| Description | /1 Letter from ?Edward Allen [Selsey Hill, Sussex], commenting on James Rendel Harris's article 'Apollo's Birds', 1 November 1926
/2 Letter from Basil Ferris Campbell Atkinson, 23 September 1929
/3 Postcard from Heinrich Hilgenfeld, German, 19 December 1912
/4 Letter from Emily H. Taylor, 24 December 1926
/5 Postcard from J. de Zwann [Woodbrooke student; Professor of Theology, University of Leiden, Holland], 1925
/6 Letter from William Steadman Aldis, 7 September 1925
/7-/9 Letters from Vacher Burch [Woodbrooke student and co-author of 'Testimonies'], concerning 'Testimonies', 1930
/10 Letter from the Bishop of Birmingham welcoming James Rendel Harris back to Birmingham, 1925
/11 Letter from the Bishop of Birmingham, 1927
/12 Letter from W. F. Bethune-Baker [Cambridge], 17 October 1927
/13 Letter from the Bishop of Birmingham discussing 'the new Prayer Book' which he and James Rendel Harris both oppose, 10 December 1927
/14 Letter from Benjamin W Bacon discussing his own and James Rendel Harris's research work, 13 November 1930
/15 Letter from Vernon Bartlett [Ecclesiastical historian, Exeter College, Oxford], reporting on the progress of his work on Addai, 28 September 1921
/16 Letter from H. J. Bardsley concerning Testimonies, 25 September 1925
/17 Letter from E. S. Buchanan [New York], 12 January 1927
/18 Letter from H. J. Bardsley [Barton Vicarage, Preston] discussing his research on 'Testimonies', 2 May 1925
/19 Letter from J. E. van Brakel [Dutch Woodbrooke student], written during a holiday in Italy, 2 May 1925
/20 Letter from J. E. van Brakel, asking James Rendel Harris 'to procure a place at Woodbrooke' for a friend, 1926
/21-/22 Letters from Ernesto Buonaiuti, Italian
/23 Letter from E. S. Buchanan, 4 November 1927
/24 Letter from Ulric Gantillon, 1 May 1927
/25 Letter from J. Wilkinson Riddle, 25 January 1927
/26 Letter from Thomas Edmunds, 18 November 1927
/27-/28 Letter from Joseph A. E. Child discussing James Rendel Harris's article 'Mary and Elizabeth', 25 March 1930
/29-/31 Letters from A. John Chapman discussing his research, 15 March 1927
/32-/33 Letters from Walter Ewing Crum [Coptic scholar], commenting on James Rendel Harris's essay 'Egypt in Britain', ?1927, 1933
/34-/35 Letters from Albert Curtis Clark [Queen's College, Oxford], saying he is sorry to hear of James Rendel Harris's accident, discussing 'Conybeare's identification of the Vienna MS' and his memoir of Frederick Cornwallis Conybeare, 1925
/36 Letter to James Rendel Harris from 'Marly', 29 April 1928
/37 Letter from Frederick Cornwallis Conybeare [scholar, expert on Armenia], nd
/38 Letter from Robert Seymour Conway [classical scholar and philologist], commenting on 'your paper on Apollo', 13 September 1927
/39-/41 Letters from Alec Findlay, 1926-1927
/42-/44 Letters from Emily Crossley concerning an article about Frank Crossley published in the magazine 'Sunday at Home', 26 November 1925.
/45 Letter from Adolf Deissmann thanking James Rendel Harris for contributing to a book of essays in his honour, 15 June 1927
/46 Cutting from the Birmingham Post reporting on excavations in Maadi, Egypt, 1931
/47 Letter from Archd [Archibald] Duff concerning Phoenix folklore in the Levant, 1929
/48 Postcard from T. H. D.: 'The verses are by Hippolytus Capilupus', 1926
/49 Postcard - poem in Latin, unsigned, nd
/50 Letter from Bernard G. Hall concerning a quotation from Shakespeare's 'Henry V' in 'Jesus the Son of Seirach', 1926?
