Missio Archive
Introduction
About the creator
Contents
Arrangement
Related material - elsewhere
Bibliography

Catalogue

Reference code: GB-0033-D23
Title: Missio Archive
Dates of creation: 1827-2020
Extent: 23 metres
Held by: Durham University Library, Archives and Special Collections
Origination: Missio
Language: English, with some French

About the creator

The Pontifical Mission Societies, known in some countries as Missio, is the name of a group of Catholic missionary societies that are under the jurisdiction of the Pope. They continue to raise funds in England to contribute to the papal pot for worldwide distribution. They began in 1822 with Sister Pauline in France, collecting money for supporting churches and training elsewhere. The Association for the Propagation of the Faith, Society of St Peter the Apostle, Mission Together (Holy Childhood) and the Pontifical Missionary Union came together in 1922, rebranded as Missio in 2009 as the Catholic Church's official support organisation for overseas missions. The societies provide assistance for local missionaries to work alongside global communities that are poor, regardless of their background or belief, until they can become self-sufficient. Missio raises awareness and fosters prayer and cooperation in the whole Catholic Church, with 120 offices worldwide supporting the 1,200 mission dioceses of the world. Each branch of Missio is headed by a National Director, appointed by the Pope.
On 26 June 2012, Pope Benedict XVI appointed Bishop Protase Rugambwa, who until then had been serving as bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Kigoma, Tanzania, as the Deputy Secretary of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples and as President of the Pontifical Mission Societies, naming him an archbishop. Rugambwa ceased to be president after being appointed as Secretary of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples on 9 November 2017, with Giovanni Pietro Dal Toso replacing him.

Contents

Minute books, accounts, correspondence, mission photographs, posters, and other promotional literature of the Association for the Propagation of the Faith, Society of St Peter the Apostle, Mission Together (Holy Childhood) and the Pontifical Missionary Union which, from 2009, rebranded as Missio.

Accession details

Donated by Mary Rafat and Nicky Pisa, September 2021 (Misc.2021/22:19)

Previous custodial history

Stored in the offices of Missio in London

Conditions of access

Open for consultation

Copyright and copying

Permission to make any published use of material from the collection must be sought in advance from the Head of Collections (e-mail PG.Library@durham.ac.uk) and, where appropriate, from the copyright owner. The Library will assist where possible with identifying copyright owners, but responsibility for ensuring copyright clearance rests with the user of the material

Arrangement

The collection retains its original arrangement with box listing: 1-21, A-Z. Box 100 is now Box 13. Printed material has been removed and filed at D23/PM. Of this printed material only a group of printed monographs and pamphlets remain uncatalogued

Appraisal

Clean duplicates have been removed.

Accruals

Further accruals are expected.

Finding aids

Word-processed box list with detailed descriptions provided by Mary Rafat

Related material - elsewhere

Œuvre pontificale de la propagation de la foi Lyon

Bibliography

https://missio.org.uk/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontifical_Mission_Societies


Catalogue

Box A
Reference: D23/BoxA
D23/BoxA/1   27 October 1971 - 14 June 1990
Language:  French captions with English translation
Photographs, mostly of missions in various countries
12 files 
There is a word processed list of English translations of these captions
D23/BoxA/1/1   [?1984]
“Central African Republic”
Original references: 2681-2720
© Vivant Univers
40 BW prints 
D23/BoxA/1/2   1986
“Philippines”
Original references: 2851-2890
© Vivant Univers
40 BW prints 
D23/BoxA/1/3   10 July 1986
“Youngsters of the Third World”
Original references: 2891-2920
© Vivant Univers
30 BW prints 
D23/BoxA/1/4   14 July 1987
“Uganda”
Original references: 2981-3020
© Vivant Univers
40 BW prints 
D23/BoxA/1/5   18 February 1988
“Third World Artisans”
Original references: 3051-3080
© Vivant Univers
40 BW prints 
D23/BoxA/1/6   30 June 1988
“Zaire”
Original references: 3081-3120
© Vivant Univers
40 BW prints 
D23/BoxA/1/7   24 February 1989
“African Independent Churches”
Original references: 3151-3180
© Vivant Univers
30 BW prints 
D23/BoxA/1/8   8 November 1989
“Indonesia”
Original references: 3221-3250
© Vivant Univers
30 BW prints 
D23/BoxA/1/9   1 March 1990
“Equatorial Guinea”
Original references: 3251-3280
© Vivant Univers
30 BW prints 
D23/BoxA/1/10   14 June 1990
“Indonesia Bali Sulawesi”
Original references: 3281-3320
© Vivant Univers
40 BW prints 
D23/BoxA/1/11   2 November 1990
“Africa Ecological Problems”
Original references: 3321-3350
© Vivant Univers
30 BW prints 
D23/BoxA/1/12   27 October 1971, 10 January 1973 & [?1970]
(1) Pope Paul VI ordaining priests from the missions (© Agencia Fides)
(2) Mission Sunday Mass in St Peter's Basilica, Rome
(3) Goats
2 BW prints 
D23/BoxA/2   22 October 1975 - 11 June 1979
Correspondence between Mgr J. L. Coonan, National Director and The Catholic Truth Society, mostly on the subject of Islam
Includes: pamphlet 'Islam' by Lance Wright, manuscript “Islam Comes to Britain”, The Outlook (Summer 1976) and Mgr Coonan's CTS life membership card
1 file 
D23/BoxA/3   1937 - 1939
Papers relating to Cardinal Hinsley
Includes letter from Sr Mary Xavier, White Sisters in London with page from White Sisters magazine on “Our Cardinals and the Missions”, and letter from Archbishop's House re typescript of Cardinal's speech at the APF Exhibition of 1939
1 file 
D23/BoxA/4   8 June 1975 - 16 July 1976
Correspondence of Mgr Coonan and others on attending a conference in Nairobi
1 file 
D23/BoxA/5   30 April 1973 - 1979
Papers relating to a meeting in Rome between the Pontifical Mission Aid Societies and the presidents of the Episcopal Commissions for the Missions (5-14 May 1978)
1 file 
D23/BoxA/6   2008 - 2009
Language:  Italian and English
Reports collected by Mgr John Dale relating to a General Assembly meeting of the Pontificie opere missionarie in Rome in May 2009
Includes: allocation statistics for 2008, report on the activities of the Pontifical Society of St Peter the Apostle for 2008, budget, APF International Secretariat 2009, account statement for the Rome Fondazione Pontificia “Domus Missionalis” for 2008; Pontificia Opera Missionalia Bilanci SegretariatiInternazionali (2008); Elenco delle somme offerte nel 2008 e messe a disposizione del Consiglio Superiore della Pontificia Opera dell'Infanzia Missionaria per l'anno 2009
1 file 
Box B
D23/BoxB
The documents in this box are mostly photocopies of French SPA archive material mostly in French and APF material in English and French

D23/BoxB/1   April 1986
Language:   French
“Oeuvres Pontificales Missionnaires Dossier 'Jeanne Bigard' Avril 1986” by R. Blanchard (archivist in Paris)
Catalogue of the Jeanne Bigard archive held by the Pontifical Mission Societies, Paris, including her life and works. Stéphanie and Jeanne Bigard (mother and daughter) founded the Society of St Peter the Apostle (SPA) in France
1 catalogue 
D23/BoxB/2   1982 - 1992
Language:  French and English
Miscellaneous papers, including:
(1) Photocopies of Les Missions Catholiques and Etude sur les nations montagnaises by R. P. Petitot de la Congrégagation des Oblats de Marie Immaculée (includes descriptions of Native Americans)
(2) Inventaire sommaire analytique de certains dossiers des archives de la Propagation de al foi de Paris dresse pour al session C.R.E.D.I.C. des 14-16 Septembre 1982 (1) Banlieue sud de Paris. Translation: Short analytical catalogue of some archive files of the Propagation of the Faith, Paris, prepared for CREDIC 1982. CREDIC is an international research organisation concerned with the inculturation of Christianity.
(3) Liste des 'Livres anciens' se trouvant dans les 3 armoires grillagées, salle principalde de la bibliothèque. Translated List of old books to be found in the 3 bookcases with grilled doors in the main room of the library, i.e. the library of the Oeuvres Pontificales Missionaires in Paris
(4) Photocopy of Waldersee, James, The Four Founders: A brief history of the Pontifical Mission Aid Societies (Chevalier Press, 2000)
1 file 
D23/BoxB/3   [?1990]
Language:  French and English
Photocopies of correspondence from the archive of the Oeuvres Pontificales Missionnaires in Paris, including:
(1) Correspondence between the National Directors and Paris, sent by R Blanchard from the Paris archive, 1918-1990
(2) Correspondence from the English clergy of the Northern District in aid of Catholic missions, including Berwick-upon Tweed and Wigton, as well as other places, 1843-1844
1 file 
D23/BoxB/4   1987 - 1997
Language:  French and English
Copies of catalogues from French archives and printed sources, as well as a copy of the publication by the Rev Mons Earl C. Woods and Dr Charles E. Nolan Sacramental records of the Roman Catholic Church of the Archdiocese of New Orleans, Volume 1, 1718 -1750 (New Orleans, 1987)
1 file 
D23/BoxB/5   1994 - 1997
Photocopy of Sacrée Congrégation de la Propagande, “Dictionnaire de Missions Questionnaire” (1942)
Includes correspondence from René Blanchard to J Hazell (Secretary to National Director, PMS) dated 1997 which explains the book and other items sent by Monsieur Blanchard
1 file 
D23/BoxB/6   1994 - 1997
Language:   French
Copies of the archive catalogues of Propagation de la Foi relating to the early Catholic missions (1834-1927)
Includes handwritten explanations in each section
2 files 
D23/BoxB/7   1990 - 1991
Language:  French and English
File labelled “B” with photocopies of archive documents from the Propagation de la foi concerning English missions 1838-1917:
1838: D-50 Resolutions passed at meetings held for the purpose of organising a Catholic Institute
1839: D-50 pamphlet. Address of the Branch Council for Great Britaimn
1839: Letter with translation into French of the above address
1843: D-65 The Catholic Church of St Mary's, on the Quay, Bristol
1845: D-61 A Pastoral Letter addressed The Clergy and Laity of the Vicariate of Wales on occasion of the Fast of Lent, 1845
1845: “District of Wales”
1847: D-65: Plan of proposed church Cistercian Convent and Church of St Maries Stapehill Dorset
1852: D-61 Pamphlet: fundraising campaign for a new Catholic Church by the Bishop of Newport and others
1861: D-53: New Catholic Church in Birmingham (letter by Bishop Ullathorne)
1872: D-50: Pamphlet: “To the Catholics of England Address of the Central Committee of Association of the Propagation of the Faith” (Paris and Lyons)
1881: Plan of proposed church at Sleaford, Lincolnshire
1888: Letter in French to M le President de l'Oeuvre de la Propagation de la Foi from PP of Mission de ND des Sept Douleurs, Stowmarket asking for funds and endorsed by Bishop Riddell
1891: Distribution to missions, Northampton Diocese
1892: Application form from the Central Council of Paris for Arthur Riddell, Bishop of Northampton. Request to build churches in Aylesbury, High Wycombe and Lowestoft
1893: Courier de Genève No. 32 7 February Journal Quotidien Catholique
1903: Letter to Monsieur Guasco from [?Victorine Roberts], The Lizard, Cornwall (French)
1910 letter from Rev Ross to Monsieur Guasco
1910 Sheet: Association for the Propagation of the Faith: Its Object, conditions of membership, enrolment form
1910: APF “A Letter to the clergy and laity of Great Britain containing official documents affecting the status of the British Branch”
1910: Catholic Missions No. 295-November 1910-Vol XXV containing said magazine
1911: “Appeal letter from Rev Francis Ross to religious sisters from 114 St Stephen's House and An Explanation of the Circumstances which have elicited them”. Describes early donations from England 1822 onwards and reorganisation of the British Branch.
1914: Booklet from the Association of the Propagation of the Faith 162 St Stephen's House, Westminster Embankment
1914: Pamphlet Association of the Propagation of the Faith, A Layman's Work contains a list of the life members, Duke of Norfolk on Council
1914: "- the most fruitful of all Catholic good works." Pius X. this is a photocopied 1914 pastoral letter of Francis Cardinal Bourne, Archbishop of Westminster, Quinquagesima Sunday, Burns & Oates, Ltd (Appeals for support for the APF)
1917 Addresses of Protestant, etc religious congregations
1990; loose letter: from Rene Blanchard advising discretion over his sending John Hazell so many copies of documents on the APF from the archives at Paris.
1991: a list of all the APF copies sent to John Hazell
1 file 
D23/BoxB/8   1839 - 1990
File labelled “C” with photocopies of archive documents from the Propagation de la foi concerning English missions, 1839-1923:
1839: Letter in French from Chas Weld to M Chris… Galbien (illegible)
1853 D-61: “Misfortunes of Penzance”, an appeal to Catholic charity by George, Bishop of Plymouth
1860: Magazine L'Observateur de Dimanche (Cardinal Manning highlighted)
1881: APF Diocesan Balance Sheet for the year 1880
1888: Letter in French to M le President de l'Oeuvre de la Propagation de la Foi from the Parish Priest of Mission de ND des Sept Douleurs, Stowmarket, asking for funds and endorsed by Bishop Riddell
1890: APF Balance Sheet for the year 1890
1891: Distribution to missions, A28 Northampton Diocese
1895: Letter from Burns & Oates Ltd re 'Annals' and list of those to receive them outside the English dioceses.
1906: APF promotion leaflet
1910: Letter from Guy Ellis, Treasurer, to M Guasco on the appointment of Rev Francis Ross as organising clerical secretary of the British Branch at £150 a year
1910: Plans of St Stephen's House, Victoria Embankment, Westminster and APF on the 4th Floor
1910: Estate agent brochure on St Stephen's House, Westminster, with photo of the building
1912: Flyer: APF Exhibition and sale of work in aid of sisters working in the mission field
1913: Postcard: to M Guasco from Francis Ross
1915: Letter: to M Guasco from Guy Ellis
1917: APF “Statistics of Missionary Societies”
1917: Letter from Cardinal Bourne to Fr Ross
1918: Letter from Francis Ross to M Guasco (Mr Ellis has been called up)
1918: Letter from Francis Ross to M Guasco re money for Mgr Manna, Bishop of Paris?
1918: letter from Francis Ross headed “Catholic Church Aldershot” to M Guasco
1919: Letter from Guy Ellis, Hon Treasurer of APF, to M Guasco, Paris, suggesting the acquisition of a bigger house for the Association and health of Fr Ross
1920: Letter from Guy Ellis to M Guasco
1921: Letter from Francis Ross to M Guasco
1922: Letter from Francis Ross to M Guasco death of Benedict XV
1922: APF Balance Sheet for 1921
1923: Letter from Francis Ross to M le Secretaire, Oeuvre de la Propagation de la Foi on the new arrangements for the Councils and England's breaking away from Paris.
1923: Annals of the Propagation of the Faith, Vol LXXXVI, February-March
1 file 
D23/BoxB/9   1852 - 1909
Language:   English
File labelled “D” with photocopies of archive documents from the Propagation de la foi concerning English missions, 1852-1909:
1852: Letter to Bishop Grant, Southwark, of complaint, incomplete, re Jersey
1853: Begging letter from the Passionist Fathers
1853: Conversion of England form
1855: Letter of thanks from Cardinal Nicholas Wiseman to M le President [?] for allocations made by APF to two of his dioceses
1856: Pastoral Letter from Cardinal Nicholas Wiseman with Church Building Fund account
1878: Letter from Rev Guiramand, Jersey, Southwark Diocese to Monsieur le ??
1883: “Through Siberia” by Henry Lansdell
1887: Letter from Premonstratensian Superior to le Directeur
1909: Letter of complaint from Illustrated Catholic Missions
1 file 
D23/BoxB/10   September 1970 - 11 March 2008
Language:   English
Correspondence between the PMS and CAFOD, including disputes over collections and schools
1 file 
Box C
Reference: D23/BoxC
D23/BoxC/1   January 1912 - 4 June 1934
Language:  English and Latin
Privileges, including:
Indulgentiae ac Privilegia, PMS, Pope Pius XI. Final date 20 February 1924, Cardinal Gasparri, Secretary of State
Papers by Pope Pius XI, including privileges extended, apostolic briefs, translation of these from Latin to English Letter to Cardinal Bourne from ? Mgr Rossi re spiritual favours
Religious sodalities enrolled in the PMS
Holy Childhood Privileges from the Holy See, Pope Leo XIII
New Spiritual Favours for the Associates of the APF (Glasgow, 1925)
De Pontificio Opere a Propagatione Fidei, Natura, Administratio, Documenta,
Association for the Propagation of the Faith
Spiritual privileges granted to the ecclesiastical benefactors of the Pontifical Society for the Propagation of the Faith (New York, [?1925])
Flyer: Spiritual Favours Granted to Members
1 file 
D23/BoxC/2   27 October 1941 - 10 February 1965
Correspondence relating to deeds of covenant for the APF
Also includes: Stella Maris (February 1948)
1 file 
D23/BoxC/3   23 February - 9 May 1949
Correspondence relating to the sale of 80 Hornsey Lane (property of the APF)
1 file 
D23/BoxC/4   1949 - 1951
Papers relating to a APF Mission Exhibition at Bingley Hall in Birmingham in 1949, including:
(1) Minutes of meetings held in reference to the above exhibition
(2) Envelope containing receipts from missionary orders taking part in the exhibition
(3) Mission photos
1 file 
D23/BoxC/5   22 November 1928 - 18 October 1957
Correspondence relating to income tax refunds for charities
1 file 
D23/BoxC/6   6 December 1951
Letter from Carter Paterson (Road Haulage Firm) to the PMS, with promotional material
1 file 
D23/BoxC/7   2003 - 2011
Miscellaneous publications and posters, including Mill Hiill Missionary publications, some with Missio advertisements. Publications include:
(1) “Ghana – My Mission Journey” by Eileen Tompkins
(2) "Archives": The "Deebee" Files. Some south east Asian Ramblings by David Bingham, Mill Hill Missionary
(3) Heart speaks unto heart. The visit of Pope Benedict XVI, United Kingdom, 2010
1 file 
D23/BoxC/8   [?1990]
Photocopies of front covers and articles of interest from Annales de L'Association de la Propagation de la Foi and other publications, mostly addresses, reports and statutes of the British Council for Great Britain, 1827-1996
1 file 
D23/BoxC/9   19 January 1927 - 25 March 1985
Papers of the Society of St Willibrord, including the original constitution, extracts from meeting minutes and correspondence
1 file 
D23/BoxC/10   [2000]
Language:  Flemish
Missio Brussels, Vrede op maat. Melodies de paix
1 CD-Rom 
D23/BoxC/11   [2000]
Telling the Story of Jesus in Asia by Father Peter Wani, from Fr Patrisius Pa, SVD, National Director, Indonesia
1 CD 
D23/BoxC/12   [?1980]
Typescript draft: “The Story of Mill Hill”
pp. 1-104 
D23/BoxC/13   1969 - 1982/83
Missionland: magazine of the Pontifical Mission Aid Society of the Holy Childhood
See Library catalogue
15 issues 
D23/BoxC/14   1951 - 1952
Newspaper cuttings from a Catholic press advertising campaign by Mgr Shaw, National Director, to build up interest in the SPA
1 file 
D23/BoxC/15   September 1971 - 15 June 1993
Papers of Our Lady's Missionary League/Catholic Women's Missionary League, including newsletter, minutes of meetings, and correspondence. Also includes a file of photographs
2 files 
Our Lady's Missionary League was also known as the Catholic Women’s Missionary League. For a time, the league was closely associated with the APF both at 59 and 23 Eccleston Square. In 1975 they had the same charity number as the APF. A letter dated 1978 (in the red binder) from Victoria Ingrams, the league’s president, confirms that the league worked under the Association for the Propagation of the Faith. Because of this, in 1998, the then National Director found he was responsible for formally winding up the league with the Charity Commission. The purpose of the league was to supply missionary priests with Mass kits, sacramentals, altar furnishings and vestments. The women for a time occupied rooms in the basements of no. 59 and no. 23, where they carried out their work of repairing linens and posting our the items
D23/BoxC/16   1931 - 1980
Miscellaneous photographs of missions
Many captioned
25 BW prints 
D23/BoxC/17   1992 - 2004
Miscellaneous papers 1935-2004, including:
Copy of 1935 APF membership card
Article entitled “England in Africa: an Interview with John Corcoran”, Canadian Catholic Review (December 1986)
Correspondence relating to the late Fr John Marquis, SPA National Secretary, 1971 to 1992, died in post aged 78 following an accidental fall and is buried in Ainsdale
Large classroom poster map of India (Mission Together)
Papers relating to the death of Mgr Stephen Shaw
Old registration numbers for the SPA, 231777 removed from the Charity Commission database in 1999
2004 greetings card from Archbishop Thomas Menamparampil, Assam, India, including a greeting from Pope John Paul II.
Prayer cards for the souls of various people given to Missio or found in the Annals, including George Dale, Mgr John Dale’s father. Mgr Dale was National Director of Missio from 2003 to 2011.
2 files 
D23/BoxC/18   [?late 20th century]
Stations of the Cross
14 slides 
Box D
Reference: D23/BoxD
D23/BoxD/1   9 October 1976 - 8 June 1979
Correspondence with the bishops of the Catholic hierarchy of England and Wales, mostly on support for Catholic missionaries and organisations
1 file 
D23/BoxD/2   6 December 1930 - 14 February 1952
Papers, including correspondence with contractors etc. relating to the proposed move from No. 59 Eccleston Square to 23 Eccleston Square
Prompted by Fr Basil Gudgeon on behalf of the Holy Childhood (52 St George's Square) wanting to rent the basement at 59 Eccleston Square for the Holy Childhood.
1 file 
D23/BoxD/3   13 November 1931 - 1938
Papers relating to the Mill Hill agreement between the APF and St Joseph's Foreign Missionary Society
1 file 
D23/BoxD/4   27 March 1956 - 17 June 1958
Papers, including correspondence, relating to the use of Eccleston Square Garden
1 file 
D23/BoxD/5   12 October 1971 - 26 November 1972
Papers and correspondence from Quilter Hilton Goodison & Co on the investment holdings of the Society of St Peter the Apostle
1 file 
D23/BoxD/6   27 April 1964 - 7 August 1969
Papers relating to a controversy surrounding the APF/Mill Hill income division
Also includes correspondence relating to the beginnings of a joint missionary magazine
1 file 
D23/BoxD/7   30 November 1954 - 14 March 1962
Papers relating to ecumenical relations in India and Africa, including reports and correspondence between The British Society for International Understanding
1 file 
D23/BoxD/8   27 June - 21 November 1960
Correspondence with the hierarchy relating to APF diocesan collections
1 file 
D23/BoxD/9   18 January 1922 - 25 August 1937
Correspondence relating to missionaries going out to India, as well as forms and regulations
1 file 
D23/BoxD/10   14 April 1936 - 18 August 1943
Papers relating to the Missionary Union of the Clergy (MUC), including:
(1) Correspondence between Mgr Telford and Cardinal Godfrey regarding setting up the MUC
(2) Newspaper cuttings about the new MUC
(3) Invitation card to the Inaugural Luncheon and Meeting of the MUC at Mill Hill May 19th 1939
(4) Article from the Clergy Review concerning the MUC
(5) Statues and Privileges of the Union from Rome
(6) First Minutes of the Union
(7) Letter of protest re the Union from a parish priest
 
