US-RUn-msg29 Guide to the Bishop James DeWolf Perry Papers 1835-1961 (bulk 1904-1947) Finding aid prepared by David C. Maslyn. University of Rhode Island Library 2009 June 30
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 Perry, James DeWolf, Bishop, 1871-1947 Bishop James DeWolf Perry Papers 1835-1961 (bulk 1904-1947) 26 linear feet 67 box(es) This collection contains the personal papers of Bishop James DeWold Perry, mainly from the time of his consecration as Bishop of Rhode Island in 1911 until his death in 1947, and especially from his tenure as Presiding Bishop, 1930-1937. Mss. Gr. 29 Biographical note

James DeWolf Perry was born on 3 October 1871 in Germantown, Pennsylvania, the second son and third child of five of the Rev. James DeWolf Perry II, rector of Calvary Church in that city. His distinguished family hailed originally from Rhode Island, where his ancestors had founded the town of Bristol; among his better known antecedents were his great-great-uncles the Commodores Oliver Hazard Perry, who gained fame on Lake Erie during the War of 1812, and Matthew Galbraith Perry, who opened Japan to U.S. trade in 1854, as well as a U.S. Senator from Rhode Island, 1821-1825, the Hon. James DeWolf.

Perry aimed for the ministry from his earliest years. Following his graduation from the Germantown Academy in 1887, he earned his A.B. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1891 and another from Harvard in 1892. He then took his bachelor's of divinity from the Episcopal Theological Seminary in Cambridge in 1895. In that year he was ordained a deacon by Bishop William Lawrence and in 1896 he was ordained a priest. From 1895 to 1897 he served as curate at Christ Church, Springfield, Massachusetts, whence he received a call to Christ Church, Fitchburg. In 1904 he removed to St. Paul's in New Haven, an important parish closely associated with Yale University. In that post he found notable opportunities for displaying his formidable administrative talents. In 1908 he married Miss Edith Dean Weir, a respected artist who was the daughter of the director of the Yale Art School. Mrs. Perry accompanied the Bishop on many of his travels and survived him by eight years. She died 1955. Together they had three children: James DeWolf Perry IV, clergyman, and John, medical doctor, and a daughter Beatrice who died in her childhood.

On 21 September 1910, Perry was elected Episcopal Bishop of Rhode Island, perhaps at 39 the youngest bishop in the U.S. until that time. He was consecrated on 6 January 1911 and held that post until his retirement in 1946. Although throughout his life he remained an indefatigable worker for international peace, he was not a pacifist. He participated in the military training efforts of 1916, as earlier he had been chaplain of the 6th Massachusetts Infantry from 1898 to 1904. During World War I, he served as chief of Red Cross chaplains in France, all denominations, from August 1918 to February 1919, at the assimilated rank of major, where he was known to the press as "the Bishop in Boots" and where he was later awarded the French Legion of Honor in 1934.

The early 1920s were occupied chiefly by diocesan concerns, but one of them in particular brought him into the national arena. The arrest in 1919 of Newport naval chaplain Samuel Neal Kent, on charges of immorality stemming from homosexual solicitation among the sailors, was attended by gross misconduct on the parts of the investigating officers. Following Kent's acquittal in Newport, Perry led a movement to extract an apology from Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels. On Navy orders, the Justice Department declared Kent a fugitive, despite Perry's guarantee of his availability, and tried him again in Federal Court in Providence, where he was once again acquitted. Indignation swelled, and Perry, with the aid of Bishop Rhinelander and many others, most notably John Rathom of the Providence Journal, sought official redress. When a Court of Inquiry selected by the Navy was convened in New York, the Bishop fought hard in correspondence, in court, and in the press against both Daniels and the Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt. His efforts won a Senate investigation into the Navy's methods of obtaining evidence, which firmly censured Roosevelt's practice of using a flying squad of "blue shirts,'' young sailors to whom he permitted far too many liberties in their procedures for gathering evidence. The Kent case and related naval prosecutions created an enormous scandal at the time.

Perry's lifelong commitment to the ideal of Christian unity brought him to the Universal Conference on Life and Work in Stockholm in 1925 and to the World Conference on Faith and Order in Lausanne, 1927, where he was chairman of the executive committee. He had also attended the Lambeth Conference in 1920 and had been serving on the Board of Missions and in the Departments of Religious Education and Christian Social Service in the Episcopal National Council since its formation in 1919. He had an interest in, but self-admittedly little knowledge of, the subject of church music. He served on the Commission on Church Music. He also served on the governing commission of the Chaplain Corps to the armed forces, acting as sponsor for the establishment of the Church Army in the United States.

On 26 March 1930, at the age of 58 Bishop Perry was chosen by the House of Bishops to be Presiding Bishop of the church. His election seems to have been something of a compromise, but one which was satisfactory to everyone. In the sometimes spirited disputes between the high and low church clergymen, and between the traditional and "modernist" parties within the church, Perry was perceived as a moderate who, by his calm intelligence and universal good will, seemed to transcend all of the party lines. Evidently, with the failure of any faction to elect their own spokesmen, Perry was chosen as the man most likely to heal the wounds caused by the disputes and controversies of the preceding decade. He was indeed, in most matters, unfailingly conciliatory and quite above destructive controversy, although at the same time he inclined personally towards the conservative and Anglo-Catholic persuasions in matters of vestments, ceremony, and doctrine. Apparently he believed quite humanely that wherever the essentials of the Christian creed were subscribed to, different churches and denominations might readily work in unqualified concert, without any of them having therefore to sacrifice their individual preferences in the forms of worship and other "matters of indifference." Accordingly, it must have given him great pleasure, in light of his strong will towards American unification with the historic episcopacy of the Church of England, to be recognized as the sixth-ranking prelate in the Anglican Communion at the Lambeth Conference of 1930. Whilst there, he was chosen to deliver the farewell sermon in Westminster Abbey, where he pled eloquently for church unity, and to lay the cornerstone of St. Andrew's Cathedral in Aberdeen, both in August 1930.

One controversy into which the Bishop was unwillingly drawn grew out of the Pope's encyclical. Pius XI had issued an invitation to all the Protestant denominations to re-enter the Roman fold, where all would be forgiven. On 10 January 1932, preaching in St. John the Divine in New York City, Perry replied to it in very gracious and kindly terms, but the substance of his sermon was to refuse the papal invitation. Speaking for his whole communion, he argued that the Episcopal Church could recognize only Christ as infallible head of the Catholic church, and that the Pope's claim to that role would be an insurmountable obstacle to any real union. In the course of his remarks, he quoted from recognized Protestant translations of the Fathers several passages to the effect that the Bishop of Rome was but a man as other men. Predictably, the Catholic press responded, usually courteously, sometimes scurrilously and mockingly, and Perry was many times accused by correspondents who were using the Roman Catholic translations of the same patristic writers, of having deliberately distorted his quotations in order to subvert truth and sow error. Wisely and characteristically, Perry never replied to them, but the presence in his papers of many press clippings of their complaints testified to his concern.

Bishop Perry was particularly occupied with the missionary interests of the church, especially with their financial plight during the Depression. He had reorganized the National Council to the effect of considerable savings, but he found himself very much exercised by the dwindling capital of the mission effort, which forced the abandonment of many mission stations. For much of his career he took care to foster and encourage the efforts of church organization among blacks and the new immigrant minorities, and native peoples. In 1931 he made a journey to South Dakota to convene the Niobara Meeting among the Indians. The plight of the dispossessed Assyrians seems also to have been a constant concern to him. Following the widely circulated report of the Laymen's Foreign Mission Inquiry, which severely censured the missionary efforts of many churches, Bishop and Mrs. Perry made a personal journey to the orient in order to investigate the allegations among the mission stations of his own church. They traveled for five months throughout the Hawaiian Islands, the Philippines, China, and Japan, and upon their return Perry pronounced a firm condemnation of the inaccuracies of the Inquiry's report, at least in respect of the Episcopal missions. While in Japan, the Bishop met the Emperor Hirohito in Tokyo and seems to have been won by his reception by the Japanese church; for several years afterwards he defended publicly the innocent good intentions and irenism of Japan against "malicious rumors," despite the obvious aggressions of the Japanese in Manchuria and China at the time.

The Bishop made several other journeys of importance. He visited England again in 1936 and in 1942, the second time for the consecration as Archbishop of Canterbury of his friend William Temple. He attended further sessions of the Universal Conference on Life and Work in Oxford and the World Conference on Faith and order in Edinburgh, both in 1937, and in May 1938 he sat with the World Council of Churches in Utrecht. In his capacity as overseer of the American Episcopal churches on the continent, he returned from a European tour in February 1939 with the opinion that, given the religious loyalty of the mass of Europeans generally, a new war was most unlikely to occur. Meanwhile, he had political interests as well; his position in December 1937 on a committee to draft a new statement of principles for the Republican Party seems, however, to have been an uncharacteristically active role in politics.

Perry took an important part in the deliberations and judgments of all of the triennial General Conventions of the church during his tenure. In addition, he was personally affected by them as well. At the convention of 1931, having served already for a little over a year, he was re-elected to a six year term as Presiding Bishop. At the Conventions of 1934 and 1937 he organized and effected much important business, especially concerning birth control, the marriage and divorce canons, and the status and role of the Presiding Bishop, and indeed in recognition of that fact he was to be seen on the cover of Time magazine's issue of 15 October 1934; but at the latter Convention he seems to have requested that he not be renominated for the principal position. He was drafted into nomination, however, and acquiesced, but then, probably because of widespread doubts about Perry's health, Bishop Tucker was elected to succeed him. Perry's health did indeed seem to decline thereafter; in October 1946, only ten months after the celebration of the thirty-fifth anniversary of his consecration, Bishop Perry retired. On 20 March 1947, while he and Mrs. Perry were vacationing in Summerville, South Carolina, the Bishop suffered a heart attack and died at the age of 75. As in his lifetime he had received a large number of awards and honorary doctorate degrees, so in 1956 a memorial cross was dedicated to his memory in the Washington Cathedral in Washington, D.C.

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Preferred Citation

Bishop James DeWolf Perry Papers, Mss. Gr. 29, University of Rhode Island Library.

 Scope and Content Note

The papers of the Rt. Rev. James DeWolf Perry, Presiding Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States, consist of correspondence, religious writings and notes, diaries and journals, news clippings, and memorabilia from the Bishop's career, chiefly from the time of his consecration as Bishop of Rhode Island in 1911 until his death in 1947, and especially from the period of his tenure as Presiding Bishop, 1930 to 1937. Also included are numerous anecdotes and testimonials submitted for inclusion in the two biographies that were being prepared after his death. The collection includes predominantly the Bishop's personal files and effects. These were transferred from the Cathedral of St. John, Providence, in October 1976 and given as a gift to the University of Rhode Island by the Rev. DeWolf Perry, the Bishop's son, in 1977. The official records of his ecclesiastical administration are part of the Archives of the Episcopal Church, 606 Rathervue Place, Austin, Texas, on the campus of the Episcopal Seminary.

The Bishop's papers and effects have been sorted into thirteen series, covering the areas of correspondence, writings, subject files, and memorabilia.

Series I, General Correspondence, consists of original and carbon copies of letters sent to and from the Bishop from 1904 to 1947, but chiefly from 1919 to 1941. It does not seem to represent more than a small part of Perry's total correspondence over the same range of subjects. There is a good deal of routine social business and the ordinary transaction of diocesan and national church affairs, as well as correspondence concerning many controversial and administrative issues, which arose during his tenure. Much of the material here is supplemented essentially by other correspondence to be found in the Subject Series.

Series II, Family Correspondence, consists chiefly of the Bishop's letters to Mrs. Perry during World War I and during some of his other journeys without her. There are also a certain amount of both the Bishop's and Mrs. Perry's correspondence with other members of their families.

Series III, Condolence Correspondence, consists almost entirely of messages of grief and good wishes sent to Mrs. Perry on the occasion of the Bishop's death in 1947.

Series IV, Sermons and Addresses, consists largely of typed carbon and holographic copies of drafts, as well as holographic lectern notes, of the Bishop's addresses to the laity and other clergymen. There are many sermons of a spiritually edifying character, as well as addresses on both religious and administrative occasions, some intended for radio presentation. In addition, there are Perry's copies of press releases and circular messages to the church, accompanied in some cases by press clippings of his remarks.

Series V, Diaries, includes a complete run of the Bishop's daybooks from 1910 to 1947 and contains especially interesting material on World War I, among other topics, though much of the diaries' space is occupied by appointment notices and weather notes.

Series VI, Journals, comprises the annual published reports of the diocese of Rhode Island, beginning in 1835 but complete only between 1911 and 1946, which contain for the latter span Bishop Perry's annual addresses, his administrative diaries, clergy lists, and financial reports for the diocese. Also found in this series are the journals of the Episcopal General Convention, beginning in 1919 but complete from 1928 to 1940.

In Series VII, the Subject Series, are filed large quantities of miscellaneous types of materials, such as correspondence, clippings, and official documents and certificates, most of it relating directly to the Bishop's own life. In this class are testimonial volumes in his honor, earned and honorary graduate degrees and various awards, correspondence from the period of his sojourn abroad during World War I. Of wider interest are materials on controversies, celebrated in their time, in which Perry had some part, like the Richmond, Torok, and Kent cases. Also present are materials gathered by Bishop Perry's would-be biographers, Allan Evans and Bishop Scaife. The Subject Series should be used in close conjunction with the General Correspondence.

Series VIII and IX contain similar matter concerning two special topics of interest, the Lambeth Conferences of 1920 and 1930 and the Bishop's Oriental Journey in 1933. The first contains a great deal of information on the behind-the-scenes deliberations as well as the public ceremonies and pronouncements of these important meetings. The second consists of personal materials accumulated by Perry during his trip to Hawaii, the Philippines, China, and Japan: itineraries, diaries, and many beautiful souvenirs.

Series X, Photographs, consists largely of formal portraits of Bishop Perry, with and without other clergymen or soldiers posing with him, and of other dignitaries, like one of Gen. Pershing dated 1920. There are very few that show aspects of Perry's personal life.

The Clippings series, Series XI, contains a mass of newspaper and magazine material concerning events in which the Bishop was involved: major events in his own career, controversial issues in which he became caught up, important occasions in the church's life. In addition, there are published texts of many of his own sermons and addresses, and as a third subseries, there is a small amount of press material in which he is not mentioned but about which presumably he was interested.

Series XII, Prayers and Collects, contains pious manuals and prayer formularies, none of which were written by the Bishop.

Series XIII, Memorabilia, contains a collection of medals, insignias and crosses, including the French Legion of Honor, awarded to or worn by Bishop Perry.

There are many elements of historical interest in Bishop Perry's papers, aside from the most obvious one, which is the large quantity of biographical material concerning an intelligent and humane man who was the spiritual and administrative head of his church during a trying time. Beyond this, there is background material on several important issues in recent American religious history in its Episcopalian aspect, such as the Anglo-Catholic unity movement, the pan-Protestantism movement, the traditionalism/modernism and high and low church controversies, the plight of the missionary stations, and the church's perception of crucial international problems, such as the growing German, Japanese, and Italian threats in the 1930s and the worldwide depression. There is information on several particular controversies, some local to the church, such as the suit which the Rev. G. C. Richmond brought against Perry and the reinstatement of Bishop Torok, others impinging upon the secular world, like Kent's case and the ensuing scandal of Roosevelt's "blue shirts." There is also a great deal of material on the internal history of the Episcopal Church itself, both at the national level, most intensively of course during the 1930s, and at the Rhode Island diocesan level, for what amounts almost to the entire first half of the twentieth century, as well as considerable incidental information about China and Japan in 1933. To some extent, the materials here can also be used to shed light upon the careers of other churchmen, both members of the English and American episcopacies and the parish and mission rectors of Rhode Island.

 Arrangement

The collection is arranged in thirteen series: 1. General Correspondence 2. Family Correspondence 3. Condolence Correspondence 4. Sermons and Addresses 5. Diaries 6. Journals 7. Subject Series 8. The Lambeth Conference 9. Oriental Journey 10. Photographs 11. Clippings 12. Prayers and Collects 13. Memorabilia

Acquisitions Information

The papers were given as a gift to the University of Rhode Island by the Rev. DeWolf Perry, the Bishop's son, in 1977

 Names Perry, James DeWolf, Bishop, 1871-1947 Subjects Perry, James DeWolf, Bishop, 1871-1947 -- Travel Kent, Samuel Neal Daniels, Josephus, 1862-1948 Richmond, George Chalmers, b.1870 Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945 Torok, John, Bishop Perry, Matthew Calbraith, 1794-1858 Episcopal Church. Diocese of Rhode Island -- Bishops Episcopal Church. Presiding Bishop Episcopal Church -- Government Episcopal Church -- Missions -- Far East Episcopal Church -- Parties and movements Episcopal Church -- Sermons St. George's School (Newport, R.I.) Episcopal Church -- Periodicals Lambeth Conference Anglo-Catholicism Popes -- Infallibility World War, 1914-1918 -- Registers World War, 1914-1918 -- Chaplains World War, 1914-1918 -- War work -- Red Cross Tuller, Abbie Loveland -- Correspondence RIAMCO Browsing Terms Religion Inventory Series 1 1-8 1-345 General Correspondence1904-1947

The General Correspondence series comprises chiefly originals or carbon copies of personal and business letters to and from Bishop Perry, ranging in date from 1904 to 1947 but concentrated in the years 1919 to 1941. It also includes a small number of letters to Edith Weir Perry, and a few letters between other parties. Though what is here seems usually to be complete, in the sense that most inquiries have their answers and most protracted exchanges of correspondence are represented fully, yet the collection appears to contain only a small part of the Bishop's total correspondence (for example, in the file of the Rev. Arthur Wood, there is a comprehensive collection of letters dating from Wood's student days, 1921-1926, and one letter from 1946, while it is clear that Wood and the Bishop had been in just as close touch during the intervening twenty years). The correspondence is arranged alphabetically by the surname of the Bishop's correspondent, whether writer or addressee, and chronologically within the surname. Important persons and those represented by more than six or seven letters are in individual folders, in order following the alphabetical sequence of each initial letter; all bishops of the Church of England or the Protestant Episcopal Church of America are likewise organized. Form and circular letters and unidentified correspondents are grouped separately at the end of the series.

The General Correspondence series covers a large number of kinds of material. There is a fair lot of merely social business--compliments of the season, thanks for inspiration, and the paying of respects among friends. There is also a good deal of the routine transaction of church affairs: arrangements for meetings and conventions; requests for ordination from young men and from the clergy of other denominations; fundraising for both particular and general causes; attention to the details of staffing and finances of missions and church headquarters on the national level and of Rhode Island parishes and buildings on the level of the diocese. One particular form of material which will prove difficult to utilize in the absence of a name index for the series is the very many letters of recommendation and character reference for proposed rectors, which had to be filed under the names of the correspondents rather than the subjects of the letters. There is also a great deal of material concerning the Bishop's oversight of his clergy within the diocese. Some of it has merely to do with routine business, like calls to new rectors, appointments for confirmations, or the building up of shaky missions into self-supporting parishes. Much of it, however, also deals with the rectors' conflicts, over faith, morals, or practice, with their vestrymen and congregations, as for example in the cases of Rev. Gilbertson and of Rev. Hamlin vs. H. F. Webster. Some of it has to do with the Bishop's attempts to straighten out personal scandals in the clergymen's lives, as in the cases of Byron, Evans, and Scovil. There are also extensive remains of the Bishop's care of his protégés among the students aiming for the ministry, as for example Wood, Meader, Pfaffko, Carson, and Byron.

All of the material in the Correspondence series should be used in close conjunction with the Subject File, because there is a great deal of overlapping information on many matters, and because the Subject File also contains a considerable amount of correspondence which supplements or even supplies gaps in the exchanges here. Among the subjects upon which this series contains materials dispersed throughout the correspondence are the churchmanship controversies between the Romish and Evangelical factions, the causes of Anglo-Catholicism vs. the pan-Protestant movement, and the role of Presiding Bishop as head of the church. There is a good deal of information about St. George's School in Middletown and St. Andrew's Industrial School in West Barrington, as well as much material about the state of the mission churches in the Philippines (see especially letters of Bishop Mosher and Cheswick Todd), the conditions in China (see Lee), and the joint Anglican-American mission to the Assyrians. There is much material (especially under Admiral Baird and Bishop Rhinelander) concerning Bishop Perry's part in the successful defense of Chaplain Samuel Neal Kent of Newport against charges of homosexual solicitation and the church's subsequent Naval Court of Inquiry attacks upon Secretaries Josephus Daniels and Franklin Roosevelt and the U.S. Navy's corrupt methods of investigation (1919-1920), upon which head also there is much fuller information in the Subject series and Clippings series. The Correspondence series also contains many rather full presentations of Bishop Perry's views on matters of dogma and opinion, as for example on evolution (see the letter to S. C. G. Watkins), the sacrament (to Mrs. Hamilton Webster), and the repeal of the Volstead Law during Prohibition (to George Zabriskie), among many others. Also noteworthy is a folder of correspondence with Daniel Berkeley Updike, owner of the Merrymount Press.

