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This collection contains letter press books holding the correspondence of the Board of Missions from 1820 to 1911. Correspondents include the Secretary of the Executive Committee (1820-1835); the Secretary-General Agent and Treasurer of the Domestic Committee (1835-1885); the Secretary and Treasurer of the Indian Commission (1874-1879); the Foreign Committee (1820-1886); Joshua Kimber (1873-1883); the General Secretary, Treasurer, and Staff of the Board (1877-1911); and the Spirit of Missions (1852-1862). The letters within the books are arranged chronologically, not by writer or topic.

This collection contains the minutes for the Board of Missions plenary body as well as its constituent committees, the Domestic Committee and the Foreign Committee, and a small number of associated publications, reports, and other records. Additionally, there is a small selection of minutes for sub-committees, such as the Finance Committees, the Indian Commission, and the Freedman’s Aid Commission.

Records of the proceedings of committees, agencies, and officers associated with the Board of Missions and its sub-units of governance.

This collection contains published proceedings and reports of the Board of Missions from 1820 to 1919.

The records of the Committee on World Relief and Church Cooperation consist almost entirely of agendas, minutes, and related correspondence.

The records of the Committee on World Relief and Inter-Church Aid consist almost entirely of agendas, minutes, and related correspondence.

Minutes of Executive Council and other reporting governing bodies comprise the majority of these records. Organizations represented in these records include the Joint Program Planning Committee (1959-1966) and the Council on Ministry. Two non-Episcopal organizations are also represented. The first of these, the Career Development Council was an ecumenical career counseling organization in which The Episcopal Church participated. The Executive Council commissioned the second organization, the Bureau of Applied Social Research of Columbia University, to conduct a study called "Anglican Opportunities in South America."

The Executive Council meeting dockets were generated through the work of the members and staff of the committees and commissions of the Executive Council. They include agendas, minutes of meetings, charters, status reports as well as financial statements and reports, budgets, and Treasurer's reports.

The records and reports reflect the policies of the General Convention as carried out and administered by the Executive Council as well as the structure and organization of the church.

Records of the proceedings and directly supervised programs of the entities under the management of the Executive Council. Records include proceedings, minutes, reports, documents, governance records, and some administrative records. With the consolidation of executive powers under the primate after 1973, staff offices typically associated with the National/Executive Council were placed under the authority of the Presiding Bishop acting as mission program or administrative entities. These staff offices exist as a separate categories of mission program or in their administrative capacity with the DFMS.

The Records of the Joint Urban Program document programs which were funded either in whole or in part by grants from The Episcopal Church include correspondence, formal applications for grants, funding documentation, reports on programs, and evaluations.

This collection contains typescripts of the National Council meeting minutes from 1919 through 1964.

Records of the proceedings and programs of the agencies and administrative units associated with the National Council unless the fonds or records was absorbed into a continuing successor unit that operated largely under the Executive Council.

These are the working files of the National Council for the years 1920 through 1936. The years 1930, 1933, 1934, and 1935 are fairly complete with the other years scantily represented. Material consists of correspondence, notes, memoranda, pamphlets, newspaper clippings, and some financial records of individuals’ gifts to the church. Most of the files are related to individuals, but there are also files for organizations, movements, conferences, and broad subjects. The material is arranged alphabetically within each year or span of years.