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The House of Bishops Committee Records comprise Standing Committee and ad hoc Committee reports, records, and miscellaneous materials. Also included is a bound volume of the minutes of the Commission of Bishops on the Mexican Branch of the Catholic Church.

Pastoral letters, communication to the Church, records of the Secretary of the House including rolls, registers and Interim Meeting records, and House committee records. (Does not include Presiding Bishop's administrative records on the House's operation, or records pertaining directly to the triennial session.)

Seven scrapbook volumes comprise this collection of Samuel F. Hotchkin’s articles and interests. Each volume contains an index. The articles cover a variety of subjects, persons, and places. Of note are a typescript index to the scrapbooks and a copy of Hotchkin’s obituary.

This record group comprises eight scrapbooks of clippings on various subjects and activities as well as pictures of clerics and other persons involved in church affairs that were collected by Rev. William Edward Hooker. The last scrapbook (volume 8) contains personal correspondence and other papers of Hooker, in addition to miscellaneous clippings on various subjects. The collector donated the materials in 1938 to the Church Historical Society.

This record group includes correspondence, reports, surveys, printed matter, photographs, grant requests, and subject files. The majority of the correspondence relates to awarded grants, placement of workers, requests for assistance, and reports from the aided dioceses.

The records of Holy Spirit Mission Church for the Deaf includes a detailed history of the church, financial and administrative files, bylaws, publications, parish records, and parochial reports. Eight photo albums documenting the church from 1982 to 1998 round out the collection.

The papers of Augustus Reginald Hoare comprise a small group of materials consisting of three diaries, two periodicals, two photographs, and one letter. The diaries cover the last years of Hoare's missionary service in Alaska (1912-1920), with a gap for the years 1918-1919 when he was in California. Most diary entries merely refer to daily conditions. The periodicals contain references to Hoare in articles concerning the Alaskan missions. Of interest is a letter from Bishop Peter T. Rowe of Alaska dated August 24, 1920 explaining the circumstances of Augustus Hoare's death.

Henry Forrester’s working papers primarily document his domestic missionary activity in New Mexico and include four bound volumes of correspondence sent and received beginning with the final months of his rectorship in Terry, Mississippi (1874), through his early services in Santa Fe, Las Vegas, and Albuquerque. Also represented in the archive is a scrapbook volume titled “Forresteriana,” which covers the period 1871 to 1880 and includes clippings on topics of concern to him, news items on his work, published letters, and tracts written by Forrester for his work with the Spanish speaking population of the territory.

These records of the Guild of Scholars of the Episcopal Church document the organizations goal to promote the Christian faith and scholarship in institutions of higher learning. Included are annual meeting minutes, agendas, reports, and program descriptions; correspondence of the President and Secretary/Treasurer; scholarly papers; financial records; and photographs.

The Papers of Elizabeth Griffin contains two items: a bound manuscript volume titled “A Catalogue of the Lands, Buildings, Memorials and Institutions of the Missionary District of the Philippine Islands.”; and a small notebook of her expenditures and receipts for the communion wafers she made for various mission churches and missionaries.

This collection contains materials related to Green’s academic, ecumenical, and religious work. It includes collected records on Green’s participation in the Anglican Orthodox Theological Consultation (bulk 1986-1992); course preparation and curricula files for his courses at Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest (ETSS); research materials on Paul Tillich; a large number of writings, sermons, and prayers; and collected materials written by other authors.

Records of official canonical standing committees and commissions, boards, joint house committees, task groups, and similar authorized ad hoc bodies acting in the interim and at the direction of the General Convention; may include records either generated directly by the interim body or collected as part of the central files of the Secretariat. The category does not include the separate category of Executive Council, which also acts as the board of directors for the DFMS and may act in the place of (rather at the direction of) the General Convention.

The records of the Girls’ Friendly Society in the United States of America (GFS-USA) provides an impressive historical record of the organization. Minutes and reports of the Board of Directors, Executive Committee, and Coordinating Board, as well as financial ledgers and audits document the organizations governing bodies and fiscal responsibilities. The relationship between the national headquarters of the GFS-USA and local chapters as well as the Department of Christian Education of the Executive Council is also well documented.

In addition, a large collection of publications provides a thorough history regarding the activities and mission of the GFS-USA from as early as 1878.