 1 1 undated ABB-ANUT 1 2 undated APP-AXT 1 3 1931 Feb 8- 1931 Dec 17 Abbott, H. P. Almon, Bishop of Lexington 1 4 1911 Feb 3-1932 Dec 14 Acheson, Edward Campion, Bishop of Connecticut 1 5 1923 Nov 21-1925 Apr 6 Ackerman, Carl W., Sec., National Cathedral Fund 1 6 1923 Jul 16-1928 Sep 26 Alexander, Rev. Donald N., Commission on Church Architecture 1 7 1931 Jun 3-1934 Nov 30 Alling, Rev. Roger 1 8 1925 Dec 12-1930 Jan 22 Anderson, Charles Palmerston, Bishop of Chicago and Presiding Bishop 1 9 1931 Aug 27-1932 Jun 7 Anthony, Rep. B. Earl 1 10 1921 Apr 11-1927 Apr 7 Anthony, Wildred Edwards, Architect 1 11 undated BAB-BAY 1 12 undated BE 1 13 undated BIG-BOY 1 14 undated BRA-BRE 1 15 undated BRI-BRO 1 16 undated BRU-BRY 1 17 undated BUL-BURC 1 18 undated BURG-BUX 1 19 1934 Nov 8 Barnwell, Middleton S., Bishop of Idaho 1 20 1921Feb 1-1928 Apr 18 Bassett, Rev. Henry 1 21 1924 Aug 20-1941 Dec 11 Bell, Bernard I., Pres., St. Stephen's College 1 22 1934 Jun 14-1938 Apr 11 Bell, G. K. A., Bishop of Chichester 1 23 1930 Nov 3-1937 Jun 20 Bennett, Granville G., Bishop of Duluth, Suffragan Bishop of Rhode Island 1 24 1910 Sep 29-1932 Jan 5 Bradner, Dr. Lester and Rev. William (son) 1 25 1922 Jan 28-1926 Aug 6 Bratenahl, G. C. F., Dean of Washington Cathedral 1 26 1932 Jan 29 Bratton, Theodore DuBose, Bishop of Mississippi 1 27 1921 Apr 23-1928 Jun 5 Brent, Charles H., Bishop of Western New York 1 28 1923 Oct 25-1927 Dec 20 Brewster, Benjamin, Bishop of Maine 1 29 1925 Apr 29-1927 May 18 Brewster, Chauncey B., Bishop of Connecticut 1 x-ref. undated Brown, George Francis Graham, Bishop of Jerusalem. See: Francis, George 1 30 1927 Mar 23-1931 Jun 18 Brown, Henry 1. 1 31 1921 May 31-1946 Mar 29 Brown, John Nicholas 1 32 1941 May 5 Brown, William A., Bishop of Southern Virginia 1 33 1933 Jan 5 Brown, Wyatt, Bishop of Harrisburg 1 34 1921 Feb 2-1926 Sep 23 Bumstead, Josephine, Conference for Church Work 1 35 1923 Apr 13-1923 Apr 23 Burgess, Frederick, Bishop of Long Island 1 36 1933 Feb 24 Burleson, Bishop Hugh L. 1 37 1931 Apr 4-1933 Jul 6 Burrill, Rev. Harold St. George 1 38 1936 Apr 2-1937 Mar 17 Buxton, H. J., Bishop of Gibraltar 1 39 1924 Nov 12-1937 Oct 27 Byron, Rev. John I. (and Sarah Goff Byron) (See also: Herman Page, Clinton Quin, and Nicholas Rees) 2 40 undated CAB-CAS 2 41 undated CHA-CHU 2 42 undated CLA-CLE 2 43 undated COA-CON 2 44 undated COO-COV 2 45 undated CRA-CUR 2 46 1920 Sep 28-1926 Jan 28 Cabot, Stephen P. 2 47 1925 Feb 19-1932 Jun 30 Cadman, Rev. S. Parkes, Pres., Federal 2 x-ref undated Canterbury, Archbishop of. See: Fisher, Geoffry; Lang, Cosmo Gordon; Temple, William 2 48 1925 Dec 11-1933 Oct 2 Capers, William Theodotus, Bishop of West Texas 2 49 1942 Mar 6-1943 Jan 4 Carlson, C. Lennart 2 50 1939 Aug 17 Carson, Harry Roberts, Bishop of Haiti 2 51 1925 Mar 11-1928 Dec 5 Carson, John H. (See also: J. Francis Cooper 2 52 1942 Jan 3 Casady, Thomas, Bishop of Oklahoma 2 53 1931 Apr 12-1931 Apr 23 Case, Norman S., Governor of Rhode Island 2 54 1921 Dec 2-1922 Feb 22 Chase, J. Frank, Sec., Watch and Ward Society 2 55 1920 Dec 29-1926 Jan 12 Collins, Rev. Frederick 1. 2 56 1939 Sep 21 Conant, James B., Pres. of Harvard 2 57 1936 Mar 1 Connor, Maj. Gen. William D., Supt., U.S. Military Academy, West Point 2 58 1921 Mar 10-1926 Mar 10 Conover, Rev. James P. 2 59 1922 Mar 31-1936 Dec 16 Cook, Philip, Bishop of Delaware 2 60 1921 Jan 2-1922 Oct 27 Crabtree, Rev. Albert 2 61 1921 Jan 3-1926 Feb 13 Crawford, John G. 2 62 undated DAL-DAV 2 63 undated DEC-DEX 2 64 undated DIC-DOW 2 65 undated DRA-DYE 2 66 1919 Jan-1930 Apr 11 Dahlgren, Romola, Deaconess 2 67 1927 Nov 25-1928 Apr 5 D'Arcy, Charles F., Archbishop of Armagh 2 68 1917 Feb 6-1932 Jun 5 Davies, Thomas F., Bishop of Western Massachusetts 2 69 1932 Apr 29-1937 Feb 25 Davis, Cameron J., Bishop of Western New York 2 70 1926 Apr 10-1926 Apr 14 Davis, Dwight A., Secretary of War 2 71 1930 Mar 31-1940 Feb 14 Deane, Frederic L., Bishop of Aberdeen 2 72 1923 Jun 20-1926 8 Jun DeVries, Rev. William L., Canon of Washington Cathedral 2 73 1924 Jan 6-1930 Oct 28 Dorrance, Rev. Samuel M. 2 74 1931 Feb 10-1931 Feb 16 Dunne, James E., Mayor of Providence 2 75 1921 Jun 14-1922 Jul 31, undated Drury, Rev. Samuel S., St. Paul's School, Concord, NH 2 76 undated E 2 77 1916 Nov 9-1926 Apr 22 Easton, Frank T., Attorney, Chancellor of Rhode Island Diocese 2 78 1921 Nov 21-1927 Jan 4 Edwards, Howard, Pres. of Rhode Island State College (i.e., U.R.I.) 2 79 1925 Apr 27-1932 Jun 28 Emhardt, William C. 2 80 1940 Jun 14-1945 Mar 10 Evans, Robert J., Rev. 3 81 undated FAL-FIE 3 82 undated FIN-FOU 3 83 undated FRA-FUL 3 84 1921 Sep 3-1923 Dec 10 Fair, Rev. James H. S. 3 85 1930 Nov 1-1930 Dec 19 Farthing, John Cragg, Bishop of Montreal 3 86 1925 Feb 12-1927 Apr 2 Faunce, Rev. W. H. P., Pres. of Brawn 3 87 1931 Dec 19 Fawcett, Edward, Bishop of Quincy (Ill.) 3 88 1945? Mar 4 Fenner, Goodrich, Bishop of Kansas 3 89 1932 Feb 3-1932 Feb 6 Ferris, David Lincoln, Bishop of Rochester 3 90 1931 Oct 23-1931 Nov 3 Finlay, K. G., Bishop of Upper South Carolina 3 91 1945 Mar 19 Fisher, Geoffrey Francis, Archbishop of Canterbury 3 92 1920 May 23-1934 Jan 11 Fiske, Bishop Charles 3 93 1922 Dec 7-1937 Oct 30 Fosbroke, Hughell E. W., Dean of General Theological Seminary 3 94 1932 Oct 13-1933 Jul 15 Francis, George, Bishop of Jerusalem 3 95 1923 Nov 29-1923 Dec 1 Francis, Joseph M., Bishop of Indiana 3 96 1924 Apr 14-1939 Nov 22 Freeman, James E., Bishop of Washington 3 97 undated GAI-GER 3 98 undated GIB-GOL 3 99 undated GRA-GRE 3 100 undated GRE-GUE 3 101 1921 May 2-1924 Dec 15 Gailor, Bishop Thomas F., President of National Council 3 102 1942 Jun 11-1942 Jun 29 Garbett, Cyril Forster, Archbishop of York 3 103 1904 Oct 8-1920 Dec 23 Gardner, Rathbone, Attorney 3 104 1924 Jan 21-1930 Apr 4 Gifford, Nelson D., Jr. 3 105 1930 Jun 18-1931 Jun 4 Gilbertson, Rev. Albert N. (See also: Howard, Edgar) 3 106 1922 Dec 20-1937 Nov 16 Goodrich, Wallace, Dean of the New England Conservatory of Music 3 107 1923 Jun 5-1926 Feb 8 Gowenlock, Rev. Frederick 3 108 1930 Nov 25-1936 Oct 22 Gray, Campbell, Bishop of Northern Indiana 3 109 1928 Apr 7-1928 May 19 Gregg, John A. F., Archbishop of Dublin 3 110 1930 Jul 23-1941 Nov 11 Greig, John Harved, Bishop of Guildford 3 111 undated Green, Charles Alfred, Archbishop of Wales 25 Dec 1934 3 112 1920 Apr 20-1927 May 18 Greene, Gen. Francis V., Belle (his wife) and George (his nephew) 3 113 1925 Jan 8-1926 Aug 22 Grint, Rev. Alfred P. 3 114 undated HAC-HAM 3 115 undated HAR-HAY 3 116 undated HEA-HOC 3 117 undated HOD-HOU 3 118 undated HOW-HUG 3 119 undated HUM-HYN, unidentified H 3 120 1921 Jan 28-1922 Apr 17 Hall, Arthur C. A., Bishop of Vermont 3 121 1931?-1933 Dec 26 Hall, Charles M. 3 122 1928 Apr 14-1930 Dec 13 Hall, Emerson Kay 3 123 1941 Dec 11, undated Hall, Ronald 0., Bishop of Hong Kong 3 124 1928 Apr 18-1932 Dec 9 Hallett, Rev. Frank T. 3 125 1921 Jul 4-1927 Nov 10 Hamlin, Rev. Julian D. (See also! C. R. Radford, Hamilton Webster) 3 126 1921 Oct 15-1922 Mar 20 Harding, Alfred, Bishop of Washington 3 127 1915 Jan 19 Harkins, Matthew, Catholic Bishop of Providence 3 128 1925 Mar 10-1943 Dec 30 Harris, Rev. Cyril 3 129 1923 Jun 28-1946 May 28 Haslam., Charles R., Chancellor of Rhode Island Diocese (See also: Standing Committee) 3 130 1921 Nov 28-1921 Dec 29 Hazard, I. Peace 3 131 1931 Mar 2-1931 Nov 20 Helfenstein, Edward T., Bishop of Maryland 4 132 1930 Oct 8-1930 Dec 5 Hickey, William Augustine, Catholic Bishop Providence (See also: Walter Williams) 4 133 1936 Apr 14-1941 Apr 3 Hicks, Frederick C. Nugent, Bishop of Lincoln 4 134 1922 May 24-1932 Dec 5 Howden, Frederick B., Bishop of New Mexico 4 135 1930 Sep 29-1934 Dec 23 Howe, Rev. C. Fletcher and wife 4 136 1923 Dec 22-1928 Mar 22 Howe, Mark A. DeWolf 4 137 1924 Sep 24-1933 Feb 17 Howe, Wallis E., architect 4 138 1942 Apr 21 Hudson, Noel Baring, Bishop of Newcastle 4 139 1931 Jun 17-1933 Sep 27 Hughes, Rev. Stanley C. (See also: Ethelbert Talbot) 4 140 1922 Dec 14-1931 Dec 12 Hunter, Rev. John M. 4 141 1927 May 28 Huston, S. Arthur, Bishop of Olympia 4 142 undated I 4 143 undated J 4 144 1926 Jan 30-1937 Nov 4 Jackson, F. Ellis, architect 4 145 1931 Nov 18-1932 Jan 30 Jenkins, Thomas, Bishop of Nevada 4 146 1936 Oct 24 Jett, Robert Carter, Bishop of South-western Virginia 4 147 1932 May 5-1932 May 10 Johnson, Frederick F., Bishop of Missouri 4 148 1921 Aug 16-1931 Nov 24 Johnson, Irving P., Bishop of Colorado 4 149 1925? Feb-1933 Dec 1 Jordan, Rev. William H. 4 150 undated KAM-KEY 4 151 undated KIB-KLO 4 152 undated KNE-KRU 4 153 1943 Jul 7 Keller, Helen 4 154 1932 Dec 7-1933 Aug 7 Keller, Dr. William, Dept. of Social Service 4 155 1931? Mar 21-1933 Sep 7 Kellogg, Rev. Nelson 4 156 1934 Feb 13-1937 Nov 5 Kemerer, Benjamin T., Bishop of Duluth 4 157 1919 Jan 11-1933 Oct 20 Kennedy, Rev. C. Clark 4 158 1922 Nov 16-1926 Mar 23 King, LeRoy 4 159 1931 Jan 7-1932 Jan 15 Kite, William L. 4 160 1915 Aug 23-1919 May 12 Klaren, Rev. J. H. (See also: Subject Series -- Klaren 4 161 1923 Oct 13-1931 Jan 7 Knight, Webster and C. Prescott 4 162 undated LAM-LAR 4 163 undated LAU-LEW 4 164 undated LIN-LLO 4 165 undated LOB-LYM 4 166 1941 Sep 16-1942 Apr 20 Labilliere, Paul F. D. de, Bishop, Dean of Westminster 4 167 1924 Apr 10-1933 Dec 22 Ladd, W. P., Berkeley Divinity School 4 168 1923 Mar 1-1943 Mar 25 Lamont, Thomas W. 4 169 1920 Jan 6-1922 Jun 5 Lansdowne, Rev. Burdette (See also: Charles Slattery 4 170 1919 Jan 29-1942 Mar 20 Lang, Cosmo Gordon, Archbishop of York, of Canterbury 4 171 1938 Dec 28-1938 Dec 30 Larned, John I. B., Suffragan Bishop of Long Island 4 172 1942 Apr 16 Laurie, John Dawson, Lord Mayor of London 4 173 1927 May 28-1928 Sep 10 Law, Rev. Marion 4 174 1896 Jan 15-1941 Sep 24 Lawrence, William, Bishop of Massachusetts 4 175 1931 Feb 18-1936 Aug 29 Learned, Lewis D., Exec. Sec. of Rhode Island Diocesan Council 4 176 1920 May 8-1924 Apr 14 Leonard, William Andrew, Bishop of Ohio 4 177 1924 Nov 19-1925 Dec 17 Lewis, Edwin N., Exec. Sec., National Cathedral Foundation 4 178 1919 Nov 28-1920 Jan 16 Lines, Edwin S., Bishop of Newark 4 179 1920 Nov 29-1933 Jul 5 The Living Church 4 180 1924 Oct 30-1927 Oct 6 Locke, Bradford B., Sec., Church Pension Fund 4 181 1923 Oct 12-1927 Sep 23 Logan, Mercer P., Dean, DuBose Church Training School 4 182 1933 Jan 25-1933 Aug 8 Lovely, Napoleon W. 4 183 1931 Feb 27-1946 Apr 12 Lyte, Rev. John B. 5 184 undated MACA-MACC 5 185 undated MACD-MACW 5 186 undated MAH-MNY 5 187 undated MEA-MER 5 188 undated MIE-MIT 5 189 undated MOC-MUN 5 190 1925 Aug 25-1933 Oct 20 McAllister, Charles E. and Rev. Charles E., Jr. 5 191 1918 Dec 18-1934? Jan 9 McCormick, John Newton, Bishop of Western Michigan 5 192 1930 Oct 4-1933 Dec 1 MacDougall, Benjamin M., Treasurer of Rhode Island Diocese 5 193 1932 Feb 25-1933 Nov 28 McDowell, William G., Bishop of Alabama 5 194 1933 Aug 1-1937 Sep 18 McElwain, Frank A., Bishop of Minnesota 5 195 1933 Feb 14-1993 Jul 17 McGregor, D. A., Director of Education 5 196 1933 May 6-1933 Jul 28 McKim, John, Bishop of North Tokyo 5 197 1941 Sep 16 Macmillan, John Victor, Bishop of Guildford 5 198 1925 Sep 22-1926 Aug 24 MacWillie, Rev. John, of Hankow, China, & son Donald, of Kent 5 199 1925 Oct 25-1931 May 3 Magoun, Rev. Roy 5 200 1925 Jan 22-1925 Jan 28 Mann, Alexander, Bishop of Pittsburgh 5 201 1921 Oct 3-1940 Nov 29 Manning, William J., Bishop of New York 5 202 1921 Jan 5-1921 Jul 19 Mansfield, Burton, Attorney 5 203 1932? Jun 24 Marie, Princess of Greece 5 204 1925 Jan 12-1926 Jul 30 Maryon, Rev. Frederick L. 5 205 1921 Feb 10-1947 Jan 27 Matthews, Paul, Bishop of New Jersey 5 206 1926 Dec 16-1934 Nov 12 Maxon, James M., Bishop Coadjutor of Tennessee 5 207 1927 Apr 20-1923 Feb 17 Meader, Rev. Robert 0. 5 208 1921?-1936 Mar 19 Metcalf, Jesse H., U. S. Senator 5 209 1930 Mar 27-1932 Jul 12 Mitchell, Walter, Bishop of Arizona 5 210 1920 Dec 4-1923 Nov 23 Mitman, Stewart U., Warden of Leonard Hall 5 211 1923 Jan 16-1923 May 7 Montgomery, Rev. Hugh E. 5 212 1924 Nov 13-1924 Nov 25 Moore, Harry T., Bishop of Dallas 5 213 1943 Aug 23-1943 Aug 26 Moorhead, William Henry, Bishop of Fredericton (N.B.) 5 214 1924 Feb 9-1938 Jan 3 Morehouse, Clifford P. and Frederic (See also: The Living Church) 5 215 1924 Aug 7-1933 Feb 14 Morgan, Courtney (See also: Bernard Bell, Frederick Penfold) 5 216 1919 Dec 8-1932 Oct 7 Morrell, Rev. Ansel R. 5 217 1930 Dec 23-1931 Jan 16 Moulton, Arthur W., Bishop of Utah 5 218 1924 Sep 17-1934 Apr 9 Mosher, Gouverneur Frank, Bishop of the Philippine Islands 5 219 1932 May 23-1933 Oct 3 Muenchinger, C. Leslie 5 220 undated N 5 221 1920 Aug 21 Nickson, George, Bishop of Bristol 5 222 undated O 5 223 1930 Oct 16-1938 Dec 27 Oldham, G. Ashton, Bishop of Albany 6 224 undated PAD-PAU 6 225 undated PEA-PET 6 226 undated PHI-PIX 6 227 undated PLA-POT 6 228 undated POW-PUR 6 229 1937 Nov 2 Paddock, Robert L., Bishop 6 230 1921 Aug 26-1935 Sep 30 Page, Herman, Bishop of Spokane, of Michigan 6 231 1922 Dec 13-1923 Feb 24 Page, Rev. Richard E. 6 232 1921 Apr 27-1921 Jul 1 Pantaenious, Eleanor (See also: Herman Page, Charles Scovil, Luke White) 6 233 1923 Mar 2-1923 Oct 7 Pardee, William 0. 6 234 1915 Sep 9-1924 Dec 16 Parker, Edward M., Bishop of New Hampshire 6 235 1923 Jun 27-1940 Feb 8 Parsons, Edward L., Bishop of California 6 236 1939 Jul 20 Parsons, Richard G., Bishop of Southwark 6 237 1918 Dec 30-1926 Dec 6 Penfold, Rev. Frederick S. 6 238 1923 Jun 30-1925 Jan 1 Penick, Edwin A., Bishop Coadjutor of 6 239 1918 Oct 12-1934 Sep 17 Pershing, Gen. John J. 6 240 1934 Jun 11-1947 Mar 15 Peters, Rev. Sidney 6 241 1914 Pezet, Federico A., Minister of Peru 6 242 1922 Oct 10-1924 Jun 11 Pfaffko, Rev. Arthur G. W. 6 243 1905 May 25 Pyle, Howard, author 6 244 1923 Feb 28-1938 Jan 3 Quin, Clinton S., Bishop of Texas 6 245 undated RAD-REM 6 246 undated RIC-RIV 6 247 undated ROB-ROE 6 248 undated ROG-RUL 6 249 1921 May 6-1933 Feb 7 Reese, Frederick F., Bishop of Georgia 6 250 1918 Dec 7 Reese, Theodore Irving, Bishop Coadjutor of Southern Ohio 6 251 1933 Sep 8-1936 Apr 27 Reifsnider, C. S., Suffragan Bishop of North Tokyo 6 252 1933 Sep 7-1938 Nov 24 Remington, William P., Bishop of Eastern Oregon 6 253 1919 Sep 23-1939 Jun 21 Rhinelander, Philip M., Bishop of Pennsylvania 6 254 1920 Jan 15-1922 Jul 10 Rhode Island Hospital Trust Company 6 255 1918 Dec 31-1933 Oct 2 Roberts, William Blair, Bishop of South Dakota 6 256 1933 Sep 5-1933 Oct 23 Rogers, Warren L., Bishop of Ohio 6 257 1925 Apr 10-1925 Apr 13 Roosevelt, Franklin D. (See also: Subject Series-- S.N. Kent, Court of Inquiry) 6 258 1924 Feb 1-1931 Jul 15 Roots, Logan H., Bishop of Hankow 7 259 undated SAF-SAY 7 260 undated SCA-SEY 7 261 undated SHE-SIM 7 262 undated SKI-SPR 7 263 undated STA-SYM 7 264 1922 Oct 30-1923 Nov 26 Sargent, Arthur M. 7 265 1925 Apr 24-1931 May 20 Sayre, Monell, Church Pension Fund 7 266 1930 Feb 17-1946 Jun 7 Scaife, Rev. (later Bishop) Lauriston 7 267 1925 Jun 29-1928 Mar 29 Schweitzer, Rev. Gustav A. 7 268 1920 Mar 3-1920 Jun 7 Scofield, Rev. Louis T. 7 269 1921 Jul 5-1923 Mar 21 Scovil, Rev. Charles B. (See also: Herman Page, Eleanor Pantaenius, Arthur Thomas) 7 270 1931 Mar 9-1936 Aug 18 Seymour, Origen Storrs, Chancellor of the Connecticut Diocese) 7 271 1919 Dec 9-1920 Jan 1 Shedden, Roscow G., Bishop of Nassau 7 272 1943 Aug 30-1943 Sep 2 Sherman, Louis Ralph, Archbishop of Rupert's Land (Canada) 7 273 1931 Apr-1932 May 3, undated Sherrill, Henry K., Bishop of Massachusetts 7 274 1934 Mar 23-1939 Apr 28 Shipler, Guy Emery, editor, The Churchman 7 275 1922 Oct 22-1925 May 19 Shipman, Herbert, Suffragan Bishop of New York 7 276 1921 Jun 15-1924 Mar 25 Sill,.Rev. F. H., Headmaster, Kent School 7 277 1919 Nov 1-1928 Apr 26, 1941 Nov Slattery, Charles L. (and Mrs.), Bishop of Massachusetts 7 278 1920 Dec 4-1921 Jun 29 Smith, William Austin, editor, The Churchman 7 279 1932 Aug 10 Spencer, Robert Nelson, Bishop of Western Missouri 7 280 1926 Apr 7-1941 Jul 21 Spofford, William B., editor, The Witness 7 281 1921 Jan 14-1946 Oct 4 Standing Committee, Diocese of Rhode Island 7 282 1921 Mar 1-1931 Mar 26 Stearly, Wilson R., Bishop of Newark 7 283 1925 Mar 11-1937 Nov 2 Sterrett, Frank W., Bishop of Bethlehem 7 284 1921 Oct 11-1938 Oct 7 Stevens, W. Bertrand, Bishop of Los Angeles 7 285 1938 Dec 25 Stewart, George R., Bishop of Chicago 7 286 1924 Feb 8-1932 May 19 Stires, Ernest Milmore, Bishop of Long Island 7 287 1925 Mar 18-1936 Oct 30 Stokes, Rev. Anson Phelps 7 288 1919 May 6-1922 Aug 24 Stryker, Rev. Mason Campbell, wife and sister 7 289 1922 Dec 28-1923 Mar 16 Sturgis, William C. 7 290 1920 Aug 30-1926 Mar 11 Sturtevant, Edward, Treasurer, St. George's School 7 291 1925 Mar 14-1925 Nov 15 Sturtevant, Mary C. (Mrs. Eugene), St. Mary's Orphanage 7 292 undated TAC-TEU 7 293 undated THA-THW 7 294 undated TIB-TUC 7 295 undated TUL-TYN 7 296 1936 May 14 Taitt, Francis M., Bishop of Pennsylvania 7 297 1920 May 22-1925 Apr 4 Talbot, Ethelbert, Bishop of Bethlehem 7 298 1921 May 6-1933 Jan 6 Taylor, Rev. Malcolm, Sec., National Council 7 299 1925 May 2-1933 Jan 31 Taylor, Rev. Malcolm S., Director of Evangelism, College of Preachers 7 300 1931 Nov 23-1942 Apr 18 Temple, William, Archbishop of York, of Canterbury, and wife Frances 7 301 1920 Apr 21-1926 Sep 17 Thomas, Arthur A., attorney; board member of St. Andrew's Industrial School 8 302 1936 Nov 9-1936 Nov 23 Thomson, Arthur C., Bishop of Southern Virginia 8 303 1923 Mar 12-1925 Mar 27 Thurston, Theodore Payne, Bishop of Oklahoma 8 304 1925 Mar 16-1926 Jun 15 Tobin, Rev. G. Edgar 8 305 1922 Oct 14-1947 Jan 8 Tomkins, Rev. Floyd W. 8 306 1923 Jan 5-1934 Jul 3 Tompkins, Charles, Ass't Treasurer, National Council 8 307 1926 Feb 4-1946 May 6 Townsend, Rev. William T. 8 308 1919? Feb 4 Tucker, Beverley D., Bishop of Virginia 8 309 1926 Feb 18-1942 May 13 Tucker, Henry St. George, Bishop of Virginia, Presiding Bishop 8 309A undated Tuller, Abbie Loveland 8 310 1921 Feb 25 Tuttle, Daniel Sylvester, Presiding Bishop 8 311 1925 Mar 25-1925 May 27 Tyler, J. Poyntz, Bishop of North Dakota 8 312 undated U-V 8 313 1922 May 12-1934 Apr 23 Updike, D. Berkeley, Merrymount Press 8 314 1923 Nov 26-1926 Jul 12 Urbano, Rev. Francesco 8 315 1903 May 25-1903 Dec 3 Vinton, Alexander H., Bishop of Western Massachusetts 8 316 undated WAI-WAS 8 317 undated WAT-WET 8 318 undated WHA-WHI 8 319 undated WILC-WILM 8 320 undated WOO-WYC 8 321 1917 Oct 8-1926 Jul 9 Washburn, Rev. Arthur L. 8 322 1909 Nov 29-1942 Mar 11 Washburn, Rev. Henry B., Dean, Episcopal Theological School 8 323 1925 Nov 12-1925 Dec 2 Watrous, George D., Attorney 8 324 1921 Feb 24-1937 Mar 2 Webster, Mr. amp; Mrs. Hamilton Fish (See also: Subject Series -- St. John's, Newport, Webster's Quarrel with Rev. Hamlin) 8 325 undated Weir 8 326 1932 Dec 2 Weller, Reginald Heber, Bishop of Fond du Lac 8 327 1922 Mar 28-1926 May 21 White, Francis S., Bishop of Ohio 8 328 1939 Mar 7 White, John Chanler, Bishop of Springfield 8 329 1925 Dec 2-1926 May 24 Whitehill, Rev. Walter Muir 8 330 1918 Oct 25-1931 Jan 10 Wicks, Rev. Asaph S. and Mrs. Grace 8 331 1930 Nov 6-1930 Dec 5 Williams, Rev. Walter, St. Dunstan's College of Sacred Music (See also: Bishop William Hickey) 8 332 1921 Dec 10 Willson, St. John Basil, Bishop of Bath and Wells 8 333 1932 May 6-1938 May 23 Wilson, Frank E., Bishop of Eau Claire 8 334 1919 Jan 8 Winnington-Ingram, Arthur Foley, Bishop of London 8 335 1921 Feb 16-1946 Oct 9 Wood, Rev. Arthur 8 336 1930 Mar 5-1930 Oct 10 Woods, F. Theodore, Bishop of Winchester 8 337 1926 Jun 30 Worrell, Clare L., Archbishop of Nova Scotia 8 338 1925 Feb 13-1926 Sep 26 Worthington, Rev. William 8 339 1932 Mar 20-1945 Aug 22 Wright, Rev. John H. 8 340 1937 Mar 5 Wriston, Henry M., Pres. of Brown Univ. 8 341 undated Y-Z 8 x-ref undated York, Archbishop of. See: Lang, Cosmo Gordon; Temple, William 8 342 1923 Feb 13-1927 Mar 15 Zabriskie, George, attorney 8 343 1941 May 14-1941 Jul 26 Ziegler, Winfred H., Bishop of Wyoming 8 344 1925 Feb 7-1940 Oct 1 Form and Circular Letters 8 345 1909-1947, undated Unidentified Series 2 1-4 1-101 Family Correspondence1897-1942

