14th May 1954.

The Rev. F.N. Davey,
S.P.C.K. House,
Northumberland Avenue,
London, W.C.2.

Dear Mr. Davey,

The Committee on the History of the Ecumenical Movement has met, and I am glad to be able to tell you that it has accepted officially and with gratitude your proposal with regard to the charge to the Committee for proof corrections. No doubt in due course you will be sending us a bill, including one or two other items which have yet to be met. As soon as you do so, I will arrange with our Finance and Business Manager, Mr. Northam, to send you the money.

The Committee did not pass any formal vote of thanks to the S.P.C.K. and the printers, but I have heard many comments on the excellence of the book as a piece of book production, mainly I regret to say from those who have not yet had time to read it, and I have myself hardly noticed a single misprint. This does mean very excellent workmanship on the part of both publishers and printers.

WORLD COUNCIL OF CHURCHES

(in association with the International Missionary Council)

COMMITTEE ON THE HISTORY OF THE ECUMENICAL MOVEMENT

(under the auspices of the Ecumenical Institute)

Chairman:
PROFESSOR ADOLF KELLER

Executive Vice-Chairman:
BISHOP STEPHEN NEILL

Editorial Secretary:
MISS RUTH ROUSE

GENEVA
17, Route de Malagnou

Tel. 67130

Cable Address:
"Oikumene" Geneva

11th May 1954.

Miss Ruth Rouse, D.Litt.,
112 Exeter Street,
Salisbury, Wilts.

My dear Ruth,

We had our last Committee meeting this morning, and all went well and peacefully. A.K. was not there - a little to the relief of some of the other Committee members.

The Committee wished me on their behalf to write and express their appreciation of the work you have put into the History over so many years. We did, of course, formally record this when you left Geneva, but the Committee felt that at this moment, when we are winding up our work, a formal and affectionate tribute ought to be paid to the one to whose energy and devotion the History has owed so much. The work that you did in the earlier stages could not have been done by anyone else, and the results of your work are seen in one way or the other literally on almost every page of the History. The Committee was glad to know of the part you were able to play in the work up till the very last moment before publication, and appreciate the continued interest you showed after your departure from Geneva. All the members wish to send you their best wishes, particularly for such work as you still feel able to undertake, as you look back on the experiences and labours of so many years in the ecumenical movement and in the period before there was anything that could properly be called an ecumenical movement.

I expect to be in London at the beginning of June, but plans thereafter are rather uncertain and indefinite.

All good wishes,

Yours ever,

think that the situation would be met if the Executive Committee of the World Council passed a brief resolution approving the action of the present History Committee in dissolving itself as from 30 June 1954, in appointing Dr. J. Robert Nelson as member of World Council staff responsible for History affairs, and in constituting a Geneva Group to work with Dr. Nelson. There would then be no official act of the Executive Committee appointing the History Group, but a sufficient official recognition of its existence and status and of the continued interest of the World Council in History affairs.

I know that all members of the Committee would wish to express the pleasure they have taken in the service of the ecumenical cause which the existence of the History Committee over these years has made possible.

On behalf of the Committee on the History of the Ecumenical Movement:

Chairman.

["## Box I: Material on World Christian Lay Movements", "Memorandum by Dr. Espy", "Analysis of Memorandum by Miss Rouse", "Dr. Shedd on Ecumenical Relations of Y.M.C.A.", "Printed matter re ecumenical position of Y.M.C.A.", "World's Y.W.C.A. ecumenical attitude and basis - sundry documents", "Printed matter re ecumenical position of Y.W.C.A.", "## Box II: Material on Societies", "Societies other than missionary:", "Deutsche Christentumsgesellschaft", "(Notes on sources of information in Basel Univ., Missionhaus etc)\n(Founders)", "Fellowship of Reconciliation", "(Ecumenical significance)", "Ranyard Mission", "(Reports on work, history, ecumenical position)", "Religious Societies (of Youth)", "(R.R.'s handwritten notes)", "World Council of Christian Education", "(Memoranda on World's Sunday School Conventions; W.C.C.E. ecumenical significance; history and present position; with correspondence from Drs. Stowe and Knapp. Reports)", "Missionary Societies:", "Baptist Missionary Society", "(R.R.'s handwritten notes)", "British and Foreign Bible Society", "(R.R.'s handwritten notes on various <u>Histories</u>)", "Church Missions to Jews", "(Notes on history and principles)", "Church Missionary Society", "(Notes on ecumenical attitude and significance)", "London Missionary Society", "(Notes on History, principles, ecumenical attitudes)", "Religious Tract Society", "(Notes, particularly on ecumenical attitude)", "New England Company", {"bbox": [257, 1105, 459, 1129], "category": "Text", "text":(Times' article)", "Scottish Presbyterian Missions", "(Notes on early history)", "Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society", "(Notes on treatment in books)", "Various Churches and Parties", "The Mennonites", "(Notes on book)", "Anglo-Catholic Party", "(Notes on books)", "Britain and Ecumenism", "(Sundry notes)"]

