The 1926 diary of Haverford professor and Quaker luminary Rufus M. Jones chronicles his journeys across the Pacific, to Japan, China, the Philippines and India, between June and December of 1926. While in Asia, Jones gave lectures at educational and spiritual gatherings and met with prominent political and spiritual leaders of the time, including Mahatma Gandhi, Silas Strawn, Eiichi Shibusawa and W. W. Yen. In Japan he visited houses built by the American Friends Service Committee after the devastating earthquakes of 1923 and he and his family survived a cholera epidemic and marshall law in China. Jones was a founding member and the first chairman of the A.F.S.C. and devoted much of his life to promoting peace and understanding among the world's peoples. Haverford holds the complete writings of Jones, his extensive mysticism collection, his complete papers, and a replica of his study at 2 College Circle.