File 3 - College Mission Committee Papers, 1919-1935

Includes miscellaneous manuscript and typescript documents pertaining to the College Mission General Committee, namely:

1. Typescript and manuscript College Mission Committee lists, with the names of the President, Vice-Presidents, General Committee, Joint Executive Committee, and Heads of the St. John's College House (undated, c.1923-1930). Also includes Committee lists for the Walworth Mission, dated 1918-1919 and 1919-1920. Connected to the list for 1918-1919 is a record of past office-holders for the positions of Senior Treasurer, Junior Treasurer, Senior Secretary and Junior Secretary from 1883 to 1918.

2. Miscellaneous letters addressed to R.P. Dodd (Senior Secretary of the College Mission Committee) from numerous recipients, regarding the establishment of the Maurice Hostel at Hoxton, dated between 1919 and 1920. Letters are primarily written in response to previous correspondence received from Dodd and detailed below.

3. A letter from R.P. Dodd to members of St. John's College, dated May 1920, in which details for the choice of an existing institution as part of the College Mission's new venture are outlined. A delegation from the College has visited the Maurice Hostel at Hoxton and the Upper Tooting Church Institute at Wandsworth, and favours the former. However, the letter also encloses a statement, written by George Aubrey Lyward, on behalf of the Wandsworth Institute, entitled 'A Plea For Pioneer Work: What Constitutes a College Mission in 1920?' Remarks written in response to Lyward's statement by G.U. Yule are printed on the back page. Also includes an unsigned copy of an earlier letter, dated September 1919 and issued by Dodd, in which proposals for a new Mission venture are outlined; and two manuscript critical responses to Lyward's piece by F.S. Spackman and A.F. Lutley.

4. Four printed typescript pamphlets; the first, an annual report (1914) for the Upper Tooting Church Institute. The second, an abridged calendar of evening and afternoon classes held at Battersea Polytechnic (1919-1920). The third, an undated account of the Maurice Hostel, written by Rev. Edward E. Raven (c.1920). The fourth, an information booklet concerning the Cambridge Medical Mission Settlement at Bermondsley, London.

5. Printed typescript 'Articles of Association of the Incorporated Church Institue, Upper Tooting' (n.d.)

6. Typescript draft copy of a sub-committee report on the Maurice Hostel, Hoxton, and the Church Institute, Upper Tooting (c.1920) and a manuscript letter to G.U. Yule from Dodd, concerning criticisms of the report.

7. A typescript voting paper for the election of candidates to the College Mission Executive Committee (c.1920).

8. Manuscript drawing of a map, indicating the location of the Maurice Hostel, Hoxton.

9. Typescript copy of the College Mission constitution, revised 1925.

10. Manuscript copy of the Committee's Report (1919-1920).

11. Typescript and manuscript notices for forthcoming committee meetings.

12. Miscellaneous typescript and manuscript letters addressed to F.P. White, on behalf of the Committee, concerning the appointment of a successor to Rev. R.B. Janvrin of the Parish of the Lady Margaret, Walworth (April-June 1921); also between White and E.E. Raven, H.P. Griffiths and other recipients.

13. 'Diocesan Scheme Report', a manuscript extract from the Mission's Annual Report [c.1895-1900]