bMS 420

Cummins, Robert. Universalist Church of America. General Superintendent Papers, 1939-1969.

Container List:

General Superintendent Correspondence

Note: The following section includes correspondence between Cummins and various officials at U.C.A. headquarters, including John Moses Ratcliffe, Esther A. Richardson, and Ida Mabel Folsom.

bMS 420/1 (1) General Superintendent correspondence, 1939.

bMS 420/1 (2) General Superintendent correspondence, January-March 1940.

bMS 420/1 (3) General Superintendent correspondence, April 1940.

bMS 420/1 (4) General Superintendent correspondence, May-July 1940. Includes letter from Carl Harold Olson, June 3, 1940.

bMS 420/1 (5) General Superintendent correspondence, August-December 1940. Includes letter from Harold Strong Latham, December 4, 1940.

bMS 420/1 (6) General Superintendent correspondence, January-July 1941. Includes letter from Frederic Williams Perkins, July 13, 1941.

bMS 420/1 (7) General Superintendent correspondence, August-September, 1941.

bMS 420/1 (8) General Superintendent correspondence, October-December, 1941.

bMS 420/1 (9) General Superintendent correspondence, January-March 1942. Includes letters from Frederick May Eliot, February 26, 1942 and March 14, 1942; Stanley Manning, March 29, 1942; Seth Rogers Brooks, March 30, 1942; Angus Hector MacLean, March 30, 1942; and Cornelius Greenway, March 31, 1942.

bMS 420/1 (10) General Superintendent correspondence, April 1942. Includes letters from John Clarence Petrie, April 10, 1942; Benjamin B. Hersey, April 8, 1942; Charles Francis Potter, April 8, 1942; John Smith Lowe, April 20, 1942; Harold Strong Latham, April 24, 1942; Roger Frederick Etz, April 28, 1942.

bMS 420/1 (11) General Superintendent correspondence, May 1942. Includes letters from Harmon M. Gehr, May 5, 1942; Roger Frederick Etz, May 12, 1942; and Charles Francis Potter, May 12, 1942.

bMS 420/1 (12) General Superintendent correspondence, June-July 1942.

bMS 420/1 (13) General Superintendent correspondence, August 1942.

bMS 420/1 (14) General Superintendent correspondence, October-December 1942.

bMS 420/1 (15) General Superintendent correspondence, January-March 1943. Includes letter from Marion John Bradshaw, February 19, 1943.

bMS 420/1 (16) General Superintendent correspondence, May-August 1943.

bMS 420/1 (17) General Superintendent correspondence, September-October 1944.

bMS 420/1 (18) General Superintendent correspondence, November-December 1944. Includes two letters from Clarence Russell Skinner, November 24, 1944 and December 20, 1944.

bMS 420/1 (19) General Superintendent correspondence--letters and responses to the article and pamphlet Universalism Today, 1944.

bMS 420/1 (20) General Superintendent correspondence, January-April 1945.

bMS 420/1 (21) General Superintendent correspondence, May 1945. Includes letter from Stanley Manning, May 3, 1945.

bMS 420/2 (1) General Superintendent correspondence, June-August 1945.

bMS 420/2 (2) General Superintendent correspondence, September-December 1945. Includes letters from Horace Westwood, September 11, 1945, September 21, 1945, October 3, 1945, and December 6, 1945; John Haynes Holmes, November 1, 1945; and John Van Schaick, December 18, 1945.

bMS 420/2 (3) General Superintendent correspondence, January-May 1946. Includes letters from Harold Strong Latham, January 4, [1946]; Horace Westwood, May 9, 1946.

bMS 420/2 (4) General Superintendent correspondence, June-July 1946. Includes letter from Ellsworth C. Reamon, June 4, 1946.

bMS 420/2 (5) General Superintendent correspondence, August 1946.

bMS 420/2 (6) General Superintendent correspondence, September-December 1947.

bMS 420/2 (7) General Superintendent correspondence, January-April 1948. Includes letters from John Van Schaick, February 5, 1948 and March 10, 1948; JOhn Murray Atwood, February 28, 1948, and Hazel Ida Kirk, March 9, 1948.

bMS 420/2 (8) General Superintendent correspondence, May-July 1948.

bMS 420/2 (9) General Superintendent correspondence, August, 1948. Includes letter from Ellsworth C. Reamon, August 12, 1948.

