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LevelSub-fonds
Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)CMS/ACC950
TitleAccession 950: Miscellaneous Official CMS Papers
Extent34 files
Date[19th-20th centuries]
DescriptionZ 1 CMS Local Fund estimates [year ending
September] 1854-59;

CMS Local Fund receipts and expenditure
for each mission (year ending
30 September 1853):- Madras district,
Mengnanapuram, Suviseshapuram, Dohnavur,
Nalloor, Pavoor, Surandei, Paneivadali,
Pannikullam, Travancore, Cottayam, Pallam,
Mavelicara, Tiruwalla, Alleppie, Trichoor;

Local Fund abstract: Eastern Tinnevelly
December 1842; CMS South India Local Fund:
return East Tinnevelly December 1842;
CMS General Fund: return December 1942

[see South India mission C I 2/O 8]

Z 2 Letter from Mrs P P Herrington, C M College
Islington re delivery of coal (14 tons) at
the College before 6 a.m.: dated 20 October 1852

Z 3 Letter from Mrs Mary Keene, 4, Pittville
Terrace: 12 December 1853

Z 4A Letter from R Cornall 91 London Road, Preston,
Lancashire: sends name of referee 5 May 1854

4B sends answer to questions as prospective
missionary candidate 18 May 1854

Z 5 [Sierra Leone]: note by H Venn re Instructions
for Miss Thomas, Miss Caspari and Miss Ilott
to be given to Mrs Caiger as superintendent
at the Female Institution Sierra Leone:
25 October 1872

Z 6 Yoruba mission:
list of native missionaries, catechists,
Scripture readers and schoolmasters with
rents and salaries; proposed regulations
for the employment of wives of the Niger
mission agents; rates of payment to Masters
and Mistresses and Teachers at the Model
School, Freetown, Sierra Leone c.1876

Z 7 Letter to Bishop [Crowther] from Edward
Hutchinson: two copies: 1 December 1876

Z 8 Wilmot Brooke papers 1889-1892
Instructions 1891

Letter with translation from Revds Robinson
and Brooke, Sudan mission, to Emir of Nupe,
returned to Egga 28 June 1890 [in ?Arabic]

Printed letter from J Alfred Robinson, Graham
Wilmot Brooke and Douglas Hooper, Cambridge
re CMS Sudan mission 1889

Letter to [Robert] Lang from Lokoja including
full accounts of conversations with Mr.
Wallace 28 May 1891

Papers re land granted to T C John by Mr
Huby, May 1890; and re two houses and land
near Stirling Hill 1892

Mission to the Central Sudan: Letters
from G Wilmot-Brooke: no.1 1889

Z 9 Letter from Christopher C Fenn, Salisbury
Square to ? : re needs of North Pacific
mission (Canada)

Z 10 CMS Secretaries: printed circular re
1) marriage regulations
2) the use in Uganda of money from England:
c.i.407 [see G/AZ 1]

Z 11 A List of missionaries at home 1 July 1901:
gives mission, name of missionary, date of
arriving in England, cause of return home,
allowances, remarks

B ditto January 1907

Z 12 Regulations for the churches in the diocese
of Colombo: draft proposal 1906

Z 13 Panjab, North West Frontier and Sindh mission:
regulations for pastorate committees, district
mission councils and central mission council 1910

Z 14 Memorandum for guidance of secretaries on
drafting reports of sub-committees and minutes
of committee action thereon [marked no.6'
in red ink] 1910

Z 15 Letter from Eugene Stock to Archdeacon
W S Moule (includes reference to Archdeacon
Sing of Ningpo) 1911

Z 16 CMS Educational Department [T Theodore Hunt]:
Foreign Business: 1911-1913
[part of H/H 3 AC (or E/AC 1]
Stuart Memorial Hospital; Stuart Memorial
College; correspondenc with Rev James Hilton;
Central High School for Persia; Isfahan Girls
School; Yezd Boys School [includes G2/1913/38-39];
Stuart Memorial School plans and letter;
Stuart Memorial Appeal 1911-12

Z 17 United Provinces: revised prospectus re
training and pay of ordained Indian graduates
February 1918; minute February 1918

Z 18 Visit of Rev G F Saywell to the Far East:
report: December 1920-July 1921 [mimeoed]

Z 19 Iwe Ato: akoko ariya jubili ni ayika Ondo:
Guide to Jubilee Celebrations: 29 April-
6 May 1925 [printed]

Z 20 William Charles Jones India Native Church
Missionary Fund: copy of scheme A/73,946
30 December 1927 and copy of trust deed;
memorandum re Henry Venn Native Church Fund
1910 [printed papers]

Z 21 W H Gairdner: memorial booklet: given by
Mrs Gairdner as a farewell present to the
Church in Egypt and containing a last message
from Canon Gairdner [c.1928/9]
[printed: Arabic: with portrait photo]

Z 22 Missionary Notes on the work of CMS: October
1930: Sharing [Mission Share Plan]; ticket
for Annual Meeting of Birmingham Auxiliary
CMS 1907 with endorsed list of ?secretaries
1858-1936

Z 23 Letter from Sir Reginald Wingate apologising
for being unable to open the CMS headquarters
Sale of Work: with brief comment on threat of
war between Italy and Abyssinia 27 August 1935

Z 24 Note by Rev A D Dixey (formerly CMS Punjab
mission) on Persian Law Book 817 A.H. (AD 1439)
presented to CMS Library: belonged to Qazi
Abdul Karim the first known resident of
Baluchistan to become a Christian

Z 25 Exhibitions record book: list compiled by
W H Scamell 1945 of the Exhibitions organised
by the Missionary Leaves Association 1882-1939:
gives:- year; place; month; receipts;
bridges; p t ng [?printing]; a d ng
[?advertising]; expenses; proceeds
village exhibitions are not included

Z 26 Christian Land Settlements by H L Puxley:
Nagpur: St. Francis de Sales’ Press 1941
(76pp.)

Z 27 Letters from Bishop Edwin James Palmer to
[Rev C S ] Milford re South India Scheme 1946

Z 28 CMS Northern Congress: service in Liverpool
Cathedral: address by Archbishop of York
4 November 1948

Z 29 CMS missionaries conference, High Leigh 1951:
address by Rev Professor Charles Raven: TS

Z 30 Qazak Story: a journey from Sinkiang to
Srinagar: by Phil Edmonds, Tyndale Biscoe
Memorial School Srinagar 1952

Z 31 One year in Raisalpur village [Lucknow
diocese, United Provinces mission]:
reflections after the event: Mary Rogers:
December 1953 [lengthy notes on standard of
living and relationships]:
diary 12 November 1952-22 October 1953

Z 32 Sheet with prints of printing press letters
cut by A M Mackay and printed on his press
[with pencil explanatory note by B D Nicholls]

Z 33 Parchment: inscription on foundation stone
of C M Childrens Home [Islington]

Z 34 Tibetan newspaper: Kalimpong: Vol VI no.6
?1905

Z 35 Miscellaneous letters

/1 1971 letter from H George Cooper (ex-CMS staff)
describing method of copying hand-written
correspondence in 1909 when he joined the staff

/2 1981 letter to CMS Archivist from Olive Hitchcock
(ex-CMS staff) describing responsibilities of
being Chairman of CMS Staff Council

ArrangementThis collection forms part of the Church Missionary Society Unofficial Papers. It is arranged into one series: Miscellaneous Papers
Access ConditionsAccess to all registered readers
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.
Access StatusOpen
AcquisitionTransferred from CMS Headquarters to Cadbury Research Library, October 2025.

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