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Missionary Conferences, and in missionfield - notes

Paper by R.R. on intercommunion questions in 19th century

World Denominational Fellowships

Lutheran World Federation
(Lutheran World Review October 1948, January 1949)

Presbyterian World Alliance
(Paper on ecumenical situation; Presbyterian World, Sept. 1950)

National Councils of Churches

Britain, Canada, France, Switzerland
 Printed matter, notes and memos.)

Eoumenical Journalism

Notes on Review of the Churches,
Sundry magazines and periodicals
Christendom
Constructive Quarterly.

Odd notes

Plans of Reunion

Bossuet and Leibnitz
(Article by Prof. Bainton in The Chronicle)

Sweden and Scandinavia
(Notes)

Dr. Walter Horton's Lectures on Reunion
(Notes)

Britain - Sundry plans, Home Reunion Society, Scotland
(Notes on books, etc.)

Canada
(Articles on Church Union in United Church Observer, 1949)

German Protestantism
(Article on plans of reunion, 19th and 20th centuries)

Hungary
(Memo., notes on books, etc.)

Jerusalem Bishopric
(Notes and correspondence with Fr. Brandreth)

Poland
(Notes on books)

Reformed Churches in France and Switzerland
(Notes on History, Plans of Reunion, Bibliography, etc.)

South Africa
(Notes)

Orthodox and Protestant
(Notes on books)

Analyses of A. de Mestral and Tabaraud's books.

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16 October 1953.

The Right Reverend Bishop Stephen Neill,
The World Council of Churches,
17 Route de Malagnou,
Geneva,
Switzerland.

Dear my Lord Bishop,

ECUMENICAL HISTORY

A preliminary examination of the revised estimates shows that the cost per copy for paper, printing, and binding is likely to increase by 1/12d. To cover overhead expenses and distribution costs, we ought to multiply this figure by 3 to arrive at the retail price, which would mean increasing the retail price by 3/73d. to 33/73d. There is, however, no feasible price between 32/6d. and 35/-, and we should have to choose the latter figure. I do not think that this would seriously affect the sales, and the margin over the theoretical selling price would enable us to ask for no increase in the amount which you have agreed to pay for the last 1,000 sheets of this edition.

I calculate that if we keep to a selling price of 30/-. and receive no more than the sums already agreed for sheets to be supplied to you and to the Westminster Press we shall have to find a subsidy of £500; if, as a compromise, we raise the price to 32/6d, and increase the charge to you and to the Westminster Press proportionately to the increase in production costs (i.e. from £453 per 1,000 sets of sheets to £522) the necessary subsidy will amount to only £112/10s.

This, as I see it, is the position. I do not think there is any possibility of a subsidy from S.P.C.K. funds, which already have more demands on them than they can bear, but if your Lordship knows of any source from which a subsidy might be obtained, I should be very glad to fix the price at 32/6d. or even, if possible, at 30/-. 32/6d. is an attractive figure, but it does depend on a subsidy and on the willingness of the

World Council and the Westminster Press to bear the increase
in the cost of the sheets to be supplied to them. I have
not yet approached the Westminster Press on this question;
I should prefer to have your Lordship's comments on the
figures before doing so.

May I also remind your Lordship that according to the
timetable all the corrected galley proofs should be returned
to the printer by the 23rd of this month? We have so far
received up to Chapter 11 only, and, since a certain amount
of work has to be done on the proofs here, I am anxious lest
we should be late in returning the last batches of proofs.

Believe me,

Yours respectfully and sincerely,

Editorial Secretary.

(Dictated but not personally signed owing to absence)

Copy to:
Dr Ruth Rouse.

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21 October 1953.

Dear my Lord Bishop,

ECUMENICAL HISTORY

Mr Padfield, who is transferring the corrections from your Lordship's corrected proofs to the printer's marked proofs, will be away from the office next week. Although the galley proofs are supposed to be back with the printer by the end of this week, I expect that some will not reach us until next week. In order to avoid wasting time in postage, I think it would be advisable to address any galley proofs that are likely to arrive in London from Geneva between the 26th and the 31st of this month to him at his home, 42, Orchard Drive, Watford, Herts. He can then work on them there and send them straight on to the printer, without any waste of time in transit from here to Watford.

