Record

LevelSub-fonds
Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)CMS/ACC768
TitleCMS Accession 768: Papers of Christopher L. Cook and E. Cook nee Davison
Extent3 boxes
Date20th century
DescriptionLetters from Christopher Cook while on missionary service overseas to his wife, Emma, and to both of them separately and jointly from other members of their family; personal papers such as birth and other certificates, passports; notes for sermons; luggage lists; watercolours by Gracie Davison; family photographs, and a collection of postcards.
ArrangementThis collection forms part of the Church Mission Society Unofficial Papers. It is arranged into one series.
F: Family papers
LanguageEnglish
Finding AidsA catalogue of this collection (forming part of the wider CMS/ACC unofficial papers catalogue) is available on the online archive catalogue. Click on the Finding Number to display the summary contents list of the catalogue and to view the full catalogue. A paper copy of this catalogue is also available for consultation at Special Collections.
Access StatusOpen
Administrative HistoryChristopher Locke Cook (1909-1997), CMS missionary 1939-1974: Sudan 1954-1963, Nigeria 1966-1973; Area Secretary Oxford Diocese 1975-1980. C. L. Cook married E. W. Davison in 1951. E. W. Davison: CMS Short Service at Nazareth 1938/1939; in local connexion with 'Church Missions to Jews', Jerusalem, 1939-. Source: information supplied by the CMS Archivist.
Custodial HistoryCMS received the collection from Venn House [CMS retirement home], Tunbridge Wells, Kent, June 1997 (source: information supplied by the CMS Archivist). CMS retained parts of the collection [F9-11] when they transferred the rest of the collection to the University of Birmingham, Special Collections in May 2007; the retained records were transferred to University of Birmingham, Special Collections: Cadbury Research Library by CMS 30 April 2025.
Archival NoteCatalogued by CMS c 1997. Catalogue updated by Cadbury Research Library, 2025.
Related MaterialCadbury Research Library holds the Church Mission Society Archive, the official archive of the society (GB 0150 CMS), which includes papers relating to the Cooks.

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