George Frederick Wells papers, 1900-1958.
Collection Number: 2141

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library


DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
George Frederick Wells papers, 1900-1958.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
2141
Abstract:
Papers of George Frederick Wells include diaries; writings on various theological questions; sermons; scrapbooks and notebooks; pamphlets, correspondence, tracts and church programs.
Creator:
Wells, George Frederick.
Quanitities:
8 Linear Feet
Language:
Collection material in English

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Methodist minister.

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Papers of George Frederick Wells include diaries, 1905-1958; writings on the rural church and various theological questions; sermons; scrapbooks and notebooks; and pamphlets, tracts and church programs. Also, correspondence, 1900-1958, much of it with World War II servicemen, but also concerning the Country Church Movement.

INFORMATION FOR USERS

Cite As:

George Frederick Wells papers, #2141. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.

SUBJECTS

Places:
Greene County (N.Y.)
Dutchess County (N.Y.)
Delaware County (N.Y.)
Columbia County (N.Y.)
Massachusetts.
Vermont.
Subjects:
World War, 1939-1945 -- Methodists.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Paricipation, American.
Religion -- Study and teaching -- United States.
Methodist preaching.
Methodist Church (U.S.)
Methodists -- United States.
Rural churches.

CONTAINER LIST
Container
Description
Date
Scope and Contents
All the material in the collection may not be covered by this guide.
Box 1 Folder 1
High School
Undated
Scope and Contents
Loose-leaf: Index to Reverend Wells' sermons by subject, also lists numbers, title, and text
Box 1 Folder 2
Correspondence - Old
Undated
Scope and Contents
These papers were added to the folder and are not Well's. Church programs, book and magazine mail advertising, newspaper clippings, mostly columns by George Mathew Adams, Church pamphlets and tracts, two Pamphlets on "Atlantic Union", two pledge cards, calling card "Reverend Lincoln MacKenzie", membership card for G. F. W. for League of Vermont Writer, Valentine, Facsimile title page of Zion's Herald of 1823/01/09 - "The Federal Churches of Lincoln, Vermont. Articles of Amalgamation", reprint: "The Last Best Hope of Earth: An Interview with the Vice-President of the United State" by Frank S. Mead, Editor of the 'Christian Herald', "Appeal to Men in Service" by W. C. T. U., "The Ten Commandments of Safety", "Why I Go To Temple" by Samuel B. Finkel, and various scraps.
Box 1 Folder 3
Business
Undated
Scope and Contents
A handful of receipts, 1 invoice, etc.
Box 1 Folder 4
Newspaper Clippings
Undated
Scope and Contents
Sesquicentennial of Columbia Co., N.Y., Scouting, Boys in the Service to whom he wrote, Church unity, Country Life, Country Life Leaders, obituaries, etc.
Box 1 Folder 5
Mimeo Material
Undated
Scope and Contents
Scouting (mostly), Red Cross, Ground Observers' Corps, Agricultural Missions Foundation, Methodist Rural Fellowship, etc.
Box 1 Folder 6
Report of Child and Family Committee
Undated
Box 1 Folder 7
G.F. Wells
Undated
Scope and Contents
Pamphlet. Ts.cc. "The Board of Sunday Schools Extension Department of Annual Report of the Eastern Division New York, New York East and Newark Conferences"
Box 1 Folder 8
Children
Undated
Scope and Contents
Notes and clippings pertaining to the religious education of children, radio sermon on the same subject.
Box 1 Folder 9
Black loose-leaf notebook
Undated
Scope and Contents
Misc. clippings, notes, programs, scratch paper, and transcript of radio talk.
Box 2 Folder 1
Letters
1940-1945
Scope and Contents
Mostly letters (some postcards and Christmas cards), correspondence with servicemen, their letters and frequently carbons of his replies, occasional clippings, church programs, or pictures. States he writes to about 60 men [probably more than that - J.K.] 1940-45 not in order, still in envelopes.
Box 3 Folder 1
H. R. Barlow
1941-1944
Scope and Contents
Letters: Most faithful correspondent. James J. Hardie most literate among servicemen, along with Raymond Roberts. Occasional letters, to and from chaplains and ministers. 1941-44, not in order, still in envelopes.
Box 4 Folder 1
Letters
1940-1945
Scope and Contents
4" x 6" card file with the names of all military correspondents entered on them; 3" x 5" card file with names and addresses of all military correspondents. 1940-45, not in order. One set almost duplicates the other set exactly.
Box 5 Folder 1
Letters
Undated
Scope and Contents
"Carbon copies of Rev. Wells' letters to servicemen" The folder letters as mentioned clippings about the soldiers posted to loose-leaf paper. Not in order.
Box 5 Folder 2
Newspaper Clippings
Undated
Scope and Contents
Newspaper clippings from Windham Journal concerning churches, town history, and obituaries.
Box 5 Folder 3
Loose-leaf binder
Undated
Scope and Contents
Mimeo of Wells' M. A. thesis, University of Vermont: The Social Problem of the Country Church
Box 5 Folder 4
Echoes From a Country Parish by Sandford Faulkner Boardman
Undated
Scope and Contents
Mimeo
Box 5 Folder 5
Epworth League Notebook
Undated
Scope and Contents
Scrapbook: Clippings, notes, etc., concerning the league
Box 6 Folder 1
A Minister and His Predecessors Critique of Ministerial Ethics Letters
1934
Scope and Contents
Ministerial Ethics - Ms of "A Minister and His Predecessors Critique of Ministerial Ethics" by Reverend Horace Hoffman. Letters between them in the year 1934.
Box 6 Folder 2
Letters
1937
Scope and Contents
Israel - letters of 1937, to and from and concerning Henry Israel of the National Council of the Y. M. C. A.