D23/BoxD/11   1938
Papers relating to a questionnaire sent out to convents on missionary activities linked to their Order
Includes completed questionnaires, correspondence and photographs
1 file 
D23/BoxD/12   20 October 1929 - 22 October 1939
Papers relating to Mission Sunday, including:
(1) Rescript from the Sacred Congregation of Rites re Foreign Mission Sunday - Pope Pius XI
(2) Suggested programmes for the celebration of Foreign Missions Sunday and later Mission Sunday
(3) Correspondence between Fr Basil Gudgeon and Cardinal Bourne re Mission Sunday
(4) Cuttings from The Universe
(5) Information on the Pauline Jaricot mission
1 file 
D23/BoxD/13   8 June 1928 - 18 December 1930
Papers relating to relations with the Southwark archdiocese, including:
(1) Correspondence from Mgr Ross re Southwark and with Bishop Amigo re APF collections
(2) Cuttings from the Southwark Record re APF appointment of Rev Larkin
(3) Report by Rev Basil Gudgeon on negotiations with Southwark
1 file 
D23/BoxD/14   1913 - December 1945
Papers of Mgr Canon Francis Edward Ross, including:
(1) Agreement between the Reverend F E Ross, A. G. Ellis and Very Rev Francis Henry of St Joseph's College, Mill Hill, for the Association for the Propagation of the Faith for the assignment of Illustrated Catholic Missions
(2) Correspondence between the New York office of the Society for the Propagation of the Faith and Mgr Canon Ross
(3) Correspondence between Mgr Ross and the Dublin office of the Pontifical Work of the Propagation of the Faith
1 file 
D23/BoxD/15   22 May 1977 - 24 August 1979
Papers of Mgr Coonan (National Director), mostly relating to his trip to Sri Lanka and other miscellaneous mission papers
1 file 
D23/BoxD/16   15 November 1961 - 1966
Correspondence from Mgr Shaw about a controversy surrounding the use of an APF grant for the Africa Committee of the Sword of the Spirit
1 file 
D23/BoxD/17   29 November 1910 - 15 March 1948
Language:  English and Latin
Appointments, including:
1910 Letter from Francis Ross to Cardinal Merry del Val
1922 Letter (Latin) from H E Cardinal Van Rossum to Canon Ross in which Canon Ross is appointed Director of APF (the first Director)
1931 Ross's resignation and associated correspondence
1931 Appointment of Fr Basil Gudgeon
1936 Appointment of George Telford
1948 Appointment of Stephen Shaw
1 file 
D23/BoxD/18   4 May 1982 - 27 August 1987
Papers of Mark Swaby (National Director), including:
1982 Decree from Propaganda Fide appointing Canon Mark Swaby National Director of all National Pontifical Societies, Fr Moran having resigned from the Holy Childhood
1985 Decree from Propaganda Fide renewing Canon Swaby’s appointment as National Director
1985 Appointment of Canon Swaby as a Monsignor Chaplain of (St) John Paul II
1987 Death Certificate for Canon Swaby
1 file 
D23/BoxD/19   1939 - 1940
Papers relating to the APF centenary exhibition at Westminster Cathedral, including:
(1) Loose flyers: Centenary of the APF in England 1839 - 1939 (sermon notes)
(2) Invitation card: APF Centenary Celebrations (Solemn Triduum of Pontifical Masses of thanksgiving and intercession in Westminster Cathedral)
(3) Loose flyer: Association for the Propagation of the Faith Centenary National “Help the Missions Week” 24-29 June 1939
(4) Circular letters sent by George Telford re celebration
(5) Details of the modern history of the APF on the occasion of the centenary
(6) Newspaper cuttings re: the centenary and history of the APF and HC
(7) Annals 1922: First Great National Missionary Celebrations, Westminster Cathedral and Precincts
(8) Fides-Special-Article: “A Light Shining in the Darkness” by Bishop Celso Constantini
(9) Pontifical Society of the Holy Childhood balance sheet re centenary celebrations (May 1940)
(10) Missions and Missionaries magazine
1 file 
D23/BoxD/20   1979
Condolences on death of Mgr Coonan, correspondence with Rome, receipts, etc
1 file 
D23/BoxD/21   1921 - 1948
Holy Childhood papers, including:
(1) Missionary Service for Children (leaflet)
(2) Statutes of Society of Holy Childhood (British Branch)
(3) Notes on the origin of the Society of the Holy Childhood in Britain
(4) Folder: Holy Childhood England and Scotland (1936)
(5) Folder: Holy Childhood S Africa (1936)
(6) Folder: Canon Hall. Contains minutes of meetings.
(7) Letters from Canon Hall to Cardinal Bourne
(8) Letter from Canon Hall to Guy Ellis about distribution of some furniture
(9) Holy Childhood (Canon Hall) transferring to 52 St George's Square
(10) Pamphlet x 2: Privilegia a Sancta Sede Collata Leo PP XIII and request in French for privileges (pamphlet published in or after 1912)
(11) Pontifical Society of the Holy Childhood, Outline of the work for use of Preachers or Lecturers
(12) Pamphlet: Oeuvre Pontificale de La Sainte-Enfance re encouragement to fund the baptism of a pagan dying child
(13) Letter re Holy Childhood to Bishop Ellis, Nottingham
1 file 
D23/BoxD/22   9 April 1976 - 4 June 1979
Papers relating to a Catholic broadcasting course, including:
(1) Catholic Radio and Television Centre Hatch End, Communications Course for the Preachers of the APF 10-14 January 1977
(2) Speech and slide instructions, Fr Frank Thompson MHM at 1979 exhibition?
(3) Broadcasting in England and Wales
(4) Preachers in the APF
(5) Letter to Fr Agnellus Andrew with thanks and cheque for £288 as the invoice for the course
(6) International Congress 1979 correspondence
1 file 
D23/BoxD/23   1925 - 1929
Language:  English, Italian and Latin
“Roman Documents”:
(1) Pope Pius XI, Spiritual Privileges Granted to the Ecclesiastical Benefactors of the Pontifical Society for the Propagation of the Faith (1925)
(2) Circular to National Directors of the Pontifical Society for the Propagation of the Faith
(3) Acta Apostolicae Sedis (1936)
(4) Foreign Mission Sunday, October 20th 1929. Rescript from the Sacred Congregation of Rites. Programme suggested by the Director of the APF
(5) Notes from the Superior Council, Rome. Guidelines for the Presidents of the National Councils
(6) Letter, 8 May 1929 from the Superior Council, Aloysius Drago, General Secretary
(7) Letter with impressed seal from the Archbishop of Paris, Ludovic-Ernest Dubois 1929 (Latin) re a relic of Blessed Paul Ichen, Martyr)
(8) Letter of our Most Holy Father Benedict Pope XV Apostolic Letter...On the Propagation of the Catholic Faith throughout the world (On back of booklet advertisement for APF)
1 file 
D23/BoxD/24   1935 - 1938
Reorganisation:
(1) 1938 Statutes of the English Branch of the Association for the Propagation of the Faith
(2) Papers relating to the winding up of the old APF Council
(3) Papers relating to negotiations for the reorganisation of the APF, including letters and National Director's statement about the coordination of APF and St Joseph's Missionary Society, signed Basil Gudgeon 29 July 1935
(4) Letter from Arthur (Hinsley) H. E. Archbishop of Westminster on the same topic and other correspondence
(5) Papers relating to the new APF Council established in April 1936
1 file 
D23/BoxD/25   1917 - 1941
Financial papers, including bequests, annuities and other donations to the APF
1 file 
D23/BoxD/26   5 March & 28 November 1862
(1) Cardinal Nicholas Wiseman to C. Cavendish: agreeing with his view that more needs to be done to assist the Propagation of the Faith and wishing to meet with him to discuss a plan of action
(2) Henry Edward Manning to Charles Cavendish: recommending the Revd F. Nicole to become a member of the Council
2 letters 
Box E
Reference: D23/BoxE
D23/BoxE/1   9 October 1923 - 2 March 1945
Correspondence between the National Director and Our Lady's Missionary League
1 file 
D23/BoxE/2   30 September 1946 - 15 October 1970
Correspondence between the National Director and Our Lady's Missionary League
Also includes minutes of committee meetings
1 file 
D23/BoxE/3   July - October 1954
Correspondence, including a template for individual bishops to sign re importance of the Mission Sunday collection
1 file 
D23/BoxE/4   15 April 1948
Memo from Cardinal Griffin on the position of clergy under the National Insurance scheme
Includes a National Health Service leaflet
1 file 
D23/BoxE/5   2 June 1959 - 22 July 1982
Papers including correspondence with stock and investment brokers
1 file 
D23/BoxE/6   4 November 1941 - 21 February 1942
Questionnaire from the Sacred Congregation of Propaganda, Dictionary of Missions (Committee of Direction) on missionary societies
Includes some responses
1 file 
D23/BoxE/7   December 1932 - April 1938
Language:  French and English
Papers relating to the transfer of the Epiphany Collection to Mission Sunday for the APF
1 file 
D23/BoxE/8   20 June 1927 - 29 October 1953
Correspondence between Cardinal [?Hinsley] and Mgr Telford
1 file 
D23/BoxE/9   18 March 1948 - 23 December 1956
Papers and correspondence relating to the funding of a missionary film
1 file 
D23/BoxE/10   7 October 1926 - 27 November 1935
Correspondence relating to the management of the St Willibrord Society
1 file 
D23/BoxE/11   1925 - 28 January 1988
Papers, including:
(1) 1924 Accounts for the APF Oratory at the Great Empire Exhibition, Wembley 1924 and 1925
(2) 1927-1928 AFP draft accounts and statements (Jan-Nov)
(3) Appointment of Mgr Swaby as Papal Chaplain
1 file 
D23/BoxE/12   21 June 1958 - 16 May 1960
Correspondence on the theme “Should Friars Minor support APF in their parishes?”
1 file 
D23/BoxE/13   5 March 1948 - 16 September 1952
Correspondence with Doris Burton, author and missionary
1 file 
D23/BoxE/14   8 April 1960 - 4 August 1961
Correspondence with the Society of African Missions/SMA Fathers
1 file 
D23/BoxE/15   10 March 1949 - 7 July 1954
Correspondence relating to stamps
1 file 
D23/BoxE/16   20 May 1937 - 21 February 1938
Papers relating to proposed alterations to the APF statutes, the Mill Hill scheme, and a questionnaire from Rome re National Directors
1 file 
D23/BoxE/17   28 February - 11 May 1939
Correspondence relating to the refusal of the White Fathers to involve themselves in the Mill Hill scheme
1 file 
D23/BoxE/18   9 July 1974 - 30 March 1978
File entitled “Obsolete Rome Allocations”, mostly receipts and other financial papers
1 file 
D23/BoxE/19   29 April - 7 May 1965
Correspondence inviting Dominicans and Salvatorians to preach for the APF
1 file 
D23/BoxE/20    July 1951 - 29 November 1957
Various insurance policies, including four oil paintings and insurance for exhibitions
1 file 
D23/BoxE/21   7 November 1972
Report on the Administration of the Pontifical Mission Aid Societies - Association for the Propagation of the Faith (APF) - Society of St Peter Apostle for Native Clergy (SPA) - Missionary Union of Priests, Brothers and Nuns (MUC)
Prepared by PG Netley & Co, Management Consultants in conjunction with CB Edwards & Co Chartered Accountants
1 file 
D23/BoxE/22   26 December 1940 - 19 September 1950
Papers relating to Miss Siggins (housekeeper) and her financial affairs
1 file 
D23/BoxE/23   15 July 1948 - 7 April 1949
Letters from Miss V Suzman, a retired nursing sister living in poverty
1 file 
D23/BoxE/24   18 June 1947 - 28 October 1957
Letters from Mgr Shaw to the bishops of England and Wales re the possibility of an annual SPA collection in parishes
1 file 
D23/BoxE/25   4 April 1969 - 16 July 1971
Correspondence between Mgr Shaw and others regarding the building of a chapel in Uganda
1 file 
D23/BoxE/26   26 February 1944 - 15 June 1967
Papers including:
(1) Correspondence with bishops/archbishops and others relating to fundraising initiatives
(2) Papers relating to the translation of Warum Mission? by Dr Josef Albert into English
1 file 
D23/BoxE/27   2 March 1948 - 19 January 1951
Correspondence on allocations, including receipts and other financial papers
1 file 
D23/BoxE/28   7 September 1955 - 20 November 1957
Papers relating to improving publicity for mission collections, including correspondence and reports
1 file 
D23/BoxE/29   1949 - 1950
File entitled “British Missionaries”, including:
(1) Two identical typescripts entitled “British Missionary Work” by SM Shaw
(2) Pamphlet entitled In the Steps of St Francis with the Franciscan Sisters of Mill Hill
(3) Pamphlet entitled “Missionary Sisters”, being “A brief account of the nature and scope of 29 institutes of Sisters engaged in Missionary work in the Apostolic Delegation of British East and West Africa.”
(4) Questionnaire with replies from the Friars Minor, the White Fathers, the Congregation of the Holy Ghost, Salesians of St John Bosco, Franciscan Missionaries of the Divine Motherhood, the Society of Catholic Medical Missionaries, Society of Jesus, English Province, Religious of the Third Order of St Francis of Assisi of St Mary's, Mill Hill
1 file 
D23/BoxE/30   1932 - 1948
Typescript articles:
(1) “The Association for the Propagation of the Faith, A Universal Task”
(2) “When Will Islam be Christian?” by Paul Bohain, SJ
(3) “The Founder of a Mission (The Rev E Van Hencxthoven, SJ)”, by Jean Beckers, SJ
(4) “Beyond the Arctic Circle”, by the Rev T Severin, SJ (2 draft copies)
(5) Untitled article on the Missionary Union of the Clergy
(6) “Missions and the Catholic Laity”
(7) “Teaching all Nations, A Play for Children”
(8) “Catholics of England - Do They Care About the Missions? A Mission Sunday Survey”
(9) “Catholics and the War in China”
(10) “Papal Mission Aid Societies in Holland in 1947”
(11) “First MUC Congress” (1948 in pencil
1 file 
D23/BoxE/31   [?1950]
Typescript articles:
(1) “Catholic Missions”
(2) “Japan the Faithful” by Joseph Dahlmann, SJ
(3) “Heroes of the Mission Field. Mgr Marion de Bresillac, Founder of the Lyons Society of African Mission”
(4) “The Society of the Holy Childhood”
(5) “Christ Among the Brahmins” by Rev C Lacouage, SJ
1 file 
Box F
D23/BoxF
Photographs of missionary activity in various countries
Description of contents based on original file labels