/51 Letter from Bernard G. Hall concerning English translation of Erasmus's 'Enchiridion', 1917
/52 Letter from Lavinia Housman, 1927
/53 Letter from K. ?Funduklian disagreeing with Frederick Cornwallis Conybeare's claim, in 'The Armenian Church', that the Armenians persecuted the Nestorians in the 5th century, 1927
/54-/68 Letters from Herman Charles Hoskier: recommending a novel, 'Goodly Pearls'; enclosing Greek and Latin quotations which support James Rendel Harris's theory about 'the arrow of Apollo'; discussing the importance of the Syriac arrowhead as 'a symbol of Deity and Deity's mark'; the associations of the arrowhead with iodine, the sacred number 10, and the royal colour purple; has 'just finished preparing Apoc. apparatus for the press'; giving news of the illness and death of his wife; describing his experiences with a medium who can communicate with spirits;discussing the collation of a manuscript of the Gospels, 1926-1927
/69-/70 Letters from T. O. Hylkmena, 1927
/71 Letter from Eberhard Hommel, German, 10 August 1927
/72 Letter from William H. P. Hatch giving family news; discussing his work on three leaves of a Coptic New Testament found at Abu Makar and his book about the trip to Sinai he made with James Rendel Harris, 2 July 1926
/73 Letter from J. D. ?Jones, 7 January 1928
/74 Letter from M. R. J. [The Lodge, Eton College], 13 December 1927
/75-/78 Letter from Lewis Johnson [Minister, David Thomas Memorial Church], discussing his research work on St John's Gospel and sending him 'a full transcript of my analysis of the Lucan books', and thanking him for sending 'Stichometry', 1927
/79 Letter from F. J. Kenyon, thanking him for the 'Bezan tract' and for his visit to Selly Oak, 1925
/80-/82 Letters from F. J. F. Jackson [New Jersey, USA]: he has met James Rendel Harris's sister; he enjoyed his visit to Germantown; his Life of Paul is due out next month, discussing research for a book about the first-century Church; gives his reaction to an article in the Times criticising his work; hopes to work on a book with H. G. Wood, 1926-1930
/83 Letter from E. A. Lowe, giving news of his health, 1927
/84 Letter from E. A. Knox, thanking James Rendel Harris for his prompt response to his enquiry; comments on Mr Juster's book on the Samaritans, 1927
/85 Letter from Charles H. Levermore, a former student, sending greetings and thanks for past kindnesses, 1925
/86 Letter from F. J. F. Jackson, thanking James Rendel Harris for sending him Watling St Hanno; 'Glover has been over to Montclair to preach'; his research work on Josephus, nd
/87-/88 Letter from E. A. Knox, asking James Rendel Harris to send 'a proof text connecting Hebr IV.12 with the circumcising knives of Joshua'; thanking James Rendel Harris for his praise of his work; sending an article on the Samaritans and the Epistle of the Hebrews, 1927
/89-90 Letters from St John Lucas, commenting on 'Apollo and the North Wind', 1926
/91 Letter from Hans Lietzmann, German, 1927
/92 Letter from St John Lucas, 1926
/93 Letter from Kirsopp Lake, describing a recent trip to Sinai: 'the prize packet was the inscription on Serabit'; 'a new text of the life of Abercius, some overlooked NT MSS [New Testament Manuscripts], these were about the pick of the basket', 1927
/94-/102 Letters from Alexander Haggerty Krappe [University of Minnesota]: commenting on James Rendel Harris's research work; his operation for appendicitis; discussing his own and James Rendel Harris's research work; his dislike of America and wish to return to Europe, 1925-1930
/103 Letter from Lootfy Levonian, written from Athens: they are building an aeroplane station to connect Egypt with Brindisi; reports on the progress of a student in his Christian group, 'I felt all my efforts fully compensated seeing the great change in this young man'; he plans to take a year's leave of absence between July 1927 and July 1928; discusses articles he is writing, 1926
/104 Letter from Lootfy Levonian: he hopes his article about Turkey will be accepted by Dr Jacks; describes a visit to Delphi and Parnassus, 1926
/105-/108 Letters from Alexander Haggerty Krappe: his name has been proposed for 'the Egyptian post'; 1927-1931
/109 Postcard from Charles C. Torrey, 1930
/110 Letter from Lootfy Levonian, written from Athens, 1927: 'I have just arrived here after five weeks trip in Egypt, Palestine, and Syria'...'I attended two conferences and delivered some 20 addresses and sermons'..'our people are not dead. Their spiritual pulse is very strong'; he plans to travel to Europe, arriving in Birmingham on 30 September.