Box 6 Folder 3
Letters
1937-1938
Scope and Contents
Dawber - letters of 1937-38, to and from Reverend Mark A. Dawber of the Board of Home Missions and Church Extension of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Box 6 Folder 4
Correspondence - Current
1941
Scope and Contents
Letters of 1941 to and from various ministers for information on the Country Life Movement.
Box 6 Folder 5
The Pastor's Journal
1950-11-1950-12
Scope and Contents
Periodical. One issue
Box 6 Folder 6
Scrapbook
Scope and Contents
Pages with newspaper clippings related to the serviceman and religion, also many copies of prayers.
Box 6 Folder 7
New York Libraries
1912-4
Scope and Contents
Quarterly, April 1912
Box 6 Folder 8
The Church and Veterans
1946-07-04-1946-07-07
Scope and Contents
Pamphlet: findings and speeches of Bishops' Conference with Returned Veterans, Columbus, Ohio, July 4-5-6-7, 1946.
Box 6 Folder 9
Women's Foreign Missionary Society Leader's Workbook
1942-1945
Scope and Contents
Scrapbook (black): Carbons of letters to servicemen, 1942-1945; occasional clippings; and three issues of the "Messenger".
Box 6 Folder 10
My First 100 Sermons
1937-12
Scope and Contents
Church Management. December 1917, and Ms. Of "My First 100 Sermons"
Box 6 Folder 11
Engineering
Undated
Scope and Contents
Ms. of "The Rural Church and Social Engineering."
Box 7 Folder 1
Correspondence - Status of Rural Vermont
1903-1906
Scope and Contents
Letters (1903-06) to and from Joseph L. Hills, of University of Vermont concerning the publication of his senior thesis "Status of Rural Vermont" and to and from Kenyon L. Butterfield of Carnegie Institute concerning work Wells did for C. I.
Box 7 Folder 2
Scrapbook
1898-1921
Scope and Contents
Newspaper and religious journal clippings. 1898-1921.
Box 7 Folder 3
Wells, G.F.
Undated
Scope and Contents
Sermons, articles, stray pages and notes.
Box 7 Folder 4
Report of Reverend G. Frederick Wells on the Correlation of Christian Forces
1911-04-12
Scope and Contents
Manuscript of The Unity, Federation, and A Report submitted in response to the request of the Business Committee of the Federal Council made by their Meeting held in New York, April 12, 1911.
Box 7 Folder 5
How to Build Up the Small Country Church. Submitted to the Homilectic Review
1914-12-02
Scope and Contents
Several drafts
Box 7 Folder 6
Church Comity and Domestic Missions in Vermont
Undated
Scope and Contents
Ms. (several drafts of it)
Box 7 Folder 7
Institutional Churches
Undated
Scope and Contents
Ms. of "The Institutional Church in History" and Ms. of "The Literature of the Country Church Movement."
Box 7 Folder 8
9,555 Parish Calls: A Preliminary Study
Scope and Contents
Ms.:
Box 7 Folder 9
9,555 Parish Calls: A Preliminary Study
1912-1941
Scope and Contents
Black loose-leaf notebook: correspondence of 1912, 1917, 1921, 1935, 1939, 1941 and miscellaneous including, letters of recommendations for Reverend Wells, letters to ministers, etc., notes, newspaper clippings, medical forms, etc.
Box 8 Folder 1
Administration of Church Music
Undated
Scope and Contents
Notebook: clippings, notes, and programs
Box 8 Folder 2
G.F. Wells. Windham D.V.B.S.
Undated
Scope and Contents
Notebook: Daily Vacation Bible School; list of contributions, bills, programs, clippings, notes, etc. [2]
Box 8 Folder 3
Notebook
Undated
Scope and Contents
With picture of Scout pasted on the cover; notes on Scout troops, clippings, tellers, bills.
Box 8 Folder 4
Play
Undated
Scope and Contents
Notebook: game instruction, articles and clippings.
Box 8 Folder 5
Notebook
Undated
Scope and Contents
Notebook (maroon): - notes on art, clippings.
Box 8 Folder 6
Compositions
Undated
Scope and Contents
Brown notebook: Sermon notes, articles, pamphlets.
Box 8 Folder 7
International Journal of Religious Education
1932-10
Box 9 Folder 1
Wells, George Frederick, 'The Rural Church on Community Service'
Undated
Scope and Contents
[2 copies]
Box 9 Folder 2
Wells, George Frederick, Report of Daily Vacation Bible School at Windham
1930-07-31
Scope and Contents
[2 copies reprinted from Windham Journal]
Box 9 Folder 3
Church Comity Lecture Notes
Undated
Box 9 Folder 4
A Select Bibliography of the Country Church
Undated
Box 9 Folder 5
The Federated Churches of Lincoln, Vermont. Article of Amalgamation
Undated
Scope and Contents
[2]
Box 9 Folder 6
Church Federation Facts
Undated
Scope and Contents
Numbers 1, 2, 3. [2 each]
Box 9 Folder 7
Christian Unity in Fact and Practice
Undated
Box 9 Folder 8
An Answer to the New England Church Question by George F. Wells
Undated
Box 9 Folder 9
Vermont and the Rural Churches by George F. Wells
Undated
Box 9 Folder 10
Rural Exodus and Social Progress, 1903. Commencement Address
1903
Box 9 Folder 11
Rural Exodus and Social Progress, 1906. Unpublished Article
1906
Scope and Contents
Different from 1903. Rejection notice from Popular Science.
Box 9 Folder 12
Origin of the Country Church Movement
Undated
Scope and Contents
Ms.
Box 9 Folder 13
Country Life Commission of California
1914-01-15
Scope and Contents
letter 15 January 1914 from Rufus R. Wilson. Humboldt Chamber of Commerce.
Box 9 Folder 14
A Social Survey for Rural Communities
1911
Scope and Contents
Pamphlet by Wells, 1911.