This series consists of correspondence between members of James Perry's and Edith Weir's families and between James and Edith themselves. Folders 1-11 contains Edith Weir Perry's Correspondence, folders 12-101 contain the correspondence of James DeWolf Perry. The majority of the correspondence consists of letters from James to Edith while he was in Europe during World War I and on the many trips he made while Bishop of Rhode Island and Presiding Bishop.

Also included is correspondence between James and his sisters, nephews, cousins, etc. There is also correspondence between Edith and various family members.

 1 1 1915 May 19-1930 Jul 20 French, Lil (Edith's aunt) 1 2 1930? Aug 24-1930? Sep 25 Hubbard, Elsie (Jim's sister) 1 3 1928 May 18, undated Hubbard, Russell (Jim's nephew) 1 4 1914 Mar 15-1915 Aug 13 Perry, DeWolf and John (sons) 1 5 1912 Perry, Marion Harris (Jim's stepmother) 1 6 1930 Jul 31, undated Thurber, Judy (Jim's sister) 1 7 undated Unidentified 1 8 1911? Weir, Caroline (Edith's cousin) 1 9 1911? Weir, John Ferguson (father) 1 10 1911?-1912 Sep 14, undated Weir, Mary French (mother) 1 11 1946? After Bishop Perry's death 1 12 1946? Brown, Emily (sister) 1 13 1893 Dec 9-1910 Sep 22 DeWolf, Halsey (cousin) 1 14 1927 Apr 11-1934 Oct 10 French, Lil (aunt) 1 15 1910 Sep 25 Hawkins, Hattie (cousin) 1 16 1919 Oct 16 -1923 Feb 12 Howe, George Locke (cousin) 1 17 1945 Sep 7 Hubbard, DeWolf (nephew) 1 18 1912 Feb 3-1921 Jul 22 Hubbard, Elsie (sister) 1 19 1921 Oct 5-1923 Mar 1 Hubbard, Elsie (sister) 1 20 1923 Oct 31-1932 Jul 24 Hubbard, Elsie (sister) 1 21 1932 Nov 30-1946 Jul 13, undated Hubbard, Elsie (sister) 1 22 1919 Jan 1-1932 Mar 30 Hubbard, Russell (nephew) 1 23 undated Jones, Mary (aunt) 1 24 1923? Sep 25-1923 Oct 4 Perry, Calbraith (cousin) 1 25 1926 Apr 28 Perry, Charles V. 1 26 1907 Apr 1-1907 Nov 21, undated Perry, Edith Weir 1 27 1907 Nov 22-1907 Dec 19 Perry, Edith Weir 1 28 1908 Aug 21-1908 Sep 5 Perry, Edith Weir 1 29 1909 May 22-1909 Aug 16 Perry, Edith Weir 1 30 1910 Mar 29-1910 Sep 4 Perry, Edith Weir 2 31 1910 Oct 6-1910 Oct 16 Perry, Edith Weir 2 32 1910 Oct 17-1910 Oct 30 Perry, Edith Weir 2 33 1911 Oct 7-1911 Oct 22 Perry, Edith Weir 2 34 1913 Mar 29-1921 Oct 21 Perry, Edith Weir 2 35 1913 Oct 22-1913 Oct 24 Perry, Edith Weir 2 36 1914 Mar 15-1914 Oct 6 Perry, Edith Weir 2 37 1915 Feb 21-1915 Nov 29 Perry, Edith Weir 2 38 1916 Feb 8-1916 Aug 12 Perry, Edith Weir 2 39 1916 Aug 16-1916 Sep 2 Perry, Edith Weir 2 40 1917 Feb 22-1917 Nov 15 Perry, Edith Weir 2 41 1917 Nov 17-1917 Dec 18 Perry, Edith Weir 2 42 1918 Jan 2-1918 Jul 3 Perry, Edith Weir 2 43 1918 Aug 8-1918 Sep 10 Perry, Edith Weir 2 44 1918 Sep 10-1918 Oct 10 Perry, Edith Weir 2 45 1918 Oct 11-1918 Nov 5 Perry, Edith Weir 3 46 1918 Nov 6-1918 Dec 14 Perry, Edith Weir 3 47 1918 Dec 15-1918 Dec 31 Perry, Edith Weir 3 48 1919 Jan 1-1919 Jan 25 Perry, Edith Weir 3 49 1919 Jan 26-1919 May 1 Perry, Edith Weir 3 50 1923 Feb 7-1923 Nov 14 Perry, Edith Weir 3 51 1925 Jul 25-1925 Aug 12 Perry, Edith Weir 3 52 1925 Aug 14-1925 Oct 18 Perry, Edith Weir 3 53 1927 Jan 24-1927 Feb 4 Perry, Edith Weir 3 54 1927 Feb 5-1927 Sep 7 Perry, Edith Weir 3 55 1927 Sep 9-1927 Oct 2 Perry, Edith Weir 3 56 1927 Oct 3-1927 Oct 19 Perry, Edith Weir 3 57 1927 Oct 20-1927 Nov 11 Perry, Edith Weir 3 58 1927 Nov 12-1927 Nov 30 Perry, Edith Weir 3 59 1927 Dec 1-1927 Dec 8 Perry, Edith Weir 3 60 1928 Feb 25-1928 Mar 13 Perry, Edith Weir 3 61 1928 Mar 15-1928 Apr 1 Perry, Edith Weir 3 62 1928 Apr 4-1928 Apr 25 Perry, Edith Weir 3 63 1928 Apr 26-1928 May 8 Perry, Edith Weir 3 64 1928 May 9-1928 May 19 Perry, Edith Weir 3 65 1928 May 22-1928 Oct 9 Perry, Edith Weir 3 66 1928 Oct 10-1928 Oct 29 Perry, Edith Weir 4 67 1930 May 24-1930 Apr 1 Perry, Edith Weir 4 68 1931 Jan 22-1931 Dec 16 Perry, Edith Weir 4 69 1932 Jan 2-1932 Aug 23 Perry, Edith Weir 4 70 1932 Sep 9-1932 Dec 14 Perry, Edith Weir 4 71 1933 Jul 26-1933 Nov 8 Perry, Edith Weir 4 72 1934 Jun 4-1934 Dec 31 Perry, Edith Weir 4 73 1935 Jan 9-1935 Jun 17 Perry, Edith Weir 4 74 1935 Jun 17-1935 Dec 31 Perry, Edith Weir 4 75 1936 Jan 22-1936 Mar 20 Perry, Edith Weir 4 76 1936 May 3-1936 Sep 27 Perry, Edith Weir 4 77 1937 Jan 7-1937 May 5 Perry, Edith Weir 4 78 1938 Sep 16, undated Perry, Edith Weir 4 79 1939 Jan 13-1939 Jul 6 Perry, Edith Weir 4 80 undated Perry, Edith Weir 4 81 1939 Jul 9-1939 Nov 10 Perry, Edith Weir 4 82 1940 Jan 27-1940 May 12 Perry, Edith Weir 4 83 1942 Apr 7-1942 Apr 27 Perry, Edith Weir 4 84 1945 Jan 31, undated Perry, Edith Weir 4 85 undated Perry, Edith Weir Fragments 4 86 1897?-1910, undated Perry, Elizabeth Russell (mother) 4 87 1897 May 4-1919 Jan 1, undated Perry, James DeWolf (father) 4 88 1918 Aug 22-1923 Aug 13 Perry, J. DeWolf (son) 4 89 1918 Aug 28-1934 Jul 13 Perry, John (son) 4 90 1930 May 3-1941 Oct 22 Perry, Lewis 4 91 1942 Oct 20-1946 Jan 17 Perry, Marion Harris (stepmother) 4 92 undated Perry, Minnie 4 93 1918 Dec 8-1925 Jun 24 Perry, Oliver Hazard 4 94 1927? Russell, Emily (sister) 4 95 1918? Nov Sargeant, Louise Weir (Edith's sister) 4 96 1910 Sep 21-1945 Jan 5 Thurber, Judy (sister) 4 97 1918 Nov 22-1930 Mar 27 Thurber, Schuyler (nephew) 4 98 undated Unidentified 4 99 1918?-1920 Jul 20, undated Weir, John and Mary 4 100 1915? Weir, Mary French 4 101 1926 Apr 28 Weir, Mary French (will) Series 3 1 1-9 Condolence Correspondence1947

This series contains letters and telegrams sent to Mrs. Perry and others on the occasion of the Bishop's death on 20 March 1947. They are arranged alphabetically by surname of writer.

1 1 1947 A-C 1 2 1947 D-G 1 3 1947 H-K 1 4 1947 L-O 1 5 1947 P-R 1 6 1947 S 1 7 1947 T-Z 1 8 1947 Unidentified 1 9 1947 Printed Matter Series 4 1-7 1-311 Sermons and Addresses1893-1946

This series is divided into two sub-series, Sermons (4 boxes) and Addresses (3 boxes).

Sermons (4 boxes) includes typewritten originals, carbon copies, holographs, and printed materials written between 1893 and 1946 inclusively, and is arranged alphabetically by sermon title or passage of text. Also included are drafts and notes, and relevant memorabilia such as printed programs and clippings from newspapers and magazines. Items with no discernible title are grouped into folders by arbitrary uniform titles: Good Friday; Meditations; Quiet Days; Advent; Noonday addresses; Holy Week. These uniform titles are interfiled within the title alphabet. Dates are provided whenever possible. At the end of this alphabet is one folder containing fragments and unidentified notes from Perry's sermons. Following this are four folders in alphabetical title order containing sermons by others.

Addresses (3 boxes) includes material in the form of holographic draft notes, lectern notes, typed originals and carbon copies of final drafts, and in some cases printed copies, either in broadside form or clipped from other publications. Not only formal personal and radio addresses on various religious and commemorative occasions are included, but also reports to various bodies (especially the Rhode Island Diocese, the National Council, and the General Convention), circular letters to the bishops or to the laity, press releases, manuscripts of brief messages for publication, and testimonial messages for worthy men, mostly deceased. There are also a small number of news clippings concerning the Bishop's addresses, more of which are contained in the Clippings series. The dates covered in this sub-series are 1904-1946, with the bulk of writings coming from 1930-1940. The materials are arranged alphabetically by title if present, then by subject if there is no title, and finally by occasion or forum, if there is no clear subject except the occasion itself. Some conventional materials of a repetitive character are filed together, such as annual addresses or formal Christmas or Easter messages over several years. At the end of the sub-series are writings of other persons, arranged by author's name.

Of greatest interest in this sub-series are the materials dealing with the positions of the church regarding World War II, relations with Japan in the 1930s, religious education, heterodoxical opinions, the Oriental missions, George Washington, the close ties between the Episcopal Church of America and the Anglican Church (especially at the times of George VI's coronation and of Archbishop Temple's visit to America), and the Indians of South Dakota.

 Sub-series 1 1-4 1-164 Sermons1893-1946

Sermons (4 boxes) includes typewritten originals, carbon copies, holographs, and printed materials written between 1893 and 1946 inclusively, and is arranged alphabetically by sermon title or passage of text. Also included are drafts and notes, and relevant memorabilia such as printed programs and clippings from newspapers and magazines. Items with no discernible title are grouped into folders by arbitrary uniform titles: Good Friday; Meditations; Quiet Days; Advent; Noonday addresses; Holy Week. These uniform titles are interfiled within the title alphabet. Dates are provided whenever possible. At the end of this alphabet is one folder containing fragments and unidentified notes from Perry's sermons. Following this are four folders in alphabetical title order containing sermons by others.

