| Level | Sub-sub-series |
| Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure) | CMS/G/AC 5 |
| Title | Incoming and outgoing correspondence for the years 1921-1949 |
| Extent | 26 files |
| Date | 1823-1949 |
| Description | Incomplete sequence of correspondence from within the UK and overseas, predominantly dated 1921, 1924-1938, 1940, 1942, 1946-1949. Includes: from F. Wurz referring to German speaking missions, 1921; block plans and elevation for united halls and office for missionary and philanthropic societies [filed under 'Roome'], 1930; fighting at the Partition [of India], 1947; an account of Max Warren's ministry as vicar of Boscombe 1932-; [draft] general instructions to missionaries, 1948; pamphlet: 'Adventures of an Irish Surgeon in Old Imperial China' by Richard Smyth, Buxton 1942. |
| Arrangement | The 1921 letters are numbered 16147-16372 continuing the system that seems to have been introduced under Bardsley's Secretaryship [CMS/G/AC 4]; the remainder are unnumbered and arranged broadly alphabetically within each year. Many with related incoming and outgoing correspondence loosely attached. |
| Access Status | Open |
| Physical Description | The majority of letters were weeded by CMS prior to cataloguing (date unknown) with the exception of the P-Z sequence for 1930 and A-Z sequence for 1950 which was kept intact. In 1958 some weeding was done by the General Secretary's Department and for the following years there survive only:
1929 T-V;
1930 P-Z;
1933 F-M
1934 A-F;
1935 A-F, L-S;
1936 A-M,T-Z;
1937 I-O;
1938 A-O;
1940 H-Z.
Some of the missing years also result from this weeding, though it is possible that World War II accounts for the loss of the 1941 and 1943-1945 correspondence. |