WORLD COUNCIL OF CHURCHES

COMMITTEE ON THE HISTORY OF THE ECUMENICAL MOVEMENT
(under the auspices of the Ecumenical Institute)
17 Route de Malagnou, Geneva, Switzerland

# THE HISTORY OF THE ECUMENICAL MOVEMENT
## PLAN OF SUBJECTS, CHAPTERS AND AUTHORS
(Revised November 1952)

The History will be issued in one volume of about 400,000 words, in two parts, dealing respectively with the periods:

I. From the Reformation to the Edinburgh World Missionary Conference, 1910.

II. The Modern Ecumenical Movement from Edinburgh, 1910, to the Amsterdam Assembly, 1948.

### Preface

Introduction, treating the pre-Reformation background for the History, and Ecumenical Movements before the Reformation, especially relations between East and West.

## PART I. FROM THE REFORMATION TO 1910

### Sixteenth Century

Chapter I. Professor John McNeill (Union Theological Seminary, U.S.A.): "The Ecumenical Idea and Efforts to Realize it, 1517 - 1618".

### Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

Chapter II. Professor Martin Schmidt (Kirchliche Hochschule, Berlin): "Ecumenical Movements in Europe".

Chapter III. Professor Norman Sykes (Cambridge): "Ecumenical Movements in Great Britain".

### Orthodox Church

Chapter IV. Professor G. Florovsky: "The Orthodox Churches and the Ecumenical Movement (Prior to 1910)"

### Nineteenth Century and up to 1910

Joint Introduction by the three Authors

Chapter V. Dr. Don Yoder (Franklin and Marshall College, U.S.A.): "The Ecumenical Movement in North America up to 1910" (including Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century ecumenical developments).

Chapter VI. The Rev. H.R.T. Brandreth, O.G.S.; "Approaches of the Churches towards each other".

Chapter VII. Miss Ruth Rouse: "Voluntary Movements and the Changing Ecumenical Climate".

P.T.O.

The Right Reverend Bishop Stephen Neill

20 February 1953

The other point is much graver. My assistant, Padfield, has made an analysis of the main cross-headings, subsidiary cross-headings, sub-headings, etc., into which the chapters are at present divided. This reveals a remarkable inconsistency even with the same chapter; for there are cases of main cross-headings, subsidiary cross-headings, and sub-headings, and also by the fact that in Chapter 8 the sub-headings consist of sentences running on into the text, which cannot by any stretch be described as headings at all. I am afraid that this must be reduced to consistency, and we shall be prepared, as soon as we have received all or nearly all the copy, to suggest how it should be rendered consistent. I will not anticipate this, but I will say at once that of the three varieties, main cross-headings and sub-headings appear to be the most useful and necessary, though it does not follow that we can get rid of the intermediate subsidiary cross-headings. Further, I incline to think that the numbering of such headings and subsidiary cross-headings at least, is more distracting than helpful.

Believe me,

Yours respectfully and sincerely,

Editorial Secretary.

WORLD COUNCIL OF CHURCHES

(in association with the International Missionary Council)

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

19 February 1953.

My dear Member of Committee,

I have to consult you on a matter of some importance affecting an earlier Committee decision.

One of the Appendices which it had been decided to include in the History was one on Proselytism. I have discussed this matter very carefully with the small Geneva Group on the basis of a draft Appendix prepared by myself with the help of material collected by Miss Rouse. Considerable difficulty was felt on the subject on the ground that: a) the subject does not lend itself well to historical treatment; b) it is extremely difficult to make a convincing statement within the very narrow limits of space which are all that can be allowed to an Appendix; c) there has not been adequate time for consultation with representatives of Churches which are specially interested in this subject.

The Group therefore proposes the following solution for the difficulty:

1. That the Appendix be not included in the History;

2. That reference be made in the Preface to the importance and difficulty of the subject;

3. That my draft, with some revision, be printed in the Ecumenical Review later this year, with comments from writers representing a number of different confessions;

4. That reference be made in footnotes in the History to this discussion in the Ecumenical Review and to what little literature exists on the subject;

5. That an indication be given of the importance of further study of the subject.

As this involves a modification of previous Committee decisions, the Geneva Group did not feel itself entitled to make a definite decision without consultation with you. If you desire

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19th February 1953.

to express an opinion on the subject I shall be grateful if you
will let me know immediately, as the days are running out and a
final decision will have to be made very shortly.

At our last meeting, the date March 10 was tentatively pro-
posed for the next meeting of the Committee. For a variety of
reasons - not least that March 7 has been fixed by the publisher
as the final date for the sending in of the text for the History
this date in March is not now a very convenient one, and in con-
sultation with others in Geneva I would now like to suggest
April 21 as the date for our next Committee. If you have strong
objections to this date I shall be grateful if you will let me
know. If it seems to suit the majority of the members, notice
with agenda will later be sent to you. The two main items of
business will be the presentation of the progress report and the
final form of the financial statement and budget.

You will be glad to know that eleven chapters have already
been sent to the publisher, and though the outstanding diffi-
culties are still very many, we hope that it may be possible to
get the whole text in by March 7.

See
Agenda
for
Action

GENEVA
17, Route de Malagnou
Tel. 6 71 30

19th February 1953.

Miss Ruth Rouse,
112 Exeter Street,
Salisbury.

Dear Ruth,

Many thanks for your letter and notes on Intercommunion.
Most of these points had been made by our little group on Wednes-
day and I shall take them all into consideration in the revision
which I hope to do tomorrow.

The main event of this week has been the arrival of the
second section of Florovsky's chapter, the first section still
to come. My great joy at this event has been mitigated by the
form in which the material has arrived. Not merely is it two and
a half times too long for the space we can allot to it, but it
is typed on that unpleasant yellow paper, each page completely
filled top and bottom and to the margins on both sides, so that
it is almost impossible to write in any corrections on the page.
However, I am striving with it, throwing out a whole lot of mat-
erial which is to some extent already in Brandreth, and trying
to make some sort of sense out of Florovsky's English. If he
doesn't like the chapter when he finally sees it, he really has
no-one but himself to blame.

I find that all these inconveniences and difficulties are
having a bad effect on my temper, and I shall certainly need a
holiday after March 7.

I was in Zürich on Monday and Tuesday and saw a good deal
of Dr. Keller. He really is in a most friendly state of mind
and most appreciate of the efforts we have made to meet his point
of view. He still continues to raise criticisms and difficulties
but now he attributes our defects not so much to wickedness of
heart as to the ignorance of the young who were not there when
all the really important things happened.

I still have heard nothing from Davey, which is just another
of those little things that make life hard. I have written him
a very strong letter to-day which I hope will produce something,
and I am holding myself in readiness to go over in the first week
in March if it is desirable and if the work here permits it.

All best wishes,

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Miss Ruth Rouse.

13th February 1953.

being delayed. If the worst comes to the worst and we have a
heavy bill for proofs, I am perfectly prepared either to raise
the money privately or to go to Dr. Buckner and ask for a small
special grant. Everything now must be concentrated on getting
the text in by March 7, and within reason all other considerations
and arguments must be put on one side.