D23/BoxF/1   [mid -late 20th century?]
“African children”
1 file 
D23/BoxF/2   [mid - late 20th century?]
“African traditional life”
4 files 
D23/BoxF/3   [mid - late 20th century?]
“Fathers, sisters, churches, missions in Africa”
6 files 
D23/BoxF/4   [mid - late 20th century?]
“Asian children”
1 file 
D23/BoxF/5   [mid - late 20th century?]
“Asian traditional life”
1 file 
D23/BoxF/6   [mid - late 20th century?]
“Fathers, church in Asia”
1 file 
D23/BoxF/7   1965 - 1969
“Chad”
1 file 
D23/BoxF/8   [mid - late 20th century?]
“Salesians in China, and others”
1 file 
D23/BoxF/9   [1930 x 1939]
“Children in China”
1 file 
D23/BoxF/10   [1930 x 1939]
“Traditional Life in China”
1 file 
D23/BoxF/11   [1930 x 1939]
“Fathers, sisters and Catholic seminary and Church in China”
1 file 
D23/BoxF/12   [mid - late 20th century?]
“Colombia”
1 file 
D23/BoxF/13   [mid - late 20th century?]
“Ghana”
1 file 
D23/BoxF/14   [1930 x 1939]
“Father/sisters in India”
1 file 
D23/BoxF/15   [mid - late 20th century?]
“Children in India”
1 file 
D23/BoxF/16   [1930 x 1939]
“Indian traditional life”
1 file 
D23/BoxF/17   [1930 x 1939]
“Sacred Heart College, India”
Taken by Fr Cecil P. Jones
1 file 
D23/BoxF/18   [1930 x 1939]
Photographs of Fr Cecil P. Jones in India
1 file 
D23/BoxF/19   [1950 x 1969]
“Seminarians? India? Europe”
1 file 
D23/BoxF/20   1937 & 1973
“Latin America”
1 file 
D23/BoxF/21   [mid - late 20th century?]
“Nigeria, Kenya, Tanganyika, Congo, Sudan”
1 file 
D23/BoxF/22   1972 - 1980
“Propagation of the Faith, Rome”
1 file 
D23/BoxF/23   1950 -1958
“Rwanda”
1 file 
D23/BoxF/24   1956 - 1973
“Sudan”
2 files 
D23/BoxF/25   1964 - 1969
“Tanganyika”
1 file 
D23/BoxF/26   1967 - 1970
“Uganda”
2 files 
D23/BoxF/27   1935 - 1973
“Vietnam (Indochina”
3 files 
D23/BoxF/28   [1933 - late 20th century]
“Churches”
1 file 
D23/BoxF/29   [mid - late 20th century?]
“Fathers”
4 files 
D23/BoxF/30   1971 - 1982
“Fides”
1 file 
D23/BoxF/31   [mid - late 20th century?]
“Nature”
1 file 
D23/BoxF/32   [1930 x late 20th century]
“Nuns”
1 file 
D23/BoxF/33   [mid - late 20th century?]
“Former staff members who worked at 23 Eccleston Square”
1 file 
D23/BoxF/34   [mid - late 20th century?]
Miscellaneous photographs
2 files 
D23/BoxG
Printed items transferred to Library
D23/BoxG/1   1992 - 2004
Papers located in box entitled “Interesting Archives”:
(1) APF-Mill Hill Appeal Notes (typed)
(2) 1855 cutting from The Lamp showing receipts and disbursements of the English Branch of the Association for the Propagation of the Faith approved by Cardinal Wiseman
(3) Correspondence between Fr John Corcoran (Nat Director) and Franciscan Provincial
(4) 2000 video entitled “The Archbishop of Westminster Rt Rev Cormac Murphy O'Connor”
(5) Falkland Islands stamps
(6) APF-Mill Hill membership cards
(7) Small blue APF-Mill Hill receipt book with Association for the Propagation of the Faith's title misspelt
(8) Undated flyer from Association for the Propagation of the Faith (Canon Ross Director)
(9) Undated small pen drawings of animals and mission scene by BG
(10) 1992 photograph: Cardinal Hume with Archbishop Carey and the director of the Anglican Centre, Rome, 7 May
(11) 2004 photographs of Pauline Stevens and Bertilla Cappelletti celebrate retirement from PMS
(12) 2003 Pope John Paul II acknowledging PMS good wishes on 25th anniversary of his pontificate
(13) APF-Mill Hill medal
1 file 
D23/BoxG/2   1952 - 1996
Papers:
(1) 1991 correspondence between John Hazell and Fr Michael J Walsh (SMA Fathers), re APF history and address by Cardinal Bourne
(2) Photocopy of Catholic Truth Society pamphlet: England and the Foreign Missionary Movement
(3) 1996 Opening of the MIL Poster
(4) 1952 leaflet: “Instruction on the proper manner of collecting offerings for the Missions”
(5) 1975 cutting of an article entitled “The renewal of the Pontifical Mission Aid Societies” by Omer Degrijse, CICM, National Director, Belgium
(6) 1976 Pontifical Mission Aid Societies Statutes
1 file 
Box H
Reference: D23/BoxH
D23/BoxH/1   1998 - [?2000]
Hand-written notes on the Annals of the Propagation of the Faith: Vol XLIII for year 1882
Typed note re Vol 45 of the Annals
Photocopy of one page of Missions of Asia, China showing that there is a vol of the annals in the British Museum
1838 Paris: Photocopy of title page of the Annals January 1838
1839 Paris: Photocopy of the title page of the Vol II, Annals January 1839 - No VII
1881 Dublin: Photocopy of the title page of Vol XLIV January 1881 - No. CCLVII
1883 Dublin: Photocopy of the title page of Vol XLVI - January 1883 - No. CCLXXI
Census form of 1901 showing occupants of No. 23 Eccleston Square
1998 14 May. Death notice of Mgr Stephen M Shaw (National Director PMS 1945-70)
1 file 
D23/BoxH/2   1925 - 1928
Correspondence about a proposed move from No 59
Contains a list of the contents
1 file 
D23/BoxH/3   1925 - 1927
1925 March to Mr McMullan re same
1925 April: 9/4 Letter to Cardinal Bourne re same; 15/4 to Cardinal Bourne re same; 25/4 to Card Bourne re same (acceptance of statute by the bishops)
1925 May to Mgr Boudinhon, Rome
29 June 1926 letter to Mgr Nogara, Palazzo Propaganda Fide from ?Mgr Ross
1927 Typescript: Statutes of the British Branch of the Society of the Holy Childhood as approved by the Hierarchy of England and Wales 1927
1927 June 22 from Mgr Nogara, Pontificium Opus a Propagatione Fidei Consilium Superius Generale with the Statutes (draft?) typed inside and same in Italian
1927 Association for the Propagation of the Faith (English Branch) at 59 Eccleston Square 11 January 1927 re Proposed Joint Board of Catholic Missions
1 file 
D23/BoxH/4   1931 - 1934
Mgr Gudgeon proposal to set up a Mission Library with correspondence and outlines. Contains correspondence with Rome, Mill Hill etc
1 file 
D23/BoxH/5   1930 - 1938
1930 March: from Fr Larkin, Acting Director, APF: amendments to the Statutes
1930 April: To Fr Larkin re a problem with the Statutes
1930 April: To Mr McMullan re Fr Laane in charge of the office (subsidiary, not main bank account)
1935 letter from Basil Gudgeon to Dr Scott re proposals for the reorganisation of the APF with “Proposals for the Reorganisation of the APF” attached
1937 December 30: letter from Cardinal Hinsley [Archbishop of Westminster], Rome to Mgr Telford at 23 Eccleston Square
1938 5th January: letter to Cardinal Hinsley, English College, Rome from [Mgr Telford]; attached letter from Card Fumasoni-Biondi, Prefect of the Congrégation de Propaganda Fide to Card Hinsley; attached “Statute and Rule for England” (typed)
1938 Statutes of the English Branch of the Association for the Propagation of the Faith (three copies); typescript called “New Statutes of the Association for the Propagation of the Faith as Approved by Meeting of Diocesan Representatives for Presentation to the Hierarchy”; typescript “APF English Branch Draft Resolutions”
1 file 
D23/BoxH/6   1938 - 1944
1938 Letter to Cardinal (Westminster) from Mgr Telford re Fr Whiteside's protest
1936 Memorandum - Differences between St Joseph's Missionary Society and other Missionary Congregations with houses in England which made possible the coordination of its parochial activities with those of the APF
Undated. Private Communication. Memorandum on the General Status of Foreign Missionary Organisation in England showing the relation of the Association for the Propagation of the Faith with St Joseph's Society Mill Hill, & other Missionary Congregations existing in the Country. Comments on the 1936 Memorandum and the Memorandum. Comments on the 1938 Memorandum
1944 Letter to Archbishop of Westminster from Mgr Telford enclosing the two memoranda
1944 letter to Mgr Telford from Thomas McLaughlin, enclosing the two memoranda (Fr T McLaughlin, Superior General Mill Hill)
1945 letter to Mgr Telford from Archbishop of Westminster re meeting of heads of all the clerical Missionary Societies, and Mgr Telford with him (the Archbishop) Resolution x 2 copies adopted by the Supreme Council of the APF in Rome (Acta A S 1.viii.28) - why Religious should foster APF and lend assistance to Mission Sunday
1945 Extension of the APF-Mill Hill Mission Aid Scheme to Other Missionary congregations. Meeting Convened by the Archbp of Westminster 1st May 1945
1946 Fr E B Larkin is acting director of the APF (Mgr Telford being ill) List of Missionary Societies in England
1946 May 6 from EBL – (? Fr Larkin) to Bishop of Nottingham, Edward Ellis welcoming him as chairman of the Pontifical Societies, and correspondence follows re a meeting date with the missionary congregations
1946 June Fr McLaughlin to Father Larkin
1946 August 11. T McLaughlin handwritten note to Father Larkin
1946 August. T McLaughlin handwritten note to Father Larkin
1946 replies to Fr Larkin's call to a meeting continuing the adjourned meeting of 1 May.
1946 December from ?Fr Larkin to Canon Gibney The APF and Missionary Congregations scheme suggested by Rev E B Larkin, Acting Director of APF (Gathered by Mgr SM Shaw, National Director, 1956)
1956 from S M Shaw to unknown enquirer
1 file 
D23/BoxH/7   1952
Correspondence (Mgr Shaw) with them and Mill Hill and the White Fathers to see whether their fathers can assist the APF
1 file 
D23/BoxH/8   1953 - 1954
Correspondence between Mgr Shaw (PMS National Director), Bishop Ellis of Nottingham and Dr McLaughlin, Superior General of Mill Hill re clarifying APF collection
1 file 
D23/BoxH/9   1948 - 1955
1948 between Cardinal Griffin and Mgr Shaw. 4 items
1955 April 8-16 Letter from Griffin to Shaw
1955 typed sheet to My Lord Archbishop ?Archdiocese from Cardinal Griffin called Foreign Missions Collections
1 file 
D23/BoxH/10   1958
Correspondence between Mgr Shaw, Mgr Gordon Wheler and Archbishop Godfrey (Westminster) and other bishops and others regarding the proper way of collecting for Mission Sunday
1 file 
D23/BoxH/11   1938 - 1972
1960 Correspondence between T. R. P. Gaston Courtois and Mgr Shaw
1972 Letter to a “Father Robinson” from Mgr Shaw
1972 Correspondence between Mgr Shaw and Mgr Kempeneers
1969 Letter from Propaganda, Rome, with first draft of the Common Statutes, with notes Pamphlet: Norms for Implementing the Decree "Ad Gentes Divinitus" of the Second Vatican Council. Motu Proprio "Ecclesiae Sanctae" Part III, 6th August 1966
1972 S(acred) C(ongregation) For the Evangelization of Peoples Summary of the Comments of the Episcopal Conferences on the Project of New Statutes for the Pontifical Mission Aid Societies Rome
1972: Sacred Congregation For the Evangelization of Peoples Documents of the Church concerning the Pontifical Mission Aid societies Rome
1969-1979 Letter from Rome about the questionnaire on the Constitutions and reply from Mgr Shaw re this Undated comments
1970 Draft of basic common statutes (APF) from Rome
1971 Revised draft
1971 Typescript marked “Confidential”. Report on Opinions of the Episcopal Conferences Concerning the Pontifical Mission Societies and the Project of New Statutes Typed letterhead of 23 Eccleston Square, Mgr Coonan National Director: The Proposed New Statutes...Observations on the Opinions' of Bishops' Conferences Red covers: Pontificium Opus a Propagatione Fidei Consilium Superius Generale Proposed Common Statutes for the Pontifical Missionary Societies
1972 letter from President to Mgr Coonan to attend the General Assembly in Rome
1938 Three copies of Statutes of the English Branch of the Association for the Propagation of the Faith
1 file 
D23/BoxH/12   1974 - 1975
Press cuttings with articles on Catholicism, etc.
1 file 
D23/BoxH/13   1977
Mgr Coonan to be interviewed about the work by Anglia TV
1 file 
D23/BoxH/14   1978
Papers on an in-service training course for clergy
Typescript called “The Twofold Mission of the Parish” inside a brochure from the Churches' Commission for Overseas Students (CCOS)
1 file 
D23/BoxH/15   1975 - 1978
Correspondence concerning loans made, tax reclaimed, and to update the trust deed with Gladstone’s Solicitors
1 file 
D23/BoxH/16   1977 - 1979
Correspondence with Mgr Coonan
1 file 
D23/BoxH/17   1980 - 1981
Leaflets the National Missionary Council and the Volunteer Missionary Movement (VMM)
August 1980: Our Responsibilities for Mission brochure from the Catholic Missionary Education Centre
1981 National Missionary Council balance sheet Invitation to be a VM brochure
1 file 
D23/BoxH/18   1966 - 1984
Insurance policies for Holy Childhood at Wimbledon and Pontifical Mission Societies
1 file 
D23/BoxH/19   1973 - 1990
(1) Correspondence and reports relating to the purchase and renovation of 179 Downs Road, including a report by Bright & Bright, estate agents on 179 Downs Road, Walmer, 'report on 179 Downs Road, Walmer, Deal, Kent; John Hogbin & Son (Surveyors) letter to Mr Potter from Mgr J Moran enclosing cheque for £8,778.20 in respect of purchase of 179 Downs Road; and letter from Ronald E Handley re sale arranged on 179 Downs Road at £9,700 freehold
(2) 1973, 1974, 1976, 1977, 1979, 1980, 1981 Lloyds Renewal Certificates on private dwelling 179 Downs Road, Walmer, Deal, Kent addressed to Mgr JJ Moran, Holy Childhood, 16 Raymond Road, Wimbledon, SW19
(3) 1974 Statement of Rates Due for the Period 1974-1975 Dover District Council
(4) 1990 correspondence between Ada Ward (the former occupant of 179 Downs Road) and Fr John Corcoran
(5) 1990 September 7th: Letter from Fr John Corcoran to Community Charge Offices, Dover to say that the property was sold on 24th August to Mr J. J. Bolger
(6) 1990 July 2: letter from Pontifical Mission Societies, Father John Corcoran to Witham Weld stating that 179 Downs Road was purchased in 1974 by Holy Childhood to provide accommodation for the retirement of Miss Ada Ward and her sister. House now being sold
(7) 1990 Draft Statutory Declaration MH Land Registry by Mgr John Joseph Moran
(8) 1990 25 July: from Mgr John Corcoran to Ada Ward in reply to her letters regarding the duplicate deeds and her cheque
(9) 1990 26 July: from John Moran to John (Corcoran) saying the deeds have been witnessed by a solicitor
(10) 1990 24th August: Letter from Witham Weld to Father Marquis re 179 Downs Road that £50,000, proceeds of sale of the property paid into the Holy Childhood account at the Royal Bank of Scotland
(11) 1990 July and August: draft of statutory declaration and letters from Witham Weld Solicitors
1 file 
D23/BoxJ
Includes Box I
D23/BoxJ   1993 - 2007
Papers relating to the European National Directors' meeting in Ushaw College, Durham, 16-20 March 2007, including correspondence from Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor and Archbishop Sainz Muñoz (Apostolic Nuncio); summary of previous meetings in Lisbon and Madrid, programme, minutes, liturgies and other papers on the organisation of the conference
Also includes CDs of minutes
2 files 
D23/BoxJ/2   1997 - 2003
Cuttings of monthly calendars from Mission Today with photographs and biblical quotes
1 file 
D23/BoxJ/3   1952
Newspaper cuttings from Catholic publications
Removed from a large black volume entitled “'Holy Childhood Press Cuttings'”
1 file 
D23/BoxJ/4   1944 - 1951
Correspondence between Mgr Shaw and Miss Scally concerning mass offerings and intentions
1 file 
D23/BoxJ/5   [1950 x 1985]
Mgr Shaw's file of blank forms, template letters, addresses etc
1 file 
D23/BoxJ/6   1993
Papers relating to the European National Directors’ Meeting Ushaw College 13-17 March 1993, including minutes of the meeting and associated documents, talks, homilies, study group minutes etc
1 file 
D23/BoxJ/7   [?2009]
Acetates for the Tamil Nadu children's slide show
1 file 
D23/BoxJ/8   [1950 x 1992]
Address book containing alphabetical list of names and dates of death
1 file 
D23/BoxK
D23/BoxK/1   1948 - 1951
Correspondence between Shaw and the Maynooth Mission to China regarding Mass stipends
1 file 
D23/BoxK/2   1952 - 1953
Papers relating to Sir Pierce Lacy, Bart, of Ampton Hall, including donations to APF and Sir P. Lacy Charitable Trust
1 file 
D23/BoxK/3   23 March - 23 May 1960
Correspondence between APF Mill Hill (St Peter's College, Freshfield) and Mgr Shaw regarding the collections in the Franciscan parishes
1 file 
D23/BoxK/4   1934
Lectures on Catholic missions by Rev Mgr Basil Gudgeon, entitled “Catholic Missions” and “The Work of Christian Missions. What the Catholic Church is doing”
1 file 
D23/BoxK/5   1949
Correspondence between Mgr Shaw and Y. Poncelet, President of Auxiliaires Laïques des Missions, Brussels
Includes 2 booklets
1 file 
D23/BoxK/6   1936 - 1955
Correspondence between Monsignor Shaw and others on income tax recovery
1 file 
D23/BoxK/7   1973 - 1983
Papers and correspondence with Charles Stanley & Co. relating to the sale of holdings following the Holy Childhood's transfer from Wimbledon to 23 Eccleston Square
1 file 
D23/BoxK/8   1993 - 2000
Notes from staff meetings
1 volume 
D23/BoxK/9   1995 - 2005
Miscellaneous items:
(1) 1995 - Typescript: “Guidelines for those making APF-Mill Hill Membership Appeals”
(2) 2001 - A5 brochure: The Missionary Institute London (MIL) Record II
(3) 2004 - Two issues of Catholic Life, with SPA advert inside back cover
(4) 2005 - Obituary issue of The Tablet following the death of Pope John Paul II
1 file 
D23/BoxK/10   1983 - 1994
Correspondence, including Mgr Ralph Brown, Vicar General to Canon Swaby, National Director, regarding Mass stipends with list of 1989 Mass-offering senders; Rev J Metcalf, commuting low stipends; memoranda from John Corcoran to staff about keeping a diary of their tasks, and sick pay; sick pay scheme from 1983; and Pontifical Mission Societies Mission headed A4 letter paper
1 file 
D23/BoxK/11   1988 - 1991
Correspondence between Mgr John Corcoran/John Hazell (Secretary) and Michael Green about the new headed letter paper
1 file 
D23/BoxK/12   1981 - 1989
Papers relating to the publication of advertisements in The Outlook
1 file 
D23/BoxK/13   1975 - 1997
Papers relating to World Mission Sunday, including:
File 1: Newspaper cuttings, 1976 - 1989
File 2: Newspaper cuttings, 1990 - 1992
File 3: Newspaper cuttings, 1993 - 1995
File 4: Newspaper cuttings, 1996 - 1997
File 5: Papers, including correspondence and other items relating to World Mission Sunday, 1975 - 1989
5 files 
D23/BoxL
D23/BoxL/1   [?1980 x 1992]
Papers of Helen Knight, including employer reference, photographs, prayer cards, and a prayer book
1 file 
D23/BoxL/2   [1972 x 1997]
Miscellaneous items in envelope entitled “A”, including prayer cards, and promotional leaflets about Pauline Marie Jaricot
1 file 
D23/BoxL/3   [1980 x 1996]
Miscellaneous items in envelope entitled “B”, including a page from minutes of a working party to discuss the role of the DD; note from John Hazell and photos of Sisters with Maori; allocation balances; correspondence about a computer system to be installed for the APF; Mill Hill Missionaries Scotland calendar; and mass sheets for the spread of the Gospel at the AGM
1 file 
D23/BoxL/4   1952 - 1985
Papres relating to the history of the Holy Childhood, including press cuttings, articles and correspondence
1 file 
D23/BoxL/5   [1968 x 1990]
File of papers entitled “Holy Childhood Odd Bits & Pieces”, mostly fund raising and promotional material (leaflets, stickers etc)
1 file 
D23/BoxL/6   1926 - 1986
Society of the Holy Childhood Accounts and Financial Statements
Incomplete run
File 1: 1926 - 1933
File 2: 1935 - 1951
File 3: 1952 - 1960
File 4: 1961 - 1986
4 files 
D23/BoxL/7   [?late 20th century]
Certificates for outstanding missionary zeal
1 file 
Box M
D23/BoxM
Previously Box MN

D23/BoxM/1   [20th century]
Photo slides and slide commentary brochure
1 file 
D23/BoxM/2   [1960 x 1969]
Scrapbook from the children of St John's Mission, Beaufort West, South Africa
1 photograph album 
D23/BoxM/3   [20th century]
Photo slides of missionary activity “which may be used for next magazine”
1 file 
D23/BoxM/4   [?20th century]
Photo slides of missionary activity
1 slide box 
D23/BoxM/5   [late 20th century]
Mission Together school posters on Ecuador
Outsize
5 acetates 
D23/BoxM/6   [mid - late 20th century]
Typescript, published, and audio commentaries for slide shows, including The Common Ground, “Children of the World”, “Christ Returns to Yanahuanca”, “What a World of Difference”, and “If Your Brother is Hungry”
2 files and 3 cassettes 
D23/BoxM/7   1952 - 1990
Language:  French and English
Pastoral reports and correspondence relating to the work of the Holy Childhood
1 file 
D23/BoxM/8   1952 - 2009
Miscellaneous items relating to the Holy Childhood and Mission Together, including:
(1) Deeds of covenant with Holy Childhood, 1952-1953
(2) Cuttings from the Catholic Pictorial
(3) Cards drawn by Father John Sullivan, 1982
(4) Mission Together Sample letters to Diocesan Directors, including a letter from the Archbishop of Westminster, 2003
(5) Posters and prayer cards, 1980-2009
(6) Biography of Msgr Roger Aboteyuure and report, 2005
(7) General Assembly of the PMS: Report on the Holy Childhood, 2008
1 file 
D23/BoxM/9   1966 - 1985
Correspondence and receipts relating to donations made to various causes:
File 1: 1966 - 1972
File 2: 1973
File 3: 1974 - 1986
3 files 
Box O
D23/BoxO
Mostly teaching resources for schools

D23/BoxO/1   [?2000]
Old (pre-2005) Holy Childhood letterheads and compliments slips
1 file 
D23/BoxO/2   2005
Tsunami appeal to schools, including OHP slides, letters and donation forms
1 file 
D23/BoxO/3   October 2005
Mission Sunday Mission Together materials - “Signs of Love”
1 file 
D23/BoxO/4   2005
Holy Childhood Mission Together resources for Ghana and the story of Badu, including teacher notes, children's newsletter, liturgy, and activity
1 file 
D23/BoxO/5   2006
Tamil Nadu - Holy Childhood and Mission Together story of Ama and Rajat
1 file 
D23/BoxO/6   1986 - 1989
Miscellaneous items relating to the work of the Holy Childhood, including an A5 photo album of photos from a Sisters' project in Pakistan; a 1987 letter, photo and negative of children at St Thomas More Roman Catholic Primary School, Peterborough, raising money for Holy Childhood; small envelope of photos of the Franciscan Sisters' Nursery for Abandoned or Refugee Babies and letter from the Bishop of Djibouti in 1986; loose mission photos; photos of children in Tanzania in 1988; letter/receipt and photos from Bishop of Huari, Peru in 1987; loose black and white photos of malnourished children with Sisters, Benin; Mission Together mission prayer cards, Ghana, Sumatra; real children on the missions stickers; thank you letters, receipts, reports, photos to Holy Childhood from congregations in Mombasa, Barbados, Thailand
1 file and 2 envelopes 
D23/BoxO/7   2007/8
Mission together in Ecuador compact disc: Resource Material for Primary Schools
1 compact disc 
D23/BoxO/8   [1990 x 1999]
Holy Childhood, Mission Together certificates and stickers
1 file 
D23/BoxO/9   1972 - 2004
Other items, including reports from grant recipients; letter on the problem of the grant to Wa, and World Mission Sunday poster
1 file 
D23/BoxO/10   [?1980 x 1989]
Box containing slide sets ( “The World needs God”, “Verona Fathers”, “Old and New Testament”, “Children Helping Children 1 and 2” (no commentary), “Children, God is not tired yet”, and “Children of the world 1-30”); miscellaneous slides including country maps, people, places and wildlife; “The Problem of Leprosy” (Messis Films); “Holy Childhood Today” slides; “Negroes or Men” slides (no commentary); “John 51-100” slides (this may be part of the foregoing); “Upper Volta”; and “Beautiful Scenes and flowers in Mission Countries suitable for meditation”' cassettes (Mass - Radio 4 - English Martyrs Horley; - Children Helping Children; Father Brendan MacCarthy's cassette; Holy Childhood Today); rolls of microfilm, including Messis films, Christo Ritorno; Ogni Uomo è Mio Fratello; Si Tuo Fratello ha Fame; World Missionary Social Studies Series, Missionary Adventure in Indonesia; Editrice Nigrizia: Apostolo Ignoralo; Don Bosco Filmstrips: “Qi Bambo and the Great Discovery”
1 box 
Box P
Reference: D23/BoxP
D23/BoxP/1   [mid x late 20th century]
Miscellaneous photographs, mainly unidentified and undated
Includes photographs of bishops, priests, sisters and children on the missions
File 1 includes some photos of Cardinal Gregorio Pietro Agagianian
14 envelopes 
D23/BoxP/2   [?1980] - 2010
(1) “Mission Possible” from Seamus Galvin CSSp, the National Director Pontifical Mission Aid Societies, Dublin, Ireland
(2) “Labourers for the Harvest”
(3) “Maurice Otunga'” (cause for canonisation - with notes for parish groups to accompany the video
3 video cassettes 
D23/BoxP/3   [?1980] x 1992
Cassettes including:
(1) “Church membership + role Christian Unity marks of Church”, Cardinal Arinze
(2) “The Saviour of the World”, Cardinal Arinze
(3) “Duties towards God/neighbour commandments”, Cardinal Arinze
(4) “God and his Perfections”, Cardinal Arinze
(5) “Sacraments: Confession and Holy Orders”, Cardinal Arinze
(6) “Holy Trinity”, Cardinal Arinze
(7) “The Church Teacher of Truth Papacy and Bishops”, Cardinal Arinze
(8) “Jesus the Son of God”, Cardinal Arinze
(9) “Chants - Lisiéux '92 Communaté des Béatitudes”
(10) “The Last Sorrowful Mystery”, “The Five Glorious Mysteries”
10 audio cassettes 
D23/BoxP/4   [[mid x late 20th century]
Colour slides showing missionary activity
3 envelopes 
Box Q
D23/BoxQ
Formerly Box QR

D23/BoxQ/1   1997 - 2000
Series of slides entitled “Project Visits”, including Cape Town, Bamenda (Cameroon), Kumbo (Cameroon), Mumias in Kakamega (Kenya), Goa and Pakistan
39 sleeves of 3.5mm slides 
D23/BoxQ/2   [1967 x 1980]
Black and white photographs from the missions and some holy pictures
8 envelopes 
Box S
Reference: D23/BoxS
D23/BoxS/1   [1930 x 1980]
Mission photographs and colour postcards of children and holy pictures
3 envelopes 
D23/BoxS/2   [?1990]
Bigard Memorial Seminary, Enugu, Nigeria
Contains photos of Cardinal Arinze
1 photograph album 
D23/BoxS/3   [1982 - 1987]
Boxes of slides on the following subjects:
(1) Coffee, Bamkin and Tamenken, Cameroon
(2) Butterflies, Site N Bandolan; Profession Marise, Bankim; Butterflies/Bankim/87
(3) Almé (Cameroon); Tignère (Cameroon);Lagmiobole Tignère
(4) Almé; Néné and Fain, Tignère; N'Gauondété
(5) Mboror Calabash and Bamona
(6) “The Society for the Propagation of the Faith A World of Difference Mission Awareness School Program” (52 slides)
(7) Messis Film “God Needs Men” by the Verona Fathers
(8) Messis Film “A Life for the World” by the Verona Fathers
(9) Messis Film 'Missionaries to the Mexican Indios' by the Verona Fathers
16 slide boxes 
D23/BoxS/4   1984 - 2002
(1) Mother Teresa of Calcutta speaks to children on TV
(2) Ortum Mission Hospital, Kenya
(3) Sr Marie Kearney Talks to Schoolchildren with Mother Teresa of Calcutta
(4) Domingo
(5) Mission Possible
(6) Ordination Ceremony at Christ the King Cathedral, Nakuru, 18 May 2002
6 video cassettes 
Box T
Reference: D23/BoxT
D23/BoxT/1   1950 - 1976
Captioned Fides Agency photographs arranged by year, including the chapel tent in India; World Mission Collection in Rome; Pope Pius XII, Cardinal Biondi, Miss Poncelet and Cardinal Tien in Rome; Pope Paul VI in Uganda; Loreto, the house of Pauline Jaricot; Cardinal Otunga
26 envelopes 
D23/BoxT/2   15 June 1935
Seminarians at Nyeri, Kenya making bricks for their new seminary building
2 BW prints 
D23/BoxT/3   [?1950 x 1979]
Un-captioned and undated Fides Agency photographs, including Cardinal Peter Tatsu-Doi, Japan, Pope John XXIII and Pope Paul VI
Envelopes 1 - 3: 1950s/1960s
Envelopes 4 - 5: 1960s/1970s
Envelope 6: 1970s
6 envelopes 
D23/BoxT/4   [?1990]
Postcards of Sri Lanka
1 envelope 
D23/BoxT/5   [1981 x 1989]
Boxes of slides on the following subjects:
(1) Mago FARO Cameroon
(2) Tignère, Pierre and family
(3) Bernadette and Elizabeth
(4) Butterflies/Bankim (with duplicate)
(5) Eclipse in Bankim
(6) Njinkom
(7) Baptism, Tignère
(8) Rainstorm, Tignère
(9) Construction of School, New? Bandam, Cameroon
(10) Coffee, Bankim
(11) Mission, Bankim
(12) Laamido of Tignère
(13) Messis Film, “Path to Faith”
(14) Messis Film, “Evangelisation and Development”
(15) Almé
(16) Innderé Tignère
(17) Fr Peter Hersey
(18) Bankim 88 School, Mission and Paddy Fields, Cameroon
(19) Bankiot Village, Family Henchyon 86
(20) The Society for the Propagation of the Faith “Water of Life - Mission Awareness School Program”
(21) Strip of transparent slides of butterflies of Cameroon
Cassette: commentary of “What a world of difference”
33 slide boxes & 1 cassette 
Box U
Reference: D23/BoxU
D23/BoxU/1   [?2000]
Papers relating to the sublease of no. 23, Eccleston Square
Agreement between Central Estates (Belgravia) Limited and The Right Reverend S M Shaw and Others
1 file 
D23/BoxU/2   31 July 2007
Report and Valuation by Humberts for the Pontifical Mission Society in respect of 23 Eccleston Square, London
1 file 
D23/BoxU/3   2006 - 2008
Papers relating to proposed improvements to the party wall at 23 Eccleston Square, including correspondence with RIDGE Property and Construction Consultants and architectural plans
1 file 
D23/BoxU/4   1981 - 2010
Folder of miscellaneous items:
(1) St Joseph's Missionary Society Chapter 2010 Documents: brochure (2010)
(2) The Eccleston Square Residents Association Newsletter No 54 - Summer: A5 booklet (2010)
(3) Pontifical Mission Aid Society of the Holy Childhood receipt book
(4) Folder entitled “Missio, Moving forward: guidelines to build the Missio brand”, with CD (December 2009)
(5) Presentation certificate for long service medals (up to 2005)
(6) Eulogy for Monsignor M Shaw (1998)
(7) Registered letter from Kachebere Major Seminary, Malawi containing photos of the seminarians (1996)
(8) Photos of Fr Aloysius Royan, India, from Sybil Senior, Poole (1995)
(9) Westminster Cathedral Centenary Programme 1985-1995 (contains SPA ad of Fr Balaswamy)
(10) Analytical Tables relating to vocations to the priesthood in the “Third World”
(11) APF poster entitled “Love is the soul of the mission”
1 file 
D23/BoxU/5   1987 - 1989
AGM reports and minutes of meetings of the Holy Childhood
1 file 
D23/BoxU/6   [?2000]
Portraits of the four founders of the Pontifical Mission Societies: Padre Paolo Manna, PIME; Mgr de Forbin-Janson; Jeanne Bigard; and Marie-Pauline Jaricot
1 file 
D23/BoxU/7   18 March 2008
Inventory and valuation by Christie's of the furniture at 23 Eccleston Square
1 file 
Box V
D23/BoxV
Formerly Box VW