/111-/117 Letters from Herman Charles Hoskier: discussing Apollo and phoenix folklore, and mythology about the sun chariot; 'you must read the Mahabharata'; telling James Rendel Harris about his recent purchases of irid glass and a Corinthian vase, 1925-1928
/118-/119 Letters from Henry Guppy, saying he will miss James Rendel Harris and telling him that 'the papyri have been packed into a small case and have been deposited in the porter's lodge to be called for', 1925; 'Mingana has just been over to report progress. He tells me what an interesting day you had with the Margoliouths', 1926.
/120-/121 Letters from ?Ulric Gantillon, discussing 'translations of the Greek of the Peshitta', 3 May 1924-26 April 1925
/122 Letter from B. P. ?Greatall [Queen's College, Oxford], nd
/123 Letter from L.W. Grensted [University College, Oxford], suggesting other evidence for James Rendel Harris's theories about 'our Lord's stature', 6 March 1926
/124-/127 Letters from Hugh Schonfield, asking James Rendel Harris to comment on his book 'An Old Hebrew Text of St Matthew's Gospel', 8 March-13 March 1930
/128-/129 Letter from Josiah C. ?Wedgwood, concerning Egyptian origins of English placenames, 27-31 October 1930
/130-/132 Letters from Charles C Torrey concerning the Aramaic origins of the Four Gospels, 2 March- 23 March 1930
/133-/134 Letters from Louis Maries, thanking James Rendel Harris for sending a photograph of Conybeare and enclosing examples of his work on Deodore de Tarse and Eznik, French, 31 October-6 November 1926
/135-/136 Letter from M A Murray [University College, London], asking for information about the cult of St Katherine and discussing possible origins of the name, 9 June 1928
/137-/138 Letters from George Oatley asking James Rendel Harris to recommend 'scholarly works about the Mother of Our Lord', asking James Rendel Harris to speak at a meeting in Bristol, praising 'As Pants the Hart', 9-15 November 1925
/139-/140 Letter from David Margoliouth discussing various meanings of the name 'Abud' and acrostics in Greek Tragedies, 5 March- 13 June 1926
/141 Letter from Thomas Edmunds commenting on 'Eucharistic Origins', 6 February 1928
/142 Letter from Giovanni Pioli, 28 May 1927
/143 Letter from James H Ropes [Harvard Theological Review], 18 August 1925
/144 Letter from Giovanni Pioli, 15 December 1926
/145 Letter from Bernard D Taylor thanking James Rendel Harris for writing to him during his recent illness, 5 December 1927
/146 Letter from Giovanni Pioli giving information about flax growing in Italy, 10 November 1925
/147 Letter from Frank Olivier, French, 13 July 1929
/148-/150 Letters from Robert W Rogers telling James Rendel Harris of the death of Paul Haupt and assessing Haupt's career, planning to visit James Rendel Harris, and telling him about progress on his 'History of Ancient Persia' and family news, his rheumatism and attempts to treat it, 25 December 1925-21 November 1929
/151 Letter from Emily H Taylor, giving news of Bernard's health and enclosing a poem she has written, 5 December 1927
/152 Letter from Robert W Rogers, 13 January 1927
/153 Letter from W E Plater, asking about the Society of Friends' beliefs regarding prophecy, 3 June 1926
/154 Letter from Harry Toogood, recalling the moment when he introduced James Rendel Harris to Jack London's books, 18 January 1927
/155-157 Letters from W E Plater, 10 May- 15 June 1927
/158 Letter from Ellis H Minns, thanking James Rendel Harris for his letters and articles, 15 November 1927
/159 Letter from Hugo Gressmann, German, 9 March 1926
/160 Letter from Herman Hoskier, listing variants from a facsimile manuscript of Romans XI 24-42, 23 November 1931 |