I have been invited to speak at the International Convention
of the Disciples of Christ to be held at Portland, Oregon, in July.
This falls most conveniently in a slack period between proofs and
I have accepted the invitation. I am sure that they will give me
time to present the History, and if I can take a set of galley
proofs and wave them, and tell them how much their helphas meant
to us I do not think that an extra 500 would cause them even to
blink, but I should prefer not to have to ask for it.

We will look up your one or two points about bibliography.
I note you would like to have copies of your letters and we will
let you have these if possible, but it may not be for some time.

Copies

13th February 1953.

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

Dear Mr. Davey,

I am glad to be able to tell you that we yesterday despatched
to you Chapter XVI of the Ecumenical History and hope to-day to
send to you Chapter V, with the Appendix to my Chapter X on Church
Union Plans.

I want specially to direct your attention to this Appendix.
It is a very important part of the History and represents all that
I can really claim on my part as research. Such a full, handy, and
I hope accurate, list of Church union movements has never been com-
piled. I therefore want it to be clearly printed. On the other
hand it ought not to take more than the minimum space which is com-
patible with clearness. I would suggest that it be in considerably
smaller print than the text of the History and that the names of
Churches involved in negotiations wherever possible be printed in
two columns to save space. I would deprecate their being printed
consecutively across the lines, as I know from experience that a
tabular statement is far easier on the eye and far easier to follow
accurately than one presented in running form.

I have every confidence in your judgement in such a matter,
especially after your experience in handling a complex text like
that of the Concise Bible Commentary, but I do want that to be a
clear and useful bit of work, and I may suggest to you later that
it be printed separately as a leaflet, as it is likely to be useful
to others than those who are able to buy the History as a whole.

I think there is one point which I have overlooked in corres-
pondence. Our colleague, Professor Courvoisier of the University
of Geneva, has reminded us that in such co-operative efforts in
the learned world it is customary to give a number of off-prints
to each author. We agreed to recommend that each author should
receive twenty-five off-prints of his chapter. I do not think
that the giving of these off-prints, which will amount in bulk to

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The Rev. F.N. Davey

13th February 1953.

rather less than two copies of the book, will seriously derange
our agreed budget, but there ought to be some agreed understanding
between you and us in this matter.

I am really encouraged by the progress that is being made in
getting the History material through to you. I very much dislike
working under pressure and shall be enormously relieved when the
last page is in to you. I wish also that we had been able to get
it in in cleaner and more attractive form, but you will realize
that it is this extremely heavy pressure on our staff at the end
which makes it impossible for me to have as much retyping done as
I would like, and makes it necessary to send in to you a number of
rather heavily corrected pages.

With all good wishes,

WORLD COUNCIL OF CHURCHES

GENEVA

17, Route de Malagnou

Tel. 67130

11th February 1953.

Dear Ruth,

We have sent off to you three copies of the Brandreth chapter, to be dealt with in the same way as the others. He has done a pretty good job of checking and correction and I hope that you will not find much requiring your attention. I am sorry to bother you with the three copies, but there is no other way of dealing with the material in time. You will realize that it is urgent to get these chapters through to Davey at the earliest possible moment.

We are to-day sending off Oliver's chapter, as finally revised, to him to be forwarded by him to Davey; 't Hooft should go off tomorrow - and thus the procession continues.

I am sending you herewith the Notes on Proselytism and Intercommunion in first draft. I hope to discuss these with the small Geneva group next Wednesday, so there will be time for you to get in some suggestions if you feel like sending any. You will realize that 1,500 words is the absolute possible limit for these Notes, and they must be rather in the way of pulling together the questions raised in different parts of the History than a serious discussion of the problems. 't Hooft has finished his Note on the Word 'Ecumenical'. It is far too long. I have reduced it once, but have to go through it again to pull out at least another 500 words, and then it shall come across to you.

Wonder of wonders, a letter has come from Karlström and some suggestions for the revision of his chapter. I have been through it once with his suggestions and Keller's, and in detail they really do not amount to very much. Karlström's main concern is that nothing should be left in which could suggest that Söderblom was other than all-wise and all-good. In the main I have accepted this. But I am really concerned about the effect the chapter as it stands will have on Söderblom's reputation. Read anywhere outside Germany it will seem entirely to confirm the worst that was ever said or thought

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Miss Ruth Rouse.

11th February 1953.

about Söderblom during and after the war. I do not know whether we can do anything about this. Keller's major criticisms, which are much more sensible than his criticisms of Ehrenström, are much more difficult to deal with. It is the fact that Karlström's chapter just peters out. The last section of it is an absolute disgrace, and whether with just one or two days to work in I can do anything about it, I do not know. I shall try with the documents that we have here, but that will mean, of course, that that section will have to go to press without Karlström ever seeing it.

On the whole I think we may feel that progress is being made as quickly as it possibly could be, but the days are running out more quickly than we like.

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1 April 1954

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

Dear Bishop Neill,

ECUMENICAL HISTORY

Mr Davey has instructed me to answer your letter
of 29 March. I have passed over the orders to the
appropriate department. I do not know what they can do to
ensure that you do not have to pay duty, but we shall
investigate the question.

Mr Whitehorn has noted what you say about review
copies and will be writing to you in a few day's time.

Mr Viney's initial is L., and the address at which
to write to him is :

Hazell, Watson and Viney, Ltd.,
52 Long Acre,
London, W.C.2.

I am sure he would appreciate a letter from you. He took
a great interest in the work, and his constant care for our
interests was an important factor in getting the book out
to time. He was a great help to us all through.

Copy to: Dr Rouse.

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3 March 1954

Dear my Lord Bishop,

ECUMENICAL HISTORY

I am arranging for the dispatch of one copy to each of the contributors and thirty copies to your Lordship at Geneva, on publication. Since the contributors' copies will be paid for by the World Council in Geneva, I do not think that we shall be trespassing on the American market; but I shall have to make it clear to the recipients that the books are being sent on the World Council's instructions, and that the American market is in the hands of the Westminster Press. Thank you for Dr Geiger's address. We now have the addresses of all the contributors except Dr Spinka, and I should be grateful if your Lordship would let me know where to send his copy.

Your Lordship inquires how many copies we can allow the World Council to purchase at trade rates. Our agreement with you stipulates that the World Council, as "authors", can purchase an indefinite number of copies at trade rates "for personal use", but we have to be careful not to break the Net Book Agreement, since the Council is not a recognized bookseller. I think, however, that we can allow the Council to buy any reasonable number of copies (up to, say, 250 in the course of a year) at trade rates provided that they are re-sold only to personal callers at the Geneva offices and are not re-sold at less than the published price except in the special case of members of the Council's staff. I imagine that this is all the Council wants to do, and that it prefers not to have the trouble of handling orders received through the post.

Believe me,

Copy to: Miss Rouse

Editorial Secretary.

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25 February 1954

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

Dear my Lord Bishop,

ECUMENICAL HISTORY

I am afraid there is no possibility of our
being able to send your Lordship even one bound copy
by 11 March. The printers are having to make unusual
efforts to supply copies in time for us to distribute
to the trade for the publishing day, and I doubt whether
any will reach us before the 12th. I am sorry that the
Committee will be denied the satisfaction of seeing a
copy at its meeting, but I think we must recognize that
we have made considerable demands on the printers.