 1 1 undated Advent 1 2 1931 Jan 25 Alabama's Centenary (''There is a river the streams whereof make glad the City of God") 1 3 1924 Jan 25 Alfred Harding, Bishop of Washington, Memorial Sermon 1 4 undated "And as they came down from the mountain, Jesus charged them" 1 5 undated "And He gave some to be apostles, and some prophets, and some evangelists" 1 6 undated "And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature and in favor with God and man'' 1 7 undated ''And the earth was without form" 1 8 1945 Jan Appreciation of Philemon Fowler Sturges 1 9 1942 Dec 6 Anniversary of Pearl Harbor 1 10 1897 Nov 14, 1943 Jan 31 "Art thou for us, or for our adversaries?" 1 11 undated "As every man hath received the gift" 1 12 undated Ascensiontide 1 13 1945 Ash Wednesday 1 14 undated "Ask thy Father, and He will shew thee, thy elders and they will tell thee'' 1 15 1932 Jan 27 Atlanta Diocesan Convention 1 16 undated Atonement 1 17 undated ''Behold a throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the throne'' 1 18 1901 Sep ''Behold I have given him for a witness to the people'' 1 19 1910 Nov ''Behold I have set before thee an open door" 1 20 1911 Apr (Easter) "Blessed are they who have not seen and yet have believed'' 1 21 1932 Oct 16 British Harvest Festival, 11th annual 1 22 1937 Dec 19 Building the Church of the Future 1 23 1920 Nov 25 "By faith the elders bare their witness" 1 24 1934 Jan 29 A Call to Christian Churchmen 1 25 undated Called to be Saints 1 26 1937 Mar 4 ''Can ye drink of the cup that I drink of?" 1 27 undated Captain of the Lord's hosts 1 28 undated Christian Philanthropy 1 29 1916 Mar 6 Christian Worship 1 30 1915 Dec 25, 1916 Nov 30 Christmas and Thanksgiving in Time of War: Two Sermons 1 31 1912 May 9 The Church in America Today 1 32 1933 Jun 25 The Church in the East 1 33 1911 Oct 1 Church Music 1 34 1910 Jan 8 The Church, Which Is His Body 1 35 1892 Feb 14 The Cloud and the Bow 1 36 1898 Jun 19 Concentration 1 37 1921 Confession and the Confessional 1 38 1934 Oct 10 The Continuity of Christian Life and Purpose (to the General Convention) 1 39 1916 Coventry Mission (notes) 1 40 undated Crisis 1 41 1937 Feb 28 "The Edifying of the Body of Christ" 1 42 1923 Nov 11 "An enemy hath done this'' 1 43 1913 Eternal Life Lent 1 44 1893 "Even the Son of Man came not to be ministered unto'' 1 45 1896 Dec 6 Faithfulness and its Reward 1 46 undated "Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am'' 1 47 undated The Feast of St. Luke 1 48 1904 The Fifth Seal: Sacrifice Lent 1 49 1915 Follow Me Lent 1 50 undated "For I determined not to know anything among you, save Jesus Christ'' 2 51 1937 Apr 25 ''For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you'' 2 52 undated ''For we know in part, and we prophesy in part" 2 53 undated ''Forgetting those things which are behind" 2 54 undated "From whence can a man satisfy these men with bread here in the wilderness?'' 2 55 1914 Jan 11 The Fruits of the Spirit 2 56 1932 Feb 21 George Washington: What is the Measure of a Man's Religion? 2 57 1902 ''Go round about her; tell the towers thereof" 2 58 undated Go Ye and Make Disciples 2 59 1897 Sep 12 God's Trust in Man 2 60 1915-1917, 1919-1920, 1930, 1939 Good Friday 2 61 undated Good Friday 2 62 undated ''Good luck have thou in thine honor" 2 63 undated "He descended into hell'' 2 64 1935 Dec 15 "He gave some apostles, and some prophets and some pastors and teachers'' 2 65 undated "He heapeth us riches and cannot tell who shall gather them'' 2 66 1912 Nov ''He spake of the Temple of His Body" 2 67 undated Heirs of God: remembrance of our heritage 2 68 1896 Jun 21 The Higher Faith, of Sight 2 69 1933 Jan 29 Holy Communion 2 70 undated Holy Week 2 71 1898 Feb, 1897 Mar The Houses of Jesus 2 72 1934 Apr 8 "How are the dead raised up and with what body do they come?'' 2 73 1912 Oct 6, 1913 (Lent) "I am not ashamed of the Gospel'' 2 74 1937 Oct 3 "I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill" 2 75 undated "I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life" 2 76 1932 Dec 25 ''I bring you good tidings of great joy" 2 77 undated "I have called you friends" 2 78 1937 Oct 31 ''I have not shunned to declare unto you the whole counsel of God'' 2 79 undated "I knew a man in Christ . . ." 3 80 1939 Nov 12, 1946 Lent ''I speak concerning Christ and His church" 3 81 1908, 1909 "I turned and came down from the Mount, and the Mount burned with fire'' 3 82 1944 Lent "I Was Free Born" 3 83 1918 Nov 28 "In all these things we are more than conquerors'' 3 84 1932 Jan 10 In reply to the encyclical "Lux Veritatis" 3 85 undated "In the beginning was the Word" 3 86 1926 Nov 28 Institution of W. Appleton Lawrence as rector, Grace Church 3 87 1907 Sep 29 "Jesus answered and said unto him ..." 3 88 1902 Lent Job 3 89 1896 Apr 5, 1900 Apr 15 Joy Out of Sorrow 3 90 1933 Sep 27, 1933 Sep 28 The Kingdom of Heaven is at Hand 3 91 1930 Nov 8 Lambeth and Reunion 3 92 undated "Let a man so account of us as ministers of Christ ..." 3 93 1898, 1903, 1927, 1945 ''Look to the Rock whence ye are hewn" 3 94 undated Meditations 3 95 1930 Oct 21 The Ministry of Reconciliation 3 96 1911 Lent, 1912 Lent Noonday addresses 3 97 undated "Oh my people, remember what Balak, king of Moab, consulted ..." 3 98 1933 Dec 25 On Earth Peace to Mon of Good Will 3 99 undated "On this rock I will build'' 3 100 1939 Apr 30 One hundred and fiftieth anniversary of inauguration of George Washington 3 101 1946 One hundredth anniversary of Trinity Church parish, Pawtucket, R.I. 3 102 1933 Oct 24 Oxford Centenary Congress sermon 3 103 undated "The place whereon thou standest is holy ground'' 3 104 1939 Oct 15 Prayer Book 3 105 1903 Feb Preparation for Holy Communion 3 106 undated "Pure Religion and Undefiled'' 3 107 1911, 1912, 1914, 1917, 1934, 1937, 1944 Quiet Day for Clergy 3 108 undated The Rector's Institution of St. George's 3 109 undated ''Renew a right spirit within me'' 3 110 1937 Sep 09-1937 Sep 10 Retreat for the clergy of the diocese 3 111 1895, 1896 Sacrifice 3 112 1943 Dec 17 St. Mary's Church, South Portsmouth--100th Anniversary 3 113 1901 Jan ''The sceptor of Thy Kingdom is a right sceptor ..." 3 114 1899 Feb 26 The Second Temptation of Christ 3 115 1938 Oct 20 Seventy-fifth Anniversary of Christ Church, Fitchburg 3 116 1943 Nov 7 Seventy-fifth Anniversary of the Church of the Good Shepherd, Pawtucket 3 117 1943 Nov 7 Sixtieth Anniversary of St. Mark's church, Riverside, R.I. 3 118 undated "Stand fast in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free'' 4 119 1902 Mar 3, 1903 Mar 17 Stories about the Prophets 4 120 1944 Nov 5 "Such confidence have we through Christ to God-ward ..." 4 121 1941 Jun 24 ''Take heed to the ministry which thou hast received from God that thou fulfill it'' 4 122 1931 Oct 29 "Take thou the authority to execute the office of Deacon in the church of God'' 4 123 1931 Oct 29 Tenth Anniversary of Ward, Bishop of Erie 4 124 1903 Nov 26 Thanksgiving sermon 4 125 1909 Dec 25 "That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith'' 4 126 1910 Jan, 1911 May ''That on the dispensation of the fullness of times, He might gather together in one all things in Christ ..." 4 127 undated "That all may be one'' 4 128 1899 May 28 ''That ye might be filled with all the fullness of God'' 4 129 1931 ''There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body" 4 130 undated ''There was silence in Heaven about the space of half an hour'' 4 131 1932 ''These all died in faith, not having received the promises ..." 4 132 1922 Jan 29 ''Thou art worthy, 0 Lord, to receive glory and honour and power'' 4 133 undated ''Thou sayest I have need of nothing" 4 134 1930 Nov 18 ''Though ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers'' 4 135 1936 Jun 7 "Thy Kingdom is an everlasting Kingdom and thy dominion endureth throughout all ages'' 4 136 undated The Triumphant Christ 4 137 1936 Jan 5 Twenty-fifth Anniversary of the Consecration of James DeWolf Perry 4 138 1934 Jan 6 Twenty-third Anniversary of the Consecration of James DeWolf Perry 4 139 1930 Jul 13, 1930 Aug 10 An Undying Heritage: a Living Witness (at Liverpool, at the Lambeth Conference) 4 140 undated War in Heaven 4 141 undated ''Was crucified, dead, and buried'' 4 142 1938 Jun 28 Wellesley Conference Quiet Hour 4 143 undated What Is Man? 4 144 1901 Feb 24 What Seek Ye? 4 145 undated What Shall We Do? 4 146 undated ''What think ye of Christ?'' 4 147 undated "When He came near to the city He wept" 4 148 1910 May 15 ''Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty'' 4 149 undated "Where there is no vision, the people perish" 4 150 1907, 1913 Whitsunday 4 151 undated ''Whosoever shall speak against the Holy Spirit it shall not be forgiven him'' 4 152 undated ''Why callest thou me good?'' 4 153 undated ''With what body do they come?'' 4 154 undated Women's Auxiliary (notes) 4 155 undated "The Word was made flesh and dwelt among us" 4 156 1933 Jun 25 ''Ye are the salt of the earth'' 4 157 undated "Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you'' 4 158 1931 May 14 "Ye shall receive powers, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you'' 4 159 undated Fragments 4 160 1924 Jan 13 Rousmaniere, Edmund S. ''The Interpretation of the Creeds'' 4 161 1931 Smith, G. W. Hall. ''The Kingdom of God is not in word but in power'' 4 162 1942 Apr 23 Temple, William. The sermon preached at his enthronement in Canterbury 4 163 1923 Van Allen, William Harmon. ''The faith once for all delivered'' 4 164 undated Sermons by others (unidentified) Sub-series 2 5-7 165-311 Addresses1893-1946

Addresses (3 boxes) includes material in the form of holographic draft notes, lectern notes, typed originals and carbon copies of final drafts, and in some cases printed copies, either in broadside form or clipped from other publications. Not only formal personal and radio addresses on various religious and commemorative occasions are included, but also reports to various bodies (especially the Rhode Island Diocese, the National Council, and the General Convention), circular letters to the bishops or to the laity, press releases, manuscripts of brief messages for publication, and testimonial messages for worthy men, mostly deceased. There are also a small number of news clippings concerning the Bishop's addresses, more of which are contained in the Clippings series. The dates covered in this sub-series are 1904-1946, with the bulk of writings coming from 1930-1940. The materials are arranged alphabetically by title if present, then by subject if there is no title, and finally by occasion or forum, if there is no clear subject except the occasion itself. Some conventional materials of a repetitive character are filed together, such as annual addresses or formal Christmas or Easter messages over several years. At the end of the sub-series are writings of other persons, arranged by author's name.

Of greatest interest in this sub-series are the materials dealing with the positions of the church regarding World War II, relations with Japan in the 1930s, religious education, heterodoxical opinions, the Oriental missions, George Washington, the close ties between the Episcopal Church of America and the Anglican Church (especially at the times of George VI's coronation and of Archbishop Temple's visit to America), and the Indians of South Dakota.

5 165 undated On Administration of Sacraments 5 166 1933 Nov On Allegiance to God's Kingdom 5 167 1933, 1935 Armistice Day Messages 5 168 undated "As I Saw Foreign Missions'' 5 169 1925? The Bishops' Crusade 5 170 undated The Bishops' Retreat 5 171 undated To Cardinal Mercier of Belgium, in welcome 5 172 1930 Oct 25 To the Catholic Congress 5 173 1934 Dec 5 On Changes in the Book of Common Prayer 5 174 1930-1931, 1934-1935 To Children's Groups 5 175 1933? On China in Retrospect 5 176 undated "On Christian Burial'' 5 177 1912 May 3, undated on Christian Education 5 178 undated "Christian Peace'' 5 179 1929-1931, 1933, 1936 Christmas Messages 5 180 1916 Mar 20 "Church Administration"--to the Yale Divinity School 5 181 1933 Sep, 1935 Aug 15 On the Church Army 5 182 undated "The Church as an Educational Force" 5 183 1932 Apr 26 on the Churches in Europe--to the House of Bishops 5 184 1912 Sep "The Church in Social Service'' 5 185 1932 on the Church in Troubled Times--to St. George's Church, to the Atlanta Diocese 5 186 1935 Jan 9 on Church Missions 5 187 1934? To the Church of the Redeemer, on rector's troubles 5 188 1931 "The Church's Vital Statistics"--to the General Convention 5 189 1936 Jan 9 on the Church Unity Octave 5 190 1931 May 7 On Communism 5 191 1931 "Concerning Impatience of the Laity" 5 192 1937 Nov 12 ''The Coronation--its Significance to America'' 5 193 1932 Aug 21 On the Dakota Indians, Niobara Convention 5 194 1932 Aug 21 On the Deaconess' Retiring Allowance 5 195 1932? Jan 25 To the Diocesan Conventions 5 196 1936 To the Diocese of California 5 197 1935 Mar 29, undated To the Diocese of Chicago 5 198 1936 Jul 16 To the Diocese of Gibraltar 5 199 1931, 1934-1935, 1937, 1944-1945 Easter Messages 5 200 1925? "Education in the Civic Conscience" 5 201 1942?-1944? ''England and the Enthronement" (of Archbishop Temple) 5 202 1930?, 1944 On the Every Member Canvass 5 203 undated On Family Ties 5 204 1934 Dec 23 ''Fear not, for behold I bring you good tidings of great joy'' 5 205 1931 Nov On the General Convention of 1931 5 206 1935? On the General Convention 5 207 1931 Sep 13-1931 Sep 18 To the General Convention, Denver 5 208 1934 Oct To the General Convention, Atlantic City 5 209 1931 Feb 23 On George Washington--to the Univ. of Penn 5 210 1932 Oct 13 On George Washington and the Anglo-American Ideal--St. Paul's, New York City 5 211 undated On George Washington and Relations between Church and State 5 212 1935? To the Germantown Academy 5 213 1939 Feb 17 Good Friday Offering 5 214 1916 Jan 8 To the Hampton Institute (Negro School) 5 215 1932 To the Harvard Reunion, Class of 1892 6 216 undated "A Lent with Christ'' 6 217 1934 Jun 4 To the Liberal Evangelicals, Philadelphia 6 218 1936 Sep 24 on the Meeting of Bishops, Evanston, Ill. 6 219 1904?-1911? To the Men's Club, St Paul's New Haven 6 220 1931, 1935, 1936, undated Messages to the Church 6 221 1900 Apr 6? On Mountain Climbing 6 222 1930 May 27 To the National Congress of Parents and Teachers 6 223 1933 On the National Council Meeting 6 224 1916 Feb 22 On National Preparedness and Christian Discipline 6 225 1935, 1937 New Year's Messages 6 226 1941 Mar 10-1931 Mar 14 The Norfolk Addresses 6 227 1916 Feb 10 On the Office of Dean--Installation of Fraser, St. John's, Providence 6 228 1933 Aug 4 On the Oriental Missions--to the National Council 6 229 1933 On Oriental Missions (rough notes) 6 230 1933 Oct 11 "Our Church in the orient'' 6 231 1937 Sep 7, undated On the Oxford and Edinburgh Conferences 6 232 1904, 1910 To the Parishioners of St. Paul's Church, New Haven 6 233 1936 May 5 On the Parish Priesthood 6 234 1934 Apr 9 Perry Day 6 235 1931 Jan 6 Perry's 20th Anniversary Service 6 236 1933 Mar 21 On the Philippine Church 6 237 1931 Jan 8 To the Pilgrims (a club) 6 238 1935 Prayers for Peace 6 239 undated Preface to a Book of Sermons 6 240 1937 Dec Preface to Dr. Bell's Book 6 241 1937, undated On Presiding Bishops--to the General Convention, another 6 242 1934 Feb 27 To Prince Tokugawa and the Japan Society 6 243 undated On the Providence Central Relief Committee 6 244 undated On Religion and Patriotic Passions 6 245 undated On Religion in Time of War--to the Bristol Conference 6 246 1914 Feb "Religious Activity in College--Amherst 6 247 1914 Oct 12, 1914 Oct 22, 1915 Feb 1 "Religious Education in the University" 6 248 undated On the Religious Training of Children 6 249 1931 Nov 28 ''A Renewal of Faith'' 6 250 1931 Jun Report of the National Council for 1930 6 251 1934 May Report of the President of the National Council for 1931-1934 6 252 1931 Jan 17 Report of the Presiding Bishop's Address at Palm Beach 6 253 1934, 1936 Reports to the National Council 6 254 undated On Heterodoxical Opinion 6 255 undated On the History of Christ Church, Springfield, Mass. 6 256 1940? On the History of the Episcopal Church 6 257 1932 Apr 26? To the House of Bishops 6 258 undated ''The Incarnation, the Foundation of Freedom, Progress, and Unity'' 6 259 1937 Jun On the Japanese Church's Fiftieth Year 6 260 undated To the Japanese Visitors 6 261 1931 Mar 10 On Kent School 6 262 1930 Jun 20 On the Lambeth Conference 6 263 1936 Mar 25 On Lau (Robert F.) 6 264 undated On Lenten Prayer Days for the Missions 7 265 1940 May 21 "Responsibility of the Church in the Present World Crisis'' 7 266 undated "The Rhode Island Diocesan Altar Guild" 7 267 1911-1913 To the Rhode Island Episcopal Convention, Annual Addresses 7 268 1914-1916 To the Rhode Island Episcopal Convention, Annual Addresses 7 269 1917-1919 To the Rhode Island Episcopal Convention, Annual Addresses 7 270 1920-1922 To the Rhode Island Episcopal Convention, Annual Addresses 7 271 1923, 1931, 1935, 1946 To the Rhode Island Episcopal Convention, Annual Addresses 7 272 1939 Jun 15 St. George's School, Newport: Prize Day 7 273 1937 May 27 To St. Mary's Hall 7 274 1934 Nov 14 On Samuel Seabury (d. 1796) 7 275 1936 Jan 23 The School of Applied Religion 7 276 1932 Jan 20 On the Seabury Memorial Hall 7 277 undated "Seeking and Finding'' 7 278 undated To the Society of Mayflower Descendants 7 279 1935 May 10 To the Society of the Cincinnati 7 280 undated On Socrates 7 281 1911 Feb 16 "Spiritual Forces in the Home"--to the Religious Education Association 7 282 1944 "Spiritual Unity in Diversity'' 7 283 undated On Tennyson 7 284 1930-1945 Testimonial Messages (list of names is included in folder) 7 285 1930 May 6 On Testimonials to Bishop Perry (notes) 7 286 undated "The Test of Conformity'' 7 287 1931 Dec 6 "Then thought I to understand this; but it was too hard for me" 7 288 1919 Feb 9 On Theodore Roosevelt--Paris 7 289 1931 Sep, 1935 Sep On the United Thank Offering 7 290 1920 Oct 2 "Unity in Education"--to Lehigh University 7 291 1932 Jun 12 To the University of the South, Sewanee 7 292 1942? On Wartime England and Temple's Elevation to Canterbury 7 293 1942 Dec 6 On Wartime Religion--Grace Church, Prov. 7 294 1935-1936 Jan 10 Welcomes to the Archbishop of York 7 295 1937 Jun 24 To the Wellesley Conference 7 296 1930 Apr 29 Whitsunday Message 7 297 1930 Nov 5, 1933 Dec 5 To the Women's Auxiliary 7 298 1906 Addison, Charles Morris et al 7 299 1929 Nov 29 Anderson, Charles Palmerston Presiding Bishop 7 300 1906, undated Appleby, T. H. M. Villiers 7 301 undated Camp, Curtis B. 7 302 1916 Hall, Charles Mercer 7 303 1951 Hodgson, Leonard 7 304 1932? Kan, W. E. 7 305 undated Knowles, Archibald Campbell 7 306 1934 Lang, Cosmo, Archbishop of Canterbury 7 307 undated Parker, Franklin E. 7 308 1930 Nov 14 Rogers, Dr. 7 309 1935 Dec 8 Temple, William, Archbishop of York 7 310 undated Wilson, Bishop Frank E. 7 311 1932 Jan Yerkes, Royden Keith Series 5 1-4 1-25 Diaries1888-1947

This series consists of diaries kept by James DeWolf Perry from 1888 to 1947 (complete from 1910 to 1947). These diaries contain appointments, the weather conditions of the day, and the various thoughts and activities of James Perry. Of special interest are the diaries of his service in Europe in World War I (1918-1919). Also of interest are diaries/journals of his trips to Europe in 1894, to the Orient in 1933 (see Oriental Journey Series), to England in 1942, and to the western United States (no date).

These diaries are arranged chronologically, those with no date located at the end.

 1 1 1888, 1889, 1894, 1895, 1889 Diaries 1 2 1894 Jul 4-1894 Sep 22 Diaries--European Trip 1 3 1897-1898, 1903-1907 Diaries 1 4 1906, 1910-1912 Diaries 2 5 1913-1917 Diaries 2 6 1918 Diaries 2 7 1918 Aug 10-1918 Sep 30 Diary--World War I (Copy 1, complete) 2 8 1918 Oct 1-1918 Nov 30 Diary--World War I (Copy 1, complete) 2 9 1918 Dec 1-1918 Dec 29 Diary--World War I (Copy 1, complete) 2 10 1919 Jan 1-1919 Feb 13 Diary--World War I (Copy 1, complete) 2 11 1918 Aug 13-1918 Oct 1 Diary--World War I (Copy 2, incomplete) 2 12 1918 Oct 2-1918 Oct 29 Diary--World War I (Copy 2, incomplete) 2 13 1918 Nov 1-1918 Dec 31 Diary--World War I (Copy 2, incomplete) 2 14 1919 Jan 1-1919 Feb 13 Diary--World War I (Copy 2, incomplete) 2 15 1918 Aug 22-1919 Jan 27 Diary--World War I (Copy 3, incomplete) 3 16 1919 Diaries 3 17 1920-1925 Diaries 3 18 1926-1931 Diaries 3 19 1932-1935 Diaries (See also: Oriental Journey) 3 20 1936-1939 Diaries 4 21 1940-1942 Diaries 4 22 1942 Apr 14-1942 May 9 Diary--England Trip 4 23 1943-1947 Diaries 4 24 undated Diaries 4 25 undated Diary--Western Trip Series 6 1-7 1-10 Journals1835-1946

This series contains the Rhode Island Diocesan Journal, 1835-(1911-1946), and the Journal of the Episcopal General Convention, 1919-(1928-1940). These are published annual reports which contain the Bishop's annual addresses, his administrative diaries, clergy lists, and financial reports for the church at large; in the General Convention journals are also found updated editions of the church canons, and the debates and resolutions of the convention committees. Also in this series, located at the end, are several miscellaneous journals containing scholarly essays by the Bishop's friends.