D23/BoxV/1   1950 - 2009
File of papers (originally in a green folder), including:
(1) Envelope sent by Mr A E Morton, containing photographs of Fr Hans Stoker, Donal Riley, Pio Cazzolara, Terence Lee, ordination souvenir, Frs Frans Groot, Bernard Phelan (1950s)
(2) Cooperatio Missionalis: Instruction of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples on Missionary Cooperation (1998)
(3) Various Catholic publications, including Briefing, Universe and Catholic Life with SPA adverts and news
1 file 
D23/BoxV/2   [mid - late 20th century]
Booklets and printed ephemera mostly related to the Society of St Peter Apostle for Native Clergy (more substantial pamphlets transferred to the Library catalogue), including:
(1) Printed lists by the Society of St Peter Apostle for Native Clergy of seminarians and native clergy (1961-1988)
(2) Apostolic Letter of Pope Paul VI to the Patriarchs, Archbishops and Bishops of the Catholic World for the Seventy-Fifth Anniversary of the Society of St Peter Apostle for Native Clergy (1965)
(3) Statutes of the English Branch of the Society of St Peter Apostle for Native Clergy. Approved by the Supreme Council in Rome (1968)
(4) SPANC (Society of St Peter Apostle for Native Clergy) statistics leaflets (1973-1986)
(5) World Mission Sunday leaflets and booklets (1974-1984)
(6) Photo of Father Michael Torror, 1st priest of the Nandi Tribe, Kenya; 1981/2 photos of African and one Asian priest for a new SPA advert (1978)
(7) Mass liturgy: “Westminster Cathedral Solemn Mass to Celebrate the Centenary of the Society of Saint Peter Apostle.”, for World Mission Sunday
(8) Osservatore Romano cutting: Apostolic Letter of the Supreme Pontiff John Paul II on the occasion of the hundredth anniversary of the Society of Saint Peter the Apostle
(9) Photos of Mr and Mrs Miller who sponsored a priest, Fr Emmanuel Kanyama, Malawi, who became Bishop of Dedza in October 2007 (1990)
(10) The Pontifical Society of Saint Peter Apostle for Native Clergy leaflet: “Some questions and answers”
2 files 
D23/BoxV/3   28 May 1939 - 7 August 1967
SPA correspondence between the National Director and Rome, with balance sheets and reports
3 files 
D23/BoxV/4   [?1990]
SPM, Foi et mission
1 video cassette 
Box X
Reference: D23/BoxX
D23/BoxX/1   1931 - 1963
Papers relating to the Foreign Student's Foyer and the International Students' Hostel Grant, including correspondence from Mgr Ross (1931 to Fr Gudgeon), Mgr Basil Gudgeon, PMS National Director re grants for the Society of St Thomas the Apostle (Indian Students), Oriental Students, later called Foyer; celebration in 1938 of the 75th anniversary of the death of Pauline Jaricot; 1938 letters from Rome regarding the grant for the Foyer; 1939 letter from Mgr Telford to Rome regarding finance for the Foyer; 1940 letter re:15,000 Italian lire for the Foyer from the APF; 1959, 1961-1963: correspondence between Mgr Coonan, National Catholic Chaplain for Overseas Students (later National Director of PMS) and Mgr Shaw, (National Director PMS to 1970) regarding funding the Catholic International Students' Hostel in London; 1954 correspondence from Mgr Shaw regarding foreign students
1 file 
D23/BoxX/2   1961 - 1965
Correspondence between the National Director and the Dominicans
1 file 
D23/BoxX/3   June 1992 - 2005
Papers, including:
(1) Arundel & Brighton News article by Fr Brendan MacCarthy on missionary work (June 1992)
(2) Herber Cardinal Vaughan Vespers of the Dead and Solemn Requiem Mass (29 June 2003)
(3) Printed Herbert Vaughan biography (2003)
(4) Westminster Cathedral: Solemn Vespers of the Dead for His Holiness Pope John Paul II (2005
1 file 
D23/BoxX/4   1924 - 1954
Folder entitled “SSPA”:
(1) Draft Deed Poll declaring Charitable Trust (Chinese and Korean youth to become missioners) (1924)
(2) Appointment of New Trustees and shares schedule (1928)
(3) Clergy statistics from St Joseph's College, Mill Hill (1934)
(4) “Pontificium Opus a Sancto Petro Apostolo Pro Clero Indigena Consilium Generale. Relazione della Commissione del Bilancio per L'esercizio 1936 ” (1937)
(5) “Les Cinquante Années de L'Œuvre de Saint Pierre Apôtre pour le Clergé Indigène” (1938)
(6) “Relatione della Commissione del Bilancio della Pontificia Opera de S Pietro Apostolo per l'esercizio 1937” (1938)
(7) Statute extract. Rules for the adoption of seminarians (1947)
(8) Four letters to benefactor from Chinese seminarians containing photos of the young men sponsored (1947)
(9) SPA(NC) flyer for a first subscription to the Society (1947)
(10) Circular letter in French “Clergé local. En pays de mission” (June 1953)
(11) SPA Appeals: parishes visited by Monsignor Shaw (1954)
(12) Printed circular letter on the importance of missionary zeal from priests of the Missionary Union of the Clergy
(13) Chinese Native Priests' Association appeal sheet
1 file 
D23/BoxX/5   1917 - 1966
Folder entitled “Travancore Shares”, including
(1) Letter handwritten from (Fr) George Paul Shaw, Dufftown, Banffshire to HE Cardinal Bourne, Archbishop of Westminster, in which he transfers 150 ordinary shares of the Travancore Tea Company for the benefit of the APF on his death (1917)
(2) Letter from Guy Ellis, Treasurer, Association for the Propagation of the Faith (British Branch), enclosing original certificate of the 150 Travancore Tea Estates Company shares
(3) Travancore Tea Estates report (1927)
(4) Letter from Francis E Ross to Mr Dutton, Harrow, reporting the death of Fr Shaw and the gift of the shares (he mentions a Red Minute Book in which there was a reference to the gift) (1938?)
(5) Letter from Mackenzie & Wilson to Guy Ellis, Secretary, Association for the Propagation of the Faith: re Canon Shaw's estate looking for Mgr Ross (1938)
(6) Letter from Mgr Ross to Miss MacKinnon at APF re transfer of shares (1938)
(7) Letter from Mgr Ross to Mr McMullen re transfer of shares (1938)
(8) Letter from Westminster Bank Limited re Travancore Estates (1938)
(9) Receipt by the Association for the Propagation of the Faith for Travancore Tea Estate dividend of £4.9s (1938)
(10) To Travancore with deed of transfer for 150 ordinary shares (From Mgr Ross to Rev G Telford and Mr F McMullan) no deed of transfer (1938)
(11) Newsletter of Travancore (1939)
(12) Travancore Tea Company Limited accounts for 1938/39 (1940)
(13) To Travancore from F E Young (presumably for the Secretary of the APF) with Deed of Transfer (1940)
(14) Headed compliment slip from Pontifical Society of the Holy Childhood (1943)
(15) Card from Westminster Bank Limited confirming that transfer of £500 letter received (1944)
(16) Travancore request letter of indemnity (1944)
(17) Travancore send Share certificate. Headed notepaper with Shaw legacy detailes (Travancore as above). from Pontifical Society of the Holy Childhood (1944)
(18) Letter from St Joseph's Mill Hill to Miss Knight, APF, to continue the twenty four yearly Masses for the repose of the soul of Canon Shaw. These had been said annually from his death to that point (correspondence shredded) from the Travancore share dividend
1 file 
D23/BoxX/6   1950
Folder entitled “Parishes visited by” and “Red Box Appeals ”
Parishes visited by Rev SP Blair
1 file 
D23/BoxX/7   1960 & 1963
Death certificates for Rev E. B. Larkin and Cardinal William Godfrey
2 certificates 
D23/BoxX/8   1942 - 1951
Papers relating to the British United Aid to China Fund, including minutes of the British United Aid to China General Council, correspondence between the Council and the Pontifical Mission Societies, accounts of money donated, and newsletters
1 file 
D23/BoxX/9   1920 - 1978
Folder entitled “Archbishop's House”:
(1) Missionary Union of the Clergy. From Cardinal van Rossum. Circular Letter of H. E. the Cardinal Prefect of the Sacred Congregation of the Propagation of the Faith to all the Bishops of the Catholic World, relating to the maximum illud recently issued by Pope Benedict XV (19 March 1920)
(2) Memorandum presented to Cardinal Van Rossum on the Propagation of the Faith in England (Translated copy) from Francis Canon Ross, Delegate of Paris Council of APF (June 1921)
(3) Report by Mgr Ross of visit to France and Rome to Cardinal van Rossum, including reference to the possibility of the national societies being under the Holy See if they wish, rather than under Lyons and Paris, and wanting hierarchy to decide what Britain should do (Post-June 1921)
(4) Canon Ross is appointed the Director of the British Branch with right to attend meetings of the lately established Supreme Council; the Cardinals and Bishops of Scotland and Wales, Mgr Ross proposes to Cardinal Bourne, should retain the titles of Vice-Presidents of the Association for the Propagation of the Faith (a motu proprio has been issued by Pope Pius XI) (November-December 1922)
(5) George H Bennett, Secretary to the Hierarchy and bishop of Aberdeen, to Cardinal Bourne re Scotland to organise its own APF, and to Cardinal Van Rossum from all the archbishops and bishops. Card Bourne to Bishop Bennett refuting claim that National Director nomination procedure was not correctly followed (March 1923)
(6) Private Communication, probably the memo prepared by Fr Parsons entitled “Memorandum on the General Status of Foreign Missionary Organisation in England”, showing the relation of the Association for the Propagation of the Faith with St Joseph's Society, Mill Hill, & other Missionary Congregations existing in the country (1923)
(7) Letter from J. Nogara to Rev Clement Parsons, General Secretary of the Central Council for the Association for the Propagation of the Faith, re British Empire Exhibition (May 1924)
(8) Letter from Canon Ross to Cardinal Bourne: anxiety about Mill Hill's collecting boxes bringing in more money than the APF, and Fr Parsons in trouble for drawing up a memorandum about the relationship between APF and Mill Hill without permission (July 1924)
(9) Letter from Guy Ellis or Francis Ross to Cardinal Bourne re exhibition project (1924)
(10) Letter from F. McMullan concerning the Statutes of the English Branch of the Association for the Propagation of the Faith, as amended by commission of Superior Council, Rome
(11) Correspondence Canon Ross to Cardinal, Fr Parsons to Cardinal, to Mgr Hall. Reply to Mgr Ross from Card Bourne. Mgr Ross to Card Bourne with his wish to appoint Fr Parsons as his successor. Fr Parsons, rather, endorses appointment of Fr Basil Gudgeon as director (June 1931)
(12) Letter from Basil Gudgeon to the Archbishop of Westminster re proposals for the reorganisation of the APF including the APF-Mill Hill agreement (July 1935)
(13) Basil Gudgeon “A Statement by the National Director of the Pontifical Mission aid Societies Concerning the Organisation of These Works in England and Wales”, to [?Cardinal Hinsley[ (August 1935)
(14) Letter from the Archbishop of Westminster to Mgr Gudgeon re interest expressed in APF paper (5 August 1935)
(15) Letter from Basil Gudgeon to Archbishop of Westminster re proposed National Council of the APF (October/November 1935)
(16) Letter from the Archbishop of Westminster to the National Director, Pontifical Mission Aid Societies regarding Mission Sunday (14 October 1935)
(17) Letter from Basil Gudgeon to Father Elwes concerning the expulsion of Fr Reany (19 October 1935)
(18) Letter from the Archbishop of Westminster to all bishops asking whether they approve of the appointment in each diocese of a Diocesan Director and Bishop chairman (25 October 1935)
(19) Letter from Mgr Gudgeon to Archbishop of Westminster: planning to take a sea voyage for his health, asking if the archbishop could inform him of the approval of the hierarchy concerning the Mill Hill agreement and whether a National Council has approval to be set up (9 November 1935)
(20) Letter to Mgr Gudgeon from Archbishop of Westminster: sending the replies from the letter to all Bishops (11 November 1935)
(21) Letter to Cardinal Hinsley, Archbishop of Westminster, from Father Whiteside, Provincial CSSP, and reply from the Cardinal, and letter to Cardinal from Fr Telford, National Director (23-26 March 1938)
(22) “Statutes of the English Branch of the Association for the Propagation of the Faith” (1938)
(23) Letter from Mgr Coonan to Canon Parsons, Mgr Shaw, re history of the APF being written up (1977)
1 file 
D23/BoxX/10   1969 - 1970
Folder entitled “Reorganisation”:
(1) Correspondence between Mgr Shaw, National Director, and Propaganda Fide, concerning the dissatisfaction felt by some on the APF-Mill Hill agreement, and to the Bishop of Plymouth in respect of the same argument (1969)
(2) Minutes of the Sixth Meeting of the Finance Committee of the Hierarchy's Commission on Missionary Activity concerning the above (1969)
(3) “Suggestions for the Consideration of the Working Group set up to Devise a Financial System Acceptable to all the Societies” (and related papers) (1969)
(4) Zoning Scheme Societies Compared with 1968 (1969)
(5) Structure of the National Missionary Council and all the members (1970s)
(6) The Pontifical Mission Aid Societies Statutes
(7) Missionary Commission of the Hierarchy of England and Wales second meeting of the working group of the Finance Committee (1970?)
(8) Letter to St Joseph's Missionary Society signed Basil Gudgeon, 29 July 1935
1 file 
D23/BoxX/11   10 June 1867
Extract from The Times about the sale of 23 Eccleston Square
Lease and house contents for sale following the death of Lady Albinia Foster.
1 item 
D23/BoxX/12   1971 - 1977
Correspondence with the financial advisors
Includes a reference to Cardinal Bourne's cassock being stored at No. 23 Eccleston Square
1 file 
D23/BoxX/13   1939 - [?2010]
Correspondence between the National Directors and Jesuit Provincial regarding the APF-Mill Hill question and collections concerning mission orders including Franciscans and Redemptorists
Jesuit and Redemptorist parishes receive a proportion of the APF collection
1 file 
D23/BoxX/14   1 September 1971
Quilter Hilton Goodison & Co, “Valuation of Investments”
1 item 
D23/BoxX/15   1951 - 1957
Folder entitled “Holy Childhood”, including:
(1) Fr Larkin writes of difficulty of carrying on without Mgr Telford who has left (1947)
(2) House specification for 16 Raymond Road (which became the Holy Childhood Headquarters) (1953)
(3) Correspondence from Mgr Shaw re the appointment of Fr Joseph Mullins who pays rent for the use of the basement rooms of 23 Eccleston Square, transfer of Holy Childhood to Wimbledon, resignation of Fr Mullins in order to work in Africa, Mullins's appointment as Monsignor, and Fr John Moran's appointment as National Director (1951 - 1960)
1 file 
D23/BoxX/16   1978 - 1997
(1) Minutes of the meetings of the National Missionary Council and National Missionary Council Standing Committee, with associated papers
(2) Minutes of the meetings of the Committee for Overseas Mission, with associated papers
3 files 
D23/BoxX/17   1965 - 1966
Papers relating to the Mill Hill Centenary Year, including correspondence on the appeal and distress caused by an advert in the press on St Joseph's Hospice
1 file 
D23/BoxX/18   1930 - 2018
Folder entitled “Bits and Pieces”:
(1) Papers relating to the appointment of Fr John Corcoran, National Director 1988 -2003, as a Monsignor (1993)
(2) Pauline Jaricot. Small booklet about her life for children
(3) Children Helping Children history and charism
(4) APF-Mill Hill membership card of Pauline Jaricot
(5) Index cards of former staff and notes about procedures in the office
(6) CD containing photos. Title “General Assembly”. Photos by Philip Gibbs. JPEG format (2018)
(7) Mission Today (November 1994)
(8) Floor plans of No. 23 Eccleston Square (1982)
(9) Photo negative of two nuns, probably White Sisters
(10) Black and white photo of Pauline Jaricot
(11) 4 BW Fides photographs, including one of General Franco inspecting a painting
(12) Descriptions of photos by Fides, detached from the relevant photo
(13) Photograph of memorial stone to Pauline Jaricot in New Orleans Catholic Cathedral
(14) Missio prayer card
(15) “Historical impact, design and access statement” for the Pontifical Mission Society
1 file 
D23/BoxX/19   1972 - 1976
Correspondence between Bishop Charles A. Grant and Mgr John Coonan
1 file 
Box Y
Box Y include mainly pamphlet publications. These have been transferred to the Library and will be catalogued separately in due course.

Box Z
Reference: D23/BoxZ
D23/BoxZ/1   [1950 x 1969]
Correspondence with international seminaries, mostly on funds for seminarians
2 files 
Arranged alphabetically by seminary
D23/BoxZ/2   [1960 x 1970]
Correspondence of Mgr Shaw to Cardinal Godfrey, and to other bishops re SPA
Arranged alphabetically by diocese
1 file 
D23/BoxZ/3   [1980 x 1990]
Alphabetical card index of the names and addresses of donors to the SPA
1 file 
Closed in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulations (2018)
D23/BoxZ/4   2 August 2001
Circular letter from Cormac Murphy O'Connor, archbishop of Westminster, to the head teachers on supporting Mission Together
1 item 
D23/BoxZ/5   2009 - 2010
Correspondence with Ashridge Communications and report entitled “'A Vision for the Future. Outline strategy for APF-Mill HIll”
1 file 
D23/BoxZ/6   2004
Correspondence with the Charity Commission concerning the website presence of the SPA
1 file 
Box 1 & 1A
Box 1 & 1A include mainly printed missionary journals and magazines. These have been transferred to the Library and will be catalogued separately in due course.

Box 3
D23/Box 3   1974 - 2015
5 files   
AGM minutes, including annual reports, accounts, and associated papers for the Pontifical Mission Societies
Each society (APF, SPA, HC) within the umbrella PMS produced its own minutes, reports and accounts until the later years
File 1: 1971 - 1989
File 2: 1990 - 1994
File 3: 1995 - 1999
File 4: 2000 - 2005
File 5: 2006 - 2015

Box 4
Reference: D23/Box 4
D23/Box 4/1   1994 - 2006
Files entitled “Returns”, relating to English and Welsh diocesan financial donations. 1994-1997 also includes SPA, APF and HC account statements and graphs showing projected income.
File 1: 1994 - 1997
File 2: 1998 - 2002
File 3: 2003 - 2004
File 4: 2005 - 2006
 
D23/Box 4/2   2008 - 2010
Strategic development plans, including:
(1) Pontifical Mission Societies Strategic Development Plan (SDP) Proposal 1 - 2008-2011.
(2) Minutes of the Trustees Meeting, 29 April 2008
(3) Business Plan for Friends of Missio 2010 -2015 Enabling support from Major Donors
(4) Minutes of the Trustees Meeting, 16 February 2010
1 file 
D23/Box 4/3   [2000?] - 2011
(1) Pamphlet: “75th Anniversary APF- Mill Hill Missionaries 1936-2011”
(2) Typescript: J. Rooney, “Relations between Mill Hill and the APF 1924 – 1936”
(3) “Mass to celebrate 75 years of APF - Mill Hill”, Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King Liverpool, 10 July 2011
3 items 
Most of the items in this file have been retained by Missio and will be sent at a later date, with the exception of the following:
D23/Box 4/4   10 June 2010
St George's Cathedral, Southwark Solemn Mass of Installation of the Most Reverend Peter Smith as Archbishop of Southwark Thursday, 10th June 2010
1 item 
D23/Box 4/5   1970 - 1996
Language:  English and Italian
Account statements:
(1) Holy Childhood (1970, 1972 & 1979)
(2) Society of St Peter Apostle for Native Clergy (1981 & 1990)
(3) Association for the Propagation of the Faith (1980, 1981 & 1992)
(4) Pontificium opus a Propagatione Fidei, SPA and APF annual financial statements, 1988-1989
(5) Pontifical Mission Societies Financial Statements, 1996
1 file 
D23/Box 4/6   10 February 1994
Letter from Rev Aylward Shorter, President, Missionary Institute London, to Rev John Corcoran, PMS, enclosing African stories from Ukimbu
1 file 
D23/Box 4/7   [?1980 x 1989]
Mission photographs from the Philippines, Tanzania and Kenya
1 file 
D23/Box 4/8   2008
Building plans for Pnomh Penh Major Seminary, Cambodia
1 item 
D23/Box 4/9   1989 - 2009
Minutes of the Editorial Board of the Pontifical Mission Societies' Magazines
1 file 
D23/Box 4/10   1922 - 1994
Miscellaneous items:
(1) Guild of St Thomas account book (1930s)
(2) Set of Mass offering receipt books named P. Q. R, S, T, U, V (1980-1984)
(3) SPA Day posters, (1980-[?1989]) - Outsize
(4) World Mission Sunday Posters, (1982-1993) - Outsize
(5) Pencil sketch of The Kings Arms, Eltham by Margaret Cowell (1922) - Outsize
(6) Association for the Propagation of the Faith and Mill Hill Missionaries Account Book for Local Secretary/Treasurer (2010)
(7) Clergy numbers from 1974, with graph (1994)
(8) Faith Today, no. 52 (2015)
(9) Missio's APF and the Mill Hill Missionaries Promoter's Book
1 file 
D23/Box 4/11   1994 - 2006
Letters of thanks to the PMS/Association for the Propagation of the Faith from the hierarchy, the Pope, UK Government etc.
1 file 
Box 5
Box 5 comprises of printed missionary journals and magazines. These have been transferred to the Library and will be catalogued separately in due course.