Copy to: Miss Rouse.

15th February 1954.

Dear Mr. Davey,

I am sorry for the continued stream of minor misfortunes which fall unremittingly upon our History. The accompanying letter will assure you of the great care we did take to try and ensure that a correct description was given of the illusive Dr. Yoder. I did not think it worth while in my letter to enumerate again his many delinquencies, or the wholly unnecessary difficulties into which he put us by his failure to attend to business at the time when it ought to have been attended to.

I imagine that it is now far too late to make any change in any of the sheets of the History, but if by good luck at the last moment it is possible to make the correction in the table of contents and the list of contributors, this of course ought to be done. I have a faint hope that we may be able just to catch these sheets before they are finally struck off. It will not matter if we cannot. Nobody except a very small circle of friends will know that Don Yoder was improbably so christened, and anyhow Donald is a much more respectable name.

15th February 1954.

Dr. Don Yoder,
Franklin and Marshall College,
Lancaster, Pa.,
U.S.A.

My dear Don Yoder,

I am distressed to learn via Mr. Meacham of the Westminster Press that we appear to have given you three letters to which you make no claim. Immediately on receiving this letter I turned to your Ph.D. dissertation, of which you were kind enough to send us a copy, and there, as I expected, I found on the frontispiece your name given as Donald Herbert Yoder. This is the source from which we took your full name for inclusion in the History. Who am I to doubt the infallibility and inerrancy of the University of Chicago?

I am very sorry indeed if we have wronged you. But I must point out that long ago you were asked to submit to us your full name and qualifications in the form in which you wished them to appear in the list of contributors, and this you did not do. We had to make out the list of contributors ourselves. I instructed the publisher in London to send out to all contributors the list of contributors, and I hope that this was done. But we have not had from you any suggested corrections of this list. We really have taken an immense amount of trouble to get these things right, and if there has been a slip up in your case I can only say that I am very sorry indeed. I will see whether the correction can be made, but I fear that the majority of the sheets may already have been printed off.

We hope that the English edition of the book will be out on
March 17.

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8 February 1954.

Dear Dr Rouse,

I consulted Mr Davey on Friday about the Press Conference for the Ecumenical History. He agrees that the line to take is the 'personality angle'. We hope to have a chart in the Board-room at the time of the conference which (the idea is only in rough at present) will illustrate the co-operation that the book has called for. Perhaps, - photographs of the Editors with leaders going out to the churches represented by the various contributors ( this will cloak the fact that so many of them are Anglicans), and leaders going from these to 200 experts consulted. We hope to have photographs of (at least) the two Editors which the press can take away if they wish. And also a short 'WHO's Who' of the contributors. This should be not merely a sober account of their real qualifications for the work, but any item of 'interest value' that we can rake up about them; e.g. Mr Padfield tells me that you have lectured students in Tsarist Russia with the Imperial Police taking notes.

Would you be so kind therefore as to let me have (as soon as possible) a photograph of yourself; (I am assuming that you must have one); and a confirmation of the story Mr Padfield has told me, and any other 'interesting titbit that you do not mind being used?

I apologise for all this vulgarity. It seems necessary and then it seems it becomes 'popular'.

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The Rev. F.N. Davey.

26th February 1954.

purchase them and the price at which we should sell - obviously
the latter should not be less than the published price, except
in the single case of members of the staff of the World Council,
for whom the World Council itself should be prepared to make a
special arrangement.

I have received a certain number of orders for copies of the
History, and these I now send to you to be dealt with when copies
become available. It is evident that interest is considerable,
and I hope that our sales may correspond to interest.

The editor of the *Ecumenical Review* has been very good in pressing forward the date of publication of this number of the *Review* in order to hasten the distribution of the leaflets on the subject of the History, but one result of this is that we shall not be able to get a full review of the History into the *Ecumenical Review* in March. Professor Stähelin of Basle, an excellent choice, has agreed to do the review, and this will be published on the scale of an article in the July number. This current number of the *Review* will, however, contain a signed article by Miss Rouse on the development of the History, and a brief statement, unsigned, by myself, on the contents of the History and the reasons why everyone should read it. With the accompanying leaflets this makes a pretty solid barrage of worldwide publicity through the *Review*, which I hope will have its effect on sales.

Yours very sincerely,

Executive Vice-Chairman.

P.S. Dr. Geiger's address is Reformiertes Pfarramt, Tenniken-Zunzgen,
(Bld.), Switzerland. The copy for Professor Schmidt should be sent
to him at Richmond College, Richmond, Surrey, and that for Dr. Zernov
to the Fellowship of St. Alban and St. Sergius, 52 Ladbroke Grove,
London, W.11.

26 November 1953.

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

Dear Dr Rouse,

A HISTORY OF THE ECUMENICAL MOVEMENT

Thank you for your letter of 24 November. We are making a note to remove the accent from Mlle de Dietrich's name when we get back the page proof of your chapter, if the correction has not already been made.

The advertising leaflet is not yet in proof, but I shall see that you have a copy of the proof as soon as possible.

I am having a spare copy of the page proof sent to you to-day for the Bishop of Chichester, who will of course understand that no mention of its contents should be made in public before the publication of the book. This will leave us with only two copies, which we require in the House, and so I hope no further copies will be called for.

Yours sincerely,

Editorial Secretary.

Copy to: Bishop Stephen Neill

WORLD COUNCIL OF CHURCHES

GENEVA
17, Route de Malagnou

Tel. 671 30

22nd February 1954.

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

Dear Ruth,

I do not think I need add anything to what I have already written about Yoder. It is most annoying and I sympathise very much with the young man, but it really is too late to do anything about it now. Mr. Davey is much opposed to the idea of an erratum slip, though I have said we will insert one if Yoder regards it as indispensable. We could easily put a note at the end of your article, which might pacify him a little. What he has got to do is to sell so many copies in the States that we have to print a second edition, in which the error can be repaired.

Here is a note for your article on the unions in the twentieth century.

I am sorry to find that the first book of the World Christian Books series was not sent to you. My error; your name was on the list, but I seem to have failed to pass it on to Miss Geddie. I hope you will get a copy in a day or two.

Yours ever,

22nd February 1954.

Dear Mr. Davey,

I am summoning the Committee on the History of the Ecumenical Movement for what I hope will be its last meeting as such on March 11. I do not know how the printer is getting on, but if we could have bound copies of the book to put on the table at the meeting it would doubtless deeply impress the members of the Committee. If we could have even one I would gladly meet the cost of sending it by airmail if that would make it possible for us to have one copy in time.

We must dissolve the existing Committee very shortly, but I
am going to ask the present Committee to arrange that some other
part of the World Council structure - presumably the Study Depart-
ment - becomes responsible for any subsequent business that may
arise in connection with translations, etc. I will make it clear
to them that my services cannot be counted on after Easter, and
that they must make some other definitive arrangement.

Yours very sincerely,

Executive Vice-Chairman.