 1 1 1835, 1838-1845, 1866 Rhode Island Diocesan Journal 2 2 1911-1920 Rhode Island Diocesan Journal 3 3 1921-1936 Rhode Island Diocesan Journal 4 4 1937-1946 Rhode Island Diocesan Journal 5 5 1919, 1928, 1931, 1934 Journal of the General Convention 6 6 1937, 1940 Journal of the General Convention 7 7 1937 Sep Church History, vol. 6 7 8 1911-1931 Diocesan Record 7 9 1841 Journal of the Annual Convention of the Eastern Diocese 7 10 1949 May 15 Rhode Island Churchman Series 7 1-21 1-696 Subject Series1866-1956

This series consists of material relating to James Perry's involvement in various organizations and activities while 7th Bishop of Rhode Island (1911-1946) and while Presiding Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in America (1930-1937). A large portion of the material consists of correspondence and congratulatory letters pertaining to: his consecration as Episcopal Bishop in 1911; his election as Presiding Bishop in 1930; the anniversaries of his consecration; his retirement as Bishop of Rhode Island (1946); and his resignation as Presiding Bishop (1937), including a bound volume of letters (1930) and a testimonial volume presented by the Churchmen's Club of the Diocese of Rhode Island (1930). In addition, there is considerable correspondence concerning requests to serve in various churches which Perry received before being ordained as Bishop.

Also significant are the materials relating to the writing of James Perry's biography by Allan Evans, including anecdotes, as well as correspondence with contributors, the author, and the publisher. Included in this series are diplomas for Bishop Perry's earned and honorary degrees; certificates for honorary awards and memberships in various societies; material relating to his term on the Board of Overseers of Harvard University; correspondence concerning American visits by the Bishop of London (1926) and by the Archbishop of York (1935-1936); correspondence and printed material relating to Perry's encyclical sermon (1932) in response to the pope's plea for the return of Protestants (see also the Clippings series); and material concerning the cases of George Chalmers Richmond, Bishop John Torok, and Samuel Neal Kent.

This series also contains material relating to various churches within the Diocese of Rhode Island; ordination recommendations for persons to the diaconate, holy orders and priesthood; Perry's certificates of ordination to the diaconate and the priesthood; Perry's certificate of consecration as bishop; and material concerning candidates and seminary students of particular interest to Bishop Perry.

Of historical interest is the great amount of correspondence and printed material relating to Bishop Perry's involvement in World War I as a Red Cross Chaplain.

Subjects are arranged alphabetically. Most correspondence within the subject folders is arranged alphabetically initially and then chronologically, except in those instances where chronological arrangement lends greater significance or order to the particular subject. For more detailed information on the material contained in this series, see folder title list. Many of the matters treated under these subject headings find much supplemental material elsewhere, especially in the General Correspondence and the Clippings series.