Box 9 Folder 15
Letter
1941-11-06
Scope and Contents
Letter dated 6 November 1941 from W. A. Anderson, Cornell, returning manuscript.
Box 9 Folder 16
Old Home Day
Scope and Contents
Letters and news clipping, regarding "Old Home Day" at various parishes.
Box 9 Folder 17
Persons Rural Leaders
1915-1950
Scope and Contents
Letters 1915-50, clippings, notes and miscellaneous.
Box 9 Folder 18
Home Missions Council. Town and Country Committee.
1938-01-11
Scope and Contents
Carbon of letter written 11 January 1938.
Box 9 Folder 19
Ralph Williamson
1951-1953
Scope and Contents
Letters to and from Ralph Williamson on the Rural Church Institute - 1951, 1953. The Rural Fellowship, Summer 1951.
Box 9 Folder 20
Landis
1937-1938
Scope and Contents
Letters to and from Benson Y. Landis, The Home Missions Council 1937-38, programs, etc.
Box 9 Folder 21
Larger Parish
Undated
Scope and Contents
Mimeo notes on the subject.
Box 9 Folder 22
God's Rural Chores
1939-1941
Scope and Contents
CC. Ts. "God's Rural Chores" by Wells. Letters to and from Reverend John M. Pearson of the New York Conference, 1939-41 ; issue of Delaware County 4-H Club News; news release 20 April 1941; U.S.D.A. Extension Service Circular 351, March 1941.
Box 9 Folder 23
Rural Preaching Mission
1936-1937
Scope and Contents
Notes, clippings, pamphlets, form letters 1936-37.
Box 9 Folder 24
Dates
Undated
Scope and Contents
Notes, form letters on rural church movement.
Box 9 Folder 25
Lord's Acre Plan
1946-03
Scope and Contents
Reprint issue of Farmer's Federation News, March 1946, pamphlet on above subject.
Box 9 Folder 26
Rural City of God
1941-08-24
Scope and Contents
Notes on subject, church program. Letter to "Dear Oscar" [probably his brother] written on 24 August 1941.
Box 9 Folder 27
Hewitt
1940-1941
Scope and Contents
Letters 1940-41 to Arthur, Oscar, and Lucy.
Box 9 Folder 28
Rural
1935-03-1938-02-26
Scope and Contents
Two copies of The Pastor's Journal, March 1935 "A Minister and His Predecessors" by Wells. Letter, 26 February, 1938, from Thomas Alfred Tripp, Board of Home Missions of Congregational Church. Clippings, church program, 3 letters
Box 9 Folder 29
Programs
Undated
Scope and Contents
Programs, form letters, announcements
Box 9 Folder 30
The New England Country Church Question
Undated
Scope and Contents
Mimeo Ts. By Wells
Box 9 Folder 31
W. L. Anderson and Professor Frank A. Waugh
1937
Scope and Contents
Notes, biographical material on W. L. Anderson. Letters to and from Frank A. Waugh of Massachusetts A. C. 1937.
Box 9 Folder 32
Loose-leaf scrapbook
Undated
Scope and Contents
Black. Clippings, notes, programs, an occasional letter mostly pertaining to history of local parishes.
Box 9 Folder 33
Zion's Herald
1953-03-11-1953-04-08
Scope and Contents
The issues of March 11, 18, 25, 1953 and of April 1, and 8, 1953. Clippings have been removed.
Box 10 Folder 1
The Church and Rural American by George F. Wells
Undated
Scope and Contents
cc. Ts.:
Box 10 Folder 2
Letters
Undated
Scope and Contents
, papers, and clippings pertaining to James Weed, one of his servicemen correspondents.
Box 10 Folder 3
Ministerial Ethics and the Christian Funeral by George F. Wells
Undated
Scope and Contents
cc. Ts:
Box 10 Folder 4
The War and the Country Churches
Undated
Scope and Contents
Ms.:
Box 10 Folder 5
Scriptural passages
Undated
Scope and Contents
cc. Ts.: list of scriptural passages
Box 10 Folder 6
Criteria by Which to Identify, Classify and Evaluate Programs Projects in Country Church Work
Undated
Scope and Contents
Ms.:
Box 10 Folder 7
Creative Idea for the Country Church
Undated
Scope and Contents
Ms.:
Box 10 Folder 8
Five Years in a Country Parish
Undated
Scope and Contents
Ms.: news clippings
Box 10 Folder 9
The Kingdom of Christ Among Men
Undated
Scope and Contents
Ts. mimeo:
Box 10 Folder 10
Church Federation and the Smaller Denominations
Undated
Scope and Contents
Ts. mimeo: Questionnaire
Box 10 Folder 11
Sir Horace Flunkett by C. J. Galpin
Undated
Scope and Contents
Ms.:
Box 10 Folder 12
Reverent George B. Gilbert
1940-1941
Scope and Contents
Letters to and from Reverend George B. Gilbert; clipped reviews of Gilbert's books - Forty Years a Country Preachers.
Box 10 Folder 13
You Ought to Know
Undated
Scope and Contents
Material on dating the Country Church movement.
Box 10 Folder 14
Letters
1953-1957
Scope and Contents
Carbon paper box mostly letters to and from people who like his poetry.
Box 10 Folder 15
Letters and clippings
Undated
Scope and Contents
and ms. Pages concerning Well's attempt to write a book for children. Clippings, too.
Box 10 Folder 16
How With Children by George F. Wells
Undated
Scope and Contents
cc. Ts.:
Box 10 Folder 17
Helping the Children by George F. Wells
Undated
Scope and Contents
cc. Ts.:
Box 10 Folder 18
Letters
1946-1947
Scope and Contents
Letters to and from relatives and friends, mostly concerning a book he is writing on religious education for children
Box 10 Folder 19
Religious Nurture Within the Family. A Series of Seven Broadcast V. Guiding Children in Prayer
Undated
Scope and Contents
mimeo Ts.: Not by Wells.
