Description | A bundle of documents relating to concerns of the Anglican Church in relation to the Church of South India.
Booklets and Reports:
The Convocations and South India: E L Mascall: 1955 Presidential Address to Convocation of Canterbury by Archbishop G F Fisher: 1955 South India's New Church: C S Milford: 1947 The Church of South India: Joint Committees of Convocation of Canterbury and York: 1955 Statement: The Annunciation Group: 1955 The Convocation of Canterbury and Interchange of Preachers: undated South India Church: Address by Bishop of Bradford: 1943 Priesthood and South India: E L Mascall: undated: (Council for Defence of Christ's Principles: pamphlet 2) A Voice for India: J C Williams: undated: (Council for Defence of Christ's Principles: pamphlet 3) Reunion By Destruction: T S Eliot: undated: (Council for Defence of Christ's Principles: pamphlet 7)
Draft Letters to Church Times: undated
Letters: 1955: from [Canon] Lindsay Dewar; Ronald Cole, Archdeacon of Loughborough; Talbot Dilworth Harrison; Walter Baddeley, Bishop of Blackburn; Canon Edward Rich
Solemn Prayer and Declaration to the Convocations of York: undated: two copies; one with hand-written additions
Memorandum: 1955: Convocations of Canterbury and York: recommended amendments to Canon Law
Church Assembly Central Board of Finance: Apportionment Tables: 1956
Newspaper cuttings: 1955: related items from The Christian World; His Dominion and Church Times
A bundle of about 70 personal letters: 1927-1928: to Talbot Dilworth Harrison in response to his leaving the parish of Ringley, Lancashire for the parish of St Bartholomew's, Brighton: the bundle contains a few letters on other matters: 1932-1933; 1935; 1937
A bundle of documents relating to the life of Prestwich parish church: 1910-1918:
Various service sheets, Lent programmes, Altar Guild programmes Souvenir Handbook: Grand Bazaar: 1921 Pageant programme: 1913 Lads' Brigade: information leaflets 1912, 1914; and appeal leaflet 1918 Letter to new residents: and letter about duties of servers: undated Sale of Work Handbook: 1930: [Talbot Dilworth Harrison returned to open the sale of work] Notebook: register of baptism, confirmation and first confession: entries of personal names 1912-1916 Information leaflets about "National Mission:" undated
A bundle of about 235 personal letters: 1934: to Talbot Dilworth Harrison in response to his leaving the parish of St Bartholomew's, Brighton, for appointment as Archdeacon of Chesterfield: also includes newspaper cutting: Southern News: 10 February 1934
A bundle of documents relating to the practice of medical officers providing "prophylactics" (including contraceptives) to servicemen, presented as safeguarding against the spread of venereal disease. At the Church Assembly in 1943 Talbot Dilworth Harrison spoke of a "threat to the moral and spiritual welfare of the whole nation." This bundle of documents includes evidence of wider divisions of opinion about the provision of contraceptive advice, including reactions to a proposal to establish a family planning clinic in Chesterfield
Journals: The Shield: A Review of Moral and Social Hygiene: Volume 8, Number 3: September1941 Volume 9, Number 1: February 1942 Volume 9, Number 3: April 1943 News Review ("The First British News Magazine") 25 February 1943
Booklets/pamphlets: A Great Work in India: The Fight Against Vice Areas and Traffic in Women and Children: Meliscent Shephard: 1936 Miss Shephard's Work in India: 1932 Venereal Disease in the General Population 1934-1935 The State Regulation of Prostitution as Practised in Queensland, Australia: 1932 The Lambeth Conference and Birth Control: The Rev J A Thomas: 1930 A Comment on The Prime Minister's Warning to the Nation and the Empire: The Rev J A Thomas: 1943 The Two Sides of Army Life: A Straight Talk to Men About Their Welfare and Their Sex Problems: undated A Machine Gunner Speaks to Doctors of the Forces: anon: undated The Soldiers Welfare: Notes for Officers: 1941 Memorandum: for Royal Commission on the Birth Rate and Trends of Population: Father Wigram: undated
Constitution, Report and Accounts: Association for Moral and Social Hygiene: 1942
Newspaper cuttings: relating to moral welfare and armed forces
Letters to Talbot Dilworth Harrison: 1942-1943: correspondents include: Archbishop of Canterbury about draft Church Assembly resolution; War Office about Army policy and practice; Town Clerk of Chesterfield about proposed clinic; and individuals responding to newspaper reports of Talbot Dilworth Harrison's views
Various related notes and drafts; including copy of text about Family Planning Association; Church Assembly agenda and meeting papers, 1943
Petition: 1942: asking Chesterfield Health Committee to reconsider a proposal to establish a family planning clinic; contains signatures and addresses of 40 "married women" |