 1 1 1940 Abbe Dimnet: Correspondence and Printed Material 1 2 1925 Feb 10-1925 Feb 11 Advisory Committee on Near East: Report 1 3 1942-1946 Advisory Council on Ecclesiastical Relations: Agenda and Minutes 1 4 undated Advisory Council an Ecclesiastical Relations; Church of England Council on Foreign Relations: Excerpts 1 5 1945 Oct 5-1946 Dec 10 Advisory Council on Ecclesiastical Relations: correspondence 1 6 1920-1939 Advisory Council on Ecclesiastical Relations; historical development 1 7 1944 Nov 24 Advisory Council on Ecclesiastical Relations, Memorandum #108: Eastern Orthodox Churches 1 8 undated Advisory Council on Ecclesiastical Relations; printed material 1 9 1931 Mar 28-1947 Feb 12 Advisory Council on Ecclesiastical Relations: Eastern Orthodox Church; correspondence 1 10 1946 Aug 14-1947 Jan 24 Advisory Council on Ecclesiastical Relations: Eastern Orthodox Church; miscellaneous 1 11 undated Advisory Council on Ecclesiastical Relations: Eastern Orthodox Church; printed material 1 12 1945 Jun 20-1946 Dec 31, undated Advisory Council on Ecclesiastical Relations: Joint Commission on Assistance to the Eastern Orthodox Church; correspondence 1 13 1946 Sep 16 Advisory Council on Ecclesiastical Relations: Joint Commission to the Eastern Orthodox Church; minutes & membership 1 14 1901 Feb 6, undated All Saints Memorial Chapel; correspondence, transcript of court case 1 15 1921 Feb 5-1921 Mar 28 American British Foundation; correspondence 1 16 1920 American British Foundation; printed material 1 17 1924 Apr 9 American Church Building Commission; correspondence, printed material 1 18 1930 Mar 28-1932 Jan 27 American Churches in Europe; correspondence 1 19 1932? American Churches in Europe; itinerary 1 20 undated American Churches in Europe; list 1 21 1946 Feb 26-1946 Mar 25 American Churches in Europe--Reconstruction; correspondence 1 22 1933 Jun 6-1941 Nov 24 American Churches in Japan; correspondence 1 23 1920 Jun 8 American Field Service Fellowships; letter 1 24 1929 Mar 22 American Foundation for the Blind; letter 1 25 1915 American Independence: 139th Anniversary Commemorative Service 1 26 1925 American Prohibition Law; booklet 1 27 1888 Anchor Line passenger list 1 28 1919 Jun 19-1919 Aug 29 Anderson, Fr. Roger, O.H.C.; correspondence 1 29 undated Anglican Relations; printed material 1 30 1927 Jul 1-1927 Jul 5 Apponaug (R.I.) Co.--Green Memorial Plat Property Line; correspondence 1 31 undated Apponaug Co.--Green Memorial Plat Property Line; diagrams 1 32 1923 Apr 23 Archbishop of Canterbury Enthronement: Order of Service 1 33 1942? Archbishop of Canterbury Enthronement: photograph 1 34 1944 Oct 26 Archbishop of Canterbury: statement on death of 2 35 1935-1936 Archbishop of York: American Visit; correspondence--A-B 2 36 1935-1936 Archbishop of York: American Visit; correspondence--C-M 2 37 1935-1936 Archbishop of York: American Visit; correspondence--N-S 2 38 1935-1936 Archbishop of York: American Visit; correspondence--T-Z 2 39 1935 Feb 7-1936 Feb 13 Archbishop of York: American Visit--William Temple; correspondence 2 40 1935-1936 Archbishop of York: American Visit; expenses 2 41 1935-1936 Archbishop of York: American Visit; itinerary 2 42 1935-1936 Archbishop of York: American Visit; memoranda 2 43 1935-1936 Archbishop of York: American Visit; publicity releases 2 44 1935 Archbishop of York: American Visit; Radio Broadcast 2 45 1942 Apr 23 Archbishop of York: Enthronement to See of Canterbury 2 46 1925-1926 Army and Navy Chaplains: General Committee; correspondence and minutes of meetings 2 47 1925? Army and Navy Commission of Episcopal Church--Chaplains; membership list 2 48 1923 Apr-1924 Dec Army and Navy Commission of Episcopal Church; chaplains' reports 2 49 undated Army and Navy Commission of Episcopal Church: Communion of ''Mission Sister''; blank 2 50 1925 May 21-1926 Mar 25 Army and Navy Commission of Episcopal Church; correspondence 2 51 1924 Feb 7-1926 Feb 25 Army and Navy Commission of Episcopal Church; minutes 2 52 1925 Oct, 1926 Army and Navy Commission of Episcopal Church; report to General Convention 2 53 1924 Nov 6-1925 May 14 Army and Navy Commission and Chaplains of Episcopal Church; minutes 2 54 1933 Aug 21-1933 Oct 4 Assistant to the Bishop; letter, memo 2 55 1922 Dec 4-1924 Nov 29, undated Assyrian St. Ephram Association; correspondence 2 56 1925 Mar 3-1925 Nov 14 Assyrian St. Ephram; Association: George Lamsa; correspondence 2 57 undated Assyrian St. Ephram Association; printed material 2 58 1921, 1925 Austin Priory; report of summer work 2 59 1923 Nov 4-1923 Jun 18 Bainton, Dr.; correspondence & statement 2 60 1901, 1906 Bangs, Lois A., and Mary B. Whiton 2 61 1930 Oct 24 Banks, William; transfer to R.I. from Kentucky 2 62 1933 Apr 29-1933 Aug 29, undated Bartnicki, Rev. Padre Teofilo; correspondence 2 63 1943 Aug 30 Batchelor, Leslie D.; request for recommendation 2 64 1940 Jan 15-1946 Sep 6 Bell; Bernard I.; correspondence 2 65 1933 Jan 23-1934 Jun 7 Bennett, Granville Gaylord; correspondence 2 66 1939 Jan 12 Bennett, Granville Gaylord: Induction as Suffragan Bishop of Rhode Island 2 67 1929 Oct 2 Berkeley Memorial Chapel; minutes 2 68 1928 Berkeley Memorial Chapel; committee list 2 69 1924, 1928-1930, undated Berkeley Memorial Chapel; financial reports and records 2 70 1930 Oct 10-1931 Sep 11 Berkeley Memorial Chapel; correspondence 3 71 1947 Aug 19, 1955 Nov 1 Biographical: National Cyclopedia of American Biography; correspondence 3 72 1932 Jun 30 Biographical: Who's Who (London); article 3 73 1947 Apr 1 Biographical: Who's Who in America; letter 3 74 undated Biography: Anecdotes and Characteristics of James Perry 3 75 undated Biography: Anecdotes and Characteristics 3 76 undated Biography: Anecdotes kept by Edith Perry 3 77 undated Biography: Anecdotes kept by Edith Perry 3 78 1947 Apr 26-1953 Aug 18 Biography: Authorship Search; correspondence 3 79 undated Biography: Contributors' correspondence--A-D 80 Biography: Contributors' correspondence--Powel M. Dawley 3 80 1959 Mar 16-1959 Nov 25 Biography: Contributors' correspondence--Powel M. Dawley 3 81 1955 Apr 18-1955 May 9 Biography: Contributors' correspondence--Goodrich R. Fenner 3 82 1954 Nov 23-1955 Feb 8, undated Biography: Contributors' correspondence--Lewis B. Franklin 3 83 1953 Jun 3-1954 Nov 13 Biography: Contributors' correspondence--John Seville Higgins 3 84 1948 Oct 8-1955 Nov 4 Biography: Contributors' correspondence--J-P 3 85 1947 Apr 8-1955 Jun 6 Biography: Contributors' correspondence--T-W 3 86 undated Biography: Contributors; list 3 87 undated Biography: Correspondence; rough drafts of letters by Edith Weir Perry 3 88 1954 Oct 21-1954 Dec 21 Biography: Allan Evans, author; correspondence 3 89 1955 Jan 4-1955 Dec 8 Biography: Allan Evans, author; correspondence 3 90 1956 Jun 29-1957 Dec 29 Biography: Allan Evans, author; correspondence 3 91 1958 Jan 12-1958 Dec 30 Biography: Allan Evans, author; correspondence 3 92 1959 Fen 16-1961 Feb 13 Biography: Allan Evans, author; correspondence 3 93 undated Biography (Scaife version): chapters I & 2 3 94 undated Biography: family (wife and sons) 3 95 1947 May 14 Biography: Harper & Bros.; letter 3 96 1956 Biography: Memorial Tribute 3 97 undated Biography: Miscellaneous 3 98 1947 May 23-1952 Jun 5 Biography: Morehouse-Gorham Co., Publisher; correspondence 3 99 1948 Sep 7-1963-Dec-11 Biography: Lauriston L. Scaife, original author; correspondence 3 100 1955 Nov 16-1958 Sep 5 Biography: Morehouse-Gorham Co., publisher; correspondence 3 101 undated Biography: Outline of Perry's Life & Work 3 102 undated Biography: Table of Contents 3 103 undated Biography: Outline of Book; rough draft 3 104 undated Biography: Outline of Chapters 3 105 undated Biography: Introduction 3a 106 undated Biography: Complete Text (binder 1) 3a 106a undated Biography: Complete Text (binder 2) 3a 107 undated Biography by Allan Evans: Bibliography 3a 108 1931 Jun 30-1930 Jul 30 Bishop from Bolivia: Admittance to Church; correspondence and memorandum 3a 109 1925 Nov 10-1926 Sep 22 Bishop of London: Visit to U.S.; correspondence 3a 110 1910 Bishop of Rhode Island: Congratulatory letter, A-C 3a 111 1910 Bishop of Rhode Island: Congratulatory letters, D-J 4 112 1910 Bishop of Rhode island: Congratulatory letters, K-R 4 113 1910 Bishop of Rhode Island: Congratulatory letters, S-W 4 114 1910 Bishop of Rhode Island: Congratulatory letters, unidentified 4 115 1943 Oct 12-1947 Jan 21 Bishop of Rhode Island: Retirement; correspondence 4 116 undated Bishop of Rhode Island: Retirement; resolution 4 117 1946 Oct 22 Bishop of Rhode Island: Retirement; Testimonial from Churchman's Club 4 118 1930 Apr 25-1930 May 24 Bishop's Cope; correspondence and presentation 4 119 1939, 1940, 1941 Bishop's Discretionary Fund; reports 4 120 undated Bishop's Gift; list 4 121 1946 Apr 1-1946 Oct 24 Bishop's House, Boston: rental; correspondence 4 122 undated Bishop's House, Providence; property list 4 123 undated Bishop's Seal; photographs 4 124 1946 Oct British Council of Churches Bulletin: "The Church in the World'' 4 125 1925 Apr 3-1926 Jun 12 Brooks-Bryce Foundation; correspondence (See also: General Correspondence series: Franklin D. Roosevelt) 4 126 1926 May 25 Brooks-Bryce Foundation; list of directors 4 127 1925 Mar 16 Brown, Wilbur F.; recommendation 4 128 1932 Aug 9-1932 Sep 22 Buchman, Dr., and his Group's Movement Within the Church; correspondence 4 129 1933 Nov 18 Budget; statement by Perry 4 130 1932 Feb 4-1932 Feb 16 Budget: National Council; correspondence 4 131 1925 Apr 23 Building Fund Committee; minutes 4 132 1928 Apr 11 Byron, John Ingram; examination for deacon 4 133 undated Calling Cards 4 134 1921 Canons: Committee for Revision of Canons; reports 4 135 1921 Dec 1-1922 Aug 17 Canons: Committee for Revision of Canons; correspondence 4 136 1936 Jan Canterbury Cross; letter & leaflet 4 137 1923 Feb 2-1928 Oct 5 Carson, John H.; correspondence 4 138 1928 Jul 5 Carson, John H.; recommendation as candidate for holy orders 4 139 1922-1925 Carson, John H.; financial statements 4 140 1919 Sep 19-1920 Apr 24 Cate, Karl S.; correspondence 4 141 1920 Apr 23 Cate, Karl S.; deposition from ministry 4 142 1921 Jan 20 Cathedral Building Committee; report 4 143 1921 Aug 18 Cathedral Building Committee; letter 4 144 1910 May 3 Cathedral Corporation of R.I.; constitution 4 145 1925 Cathedral Folder; returns 4 146 1923 Aug 30-1923 Sep 17 Cathedral Heights Citizens' Association; correspondence 4 147 1933 Aug 4-1933 Sep 7 Catholic Congress; correspondence 4 148 1899 Jun 27, 1904 Jun 4 Chaplain, 6th Regiment of Massachusetts Infantry; commission & discharge (see oversize box 2) 4 149 1922 Apr 22-1922 May 1 Charles II Chalice and Paten; letters, photograph 4 150 1925 Dec 19-1925 Dec 21 Censorship at Smith College; correspondence 4 151 1926 Oct 13-1927 Feb 24 Checkley, John, Memorial Tablet; letters 4 152 1866 Nov 23 Christianity in Japan; letter 4 153 1904-1944 Christmas Cards 4 154 1930 Apr 10 The Church Army; articles of incorporation 5 155 undated The Church Army; printed material 5 156 1927 May 10-1935 Mar 6 The Church Army; correspondence 5 157 1927, 1928, 1934, 1935, 1937 The Church Army: Co-Partners (newsletter) 5 158 undated Church Education: program outline and petition 5 159 1933 May Church of England Council on Foreign Relations; report 5 160 1926 Aug Church of the Holy Communion--Italian Congregation; annual report 5 161 1930 Dec 15-1930 Dec 23 Church of the Holy Spirit; letters 5 162 undated Church of the Holy Spirit; plans 5 163 1931 Jun Church of the Good Shepherd; letter 5 164 1926 Church Pension Fund: Annuity Award to Levi B. Edwards 5 165 1916 Jul 4-1946 Aug 26 Church Pension Fund; correspondence 5 166 1939-1940, 1946 Oct 30 Church Pension Fund, Inc.; forms 5 167 1939-1940, 1946 Oct 30 Church Pension Fund: James DeWolf Perry certificates and letter 5 168 undated Church Pension Fund; printed material 5 169 1921 Oct 24, 1920 Jul 17 Church Personnel Bureau; letter, clipping 5 170 undated Church Relations to Near East & Europe: Overview 5 171 undated Church Seal and Flag; drawings 5 172 undated Church Seal and Flag; notes 5 173 1921 Jul 21-1922 Sep 1 Church Seal and Flag; correspondence 5 174 undated Church Services: Orders of Worship 5 175 1938, undated Church Unity; printed material 5 176 1920 Dec 23-1925 Feb 6 Church Temperance Society; correspondence 5 177 1943 Sep 6 Churchill, Winston S.: Honorary Ceremonies program 5 178 1924 Citizen Committee to Overcome Legislative Deadlock in R. I.; statement 5 179 1924 Jun 23-1924 Jul 8 Citizen Committee to Overcome Legislative Deadlock; correspondence 5 180 1933 Oct 13 College of Preachers; letter 5 181 1924 Jun 2-1924 Jun 20 Commission on Church Architecture; correspondence and minutes 5 182 undated Commission on Ecclesiastical Relations; pamphlet 5 183 1922, 1927 Conference for Church Work; Treasurer's Reports 5 184 1922 Apr 17-1926 Sep 20 Conference for Church Work; correspondence 5 185 1925, 1927, 1929 Conference for Church Work; membership lists 5 186 1928-1928, undated Conference for Church Work; minutes 5 187 undated Conference for Church Work; printed material 5 188 undated Conference far Church Work: Conference Foundation; articles of incorporation 5 189 undated Conference for Church Work; Conference Center; proposal and prospectus 5 190 undated Conference for Church Work: Conference Center; printed materials 5 191 1920 Nov 13-1922 Jul 12 Conference for Church Work: Conference Center; correspondence 5 192 1925 Jul 6 Conference on Ways and Means; agenda 5 193 1910 Nov 9-1910 Dec 16 Consecration (1911): Arrangements for Ceremony; correspondence 5 194 1911 Jan 6 Consecration as Bishop; certificate (see oversize box 2) 5 195 1911 Feb Consecration: Gift of prie-Dieu 5 196 1911 Jan 4 Consecration; letter of congratulations 5 197 1911 Consecration: Order of Service, Invitation, Admission Card 5 198 1922 Jan 4 Consecration: 11th Anniversary; letter 6 199 1926 Consecration: 15th Anniversary; collective letter 6 200 1930 Consecration: 19th Anniversary; hymn 6 201 1930 Consecration: 20th Anniversary; bound volume of letters of praise and congratulations, with photographs 6 202 1931 Consecration: 20th Anniversary; order of service 6 203 1936 Jan 23 Consecration: 25th Anniversary: Citation from Women's Auxiliary (see oversize box 2) 6 204 1936 Consecration: 25th Anniversary: congratulatory letters, A-K 6 205 1936 Consecration: 25th Anniversary: congratulatory letters, L-W & unidentified 6 206 1936 Consecration: 25th Anniversary: invitation 6 207 1946 Consecration: 35th Anniversary: congratulatory letters 6 208 1936 Consecration: 25th Anniversary: Memorial from St. Matthew's Church (see oversize box 2) 6 209 1942 Consecration: 31st Anniversary 6 210 1946 Consecration: 35th Anniversary; congratulatory letters, unidentified letters 6 211 1946 Consecration: 35th Anniversary; Order of Service, Resolution of R.I. General Assembly 6 212 1947 Consecration: 36th Anniversary; congratulatory letter 6 213 1945 Jun 30-1946 Mar 26 Constitutional Amendments & Canonical Revision: re Resignation of Bishop and the Commission on Approaches to Unity; correspondence 6 214 undated Cook, Bishop Philip: Memorial 6 215 undated Corps of Chaplains; bill 6 216 1933 Feb 16 Credit; request letter 6 217 1931 Jun 26 Darbyshire, John Russell; consecration 6 218 undated Degrees earned by Perry; list 6 219 1912 Degrees: Brown University, Doctor of Divinity (see oversize box 2) 6 220 1895 Degrees: Episcopal Theological Seminary, Bachelor of Divinity (see oversize box 2) 6 221 1892 Degrees: Harvard University, Bachelor of Arts (see oversize box 2) 6 222 1935 Degrees: Nashotah Seminary, Doctor of Divinity (see oversize box 2) 6 223 1891 Degrees: University of Pennsylvania, A.B. (see oversize box 2) 6 224 1911 Jun 21 Degrees: University of Pennsylvania, Doctor of Sacred Theology (see oversize box 2) 6 225 1932 Jun 18 Degrees: University of the South, Doctor of Divinity (see oversize box 2) 6 226 1931 Degrees: General Theological Seminary, Doctor of Divinity (see oversize box 2) 6 227 1925 Mar 4 Department of Biblical Literature; report 6 228 1936 Sep 7-1936 Dec 10 De Wardener, Edouard: Marriage 6 229 undated DeWolf, Katherine H.: Biographical Outline 6 230 undated Diagrams: Unidentified n.d. x-ref Dimnet, Abbe Ernest. See: Abbe Dimnet 6 231 1939 Jun-1939 Dec Diocesan Council Payroll 7 232 1947 Apr 30 Donation of Perry's Clothing; letter 7 233 1916 Jan Doran, Bishop: Condolence on death 3 7 234 1931 Jul 18-1931 Dec 16 Dornakal, India; correspondence 7 x-ref undated x-ref Eastern Orthodox Church. See: Advisory Council on Ecclesiastical Relations 7 235 1922 Emhardt, William: Report on Visit to the Churches of Europe & the Near East 7 236 1932 Encyclical Sermon; correspondence, A-B 7 237 1932 Encyclical Sermon; correspondence, C-E 7 238 1932 Encyclical Sermon; correspondence, F-M 7 239 1932 Encyclical Sermon; correspondence, N-S 7 240 1932 Encyclical Sermon; correspondence, T-W 7 241 1932 Encyclical Sermon; correspondence, unidentified 7 242 1932 Encyclical Sermon; printed material 7 243 1922 Endorsements 7 244 1937 May 12 English Speaking Union: Coronation Banquet; seating list 7 245 1934 European Trip; travel itinerary 7 246 undated European Trip; expenses and schedule 7 247 undated European Trip; travel itinerary 7 248 undated Every-Layman's Study League; leaflet for leaders 7 249 1935 Mar 9 Every Member Canvass; letter 7 250 undated Examination for Holy Orders; Format and Standardization 7 251 1933 Nov 27, 1934 Dec 11 Expenses 7 252 1922 Jun 7-1922 Jun 22 Federal Council of Churches; correspondence 7 253 1932 Jun 2 Federal Council of Churches; memorandum and printed material 7 254 1925 Feb-1925 Nov Foreign-born Americans; summary report and memorandum 7 255 1921 Apr 9-1921 May 13 Foreign Grave Markers: Design; correspondence 7 256 1901-1946, undated Form Letters: Miscellaneous 7 257 undated Form of Profession: Teachers of the Children of God 7 258 1925-1926 Foundation for Mental Hygiene; correspondence 7 259 1926 Mar 26 Foundation for Mental Hygiene; outline of plan, scope and magnitude 7 260 1935 France-America Society: 157th Anniversary of Signing of Treaty; program 7 261 1932 Francis, George: Enthronement as Dean of St George's Collegiate Church, Jerusalem 7 262 1935 Feb 7-1935 Jun 18 Friends of Canterbury Cathedral; correspondence 7 263 1936 Jan 26 George V: Service of Commemoration 7 264 1936 Germantown Academy: Campaign Fund; letters and printed material 7 265 1935 Germantown Academy: 175th Anniversary; printed material 7 266 1935 Apr 26 Germantown Academy: 175th Anniversary; speech (See Sermons & Addresses, 5:212) 7 267 1932 Sep Girls' Friendly Society 7 268 1946 Jan 24-1946 Mar 28 Goerdeler, Carl; correspondence 7 269 1909? Grave Stone Inscriptions: St. Paul's, Narragansett (Merrymount Press) 7 270 1944 Nov 27-1945 Jan 24 Gubbins, Joseph William; dimissory letter 7 271 1925 Apr 14-1926 Sep 9 Guild of St. Barnabas for Nurses; correspondence 7 272 1925-1927 Guild of St. Barnabas for Nurses; report, printed material 8 273 1944 Jun 16-1945 Oct 30 Hall of Fame--New York University; correspondence 8 274 1933, 1941 Hall of Fame: Handbook 8 275 undated Hall of Fame; printed material 8 276 1924 Jan 25 Harding, Aldred: Eulogy Sermon by Perry 8 277 1919 Dec 30-1922 Jul 21 Hardy, Anthony C.: Deposition and Reinstatement to Ministry; correspondence 8 278 1902 Nov 28, 1922 Apr 13 Hardy, Anthony C.: Deposition Notice, Remission 8 279 undated Hardy, Anthony C.: Writings 8 280 1940-1943, 1946 Jul 15 Harvard University: Board of Overseers; list of appointments, termination letter 8 281 1941 Jun 30-1941 Jul 22 Harvard University: Board of Overseers; Charles Chauncey Collection 8 282 1941 Jan 8-1942 Apr 1 Harvard University: Board of Overseers; correspondence 8 283 1939 Nov 23-1940 Oct 4 Harvard University: Board of Overseers: Dept. of Sociology; correspondence 8 284 undated Harvard University: Board of Overseers: Dept. of Sociology; reports 8 285 1939 Dec 7-1940 Feb 7 Harvard University: Board of Overseers: Pierre S. Dupont; correspondence 8 286 1939 Dec 2-1943 May 10 Harvard University: Board of Overseers: Gray Herbarium; correspondence 8 287 undated Harvard University: Board of Overseers: Gray Herbarium; photographs 8 288 undated Harvard University: Board of Overseers: Gray Herbarium; printed material 8 289 undated Harvard University: Board of Overseers: Gray Herbarium; reports 8 290 1940 Apr 10-1940 May 8 Harvard University: Board of Overseers: Honorary Degree Nominations: Anson Phelps Stokes; correspondence 8 291 undated Harvard University: Board of Overseers: miscellaneous printed matter 8 292 1942 Harvard University: Class of 1892: 50th Reunion; reports 8 293 1892 Harvard University: Commencement Program 8 294 1923 Heaton, Lee W.: Heresy Charge 8 295 1933 Nov 11 Hebrew Christian Church; proposal 8 296 undated Hirst, Thomas Graham: Military Career, History; memorium 8 297 1936 Historical Records Survey, WPA: Church Records 8 298 undated Holy orders: Candidates' certificates, A-H 8 299 undated Holy orders: Candidates' certificates, J-W 8 300 1919 Apr 22 Holy Trinity Church, Tiverton; constitution 9 301 1919 Honorary Degrees and Awards: American National Red Cross, Foreign Service Certificate 9 302 1931 Jun 2 Honorary Degrees and Awards: Columbia University, Doctor of Sacred Theology (see oversize rolled item) 9 303 1931 Jun 2 Honorary Degrees and Awards: Columbia University; program 9 304 1935, 1937-1946 Honorary Degrees and Awards: Harvard Board of Overseers, Indian Association of America 9 305 1940 Dec 12 Honorary Degrees and Awards: Institute of Theology, Paris, Doctor of Theology (see oversize box 2) 9 306 1934 Feb 1 Honorary Degrees and Awards: Legion of Honor, France; certificate (see oversize box 2. See also: Memorabilia series) 9 307 1934 Mar 3-1934 Jan 24 Honorary Degrees and Awards: Legion of Honor; letters 9 308 1935 Honorary Degrees and Awards: Nashota House, Univ. of Pennsylvania Club 9 309 1932 Honorary Degrees and Awards: Trinity College, Doctor of Sacred Theology (see oversize box 2) 9 310 1932 Honorary Degrees and Awards: Trinity College, Doctor of Sacred Theology; citation 9 311 1931 Nov 19-1932 Jan 20 Honorary Degrees and Awards: Univ. of Pennsylvania, Honor Cup Award; correspondence 9 312 1931 Honorary Degrees and Awards: Univ. of Pennsylvania, LL.D. (see oversize box 2) 9 313 undated Houghton, Anne Kenyon: Reinstatement 9 314 1932 Apr 26-1932 Apr 28 House of Bishops: findings 9 315 1938 Hurricane Reports: Damage to Church Property 9 316 1923 Sep 10 Hunter, John M. Loan from Blackstone Canal National Bank 9 317 1920 Sep 27-1920 Oct 19 Hyde, Arthur P. S.; correspondence, etc. 9 318 1941 Jan 26-1941 Nov 5 Illness (Perry's); sympathy correspondence 9 319 undated Income Memo 9 320 undated Invitations 9 321 undated Invitations 9 322 undated Invoices and Receipts 9 323 1915-1917, 1933 Jeffrey, Welles Hobson; grade reports, correspondence 9 324 1946 Dec 13 Jerusalem and the East Mission; letter 9 325 1936 Jerusalem Cross; letters 9 326 1920, 1921 Jewish Mission; correspondence & report 9 327 1924 Nov 15, undated Joint Commission on Church Music; minutes 9 328 1937 Joint Commission of Church Music; report 9 329 undated Jones, Abel; genealogy 9 330 1917 Oct 9-1917 Dec 29 Jones, Bishop of Utah; letters 9 331 1919 Sep 4-1919 Oct 30 Kent, Samuel Neal: Naval Court of Inquiry; correspondence 9 332 1919 Nov 1-1919 Dec 31 Kent, Samuel Neal: Naval Court of Inquiry; correspondence 9 333 1920 Jan 2-1920 Jan 31 Kent, Samuel Neal: Naval Court of Inquiry; correspondence 9 334 1920 Feb 3-1920 Feb 28 Kent, Samuel Neal: Naval Court of Inquiry; correspondence 9 335 1930 Mar 1-1920 May 4, undated Kent, Samuel Neal: Naval Court of Inquiry; correspondence 9 336 1919-1920 Kent, Samuel Neal: Naval Court of Inquiry; miscellaneous 9 337 1922 Kent School: 20th Anniversary Fund 9 338 1931 Apr 3-1931 Apr 6 Kidrowski, John: Assignment of Property Rights, New York; letters 10 339 1915 Sep 27, 1923 Jun 23-1923 Jun 27 Kirk, Julia S. (ward of Perry): Death; conservatorship certificate letters 10 340 1917 May 19-1917 Oct 30 Klaren, J. H.: Dispute in Diocese and Transfer Request (Kansas City) 10 341 1915 Dec 19-1920 Jan 16 Kieran, J. H., Trinity Church, Pawtuxet: Salary Dispute; correspondence 10 342 undated Lawrence, William: Memorial 10 343 1933 Oct 5 Lawrence, William: 40th Anniversary of Consecration 10 344 1930, undated Lay Readers License; sample 10 345 1930-1932 Lay Readers License; lists 10 346 1930 Lay Readers License: Renewal; correspondence 10 347 1934 Feb 16-1934 Mar 23 Lenten Preachers: St Paul's Cathedral; correspondence 10 348 1919 Feb 12-1925 Jun 19 Letters of Introduction 10 349 1895 Jun 21 Letter of Recognition (for Perry) 10 350 1897 Letter of Transfer (of Perry) 10 351 1921 Apr 12 Lighthouses for the Blind: Congressional Bill of Incorporation 10 352 1919 Sep 22-1921 May 2 Lighthouses for the Blind; correspondence 10 353 undated Lists--miscellaneous 10 354 1921 Jun 21 Lloyd, Arthur Sheldon: Election as Suffragan Bishop 10 355 1938 Nov 29 Loater, Camille Innocent: Deposition Notice 10 356 1921 Aug 22 Loater, Camille; letter 10 357 1915 Aug 27-1915 Aug 28 Locke, Dr.: 80th Birthday; correspondence 10 358 1926 Jan 6-1926 Feb 26 Lunn, Sir Henry: American Visit; correspondence 10 359 1939 McComb, Samuel: Memorial Service 10 360 undated Marriage Application; blank 10 361 1920, undated Meader, Rev. Charles A. 10 362 1927-1928 Meader, Robert O.; grade reports 10 363 undated Memberships 10 364 1913 Apr 14 Memberships: R. I. Historical Society; certificate (see oversize box 2) 10 365 1913 Dec 21 Memberships: Rice Foundation Society (see oversize box 1) 10 366 1890? Memberships: Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philomathean Society; certificate (see oversize box 2) 10 367 1950 Oct 18-1956 Jun 4 Memorials to Bishop Perry; correspondence 10 368 undated Memorials to Bishop Perry; drawing of gravestone 10 369 undated Memorials to Bishop Perry; miscellaneous 10 370 1947, 1956 Memorials to Bishop Perry; orders of service 10 371 1930-1936, undated Memoranda--Interoffice 10 372 1945 Merrymount Press 10 373 undated Miscellaneous 10 374 undated Miscellaneous 10 375 undated Miscellaneous 11 376 1920 Dec Missions, Domestic & Foreign; act of Incorporation, etc. 11 377 1919-1931 Missions, Domestic & Foreign 11 378 1923, undated Moderation League; printed material 11 379 1923-1924 Morgan, Courtney; grade reports 11 380 1923 Dec 8-1925 Apr 21 Morgan, Hayes, & Co.; correspondence 11 381 1923 Sep 30, 1924 Jun 30 Morgan, Hayes, & Co.; statements of accounts in Paris 11 382 1922 Jun 20 National Christian Conference; letter 11 383 1919 Dec 3-1919 Dec 29 National Council: Committee on Organization; correspondence 11 384 undated National Council; information leaflet 11 385 1932 Dec 31 National Council; report 11 386 1931 Jul 29 National Institute of Social Sciences; letter 11 387 1931 May 21-1931 Jun 3 National Social Service Dept.; correspondence 11 388 1923 Dec 21-1923 Dec 26 Nicola, D., and lost Catrick bird 11 389 1932 Aug 19-1932 Aug 21 Niobara Convocation; scrapbook 11 390 1930-1931 Official Acts of Perry, Presiding Bishop; list 11 391 undated Orders of Service 11 392 undated Orders of Service 11 393 1895 Jun 9 Ordination as Deacon; certificate 11 394 1896 Feb 18 Ordination as Priest; certificate (see oversize box 2) 11 395 undated Ordination Examinations 11 396 1892-1984 Ordination Examinations of Perry, Diocese of Pennsylvania 11 397 1915-1935 Ordination Recommendations; correspondence 11 398 undated Ordination Recommendations; Diaconate 11 399 undated Ordination Recommendations: Holy Orders 11 400 undated Ordination Recommendations: Priesthood 11 401 1895 Feb 9?-1896 Jan 31 Ordination of Perry in Pennsylvania; letters 11 402 1936 Aug 21-1936 Nov 23 overseas Bishops; correspondence 11 403 undated Overseas Clergy, Training 11 404 1923 Pain, Rev. George L. 11 405 undated Pamphlets, Leaflets 11 406 undated Pamphlets, Leaflets 12 407 undated Parochial Preaching Missions; lists 12 408 1918, 1927, 1930, 1934, 1938, list 1958 Passports (of Bishop Perry) 12 409 undated Pastoral Letters 12 410 1931 Jan 6-1931 Jun 29 Pension; correspondence 12 411 undated Pension; printed material 12 412 1917-1924, 1945 Pension; Salary base 12 413 1921 Feb 21-1921 Apr 1 Perry, Beatrice Weir: Memorium; correspondence 12 414 undated Perry, Beatrice Weir: Memorium; diagram 12 415 undated Perry, Edith Weir; lock of hair 12 416 1932 Apr 14 Perry, James DeWolf (father): Biographical 12 417 1928 Perry, James DeWolf (father): Biography 12 418 1927 Apr 12-1927 Jul 27 Perry, James DeWolf (father): Condolence of death of 12 419 1926 Apr 7-1926 Apr 11 Perry Monument; correspondence 12 420 1919 Aug 26-1934 Jan 2 Philippine Missions; correspondence 12 421 1926 Philippine Missions; report 12 422 1925 Jan 26-1925 Jan 28 Philippine Missions: Committee on Sagada; correspondence 12 423 1924 Nov 2 Philippine Missions: Committee on Sagada; report 12 424 1946 The Pilgrims of the U. S.: Correspondence with Winston Churchill, dinner in his honor 12 425 1931, 1936, 1937, 1941 Pilgrims of the U. S.; dinner programs 12 426 undated Placement of Clergy: Changes in Canons 12 427 1933 Sep 18-1933 Nov 28 Placement of Clergy; correspondence 12 428 1933 Mar 2-1933 Nov 3 Placement of Clergy; memoranda 12 429 1932 Placement of Clergy; miscellaneous notes 12 430 1932 Oct Placement of Clergy; statement by the Bishop of Texas 12 431 1934, 1937 Presiding Bishop: Status and Work of 12 432 1930 Presiding Bishop: Congratulatory letters A-B 12 433 1930 Presiding Bishop: Congratulatory letters C-D 12 434 1930 Presiding Bishop: Congratulatory letters E-J 12 435 1930 Presiding Bishop: Congratulatory letters K-N 12 436 1930 Presiding Bishop: Congratulatory letters O-R 12 437 1930 Presiding Bishop: Congratulatory letters S 12 438 1930 Presiding Bishop: Congratulatory letters T-Y 12 439 1930 Presiding Bishop: Congratulatory letters unidentified 12 440 1930 Presiding Bishop: Congratulatory letters lists 13 441 1930 Presiding Bishop; printed material 13 442 1930 Presiding Bishop; printed material 13 443 1930 Presiding Bishop; testimonial scrapbook from Churchman's Club, R.I. (see oversize box 1) 13 444 1931 Presiding Bishop: Congratulatory letters 13 445 1937-1938 Presiding Bishop: Resignation; letters B-J 13 446 1937-1938 Presiding Bishop: Resignation; letters K-Q 13 447 1937-1938 Presiding Bishop: Resignation; letters R-W 13 448 1937-1938 Presiding Bishop: Resignation; letters unidentified 13 449 1937 Nov 8-1937 Nov 13 Presiding Bishop: Resignation; resolutions 13 450 1921 Sep 6 Presiding Bishop and Council; letter 13 451 1921 Dec 16 Presiding Bishop and Council; minutes 13 452 undated Presiding Bishop and Council: Dept. of Publicity and Finance; memorandum 13 453 1921 Presiding Bishop: Location of Office; reports 13 454 1927 Jun 13 Preston, Charles E.: Reinstatement to Church; letter 13 455 undated Printed Material: Miscellaneous 13 456 undated Printed Material: Miscellaneous 13 457 undated Process of Redemption (notes) 13 458 1922 Apr 9-1922 Apr 17 Prohibition Sermon; correspondence 13 459 undated Province Financing: memoranda of conference 13 460 undated Province of New England; report to National Council 13 461 1923? Province of Rhode Island; report to National Council 13 462 undated Provincial Organization 13 463 1931 Jan 28-1933 Jan 3 Quota--Diocese Contributions to National Council; correspondence 13 464 undated Quota-Diocese Contributions to National Council; printed material 13 465 1931 Radio Broadcast; letters of appreciation 13 466 1920 Dec Reath, Thomas R.: Navy Cross citation and biographical note 13 467 1919-1924 Recommendation letters 13 468 undated Recruiting for the Ministry; plans 13 469 1933 Jul 6-1933 Oct 3 Reed, Rev. W. J., Liberia; correspondence 13 470 1895 Aug 28 Requests to Serve as Rector, Springfield 13 471 1897 Jun 13 Requests to Serve as Rector, St John's, Worcester, Mass. 13 472 1900 Feb 23 Requests to Serve as Rector, St Luke's, Jamestown, N.Y. 13 473 2000 Nov 5 Requests to Serve as Rector, Christ Church, Indianapolis 13 474 1897 Jun 8 Requests to Serve as Rector, Groton School, Groton, Conn. 13 475 2003 Mar 31 Requests to Serve as Rector, St Luke's, Philadelphia 13 476 1897, 1899, 1903 Requests to Serve as Rector, Christ Church, Fitchburg, Mass. 13 477 1904, 1909 Requests to Serve as Rector, St Paul's, New Haven, Conn. 13 478 1899 Requests to Serve as Rector, Grace Church, New Bedford, Mass. 13 479 1909 Nov 10-1909 Nov 24 Requests to Serve as Rector, Grace Church, Providence 14 480 1937 Returns from Letter to Communicants; list 14 481 1939 Sep 21 Rhinelander, Philip: Eulogy 14 482 1936 Rhode Island Tercentenary; preliminary statement 14 483 1931 May 26 Rhodes, Lloyd Dexter: Transfer of Diocese 14 484 undated Rhymes of a Bishop (of, by, & for Perry) 14 485 1934 May 24 Richmond, George Chalmers: Trial. Answer of Perry to Charges by Richmond 14 486 1927 May 2-1932 Nov 7 Richmond, George Chalmers: Trial. Correspondence 14 487 1932 Nov 11-1935 Dec 11 Richmond, George Chalmers: Trial. Correspondence 14 488 1929 Dec 31-1932 Nov 29 Richmond, George Chalmers: Trial Correspondence (evidentiary copies, from Archbishop of Canterbury) 14 489 1935 Nov 20 Richmond, George Chalmers: Trial. Date of Hearing 14 490 undated Richmond, George Chalmers: Trial. Notes 14 491 1934 Feb 16 Richmond, George Chalmers: Trial. Notice of Appearance 14 492 undated Richmond, George Chalmers: Trial. Plaintiff's Exhibits and list 14 493 1926 Oct 2 Rousmaniere, Edmund S.: Eulogy 14 494 1935 Rumanian Commission on Relations with the Anglican Communion; report 14 495 1930 Apr 11-1930 Apr 15 Rural Work; correspondence 14 496 1921? Russian Relief & Reconstruction Fund 14 497 1925 Jan 1-1925 Jan 5 Saint Andrew's School; correspondence: D. A. Pierce 14 498 undated St. Andrew's School; printed material 14 499 1923, 1924 St. Andrew's School: Revision of By-Laws; printed material, correspondence 14 500 1925 Jun 22-1925 Aug 21 St. Barnabas' Church; letters 14 501 1926 Jun 12 St. George's Church: Consecration 14 502 1924-1925 St. George's Church; correspondence 14 503 undated St. George's Church; photograph 14 504 undated St. George's School; correspondence, D-S 14 505 1924 Jun 16-1924 Jun 26 St. George's School: Vincent Astor, gift; correspondence 14 506 1924 Jan 3-1924 Apr 16 St. George's School: John Nicholas Brown, gift; agreement, minutes of meeting 14 507 1923 Dec 20-1924 Jun 16 St. George's School: John Nicholas Brown, gift; correspondence 14 508 1917 Jul 30-1926 Feb 20 St. George's School: Stephen P. Cabot, Headmaster; correspondence 14 509 1916 Apr 11-1916 Jun 13 St. George's School: John B. Diman, Headmaster; correspondence 14 510 1921 Dec 30-1924 Mar 10 St. George's School: James H. S. Fair, Chaplain; correspondence 14 511 1924 Mar 11-1927 Nov 1 St. George's School: Russell H. Nevins, Headmaster; correspondence 14 512 1916 Aug 3-1916 Sep 21 St. George's School: Remsen B. Ogilby; correspondence 14 513 1920 Oct 18-1926 Feb 27 St. George's School: Edward Sturtevant; correspondence 14 514 1921 Jan 12-1921 Feb 22 St. George's School: Chaplain Search: Sam Shoemaker; correspondence 14 515 undated St. George's School: Headmaster Search: Recommendations; correspondence, A-J 15 516 undated St. George's School: Headmaster Search: Recommendations; correspondence, M-Z 15 517 1926 Feb 18-1927 Oct 1 St. George's School: Headmaster Search: correspondence, general 15 518 1924 Feb 1-1927 Sep 28 St. George's School: Headmaster Search: Arthur Lee Kinsolving; correspondence 15 519 1925 Dec 23-1926 Apr 29 St. George's School: Headmaster Search: Albert Lucas; correspondence 15 520 1927 Mar 5-1927 Mar 16, undated St. George's School: Headmaster Search: Oscar Randolph; correspondence 15 521 1926 Feb 25-1926 Mar 9 St. George's School: Headmaster Search: Henry St. George Tucker; correspondence 15 522 1926 Mar 9-1927 Jan 28 St. George's School: Headmaster Search: Alexander Zabriskie; correspondence 15 523 1921-1923 St. George's School: financial reports 15 524 1921-1922 St. George's School: Headmaster's report 15 525 1916-1926, undated St. George's School: minutes of meetings 15 526 undated St. George's School: miscellaneous 15 527 undated St. George's School: photographs (see oversize box 1) 15 528 undated St. George's School: plans 15 529 undated St. George's School: printed material 15 530 1941 Aug 3 St. Hubert's Church, Wyoming: Consecration; program 15 531 1928 Jun 6 St. John's Cathedral; letter 15 532 1921 St. John's Church: Sarah Webster, Deed of Gift 15 533 1922 Jan 4-1922 May 29 St. John's Church: Sarah Webster, Deed of Gift to St. John's, Newport; correspondence 15 534 1921-1922 St. John's, Newport: H. F. Webster's Quarrel with Rev. J. Hamlin 15 535 1922-1927 St. John's Parish; miscellaneous 15 536 1927 St. John's Record 15 537 undated St. Luke's Church, Pawtucket; plans 15 538 1932 Jan 27 St. Luke's Church, Providence: 12th Anniversary; order of service 15 539 1920? St. martin's Church; letter 15 540 1921 Mar 14 St. Mary's church, East Providence; letter 15 541 1920 St. Mary's Church, East Providence; report, anniversary 15 542 1911, 1916 St. Mary's Church, South Portsmouth: Brief Record of (2 texts: 1 carbon, 1 printed by Merrymount Press, different matter) 15 543 1925, 1926 Sep 16-1926 Sep 30 St. Mary's Church, Warwick Neck; correspondence, printed material 15 544 1916, 1918, 1919 St. Mary's Estates, Portsmouth; annual reports 15 545 1916, 1923-1927 St. Mary's Estates, Portsmouth; correspondence, AS 15 546 1922 Oct 11-1924 Oct 11 St. Mary's Estates, Portsmouth; correspondence: John T. Delano 15 547 1916 Nov 5-1923 Feb 12 St. Mary's Estates, Portsmouth; correspondence: Frank T. Easton 15 548 1916 Apr 22-1926 Jul 30 St. Mary's Estates, Portsmouth; correspondence: LeRoy King 15 549 1923 Apr 13-1923 Sep 29 St. Mary's Estates, Portsmouth; correspondence: Lewis Cass Ledyard 16 550 1922 Dec 19-1926 Aug 3 St. Mary's Estates, Portsmouth; correspondence: William Vanderbilt 16 551 1923 St. Mary's Estates, Portsmouth; invoices 16 552 undated St. Mary's Estates, Portsmouth; list 16 553 undated St. Mary's Estates, Portsmouth; photograph 16 554 1915 Sep 25 St. Marys Estates, Portsmouth; report 16 555 1916-1918, 1921-1923 St. Mary's Estates, Portsmouth; treasurer's reports 16 556 1931 Nov 11-1931 Nov 16 St. Mary's Japanese Mission, Los Angeles: correspondence, printed matter, photograph 16 557 undated St. Mary's Orphanage, East Providence; committee list 16 558 1919-1926 St. Mary's Orphanage, East Providence; correspondence 16 559 1919 Dec 10-1919 Dec 30 St. Mary's Orphanage, East Providence; Virginia Barret Gibbs Bequest 16 560 1926 Feb 3-1926 Jun 9 St. Mary's Orphanage, East Providence; Virginia Gibbs; court notices 16 561 undated St. Mary's Orphanage, East Providence; photographs 16 562 undated St. Michael's Church; letter 16 563 undated St. Paul's Mission Chapel, Providence; miscellaneous 16 564 undated St. Paul's Parish: Perry's vacation 16 565 1917, 1919, 1924 St. Stephen's, Providence; correspondence 16 566 1946 Apr 30 Scaife, Lauriston L.: Installation, Calvary Parish, Pittsburgh; letter 16 567 undated Scandinavian Christians, Concordat with the Episcopal Church 16 568 1924 Jul 22 Schnorrenberg, Rudolph H.: Transfer; letter 16 569 1920 Oct 20-1921 Jun 20 Scovil, Charles B.: Engagement to Eleanor Pantaenius; correspondence 16 570 1921-1922 Scovil, Charles B.: Payment to Creditors; correspondence 16 571 1928? Seabury Memorial; miscellaneous 16 572 1920 Seamen's Church Institute; annual report 16 573 1925, 1932 Seamen's Church Institute of Newport; correspondence 16 574 1925, 1926 Seamen's Church Institute; minutes 16 575 1924-1926 Seamen's Church Institute; treasurer's reports 16 576 1921 Shipman, Herbert: Election as Bishop of New York 16 577 1920, 1921 Silent Mission, R.I.; annual reports 16 578 1926 Skiddy, William,"Treasurer of Episcopal Church," Respondent against William Montgomery Brown, deposed priest; court brief 16 579 1931 Jun 21-1931 Jul 3 Smith, John: Commemorative Service; correspondence and program 16 580 1926 Jun 7-1926 Jul 14 Socialism in the Church; letters 16 581 1925-1926 Socialism in the Church; printed material 16 582 undated Society for the Promotion of Evangelical Knowledge; statement 16 583 1896, 1927 Society of the Cincinnati; Annual Commemorative Dinners 16 584 1921 Aug 21-1939? Society of the Cincinnati; correspondence 16 585 1939 Apr 30 Society of the Cincinnati; invitation 16 586 undated Society of the Cincinnati; printed matter 16 587 undated Society of the Cincinnati; Resolution--Commendation to George Thurber Spicer 16 588 1920-1922, 1926-1928 Society of the Cincinnati; rosters 16 589 undated Springfield, Mass.: Christ Church Cathedral 16 590 1921 Apr 26? Squirrel Inn: report on use of income 16 591 1931 Standard Book of Common Prayer; letters from foreign bishops thanking Perry 16 592 1919 Oct 28-1919 Dec 6 Stewart/Rogers Dispute; correspondence 16 593 1922 Apr 12-1923 Apr 23 Stryker, Mason Campbell: Suspension from Ministry; correspondence 16 594 1922 Apr 25, 1922 May 2 Stryker, Mason Campbell: Suspension from Ministry; notices 17 595 1919 Mar 12-1919 Apr 9 Sunday Baseball Bill; letters 17 596 1926 Feb 2-1926 Nov 26 Surma Khanim ("Lady Surma"): Visit to America; correspondence 17 597 1943 Jun 12 Tasker, Everett John; divorce decree 17 x-ref undated x-ref Temple, William. See: Archbishop of Canterbury, of York 17 598 1921 Jan 8 Thiebaud, Charles; letter of recommendation 17 599 1925 Jul 13 Timperley, Frank; biographical outline 17 600 1916-1919 Tootoonji, Cyril: Property in Central Falls, Syrian Church; correspondence 17 601 1915-1916 Tootoonji, Cyril; statement of account 17 602 1935? Torok, Bishop John: Brief by Bishop Wilson (complete?) 17 603 undated Torok, Bishop John: Brief by Bishop Frank E. Wilson (incomplete) 17 604 undated Torok, Bishop John: Brief by Bishop Frank E. Wilson (incomplete) 17 605 1934 Jan 15-1943 Oct 30 Torok, John; correspondence 17 606 1944 Feb 10-1955 Nov 9 Torok, John; correspondence 17 607 1955 Torok, John; obituary 17 608 undated Transfer Letter; blank 17 609 1932 Jan 14-1932 Feb 18 Travel Arrangements, Europe; correspondence 17 610 1933 Jul 21 Travel Arrangements; letter 17 611 undated Trinity Church, Pawtuxet; history 17 612 undated Trunk Contents (Perry's trunk); list 17 613 1946 Apr 24-1946 Nov 26 Union of Episcopal and Presbyterian Churches; correspondence 17 614 1946 Union of Episcopal and Presbyterian Churches; miscellaneous 17 615 1946 Aug 12 Union of Episcopal and Presbyterian Churches; report 17 616 1932 May 11, 1932 May 27 Universal Christian Council for Life and Work, American Section; letter, agenda 17 617 1931 Oct 8 Universal Christian Council for Life and Work; newsletter 18 618 undated Universal Christian Council for Life and Work; printed material 18 619 1925 Universal Christian Conference on Life and Work, Stockholm; reports 18 620 1925 Aug 20-1925 Aug 28 Universal Christian Conference on Life and Work; Daily Bulletin 18 621 1937 Jan 23 University of Pennsylvania: Alumni Award of Merit; certificate (see oversize box 2) 18 622 1931 University of Pennsylvania: Commemorative of George Washington 18 623 1940 University of Pennsylvania: Bicentennial 18 624 1890? University of Pennsylvania; miscellaneous items from Perry's college years 18 625 1888, 1889, 1891 University of Pennsylvania; Perry's grade reports 19 626 1921 Unknown Soldier Tomb; miscellaneous 19 627 1942 Apr 29 Vaccination Certificates (Perry's) 19 628 undated Verses; miscellaneous 19 629 1923, 1925 Visas 19 630 1926 Washington Cathedral: Campaign Budget Proposal 19 631 1923 Washington Cathedral: Charter and Constitution 19 632 1925 Washington Cathedral: Contribution Reports 19 633 1921-1928 Washington Cathedral; correspondence 19 634 1925 Washington Cathedral: History; minutes 19 635 undated Washington Cathedral; memorandum 19 636 1924 May 7 Washington Cathedral; Passbook 19 637 undated Washington Cathedral; printed material 19 638 1919-1920 Watch and Ward Society; annual report 19 639 1922 Jan 19-1922 Feb 24 Watch and Ward Society; correspondence 19 640 1921 Feb 11-1921 Feb 14 Weir, Millie E.: Recommendation; correspondence, form blank 19 641 1925, 1926 Wine Procurement; applications 19 642 1924 Jan 22-1925 Jul 8 Winter, Haywood L.: Discretionary Funds Payments; correspondence 19 643 1918 Oct 21-1918 Nov 13 Women's Auxiliary to the Board of Missions; letters 19 644 1927 Nov 29-1930, undated Women's Auxiliary to the National Council; bulletin, letter, pamphlet 19 645 1921, 1924 Jun 10 Wood, Arthur; school record, term. bill 19 646 1924 Dec 20-1925 Jan 30 Woodland Granite & Marble Works; contract 19 647 1938 Dec 1 Woolf, Hiram Gruber; letter dimissory 19 648 1923, 1924 World Conference on Faith and Order; budget reports 19 649 1925? World Conference on Faith and Order; circular 19 650 1923 Jan 30-1946 Oct 2 World Conference on Faith and Order; correspondence, B-G 19 651 1923 Feb-1941 Aug 22 World Conference an Faith and Order; correspondence, L-Z 10 19 652 1825, 1922-1923 World Conference on Faith and Order 19 653 1925 Dec 11, undated World Conference on Faith and Order; memoranda 19 654 1922 Oct 11-1923 Dec 6 World Conference on Faith and Order; minutes of meetings 19 655 1924 Feb 21-1940 Jun 20 World Conference on Faith and Order; minutes of meetings 19 656 undated World Conference on Faith and order; miscellaneous 19 657 undated World Conference on Faith and Order; miscellaneous 19 658 undated World Conference on Faith and Order; printed material 19 659 1924-1926 World Conference on Faith and Order; reports 20 660 undated World Congress of Faiths; printed material 20 661 1938 Mar 30-1938 May 18 World Council of Churches; correspondence 20 662 undated World Council of Churches; miscellaneous 20 663 1938 World Council of Churches; reports 20 664 1938 World Council of Churches; memoranda 20 665 undated World Peace Movement: Memorial of Premier Tanaka, or A Japanese Secret Design for the Conquest of China 21 666 blank blank 21 667 1918-1919 World War I; correspondence, A-C 21 668 1918-1919 World War I; correspondence, D-P 21 669 1918-1919 World War I; correspondence, R-W and unidentified 21 670 1918 Oct-1919 Feb World War I; correspondence; letter copy book (Perry's) 21 671 1918 Jul 15 World War K Education in the Army; letter and report 21 672 1918 Jul 7-1919 Feb 9 World War I; letters of introduction (for Perry) 21 673 undated World War I: Divisions of Units in France; map 21 674 1919 World War I: Memorials to Soldiers 21 675 1916 Sep 6 World War I: Military Instruction Camp; certificate of completion 21 676 undated World War I; miscellaneous 21 677 1919 Jan 2 World War I: Paris Peace Conference; appointment of Perry to commission 21 678 1918 Oct 31 World War I: Red Cross Chaplain Commission as deputy commissioner--Major (see oversize box 2) 21 679 1918 Apr 18-1919 Mar 31 World War I: Red Cross Chaplains; correspondence 21 680 1927 Jun 10-1927 Jun 22, undated World War I: Red Cross Chaplains--Chaplain Dickens, correspondence 21 681 1918 Dec 21-1921 Sep 19 World War K Red Cross Chaplains--Edward H. Earle, correspondence 21 682 1918 Oct 23, undated World War I: Red Cross Chaplains; lists 21 683 undated World War I: Red Cross Chaplains; list 21 684 1925 Jun 1-1925 Jul 20 World War I: Red Cross Chaplains: Chaplain Matthews, correspondence 21 685 undated World War I: Red Cross Chaplains; memos, notes, miscellaneous 21 686 1919 Feb 19 World War I: Red Cross Insurance 21 687 undated World War I: Rhode Island Churchmen in Military and Naval Service; list 21 688 1918 Dec 25 World War I: Rhode Island Men Deceased 21 689 1916 Aug 10-1916 Sep 8 World War I: Roster of 8th and 9th Regiments 21 690 1919 World War I: Search for Missing Soldiers 21 691 1918 Oct 28 World War I: Senior Chaplain's Office: Weekly Bulletin 21 692 1918-1919 World War I: Travel Permits 21 693 1918 Dec 6-1919 Jan 15 World War I: War Commission, Overseas Fund letters 21 694 1919 World War I: War Commission Report 21 695 1919 Mar 11 World War I: Welcome to Bishop Perry back to Rhode Island (see oversize box 1) 21 696 1921 Nov 1-1921 Nov 17 Wyckoff, H. C.: ''Missionary Journey"; correspondence Series 8 1-2 1-44 The Lambeth Conference1920, 1930

