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XCMS - Church Missionary Society archive - 1799-2009
B - Overseas Division (initially 'Foreign Division') 1799-1959 - 1803-1959
OMS - Overseas mission series - 1803-1934
A1 - West Africa (Sierra Leone) Mission - 1803-1934
A2 - Yoruba mission - 1844-1934
C I - Individual Letter-books [outgoing] - 1852-1876
C L - Letter-books [outgoing] - 1844-1880
C M - Mission books [incoming] - 1845-1880
C O - Original papers [incoming] - 1844-1880
1 - Local Committee meetings (quarterly and special): minutes 1844-1845 Finance Committee meetings (monthly) minutes 1854-1880 Resolutions passed by correspondence 1845-1880 - 1844-1880
2 - Minutes of missionary conferences - 1859-1879
3 - Letters of mission secretaries to secretaries at headquarters - 1845-1880
4 - Copies of correspondence between the mission (through its secretary, lay agent and other missionaries) and the colonial government (the consul, governor, administrator and other officials) - 1853-1878
5 - Correspondence between the missions and British naval authorities - 1845-1863
6 - Correspondence between the mission and native authorities - 1845-1879
7 - Papers and correspondence between the colonial government and native authorities - 1851-1872
8 - Correspondence and treaties between native authorities and British naval authorities - 1851-1863
9 - Petitions from Europeans, natives and Sierra Leone emigrants to the government (colonial and home) - 1854-1865
10 - Proclamations and ordinances of the Lagos government - 1862-1865
11 - Miscellaneous mission correspondence and papers - 1844-1880
12 - Native church pastorate papers - 1876-1879
13 - Annual statistical returns of the mission - 1870-1880
14 - Papers relating to mission buildings and property: accounts of expenditure, building funds appeals and plans - 1855-1878
15 - Requisition lists of building materials, books, medicines, printing material and other stores for the mission - 1846-1878
16 - Miscellaneous letters to secretaries at headquarters - 1850-1879
17 - Petitions to the committee and secretaries at headquarters 1855-57, 1861, 1864, 1867-73, 1876-77, 1879 - 1855-1879
18-99 - Letters and papers of individual missionaries, catechists and others - 1844-1880
G3 L - Letter-books [outgoing] - 1880-1934
G3 O - Original papers [incoming] - 1880-1934
G3 P - Precis books [incoming] - 1880-1934
A3 - Niger mission - 1857-1934
A4 - South Africa mission - 1836-1843
A5 - East Africa (Kenya) mission - 1841-1934
A6 - Nyanza mission - 1875-1886
A7 - Uganda mission - 1898-1934
A8 - Tanganyika mission - 1900-1934
A9 - Northern Nigeria mission - 1900-1934
A10 - Upper Nile mission - 1926-1934
A11 - Ruanda mission - 1933-1934
C1 - North-West Canada mission - 1821-1930
C2 - British Columbia mission - 1857-1925
CE - Ceylon mission - 1815-1934
CH - China mission - 1834-1914
CH1 - South China mission - 1885-1934
CH2 - Chekiang mission - 1885-1934
CH3 - Western China mission - 1897-1934
CH4 - Fukien mission - 1900-1934
CH5 - Kwangsi and Hunan mission - 1911-1934
E - Egypt mission - 1889-1934
I - India General - 1811-1815
I1 - North India mission - 1815-1934
I1A - Himalaya mission - 1844-1847
I2 - South India mission - 1815-1934
I3 - Western India mission - 1820-1935
I4 - Punjab and Sind mission - 1878-1934
I5 - Travancore and Cochin mission - 1881-1934
I6 - North West Provinces mission - 1892-1903
I7 - United Provinces mission - 1903-1934
I8 - Central Provinces mission - 1904-1934
I9 - Telegu mission - 1924-1934
I10 - Tinnevelly mission - 1924-1934
J - Japan mission - 1868-1934
M - Mediterranean mission - 1811-1880
MA - Mauritius mission - 1856-1929
N - New Zealand mission - 1809-1914
P - Palestine mission - 1880-1934
PE - Persia mission - 1875-1934
S - Sudan mission - 1905-1934
SN - Northern Sudan mission - 1931-1934
TA - Turkish Arabia mission - 1898-1924
W - West Indies mission - 1818-1863
C - Candidates Department - 1846-1968
E - Educational Auxiliary - c 1898-1917
G - General Secretary's Department - 1799-1966
M - Medical Department - 1863-1978
W - Women's Department - 1893-1968
Z - Miscellaneous papers and artefacts for which the provenance is unknown - 1797-1958
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