Box 10 Folder 20
By-Laws of Township Health Committee
Undated
Scope and Contents
Ts.:
Box 10 Folder 21
The Christian Advocate
1947-05-08
Box 10 Folder 22
Message of Israel by Rabbi James G. Heller
1947-02-16
Scope and Contents
mimeo Ts.:
Box 10 Folder 23
Talking it Over with Children by George F. Wells
Undated
Scope and Contents
Ms.:
Box 10 Folder 24
Talking it Over with Children by George F. Wells
Undated
Scope and Contents
Ts.:
Box 10 Folder 25
A Study of the Efficiency of the County Work of the Young Men's Christian Association by George F. Wells
1908
Scope and Contents
Ts. Cc.:
Box 11 Folder 1
Anthony Vogt, 1937
1937-1941
Scope and Contents
pamphlets: (1) "The Size of the Rural Parish" by Ralph A. Fenton; (2) "The Salary of Rural Pastors" by Ralph A. Fenton; (3) "The Rural Church at Worship"; programs. Letters to and from ministers mostly, 1937, some 1941. Letter from Heber J. Grant, autograph of Mormon President; dated 1937.
Box 11 Folder 2
Hyde, William DeWitt - Impending Paganism in New England
Undated
Scope and Contents
mimeo Ts. Inside.
Box 11 Folder 3
Carnegie Institution of Washington Office of Publications
1937
Scope and Contents
Reprint from 1937 catalogue of publications. Letters to and from Carnegie Institute, 1937.
Box 11 Folder 4
A Guide to the Literature of Rural Life
Undated
Scope and Contents
Composition by Benson Y. Landis.
Box 11 Folder 5
Buck Creek Parish
Undated
Scope and Contents
Pamphlet
Box 11 Folder 6
New England Country Church Association
1909-01-18-1911-03-14
Scope and Contents
Proceeding of above for January 18 and 19, 1909, and papers read at meeting in March 13 and 14, 1911.
Box 11 Folder 7
Are 'Union Churches' Advisable by George F. Wells
Undated
Scope and Contents
Ts.cc. [2 copies]
Box 11 Folder 8
The Need of Church Federation in Vermont by George F. Wells
Undated
Scope and Contents
Ts. Cc.:
Box 11 Folder 9
The Country Life Movement in New England
Undated
Scope and Contents
Ts.cc.
Box 11 Folder 10
Some Work in the Methodist Church, Lovington, Illinois by Charles Simeon Lyles
Undated
Scope and Contents
Mimeo Ts.
Box 11 Folder 11
The Uniting of Churches - Does it Pay by George F. Wells
Undated
Scope and Contents
Mimeo Ts. [2 copies]
Box 11 Folder 12
The Problem of the Rescue Mission
Undated
Scope and Contents
CC. Ts. [2 copies]
Box 11 Folder 13
Minister and his Predecessors
1934
Scope and Contents
Ts. Of "A Minister's Duty to his Predecessor". Notes, letters 1934.
Box 11 Folder 14
E. B. Sanford
1916-1923
Scope and Contents
Letters to and from and about E. B. Sanford 1916, 1922-23.
Box 11 Folder 15
Who Are We?
Undated
Scope and Contents
Ms.
Box 11 Folder 16
Country Community Protection
Undated
Scope and Contents
Ts.
Box 11 Folder 17
Successful Rural Churches
Undated
Scope and Contents
Ts. "The First Church of Collegeport, Texas" by Reverent Murray A. Travis. Ts. "God's Handiwork" by Reverend J. G. Merrill.
Box 11 Folder 18
The Christian Church at Clifton, Colorado by Reverent Clark Bower, Minister
Undated
Scope and Contents
Mimeo Ts. Ts. "The Scotch Ridge United Presbyterian Church" by Reverend James. O. Ashenhurst.
Box 11 Folder 19
An Exclusive Church Rebaptized
Undated
Scope and Contents
Mimeo Ts. (author's name obliterated).
Box 11 Folder 20
Country Church and County Church
Undated
Scope and Contents
Ts. "The Country Church and the County Work" [3 copies]
Box 11 Folder 21
Better Country Churches
Undated
Scope and Contents
Ts.
Box 11 Folder 22
The Successful Rural Minister
Undated
Scope and Contents
Ms
Box 11 Folder 23
The Pulpit
1944-12
Box 11 Folder 24
The Profit Motive
Undated
Scope and Contents
Ms
Box 11 Folder 25
A Minister and the Predecessors by George F. Wells
Undated
Scope and Contents
CC. Ts.
Box 11 Folder 26
A Preliminary Survey of Philadelphia in Behalf of Inter-Church Federation by George F. Wells
1910
Scope and Contents
CC. Ts.
Box 11 Folder 27
A Five Year Program for a Small Town Church… by George F. Wells
Undated
Scope and Contents
CC. Ts.
Box 11 Folder 28
George Frederick Wells
1906
Scope and Contents
Mimeo Ts. "The Christian Church" by Wells. Drew Theological Seminary, 1906.
Box 11 Folder 29
Democracy
Undated
Scope and Contents
Ts. "Democracy" by Wells. Letters to and from E. R. Eastman of the American Agriculturist. Ms. "Subsistence Farming"
Box 11 Folder 30
How We Are Working At Tyringham
Undated
Scope and Contents
Ts. "How We are Working at Tyringham" by Wells
Box 11 Folder 31
Biography Personal
1922-12
Scope and Contents
Carbon copy letters to Reverend Staley F. Davis, Board of Sunday Schools, December 1922. Assorted biographical note and fragments papers, notes, lists, form letters, pamphlets, etc. relating to the Boy Scouts.
