Container List:
Note: Box 13 contains panoramic photographs of many groups who held their meetings at Ferry Beach. Photographs date from the 1920s to the 1940s. Groups represented are: Institute of World Affairs, Religious Education Institute, the General Sunday School Association, the Young People's Institute, the Unitarian Religious Education Conference, the Young People's Christian Union, the Unitarian Laymen's League, the Isles of Shoals, and the Universalist General Convention, held at the White House in 1929.
Historical Section
bMS 522/1 (1) Correspondence between Robert Needham and Katharine Sutton, and correspondence Needham saved for use in their book Universalists at Ferry Beach. 1928-1956.
bMS 522/1 (2) Notes, correspondence, etc. connected with the Needham/Sutton history of Ferry Beach. Undated.
bMS 522/1 (3) Miscellaneous historical items and notes.
General Records
bMS 522/1 (4) Articles of Association, By-Laws, etc.
bMS 522/1 (5) Comparative Balance Sheet, and financial statements, 1925-1955 (incomplete).
Board Records and Correspondence, 1920-1962.
bMS 522/1 (6) Secretary's Reports, 1935-1957 (Incomplete).
bMS 522/1 (7) Board Correspondence, 1920.
bMS 522/1 (8) Board Correspondence, 1921.
bMS 522/1 (9) Board Correspondence, 1922.
bMS 522/1 (10) Board Correspondence, 1923.
bMS 522/1 (11) Board Correspondence, 1924.
bMS 522/1 (12) Board Correspondence, 1925.
bMS 522/1 (13) Board Correspondence, 1926.
bMS 522/2 (1) Board Correspondence, 1927.
bMS 522/2 (2) Board Correspondence, 1928.
bMS 522/2 (3) Board Correspondence, 1929.
bMS 522/2 (4) Board Correspondence, 1930.
bMS 522/2 (5) Board Correspondence, 1931.
bMS 522/2 (6) Board Correspondence, 1932.
bMS 522/2 (7) Board Correspondence, 1933.
bMS 522/2 (8) Board Correspondence, 1934.
bMS 522/2 (9) Board Correspondence, 1935.
bMS 522/2 (10) Board Correspondence, 1936.
bMS 522/2 (11) Board Correspondence, 1937.
bMS 522/2 (12) Board Correspondence, 1938.
bMS 522/2 (13) Board Correspondence, 1939.
bMS 522/2 (14) Board Correspondence, 1940.
bMS 522/2 (15) Board Correspondence, 1941.
bMS 522/2 (16) Board Correspondence, 1942.
bMS 522/2 (17) Board Correspondence, 1943.
bMS 522/2 (18) Board Correspondence, 1944.
bMS 522/3 (1) Board Correspondence, 1945.
bMS 522/3 (2) Board Correspondence, 1946.
bMS 522/3 (3) Board Correspondence, 1947.
bMS 522/3 (4) Board Correspondence, 1948.
bMS 522/3 (5) Board Correspondence, 1949.
bMS 522/3 (6) Board Correspondence, 1950.
bMS 522/3 (7) Board Correspondence, 1951.
bMS 522/3 (8) Board Correspondence, 1952.
bMS 522/3 (9) Board Correspondence, 1953.
bMS 522/3 (10) Program Committee Correspondence, 1953.
bMS 522/3 (11) Board Correspondence, 1954.
bMS 522/3 (12) Program Committee Correspondence, 1954.
bMS 522/3 (13) Board Correspondence, 1955.
bMS 522/3 (14) Board Correspondence, 1956.
bMS 522/3 (15) Board Correspondence, 1957.
bMS 522/3 (16) Board Correspondence, 1958.
bMS 522/3 (17) Board Correspondence, 1959.
bMS 522/3 (18) Board Correspondence, 1962.
bMS 522/3 (19) Correspondence relating to the staff, 1944-1953.
Finances, 1925-1957
bMS 522/3 (20) Cancelled check and bills relating to buildings and repairs, house management, 1925-1932.
bMS 522/4 (1) Sources of Income, 1925-1936.
bMS 522/4 (2) Tax Controversy. Correspondence, 1925-1930, 1936, 1949-1950, 1957.
bMS 522/4 (3) Tax Controversy. Receipts, cashed checks, 1925-1934.
bMS 522/4 (4) Fund Raising for David Murphy Memorial, 1949-1951.
bMS 522/4 (5) Underwood Bequest, 1935.