22 January 1954.

Dear Miss Rouse,

ECUMENICAL HISTORY

Thank you for your letter and post-card of the 20th. I am sure it will save time if you send direct to me any mistakes you notice in the classified entries in the index; I assume you will also inform Bishop Neill, so that he has a record of all the corrections - or would you like me to do so ?

I enclose three copies of proofs from "Mercier" to the end, which have arrived to-day, and one more copy of the other two sections, as you ask in your post-card.

I shall retain the copy of your letter to Bishop Neill about the foreword, and I shall expect to find the necessary changes marked in the proof when he returns it.

Editorial Department.

ENCL:

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22 January 1954.

Dear Bishop Neill,

ECUMENICAL HISTORY

Thank you for your letter of the 20th. I am glad to hear that the index proofs are arriving safely, and by now I hope you will have received them all. Miss Geddie and Mr Mackintosh have my sympathy in the task of checking, but I do hope you will be able to let us have the proofs back quickly and with not too many corrections. So much depends on speed at this stage.

I have the wording for the dedication, but I have not yet sent it to the printer. When you send me back the corrected proofs of the foreword and the list of abbreviations, I shall be able to ask the printer for proofs of all the preliminary pages together - it seems better to wait until I can do this rather than to have these pages proofed piecemeal. The order I suggest for the preliminaries is:

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21st January 1954.

J.E. Padfield, Esq.,
S.P.C.K. House,
Northumberland Avenue,
London, W.C.2.

Dear Mr. Padfield,

I have received the Foreword and Abbreviations to the History.
I have already corrected these, but am waiting to see whether any
suggestions come in from Miss Rouse before returning them to you.

Herewith the first sheets of the Index. As you will see,
there are a fair number of changes, but not perhaps excessive in
view of the difficulty of the task which we gave the printer.
Indeed, I am on the whole very much gratified by the manner in
which he has managed to deal with this tricky task.

One point of uncertainty has arisen - when separate reference
to notes should be given. We have generally accepted the principle,
which seems to have been adopted by yourself or by the printer,
that where there is a reference both in the text and in a note on
the same page, reference only to the page is given, but where the
reference occurs only in a note, it is so marked in the Index. I
think this is simple and practical, and we will follow this prac-
tice unless some particular case seems to require an exception.

As soon as you have complete sets of sheets, will you send two
copies to Lic. W. Menn, Oekumenische Centrale, Schaumainkai 23,
Frankfurt am Main. He has already got his team of translators drawn
up, and is only waiting for the word Go. There are many details to
be settled as regards the publication of the German edition, but he
would like to get work on the translation started as soon as pos-
sible.

20th January 1954.

My dear Padfield,

We have received the first proofs of the Index, and on the
whole are very pleased with them. A good deal of detailed work
on them is needed, and this Miss Geddie and Mr. Mackintosh are
doing together. I hope that we shall be able to keep up to date
with the work.

There is one small point I would like to draw your attention
to, though perhaps quite unnecessarily. I do not remember ever to
have seen in print the brief dedication of the History to the
Disciples of Christ which we sent you some time ago and which was
to appear on the reverse of the title page. Now that I come to
think of it, I have never seen the title page in any near final
form, and it is quite probable that this dedication is already
there in the proper place. If so, excuse my wasting time on
something that has been already done, but you know the anxieties
of an editor as the date of publication draws nigh, as to what may
have been overlooked or undone.

As a result of our advertisement of the History in the Ecu-
menical Press Service, a number of orders have already come in,
and doubtless others will come. I hope that some are reaching you
also.

Yours very sincerely,

Executive Vice-Chairman.

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20 January 1954.

Dear my Lord Bishop,

ECUMENICAL HISTORY

I have to acknowledge your Lordship's letters of
6, 8, and 13 January. I agree with your Lordship's suggestions
for the names of those who are to receive complimentary copies,
and I think we should add to the list Mr E. A. Payne, who
has consented to represent the Free Churches at the press
conference. Your Lordship does not, however, say anything
about the method of payment for these books. The copies to
be given to the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishops of
Chichester and London, and Mr Payne can come in the same
category as review copies and can therefore reasonably be paid
for by S.P.C.K.; but the copies to be given to the contributors
and to the members of your Committee must, I think, be regarded
as authors' remuneration and paid for by the World Council.
I do not wish to appear mean about this, but we shall be giving
away for publicity purposes more than the usual number of
forty copies, and we do not normally expect to give the author
of a large book more than six copies. These six are, you will
remember, specified in the agreement, and I expect you will
consider it appropriate for three to be given to Miss Rouse
and three to yourself. The copies supplied to the World
Council for presentation to the contributors would, of course,
be charged at the usual discount of one third, and the same
arrangement would apply if your Lordship or Miss Rouse wanted
to buy more copies.

I note your Lordship's remarks about the leaflet. We
have incorporated all the suggestions made by you and Miss
Rouse, and I expect to have supplies shortly. I am sorry to

19 January 1954.

Dear Miss Rouse,

ECUMENICAL HISTORY

I enclose two copies of the proofs of the new Foreword and of the List of Abbreviations which have just come in. I have had other copies expressed to Bishop Neill.

Thank you for the copies of your two letters to Bishop Neill. It is gratifying to learn that there are no mistakes in the classified entries so far. I hope this will hold good for all of them. I am afraid a few small errors in dates etc. are bound to creep into a book of this kind, especially one that has been produced in such a hurry, and I suggest that the best thing to do will be to make a note of them so that they can be corrected in the event of a second edition, but not to have recourse to an errata slip unless something really serious is discovered. I am afraid there is no possibility of later corrections in the American edition: apart from the title-page and the history page, the two editions will be printed together - in fact, in order to help the Americans as far as we can, we are arranging for the first complete set of 1,000 sheets to be sent to the States.

I have had a further call from the Evangelical Alliance to confirm that *Evangelical Christendom* has been a quarterly since 1941, and so I think we may now regard that question as settled.

I am sending a copy of this letter to Bishop Neill.

Editorial Department.

15 January 1954.

Dear Miss Rouse,

ECUMENICAL HISTORY

I enclose two more batches of proofs, the Bibliography and the Glossary and Explanatory Notes. I think you should now have a complete set of the second page proofs, if the parcel I had sent off the other day has reached you safely. These proofs, of course, are uncorrected, and that is why the list of contributors appears just before the bibliography instead of among the preliminary pages. I have given *nu* instructions for it to be moved, which will involve *remembering* the pages of the bibliography and glossary; fortunately it occupies two pages, and so the arrangement of right-hand and left-hand pages does not alter.

I had a talk with Miss Manning, of the Evangelical Alliance, and she confirmed that *Evangelical Christendom* became a quarterly in 1941 (it was because of the war-time paper shortage), and I have corrected the entry accordingly. The correction to p.653 (1851 to read 1847) arrived after I had sent that section back to the printer, but I have sent the correction on, and I think there will be time to put it in.

There is, incidentally, a cross-reference in the bibliography that we missed, but I have supplied the page number. It is about two-thirds of the way down p.759, and should read "pp.104f."

I hope that the 150 envelopes have reached you safely, and that you do not mind their not being gummed. It seemed

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best to give you exactly the same kind as we are using for
sending out the leaflet, so that we could be sure of their
being the right size. I am authorized to say that, since
you are using them to send out our leaflet as well as your
own circular, we do not think we ought to ask you to pay
for them.