Box 6
Reference: D23/Box6
D23/Box6/1   1967 - 1979
Papers relating to the new lease for 23 Eccleston Square, with Willes & Gladstone acting solicitors
Lease expires 2101
1 file 
D23/Box6/2   [?1990] - 2011
Papers concerning the Venerable Pauline Jaricot, including leaflets and articles
1 file 
D23/Box6/3   1980 - 2007
File entitled “Dignitaries and bishops”, mostly replies and invitations from bishops and the Holy See to the National Director
Arranged by diocese
1 file 
D23/Box6/4   1925 - 2008
File entitled “Odds and Ends”:
(1) Memorial Mass Order of Service for Fr Frank McCarthy MHM, former editor of Mission Outlook, and Mill Hill (Diocesan) Organiser (18 December 2008)
(2) Leaflet on the Pontifical Mission Aid Society of the Holy Childhood with photo of Pope Paul VI, [?1965]
(3) Society of St Peter the Apostle “thank you” certificate, [?2000]
(4) interview with Fr R. H. Lesser on his 80th birthday, with photos and letter (2008)
(5) Holy Childhood print of Virgin and Child with St John the Baptist, possibly a prayer card or prize [?1960]
(6) Prayer card for Mgr John Laurence Coonan, National Director (27 August 1979)
(7) Holy Childhood Day order of service card with hymns, [?1990]
(8) Leaflet entitled “The Society of the Holy Childhood, a Link Offered by the Church to the Young People of the World” [?1980s]
(9) Holy Childhood red poster “Your Brothers and Sisters” with poem
(10) Two Holy Childhood certificates awarded for donating a offering of 2 shillings and sixpence to choose a baptismal name for a child [?1980s]
(11) Children's Mission Club leaflet (1992)
(12) Pontifical Mission Aid Society of the Holy Childhood list of names from which to choose upon donating money for the baptism of a non-Christian child [?1980s]
(13) Missionary Children receipt forms [?1990s]
(14) Compliment slip for the Pontifical Society of the Holy Childhood in Wimbledon [?1990]
(15) Holy Childhood membership card, with prayer [?1990]
(16) APF-Mill Hill membership card [?1990]
(17) Certificate of Rescue and Baptism for the Holy Childhood [?1980s]
(18) Folding collecting box [?1980s]
(19) Green Holy Childhood leaflet explaining the Society [?1980s]
(20) Two Pontifical Mission Aid Society of the Holy Childhood Collecting Cards [?1980s]
(21) Holy Childhood Day Service with music, an assembly or service for Holy Childhood Mission Day
(22) APF-Mill Hill Red Box Collector authorisation card [?2000]
(23) Mission Sunday donation cards (1992 & 1997)
(24) Templates for the Mission Together logo and badge (1998)
(25) Three devoted service certificates [?1992]
(26) APF Mill Hill (Mission) Donation Form with Gift Aid on back (2003)
(27) APF leaflet (2005)
(28) APF – Mill Hill remembrance books card [?1990s]
(29) APF-Mill Hill Life member cards [?1980s]
(30) Compact disc of the Four Founders of the Pontifical Mission Societies (2003)
(31) Mission Rosary Leaflet [?2010]
(32) Pontifical Mission Aid Societies - England and Wales Annual Report for the Year 1983 - Mark Swaby National Director (1984)
(33) Photocopy of a letter from Mgr Ross to Mr Frederick McMullan (1925)
1 file 
D23/Box6/5   1978 - 2012
Miscellaneous prayer cards, small booklets and leaflets
3 files 
D23/Box6/6   1968 - 2009
Newspapers ( L'Osservatore Romano and the Catholic Herald), mostly on the death of Pope John Paul II and the installation of Pope Benedict XVI. File also includes:
(1) “Statutes of the English Branch of the Society of St Peter Apostle for Native Clergy” (1968)
(2) Inland Revenue Society of St Peter the Apostle audit (4 November 1998)
(3) Minutes of the Annual Meeting of the National Council of the Pontifical Mission-Aid Society of the Holy Childhood (2 June 1969)
(4) Photos of Cardinal Vaughan and Blessed Paolo Manna ([?2009]
1 file 
D23/Box6/7   1925 - 2009
File entitled “Odds and Ends”:
(1) Letter from Mrs S. Frost to Mgr John Dale concerning a loan, with reply from Mgr Dale (8 January 2010
(2) Mission Christmas appeal letter (December 2011)
(3) Funeral Mass liturgy: Father John Pharro, Mill Hill Missionary (3 May 2006)
(4) Requiem Mass liturgy: Miss Eileen Hands (1925-2005), long-term volunteer
(5) Orange Holy Childhood collecting box [?1960]
(6) Letter to Bernard Prince, Rome, re the project concerning the Mill Hill Formation Centre at Luanda, with photographs
(7) Invoice from Paul Inwood for composing the Pontifical Mission Societies Jubilee Mission Hymn (1999)
(8) Photocopy of letter from Basil Gudgeon to Dr Scott re plenary of the APF Council (12 November 1925)
(9) Cutting from the Portsmouth People by Fr Anthony Chantry (General Superior) reporting on a visit to Malakal, Sudan (2009)
(10) Papers relating to the establishment of Missio and the blessing of the stained glass window (2009)
1 file 
D23/Box6/8   1861 - 2011
File entitled “Various”:
(1) Minutes of the 37th Meeting of the Editorial Board of the Pontifical Mission-Aid Societies' Magazines (1994)
(2) Photographs and letter to Sr Marie from St Catherine’s School, Didsbury (1986)
(3) Copy of a cutting from The Times with a description of 23 Eccleston Square and contents up for rent and sale on the death of Lady Albinia Foster (1861)
(4) Photographs and print of a webpage on 16 Raymond Road, Wimbledon, London (former home of the Holy Childhood Offices until 1984) (1980 & 2011)
(5) Mission Together liturgies [2010?]
(6) Letter (in French) from J. B. Duffès to an unknown priest with a list of slides (15 December 1987)
(7) Colour portraits of Pauline Jaricot [?2000]
(8) Mission Together acetates on The Philippines (2010-2011)
1 file 
D23/Box6/9   1961 - 1969
Photographs showing missionary activity in Pakistan
1 file 
Box 7
Box 7 consists of copies of the periodical Mission Outlook. These have been transferred to the Library and will be catalogued separately in due course.

Box 8
D23/Box8
D/23/Box8/4-9 originally part of a box 8.5 which has now been amalgamated into one box

D23/Box8/1   1997 - 2007
Mission Together items:
(1) “A story to tell” and a colouring in sheet
(2) “Resources - preparation” [for those doing an assembly]
(3) First proofs from Burfords (printers) with acetates of posters
(4) Mission Together Thank You certificate
(5) Mission Together in the Ivory Coast, Robert Assembly - OHP transparencies, teacher notes, newsletter (1997)
(6) Mission Together in Goa, Robert Assembly - OHP transparencies, teacher notes, newsletter (1998)
(7) Mission Together in Pakistan, Nadia Assembly - OHP transparencies, teacher notes, newsletter (1998/99)
(8) Mission Together in South Africa, Simunye Assembly - OHP transparencies, teacher notes, newsletter (1999/2000)
(9) Mission Together in Cameroon, Ivo Assembly - OHP transparencies, teacher notes, newsletter (2000/01)
(10) Mission Together in Kenya, Therese Assembly - OHP transparencies, teacher notes, newsletter (2001/02)
(11) Mission Together Handbook (2003)
(12) Tsunami work; Tsunami update; volunteer newsletters April 2005, September 2005, Dec 05 -Jan 06; Tsunami Disaster CAFOD and Mission Together Emergency Assembly (with acetates) (2005)
(12) Mission Together in Ghana, Badu Assembly - OHP transparencies, teacher notes, newsletter (2005)
(13) Fides Dossier: “Exploitation of Child Labour” (2007)
(13) Mission Together in Ecuador, Carlos Assembly - OHP transparencies, teacher notes, newsletter (2007)
(14) Thank You certificate (2007)
1 file 
D23/Box8/2   1991 - 2006
Mission Together teacher notes and newsletters (some duplicate above)
1 file 
D23/Box8/3   2011/12 - 2015/16
Mission Together liturgies and teacher notes:
(1) Malawi (2011/12)
(2) India (2012/13)
(3) Zambia (2013/14)
(4) Cambodia (2014/15)
(5) Malawai (2015/16)
1 file 
D23/Box8/4   1971 - 2010
Mission Together Papers, including collections of notes, liturgies, activities, retirement of Irene Donnelly (O'Donnell) as National Coordinator of Mission Together Networking, thank you certificates, posters, children's collection boxes of various eras, and stickers
 