The Ferry Beach Property
bMS 522/4 (6) Property deeds, 1921-1940.
bMS 522/4 (7) Correspondence relating to property, 1927-1957.
bMS 522/4 (8) Colcord Cottage. Correspondence, 1940-1949.
bMS 522/4 (9) Forbes Chapel, 1945-1951.
bMS 522/4 (10) Furnishings, inventory of property, 1932.
bMS 522/4 (11) Correspondence, Paul Grace house, 1942-43.
bMS 522/4 (12) Rowland Hall. Correspondence, 1926-1936.
bMS 522/4 (13) Woodland Cottage. Correspondence, 1951.
Publications, 1923-1970
bMS 522/4 (14) Blue Gull, 1958.
bMS 522/4 (15) Chaplain and Director of Public Relations. Reports, 1955, 1956.
bMS 522/4 (16) Clippings, newspapers and magazines.
bMS 522/4 (17) Discovery, an occasional newsletter, 1959-1970.
bMS 522/5 (1) The Ferry Beacher. Flyer. 1924, 1931-1963, 1965, 1966.
bMS 522/5 (2) Lecture which goes with a slide presentation of Ferry Beach.
bMS 522/5 (3) Music, song sheets.
bMS 522/5 (4) General public relations (publicity about Ferry Beach, fund raising drives etc.)
The Institutes
bMS 522/5 (5) General correspondence relating to Institutes, 1951.
bMS 522/5 (6) Institute correspondence, 1955.
bMS 522/5 (7) Institute committee, minutes, 1929-1940.
bMS 522/5 (8) Institute Council, 1949-1950.
bMS 522/5 (9) Expenses, 1950.
bMS 522/5 (10) Expenses, 1953.
Adventures in Contemporary Cultures, 1961-1962
bMS 522/5 (11) Adventures in Contemporary Cultures, 1961.
bMS 522/5 (12) Adventures in Contemporary Cultures, 1962.
Association of Universalist Women, 1954-1956
bMS 522/5 (13) Association of Universalist Women, 1954.
bMS 522/5 (14) Association of Universalist Women, 1955.
bMS 522/5 (15) Association of Universalist Women, 1956.
Nature, 1934-1939
bMS 522/5 (16) Nature, 1934.
bMS 522/5 (17) Nature Institute, 1938.
bMS 522/5 (18) Nature Institute, 1939.
Family Fellowship Week, 1940-1971
bMS 522/5 (19) Family Fellowship Week, 1940.
bMS 522/6 (1) Family Fellowship Week, 1941.
bMS 522/6 (2) Family Fellowship Week, 1942.
bMS 522/6 (3) Family Fellowship Institute, 1947.
bMS 522/6 (4) Family Week, 1948.
bMS 522/6 (5) Family Week, 1952.
bMS 522/6 (6) Family Fellowship Week, 1953.
bMS 522/6 (7) Family Fellowship Week, 1954.
bMS 522/6 (8) Family Week, 1955.
bMS 522/6 (9) Family Fellowship Week, 1956.
bMS 522/6 (10) Family Fellowship Week, 1958.
bMS 522/6 (11) Family Week, 1960.
bMS 522/6 (12) Family Fun Week, 1962.
bMS 522/6 (13) Family Week, 1963.
bMS 522/6 (14) Discover the Family, 1969.
bMS 522/6 (15) Family Week, 1970.
bMS 522/6 (16) Family Wook, 1971.
Institute of World Affairs, 1935-1959
bMS 522/6 (17) Correspondence, 1938-1941, including letters by FBPA Secretary, Robert Needham.
bMS 522/6 (18) Institute of World Affairs, 1935.
bMS 522/6 (19) Institute of World Affairs, 1936.
bMS 522/6 (20) Institute of World Affairs, 1937.
bMS 522/6 (21) Institute of World Affairs, 1938.
bMS 522/6 (22) Institute of World Affairs, 1939.
bMS 522/6 (23) Institute of World Affairs, 1940.
bMS 522/6 (24) Institute of World Affairs, 1941.
bMS 522/6 (25) Institute of International Relations, 1942.
bMS 522/6 (26) Institute of International Relations, 1943.
bMS 522/6 (27) International Relations Institute, 1944.
bMS 522/6 (18) Institute of International Relations, 1945.
bMS 522/7 (1) Institute of International Relations, 1946.
bMS 522/7 (2) Institute of International Relations, 1947.
bMS 522/7 (3) Institute of International Relations, 1948.
bMS 522/7 (4) World Order Institute, 1949.
bMS 522/7 (5) World Order Institute, 1950.
bMS 522/7 (6) World Affairs Institute, 1956.
bMS 522/7 (7) World Affairs Institute, 1957.
bMS 522/7 (8) World Affairs Institute, 1958-59.
bMS 522/7 (9) International relations Institute, no date.
