bMS 417

Universalist Church of America. Papers on British Universalist Church, 1929-1957.

Summary Information:

  • Call Number: bMS 417
  • Title: Universalist Church of America. Papers on British Universalist Church, 1929-1957.
  • Repository: Harvard Divinity School Library, Harvard Divinity School,
    45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138-1911
  • Quantity: 1 box

Scope and Content:

Most of the correspondence in this collection is from or to Arthur Peacock, a British Universalist minister. Thomas Turrell and Robert Cummins are other correspondents.

Container List:

bMS 417/1 (1) "Universalism in Great Britain and Ireland," by Thomas Jefferson Sawyer. From the Expositor and Review, May 1840.

bMS 417/1 (2) "The Origin and History of Universalist Societies in Britain, 1750-1850," by Geoffrey Rowell. From the Journal of Ecclesiastical History, January 1971.

bMS 417/1 (3) "British Universalism, 1787-1825: Elhanan Winchester, William Vidler and the Gospel of Universal Restoration," by Charles A. Howe. Typescript of article published in Transactions of the Unitarian Historical Society, September 1979.

bMS 417/1 (4) Correspondence, February-May 1929.

bMS 417/1 (5) Correspondence, September-December 1941.

bMS 417/1 (6) Correspondence, January-February 1942.

bMS 417/1 (7) Correspondence, May-July 1942. Includes letter from George Watson MacGregor-Reid to Will Bromley, April 24, 1942 enclosed in letter from Isaac Smith to Robert Cummins, June 9, 1942.

bMS 417/1 (8) Correspondence, September-October 1942.

bMS 417/1 (9) Correspondence, March-September 1943.

bMS 417/1 (10) Correspondence, October-December 1943.

bMS 417/1 (11) Correspondence, June-December 1944.

bMS 417/1 (12) Correspondence, January-November 1945.

bMS 417/1 (13) Correspondence, February-July 1946.

bMS 417/1 (14) Correspondence, August-December 1946.

bMS 417/1 (15) Correspondence, January-March 1947.

bMS 417/1 (16) Correspondence, April-December 1947.

bMS 417/1 (17) Correspondence, January-February 1948.

bMS 417/1 (18) Correspondence, March-April 1948.

bMS 417/1 (19) Correspondence, May-June 1948.

bMS 417/1 (20) Correspondence, July-November 1948.

bMS 417/1 (21) Correspondence, March, 1949.

bMS 417/1 (21a) Correspondence, August 1950-May 1952.

bMS 417/1 (22) London Universalists Appeal for Aid, February 6, 1942.

bMS 417/1 (23) Service of Dedication, Royhill, Universalist Church, July 27, 1946.

bMS 417/1 (24) Miscellaneous orders of service.

bMS 417/1 (25) Photographs of the 1643 altar from London Universalist Church.

bMS 417/1 (26) Royhill Holiday Centre: miscellaneous printed material and photographs.

bMS 417/1 (27) Great Frenches Park: miscellaneous printed material.

bMS 417/1 (28) Miscellaneous.

bMS 417/1 (29) Pamphlets (Folder #1).
Universalism A Declaration of Faith.
What is Universalism? by W. MacGregor-Reid and Robert Cummins.
The Broader View.
Jesus and the World To-day, by W. Macgregor-Reid.
The Spiritual Leadership of Jesus, by John Van Schaick Jr., Arthur Peacock, Robert Cummins.
"They Kept the Faith", by Arthur Peacock.
The Universalist Church (British Circle).

bMS 417/1 (30) Pamphlets (Folder #2).
The Garden of God, by W. MacGregor-Reid.
Religion and the Common Man, by W. Arthur Peacock.
The Udanavarga, translated by Ayu Subhadra (W. MacGregor-Reid).

bMS 417/1 (31) Pamphlets (Folder #3).
For You and Your Neighbour.
The Universalist, No. 1 (New Series), October 1946.
Who are the Universalists? by Arthur Peacock.

bMS 417/1 (32) Pamphlets (Folder #4).
Prayers of the Larger Faith.
Universalism Speaks.
Religin in Action.
Universalism and Liberal Religion, by Arthur Peacock.