| Description | Miscellaneous papers, 14th cent.-[1985], as follows:
Leaf cut in two and used as a pastedown Gratian's Decretum, secunda pars causa XXXV.Quest.V.c.26. 14th or late 13th cent. Italian with marginalia in an English hand (ff.l-2v). Given by the USPG (1993?1994?)
A pencil drawing perhaps of the north elevation of Lambeth Palace (London) by 'E.M. 1817' copied from 'an original drawing by Miss Hartley in the Archbishop's Library, 1775' (f.3).
Watercolour perhaps by Archbishop Sumner inscribed in the hand of Archbishop Benson, 'Eleff Archbishop Sumner's Shepherd at Addington', l9th cent. (f.4).
Memorandum by Archbishop Longley entitled, 'Statement respecting Lambeth Library and the Stipend of the Librarian', c.1867 (ff.5-7v).
Letter from Randall Thomas Davidson, Bishop of Winchester, and (1903) Archbishop of Canterbury, to -, 25 January 1898, referring to increased financial support for the Church of England (f.8).
Letter from Thomas Banks Strong, Bishop of Ripon and (1925) Oxford, to Joseph Armitage Robinson, Dean of Wells, 15 August 1923, concerning preliminaries to further conference with Roman Catholics, and defending differences in approaches to doctrine by them and by Anglicans (copy) (f.12).
Address by Anglican clergy to Archbishop Davidson, advocating the inclusion of Origen in the commemoration of saints and doctors in the revised Book of Common Prayer, November 1926. In the hand of Cuthbert Hamilton Turner, Ireland Professor of Exegesis of Holy Scripture, Oxford. At ff. l6-17 a printed version (ff.14-17).
Correspondence (French) between Lewis John Collins, Canon of St. Paul's (1948), and Alfred Loisy, French divine, 1934-9, concerning Modernism (ff.18-50v).
Report, with typescript copy, by Frederick Wastie Green, Canon of Norwich, of an interview with Archbishop Lang by a deputation of clergy in the diocese of Norwich to make complaint about Bertram Pollock, Bishop of Norwich, 14 June [1940] (ff.51-68).
Letter from Eric Symes Abbott, Dean of Westminster, to Ernest -, 9 November 1964, concerning Honest to God by John Arthur Thomas Robinson, Suffragan Bishop of Woolwich (f.69). Purchased, 1989.
'Some considerations of the Text of Bossuet's Exposition de la Doctrine de l'Eglise Catholique', by the Revd. Herbert Alexander Moore, [1985] (ff.70-98). |