Institute of Churchmanship, 1936-1957
bMS 522/7 (10) Layman's Institute, 1936.
bMS 522/7 (11) Institute of Churchmanship, 1938.
bMS 522/7 (12) Institute of Churchmanship, 1939.
bMS 522/7 (13) Institute of Churchmanship, 1940.
bMS 522/7 (14) Institute of Churchmanship, 1941.
bMS 522/7 (15) Institute of Churchmanship, 1942.
bMS 522/7 (16) Institute of Churchmanship, 1943.
bMS 522/7 (17) Institute of Churchmanship, 1944.
bMS 522/7 (18) Institute of Churchmanship, 1945.
bMS 522/7 (19) Churchmanship Weekend, 1947.
bMS 522/7 (20) Institute of Churchmanship, 1948.
bMS 522/7 (21) Churchmanship Institute, 1950.
bMS 522/7 (22) Churchmanship Institute, 1951.
bMS 522/7 (23) Churchmanship Institute, 1952.
bMS 522/7 (24) Churchmanship Institute, 1953.
bMS 522/7 (25) Your Church in Today's World, 1955.
bMS 522/7 (26) Leadership Training Institute, 1956.
bMS 522/7 (27) Leadership Training, 1957.
Ministers Institute, 1930-1944
bMS 522/7 (28) Ministers Week, 1930.
bMS 522/7 (29) Ministers, 1931.
bMS 522/7 (30) Ministers Institute, 1935.
bMS 522/7 (31) Ministers Institute, 1937.
bMS 522/7 (32) Ministers Institute, 1944.
Public Affairs, 1952-1954
bMS 522/7 (33) Human Relations in Public Affairs, 1952.
bMS 522/7 (34) Public Affairs, 1953.
bMS 522/7 (35) Public Affairs, 1954.
Religious Education, 1925-1963
bMS 522/7 (36) Sunday School Week, 1925-26.
bMS 522/7 (37) Institute (on Religious Education), 1928 (Combined with General Sunday School Association, 16th annual convention).
bMS 522/7 (38) Sunday School Week, 1930.
bMS 522/7 (39) Institute for Religious Education, 1931.
bMS 522/7 (40) Religious Education, 1931.
bMS 522/7 (41) Religious Education, 1933.
bMS 522/7 (42) Religious Education Institute, 1934.
bMS 522/7 (43) Religious Education Institute, 1935.
bMS 522/7 (44) Religious Education, 1936.
bMS 522/7 (45) Religious Education, 1937.
bMS 522/7 (46) Religious Education, 1938.
bMS 522/7 (47) Religious Education Institute, 1939.
bMS 522/7 (48) Religious Education Institute, 1940.
bMS 522/7 (49) Religious Education Institute, 1941.
bMS 522/8 (1) Religious Education Institute, 1942.
bMS 522/8 (2) Religious Education Institute, 1943.
bMS 522/8 (3) Religious Education Institute, 1944.
bMS 522/8 (4) Religious Education Institute, 1945.
bMS 522/8 (5) Religious Education Institute, 1946.
bMS 522/8 (6) Religious Education Institute, 1947.
bMS 522/8 (7) Religious Education Institute, 1948.
bMS 522/8 (8) Religious Education Institute, 1949.
bMS 522/8 (9) Religious Education Institute, 1950.
bMS 522/8 (10) Religious Education Institute, 1951.
bMS 522/8 (11) Religious Education Institute, 1952.
bMS 522/8 (12) Religious Education Institute Committee, 1952.
bMS 522/8 (13) Education Institutes, 1953.
bMS 522/8 (14) Education, 1954.
bMS 522/8 (15) Religious Education Institute, 1955.
bMS 522/8 (16) Religious Education Planning Committee, 1955.
bMS 522/8 (17) Religion. Teen-Age Teaching Institute, 1955.
bMS 522/8 (18) Religious Education Institute, 1956.
bMS 522/8 (19) Ferry Beach Committee for Religious Education, 1956.
bMS 522/9 (1) Religious Education, 1957.
bMS 522/9 (2) Religious Education Committee, 1957.