bMS 420/2 (10) General Superintendent correspondence, September-December 1948.

bMS 420/2 (11) General Superintendent correspondence, January-March 1949.

bMS 420/2 (12) General Superintendent correspondence, April-June 1949.

bMS 420/2 (13) General Superintendent correspondence, July-August 1949.

bMS 420/2 (14) General Superintendent correspondence, July-August 1951. Includes letter from Philip Randall Giles, July 9, 1951.

bMS 420/2 (15) General Superintendent correspondence, September-December 1951.

bMS 420/2 (16) General Superintendent correspondence, January 1952.

bMS 420/2 (17) General Superintendent correspondence, February-April 1952.

bMS 420/2 (18) General Superintendent correspondence, May-July 1952.

Miscellaneous General Superintendent Papers

bMS 420/3 (1) Expense records and travel schedules, June 1939-July 1940.

bMS 420/3 (2) Expense records and travel schedules, August 1940-February 1941.

bMS 420/3 (3) Expense records, February-December 1941.

bMS 420/3 (4) Expense records and travel schedules, January 1942-June 1943.

bMS 420/3 (5) Expense records and travel schedules, July 1944-June 1945.

bMS 420/3 (6) Expense records and travel schedules, June 1945-June 1946.

bMS 420/3 (7) Expense records and travel schedules, June 1947-September 1948.

bMS 420/3 (8) Expense records, August 1948-June 1949.

bMS 420/3 (9) Expense records, July 1950-May 1952.

bMS 420/3 (10) Miscellaneous articles and reports.

Personal Correspondence

bMS 420/3 (11) Personal correspondence, 1939-1941. Includes letters from Harold Strong Latham, April 7, 1941; July 8, 1941; July 17, 1941; August 20, 1941; and August 27, 1941.

bMS 420/3 (12) Personal correspondence, 1942. Includes letter from Everett Moore Baker, January 30, 1942.

bMS 420/3 (13) Personal correspondence, 1943-1944. Includes letters from John Van Schaick, October 2, 1944 and December 5, 1944; and Lyman Ward, December 20, 1944.

bMS 420/3 (14) Personal correspondence, January-February 1945.

bMS 420/3 (15) Personal correspondence, March-July 1945. Includes letter from Lyman Ward, July 14, 1945.

bMS 420/3 (16) Personal correspondence, August-DEcember 1945.

bMS 420/3 (17) Personal correspondence, January 1946.

bMS 420/3 (18) Personal correspondence, February-April 1946.

bMS 420/3 (19) Personal correspondence, May-July 1946. Includes letter from Horace Westwood, May 21, 1946.

bMS 420/3 (20) Personal correspondence, August 2-13, 1946. Includes letter from Seth Rogers Brooks, August 9, 1946.

bMS 420/3 (21) Personal correspondence, August 14-31, 1946. Includes letters from Harold Strong Latham, August 14, 1946; John Van Schaick, August 16, 1946.

bMS 420/3 (22) Personal correspondence, September 1946.

bMS 420/4 (1) Personal correspondence, October-December 1946.

bMS 420/4 (2) Personal correspondence, Janaury-March 1947.

bMS 420/4 (3) Personal correspondence, April 1947. Includes letter from Granville Hicks, April 2, 1947; postcard from John Smith Lowe, April 18, 1947; letter from John Smith Lowe, c. April 20, 1947.

bMS 420/4 (4) Personal correspondence, May 1947.

bMS 420/4 (5) Personal correspondence, June 1947. Includes letter from Max Kapp, June 3, 1947.

bMS 420/4 (6) Personal correspondence, July-October 1947.

bMS 420/4 (7) Personal correspondence, November-December 1947.

bMS 420/4 (8) Personal correspondence, January 1948.

bMS 420/4 (9) Personal correspondence, February 1948. Includes letter from Harold Strong Latham, February 4, 1948.

bMS 420/4 (10) Personal correspondence, March 1948. Includes letters from John Van Schaick, March 2, 1948 and March 31, 1948; postcard from George Huntston Williams, March 10, 1948.

bMS 420/4 (11) Personal correspondence, April-May 1948. Includes letter from Horace Westwood, April 17, 1948.

bMS 420/4 (12) Personal correspondence, June-September 1948.

bMS 420/4 (13) Personal correspondence, 1950.

bMS 420/4 (14) Personal correspondence, 1951. Includes letters from John Smith Lowe, June 5, 1951; Horace Westwood, July 29, 1951.

bMS 420/4 (15) Personal correspondence, January-March 1952. Includes letters from Horace Westwood, January 1, 1952; January 28, 1952; [March 3, 1952].

bMS 420/4 (16) Personal correspondence, April-May 1952.

bMS 420/4 (17) Miscellaneous.