Box 11 Folder 32
Catskill-Hudson Area Interdenominational Rural Church Conference
Undated
Scope and Contents
Papers relating thereto.
Box 11 Folder 33
Untitled
1937-08-01
Scope and Contents
Ms.
Box 12 Folder 1
Germantown, New York Church Records
1935
Scope and Contents
Letters, 1935, to and from concerning salary difficulties.
Box 12 Folder 2
The Church As a Society
Undated
Scope and Contents
Unsigned
Box 12 Folder 3
The Religious Phase of the Rescue Mission Problem by George F. Wells
Undated
Scope and Contents
Ts.
Box 12 Folder 4
The Glory of Athletics
Undated
Scope and Contents
Unsigned
Box 12 Folder 5
Pastoral Evangelism by George F. Wells
Scope and Contents
Ts.
Box 12 Folder 6
Where is Heaven by George F. Wells
Undated
Scope and Contents
Ms.
Box 12 Folder 7
The Christian Doctrine of Justification and Reconciliation by Albrecht Ritschl by George F. Wells
Undated
Scope and Contents
Ts.
Box 12 Folder 8
Helping Children Find God by George F. Wells
Undated
Scope and Contents
Ts.
Box 12 Folder 9
Helping the Children. Submitted to the Free Press
1947-02-06
Scope and Contents
Ms. Inside
Box 12 Folder 10
New England Country Church Questions by George F. Wells
Undated
Scope and Contents
Ts. Inside
Box 12 Folder 11
A Country Minister Surveys the Field
Undated
Scope and Contents
Ms.
Box 12 Folder 12
First Aid and Safety
Undated
Scope and Contents
Papers, notes, clippings, catalogues, regarding First Aid and Safety.
Box 12 Folder 13
Is an Organized Country Life Movement Possible
Undated
Scope and Contents
Ts. "The Country Minister Knowing His Parish" and Ts. "The Country Pastor and Play" by Wells
Box 12 Folder 14
Answering and Ultimate Question by George F. Wells
Undated
Box 12 Folder 15
One Way to Solve the Rural Church Problem
Undated
Scope and Contents
Ts.
Box 12 Folder 16
Measuring the Country Church Movement
Undated
Scope and Contents
Ms.
Box 12 Folder 17
The Status of the Individual in the Church of the Middle Ages
Undated
Scope and Contents
Ts.
Box 12 Folder 18
Ministerial Ethics and the Christian Funeral
Undated
Scope and Contents
Ts.: [2 copies]
Box 12 Folder 19
The Rural Community Church by George F. Wells
Undated
Scope and Contents
Ts.
Box 12 Folder 20
Echoes from a Country Parish by Sanford Faulkner Boardman
Undated
Scope and Contents
Ts.
Box 12 Folder 21
The Minister's Message to the Rural People by George F. Wells
Undated
Scope and Contents
Mimeo TS.
Box 12 Folder 22
Report on Study of New York City Missions
Undated
Scope and Contents
Ts.
Box 12 Folder 23
Dawber, Mark A. Must We Revise Our Rural Ideals and Our Rural Life Programs?
Undated
Scope and Contents
Mimeo Ts. Inside
Box 12 Folder 24
The Life Work of Professor A. V. G. Allen as Influenced by his Early Environment
Undated
Scope and Contents
Ts.
Box 12 Folder 25
The Status of the Individual in the Early Church by Phil P. Jacobs
Undated
Scope and Contents
Ts.
Box 12 Folder 26
A Study in Local Church Federation by George F. Wells
Undated
Scope and Contents
Ts.
Box 12 Folder 27
Review and Introduction
Undated
Scope and Contents
Ts.
Box 12 Folder 28
A Macedonian Cry
Undated
Scope and Contents
Ts.
Box 12 Folder 29
Called to Account
Undated
Scope and Contents
Ts. [2 copies]
Box 12 Folder 30
A Call to Standardness
Undated
Scope and Contents
Ts. [2 copies]
Box 12 Folder 31
Learning Things First Hand
Undated
Scope and Contents
Ts.
Box 12 Folder 32
Among the Hills
Undated
Scope and Contents
Ts.
Box 12 Folder 33
Possibilities. I. Among the Hills
Undated
Scope and Contents
Ts.
Box 12 Folder 34
Lincoln
Undated
Scope and Contents
Ts.
Box 12 Folder 35
A Dirge
Undated
Scope and Contents
Ts.
Box 12 Folder 36
Echoes from a Country Parish…I. A Challenge
Undated
Scope and Contents
Ts.
Box 12 Folder 37
The Signs of the Times by Reverend Louis V. S. Hatton
Undated
Scope and Contents
Pamphlet
Box 12 Folder 38
History of Church Movement
Undated
Scope and Contents
Notes on above rural movement.
Box 12 Folder 39
Jokes
Undated
Scope and Contents
Ts. (2 pp)
Box 12 Folder 40
Retired Preachers. What a Retired Preacher Does
1949-11-1950-07
Scope and Contents
Rough draft of article "What do Retired Ministers Do?"; clipping from Vermont Alumni News, November 1949; programs; Pension Progress, July 1950; pamphlet, The Retired Minister by William J. Thompson
Box 12 Folder 40a
Typist Portfolio
Undated
Scope and Contents
Rough draft and notes for "The Minister's Message to the Rural People", "Scouting in the Country Church Program"
Box 12 Folder 41
Photograph
Undated
Scope and Contents
Picture of group of men, unidentified and signed by W. W. Watson
Box 12 Folder 42
Photograph
1926-1940
Scope and Contents
Picture of the Cornell Summer School for Town and Country Ministers, Wells identified, 1926-1940.