bMS 522/9 (3) Religious Education Institute, 1958.
bMS 522/9 (4) Religious Education Committee, 1958.
bMS 522/9 (5) Religious Education, 1959.
bMS 522/9 (6) Religious Education Committee, 1959.
bMS 522/9 (7) Religious Education, 1960.
bMS 522/9 (8) Religious Education Planning Committee, 1960.
bMS 522/9 (9) Religious Education, 1961.
bMS 522/9 (10) Religious Education Institute Committee, 1961.
bMS 522/9 (11) Religious Education, 1962.
bMS 522/9 (12) Religious Education Committee, 1962.
bMS 522/9 (13) Religious Education, 1963.
bMS 522/9 (14) Religious Education Planning Committee, 1963.
Young Adults, 1924-1961
bMS 522/9 (15) Young Adults Weekend, no dates.
bMS 522/9 (16) Young Adults Weekend, 1947.
bMS 522/9 (17) Young Adults Weekend, 1949.
bMS 522/9 (18) Young Adults Conference, 1950.
bMS 522/9 (19) Young Adults Conference, 1952.
bMS 522/9 (20) Young Adults Weekend, 1953.
bMS 522/9 (21) Young Adults Institute, 1954.
bMS 522/9 (22) Young People's Christian Union, 1924.
bMS 522/9 (23) Young People's Christian Union, 1925.
bMS 522/9 (24) Young People's Christian Union, 1932.
bMS 522/9 (25) Young People's Christian Union, 1935.
bMS 522/9 (26) Young People's Institute, 1936.
bMS 522/9 (27) Universalist Young People's Institute, 1937.
bMS 522/9 (28) Universalist Young People's Institute, 1939.
bMS 522/9 (29) Young People's Institute, 1941.
bMS 522/9 (30) Universalist Youth Fellowship, 1942.
bMS 522/9 (31) Universalist Youth Fellowship, 1943.
bMS 522/9 (32) Youth Institute, 1944.
bMS 522/9 (33) Universalist Youth, 1945.
bMS 522/9 (34) Universalist Youth Institute, 1946.
bMS 522/9 (35) Universalist Youth Institute, 1947.
bMS 522/9 (36) Youth Institute, 1951.
bMS 522/10 (1) Youth Laboratory, 1948.
bMS 522/10 (2) Youth Laboratory, 1949.
bMS 522/10 (3) Youth Laboratory, 1950.
bMS 522/10 (4) Youth Laboratory, 1951.
bMS 522/10 (5) Youth Laboratory, 1952.
bMS 522/10 (6) Youth Laboratory, 1953.
bMS 522/10 (7) Youth Laboratory, 1954.
bMS 522/10 (8) Youth Laboratory, 1955.
bMS 522/10 (9) Youth Laboratory, 1956.
bMS 522/10 (10) Youth Laboratory, 1957.
bMS 522/10 (11) Youth Laboratory, 1958.
bMS 522/10 (12) Youth Laboratory, 1959.
bMS 522/10 (13) Youth Laboratory, 1960.
bMS 522/10 (14) Youth Laboratory, 1961.
bMS 522/10 (15) Youth Laboratory, 1962.
bMS 522/10 (16) Youth Laboratory, 1963.
bMS 522/10 (17) Youth Laboratory, 1968.
Other Institutes
bMS 522/10 (18) American Friends Service Committee. New England Summer Leadership Institute on International Problems. 1945.
bMS 522/10 (19) American Unitarian Youth. New England Conference and National Convention, 1944.
bMS 522/10 (20) American Unitarian Youth. New England Conference, 1945.
bMS 522/10 (21) Class on World Friendship, 1932.
bMS 522/10 (22) East-West Institute, 1954.
bMS 522/10 (23) Maine Week, 1958.
bMS 522/10 (24) New England Interdistrict Religious Education Committee, 1964.
bMS 522/10 (25) Religion and Today's Science, 1954.
bMS 522/10 (26) Summer Training Conference for Religious Leaders of New England Unitarian Churches, 1944.
bMS 522/10 (27) Unitarian Ministers' Conference, n.d.
bMS 522/10 (28) Universalist Church of Maine. Annual Meeting, 1948.
bMS 522/10 (29) Universalist National Summer Meetings, Annual Meeting.