You say that you are going to write to me about
the American price. I don't know whether this is relevant -
but we have just heard from the Westminster Press that they
are going to charge $9.00.

I do hope that the bad effects of your injection
have worn off but that the good effects remain.

Yours sincerely,

Editorial Department.

ENCL:

P.S. I also enclose two copies of the first batch of index
proofs, which have just come in. I have expressed four
sets to Bishop Neill.

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The Rev. F.N. Davey.

13th January 1954.

with the Evanston Assembly. It is impossible even to guess how
many copies can fruitfully be used, but as increasing the number
of copies printed does not very greatly increase the cost, I
would suggest that perhaps 2,000 copies be sent to this address
for distribution through the Study Department. I will try to
arrange that a copy of the leaflet is sent out with each letter
and each packet of material despatched by the Study Department
in the course of the two months following the arrival of the
leaflets.

Yours very sincerely,

Executive Vice-Chairman.

P.S. We had to leave one gap in the Bibliography and also on
page 93 as we had not at that time information as to the date
of publication in the Swiss periodical *Reformatio* of Professor
Blanke's article on 'Hugo Grotius und die Einigung der christ-
lichen Kirchen'. I now see that this has been published in
December 1953: the date can therefore be added if these pages
have not already been struck off by the printer.

WORLD COUNCIL OF CHURCHES

Jan, 11, 1954

GENEVA
17, Route de Malagnou

Tel. 67130

Dear Ruth,

Many thanks for your letter. I do appreciate your sympathy and your prayers. My holiday in Austria did me quite a lot of good, and I was able to throw off the infection which was producing the boils. A surprising event during the holiday was that my godson announced his decision to give up the Navy and study for ordination. I had long felt that he could never really express himself as a naval officer, but I was as surprised at this decision as he was; it just seemed to come quite clear in his mind as something that had to be acted on. I am still very tired. I can carry on routine work all right; but as soon as it comes to anything creative like trying to write, my mind just won't work; and unfortunately writing is the most important part of my work at present. I hope that this will come right in time, but at the moment the outlook is slightly darkened by a night with only about three hours' sleep; for no particular reason, except a rather sudden change of temperature and pressure such as are common in the Geneva climate.

I am afraid you have had a heavy time of it with the Index. I wish that this could have been avoided, but I knew long before that the Index would give us a good many headaches; perhaps we would have been wiser to put in to the hands of a professional at a much earlier date. Anyhow, I don't feel that anything short of a general strike can prevent the publication of the History on March 17, and that is the main thing. I shall be thankful when it is off our hands; and someone else will have to take over responsibility for the possibility of other translations; I am going to propose that it may be made the responsibility of the Faith and Order Department, which hasn't really much to do at present; but the committee may have other views.

Geneva has been very cold, with a fair amount of snow lying; it is at such moments that I sometimes wonder whether I am wise to live 3½ miles from the office; I have never quite managed to make up my mind as to how the advantages and disadvantages balance. But I don't want to make any change now.

I hope to be seeing you again before very long, and of course we will keep you in touch with the course of the History in its final stages.

8th January 1954.

Dear Mr. Davey,

You realise that a letter of my own has crossed yours of the
5th, and most of the questions you raise have been dealt with.

Miss Rouse has suggested one or two improvements in the
leaflet which I had not thought of, and of course these I am very
ready to accept; but reading your letter again I find that all
important matters have already been dealt with in previous letters.

I have already mentioned in a letter the most unfortunate
fact that we have missed this number of the Ecumenical Review -
the result of bad co-ordination at this end. I have received
information that the regular circulation of the Review is about
3,500 copies, so that number should be allowed for in your print-
ing. I have not yet got information as to where these should be
sent for distribution. I am also trying to get for you a list
of theological faculties and schools, and will forward this if I
can get hold of it. Dr. Ehrenström, the Assistant Editor of the
Review, is away at the moment. As soon as he comes back I will
ask him whether it is possible to get out the next number of the
Review by the end of March, in order to have our advertisement in
the hands of the readers at the earliest possible date.

We now await proofs of the Foreword and Index, and will do
our utmost to see that these are returned to you without delay.

January 8th, 1954

The Rev. Dr R.C. Mackie,
17 route de Malagnou,
GENEVA

My dear Robert,

You can help me very greatly in promoting the publicity of the History when it comes out. The S.P.C.K. is willing to circulate information to all headquarters of national Christian councils in touch with the World Council of Churches. Could you possibly manage to produce a list of those persons with whom they ought to correspond on the subject of the coming out of the book and publicity in general? What we want would be a list which would cover all the countries of Europe where there is anyone worth corresponding with - Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Holland, Switzerland, France, Hungary, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Italy, etc.

With regard to non-European countries, we should want the headquarters in Canada, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand and any Latin American countries where there is a real headquarters.

Mission lands come in a different category and we should like to have those also, including the address of the joint secretary for East Asia, Dr Manikam.

I know I am asking a most tiresome thing from you but it is really worth while. Please do not trouble Bishop Neill on this subject as he has made it clear that he is not going to do anything in connection with publicity.

I am weary and worn but hope that this week-end sees my last personal work on this book.

Love to you and Dorothy,
Ever yours,

Dictated by Miss House and
dispatched in her absence

RUTH ROUSE

J.E. Padfield, Esq.

6th January 1954.

our distributing centre. I take it that you have your inter-
national methods of payment already set up, and that nobody
would experience any difficulty in paying or you in recovering.
It would certainly be simpler not to have any sort of distri-
bution centre here, except that we should have a number of copies
on show in the summer, as probably quite a number of our visitors,
especially Americans, could be persuaded to buy a copy on the
spot.

We shall look forward eagerly to the arrival of the first
proofs of the Index. For the moment we find ourselves unaccount-
ably idle, which is a considerable change after the long strain
of the past two years.

Yours very sincerely,

Executive Vice-Chairman.

P.S. I think also that in the first paragraph of the blurb, line five, we might change the 'sixteen' scholars to 'fifteen', to conform with the list of contributors.

The Rev. F.N. Davey.

6th January 1954.

appearing on March 17, the date which we fixed so long ago.

With all good wishes for 1954,

Yours very sincerely,

Executive Vice-Chairman.

COPY

5 January 1954.

Dear my Lord Bishop,

ECUMENICAL HISTORY

The proofs of the leaflet have arrived, and I had
two copies sent express to your Lordship yesterday. There
are a few modifications that I think we ought to make.

p.1: I think it is your Lordship's intention that Dr Rouse's name should come first on the title page of the book, and the leaflet ought to follow suit.

p.2, para. 1: there are in fact only fifteen names in the list of contributors, not sixteen. Also, Dr Rouse tells me that eight nations and seven Christian confessions are represented, and I think we might well put these numbers in.

p.2, para. 2: in the first line Dr Rouse suggests "much more" instead of "far more", in order to avoid the repetition of "far", which appears two lines below; and in the middle of the paragraph I think we should say "one hundred" instead of "a hundred".

p.3, line 1: I think the writers will be better described as "contributors to" rather than "authors of" the History.

p.3, foot: there is room here for the list of contributors, and I propose to transfer it from the top of p.4, leaving the whole of p.4 free for the order form.