Writings

bMS 420/4 (18) Fraternally Yours,--Bob. [No. 1] Typesceipt draft.

bMS 420/4 (19) Fraternally Yours,--Bob. [No. 1, c. January 1942].

bMS 420/4 (20) Fraternally Yours,--Bob. [No. 2] Typescript draft.

bMS 420/4 (21) Fraternally Yours,--Bob. [No. 2, c. March 1942].

bMS 420/4 (22) Fraternally Yours,--Bob. Number 3. Typescript draft.

bMS 420/4 (23) Fraternally Yours,--Bob. Number 3. [c. January 1943].

bMS 420/4 (24) Fraternally Yours,--Bob. Number 4. Typescript draft.

bMS 420/5 (1) Fraternally Yours,--Bob. Number 4. [c. June 1943].

bMS 420/5 (2) Fraternally Yours,--Bob. Number 5. [c. September 1943].

bMS 420/5 (3) Fraternally Yours,--Bob. Number 6. Typescript draft.

bMS 420/5 (4) Fraternally Yours,--Bob. Number 6. September 1944.

bMS 420/5 (5) Views from the Hill. Printed in part in The Christian Leader, December 5, 1942.

bMS 420/5 (6) Views from the Hill. Printed in The Christian Leader, September 19, 1942.

bMS 420/5 (7) Views from the Hill. Printed in The Christian Leader, November 7, 1942.

bMS 420/5 (8) Views from the Hill. Printed in The Christian Leader, November 21, 1942.

bMS 420/5 (9) A Bulwark Never Failing. c. 1944-1945.

bMS 420/5 (10) Book review, The Veteran Comes Back. Printed in The Christian Leader, October 7, 1944.

bMS 420/5 (11) Men of God. Copy for the Illinois State Messenger, c. 1945.

bMS 420/5 (12) God's Step-Children. Printed in Zion's Herald, January 17, 1945.

bMS 420/5 (13) Liberal Religion in the Development of American Culture. c. 1945-1946.

bMS 420/5 (14) Universalism Speaks. Radio broadcasts, 1947-1948.

bMS 420/5 (15) Possibilities for Greater Functional Cooperation. Talk before the Boston Universalist Ministers Association, February 16, 1948.

bMS 420/5 (16) Church Union. c. 1949(?).

bMS 420/5 (17) Universalism Goes into 1949. Printed in The Christian Leader, January 1949.

bMS 420/5 (18) Draft of order of service, Charles Street Meeting House, July 31, 1949.

bMS 420/5 (19) Extending Our Church and Improving Our Ministry. Printed in The Christian Leader, January 1952.

bMS 420/5 (20) Universalism Faces the Future. address delivered at the 100th Annual Sessions of the Massachusetts Universalist Convention, May 16, 1959.

bMS 420/5 (21) The General Superintendency. How It Came into Being. c. 1960's.

bMS 420/5 (22) Miscellaneous leaflets.

Miscellaneous

bMS 420/5 (23) Programs for installation as General Superintendent and for testimonial dinner, 1938.

bMS 420/5 (24) Newspaper clippings.

Material on Past General Superintendents

Note: The material in folders bMS 420/5 (25-31) was given by John Cummins.

bMS 420/5 (25) Letters and notes re. Isaac Morgan Atwood. Includes letter from JOhn Murray Atwood, April 12, 1947.

bMS 420/5 (26) Letters and notes re. William Henry McGlauflin.

bMS 420/5 (27) Letters and notes re. John Smith Lowe.

bMS 420/5 (28) Miscellaneous letters and notes re. General Superintendents. Includes letter from Stanley Manning, April 23, 1956.

bMS 420/5 (29) The General Superintendency. How It Came into Being.

bMS 420/5 (30) Isaac Morgan Atwood. First of Our General Superintendents.

bMS 420/5 (31) William Henry McGlauflin. The Second of Our General Superintendents, 1907-1917.

Interview

bMS 420/5 (32) Cassette tape of interview with Robert Cummins conducted by Carl Seaburg and Theodore Webb, October 31, 1969.