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Archive Reference / Library Class No.D1626/BOX/1
TitleArchdeacon Dilworth-Harrison: box 1
Date20th cent
DescriptionA 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"
LevelFile
RepositoryDerbyshire Record Office
Archive CreatorArchdeacon Talbot Dilworth-Harrison (1886-1975), former Vicar and Archdeacon of Chesterfield
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