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I have not yet heard what is to be the price of
the American edition, but I am expected to hear from Dr
Meacham very shortly. If he does not reply in time, I
propose to print this first batch of leaflets without the
American price, and to insert it in later printings.

I shall be grateful for your Lordship's comments
on the leaflet as soon as possible, because we ought not
to delay the printing if we are to have copies inserted
in the next number of the *Ecumenical Review*. I also hope
that we shall soon have an official ruling about the title-
page because this, too, we shall have to send to press
before long. I understand from Mr Padfield that Dr Von-von
Thadden has agreed to sign the new preface, and I presume
that we shall shortly have the text for the printer.

The work on the index is taking some time, but
I think we shall get it ready by the latest date the
printer has given us.

Believe me,

Editorial Secretary.

3rd December 1953.

Dear Mr. Davey,

The corrected page proofs of Chapters X and XI of the History
will go off to you to-day. We have made such good progress that
I think there is no doubt that I shall be able to bring with me
to England corrected proofs up to the end of Appendix II, page
745. I am a little concerned that the page proofs of the Bibliography
has not reached us. If it comes before I leave for England I
expect to have a little time to work on it here. If not, Miss
Rouse and I must do it together in England. I have just had the
good news that Professor Martin Schmidt, author of Chapter II, is
in England, and I hope that he will be able to read the Bibliо-
graphy rapidly in order to check the German titles.

We have drawn your attention in the margin to a number of
cases in which the printer has failed to make corrections indi-
cated in the galley proofs as returned to him, and where he has
introduced new errors into the text. I sympathise with his dif-
ficulty in working at speed, but some of these errors have been
serious. The worst, of course, has been the omission of a number
of "one white lines" which had been indicated in the galleys. We
have had good luck in that in every case not far from the spot
where a white line is needed there has been some half or quarter
line at the end of a paragraph. By slightly mutilating these
paragraphs we have been able to create the needed white line
without serious dislocation of the text. Throughout we have
tried to avoid the necessity of more than a very little re-
setting of type.

You will find a rather larger number of corrections than
usual in Chapter XII. This is due to the fact that we still
suffer from a good deal of sniping on the part of the Chairman
of our Committee, Professor Keller (the inconsistencies in whose
spelling of his own name still cause us infinite perplexity),
who still had desired certain changes in the text. Most of these
are insignificant, and I have tried to keep the substitutions
almost exactly to the length of the galley proof text. It has

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The Rev. F.N. Davey.

3rd December 1953.

been very annoying to have to do this, but we have to try and
keep Professor Keller in a mood favourable to the History.

There are two small points which I must editorially refer
to you. I note that in a number of places in Chapter IX nem.
con., which we had shown in italics, following the Authors'
and Printer's Dictionary, has been changed to roman type. I
dislike italics in the text, and have no objection to this
change. But as it seems to have been made in your office we
must ask you please to be responsible for seeing that consist-
ency is observed throughout the History.

A difficult small point: in the Table of Contents, for
Chapter XI, section 2 we had changed the title to "Christian
Efforts towards International Understanding, 1914-1916. "Mutual
Understanding" is a literal translation of Dean Karlström's
Swedish, but seems rather meaningless in English, and "Inter-
national" is a great improvement. But in the text the section
heading "Christian Efforts towards Mutual Understanding, 1914-16"
fills the line, and the change to "International" would overflow
it. I am not sure how far compression of capitals is possible.
I think that we could get into the line "Christian Efforts for
International Understanding", omitting the date, which is not
indispensable. If you find that this is possible, will you
kindly authorize the change, both in the text of the chapter
and in the Table of Contents.

On the title pages of Chapters XL and XII we seem to detect
a difference in the type used. I should be glad if you would
look into this and make sure that exactly the same size of
capitals is used throughout on these title pages.

I regret to find that we have been inconsistent in the
spelling of the name of the Metropolitan Eulogius, and I should
be grateful if you would kindly see that on page 432, in Chapter
IX, it is changed to this form. On the subject of spelling - it
is the case that Mlle. Suzanne de Diétrich spells her name with
an accent.

All being well, I hope to arrive in London at 5.30 on
Monday, and to present myself at your office at 10 a.m. on
Tuesday morning, the 8th. I do not think that we need take
very much of your time, but there are still a number of matters
on which we must reach a final decision.

Yours very sincerely,

Executive Vice-Chairman.

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Miss Ruth Rouse
World Council of Churches
Committee on History of the Ecumenical Movement
17, Route de Malagnou
Geneva, Switzerland

Dear Miss Rouse:

As you know, the Westminster Press is publishing the American edition of the book, A HISTORY OF THE ECUMENICAL MOVEMENT, which you are editing. For use in promoting and advertising the book, the Press would like to have, at the earliest possible time, a biographical sketch of yourself. We would like to have ‡ fairly detailed biographical information as soon as you can get a letter back to us, as we are urgently in need of such information. Thank you for your help in this matter.

ML

P. S. Please address your letter to me at 920 Witherspoon Bldg., Philadelphia 7, Pa.

BOOK STORES AT PHILADELPHIA, NEW YORK, CHICAGO, AND LOS ANGELES

GENEVA
17, Route de Malagnou

Tel. 6 71 30

25th November 1953.

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

Dear Ruth,

An immense flood of proofs has descended upon us after the blank period, and we are now going full speed ahead. I am definitely fixing December 7 for my trip to London. I am afraid there is little hope of finishing the proofs by then, even with working overtime, but I hope there will not be an excessive amount for us to do together.

Suzanne de Diétrich does spell her name with the 'é'. It is very odd, but we have verified this and there is no doubt about it.

You had not given the reference to your quotation from W.S.C.F. giving Mott's early judgment on the W.S.C.F., and therefore we had not been able to check it. I have not done quite what you suggested. By omitting the words 'be a great unifying force', and inserting 'unite in spirit the students of the world', I have been able to make sense of the quotation without altering the lines, and the little note about the Grindelwald Conferences has gone back as a footnote in place of the one which you deleted. I think this is the best way to tidy up the passage with the minimum of dislocation.

I am afraid we cannot do anything about Ken Latourette's tenses. He has insisted very emphatically that we are writing a History and must view everything from the perspective of those who will be reading in twenty and thirty years' time. A good many of the tenses which I had made present he has put back to past. I think this must be accepted. As I have said before, we are only editing this History, not writing it, though, as you know, I often wish that we had been able to re-write very nearly the whole.

The page proofs are curiously uneven. Some are very well done; in others new mistakes are introduced, and quite a number

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Miss Ruth Rouse.

25th November 1953.

of our corrections have been disregarded. And we are still finding
a certain number of slips which in all these many readings no-one
has previously noticed. But I do not think that there can be a
great many mistakes that have escaped the eyes of all of us.

17 Route de Malagnou,
Geneva.

21.11.53.

Dear Miss Rouse,

I hope you have received the biros by now. Your watch was
to be ready by the end of the month, so Bishop Neill should be
able to bring it with him. I have, as you asked, thanked Miss
Jaboor for her letter. I am glad you had heard from her. I am
so glad to hear you are feeling really well.