There is one point of style that we have never yet discussed: the question whether accented letters in French should continue to carry the accent when capitalized. This arises only because the printer has omitted accents in such cases in the proofs. We referred these cases to your Lordship, but your Lordship does not appear to have come to a decision. We are, however, of the strong opinion that accents must be inserted in a scholarly work, and we are instructing the printer to insert them in the remaining galley proofs and proposing to insert them in the page proofs where they are still lacking.

Believe me,

Editorial Secretary.

Conv to: Dr Rouse.

WORLD COUNCIL OF CHURCHES

GENEVA
17, Route de Malagnou

Tel. 67130

3rd October 1953.

Miss Ruth Rouse,
112 Exeter Street,
Salisbury, Wilts.

My dear Ruth,

The correction of proofs is going on rapidly, if not exactly merrily. So much so, that we have more than caught up with our authors and nearly caught up with the press. Nothing yet from Karlström, and I don't really expect anything. The further we go the more necessary the checking of accuracy seems to become; hardly one of our quotations is perfectly accurate, both in spelling and punctuation. We are doing our best, but I become increasingly anxious as to all the things that we may have missed.

I am now at work on your chapter XIII. I am taking a certain number of liberties with it, and hope that you will find yourself in agreement. In a number of places we have eliminated such words as 'to-day', most of which have been taken over directly from the Douglass Memorandum. It has been pointed out by a number of our authors, especially by Latourette, that we must not make our History too contemporary in expression; otherwise it will give the impression of being out of date almost as soon as it is published. I do not think we have changed the sense anywhere. It has been mainly a matter of altering a certain number of tenses.

On one matter I do need your help. In relation to the formation of the National Council in America, on galley 229 Douglass had referred to twenty constituent denominations and you had taken this over, but surely the number ought to be twenty-eight or twenty-nine, since you mention in another context that the number of Churches adhering to the Federal Council had reached this figure before amalgamation. I do not know whether you have information available there. If not, I will write to Sam Cavert and make sure, but of course we do not want the delay of a letter crossing the Atlantic if we can avoid it.

Could you give us any help with regard to the whereabouts of the memorandum by Maurice Richmond which is referred to in Latourette, galley 145, as being available at World Council headquarters, and which Miss Geddie is unable to trace?

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Miss Ruth Rouse.

3rd October 1953.

My plans are all set now to be in London on October 12, 13, and 14. You will be able to make contact with me through I.M.C., and I am hoping to have a short interview with Davey on the afternoon of the 12th.

All good wishes,

Yours ever,

P.S. Your corrected copies of Chapter XIII came in this morning, and I have just run through them with Miss Geddie. They have caused us extraordinarily little trouble, as most of your wishes had already been carried out in our reading of the proofs before your text came.

I have, however, been much less patient with you with Dr. Douglass' appalling English. I had always wished that you had taken much greater freedom in re-writing his material. I have tried not to make too many changes, but there are a good many sentences which just will not do, and a number of these I have tried to straighten out without dislocating the text too much.

28th September 1953.

The Rev. F.N. Davey,
S.J.C.K. House,
Northumberland Avenue,
London, W.C.2.

Dear Mr. Davey,

I have just received your letter of September 24, for which I
thank you and have noted all the points. We fully understand the
difficulty of inserting new material in page proof and I hope that
no such necessity will arise. If it does I will be firm with the
authors, insisting that new material can be inserted only as detached
notes and only if the format of the History in page proof permits
the insertion.

I am particularly pleased with the printer's work on the Table
of Unions, Appendix to Chapter X. I regret the necessity of using
double columns, but it seems to me that the presentation is clear
and workmanlike. As far as I know, no such Table exists anywhere
else, and I believe that it will be found valuable.

I now have to take up with you one important question - that
of the headings to my own Chapter X. Here I am afraid that I must
disagree rather seriously with what has been done with them. The
structure of my chapter had to be very carefully worked out in order
to include such representative material as the space allotted to me
would hold; and much depends on the headings making this structure
absolutely clear. One of my main headings has been completely sup-
pressed, and the sub-headings have been shown inconsistently - many
of them having been reduced to shoulder heads and my wording of
them having been changed in a number of cases. Here I must insist
on things being put back more nearly to my own arrangement.

1. The missing heading III 'Corporate Unions - Trans-Confessional' must be replaced and the others re-numbered to correspond. I have made one or two changes in the headings, as shown on the accompanying sheet.

2. The sub-headings must be shown consistently, i.e. no distinction made whether there is only one or more than one sub-heading under a main heading.