Programs, 1901-1903, 1906, 1908-1912, 1914-1915, 1921-1922, 1935-1936.
bMS 522/10 (30) Women's Institute, 19?
bMS 522/10 (31) Women's Missionary Institute, 1918.
bMS 522/10 (32) Camp Discovery, 1965.
bMS 522/10 (33) Camp Discovery, 1966.
bMS 522/10 (34) Camp Discovery, 1967.
bMS 522/10 (35) Camp Discovery, 1970.
bMS 522/10 (36) Camp Leedalab, 1963-1967, 1969.
Camp Seabreeze, 1944-1969
bMS 522/10 (37) Junior Hight Camp, 1944.
bMS 522/10 (38) Camp Seabreeze, 1945.
bMS 522/10 (39) Camp Seabreeze, 1946.
bMS 522/10 (40) Camp Seabreeze, 1947.
bMS 522/10 (41) Camp Seabreeze, 1948.
bMS 522/10 (42) Camp Seabreeze, 1949.
bMS 522/10 (43) Camp Seabreeze, 1950.
bMS 522/10 (44) Camp Seabreeze, 1951.
bMS 522/10 (45) Camp Seabreeze, 1952.
bMS 522/10 (46) Camp Seabreeze, 1953.
bMS 522/10 (47) Camp Seabreeze, 1954.
bMS 522/11 (1) Camp Seabreeze, 1956.
bMS 522/11 (2) Camp Seabreeze, 1957.
bMS 522/11 (3) Camp Seabreeze, 1958.
bMS 522/11 (4) Camp Seabreeze, 1959.
bMS 522/11 (5) Camp Seabreeze, 1960.
bMS 522/11 (6) Camp Seabreeze, 1961.
bMS 522/11 (7) Camp Seabreeze, 1962.
bMS 522/11 (8) Camp Seabreeze, 1963.
bMS 522/11 (9) Camp Seabreeze, 1965.
bMS 522/11 (10) Camp Seabreeze, 1966.
bMS 522/11 (11) Camp Seabreeze, 1967.
bMS 522/11 (12) Camp Seabreeze, 1968.
bMS 522/11 (13) Camp Seabreeze, 1969.
Miscellaneous
bMS 522/11 (14) Ladies Aid, 1915-1946.
bMS 522/11 (15) The Flag.
bMS 522/11 (16) Membership lists, incomplete. Life and Patron Members.
bMS 522/11 (17) Necrology Committee, reports, correspondence, 1939-1957.
bMS 522/11 (18) Reunions: invitations, correspondence, 1931-1934.
bMS 522/11 (19) Reunions: invitations, correspondence, 1935-1939.
bMS 522/11 (20) Reunions: invitations, correspondence, 1940-1944.
bMS 522/11 (21) Reunions: invitations, correspondence, 1949-1953.
bMS 522/11 (22) Services. Shinn Memorial, 1945.
bMS 522/11 (23) Miscellaneous.
Photographs
bMS 522/12 (1) Dennis, William Deveneau.
bMS 522/12 (2) Forbes, Eleanor B.
bMS 522/12 (3) Rowland, William.
bMS 522/12 (4) Shinn, Quillen Hamilton and Mrs. Shinn.
bMS 522/12 (5) Various individuals connected with Ferry Beach.
bMS 522/12 (6) The Quillen.
bMS 522/12 (7) Group Pictures, 1920's.
bMS 522/12 (8) Group Pictures, 1930's.
bMS 522/12 (9) Group Pictures, 1940's.
bMS 522/12 (10) Group Pictures, 1950's.
bMS 522/12 (11) Various Ferry Beach buildings being built.
bMS 522/12 (12) The Chapel (destroyed).
bMS 522/12 (13) Chaflin Cottage.
bMS 522/12 (14) Forbes Chapel.
bMS 522/12 (15) Photographs of the property after the hurricane of 1950.
bMS 522/12 (16) The Underwood.
bMS 522/12 (17) Woodlands Cottage.
bMS 522/12 (18) Group Pictures, 1885-1919. Some of New Hampshire Gatherings.
bMS 522/12 (19) The Property.
bMS 522/12 (20) Photostat of settlement record establishing the ferry, 1830.
bMS 522/13 Panoramic photographs of many groups who held their meetings at Ferry Beach. Photographs date from the 1920s to the 1940s. Groups represented are: Institute of World Affairs, Religious Education Institute, the General Sunday School Association, the Young People's Institute, the Unitarian Religious Education Conference, the Young People's Christian Union, the Unitarian Laymen's League, the Isles of Shoals, and the Universalist General Convention, held at the White House in 1929.