The Records of Venture in Mission reflect the early years of the program and include administrative records, correspondence, committee reports, and records relating to projects and fundraising efforts in individual domestic and foreign dioceses.

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 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.

The records of the United Thank Offering (UTO) office includes materials from two successive UTO Coordinators: Judith Gillespie and Alice P. Emery. The bulk of the collection contains correspondence with a small amount of financial records also included.

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.

Audio cassette tapes, typescripts, correspondence, financial documents, and grant proposals comprise the records of the China Oral History Project.

Included are 125 audio cassettes that represent 54 of the 56 total interviews conducted (there are no recordings available for two of the interviewees). In addition, a typescript of his/her transcribed interview is available. The average interview runs from three to four hours and focuses primarily on each interviewee's experiences as a missionary in China. Of particular interest are the missionaries' accounts of the Japanese occupation of China during the Second World War and the Communist Revolution which followed.

The Haiti records contain correspondence, treasurer's records, pamphlets, photographs and miscellaneous reports. Of particular interest are the reports of the American Church Missionary Society regarding Haiti and the "Report of the Deputation to Investigate Conditions of the Haitian Church" of 1912.

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.

The Dominican Republic records contain correspondence, reports, photographs, and pamphlets documenting the efforts of the Overseas Department of The Episcopal Church in the Dominican Republic from 1902 to 1964.

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