version of Bender’s dissertation into English (Edward Yoder involved) and sending it to Dr. Köhler [Walter Koehler, Walter Köhler, Walther Köhler] for approval; on who could help Hutterites in Germany be able to claim conscientious objection [Eberhard Arnold group or old-line Hutterites?] (mention of “Professor Unruh in Karlsruhe”, “Ambassador Luther’ [Hans Luther, German ambassador to the United States, 1933-1937], Quakers.

Correll to Bender

Correll to Bender that Leibbrandt had “tried to put an awful thing over us with the msc. [sic, ms.] he left here in ’33; while Correll was doing the “dirty work” Leibbrant was putting on pressure; on Jacob Y Shantz biography; etc.

Bender to Correll

Mention of Unruh in connection with Leibbrandt work; seemed Publishing house charging storage on the type; mention of “Gascho” manuscript on the Amish division (Milton Gascho, The Amish division of 1693-1697 in Switzerland and Alsace [1937]).

Bender to Cressman

n.y., pencil-marked “1933?”: mention of “our old friend O A. Snyder; Chester Buschert [father of Robert C. Buschert], of “Enss” [probably Gustav Enss].

Bender to L. P. de Boer

Bender exchange with L. P. de Boer: on literature of Dutch Anabaptists; reference to “John Horsch, the Librarian” and to “early Dutch Anabaptist settlers in New York ( New Amsterdam)”

Bender to Derstine

Bender to Derstine on someone to fill in during Derstine’s summer absence; mention Graber [probably C. L. Graber, Chris L. Graber, Christian L. Graber], Yoder [surely S. C. Yoder, Sanford C. Yoder]; Enss [surely Gustav H. Enss]; M. C. Lehman [Martin Clifford Lehman, Cliff Lehman], J. D. Mininger [Jacob D. Mininger].

Bender to Dennis

Bender to Earlham College president William C. Dennis wanting details about a sign at Earlham which Bender liked.

Bender to Eshleman

Bender inviting H. Frank Eshleman to write something of his work from sources in England on Swiss Mennonites who settled in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

Bender to Ewert

Bender writes “…we have decided to publish the two articles by Leibbrandt together in book form, and to add to it as appendices a number of important documents,” and “The book should be out by the end of six weeks.” [Note: see Ernst Correll folder, 1930s, for many letters on the problems of getting out a respectable version of Leibbrandt’s work [in the end never published??].

Bender to Eigsti

Bender replied “I personally found the Biblical Review the best all-around quarterly of its type” and suggested reading Review and Expositor put out by Southern Baptist Theological Seminary at Louisville, Kentucky; Evangelical Quarterly from Edinburgh, Scotland had been “started a few years ago as thoroughly orthodox theological quarterly devoted primarily to the support of Calvinism”, and Union Seminary Quarterly from Union Theological Seminary of Richmond, Virginia. [doctrine, anti-Modernism, anti-liberalism in theology; fundamentalism?] Letters show Eigsti eagerly read Mennonite Quarterly Review.
Date on letter: January 28, 1933

Bender to Enss

Bender to Enss at Detroit: was sending “a copy of Karl Barth’s ‘Credo’ which came out just before we left Germany”; might Enss read a book Bender recommended,by Paul Althous [sic—Paul Althaus]?; “I have heard that you are in charge of a German Baptist Church in Detroit but know very little about it”—please write “about your work”; Goshen College news.

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