Container List:
bMS 430/1 (1) Robert Cummins. Excluded The Story of the Federal Council of Chruches and the Universalists. Boston: UUA Department of Publications, 1966.
bMS 430/1 (2) Correspondence, 1929-1931.
bMS 430/1 (3) Correspondence, 1938-1939. Includes letter from John Van Schaick to Robert Cummins, March 31, 1938 and letter from George Arthur Buttrick to Robert Cummins, September 29, 1939.
bMS 430/1 (4) Correspondence, 1940. Includes letter from George Arthur Buttrick to Robert Cummins, November 30, 1940.
bMS 430/1 (5) Correspondence, 1941.
bMS 430/1 (6) Correspondence, January-June 1942.
bMS 430/1 (7) Correspondence, July-August 1942. Includes letter from Douglas Horton to Robert Cummins, July 14, 1942 and carbon copy of letter from Douglas Horton to Frederic Williams Perkins, July 30, 1942.
bMS 430/1 (8) Correspondence, September-November 1942. Includes letter from Douglas Horton to Robert Cummins and Frederick May Eliot, November 23, 1942 and letters from Douglas Horton to Robert Cummins, NOvember 24, November 25, November 27, and November 30, 1942.
bMS 430/1 (9) Correspondence, December 1942.
bMS 430/1 (10) Correspondence, January-March 1943. Includes letter from Charles Clayton Morrison to Robert Cummins, January 26, 1943.
bMS 430/1 (11) Correspondence, April-June 1943. Includes letter from Harry Emerson Fosdick to Robert Cummins, June 22, 1943 and copy of letter from Robert Cummins to Harry Emerson Fosdick, June 25, 1943.
bMS 430/1 (12) Correspondence, July-September 1943. Includes letters from Harry Emerson Fosdick to Robert Cummins, July 7 and July 12, 1943; letter from G. Bromley Oxnam to Robert Cummins, August 27, 1943; and letters from Douglas Horton to Robert Cummins, August 28 and August 30, 1943.
bMS 430/1 (13) Correspondence, October-December 1943. Includes letter from Leslie Talbot Pennington to Robert Cummins, October 4, 1943; letters from Douglas Horton to Robert Cummins, November 5 and November 11, 1943; and letter from John Van Schaick to Robert Cummins, November 10, 1943.
bMS 430/1 (14) Correspondence, January-July 1944. Includes letters from Douglas Horton to Robert Cummins, March 21 and June 15, 1944; carbon copy of letter from Douglas Horton to Frederick May Eliot, March 21, 1944; letter from Douglas Horton to Robert Cummins and Frederick May Eliot, April 28, 1944; letter from G. Bromley Oxnam to Robert Cummins, June 17, 1944.
bMS 430/1 (15) Correspondence, September 1944.
bMS 430/1 (16) Correspondence, October 1944.
bMS 430/1 (17) Correspondence, November 1944. Includes letters from Douglas Horton to Robert Cummins, November 15, November 22, November 27; telegram from Douglas Horton to Robert Cummins, November 29, 1944; letter from Samuel McCrea Cavert to Douglas Horton, November 13, 1944.
bMS 430/1 (18) Correspondence, December 1-4, 1944.
bMS 430/1 (19) Correspondence, December 5-7, 1944. Includes letter from John Van Schaick to Robert Cummins, December 6, 1944.
bMS 430/1 (20) Correspondence, December 8-12, 1944.
bMS 430/1 (21) Correspondence, December 13-30, 1944. Includes letter from Douglas Horton to Howard J. Chidley, December 13, 1944.
bMS 430/2 (1) Correspondence, January-April, 1945.
bMS 430/2 (2) Correspondence, May-December 1945. Includes letter from Dan Huntington Fenn to Robert Cummins, July 13, 1945.
bMS 430/2 (3) Correspondence, April-June 1946.
bMS 430/2 (4) Correspondence, September-December 1946.
bMS 430/2 (5) Correspondence, 1947. Includes letter from Charles P. Taft to Robert Cummins, March 27, 1947.
bMS 430/2 (6) Correspondence, 1948-1949. Includes copy of letter from Douglas Horton to Stanley Manning, January 21, 1948.
bMS 430/2 (7) Correspondence, 1950.
bMS 430/2 (8) Participation by Universalists in State and Local Councils and Federations of Churches.
bMS 430/2 (9) Papers re: Meeting of Federal Council, December 8-11, 1942.
bMS 430/2 (10) Draft of speech by Douglas Horton to be made at the biennial meeting of the Federal Council anent the acceptance of the application of the Universalist Church for membership, [1944].
bMS 430/2 (11) "Liberalism Looks Ahead," sermon by Roger Bosworth, Atlanta, Georgia, December 10, 1944.
bMS 430/2 (12) Stanley Manning, "Testing the Federal Council and Us." Carbon copy of typescript and clipping of article as printed in The Christian Leader, December 16, 1944.
bMS 430/2 (13) Robert Cummins. "God's Step-Children." Carbon copy of typescript, galley proof, and copy of article as published in Zion's Herald, January 17, 1945.
bMS 430/2 (14) Bulletins and newsletters from Universalist churches with comment of Federal Council action, 1944-1946.
bMS 430/2 (15) Material re: first application for membership, 1944. (Includes notes and papers drawn from other sources.)
bMS 430/2 (16) Material re: second application for membership, 1946.
bMS 430/2 (17) Miscellaneous notes, mostly by Robert Cummins.
bMS 430/2 (18) Newspaper clippings on Federal Council.
bMS 430/2 (19) Magazine pieces on Universalists and the Federal Council.
bMS 430/2 (20) Constitution of the Federal Council.
bMS 430/2 (21) The Universalist Church of America and the Federal Council of Churches. Summary prepared by Esther Richardson, August 1958.