Copy

20 February 1953.

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

Dear my Lord Bishop,

I am now able to answer your letters of 19 January,
2 February, 13 February, and 13 February.

1. An appendix to Chapter 10 (13 February)

This appendix has not yet arrived, but we will get
the best advice we can about its lay-out.

2. Off-prints (13 February)

25 off-prints of each chapter amount to 25 copies
of the book - supposing that is, that we include
half-titles between each chapter. We suggest
that these 25 sets of off-prints should come out
of the final 1,000 sets of sheets for which it
is proposed that the World Council of Churches
will pay outright.

3. Timetable (2 February)

We have given you a timetable agreed with the
printer. In present circumstances - which are
expected to continue - work at the printers has
eased off sufficiently for the printers to be
able to promise the same monthly rate of progress
from whatever date the complete manuscript is
received. Nevertheless, I am anxious that you
should not allow this to cause avoidable delay.

4. Length (2 February)

We do not worry much about a few extra pages, but
you may like to know that the cost per page, allow-
ing for overheads, works out at about £4. 14s. per
page.

The Rev. F.N. Davey.

21st November 195

decide on it very soon, and we shall need copies for insertion
in the forthcoming issue of the *Ecumenical Review*. I am glad to
be able to tell you that our Study Department is now mimeograph-
ing a list of all known non-Roman theological faculties and schools
in the world. As soon as a copy is available I will send it to
you, as our publicity leaflet should be sent to all of these at
an early date.

25th November 1953.

Dear Mr. Davey,

I am forwarding to you the Introductory Note to Chapters V, VI, and VII, which I have corrected and slightly reduced in length. I think you will find that ten lines have been gained without destroying the sense, though I am afraid that a good deal of resetting will be required.

In Miss Rouse's chapter, although the introduction is very short and at present has been left without any heading, we have decided to insert the heading 'I. INTRODUCTION' to bring this into line with almost all the other chapters. Comparing the slips, I think that this can be done without disturbing the lines. The other sections will be accordingly re-numbered in the proof, and a corresponding change will have to be made in the table of contents.

In Miss Rouse's chapter, on page 337, there is a reference to Hastings' *Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics*. This is not in our Library, and I cannot check whether it is spelt 'Encyclopedia' or 'Encyclopaedia'. I shall be grateful if you will check this for us.

I am afraid that we may be trying your patience and that of the printer rather high, but you know well the difficulties under which we have laboured and do labour, and I feel every day that we can congratulate ourselves that the History really is taking shape, and that after all we shall not be seriously behind our timetable.

WORLD COUNCIL OF CHURCHES

GENEVA

17, Route de Malagnou

Tel. 67130

18th November 1953.

Dear Ruth,

Many thanks for yours. I am glad you approve my idea regard-
ing the Preface. I have now even improved on it with the idea
that the right person to sign is not Kraemer but Reinold von Thadden,
as Chairman of the Board of Bossey. That will have the advantage
of giving us a layman, someone who stands right outside the immed-
iate circle of the History, and makes possible also a suitable
reference to Kraemer's membership of the Committee, which is quite
important. Robert Mackie approves of this idea, and I am writing
to Wim, who is in America, about it. Herewith a draft of what we
might submit to von Thadden for him to work on. I do not think
that what I have written either about you or Keller is excessive.
If any reference is to be made to myself, perhaps it might suit-
ably come in also at this point.

If we are able to agree on this second Preface or Note to
the Preface, the existing Preface can be shortened, and I do not
expect to find any great difficulty in bringing it up to date and
putting it finally in order.

We are badly stuck at the moment, as no proofs have come in
either from you or from the publisher. I think it may be the fog
which is holding things up, but I am wiring to Mr. Davey to-day
as we must get on.

Yours ever,

17th November 1953.

Dear Ruth,

I have to thank you for various letters. Proof correction is going on as fast as we can manage, and we are actually abreast of what the printer has sent us. It will be a great advantage if you will send your corrections by letter post. This will cost a bit more, but it is important that we should have your corrections as early as possible, as we are trying to get chapters off to the printer without delay.

On Sykes; what you have in the page proof is the furthest limit of correction to which Sykes was prepared to go. You will remember it reads: "the gradual withdrawal of the Evangelicals from the London Missionary Society and other forms of co-operation with dissenters". I have suggested that the addition of the word "some", to read "some other forms of co-operation" is justifiable as it makes clear Sykes' meaning, but does not alter the sense of the modification which he was prepared to make. This is the point at which you have to make up your mind. If you still feel that a note is necessary, please send it in to Mr. Davey with instructions as to what is to be done with it.

We are getting on with the page proofs much more slowly than I had hoped - partly because the printer is sending them in slowly, and partly because of the very minute care which has to be exercised on them. I am afraid this means that I must postpone my visit to London. It seems to me that the best plan will be for me to reach London on the evening of December 7, prepared to start work on the morning of December 8. Even so, it seems likely that Miss Geddie and I will not have finished the page proofs. In that case you and I will have to work at them together at the S.P.C.K. It is absolutely essential that the full text, down to the very last word, should be off our hands before Christmas.

I am sorry to change plans and to cause a change in your plans, but of course we are dependent on the printers and their work.

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Miss Ruth Rouse.

17th November 1953.

With regard to the bibliography, as I have written before, I cannot say exactly what help we shall need, as it depends on how much verification we are able to do here. But, looking through the bibliography, you will find quite a number of books for which we have not been able to find the date and place of publication. Wherever possible, these should be ascertained from the large libraries. There will still be some doubtful points of spelling, but I hope that these will not be very many, and on the whole the bibliography has worked out better than at one time I thought would be possible.

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The Rev. F.N. Davey.

17th November 1953.

not completed by that date, we must plan to finish it off in London. I shall be glad to know whether this slight change in plans would be convenient to you.

Palmer, William

Birkbeck, W.J.: *Russia and the English Church*, London, 1895.
(Correspondence between Palmer and Khomiakov.)

Palmer, William: *Notes on a Visit to the Russian Church in the years 1840, 1841*, ed. J.H. Newman, London, 1884.

*A Harmony of Anglican Doctrine with the Doctrine of the Catholic and Apostolic Church of the East*, Aberdeen, 1846.

*Dissertations on subjects relating to the "Orthodox" or "Eastern-Catholic" Communion*, London, 1853, KLUKE

Shaw, P.E.: *The Early Tractarians and the Eastern Church*, London, 1930.

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The Rev. F.N. Davey.

13th November 1953.

insertion of it will not seriously interrupt the steady flow of
the chapters. I shall be glad to know your opinion on this point.

In the text of the introductory note, the references to the
chapters are given in large Roman type, whereas in the chapters
they are given in Arabic. I do not myself at all object to this
inconsistency, but I draw your attention to it in case the printer
might wish to make the change. We have not made any correction in
the page proof as it will be returned by us.

On page 93, and similarly in the bibliography to Chapter II,
we have referred to a paper by Professor Fritz Blanke on Hugo
Grotius. We have just heard from Professor Blanke that this paper
is to be published in the Swiss Reformed journal *Reformatio*. It
is not in the October number, and the November number has not yet
come in. As soon as we ascertain in which month it is actually
published, we will let you know in order that the correct refer-
ence may be inserted.