D23/Box8/5   2005 - 2008
Mission Together Materials, including CDs, invoices, notes, newsletters with themes (Tamil Nadu, Ecuador, India, Jesse Tree, Ghana), teacher notes, budgets, and post-Tsunami (2004) work, and other resource material for primary schools
1 file 
D23/Box8/6   2004/05]- 2011/12
Resource materials for primary schools, including
2004-2005: Sri Lanka
2005-2006: Ghana
2006-2007: Tamil Nadu
2007-2008: Ecuador
2008-2009: Uganda
2009-2010: Nigeria
2010-2011: The Philippines
2011-2012: Malawi
8 CDs 
D23/Box8/7   1984 - 2008
File entitled “Mission Together collection of Liturgies + Calendars”
1 file 
D23/Box8/8   [?2000] - 2008
APF-Mill Hill Christmas cards
Note: A more complete record was lost/destroyed during 2009 building works
1 file 
D23/Box8/9   2008 - 2015
Mission Together materials, including posters, children's activities, promotional CD, and liturgies
1 file 
Box 9
Reference: D23/Box9
D23/Box9/1   1932 - 1978
Mission photographs (Fides)
1932 Chile. Sisters with children weaving baskets.
1933 (188) China. Criminals being baptised before being put to death
1934 Joseph Attipetty, Archbishop of Verapoly, South India
1934 Bera, Ethiopia. Marauding leopard shot by Capuchin Father
1934 Nippon, Japan. Little children singing Easter music
1935 Natal, S Africa. Scene from film The Black Sister
1935 Tanganyika, Iringa. Girls basket-weaving
1936 Drums of South India, Vizagapatam
1937 Eskimos wearing mosquito-protection clothing
1938 Solomon Islands (boys and gramophone)
1939 First black bishop of Madagascar, Ignazio Ramarosandratana
1940 Convert Jacobite Bishops, Mar Dioscoros, Mar Theophilos and Mar Severios. Tiruvalla India
1940 Tokyo. Three young women in the sunshine
1948 (538) Man with lip extender
1948 (538) Priest ?China
1950 (548) two priests in Rome
1950 Scenes of Mission Sunday (561) in Rome, Barcelona, Madrid
No date (570) Elderly man, New Guinea. Society of the Divine Word
No date (571) Elderly man, Dutch New Guinea. Friars Minor
1954 (583) Ahmedabad, India. Sister in traditional sari with girl
1954 (593) Baptism in Mauritius
1955 Mauritius (603/5) Bishop Liston presented the prize cup to the Flying Dragons, the winners of this year's tournament
1955 Mauritius (603) Bishop Daniel Liston, similar to above
1955 (608) Bishop Etoga, Yaunde, Cameroon. First native Bishop of territories of French West Africa
1956 (611) Indian Sisters Little Daughters of St Francis Xavier founded in Gujarati territory in 1925
1956 (612) Assam, India. Fr Mauri poses with two young Khasi dancers
1956 (612/3) Assam, India. Fr Mauri and people
1957 (624) India, Ahmedabad. Catechist instructing children
1957 (626) Fr Michael Nsombi, Belgian Congo
1957 (627) Head of Chalupie Indian woman, Paraguay
No date (629) Bishop Fulton Sheen at a meeting
1959 (659) Burma. Fr Lashenski SJ
1959 (661) Bishop Leo C. ark Feld SVD, New Guinea
1960 (665) Hong Kong. Old man with pipe
1960 (672) H. E. Mgr Dominique Yoshi Matsu Noguchi, Bishop of Hiroshima, Japan
1960 (672/4) H. E. Mgr Paul Zoungrana Archbishop of Ouagadougou
1961 (688) Ranchi. Sister in clinic with patient
1961 (689) untitled. Bishop in a seminar
1961 (689) untitled. Bishop, lay people, clerics
1963 (711) Kenya. Maasai boy with spear
1964 (728) Tanganyika, Moshi Maasai school extension
1964 (729) Kenya, reckless drivers' warning
1965 (732) Burma, Kentung. Bishop Guerilena and Fr Campagnoli, PIME, cross a river on a rudimentary raft made of bamboo sticks
1966 (745) Exarchate of Asmara, Ethiopia. Seminarians singing and playing traditional instruments
1966 (746) Niger. Council Father tries a camel
1966 (749) Cameroon, Yaounde AD youth and Archbishop John Zoa of Yaounde
1967 (761) Mali, Gao, Africa. People and water-jars
1969 (789) Ceylon, Kandy. Major seminarians brick-making
1970? (794) Priests in Africa
1970? (795) Clerics in Africa
1970? (795) Clerics in Africa as above
1970 (799) Central African Republic, Bangassou.
1971 (814) Mozambique. Catechist instructing
1972 (823/7) Malawi, Mzuzu. Girls from Marymount Secondary School help repair a dirt road
1972 (823/1) Malawi, Lilongwe, Bible reading
1972 (828) South Vietnam, Saigon. Seminary students
1973 (829/2) Pope Paul VI meets missionary priests whom he has ordained
1973 (829) Mothers and babies
1973 (831) India, Verapoly and Ernakulam. Seminarians making music
1973 (833) Kenya, Eldoret, Ortum. Sisters help patient with malnutrition
1973 (835) Bangladesh, Dacca. Major seminarians
1974 (844/10) Kenya. Girl weaving basket
1974 (844) Kenya. Turkana girl. Kiltegan Fathers' territory
1974 (849) Bolivia. Group of lay leaders and priest
1975 (858) Fr Julio Rojas, Bolivia, first Aymara Indian to become a priest. Ordained by Pope Paul on 29 June
1975 (860) India, Kottar. Sisters, Daughters of Mary, feeding calves
1975 (863) Fr Joseph Dinh Duc Dao, vice-rector, Centre for Missionary Animation, Rome
1975 (861) Panama. Franciscan Sister dancing with girls
1977? (864) Priest wearing traditional bead decorations
1977 (870/9) Tanzania. First Catholic church on the mainland of East Africa at Bagamoyo. Here David Livingstone's body was laid on Feb 4 1874 before being taken to Westminster Abbey
1977 (870/3) India. Fr John Alapatt SVD explains that well water is for drinking, not washing
1977 (871) priests
1977 (873) Hong Kong apartment buildings
1978 (882) Chile. Auracanian women with drums
1 file 
D23/Box9/2   [?1980]
Slides, subjects including China, African women, Asia, Africa, seminary in China, Chinese bishop, China terracotta warriors
13 slide pages 
D23/Box9/3   1914 - [?2010]
Numbered series of photographs:
(1) “People at work”, 1914
(2) “Children - with sisters, priests”
(3) “Sisters at work”, 1983
(4) “Collection of missionary river-crossings”, 1930s
(5) “Clergy”
(6) Pope Benedict XIV, [?2010]
(7) “Mother Theresa”, 1978
(8) “Culture and Tradition e.g. dress, rituals etc”
(9) “Photos sent by missionaries”
(10) Missionary photographs
(11) “Cultural Artefacts”
(12) “Everyday life”
(13) “Churches, other buildings and villages” (contains mass conversion photographs)
13 envelopes 
D23/Box9/4   1980 - [?2010]
Folders of photographs entitled “Popes”, including Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XIV
2 files 
D23/Box9/5   [1950 x 1980]
Folders of photographs entitled “Priests and sacraments”
2 files 
D23/Box9/6   1997
Photographs of Catholic churches in Indonesia
With covering letter from the curator, Widya Wahana Library, Bali, Indonesia
1 file 
D23/Box9/7   1950 - 1988
Fides photographs:
File 1:
1950 (562) addressed to Rev S M Shaw: Xavier Castle etc
1953 Statistical information about Catholic Church and photos of various schools and buildings around the world
1967 (762) Mass in Africa (762)
19?? (825) No titles or date, open air Mass
1974 July (846) Pope Paul VI consecrates seven new bishops
1975 (854) Major seminary rectors, Rome (90 rectors)
File 2:
1977 (875) Pontificia Universita Urbaniana 350 Simposio Internazionale Roma
1977/78 (878) South Korea, Kenya, Tanzania, Rome
1978 (879) Sri Lanka, India
1978 (880) Sri Lanka, South Korea
File 3:
1978 (883) Rome, Pope John Paul I in St Peter's Square, Cardinals approach throne. October: Pope John Paul II
1978 (884) PMAS Directors November meeting, Rome. Mother Teresa.
1979 (886) Diocese of Baroda, India and the Centenary of the Catholic Church in Uganda
1979 (887) Brazil floods; Baroda, India; Pope John Paul II visits the Mission Congregation, Rome
1979 (888) National Council, including National Director of PMS talking to Bishop Gaudencio Rosales, National Director in the Philippines, Pope John Paul II and National Council members, etc
File 4:
1979 (889) Bishops of India, Bishops of Sri Lanka, visit Propaganda, Rome; CELAM; Fr Emmerich SVD; Divine Word Missionaries; Kenya; Archbishops of Hanoi and Nagasaki
1979 (890) Cardinal Rossi at mission exhibition; Cardinal Cordeiro
1979 (891) Nairobi, Kenya
1979 (892) Nairobi, Kenya; Rome, Comboni meeting
1979 (893) Mother Teresa of Calcutta, Uganda, ad limina, Ecuador
File 5:
1980 (894) Japan; Kenya; Uganda; Ethiopia
1980 (895) Ethiopia; Mexico
1980 (896) Mexico
1980 (897) May Assembly of National Directors; Pope John Paul II at a large congress in Africa. No titles. Words: Akwaaba Apiafo
File 6:
1980 (898) Holy Father, Zaire
1980 (899) Uganda, Zimbabwe
1980 (900) Nagasaki, Ecuador, Zimbabwe, Uganda, Sudan, Rome-Korean Bishops ad limina, Vietnamese Bishops ad limina
1981 (901) Kenya
File 7:
1981 (902) Kenya, Uganda, Fr Bragotti, Columban, Daughters of St Paul
1981 (903) National Directors in Rome (not including England and Wales), Kenya, Uganda
1981 (904) National Directors in Rome (no England and Wales)
1981 (905) PNG
File 8:
1981 (906) National Directors in Rome (some untitled)
1981 (907) untitled photos of a youth gathering and Mass
1981/2 (908) National Directors and Zimbabwe
1982 (909) Ecuador, Zimbabwe, Senegal Bishops at Propaganda Fide
1982 (910), Benin Bishops at Propaganda Fide, Ecuador, Cardinal Rossi in Zimbabwe
1982 (911) May Assembly of National Directors, Rome
File 9:
1982 (912) Verapoly, India, Colombia
1982 (913) Pope John Paul II attends an exhibition in Spain, Ecuador, ad limina of Bishops of Zimbabwe
1982/3 (914) Episcopal Conference of Cameroon ad limina. Angola: Archdiocese of Huambo; Ecuador
1983 (915) Equatorial Guinea - New Bishops of; Angola Sisters; Peru; Cardinal Stafford Williams NZ; Cardinal Kitbunchu, Thailand: Cardinal Alexandre do Nacimento, Angola
1983 (916) Kenya, Ecuador, festivals, Uganda, Indonesia
File 10:
1983 (917) National Directors' plenary (May) Rome, Indonesia; Nigeria
1983 (918) Missionaries from Diocese of Morelia leaving for Angola; Bishops of Zaire, ad limina
198? (919) no titles. Mothers and babies, health, Sisters, bishops line up
198? (920) ?India. No titles
1984 (921) no titles and loose large portrait of Archbishop Dermot Ryan, new Pro-prefect of the Sacred Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples
198? (922) Leprosy - no titles
File 11:
198? (923) no titles. Pope John Paul II visits a Latin American country
198? (924) no titles. Memorial cross - diocese of Ranchi
198? (925) no titles. ? India
1986 (926) Diocese Darien (explanation inside envelope)
1986 (927) Diocese of Baroda and Darien (explanation inside envelope) and Rome. General Assembly of the Pontifical Missionary Society (first half of May) at the John Paul II Auditorium of the Urban University
File 12:
1986 (928) Panama, Ecuador, India. General Assembly of the Pontifical Mission Aid Societies, Rome
1986 (929) Reproduction of 1926 consecration of first six Chinese Bishops in Rome. India, Kenya
1987 (930) Japan - university, Ecuador, CIAM (International Centre of Missionary Animation) Rome
1987 (931) Ecuador; Nigeria; PMAS Rome, May
File 13:
1987 (932) Panama, PNG, The Venerable Fr Gerard Joseph OMI, descriptions inside
1987 (933) Panama, Philippines (descriptions inside)
1988 (934) Japan (descriptions inside)
1988 (935) Taiwan (descriptions inside)
13 files 
D23/Box9/8   1910 - 2005
Section “A”, photographs:
1910 Pere Maurice Connequin [A9]
1914 Cooking for lepers, Mandalay [A3.1]
1914 The Queen's Monastery, Mandalay [A3]
1920s “One of our native sisters teaching the children”, sent by Archbishop Breher Vic Ap Yenki, Manchukuo. [A 42] K
1922-1939 group of National Directors in Rome without the Pope. Mgr Ross is 5th from right, back row [A1.1]
1922-1939 Pope Pius XI audience with National Directors? [A1] Mgr Telford is 1st right
1929 Bishop Campling, MHM. first professed native sisters Uganda [A66]
1926 Nigeria, Port Harcourt. Catholic Mission [A43]
1927 Blackley God children April. No location ?India [A 40]
1929 Uganda. Meeting of Bishops in ?seminary (?Card Bourne) [A 14]
1930 Sudan. Archbishop Hinsley [A15]
1930s Peggy and Betty Taylor Holy Childhood members [A67]
1931 Lubunda, Congo. Children eating [A22]
1931 Uganda. ?Nyeng Seminary. Archbishop Hinsley and Bishop Campling. Staff and students [A]
1931? Lubunda, Congo. Sr Marie Adelaide with orphans [A22.1]
1932 Columbia. “Going to meet the missionary” [A 58]
1932 Vanrynsdorf. A large family in distress. [A 37]
1934 Kottar, India. To His Excellency Mgr Pereira, Lord Bishop of Kottar. Baptism ceremony of the first group of catechumens (542 persons) at Kolvely, on 19 August 1934. Prayer shed on the right of the house behind the group. Fr Stanistas VCD Parish Priest at Kulasegaram [A 36]
1935 Babies in yoke baskets Kashing? [A64]
1935 Bishop Hinsley saying goodbye to Bishop in Basutoland [A2]
1935 CTS booklet display shelf with a woman looking on. Cardinal Hinsley's Travels in Africa displayed. [A20]
1935 Patua, ?Bengal. G Stag? Baptizing [A 44]
1935 St Anthony's Mission Njinikom, Cameroon. Very first children of Njinikom to have received Baptism in infancy [A 17] K
1936 Postcard from Procure des Missions CCM Lille. [A9.1]
1936 Sarawak, Borneo. Dalat Oyo. The convent. Mother M Clare and 7 First Communicants [A51]
1938 Nkokonjeru Novitiate, Uganda. Sisters of St Francis. Mother Kevin, Foundress, and sisters who took final vows. [A 16]
1938 Sapporo, Japan, Kindergarten [A24]
1930s? China? Little girls holding babies named Christine, Aurélie, Joachim and André. Holy Childhood baptisms? [A46]
1942 Fr John Birch R. Fr Cyril James. L. Descent from Kibo summit [A6]
1942 Garsfontein. Making new flower bed [A 19]
1942 Garsfontein. Making new flower bed [A 19]
1945 Fr Esmonde [A7]
1940-1945? Bishops visit a seminary, St Mary's Hill ? Petoy and ? [A 41]
1946 Father Browner, Bronwer? River location [A13]
1948 Little boys, Holy Childhood, Aberystwyth [A12]
1948 China. Chusan Island. [A10.3] K
1948 Rwenlosi Mission, Uganda. Pupils [A68]
1948 Japan - feast of dolls [A97]
1949 Sendai, Japan Good Shepherd sisters' orphanage [A31] K
1949 Sisters Alphonsus and Domitilla in a canoe. Asia [A34]
1949 Tuticorin, India. Bishop Roche in the midst of children [A21] K
1949 small boy with puppies, Dacca [A99]
1957 Fr John Birch in England [A6.1]
1960 Pope John XXIII with PMS National Directors (Mgr Shaw) [A1.2]
1960 same group without the Pope [A1.3] England and Wales' director was Mgr Shaw. He is 4th from right and Bishop Fulton Sheen 6th
1960s Pope Paul VI meets PMS National Directors in Rome. Mgr Shaw obscured by prelate right of Pope [A 67}
1974 Archbishop of Kampala, Emmanuel K Nsubuga larger photo. He is carrying the remains of Fr Leo Barbot and Brother Amans
1978 Quinhon, South Vietnam. Sr Sheila Marie, nurse-midwife, teaches catechism to a patient [A5]
1980s? Zambia village [A100]
2005 Mgr John Dale with friend [A 38]
No date. A First Communion smile, India? [A23]
No date. Cardinal Hinsley ordains priests in Westminster Cathedral [A4]
No date Japanese catechist and wife with neighbourhood children and priest and European priests. Fr Goppert SJ and three novices, en route for Tokyo via Siberia. Fr Meyer SJ, Fr a Agilieia SJ [A 45]
No date. An old grandfather brings his sick grandchild to Father ?Connequin [A33]
No date. Africa. Mum and daughter praying [A35]
No date. Bernadette Cheng is the child who is seated [A27]
No date. Burma, Fr Basilio Marraru [A25]
No date. Canton, Hong Kong. Sister with blind/elderly? [A56]
No date. China. Chusan Island children (Sisters of Charity) [A10.1]
No date. China. Chusan Island Sister of Charity with children [A10.2] K
No date. China. Chusan Island. Mary Marguerite. Chinese name “Lomay” [A10.4]
No date. China. Chusan Island. Sisters of Charity and Holy Childhood elder girls [A 10]
No date. China. Holy Childhood babies [A 10.3]
No date. Exhibition item. Chinese pagoda display by the Helpers of the Holy Souls. Training of Native Sisters [A8]
No date. Family group, “all TB” [A49]
No date. Fides. Boys looking out from a barrel ?China [A63]
No date. Fr Hauman, SJ and Brother Aulinskas no location [A 18]
No date. Fr John Damascene, parish priest, Manivala? [A8.1]
No date. Franciscan Friars with Superior at Tsinanfu, China [A 59]
No date. Girl with baby, Africa [A52]
No date. Japan. “The Toffee Man with gong cf the muffin man” [A55]
No date. Mary McGlade, Blackley, a great worker for the Missions. Peter and Cecelia help her too [A61]
No date. Model of a hospital for an exhibition beautifully detailed. Holy Family Hospital, Rawalpindi [A 39]
No date. Nellore, British India [A 29] No date. Nellore, India. Indian priest teaching catechism [A48]
No date. Nove Lisboa, Angola. Protégés of the Holy Childhood happy with their toys. [A 28]
No date. Kesramal, Orissa State, India. Four of our children on the day of their baptism, all over three years [A 53]
No date. Orphan boy, Burma? “His parents were killed by Japanese” [A26]
No date. Santals, Bangladesh [A30]
No date. Three Burmese pupils of St Vincent's {A32]
No date. Three schoolgirls c.1940 - ? England [A60] K
No date. Umtali, Rhodesia. Native Sisters [A 47]
No date. Vicariate of Horoshima. “Pagan” kindergarten children in the care of Japanese Sisters [A9]
No date. Zulu women carrying their children. Maria Trost, Transvaal. Photo by Fr Bernard [A 57]
No date. Group of orphans, Vizagapatam [A98]
1 file 
D23/Box9/9   1903 - 1977
Section “B”, photographs:
1903 A Daughter of Charity. Photo taken in Paris [B57]
1914 Mandalay. A family of lepers [B72]
1914 Mandalay. A Burmese woman and children [B71]
1914 Sewing session Mandalay (little girls and a Sister) [B74]
1914 Mandalay. A village house [B64]
1914 Mandalay. Burmese horseman [B63]
1914 Mandalay. An after-dinner chat [B58]
1914 Plainchant lesson (presume also Mandalay) [B54]
1920s? First native priest, Youki Manchuria, giving his mother the first blessing. St Augustine's Mission House, Hendon NW4 [B100]
1928 Tibet. Quelques lépreuses et leurs infirmières. Ladies with leprosy and two sisters [B76]
1928 Archbishop Hinsley with the Paramount Chief of Basutoland. His Lordship has just visited Basutoland in the course of his educational tour of the African missions, and he received a warm welcome from the indigenous chiefs [B60]
1929 Peramiho, Tanzania. Leper Settlement. Benedictine Sister with leper children and teacher [B87]
1929 Peramiho, Tanzania. Sr Ermenhilde Morrissey OSB [B66]
1930 Car being pulled out of river by oxen. Kavirondo. Mgr Brandsma [B61]
1930s? Cardinal Hinsley. At a mission exhibition? White Fathers? Fr Gerald Scriven ®)? [B55]
1930s? Bishop Michaud M Afr., Vic Ap Uganda. Duchess of Gloucester. Cutting of the first sod of New Makere Building [B52]
1930s? No date. Photos of road building in Sikkim “supervised” by Mgr Gianora, Prefect Apostolic of Sikkim, India [B82]
1930s? Fr Albert Digard, China [B67]
1930s? Madeline Fitzpatrick with child and dogs [B65]
1931 Ginabahar, Jashpur, India, girls school J Delvaux [B88]
1934 Minor seminary Shensi, China with ?Franciscans [B93]
1938 Chinese Bishop, Rt Rev Paul Yu Ping, sings Pontifical High Mass in Westminster Cathedral at the invitation of Cardinal Hinsley [B94]
1938 South Seas celebrate mission centenary [B80]
1939 Regional seminary Suan Hwa Fu, China [B92]
1939-1942. Maori schoolboys dress up in sailor costume. They are welcoming HMS Maori, which was commissioned in 1939, sank, Malta 1942 [B56]
1940 Mongolia, large Christian village stamped Seminarium Centrale Tatungfu [B68]
1945 Native Sister, Mugumu, Tanzania [B28]
1945 Mugumu, Tanzania, bullock cart [B 28.1]
1945 Mugumu, Tanzania, farm labourer [B28.3]
1945 Mugumu, Tanzania, bush school [B 28.2]
1940s? No date. Uganda funeral III [B]
1940s Little girl, from Rev J Delvaux, Catholic Mission, Chandwa, India [B86]
1940s? Children doing manual work. From Rev J Delvaux, Catholic Mission, Chandwa, India [B85]
1945 Fr Daly and piki-piki (motorbike) [B69]
1946? Fr Rossi with little boy who was tortured by the Japanese but did not betray the Italian priest [B84]
1946 Fr R Rossi. Loikaw, Burma, with account of his torture in a Japanese POW camp [B71]
1948 Children's procession, Kenya [B98]
1948 Ivory Coast. Communion at the children's Mass [B59]
1949 China. Flood in Hankow (Babies in a basket) [B73]
1966 Peter Teko with Fr Peter Traversi who was seriously wounded in a Karamoja village, Uganda, while preaching [B81]
1972 India, Archdiocese of Calcutta. A Sister of Mother Teresa's order with Bangladesh refugee children near Dum Dum airport [B83]
1973 Poona, India. Two Sisters of St Anne help in medical relief work with a mobile unit, at Songaon mission Station. [B89]
1974 Archbishop of Kampala, Emmanuel K Nsubuga larger photo. He is carrying the remains of Fr Leo Barbot and Brother Amans [B49]
1975? Priest teaching Sign of the Cross to small children, China? [B90]
1976 Mzuzu, Malawi. Fides. Girl and hand pump [B79]
1976 Columbia, Latin America. Priest children in slum [B96]
1977 Fr John Wren MHM, Cameroon [B91]
1977 Fr Frank Thompson MHM in mud-splattered VW beetle [B78]
No date. Uganda funeral IV procession to the cemetery [B1]
No date. Group Captain Leonard Cheshire with residents of a Cheshire home, Lusaka [B99]
No date. China. Abandoned babies with Sisters of Charity [B95]
No date. Franciscan Missionaries of Mary. Hospital scene [B77]
No date. ?Mill Hill Fathers. Large group each with a crucifix in his sash. All names on reverse. [B51]
No date. Three photos of Courtfield, formerly belonging to the Mill Hill Missionaries. Home of Cardinal Vaughan [B50]
No date. Fr J O'Callaghan, Superior General Mill Hill [B53]
No date. Maori children awaiting catechism class. Kaihu outstation, North Auckland NZ [B62]
No date. Maori group, NZ [B75]
1 file 
D23/Box9/10   [?2000]
Section “C”, photographs:
Missionary photographs, including Fr Declan O'Toole mhm, RIP a young priest who was murdered in Uganda in 2002
1 file 
D23/Box9/11   1930 - 2002
Folder entitled “Interesting Photos”:
1927 181 Ugandan Sisters, Daughters of Mary, diocesan sisters founded 1908, [ao], Fides
1930s? Tableaux of mission activity taken at an exhibition
1930 China. Kaichow pupils in the refectory - from Fr Connequin [as]
1930 Japan. Bishop Januarius Hagasaka addressing an audience of 1,600, Fides, [ar]
1930 China. Fr Maurice Connequin baptises [as2], two copies of this photo
1930 Ethiopia. Fr Charles, Capuchin, father of the lepers [bh], Fides
1932 Ningyuanfu, China, missionary Archbishop de Guebriant, Sup Gen Paris Foreign Missions, Fides, [bc]
1932 Poona, India. Jesuit father showers children in summer heat [bc], Fides
1932 Lichow, Hunan, China. Music making, Fides. [au]
1932 Queenstown South Africa. Priest gives a blessing. [ad]
1932 Jhabua, India. Young pagan adopted by the Mission. From Fr Bernard [aq]
1933 Natal. German Benedictine Sisters on a home visit, Fides [bg]
1933 The Blue Sisters take on a new white habit [D] [ag], Fides
1933 A talk in the town square, Uganda. Priest in Topee with Africans, Fides [ac]
1935 Open air school in Natal. Dutch Sister playing violin gives music lesson to pupils. [bd] Fides
1935 Holy Childhood work in Central Asia, Inner Mongolia, Spanish Capuchin Sisters, man and babies in basket [ap], Fides
1935 Belgian Holy Ghost father preparing baptism candidates [bf], Fides
1937 Catholic Action week for South China [bj]
1937 Catholic Education in Mandalay, Burma. Burmese Sister teaching tots [bb] Fides
1938 Queenstown, South Africa, children learning to wash themselves, [ac], Fides
1939 Tablet erected to memory of Foundresses of Society of St Peter Apostle, Caen, France [ah], Fides photos
1939 APF Centenary Exhibition at Westminster Cathedral. Shows painting done by children to celebrate mission. [bo]
1948 Burma, postulants [ai]
1948 Cameroon, group of Christians, confirmed by Rt Rev Mgr P Rogan [al] Mill Hill Fathers
1948 Yangtze, China, Franciscan Sisters FMM and pupils [ak]
1948 Bangalore, India, patients of St Martha's Hospital [bi]
1949 Hand of St Francis Xavier [az]
1950s Cardinal at an exhibition as below [aa]
1950s Cardinal at an exhibition (English Missionaries section) ?Westminster Cathedral Hall [aa2]
1950s Cardinal at an exhibition (English Missionaries section) ?Westminster Cathedral Hall [aa3], possibly Mgr Stephen Shaw ND first left
1950s Missions exhibition [aa4]
1950s Exhibition? Model of a hospital [aa8]
1950s Exhibition? Native Handicrafts (White Sisters)[aa8]
1950s Missions exhibition - the hall is set up A364[aa5]
1950s Missions exhibition - Training of indigenous Sisters by the Helpers of the Holy Souls [aa6]
1950s Mission exhibition - Native Handicrafts, The White Sisters [aa7]
1950s Mission exhibition - handicrafts [aa9] Mother Teresa Saint in Action [x1] [x2] [x3]
1950s Sisters at Bonjongo, Cameroon with a bishop [bk]
1959 Missionaries receive crucifixes from Pope John XXIII [au], Fides
1959 Missionaries received crucifixes from Pope John XXIII and processed around the Basilica [au2], Fides Death of St Francis Xavier - colour postcard from Jesuits, Mount Street [A22]
1960s Sr Helen Aherne MMM [af3]
1960s Sr Christina Hanley MMM [af2]
1960s Sr Ruth Percival? MMM and Sr Catherine Fallon MMM [af]
1962 Vatican II, full view of Council Hall. Fides 705/11 [aw]
1963 Carmelite nuns in Iceland [ay]
1963 Pope Paul VI's first broadcast message [av], Fides
1965 Solomon Islands, Fr Norman Awkwright, sm [ax]
1970s Mgr Lawrence Coonan, ND 1971-79 , second left [ab2]
1970 Bishop Walsh released from prison in China meeting Pope Paul VI [at], Fides
1971-1979 Fides Rome, Mgr Coonan ND in a meeting 2nd from left
1976 Catechist and class of lepers [bn] Fides 862/2
1994 Punalur, Kerala, India - ceremonies around the diocese
1995 Hermanas Misioneras de la Eucaristia, San Andres, Semetabaj, Sologa, Guatemala - Aspirants doing traditional dance [bl]
1995 as above. Profession of two Sisters [bm]
2001 St John's Regional Seminary, Hyderabad, India.
2002 First graduation ceremony at All Saints Seminary, Edo State, Nigeria Uhiele/Ekpma
No date. Chinese babies in baskets [am]
1 file 
D23/Box9/12   1953
Photographs of church, university and school buildings in Japan, Hong Kong, Tanganyika, Kenay, Liberia, and India
Caption list in Italian
1 file 
D23/Box9/13   1994
Photographs of church services (baptisms, ordinations, blessings, catechism classes etc) in India
With typescript list of captions
1 file 
Box 9A
D23/Box9A
Box of photographs, mostly of missionary activity, arranged by country:

