| Description | Correspondence, dated 8 May 1936- 28 Sep 1939, between Henry Arthur Smith and members of William Hale White's family, and acquaintances, concerning Smith's research into the life and thought of William Hale White [Mark Rutherford]. Letters from Dorothy Vernon White, William Hale White's second wife; Sir William Hale White, his son; Mary Theodora White, his daughter; Simon Nowell Smith, nephew to Mary Theodora White; George Jackson, author of articles on William Hale White in the 'Methodist Recorder'; H. A. Smith of Overdale College, Selly Oak, Birmingham, concerning his admittance in September 1848; Rev. Ralph Turner, Highbury Quadrant Congregational Church, concerning White's membership of the Bunyan Meeting; F. W. Kuhlicke, Bedford Modern School Museum, concerning White's schooling; W. N. Henman, concerning his journalistic writing. Also includes copies of extracts from the Council Minutes, New College, St John's Wood (7 Apr - 29 Jun 1852), concerning William Hale White's removal from the College, for the rejection of "the Supreme Authority of the Sacred Scriptures". |