Box 12 Folder 43
1803-1903, Centennial of the Old First Congregational Church, Windham, New York
1903
Scope and Contents
Pamphlet. Windham Journal Print, 1903; Pulled, placed in Master file and catalogued separately, K. J. 4-27-65.
Box 12 Folder 44
The History of the Old Church with Shorter Histories of the Daughter Churches of Windham, Jewett, and Ashland
Undated
Scope and Contents
Pamphlet. 64 pp.
Box 12 Folder 45
The Book of Remembrance
1931
Scope and Contents
History of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Treadwell, New York. [1931?] 13 pages of text and pictures and 45 pages of advertisements at the end. Pulled, placed in Master file and catalogued separately, K. Jacklin, 4/27/65.
Box 13 Folder 1
Compositions
1907-1932
Scope and Contents
Black scrapbook. Clippings pasted in [1907-1932] and notes primarily concerning weekday Bible School.
Box 13 Folder 2
The Pastor Evangelist
Undated
Scope and Contents
Ms.
Box 13 Folder 3
Francis Asbury
Undated
Scope and Contents
Notes
Box 13 Folder 4
Luther's Funeral
Undated
Scope and Contents
Notes
Box 13 Folder 5
Between Ministers
Undated
Scope and Contents
Ms.
Box 13 Folder 6
A Second Word to Ministerial Associations
Undated
Scope and Contents
Ms.
Box 13 Folder 7
You Ought to Know
Undated
Scope and Contents
Ts. [2 copies]
Box 13 Folder 8
Church Federation
Undated
Scope and Contents
Notes, etc.
Box 13 Folder 9
Quotes, clippings, poetry, obituaries
Undated
Scope and Contents
Scriptural quotations and clippings, poetry (original and otherwise) some obituary clippings, prayers - original and otherwise.
Box 13 Folder 10
Country Church Movement
Undated
Scope and Contents
Notes, rough drafts, questionnaires, mimeo bibliographies, price lists, and other material
Box 13 Folder 11
Papers
Undated
Scope and Contents
Papers from his stint with the Ground Observer Corps, Albany Air Defense Region.
Box 13 Folder 12
Notes
Undated
Scope and Contents
Notes, odd pages, etc. probably from sermon preparation.
Box 13 Folder 13
Newspaper clippings, programs, adverting pamphlets, other odd matter
Undated
Scope and Contents
Newspaper clippings, programs, advertising pamphlets, other odd printed matter.
Box 13 Folder 14
Town and Country Church
1953-05
Box 13 Folder 15
How One Country Pastor Did Community Work by George F. Wells
Undated
Scope and Contents
Ts.
Box 14 Folder 1
Federal Council
Undated
Scope and Contents
Ts. And Ms. Copies of Wells' poetry. Nothing on Federal Council.
Box 14 Folder 2
The Social Problem of the Country Church by Reverend Wells
1906
Scope and Contents
Ts. 154 pp.
Box 14 Folder 3
Community Leadership: A Course in Social Engineering for Village and Country Communities Prepared for the State Executive Committee of the Young Men's Christian Association of New York 1914
1914
Scope and Contents
Mimeo Ts.
Box 14 Folder 4
Sermons
Undated
Scope and Contents
Labelled in numbered envelopes. 74. "Not Forsaken God's Care of the Aged." 87. "Mountain Peaks." 88. "Mountain Peaks." 89. "Mountain Peaks." 91. "This Grand Display of God" 92. "The God of Elijah"
Box 14 Folder 5
Lecture notes
Undated
Scope and Contents
Other envelopes unnumbered: "'The Country Church,' Lecture Notes"; "What the First American Methodist Stood For"; "The Country Church and Social Services, The Gospel of the Kingdom"; "How to Organize a Church Federation"; "How Two Country Churches Became One"; "Inter-Church Federation"; "The Needs of the Country Church"; "The Mission of Methodism in New England"; "The Survey-Idea in Country-Life Work" by L.H. Bailey, a pamphlet
Box 14 Folder 6
Anniversary Oleout
Undated
Scope and Contents
[placed in this empty folder by J. K.] scraps and fragment sermons, articles, etc. scratch paper- anything odd that does not form some recognizable whole.
Box 14 Folder 7
Newspaper and clippings
1939-06-12
Scope and Contents
New York Daily News of June 12, 1939 and clippings of the U.S. Visit of King George and Queen Elizabeth and a few of Roosevelt
Box 14 Folder 8
References, bibliography, and other writings
1900-11-26
Scope and Contents
References/recommendations for boys desiring to join Reverend Wells' Scout troop at Hyde Park. Ts. Cc. "A Challenge"; Ts. CC. "In God's Country"; Ts. CC. "A Minister' and His Predecessors"; Ts. CC. "The Minister's Message to the Rural People" [2 copies]; Ts. "Origin of the Country Church Movement"; Ms. "The Preachers in New York City"; Ms. "Nitrogen-really on nitrogen, not a sermon, apparently (dated 26, November, 1900) done as a paper at the University of Vermont; Ts. CC. "Why Not Christian Funeral"; Ts. CC. "Ministerial Ethics and the Christian Funeral"; Bibliography of the Country Church Movement; Ts. "Decent Christian Burial condensed form the Forum" by "Marian J. Caste"
Box 15 Folder 1
Letters
Undated
Scope and Contents
Letters in envelopes. In chronological order by year - some undated
Box 16 Folder 1
Letters
1900-1958
Scope and Contents
Letters - flat filed (1900-1958). In chronological order by year - some undated. Four E. B. Sanford letters: July 15, September 18, 1922; February 12, 1923; February 26, 1931.
Box 17 Folder 1
Church Federation: Inter-Church on Federation
1905
Scope and Contents
Book. Editor, Elias B. Sanford. New York: Fleming H. Revell Company.