D23/Box9A/1   1935 - 1937
Africa (various)
1 file 
D23/Box9A/2   1951 - 1961
Alaska
1 file 
D23/Box9A/3   1977
Austria
1 file 
D23/Box9A/4   1973 - 1979
Bangladesh
1 file 
D23/Box9A/5   1966
Barbados
1 file 
D23/Box9A/6   1963 - 1966
Belgium
1 file 
D23/Box9A/7   1916 - 1971
Burma
1 file 
D23/Box9A/8   1933 - 1967
Cameroon
1 file 
D23/Box9A/9   1964 - 1973
Central Africa
1 file 
D23/Box9A/10   1959 - 1975
Ceylon
1 file 
D23/Box9A/11   1936 - 1979
Congo/Zaire
1 file 
D23/Box9A/12   1932 - 1972
China
2 files 
D23/Box9A/13   1954 - 1975
Dahomey
1 file 
D23/Box9A/14   1955 - 1960
Egypt
1 file 
D23/Box9A/15   1939 - 1977
Eritrea and Ethiopia
1 file 
D23/Box9A/16   1964 - 1970
France
1 file 
D23/Box9A/17   1954 - 1956
French West Africa
1 file 
D23/Box9A/18   1965 - 1966
Gabon
1 file 
D23/Box9A/19   1964 - 1965
Ghana
1 file 
D23/Box9A/20   1972
Greenland
1 file 
D23/Box9A/21   1954 - 1978
Hong Kong
1 file 
D23/Box9A/22   1932
Iceland
1 file 
D23/Box9A/22a   1938 - 1978
India
5 files 
D23/Box9A/23   1957 - 1967
Ivory Coast
1 file 
D23/Box9A/24   1937 - 1978
Japan
3 files 
D23/Box9A/25   1959 - 1977
Kenya
1 file 
D23/Box9A/26   1939 - 1978
Korea
2 files 
D23/Box9A/27   1935 - 1977
Latin America
2 files 
D23/Box9A/28   1960 - 1977
Malaysia
1 file 
D23/Box9A/29   1974
Mexico
1 file 
D23/Box9A/30   1938 - 1969
Middle East
1 file 
D23/Box9A/31   [?1960]
Nigeria
1 file 
D23/Box9A/32   1957
North Borneo
1 file 
D23/Box9A/33   1935 - 1976
Oceania (including Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea
2 files 
D23/Box9A/34   1956
Pakistan
1 file 
D23/Box9A/35   1937 - 1970
Philippines
1 file 
D23/Box9A/36   1970
Poland
1 file 
D23/Box9A/37   1957 - 1978
Portuguese Africa
1 file 
D23/Box9A/38   1961 - 1973
Rhodesia
1 file 
D23/Box9A/39   1955 - 1978
Rome
1 file 
D23/Box9A/40   1967 - 1973
Rwanda and Burundi
1 file 
D23/Box9A/41   1949 - 1966
Scandinavia
1 file 
D23/Box9A/42   1970
Senegal
1 file 
D23/Box9A/43   1963 - 1976
Sierra Leone
1 file 
D23/Box9A/44   1965
Spain
1 file 
D23/Box9A/45   1954 - 1961
Sudan
1 file 
D23/Box9A/46   1950 - 1965
Swaziland and Uganda
1 file 
D23/Box9A/47   1935 - 1973
Taiwan
2 files 
D23/Box9A/48   1960 - 1974
Thailand
1 file 
D23/Box9A/49   1968
Trinidad
1 file 
D23/Box9A/50   1964
United States
1 file 
D23/Box9A/51   1956 - 1975
Upper Volta
1 file 
D23/Box9A/52   1932 - 1959
Vietnam
1 file 
D23/Box9A/53   1953 - 1975
Zambia
1 file 
D23/Box9A/54   [?1950 x 1960]
Unidentified religious art
1 file 
Box 10
Reference: D23/Box10
D23/Box10/1   1988 - 2001
Folder entitled “A”
(1) Correspondence relating to the death of Fr John Marquis, SPA National Secretary for 1971 to 1992 (1992 - 1994)
(2) Correspondence on feast days in the Mission Today Calendar (1994)
(3) Correspondence re Gregorian Masses and an explanation of Gregorian Masses (1997)
(4) Correspondence re guardian angels (1997)
(5) Correspondence from Fr/Mgr John Corcoran, National Director regarding Mission Sunday collections (1988-1994)
(6) booklets re centenary of evangelisation of Kenya (1989)
(7) Correspondence with Martin Wright, illustrator and crossword compiler for Mission Together (1990 - 2001)
(8) Correspondence with Bishop Malcolm Ranjith on the guidelines for a project application (2003)
1 file 
D23/Box10/2   1969 - 1970
Missionary Commission (later National Missionary Council, CMU) papers, including minutes of meetings and reports
1 file 
D23/Box10/3   2006
Papers relating Fr John Dale's visit to Sudan on planning for the establishment of a Catholic seminary, including correspondence, transcripts of speeches, reports, and plans of the seminary
1 file 
D23/Box10/4   1975 - 2009
Papers, including correspondence and reports, of the Catholic Missionary Union:
File 1: 1986 - 1991
File 2: 1992 - 1999
File 3: 2000 - 2009
File 4: Reports 1983 - 2002
4 files 
D23/Box10/5   1989 - 2002
File entitled “Holy Childhood”:
1991 Martin Wright's original artwork for the Holy Childhood Mission Club badge/sticker
1991-1993 Mission Club Collection boxes of collapsible card and Martin Wright's artwork, with invoices
1992 Guidelines for the Missionary Childhood drawing competition
1992 Holy Childhood Annual Report
1994 Holy Childhood fund raising cards for Mission Club (these were supposed to contain coins designated for particular categories of need but apparently never used). Copied from the USA Holy Childhood Association card (enclosed). See accompanying letter of disappointment at their poor manufacture from the National Director to Dollard Packaging Ltd, Dublin and Dollard's reply.
1994 May Hallam News with article by Irene Donnelly, Head Teacher of St Thomas of Canterbury, Sheffield, about Mission Club, and the African Mass she organised
1996 Minutes of Holy Childhood Regional Meeting
1998 List of Holy Childhood volunteers. Name is now Mission Together
2002 Correspondence between National Director PMS and Pattaya Orphanage.
1 file 
D23/Box10/6   1982 - 1984
Holy Childhood minutes of AGMs, accounts, and school collections
1 file 
D23/Box10/7   1981 - 2005
Invoices for repairs at 23 Eccleston Square
1 file 
D23/Box10/8   1993
Papers of the meeting of the European National Directors: Durham 13-17 March
1 file 
D23/Box10/9   1971 - 2004
Papers of the APF-Mill Hill organisers meetings, including agendas, minutes and associated papers
1 file 
D23/Box10/10   1976 & 1977
Our Lady's Missionary League account statements
2 items 
D23/Box10/11   2003 - 2007
Newspaper cuttings re Father John Dale and articles by him
1 file 
D23/Box10/12   2001 - 2005
Papers relating to the Bishops' Committee for Overseas Mission, including minutes of meetings with associated reports
1 file 
D23/Box10/13   1997 - 2008
Papers relating to the Catholic Missionary Union, mostly agenda, minutes and reports
1 file 
Box 11
Reference: D23/Box11
D23/Box11/1   [20th century]
Photographs, including missionary activity in Africa and India (some Fides, portrait photographs of priests, church services etc
1 file 
D23/Box11/2   [mid 20th century]
Large photographs on card:
(1) High altar in Chinese church
(2) Coptic bishop
(3) Catholic [?priest] distributing the communion wafer to a celebrant during Mass [?in China]
3 items 
D23/Box11/3   2006
File entitled “APF Display 2006”, including laminated mission photos and information on the society
1 file 
D23/Box11/4   2006
File entitled “SPA Display 2006”, including laminated mission photos and information on the society
1 file 
D23/Box11/5   2005
File entitled “Display 2005” (similar contents to above)
1 file 
D23/Box11/6   [?2000]
Language:  English and Latin
Photocopies of papal letters by Pius XII establishing World Day of Holy Childhood, 1950
2 items 
D23/Box11/7   1967 - 1978
Missionary Union correspondence of Mgr L Coonan, National Director
1 file 
D23/Box11/8   1983
Language:  English, French and German
“Results of enquiries and illustrations of selected schedules” by the International Working Group Opus Sancti Petri. Includes:
1. Enquiries made from National Directors of the Pontifical Mission Aid Societies.
2 Enquiries made from major Seminaries in Africa, Asia and Oceania
3 Graphical illustration of some special aspects contained in the schedules showing the numerical development of vocations in the Third World and the possibility of financing them
In parallel English, French and German
1 report 
D23/Box11/9   2006
Holy Childhood report: Pont Opera Santa Infanzia Segetariato Internazionale Roma, “General Assembly of the PMS Report of the Gen Sec of the Pontifical Society of the Missionary Childhood”
1 report 
D23/Box11/10   5-14 May 2005
Superior Council Pontifical Mission Societies General Assembly in Lyons
Report I. Secretariat Pontifical Society of the Propagation of the Faith (PSPF)
Report II. Secretariat Pontifical Missionary Union (PMU) Report of the Secretary General of the Pontifical Society of the Missionary Childhood, Lyon
1 file 
D23/Box11/11   1989 - 1992
Homilies:
1989 - Inter-Religious Co-Operation (Address at Inter-Faith meeting in Westminster Hall 22 October) Cardinal Arinze
1989 - The Gospel to all Creation (Homily at the Opening Mass of the Academic Year in the Missionary Institute London 20 October) Cardinal Arinze
1992 - Homily preached at the Requiem Mass for Fr John Marquis National Secretary of the SPA at 23 Eccleston Square from 1971 to 1992 - Reverend Group Captain John Marquis
3 items 
D23/Box11/12   1983 - 1999
Correspondence of Mgr John Corcoran, National Director, with the Missionary Institute
1 file 
D23/Box11/13   1989 - 2001
Papers, including minutes of meetings and correspondence with Brendan Morrison (Public Relations) and the National Directors
1 file 
D23/Box11/14   1935 - 2003
APF-Mill Hill papers and correspondence, including the agreement between the two societies, diocesan returns, collections, disagreements concerning finance, minutes of meetings, communications etc
1 file 
D23/Box11/15   1970 - 1979
Correspondence between Mgr Lawrence Coonan and Fr Noel Hanrahan MHM, Superior General of Mill Hill, including discussions on the split over finances
1 file 
D23/Box11/16   1998
Missio logo from Germany, accompanied by a letter from Missio
2 items 
D23/Box11/17   1999
Mission Sunday Jubilee Mission Hymn by Paul Inwood
1 music score 
D23/Box11/18   1959 - 1991
Mission Sunday circular letters exhorting secular clergy and religious orders to celebrate Mission Sunday from the National Director
1 file 
D23/Box11/19   1975
Correspondence between Mgr Coonan, National Director, and Cardinal Heenan, archbishop of Westminster, regarding a letter on Mission Sunday similar to the “CAFOD letter”
1 file 
D23/Box11/20   1978 - 2005
Folder entitled “Pontifcium Opus a Propagatione Fidei”, including:
1978 Paper: “The role of The National Director of the Pontifical Mission-Aid Societies”
1988 Father John Corcoran and Mrs J Demolder of the Bishops' Conference correspond over copyright and correct liturgical usage
1989 - 1999 correspondence with and re The Tablet: money and missions, the African seminaries
1992 & 2003: Correspondence with Sally Front on an interest-free loan
1996 APF -Mill Hill Pilgrimage to Lourdes 1996 advert and letter from John Corcoran to Mancunia
1998 Minutes of Bishops' Committee for Overseas Mission
1999 & 2000 Papers relating to the European National Directors' meetings
2005 Letters to Mgr Galvez and Fr Dumon on the General Secretaryship of the four societies
1 file 
D23/Box11/21   1994 - 2003
Papers relating to the manufacture of the red box by CTR Plastics and Aqua Cure
1 file 
Box 12
Reference: D23/Box12
D23/Box12/1   1951
Folder entitled “Exhibition photographs”, mostly pictures of saints and artefacts
1 file 
D23/Box12/2   1951
Photographs of religious art and artefacts, previously loaned to Art Display Service Ltd
1 file 
D23/Box12/3   [?mid 20th century]
Photographs of Tosamaganga Seminary, Tanganyika
Sent by the Holy Childhood in Paris
1 file 
D23/Box12/4   1954
Photographs of St Boniface Church, Crediton
1 file 
D23/Box12/5   1965
Photographs, correspondence, and transcripts of newspaper cuttings relating to the ordination of Fr Beato Ratuloco, Fijian priest
1 file 
D23/Box12/6   [?1950]
Zambia tourist bureau photographs of community life in Zambia
1 file 
D23/Box12/7   1960 - 1969
Photographs of the National Directors meeting Popes John XXIII and Paul VI in Rome
1 file 
D23/Box12/8   1981
Photographs used in Missions and Missionaries
1 file 
D23/Box12/9   [1930 x 1980]
Unsorted Fides photographs, probably used for publications, many with captions
1 file 
D23/Box12/10   1963
Dummy mock up photographs for Missions and Missionaries
1 file 
D23/Box12/11   1983
Photographs used in Missions and Missionaries
1 file 
D23/Box12/12   1959 - 1975
Photographs of Popes, including Pope John XXIII, Pope Paul VI, and Pope John Paul II
Many are Fides and captioned
1 file 
D23/Box12/13   [mid 20th century]
Photographs of Hong Kong
1 file 
D23/Box12/14   1950 - 1973
Fides photographs used in The Missionary Times
Arranged by year. Some photos are older than the year in which they appeared in the publication
13 files 
D23/Box12/15   [1930 x 1990]
Miscellaneous mission photographs (some Fides)
5 files 
D23/Box12/16   [?1950]
Photograph of a painting of Pauline Jaricot
1 BW print 
D23/Box12/17   May 1962
Photographs of the First International Missionary Congress, Lyon
1 file 
D23/Box12/18   1950 - 1968
Photographs of Our Lady artwork
1 file 
D23/Box12/19   [?2000]
“Stained glass” religious images
2 colour transparencies 
D23/Box12/20   May 1963
Photograph of Mgr Shaw meeting Cardinal Agagiania, with accompanying letter
1 BW print and 1 letter 
Box 13
D23/Box13
Previously Box 100

D23/Box13/1   31 January 1888 - 14 June 1922
“Minutes Book of the Meetings of the London Council of the Association for the Propagation of the Faith”
1 volume 
D23/Box13/2   22 November 1922 - 18 January 1938
On front board in gold letters: “Association for the Propagation of the Faith (British Branch) Minute Book No. 2”
Includes alphabetical subject index at the front of the volume
1 volume 
D23/Box13/3   11 January 1927 - 8 July 1940
(1) Pages 30-53: Minutes of a proposed Joint Board of Catholic Missions. This is about a council of representatives of the Foreign Missionary Orders. Represented were among others: Missions Etrangères, White Fathers, Marists, Leper Guild, Perpetual Adoration. Meetings of the JCCFM Joint Consultative Committee for Foreign Missions continue to January 1930
(2) Pages 100-103: Missionary Union of the Clergy. Meeting of the National Council, 27 June 1939. Minutes signed by Cardinal Hinsley 8 July 1940
1 volume 
D23/Box13/4   31 May 1977 - 16 June 1987
Minutes of the AGM of the Association for the Propagation of the Faith held at St Joseph’s College, Mill Hill
1 volume 
D23/Box13/5   18 June 1984 - 15 June 1987
Minutes of the AGM of the Pontifical Mission Aid Societies
1 volume 
D23/Box13/6   1 June 1967 - 16 June 1987
Minutes of the AGM of the Society of St Peter Apostle
On inside front cover: “Statutes of the English Branch of the Society of St. Peter Apostle for Native Clergy” (1968)
Includes alphabetical subject index at the front of the volume
1 volume 
D23/Box13/7   7 July 1925 - 13 June 1930; 18 July 1950 - 15 June 1987
“Minute Book of the English Branch of the Society of the Holy Childhood’”
Minutes of meetings held between 1930 and 1950 were typed and stored separately. These could not be located
1 volume 
D23/Box13/8   1922 - 1931
Association for the Propagation of the Faith visitors' book (69, Eccleston Square, London)
Includes names and addresses
1 volume 
D23/Box13/9   1938 - 1950
Association for the Propagation of the Faith visitors' book (69, Eccleston Square, London)
1 volume 
D23/Box13/10   1949 - 1984
Minute book for the Society of Saint Willibrord
1 volume 
Box 14
Reference: D23/Box 14
D23/Box 14/1   1999 - 2013
Papers, including minutes of the PMS Strategic Planning Group and the Strategic Development Plan
1 file 
D23/Box 14/2   1971 - 2012
File entitled “Odds and Ends”:
1971: Pontifical Missionary Societies, The whole church helping all the local churches
1986-1987: Holy Childhood schools' calendar promoting priests
1986: SPA leaflet, photograph and press cutting of the ordination of Fr Steven Bulambo in Malawi
1987-1991: SPA history of the early days of the Bigard Memorial Seminary, Enugu, Nigeria, and visit to the seminary, and letter to The Tablet
1987: statistics of indigenous clergy in Africa and Asia from 1925 to 1987 and on an overhead projector sheet, 1967, 1977, 1987
1987: booklet To the Ends of the Earth a pastoral statement on World Mission by the Catholic Bishops of the United States
1988 - 1992: correspondence between Father John Corcoran, National Director and Mr Michael Green, design consultant
[?1988]: badge templates of cross and globe by the Quality Badge and Superior Logo Manufacturing Company
1989: Priests from all Nations, produced to celebrate the centenary of St Peter the Apostle (SPA), published by PMS Ireland
[?1990]: Mission World Focus paper entitled: “Adopting a mission seminarian”
1991: copy of letter from Peter Harson to The Tablet
2001: booklet Opus securitatis: old age provision plan under the Pontifical Society for the Propagation of the Faith
2011: SPA Summer newsletter
2011: Transcript of the eulogy at the requiem mass of Canon John Devane (1929-2011)
2012: Order for Exposition and Benediction -a celebration for APF Local Secretaries with HE Cardinal Turkson, at Westminster Cathedral, 1 December
199? Undated form for making a codicil to your will for the SPA
1 file 
D23/Box 14/3   1972 - 1996
File entitled “Works to Eccleston Sq”
1 file 
D23/Box 14/4   1956 - 1981
Certificates:
20 August 1956: certified copy of entry of death: Bernard William Griffin (Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster)
27 August 1979: death certificates of the Very Reverend John Lawrence Coonan
7 August 1980: death certificate of the Very Reverend Monsignor Francis Patrick Callanan (Trustee)
9 September 1981: Rev Robert Gates becomes a trustee of the Association for the Propagation of the Faith
9 September 1981: Rev Robert Gates becomes a trustee of the SPA
1 file 
D23/Box 14/5   9 January 2012
Folder of papers relating to the 150th anniversary of the death of Venerable Pauline Marie Jaricot, including booklets, biography, etc, organised by Oeuvres Pontificales Missionnaires
Mostly duplicates
 