This series consists of materials accumulated by Bishop Perry while attending two Lambeth Conferences (1920 and 1930) in England. The Lambeth Conference is a gathering of Episcopal and Anglican bishops and archbishops from throughout the world for the discussion of various issues (e. g., birth control, church relations with non-Anglican churches, the role and position of women within the church, etc.) and a resolution of the church's official position in relation to them. The series is divided into two subseries, one for each conference that Bishop Perry attended. Within each subseries the material is arranged alphabetically by subject or type of material. There is one folder appearing at the end of the series containing miscellaneous mimeographed material with no discernible date. The material contained within each subseries consists of general information, lists of bishops attending, various orders of services, reports and resolutions of committees, correspondence (1930), a printed report (1920) of the conference, invitations (1930), newspaper clippings (1930), photographs, etc. See further material in the Clippings series.

 1 1 1925 Jan 15-1926 Jun 28 Consultative Body; correspondence 1 2 1934, 1937, 1946 Consultative Body; minutes of meetings 1 3 undated Consultative Body; miscellaneous 1 4 undated Miscellaneous Mimeographed Material 1 5 1920 General Information: Rules of Debate 1 6 1920 List of Committees 1 7 1920 Lists of Bishops expected to attend 1 8 1920 Memoranda; miscellaneous 1 9 1920 Notes by Bishop Perry: Interview with Deaconess (Hawkin?) on role of deaconess in the church 1 10 1920 Orders of Service 1 11 1920 Photographs (also see oversize box 1) 1 12 1920 Relation to Non-Episcopal Churches: a Digest and Report 1 13 1920 Report of the Lambeth Conference 1 14 1920 Reports and Resolutions of Committees 1 15 1930 Aberdeen Conference Papers and Memorandum 1 16 1930 Mar-1930 Apr The Church at Work: Article on Conference 1 17 1930 Committee Appointments 1 18 1929 Mar-1930 Dec 5, undated Correspondence 1 19 1930 General Information: Rules of Debate at Lambeth Palace 1 20 1930 Guest Lists, Seating Plans, Programs 1 21 1930 History of Anglican Communion 1 22 1930, undated Invitations 1 23 1936 ''The Lambeth Conference": from the Official Yearbook of the Church of England 1 24 1930 List of Archbishops and Bishops expected to attend 2 25 1930 List of Committees 2 26 1930 List of Contents of Envelope for Lambeth 2 27 1930 Dec 27, 1931 Jan 31 The Living Church; articles on Lambeth 2 28 1930 Memorandum: Registration of Schools in China 2 29 1930 Jun 11-1930 Jun 16 Minutes of Meetings: Mission to the Assyrians, Iraq Minorities 2 30 1930 Miscellaneous 2 31 1930 Newspaper Clippings: Lambeth conference 2 32 1930 Newspaper Clippings: miscellaneous 2 33 1930 Notes by Bishop Perry 2 34 1930 Notices 2 35 1930 Orders of Service 2 36 1930 Petition from Parishioners of Truro 2 37 1930, undated Photographs: Clergy in Procession 2 38 1930 Reports of Committees 2 39 1930 Seventh Lambeth Conference 2 40 1930 Aug The Spirit of Missions; article on Lambeth Conference 2 41 1934 Mar 6-1934 Mar 24 Correspondence 2 42 1940 Notes by Bishop Perry 2 43 1948 Resolutions and Reports 2 44 1958 Resolutions and Reports Series 9 1-6 1-115 Oriental Journey1933-1936

This series consists of the personal materials of Bishop Perry accumulated during his trip to the Orient, in 1933. The purpose of Perry's trip was to visit various American Episcopal missions in China, Japan, and the Philippine Islands, in his official capacity as primate and Presiding Bishop of the American Episcopal Church. Some of the more important scheduled events of the trip were the dedication and opening of Saint Luke's International Medical Center and a visit to Saint Paul's University in Tokyo. Included in his trip was a brief stopover in Hawaii, where he met with various clergy and visited several churches. The official papers dealing with the Oriental journey are the property of the Episcopal Church Mission House and are located (at least as recently as 1946) at 281 Fourth Ave., New York City.

Included in this series are the itinerary of the trip and a typewritten diary kept daily by Bishop Perry. In addition to the diary is a handwritten journal of the journey consisting of individual entries spaced several days apart, and containing material different from that appearing in the diary. There are also letters of introduction and addresses of welcome to Bishop Perry, as well as speeches made by him to various groups.

Of particular interest in this series are the newspaper clippings and articles dealing with the anniversary celebration of Commodore Matthew Perry's arrival in Japan. Commodore Perry was Bishop Perry's great-uncle. The articles deal with Bishop Perry's presentation to the Imperial Household Museum of a lithograph of Commodore Perry's landing; the unveiling and dedication by Bishop Perry of a statue of Commodore Perry in Yokohama; and the presentation to Bishop Perry of a manuscript account (later stolen) of the arrival of Commodore Perry's fleet. Also of interest are the various photographs taken in Japan, China, and the Philippine Islands, including two photograph albums with captions.

Bishop Perry collected many mementos, mostly from Japan, which include several original paintings on silk (and an embroidery done on silk), a cloth carp wind banner, letters written in Japanese, a wooden postcard, a birch bark bookmark with pressed flowers, and miscellaneous postcards. Several of the newspapers and clippings in the series are written in Japanese, many articles being accompanied by typewritten English translations. There are numerous tour guides and pamphlets written in Japanese.

The series is arranged alphabetically by subject or type of material, and by language and/or country within each subject or type.