Box 17 Folder 2
The Country Church and the Rural Problem
1909
Scope and Contents
Book. Kenyon L. Butterfield. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Box 17 Folder 3
Chapters in Rural Progress
1908
Scope and Contents
Book. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Box 17 Folder 4
The Church of the Open Country
1911
Scope and Contents
Book. Warren H. Wilson. New York: Missionary Education Movement of the United State and Canada.
Box 17 Folder 5
Community Study
1911
Scope and Contents
Book. New York: Missionary Education Movement of the United States and Canada.
Box 17 Folder 6
Community Study For Country Districts
1912
Scope and Contents
Book. Anna B. Taft. New York: Missionary Education Movement of the United States and Canada.
Box 17 Folder 7
The Status of Rural Vermont
1903
Scope and Contents
Book. George F. Wells. St. Alban's, Vermont: Vermont State Agricultural Commission, 1903.
Box 17 Folder 8
James A. Garfield: Memorial Address
1882
Scope and Contents
Book. James G. Blaine. Washington: Government Printing Office. Distributed 1965-01-07 per KJ
Box 17 Folder 9
Sanders' New Speller, Definer and Analyzer
1881
Scope and Contents
Book. Charles W. Sanders. New York and Chicago: Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor & Company. Distributed 1965-01-07 per KJ.
Box 17 Folder 10
The Atlantic Monthly
1899-05
Scope and Contents
Periodicals. Saved for Rollin Lynde Hartt's article "A New England Hill Town", page 712.
Box 17 Folder 11
The North American Review
1907-09
Scope and Contents
Periodicals. Saved for Charles A. Brigg's "The Great Obstacle to the Reunion of Christendom", page 72.
Box 17 Folder 12
The Outlook
1906-08-18
Scope and Contents
Periodical. "The Country Church and its Social Problems" by Wells.
Box 17 Folder 13
The Bibliotheca Sacra
1907-04
Scope and Contents
Periodical. the "New England Country Church Question" by Wells.
Box 17 Folder 14
The Homilectic Review
1909-08
Scope and Contents
Periodical. "Writings on Practical Country Church Problems" by Wells.
Box 17 Folder 14
The Homilectic Review
1906-05
Scope and Contents
Periodical. "Writings on Practical Country Church Problems" by Wells.
Box 17 Folder 14
The Homilectic Review
1907-08
Scope and Contents
"The Country Church and the Making of Manhood" by Wells
Box 17 Folder 14
The Homilectic Review
1908-07
Scope and Contents
"The Social Misfortune of the Rescue Mission" by Wells
Box 17 Folder 14
The Homilectic Review
1909-07
Scope and Contents
"What Is Church Federation" by Wells
Box 17 Folder 14
The Homilectic Review
1911-06
Scope and Contents
"What Is Church Federation" by Wells
Box 17 Folder 14
The Homilectic Review
1914-04
Scope and Contents
"How to Federate and Unite Country Churches" by Wells [2 copies]
Box 17 Folder 14
The Homilectic Review
1915-10
Scope and Contents
Periodical. "How to Build Up the Small Country Church" by Wells.
Box 17 Folder 15
Methodist Review
1907-07-1915-12
Scope and Contents
Periodical. July-August, 1907 - "What Our Country Churches Need" by Wells; November-December, 1912 - "The Rural Church in Community Service" by Wells; November-December, 1915 - "Efficient Church Union for Country Towns" by Wells.
Box 17 Folder 16
Scrapbook
1917-1934
Scope and Contents
(black). Clippings, programs, notes, etc., mainly related to Sunday School. Photograph pasted to back cover.
Box 17 Folder 17
Church Federation
1904-1910
Scope and Contents
Scrapbook (tan canvas). newspaper clippings, magazine articles, principally by Reverend Wells, programs related to Church Federation and comity.
Box 17 Folder 18
Scrapbook
1909-1929
Scope and Contents
Scrapbook (tan canvas) binding. W 2 1909-1919, 1929. newspaper clippings, magazine article, principally by Reverend Well, programs, notes, one letter, chiefly related to Church Federation and comity.
Box 17 Folder 19
Photograph
1926
Scope and Contents
Group photograph. Probably Cornell University Summer School for Rural Ministers. Also attendance list.
Box 17 Folder 20
Notebook
1933-1935
Scope and Contents
Notebook. Picture pasted on cover, two men, one of which has Einstein-like hair. drafts of letters, notes, clippings.
Box 18 Folder 1
A Line A Day
1905-01-01-1909-03-05
Scope and Contents
Diary. notes from 1 January, 1905 to 5 March, 1909. A comparative record for five years with all same dates on same page. Many gaps, very superficial.
Box 18 Folder 2
A Line A Day
1911-01-01-1925-12-31
Scope and Contents
Diary. notes from: 1 January, 1911 - 16 June, 1911; 17 May, 1913 - 20 May, 1913; 8 March, 1914 - 18 May, 1914; 6 April, 1917 - 31 December, 1917; 1 January, 1918 - 31 December, 1918; 1 January, 1919 - 31 December, 1919; 1 January, 1920 - 22 December, 1920; 1 January, 1925 - 31 December, 1925. Many gaps within these inclusive dates. Notes: 25 January 1911, meets President Taft.
Box 18 Folder 3
1923
1923-01-01-1923-12-31
Scope and Contents
Diary. notes from 1 January, 1923 to 31 December, 1923. Many gaps.
Box 18 Folder 4
1924
1924-01-01-1924-09-30
Scope and Contents
Diary. notes from 1 January, 1924 to 30 September, 1924. Mostly blank.
Box 18 Folder 5
National Diary 1926
1926-01-01-1926-12-31
Scope and Contents
Diary. notes from 1 January, 1926 to 31 December, 1926. Quite faithful, snapshot pasted in back.
Box 18 Folder 6
National Diary 1927
1927-01-01-1927-12-31
Scope and Contents
Diary. notes from 1 January, 1927 to 31 December, 1927. Quite faithful.