The second footnote on page 150 refers to *The Protestant Dis-
senting Deputies*, published in 1952. Would you very kindly arrange
to check the initial of the editor.

Yours very sincerely,

Executive Vice-Chairman.

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20 February 1953

5. <u>Contents Page</u> (19 January)

We agree that the lists of contents should be in one
at the beginning. Of these lists, more later.

6. Half-titles of chapters (19 January)

These will only add 16 pages to the book, and the
dignity secured will be well worth the extra paper;
we shall therefore ask for them.

7. Bibliography (19 January)

We would prefer the bibliography grouped all together
at the end, which will not only be more practicable
for the user of the book, but also make the general
problem of printing easier.

8. Abbreviations (19 January)

We approve in principle of the reasonable use of
abbreviations, but are anxious that every care
should be taken to make them consistent.

I now wish to take up two points with you on our part.

With regard to punctuation, the spelling of certain words,
etc., are you content that we should follow our own House rules,
always excepting the abbreviations to which we have agreed?
Our House rules are almost without exception based upon the
Clarendon Rules, which have for years been regarded as the best
rules to follow by most printers; they are in conformity with
the Oxford English Dictionary, etc. The only material differ-
ence in our rules is that we do not put a full point after
abbreviated titles of which the last letter is the last letter
of the original word, e.g. "Saint" is "St" not "St.", etc.
Instructions can easily be given to follow nearly all these rules
automatically; the only trouble I anticipate is in certain rather
subtle questions of punctuation which I note are not consistently
treated in your copy. We follow the Oxford rule that when more
than two things are enumerated, a comma should be placed after
the one preceding the word "and" - unless (and this is the reason
for inserting a comma) two items in any point of the series are
more closely linked together than the others). Now if you turn to
page 10, Line 12, of Chapter 1, you will find (quite correctly)
"place of meeting, personnel, and procedure". On the other hand,
in Line 16, you will find "doctrine, worship and polity".

9th November 1953.

Dear Ruth,

It is splendid that you have been able to get your German corrections in to Mr. Padfield so rapidly. It is wonderful that you are able to do so much work and so quickly. On looking through the corrections received here, I am relieved to find that we had already made the majority of them ourselves, but certainly there are some which we had missed, and I am grateful for the accuracy of your reading.

We have been carefully through your suggestions on the Introduction and Chapter I. I have accepted your suggestions in a number of cases, but where the matter is not of great importance and an alteration would mean a considerable amount of resetting, I have thought it better to leave things as they stand.

The problem arises of how far we are justified in re-writing our authors' chapters for them. McNeill is a very careful scholar and when his attention has been drawn to something and he has made no change in the proof, I hardly feel that we are entitled to make a change. For example, he has allowed 'dukes of Bavaria' to stand. I imagine that there were two, just as there were two dukes of Saxony. I have not been able to verify it, but in such a matter I think that McNeill really is reliable.

The word 'sacraments' presents us with very great difficulties. The use we have more or less settled down to is that, when the term is used generally, it bears lower case, but when it refers specifically to 'the Sacrament of Holy Communion', especially if the words 'Holy Communion' are printed with capitals, 'Sacrament' also has a capital. I cannot pretend that we are absolutely consistent, but on the whole I have been relieved to find that there is much less inconsistency between our chapters than I had feared.

I will add 'crypto-Calvinist' to the glossary. I quite agree that it is a word which requires definition.

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Miss Ruth Rouse.

9th November 1953.

The work of proof-reading continues to be extremely exhausting.
We will get on with it as fast as we can, but, like everything else
connected with this History, it moves forward more slowly than one
had hoped.

We received your original corrections to the Bibliography in
time for these to be made use of before the proof was sent in to
the publisher.

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Miss Ruth Rouse.

4th November 1953.

The addition of the page references in the footnotes will be a most troublesome job, and obviously you cannot do much at it until you have a complete set of page proofs before you. I am glad that they are coming in pretty rapidly, and I think that Mr. Davey quite understands that this will be one of the last pieces of information that we are able to supply him with. As regards the convention in giving the page references, where one page only is referred to we give, e.g., 'p. 137'. In the case of a long passage we give the first and last pages, e.g. 'pp. 182-94, 152-57', and note that, even where the ten figure does not change, we repeat it. Where the reference is to two consecutive pages we give 'pp. 152 f.', and where to three or four consecutive pages, 'pp. 152 ff.' Strictly speaking 'ff.' should only refer to two pages, but we are not absolutely rigid in following this rule.

I think that it will save you a lot of trouble if you send us one corrected copy of the page proofs. We find that we can run through your corrected proof very quickly and spot the corrections which we have not already made. To make a list of all your corrections would be a very tedious job for you, and it would probably involve the unnecessary listing of a number of corrections which we had already been able to make. We can easily return the corrected page proofs to you if you want to have both copies by you for comparison. It would be an advantage to us to have this corrected copy from you soon, as of course we do not want to have to send in corrections to the printer after having sent in our corrected proof, and I hope to be able to send off the first instalment to him today.

I took the weekend off and went to Dijon. Of course, though no-one will believe it, it was entirely accidental that my arrival there corresponded with the first day of the Foire Gastronomique; but this lent variety to my visit and some relief from dutiful tourist visits to ancient churches and museums. I hope that the weather is not treating you too unkindly, and that you are not finding this work of proof correction too exacting.

Yours ever,

Stephen C.N.

P.S. Your letter about German in the bibliography has just come in. We have made a great many corrections in the German, both in the notes and in the bibliography, but of course I cannot be sure that we have spotted all the errors. Would not the best plan be for you to send in all the corrections which you work out with Mrs. Barton to Mr. Padfield, asking him to see that they are inserted if we have not already made the corrections. If all your corrections were to come here and then be sent by us to the printer, I am afraid that considerable delay would result. We do not want to make more corrections in page proof than is necessary,

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Miss Ruth Rouse.

4th November 1953.

but, as all these are changes only of a letter or two, they would
not disturb the lines, and if necessary some further correction
can be done in page proof. I am particularly anxious not to
hold up the work at this stage, as we are already a few days
behind our timetable with the correction of page proofs.

I am very grateful for the work you and Mrs. Barton are
doing in this matter. It is most important that both our Latin
and our German should be correct, and of course this is one of
the areas in which the typed copies have made the largest number
of mistakes.

Later:

I have just received an anxious cable from Mr. Davey. I
have explained to him that I have asked you to send all needed
corrections direct to the publisher and that if necessary we will
insert the further corrections in the page proof. I am not sure
whether you have realized that if we hold up the printing at this
stage we may lose our place in the printers' carefully planned
timetable and may suffer a loss not of days but of many weeks or
even months, together with the enormous financial expense that
this would cost. It would be far cheaper for us to have to put
in even a couple of hundred corrections in page proof than to
lose our place in the printers' schedule. I hope that a great
many of the corrections that you and Mrs. Barton have made have
already been made by us. We did take a great deal of trouble
over the German, but I am sure that a good many errors did escape
my eye.