 1 1 1933 Addresses of Welcome to Bishop & Mrs. Perry 1 2 1933 Auxiliary Program Sheet: Diocese of Anking; topic is Moses, written in Chinese 1 3 undated Blank Paper in folder with Japanese characters 1 4 undated Blank Paper with tie 1 5 undated Bookmark (birchbark?) with pressed flowers 1 6 1933, undated Cables and Telegrams 1 7 1934 Calendar with Pictures 1 8 undated Calling cards: Japanese and English 1 9 undated Chronicles, Newsletters (in English); miscellaneous, from Philippines, China, Hawaii, New York 1 10 1933 May 31 Commodore Perry's Arrival; presentation of account to Perry; newsclipping 1 11 1933 Cloth Carp Wind Banner 1 12 1933 Jan 9-1933 May 27 Correspondence 1 13 1933 Jun 2-1936 Jun 24 Correspondence 1 14 1933 Correspondence in Japanese 1 15 1933 Mar 3-1933 Jun 9 Diary 1 16 1933, 1934, 1937 Dinner Programs and Menus 1 17 undated Embroidery on Silk (see oversize box 1) 1 18 undated Garden Project: Proposal for the creation of Japanese garden on Hackensack River 1 19 undated Gift cards, place cards 1 20 undated Guide (pocket) to Japan, Japanese Tourist Bureau (in English) 1 21 undated Guides to Japan (2) in Japanese 1 22 undated Invitations 1 23 undated Invoices and Receipts, Laundry list 1 24 1933 Feb 25-1933 Jun 19 Itinerary of Oriental Trip 2 25 1934 "Landing of Commodore Perry .. "; lithograph donated by Perry; correspondence 2 26 1934 Sep 1-1934 Sep 29 "Landing of Commodore Perry ... "; exhibition of paintings; listing 2 27 1934 Aug 8 "Landing of Commodore Perry .. "; newspaper clippings and translations 2 28 1933 Letters of Introduction 2 29 undated Map of Japan (in English) 2 30 undated Map of Japan (Japanese); principal points of interest 2 31 undated Memorandum: Perry's reception by Emperor of Japan 2 32 undated Message (in Japanese) on cake, with English translation 2 33 undated Miscellaneous: Japanese lettered 2 34 undated Miscellaneous notes by Bishop Perry 2 35 undated Miscellaneous printed material 2 36 undated Mission Staff and Clergy, Kyoto list 2 37 1933 Newspaper clippings (in English) 2 38 1934 May 12 Newspaper clippings (in English): "black ship" celebration, Commodore Perry; The Japan Advertiser 2 39 undated Newspaper clippings (in English); miscellaneous, with picture of Perry 2 40 1933 Jul-1933 Sep Newspaper clippings (in English) 2 41 undated News magazine, Japanese 2 42 1933 Jun 2 Newspapers and clippings (in English) 2 43 1933 Feb 1-1933 May 21 Newspapers (in English) 3 44 1934, 1936 Newspapers (in English) 3 45 1933 Feb 15 Newspapers (in English): issue on Japan 3 46 1945 Sep 9 Newspapers (in English): "In Tokyo Bay" 3 47 undated Newspapers and clippings (Japanese) 3 48 1946 Officials Papers of oriental Trip; location 3 49 undated Painting on Silk: Bird 3 50 undated Painting on Silk: Bird, inscribed 3 51 undated Painting on Silk: Floral 3 52 undated Painting on Silk: Hill and Sun 3 53 undated Painting on Silk: Man on Raft, inscribed 3 54 undated Painting on Silk: Mountain and Tree 3 55 undated Painting on Silk: Ship and Mountains, inscribed 3 56 undated Painting on Silk: Woman 3 57 1933 Pamphlet (Japanese) with Perry's picture 3 58 undated Paper with Japanese characters, and tie 3 59 1933 May 17, 1933 Jun 1 Perry Monument: Interview with Bishop Perry; clippings and translations 3 60 undated Perry Monument: Interview, photograph with Japanese lettering 4 61 1932/1933 Photograph Album: Kusatsu (captions type written & in Japanese characters on facing page) 4 62 1933 May 23-1933 May 29 Photograph Album: Kyoto 4 63 1933 Photographs: China--Perry with clergy 4 64 1933 Photographs: China--Church and school 4 65 1932 Oct Photographs: China--Diocesan Synod, Wuhu 4 66 1926 Photographs: China--Bishop of Shanghai 4 67 1933 Mar 25 Photographs: China--Consecration, Shanghai 5 68 1933 Apr 10 Photographs: China--Kiangsu Diocese 5 69 1933 Apr 8 Photographs: China--Synod of 1933 5 70 1933 Photographs: China--Wuhu; Perry and Mrs.Perry with clergy 5 71 1933 Photographs: China--children in uniform 5 72 1933 Photographs: Hong Kong--Perrys with Bishop Hall, Miss Woo, in front of cathedral 5 73 1933 Photographs: Hong Kong--views of harbor, day and night 5 74 1933 Photographs: Japan--Perry with clergy 5 75 1933 Photographs: Japan--churches and religious statues 5 76 1933 Photographs: Japan--clergy 5 77 1933 May 22 Photographs: Japan--dinner table at Fleishers 5 78 1933 Photographs: Japan--Joseph T. Grew, U. S. Ambassador (inscribed) 5 79 undated Photographs: Japan--people in front of church (see oversize box 1) 5 80 undated Photographs: Japan--natives & scenic views 5 81 undated Photograph: Japan--school room (see oversize box 1) 5 82 undated Photographs, negatives; unidentified 5 83 1933 Photographs: Philippine Islands--Bishop & Mrs. Perry with natives and clergy 5 84 undated Photographs: Philippine Islands--church buildings, clergy, schools, religious statues 5 85 undated Photographs: Philippine Islands--natives 5 86 undated Photographs: Philippine Islands--scenic views 5 87 1933 Photographs: Philippine Islands--unidentified: Perry with clergy, Q. 5 88 1933 Picture and message: the Perrys in Hawaii 5 89 undated Poem (Japanese), translated with note on back by Helen K. Shipp 5 90 undated Postcards: Hawaii--general views 6 91 undated Postcards: Japan--general views 6 92 undated Postcards: Japan--churches and homes 6 93 undated Postcards: Philippine Islands--general views 6 94 undated (Postcard?) wooden--picture of Japanese lady 6 95 1933 Poster of Welcome to Bishop Perry, St. Paul's, University, Tokyo; and typed translation 6 96 undated No Folder 96 6 97 1933 May 18 Presentation of Perry to the Emperor of Japan; newspaper articles & translations 6 98 undated Recipe from Mrs. T. P. Maslin 6 99 1929-1933 St. Barnabas: financial statistics 6 100 1933 St. Luke's International Medical Center; dedication of new buildings 6 101 undated Souvenirs: Description (in Japanese) 6 102 1933 Apr 20 Speech (unidentified) given in honor of Mrs. Perry in a church 6 103 1933 Speeches and messages by Bishop Perry 6 104 undated Tour Guides in English & Japanese 6 105 undated Tour Guide in Japanese (2 copies) 6 106 undated Tourist Pamphlets: the Bamboo Organ, a Short History of Daibutsu 6 107 undated Writing Tablet, hand painting design 6 108 1933 Writings: Diary of Trip 6 109 1933 Writings: Diary of Trip (carbon copy) 6 110 1933 Mar 3-1933 May 22 Writings: Journal of Trip (handwritten) 6 111 1933 Writings: Message from Bishop Perry in the Orient 6 112 undated Writings: Miscellaneous untitled notes 6 113 undated Writings: ''The Missionaries' (Burden?) of Life" (handwritten) 6 114 undated Writings (by Perry?) on Acts 1: 1 & 2 6 115 undated Writings--untitled, handwritten Series 10 1-2 1-32 Photographs1890?-1940?

This series consists of photographs accumulated by James DeWolf Perry during his lifetime. The photographs have been arranged alphabetically according to their subject. There are several photographs located in the "oversize" section of the collection.

Few photographs are included which deal with Bishop Perry's personal life. The majority of the photographs in this series deal with his activities as Bishop and his associations with other clergymen.

Of particular interest in this series is an autographed portrait of Gen. John J. Pershing dated 14 November 1920. Also, there are a large number of formal portraits of Bishop Perry taken throughout his career in the church, and there are numerous photographs of his regiment during his military service. Of note, also, are the photographs of other bishops and of Bishop Perry with other clergy. There are two groups of photographs taken during trips to Geneva and other places on the continent and to England.

 1 1 undated Artifacts, religious 1 2 undated Bishop Perry 1 3 undated Bishop Perry, formal portraits: in robes (roughly chronological) (also see oversize box 1) 1 4 undated Bishop Perry, formal portraits: not in robes 1 5 undated Bishop Perry, formal portraits: not in robes 1 6 undated Bishop Perry, formal portraits: not in robes (glass negatives) 1 7 undated Bishop Perry with clergy: in robes 1 8 undated Bishop Perry with clergy: not in robes 1 9 undated Bishop Perry with non-clergy 1 10 undated Cardinal Mercier: two portraits (also see oversize box 1) 1 11 undated Commemoration of Salisbury Cathedral (see oversize box 1) 1 12 undated England: Fulham Palace, Southampton 1 13 1942 Enthronement of Archbishop of Canterbury 1 14 1937 Episcopal General Convention, Cincinnati 1 15 1932 Apr 28 Honoring Rt. Rev. Perry: University of Pennsylvania Club of New York City 1 16 1916 Oct 11-1916 Oct 26 House of Bishops--General Convention, St. Louis 2 17 1947 Installation of Bishop Sherrill 2 18 1911? James Perry with friends 2 19 undated Military Service: James Perry, formal portraits in uniform (also see oversize box 1) 2 20 undated Military Service: James Perry, informal photographs 2 21 undated Miscellaneous places and unidentified people 2 22 undated Miscellaneous people 2 23 1932 Niobara Convocation: Bishop Perry and his private tent 2 24 undated Other Bishops 2 25 1920 Nov 14 Pershing, Gen. John J.; signed & inscribed 2 26 1946, undated Personal: Bishop and Mrs. Perry, Mrs. Perry with flowers (& John Nicholas Brown) 2 27 undated Personal: James Perry with family 2 28 undated Personal: Perry's house in Providence 2 29 1904 Trip to Continent and England 2 30 undated Trip to Geneva 2 31 undated University of Pennsylvania Class of 1891: reunion photographs (also see oversize box 1) 2 32 1929 Jun 24-1929 Jul 5 Wellesley Conference for Episcopal Church Workers Series 11 1-3 1-86 Clippings1876-1961

The Clippings series contains cuttings from newspapers and magazines (chiefly church magazines) concerning Bishop Perry, the activities in which he was involved, and to some extent other matters in which he was interested. There is a small amount of material also on members of his family, such as his father and some of his celebrated ancestors. The assignable dates run from 1876 to 1961, but the bulk of the clippings come from the period between the Bishop's consecration in 1911 and his death in 1947, concentrated most heavily in the period of his tenure as Presiding Bishop (1930-1937). They are arranged in three sub-series: 1) material by Perry, 2) material about Perry and his family, and 3) material in which the Bishop is not mentioned but concerning matters in which presumably he was interested.

 Sub-series 1 1 1-6 Articles by Bishop Perry1911-1946

The material by Perry contains the published texts in newspapers or church magazines of some of his sermons and addresses. Much of it duplicates or supplements material to be found in the series "Sermons and Addresses," but here the clippings are arranged chronologically instead of by text, title, or subject. Some of the more important subjects upon which there are texts include: his greeting to the church as Presiding Bishop (1930), the Niobara Meeting in South Dakota (1931), the Eucharist (1933), and the church in China (1934). The titles of some of his better known addresses, the texts of which are found here, are: The Christian Priesthood (1925), The Dawn of a New Era (1930), The Church and the World (1931), The Church's Vital Statistics (1931), A Call to the Church (1934), To World at the Crisis (the Convention Sermon of 1934), The Duty of the Christian Ministry (1935), Building the Church of the Future (his valedictory sermon, 1937), Bread in the Wilderness (given at York Minster, 1937), Sixty Years of Approaches to Unity (1938), England Calling (1942), England and Canterbury (1942), Ecclesiastical Relations (1943), and Catholic Action Means Giving (1945). Also present is Ms. Edith Weir Perry's paper on Deaconesses, entitled Set Apart (1939).

 1 1 1911-1925 Articles by Bishop Perry 1 2 1930-1932 Articles by Bishop Perry 1 3 1933-1934 Articles by Bishop Perry 1 4 1935-1937 Articles by Bishop Perry 1 5 1938-1946 Articles by Bishop Perry 1 6 undated Articles by Bishop Perry Sub-series 2 1-2 7-52 Articles about Bishop Perry1876-1961

The material about Bishop Perry is also arranged chronologically. The events of his career about which there are significant amounts of press coverage include the following: his call to St. Paul's New Haven (1904) and his attack on New Haven saloons (1906); his marriage to Mrs. Perry (1908); his election and consecration to the diocese of Rhode Island (1910-1911); the military training camp at Plattsburgh (1916) and his experiences in France during World War 1 (1918-1919); his reports on the Universal Conference on Life and Work in Stockholm (1925) and the World Conference on Faith and Order in Lausanne (1927); his election as Presiding Bishop (1930); his part in the Lambeth Conference and journey to Aberdeen (1930); the controversy over his reply to the Pope's encyclical on unity (1932); his Oriental journey (1933); his appearance on Time magazine's cover (1934); the 25th and 35th anniversaries of his consecration (1936, 1946); DeWolf Perry's ordination (1936); the election of Tucker to succeed Perry (1937); Perry's return from the World Council of Churches in Utrecht (1938) and from a tour of the European churches (1939); his part in the consecration of the Archbishop of Canterbury (1942); Perry's retirement (1946) and his death and funeral (1947); and the erection of a cross in his memory in the National Cathedral in Washington (1956). In addition, there are many news photos, and many news reports of the Bishop's sermons and addresses the texts of which are not reproduced in full.

 1 7 1876 Jul 8-1899 Apr 1 Articles about Bishop Perry 1 8 1904 May 7-1908 Jan 2 Articles about Bishop Perry 1 9 1910 Sep 22-1910 Dec Articles about Bishop Perry: Election to Diocese of Rhode Island 1 10 1911 Jan 7 Articles about Bishop Perry: Consecration as Bishop of R.I. 1 11 1911 Jan 6-1911 Oct 29 Articles about Bishop Perry 1 12 1913 Mar 29-1916 Oct 5 Articles about Bishop Perry 1 13 1918 Apr 1-1918 Nov 28 Articles about Bishop Perry 1 14 1919 Mar 4-1922 Sep 1 Articles about Bishop Perry 1 15 1923 Jan 27-1926 Mar 9 Articles about Bishop Perry 1 16 1927 Jan 25-1928 Nov 2 Articles about Bishop Perry 1 17 1929 Feb 18-1929 Dec 28 Articles about Bishop Perry 1 18 1930 Jan 4-1930 Mar 26 Articles about Bishop Perry 1 19 1930 Mar 27 Articles about Bishop Perry: Election as Presiding Bishop 1 20 1930 Mar 27 Articles about Bishop Perry: Election as Presiding Bishop 1 21 1930 Mar 28-1930 Mar 31 Articles about Bishop Perry: Election as Presiding Bishop 1 22 1930 Apr 1-1930 Apr 7 Articles about Bishop Perry 1 23 1930 Apr 9-1930 Apr 15 Articles about Bishop Perry 1 24 1930 May 2-1930 May 20 Articles about Bishop Perry 1 25 1930 Jul 23-1930 Nov 8 Articles about Bishop Perry 1 26 1931 Jan 15-1931 Sep 29 Articles about Bishop Perry 1 27 1932 Jan 11-1932 Feb 24 Articles about Bishop Perry: Controversy over Papal Encyclical 1 28 1932 Feb 24-1932 Oct 17 Articles about Bishop Perry 2 29 1933 Feb 2-1933 Nov 6 Articles about Bishop Perry 2 30 1934 Jan 21-1934 Dec 22 Articles about Bishop Perry: General Convention 2 31 1935 Jan 30-1935 Dec 28 Articles about Bishop Perry 2 32 1936 Jan 4-1936 Jan 7 Articles about Bishop Perry: Twenty-fifth Anniversary 2 33 1936 Jan 7-1936 Nov Articles about Bishop Perry 2 34 1937 Jan 14-1937 Aug 30 Articles about Bishop Perry 2 35 1937 Oct 1-1937 Oct 8 Articles about Bishop Perry: General Convention 2 36 1937 Oct 11-1937 Oct 19 Articles about Bishop Perry: General Convention 2 37 1937 Oct 23-1937 Dec 25 Articles about Bishop Perry 2 38 1938 Jan 1-1938 Nov 18 Articles about Bishop Perry 2 39 1939 Jan 13-1939 Oct 25 Articles about Bishop Perry 2 40 1940 Nov 10-1941 Dec 23 Articles about Bishop Perry 2 41 1942 Apr 18-1942 Dec Articles about Bishop Perry 2 42 1943 Jan 27-1945 Jan 28 Articles about Bishop Perry 2 43 1946 Jan 5-1946 Jan 13 Articles about Bishop Perry: Thirty-fifth Anniversary 2 44 1946 May 22-1946 Dec 29 Articles about Bishop Perry 2 45 1947 Jan 15-1947 Jan 26 Articles about Bishop Perry 2 46 1947 May 20 Articles about Bishop Perry: Death of Bishop Perry 2 47 1947 Mar 21 Articles about Bishop Perry: Death of Bishop Perry 2 48 1947 Mar 22-1947 Mar 24 Articles about Bishop Perry 2 49 1947 Mar 25 Articles about Bishop Perry: Funeral of Bishop Perry 2 50 1947 Mar 26-1947 Apr 7 Articles about Bishop Perry 2 51 1949 Feb 6-1961 Articles about Bishop Perry 2 52 undated Articles about Bishop Perry: Undated Sub-series 3 3 53-86 Subject Files1910-1946

The related material is arranged by subject. Some of it, such as the coverage of the General Conventions, concerns matters in which the Bishop was involved but is not directly mentioned in the press reports. In one case, however, the files concerning the trial of Samuel Neal Kent and the subsequent Court of Inquiry into the Navy's methods of investigation, the materials in which Perry figures prominently have been left in with the rest of it; more material on this subject is located in the Subject series.

 3 53 1934-1937 Archbishop/Presiding Bishop Question 3 54 undated Assyrians 3 55 1922 Bray, Rev. Ralph, in trouble 3 56 1922 Cincinnati, Society of the 3 57 1929 Flag Controversy 3 58 1928 General Convention 3 59 1934 General Convention 3 60 1934 General Convention 3 61 1934 General Convention 3 62 1934 General Convention 3 63 1937 General Convention 3 64 1919-1920 Kent Trial and Naval Inquiry 3 65 1919-1920 Kent Trial and Naval Inquiry 3 66 1919-1920 Kent Trial and Naval Inquiry 3 67 1919-1920 Kent Trial and Naval Inquiry 3 68 1917 Klaren, Rev. J. H. 3 69 1920 Lambeth Conference 3 70 1930 Lambeth Conference 3 71 1929, undated Lang, Cosmo Gordon, Archbishop of York, of Canterbury 3 72 1930 Marriage Canon Changes 3 73 1923 Modernism Controversy 3 74 1929 Murray, John Gardner, Presiding Bishop: Death of 3 75 1924 National Cathedral 3 76 1937 Palestinian Question 3 77 1923 Rathom, John (Providence Journal editor): Death of 3 78 undated Roman Catholicism 3 79 1923 St. Mary's Orphanage 3 80 1938, 1946 Unity Among Churches 3 81 1927 World Conference on Faith and order, Lausanne 3 82 1937 World Conference on Faith and order, Edinburgh 3 83 1937 World Conference on Faith and Order, Edinburgh 3 84 1937 World Conference on Faith and Order, Edinburgh 3 85 1910 World Missionary Conference, Edinburgh 3 86 1918-1923 World War One Series 12 Prayers and Collects1903-1945

This series contains a heterogeneous collection of pious pamphlets and brochures, several of which may have originated with Bishop Perry. One is a small black loose-leaf notebook containing typewritten prayers for special occasions. The remaining material consists of brief manuals and formularies of both lay and ecclesiastical prayers and intercessions for special occasions, people and seasons, war, orders of service, hymn lyrics, litanies (some for children), pious how-to pamphlets, and several edifying tracts. They are not arranged in any order.

Series 13 1 1-14 Memorabilia1901-1946

This series contains a collection of medals, insignias, and crosses awarded to or worn by Bishop Perry, resulting from his military services and his ecclesiastical offices; these include the French Legion of Honor, awarded in 1934. In addition, there are several other metal artifacts, such as calling card engraved plates, and two chipped amethysts bearing the arms of the diocese.

 1 1 1946 Calvary Church, Germantown, medal 1 2 1918 Church War Cross designed by Mrs. Perry 1 3 undated Engraved Plates for Social Cards 1 4 1936 Harvard Tercentenary Medal 1 5 1934 Legion of Honor, France 1 6 1901-1902 Military Insignia and Marksmanship Modal 1 7 1931 Niobara Cross 1 8 undated Pectoral Cross 1 9 1930?-1937? Presiding Bishop Bar 1 10 undated Ring Stones with Coat of Arms 1 11 1918? War Cross, Design Plate 1 12 1914-1918 World War I: Miscellaneous Medals and Church War Crosses 1 13 1918-1919 World War I: Chaplain and Red Cross Insignias, French Service Cross 1 14 1935-1938 Miscellaneous Medals and Crosses