Box 18 Folder 7
National Diary 1928
1928-01-01-1928-12-31
Scope and Contents
Diary. notes from 1 January, 1928 to 31 December 1928.
Box 18 Folder 8
National Diary 1929
1929-01-01-1929-12-31
Scope and Contents
Diary. notes from 1 January, 1929 to 31 December, 1929.
Box 18 Folder 9
National Diary 1930
1930-01-01-1930-12-31
Scope and Contents
Diary. notes from 1 January, 1930 to 31 December, 1930.
Box 18 Folder 10
National Diary 1931
1931-01-01-1931-12-31
Scope and Contents
Diary. notes from 1 January, 1931 to 31 December, 1931.
Box 18 Folder 11
National Diary 1932
1932-01-01-1932-12-31
Scope and Contents
Diary. notes from 1 January, 1932 to 31 December, 1932.
Box 18 Folder 12
National Diary 1933
1933-01-01-1933-12-31
Scope and Contents
Diary. notes from 1 January, 1933 to 31 December, 1933.
Box 18 Folder 13
National Date Book
1934-01-01-1934-12-31
Scope and Contents
Diary. notes from 1 January, 1934 to 31 December, 1934.
Box 18 Folder 14
National Diary 1935
1935-01-01-1935-12-31
Scope and Contents
Diary. notes from 1 January, 1935 to 31 December, 1935.
Box 18 Folder 15
National Diary 1936
1936-01-01-1936-12-31
Scope and Contents
Diary. notes from 1 January, 1936 to 31 December, 1936.
Box 18 Folder 16
National Diary 1937
1937-01-01-1937-12-31
Scope and Contents
Diary. notes from 1 January, 1937 to 31 December, 1937.
Box 18 Folder 17
National Diary The Year 1938
1938-01-01-1938-12-21
Scope and Contents
Diary. notes from 1 January, 1938 to 21 December, 1938.
Box 18 Folder 18
National Diary 1939
1939-01-01-1939-12-31
Scope and Contents
Diary. notes from 1 January, 1939 to 31 December, 1939.
Box 18 Folder 19
National Diary 1940
1940-01-01-1940-12-31
Scope and Contents
Diary. notes from 1 January, 1940 to 31 December, 1940.
Box 18 Folder 20
National Diary 1941
1941-01-01-1941-12-31
Scope and Contents
Diary. notes from 1 January, 1941 to 31 December, 1941.
Box 18 Folder 21
National Diary 1942
1942-01-01-1942-12-31
Scope and Contents
Diary. notes from 1 January, 1942 to 31 December, 1942.
Box 18 Folder 22
National Diary 1943
1943-01-01-1943-12-31
Scope and Contents
Diary. notes from 1 January, 1943 to 31 December, 1943.
Box 18 Folder 23
A Daily Record Compliments of I. A. Shaver Prattsville, N.Y.
1944-01-01-1944-03-21
Scope and Contents
Diary. notes from 1 January, 1944 to 21 March, 1944.
Box 18 Folder 24
Desk Private Appointment Memoranda. Reminders. Diary. 1944
1944-03-01-1944-12-30
Scope and Contents
Diary. notes from 1 March, 1944 to 30 December, 1944.
Box 18 Folder 25
1945 Year Book
1945-01-01-1945-12-31
Scope and Contents
Diary. notes from 1 January, 1945 to 31 December, 1945.
Box 18 Folder 26
National Diary The Year 1946
1946-01-01-1946-12-31
Scope and Contents
Diary. notes from 1 January, 1946 to 31 December, 1946.
Box 18 Folder 27
National Diary The Year 1947
1947-01-01-1947-12-31
Scope and Contents
Diary. notes from 1 January, 1947 to 31 December, 1947.
Box 18 Folder 28
National Diary The Year 1948
1948-01-01-1948-12-31
Scope and Contents
Diary. notes from 1 January, 1948 to 31 December, 1948.
Box 18 Folder 29
National Diary The Year 1949
1949-01-01-1949-12-31
Scope and Contents
Diary. notes from 1 January, 1949 to 31 December, 1949.
Box 18 Folder 30
Diary 1950
1950-01-01-1950-12-31
Scope and Contents
Diary. notes from 1 January, 1950 to 31 December, 1950.
Box 18 Folder 31
Diary 1951
1951-01-01-1951-12-31
Scope and Contents
Diary. notes from 1 January, 1951 to 31 December, 1951.
Box 18 Folder 32
National Diary 1952
1952-01-01-1952-12-28
Scope and Contents
Diary. notes from 1 January, 1952 to 28 December, 1952.
Box 18 Folder 33
Year Book Appointment Reminders Memoranda 1953
1953-01-01-1953-12-31
Scope and Contents
Diary. notes from 1 January, 1953 to 31 December, 1953.
Box 18 Folder 34
Daily Reminder 1954
1954-01-01-1954-12-31
Scope and Contents
Diary. notes from 1 January, 1954 to 31 December, 1954.
Box 18 Folder 35
Daily Reminder 1955
1955-01-01-1955-12-31
Scope and Contents
Diary. notes from 1 January, 1955 to 31 December, 1955.
Box 18 Folder 36
National Diary The Year 1956
1956-01-01-1956-12-31
Scope and Contents
Diary. notes from 1 January, 1956 to 31 December, 1956.
Box 18 Folder 37
National Diary for 1957
1957-01-01-1957-12-30
Scope and Contents
Diary. notes from 1 January, 1957 to 30 December, 1957.
Box 18 Folder 38
National Diary for 1958
1958-01-01-1958-05-07
Scope and Contents
Diary. notes from 1 January, 1958 to 7 May, 1958 and notes from 31 July, 1958 to 10 August, 1958 by Mrs. Wells.