Record

LevelFile
Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)CMS/G/AC 6/1
TitleLetter book of private and confidential correspondence
Extent1 volume
Date1906-1917
DescriptionLargely outgoing correspondence but also including copies of some incoming testimonials and notes of interviews with the Archbishop of Canterbury and others. With a name index of correspondents and, loosely inserted, a typescript subject index [not comprehensive; date unknown]. The letters are annotated with the page numbers of related correspondence elsewhere in the volume. Includes:
pp 106-107 inteview with Reverend F. Baylis and Archdeacon Willis concerning proposed federation in East Africa between CMS, Quakers, Methodisst, Episcopalians, Presbyterians, Adventists (?) etc;
pp 120-122 letter to Sir John Kennaway [President] including references to staff movements and including a proposal to commission a portrait of Eugene Stock 1912;
p 151A concerning proposed pension for Bishop Blyth 1912;
pp 232/233 memorandum on the 'New Testament of Higher Buddhism' by Dr T. Richard.
Access StatusOpen

    Showcase

    Some of our most significant collections