D23/Box 14/6   2002 & 2006
Risk Management Plan for the Pontifical Mission Societies, versions 1 (2002) and 2 (2006)
1 file 
D23/Box 14/7   1995 - 2000
Minutes of the Bishops Committee for Overseas Mission, with reports
1 file 
D23/Box 14/8   1981 - 1982
Correspondence regarding parish groups including Justice and Peace and CAFOD
1 file 
D23/Box 14/9   2008
letter from Canon Brendan MacCarthy to Mr Chris Bain, Director of CAFOD re their family fast day.
Also a statement from the Bishops regarding the priority of Mission Aid collections
1 letter and statement 
D23/Box 14/10   2002 - 2003
Correspondence between Sedgwick Phelan & Partners regarding a painting, thought to be a Lowry, which Miss Lucy Chapman of Alexian Brothers Care Centre, wanted to sell and leave the proceeds of the sale to APF and others
1 file 
D23/Box 14/11   1861 - 2013
Miscellaneous items:
1861: Cutting from The Times advertising sale of furniture and lease of 23 Eccleston Square upon the death of Lady Albinia Foster
1930: Booklet: Statutes of the English Branch of the Association of the Propagation of the Faith and allied societies
1936: Booklet: Association for the Propagation of the Faith. Meeting of the Diocesan Representatives at the Connaught rooms, Great Queen Street, Kingsway, London WC2 on Thursday, April 30th 1936 at 3.30 pm.
1965: Printed letter: Apostolic Letter of Pope Paul VI to the Patriarchs, Archbishops and Bishops of the Catholic World for the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Society of St Peter Apostle for Native Clergy
1968: Leaflet: Statutes of the English Branch of the Society of St Peter Apostle for Native Clergy approved by the Supreme Council in Rome
1970s: Typescript: “The APF/Mill Hill Organisation”
1979: Mgr Coonan's Catholic Central Library subscription reminder card
1980: Booklet: Pontifical Missionary Societies, “Statutes”
1981: Receipt signed by Mark Swaby National Director APF
1983: Photocopy of: The four founders: a brief history of the Pontifical Mission Aid Societies
1984: Booklet: The Society for the Propagation of the Faith, Role of the Diocesan Director
1990 - 1994: Holy Childhood, CAFOD and primary schools- correspondence
1990, 2000-2004: Booklets: Fidei Donum Priests: England and Wales
1994: Photocopy of: The Association for the Propagation of the Faith with St Joseph's Missionary Society. Manual for Local Secretaries - Animators. Diocese of Arundel & Brighton
2005 - 2006: Laminated Mission Together prayer cards and stickers
2007: CD entitled “Photos for Mission Together poster and prayer cards from Missio Scotland”
2011: Annuaire des oeuvres pontificales missionnaires (Names of all the National Directors across the world)
2013: Catholic Herald, March 22 2013 and L'Osservatore Romano, 20 March 2013. Souvenirs of new Pope Francis and APF advert also in Catholic Herald
1 file 
D23/Box 14/12   [1930 x 1980]
Photos sent in by missionaries
Some with captions
2 files 
D23/Box 14/13   1990 - 1994
Letters to National Directors from bishops and archbishops of the hierarchy
1 file 
D23/Box 14/14   1938 - 2010
Miscellaneous items:
1938: Statutes of the English Branch of the Association for the Propagation of the Faith
1964: Commentary on the APF-Mill Hill Agreement by Rev T McLaughlin, one of the original sponsor
1989 - 2004: correspondence of staff and associates
1996: Mission Together Handbook
1998: "Cooperatio Missionalis" Instruction of the Congregation for the evangelization of Peoples on Missionary Cooperation
1999: Copy letter to HE Cardinald Archbishop of Westminster, Basil Hume, signed by staff: John Corcoran, Tony Ashdown, Rita Magdaraog, Pauline Stevens, Jane D'Angelo, Bertilla Cappelletti
[?2000]: Papers pn Echternach, the burial place of St Willibrord, including the “hopping dance” , the town. brochure, etc
[?2000]: Prayer card of Chinese Madonna and Child
2010: Letter to Mgr John Dale re Licence for alteration at 23 Eccleston Square from Alexa Beale, Pothecary Witham Weld. This concerns the lift already installed at No. 23.
1 file 
D23/Box 14/15   1988 - 2003
Correspondence about Mission Sunday collections and the role of CAFOD
1 file 
D23/Box 14/16   1955 - 2011
Miscellaneous items:
1955 - 1986: Society of St Peter the Apostle for Native Clergy. Leaflets with monthly intentions and statistical information
[?1960 x 1969]: Typescript: “Description of Work in the APF Office” (various editions)
1973: A completed covenant form with facsimile seal and 1972 covenant for from The Squire de Lisle, Gracedieu Park, Whitwick Leics both for the Holy Childhood
1981: “The Early Growth of the APF in England” by E S Worrall (photocopy)
1988 - 2003: Thank you cards signed by John Corcoran, National Director
1989: Society of St Peter Apostle Centenary. Theme of the celebration: all events will address the theme of Growing together through Hope, concern, prayer
1997: Circular appeal letter from Mgr John Corcoran to schools
1998: A Summary of Cooperatio Missionalis, issued 1st October
[?1990 - 2000]: APF and SPA publicity leaflets
2004: Proposal from Father Michael Markey to Fr John Dale regarding Mission Sunday
2008: Letter from Mgr John Dale to Sister Anna M O'Dea thanking her for the gift of jewellery to the Pontifical Mission Societies
2011 Homily preached by Archbishop Longley on the 75th Anniversary of the Missio Red Box St Chad's Cathedral, Birmingham, 24 July
1 file 
D23/Box 14/17   [?mid 20th century] & 2008
(1) Undated foolscap handwritten document on the foundation of the Society of St Peter the Apostle
(2) 2008 Henrietta Harrison. “A Penny for the Little Chinese: The French Holy Childhood Association in China, 1943 - 1951”
2 items 
D23/Box 14/18   [1962 x 1965]
Slides of Vatican II
65 colour slides 
D23/Box 14/19   2011
Memories of Missio presented to Mgr John Dale as a photographic record of his time as National Director 2003 -2011
1 volume 
D23/Box 14/20   1995
Report of Ad Hoc Commission on the Review of the Pontifical Mission Societies 1994/1995, presented to the Superior Council Meeting
1 report 
D23/Box 14/21   June 1996
“Norms and practices of the Pontifical Mission Aid Societies present situation - Elements for development”
1 report 
Box 15
Reference: D23/Box15
D23/Box15/1   1970 - 2016
Folder entitled “Envelope 002”, mostly publicity material relating to the Red Box Appeal and other promotional activities
Also includes a file of Mission Together acetates
2 files 
D23/Box15/2   [?1970] - 2012
Folder entitled “Envelope 003”:
1970s: leaflet on The APF with form and picture of Pauline Jaricot
[?1980]: Association for the Propagation of the Faith covenant leaflet for members
1995: Catholic Times cutting with Red Box, holder and coin-counting in colour photo
1996: April newsletter to APF and Mill Hill Local Secretaries and Promoters, from Mgr John Corcoran - Diamond Jubilee of APF-Mill Hill
[?2000]: APF appeal poster “Send out your light and your truth. Let these be my guide”
[?2000]: Two photographs of Pauline Jaricot's house where at Lyons she died
2002: Pauline Jaricot prayer card, biography etc produced by OPM Lyon
2005: Liturgy for “The Blessing of Mosaics and Celebration of the Re-interment of Herbert Alfred, Cardinal Vaughan (1832-1903) Third Archbishop of Westminster (1892-1903)”
2006: “Eucharist of Thanksgiving for the History of St Joseph's Missionary College Mill Hill 1871-2006. Celebrating mission past, present and future”
2006: Leaflet, “Why the Red Box?”
2007: Press cuttings, including 75 years of promoting Red Boxes, and Mrs Catherine Nichol with Fr Peter Stott
2008: Brochure, “Ushaw College Bicentenary 1808 -2008”
2008: APF prayer card “Prayer for Missionaries”
2008: Liturgy “Mass of Welcome”, H. E. Cardinal Dias (at 23 Eccleston Square)
2009: Liturgy “Mission APF-Mill Hill Welcome to our Zelators' Mass at Freshfield”
2009: Papal Nuncio’s (H E Archbishop Faustino Sainz Munoz) address at the Mass and blessing of the refurbished offices at Eccleston Square
2009: APF-Mill Hill small blue collector's authorisation card
2009: Greetings card (to Mgr Dale) showing a devastated building (during Eccleston Square building works)
2009: Pontifical Mission Society: “23 Eccleston Square Historical Impact, Design & Access Statement”
2010: Leaflet, “Small Box Big Difference” and donation form
2010: Leaflet, “Mission needs you”
2010: Leaflet, “APF-Mill Hill Mission Teams”
2012: Photo of Pope Benedict XVI and Cardinal Evarist Pinto
[?2012]: Mission Together children's Red Box
1 file 
D23/Box15/3   1958 - 2013/14
Folder entitled “Envelope 004”: wall planners, including 1958 & 1960 (Holy Childhood Calendars), as well as 1993/4, 2001/2, 2005/6- 2013/14
1 file 
D23/Box15/4   [?1950] - 2013
Folder entitled “Envelope 006”:
[?1950]: Photo of an APF exhibition in Westminster Cathedral grounds
1957: Photo of Canossian Sister baptising a baby in British Hong Kong
1983: Card in memory of (St) Charles Lwanga, Ugandan Martyr
1994: Missio Scotland: Missionary Children's Society Special Day (Holy Childhood)
1998-2005: Press cuttings, including Catholic Herald, 16 Oct 1998 article on Mission in Pakistan by Fr John Rooney MHM (associate of PMS); Catholic Universe, Elixir SPA advert and Jan Klaver MHM (Associate) article on mission; Catholic Herald cutting, 22 October 1999, F J McCarthy MHM, mission article; same page, Mr Peter Hermon (APF associate) mission article; same page, SPA advert “Try our elixir of youth!”Catholic Herald cutting: 18 October 2002, Frank McCarthy mission article; Catholic Universe, October 24 1999, Sr Daphne Norden MMS, mission article; Catholic Times cutting. 24 October 1999. World Mission Sunday article by Fr Larry Nemer SVD (an associated of PMS and the MIL); Catholic Herald 16 April 2004 letter from Canon Brendan MacCarthy (Diocesan Director, Arundel and Brighton) on Sudan; Catholic Herald cutting October 14, 2005, SPA advert; The Catholic Times 23 September 2005, Mill Hill Missionaries leave Mill Hill
2010: Photos of Mrs Anne Mann, retiring Local Secretary, being presented with flowers by Eileen Tompkins, lay appealer, with Fr Denis Lloyd at St Joseph RC Church, Sheringham. She later received a long-service award
[?2010]: Cards: Prayer for seminary students ‘For Christ Said This:…’; Missio sharing faith giving life fold-out; Christmas card from drawing by Fr John Sullivan, a Diocesan Director of Missio
2012: Westminster Cathedral. Order for Exposition and Benediction with HE Cardinal Peter Turkson
1 file 
D23/Box15/5   1929 - 1999
Folder entitled “Envelope 007”:
1929: Foreign Mission Sunday. Rescript from the Sacred Congregation of Rites. Pope Pius X
1966: Mill Hill Missionaries leaflet with photograph of Cardinal Vaughan
1969: Sacred Congregation for the Evangelisation of peoples or for the Propagation of the Faith, “Instruction: The coordination of the Missionary Cooperation of Bishops in respect to the Pontifical Mission Aid Societies and particular undertaking of the dioceses in favour of the missions”
[?1970 x 1979]: “The Proposed New Statutes of the Pontifical Mission Societies Observation on the Opinions of Bishops' Conferences”
1989: Christ to the Nations logo prototypes (Walker Type)
1992, 1993, 1995, 1996, 1997, 2005: APF/Mill Hill newsletters
[?1990]: APF and SPA legacy leaflet, “You too can help build the Church of tomorrow”
[?1990]: APF leaflet with membership form. Red cross, black globe logo: “The Gospel is Still Preached: Thanks to the APF”
2002/3: “Prayer card honours martyr”. Free martyrs card from APF. Mention of Fr Declan O'Toole, MHM, murdered in Uganda. Catholic press
[?2000]: set of ink drawings that accompanied a series of articles on Kenya by the late Fr Matt Haumann MHM in Mission Outlook magazine
[?2000]: Society of St Peter Apostle for Native Clergy prayer card “A Priest of their Own” photograph
[n.d.] Oeuvre Pontifical de La Sainte-Enfance. payment for a child to be baptised and become its godparent
1 file 
D23/Box15/6   1928 - 1946
Folder entitled “Envelope 008”, Blessed Paulo Manna, founder of the Pontifical Missionary Union - his letters with copies of Vinculum, statute and rules of the Union
1 file 
D23/Box15/7   1891 - 2015
Folder entitled “Envelope 011”:
1891: Death card for Sir Frederick Aloysius Weld
1925: Photocopy of a pamphlet by Pope Pius XI: Spiritual Privileges Granted to the Ecclesiastical Benefactors of the Pontifical Society for the Propagation of the Faith
1926: Scanned photo of TUC HQ, Eccleston Square, and modern photo of same location in 2011, near the Bishops' Conference HQ
[1930 x 1990]: Photographs of missionary activity and groups
1932: Picture of Our Lady and Infant with children of all the nations by Matthaeus Schiestl
[?1970]: Newspaper cutting: “Cardinal asks for one million APF helpers”
1971-1979: Two photos of Mgr Coonan, National Director, in Rome
[?1990]: Postcard of Cardinal Francis Arinze
[?1990]: Typescript copy of a letter from Cardinal Vaughan to Cardinal Gibbons, USA, as well as articles by Fr John Rooney entitled “Vaughan and the Foreign Missions”
1991: Mission Sunday card to clergy with photo of nuns
1999: Photo of Mill Hill priests with Fr McGill, General Superior
1999: Photo of Cardinal Basil Hume (laminated)
1999: Pontifical Mission Societies Deed of Covenant forms
[?1999]: Print of Cardinal John Henry Newman, printed by the publishers of The Universe Catholic Weekly & The Catholic Times
[?2000]: Press cutting of a SPA advert. “Would you like a priest in your family?”
[?2000]: Pontifical Mission Societies and Mill Hill Missionaries Promoter's Book
2005: CD with photographs of the dedication of St Francis Church, France, South Africa, with Fr Anthony Chantry, Gen Sup Mill Hill
2006: Prayer card, Golden Jubilee of Canon Brendan MacCarthy
2010: Red Box promotional leaflets “Small Box Big Difference”. Umbrella priest has donation flyer inside; mother and child has donation form attach
2010: The Times supplement Visit of Benedict XVI to England
2010 Cathcom and Premier Christian Radio publication on the Papal visit
[?2010] : Missio logo on card
2013: Portsmouth People magazine Aug/Sept page 8 Missio
2015: Red Box promotional leaflets: Pope Francis and a red box
1 file 
D23/Box15/8   2009 - 2014
2009: Booklet, “Let your Legacy live on”
2009: New name for PMS - Missio small explanatory leaflet
2011 - 2013: Invitation cards for Missio events
2011: Mass for Mission with HE Cardinal Medardo Mazombw
2012: St Etheldreda's Church, Mass liturgy, table seating plan and menu
2012: Address by Archbishop Nichols to the business sector
2012: Sacred Heart Chapel with Fr Stephen Tully, liturgy
2012: Middle Temple Hall with Card Turkson. Silent Auction
2012: Support the Denis Hurley Centre, Durban forms
2013: Autumn Issue, no. 1 Ambassadors for Missio Mission News (bulletin)
2013: St Etheldreda’s, liturgy and menu
2013: Manchester Universities Catholic Chaplaincy liturgy
[?2014]: Card for the pack: “Who are the Ambassadors for Missio?”
[?2014]: Denis Hurley Centre, Durban appeal leaflet for Ambassadors
[?2014]: Folder with Missio logo for information packs
[?2014]: Small fold-out entitled Pray Tell, “How can I Help?”
[?2014]: Missio “World Mission Projects and Partnerships”
1 file 
D23/Box15/9   1932 - 2012
Miscellaneous:
1932: Photo, Japan. Mary Auxiliarix Sisters. A music lesson for aspirants
1935: Photo, Japan. Salesians school boys' band
1939: Small beige wallet from Boots containing photos and negatives of the June Missionary Exhibition organised by APF in the grounds of Westminster Cathedral. Some negatives have not been developed or are not related to the exhibition
[1950 x 2000]: Logs of parish visits by National Directors, Mill Hill Fathers and others in Portsmouth, Southwark and Westminster
1950s: Small photo of Pope Pius XII at prayer
1976: Photo, India. Children arrive at school run by Handmaids of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
1986: Three post cards of the mural of the Ugandan Martyrs by Dina McCormick in Cathedral of the Holy Spirit, Diocese of Bethlehem, South Africa
2012: SPA leaflet
2012: Post card for the Olympic Mass, Westminster Cathedral and Paralympic Mass, St George's Cathedral
1 file 
D23/Box15/10   1996 - 2004
Folder entitled “Statutes”, including revisions undertaken by Mgr John Dale, National Director of the time, of the proposed new statute of the PMS, with associated documents and correspondence
1 file 
D23/Box15/11   April 2008
Pontifical Mission Societies Communications Material from the Pontifical Mission Societies, Ireland
1 report 
D23/Box15/12   2008
Course Handbook: Essentials of Legacy Fundraising by Gareth Edwards
1 file 
D23/Box15/13   2008
Language:   French English Italian Portuguese
DVD from Rome PMS in French, English, Italian, Portuguese: Mission in the World
1 DVD 
D23/Box15/14   1952
Typescript: “The Little Bush Flower” novel by Father Leon Lominski
28 pages 
Box 16
Reference: D23/Box16
D23/Box16/1   1987 - 2005
Papers relating to China, including postcards, tourist information leaflets, and reports on the Catholic Church in China
1 file 
D23/Box16/2   [1930?] - 2014
Folder entitled “Odds and Ends”:
1930s: Colour poster “Help the Catholic Mission by Joining the APF” from 59 Eccleston Square
1949: Photo - A Young Muhima Girl
1971: Photo of (later Blessed) Teresa of Calcutta (Mother Teresa) in audience with Pope Paul VI to receive the Pope John XXIII Peace Prize
1977 & 1979: SPANC fold out of information
1980: Mgr Mark R Swaby, ND, change of address card on taking up new appointment here
1981: Letter from Bishop Hugh Lindsay of Hexham & Newcastle, to Canon Mark Swaby, suggesting a priest Fr Alan McKnight for Diocesan Director in his diocese
[?1990]: Photo of Mother Teresa of Calcutta holding a baby
[?2000]: Card: Jeanne Bigard, foundress of SPA
[?2000]: Two fragile leaf holy paintings (India)
[?2000]: Envelope of greetings cards and slides
2010: Photographs of Pope Benedict XIV
2011: Missio information flyer “What is Missio?”
2013: Letter from Mgr Canon James Cronin, ND to Mgr Protase Rugambwa, President of the Pontifical Mission Societies, Vatican
2013: World Mission Sunday pack
2013: Requiem liturgy for George Dale, father of Mgr John Dale, National Director of Mission from 2003 to 2011
2014: Arundel & Brighton A&B News April. Pictures of children raising funds for Mission (Mission Together)
[?2014]: Missio telephone list
[?2014]: Large postcard photo - Kenyan Girls
1 file 
D23/Box16/3   1977 - 2014
Miscellaneous items:
1977: PMU leaflet: application form for Correspondence Course for Mission Animators organised by PMU Secretariat, Rome
[?1990]: Square APF poster, cross on oval globe logo “We are all missionaries”
1996: Photo of Pat Algar-Jones who was the subject of a successful SPA campaign of seminary student sponsorship
2000: Letter with photos from Fr Robert Majaw, Christ the King College (seminary) Shillong to Fr John Corcoran, National Director
[?2000]: John Bradburne. A Magnificent Life., The John Bradburne Memorial Society
2001 batch of photo slides, child portraits, in plastic wallet: Thailand, Dominican Republic, Canada, Oman, Peru, Gambia, Solomon Islands and assorted photos
2011: Sr Janet Fearns FMDM article on the Uganda Martyrs for Bible Alive for the feast of St Charles Lwanga
2012: Autumn, News from Eccleston Square for APF Local Secretaries - leaflet
2013: Mission Together prayer cards (bookmarks) for individual children
2013: Mission Together Thank you certificate for schools
2014: Requiem liturgy for Fr Joseph Samuel Williams, APF Diocesan Director for Northampton Diocese
1 file 
D23/Box16/4   1916 - 2015
Miscellaneous items:
1916: Obituary of Fr Thomas Jackson MHM (founder of the red box)
1976: Apostolic Blessing letter from Rome to Fr Edmund Golston
1996: HM Land Registry. 23 Eccleston Square property register, a photocopy of the lease and Missio correspondence regarding it
1997: Booklet from the Propagation of the Faith, New York office: St Therese of Lisieux, Patron of the Missions. St Therese made donations to the Propagation of the Faith as a child
1988 press release and photograph of Fr Maurice McGill, new Superior General of St Joseph's Missionary Society
2005: Booklet for children, (St Josephine) (St) Bakhita by the Paulines of Africa
2005: Booklet for children, Charles Lwanga (St) by the Paulines of Africa
2011: “Faith is strengthened when shared”, Red Box poster for the back of the church
2011 “The Father of the Mission Box” by Fr John Doran MHM
2011 APF poster of the 75th Anniversary of the Red Box for Brentwood. Mass celebrated by Bishop Thomas McMahon in Brentwood Cathedral
2013: Direct mail letter with Red Box logo “now your faith can build a better world”
2013: Missio Christmas prayer card
2013-2014: Mission Together Fact Sheet 1. History, charism and purpose
2014: Diocese of Westminster Education Service: “The Common Good in Education”. Kasia Greenwood, of Missio's Mission Together gave a presentation
2014: A4 poster for World Mission Conference 2014, supported by Missio, CMU and the Mill Hill Missionaries, with Stephen Bevans at Heythrop College. This was a Missio initiative. “The Evangelii Gaudium Effect”
[?2014]: Missio mailing appeal
2014: World Mission Sunday A3 poster
2015: Red Box “Thank You” postcard with prayer
1 file 
D23/Box16/5   15 October 2010
Missio pack for those invited to the launch of 'Ambassadors for Missio' in the Throne Room, Archbishop's House
1 bundle 
D23/Box16/6   1949 - 2015
Miscellaneous items:
1949: Photo of the holy hand of St Francis Xavier (Fides)
[?1970]: Leaflet from APF and St Joseph's Missionary Society Mill Hill: Scheme of cooperation authorised by the Archbishops and Bishops of England and Wales
1977: Photocopy of an article by Fr Francis (Frank) Thompson, MHM “Do we really need your prayers?” (ie as missionaries)
[?2000]: “Praying with Children”. Guidelines by Sheila McNamara RSCJ
2002: “The Mission Box Man”, Fr Thomas Jackson MHM, mission box founder, by Fr John Doran MHM extracted from an article by Doris Burton in 1963
2011: Letter from Sotheby's auction house returning a number of photographs of pottery in the Missio office
2013: Ambassadors for Mission Invitation to Mass and reception with Rt Rev Kevin Dowling, Bishop of Rustenburg, 16 October, St Mary Moorfields
2015: A4 booklet. “What will your Catholic legacy be?” (Catholic charities join in this booklet to promote Catholic legacies, not specific to Missio
2015: “How to remember Missio in your Will”
1 file 
D23/Box16/7   1953 - 2014
Folder entitled “Bits & Pieces”:
1953: Letter to clergy from Mgr S M Shaw, National Director of the SPA seeking funds
1990: Review by Wagner & Partners of office procedures at No. 23 and instructed the staff in more efficient ways of working.
[?1990]: Cartoon of stick-figure of the National Director and a sack full of APF new members
1992 - 2004: Correspondence concerning loans (Mrs Frost, Fr Peter Coxe) made to the Societies, and correspondence with successive firms of auditors
1996: Minutes of the meeting of the Trustees of the Pontifical Mission Societies
2007: Letter from HMRC to inspect Gift Aid
[?2010]: Brown envelope for APF box holders to empty their boxes into
2014: Summer direct mailing for the SPA
2014: Cutting from the Guernsey Press about the theft of a Red Box from a shop
1 file 
Box 18
Reference: D23/Box18/1
D23/Box18/1   [?1980]
Slides and booklet in French on the life of Ven Pauline Jaricot: Une Femme du Monde
1 file 
D23/Box18/2   [?2010] & 2016
Photographs of Mgr Canon James Cronin at the National Directors’ Assembly with Pope Benedict XVI and also Pope Francis with Father Anthony Chantry MHM, National Director
1 file 
D23/Box18/3   [?1980 x 2000]
Staff photographs
1 file 
D23/Box18/4   1982 - 1996
Papers relating to the purchase of 183 Greenford Avenue, London, by Father Marquis, the SPA Director, for SPA from Ealing Council in 1985
1 file 
D23/Box18/5   1996 - 2009
Papers relating to the Trust Deed and amendment concerning the change of name to Missio
1 file 
D23/Box18/6   1932 - 1993
Miscellaneous items:
1932: Fides photograph. Oceania. A Bishop is carried on the shoulders of a man to his waiting boat
1932 Fides photograph. Aeroplane makes missionaries’ journeys short. Manila
1933: Fides photograph. Through the Transvaal. Missionaries on horseback
1936: Fides photograph. Missionary and a rubber tyred ox cart in the Sudan
1937: Fides photograph. Bishop Ernest-Francois Geurts, CM, in Yungping fu, 50 years ordained, in his donkey cart
1938: Statutes of the English Branch of the Association for the Propagation of the Faith
1930s: “A Kashmiri Belle at the Dispensary”
[?1960]: Photograph of the future Pope Paul VI (as Archbishop of Milan) with others. Also Mass in a tent, South Africa
1960: Photograph of Bishop Barneschi OSM in Swaziland
1961: Letter from Propaganda Fide to Mgr Shaw and photos of the funeral of Pope Pius XII and the installation of Pope John XXIII
1964: Letter to Mgr Shaw with photo and info on Bishop Stuyvenberg
1966: Art en Lodange (art from northern Iraq)
1976: Photograph of Mother Teresa of Calcutta showing Archbishop Lourdusamy, Secretary of Propaganda Fide, the Ceres Medals from the Food and Agriculture Organisation
1993: Correspondence relating to the winding up of Our Lady’s Missionary League
1 file 
D23/Box18/7   1978 - 2003
Notebook entitled “Medals and Certs Records”. Contains Long-Service Medals presented from 1978 to 2003 and Certificates of Service from 1985 to 2003
1 notebook 
D23/Box18/8   1950 - [?2017]
Miscellaneous items:
1950: Holy Childhood membership card donated.
[?2017]: APF-Mission Together promotional leaflet “Children's Liturgy to Support Your Red Box Appeal”
[?2017: Red Box supporter Thank You postcards 1. Red Box as Radio; 2. Red Box as van
1 file 
D23/Box18/9   [?1930 x 2015]
Miscellaneous photographs, including staff photos, other photos, National Directors with Popes etc
1 file 
D23/Box18/10   1951 - 2016
1951 PMAS Pension Scheme booklet from Canada Life (member details not included)
1960: Pilgrimage to Rome by the APF, 13th-22nd April (booklet)
1970s: APF-Mill Hill Notes for Promoters with helpful hints (leaflet)
[?1980]: Pauline Jaricot petition to sign for her beatification cause with text from Pope Leo XIII
1990s: drawings most by likely Fr John Sullivan for possible SPA promotion
2009: “Ghana - My Mission Journey” by Eileen Tompkins (booklet)
2016: Invite to Advent Thanksgiving Mass and Drinks at No. 23
[?2016]: Ambassadors for Missio booklet entitled “Projects and Partnership”
1 file 
D23/Box18/11   1988 - 2010
Miscellaneous items:
1988: Mandates for all four societies regarding authorised signatures for the bank – cheques, withdrawals, etc
2008: Annual Audited Report and Accounts
2010: Letter from Mrs Sally Frost making a large anonymous gift to APF (this was originally a loan)
1 file 
D23/Box18/12   1991 - 2007
Papers relating to the Central Register of Charities and the registration of the Society of St Peter Apostle for Native Clergy name
1 file 
D23/Box18/13   1988
Papers relating to the tribunal of a person who worked for PMS
1 file 
CLOSED UNTIL 2070 UNDER THE GENERAL DATA PROTECTION REGULATIONS (2018)
D23/Box18/14   [?1960 x 2015]
Photos of PMS (PMAS) Missio National Directors: Canon Ross, Fr Gudgeon, Mgr Telford, Mgr Shaw, Canon Swaby, Mgr Coonan, Mgr Corcoran, Mgr Dale with Mr Peter Honiball
1 file 
D23/Box18/15   [?2010]
Colour photographs of Pope Benedict XIV
1 file 
D23/Box18/16   1867 - 2019
Miscellaneous items:
1867: Holy Childhood Annals. Pages copied from containing accounts, and a story from the missions
1914: Photocopy of Association for the Propagation of the Faith, A Layman's work (1914)
1995: “Review Group - National Missionary Structure”, report to the Standing Committee of the Bishops' Conference
[2010?]: Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue: “Dialogue and proclamation”
[?2015] Missio prayer cards (bookmarks)
[?1980 - 2015]: Articles on Pauline Jaricot, with cause form for her beatification
2019: Posters, including Missio in Sri Lanka, in Malawi, in Ecuador, in Cambodia
2019: Legacy Mission News
2019 World Mission Sunday pack
2019: Background information on various Missio overseas diocesan projects – “How Missio makes a difference”
1 file 
D23/Box18/17   1926 - 2006
Example letterhead and letters sent out
1 file 
Box 19
Reference: D23/Box19
D23/Box19/1   [?early 20th century]
Photograph of a bishop with five priests. Possibly an ordination in China
1 BW print 
D23/Box19/2   [?early 20th century]
Language:   French
Certificate from the Oeuvre Pontificale de la Propagation de la Foi awarding the recipient perpetual membership
On reverse: sepia picture of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, Patron of the Missions, looking down from heaven on a scene of missionaries praying to her
1 item 
D23/Box19/3   [?mid 19th century]
Language:   French
Photograph of a poster advertising the Propagation of the Faith
1 BW print 
D23/Box19/4   2008
Laminated A4 prayer to St Bernadette
1 item 
D23/Box19/5   1940
Receipt for a tin box lodged with Westminster Bank Victoria by APF, No. 23 Eccleston Square
1 item 
D23/Box19/6   16 May 1963
Photograph of the National Directors in Rome with Pope John XXIII
This was the Pope’s last audience with them. He died in June
1 BW print 
D23/Box19/7   1959
Letter acknowledgement for Goddard & Smith (property management)
1 item 
D23/Box19/8   [?2000]
Photograph of Mill Hill Fathers: Revd Ganrey, Boerkamp, Kirchler, Hetsen and Phelan
1 BW print 
D23/Box19/9   2016 & 2017
Autumn newsletters for Red Box Local Secretaries
2 items 
D23/Box19/10   1950
APF mission slides
1 box of slides 
D23/Box19/11   1999 - 2000
Papers of the funeral mass for Maurice Nockles, including memorial card, liturgy and obituary
Maurice was very active in assisting Missio in many ways from 1977 to 1998. He was a member of the Mission Outlook Magazine Board.
1 file 
D23/Box19/12   1941 & 1968
Photograph of a Blessed Sacrament procession in Hong Kong and 1941 Souvenir of the Regional Seminary, Hong Kong
2 items 
D23/Box19/13/1-4   1981 - 1983
Ryman receipt books for Masses (G, J, L and N)
4 notebooks 
D23/Box19/14   1928 - 1938
Fire insurance policies for 23 Eccleston Square transferred from 59 Eccleston Square to No. 23 Eccleston Square from October 1934
1 file 
D23/Box19/15   1995 - 1997
Correspondence re the party wall agreement between 23 and 24 Eccleston Square
1 file 
D23/Box19/16   1982 - 1983
Letters relating to the sale of 16 Raymond Road, Wimbledon
This house was the Holy Childhood HQ and the Director was Fr J. J. Moran. The substantial house was sold in 1983 for £95,000
1 file 
D23/Box19/17   1981 - 1983
Documents, house plans and specs relating to the complete internal redecoration of No. 23 Eccleston square by Frank Durrant, Westmore & Reeves, chartered surveyors
1 file 
D23/Box19/18   1980
Correspondence relating to the invitation to Canon Swaby by Mgr Ralph Brown, the Vicar General, to sit on the Property Maintenance Committee at Archbishop’s House, Westminster
1 file 
D23/Box19/19   [?1960] - 1987
List of films and photographs supplied by Mill Hill and Fides for publication in the APF magazines
1 file 
D23/Box19/20   1950 - 1960
Catholic newspaper cuttings from the National Director, Mgr Shaw’,s advertising campaign for the Society of St Peter the Apostle for Native Clergy
1 file 
D23/Box19/21/1-5   1930 - 1980
Fides mission photographs:
9 files 
D23/Box19/21/1   [?1960 x 1980]
Rome
4 files 
D23/Box19/21/2   1949 - 1976
Tanzania
1 file 
D23/Box19/21/3   1970 - 1977
Togo
1 file 
D23/Box19/21/4   1961 - 1975
Uganda
1 file 
D23/Box19/21/5   1930 - 1978
Miscellaneous, including South America, China, Japan Medical Mission Sisters etc.
2 files 
D23/Box19/22   2012
Two reports with photographs, in thanks for a Holy Childhood (Mission Together) allocation to the Canossian Sisters in the Philippines
1 file 
D23/Box19/23   1938 - 1946
Papers relating to proposals for the extension of the APF-Mill Hill Mission Aid Societies to other missionary congregations in America
1 file 
Box 20
Reference: D23/Box20
D23/Box20/1   1948 - 1959
Accounts of the Society of St Willibrord
1 bundle 
D23/Box20/2   1929 - 1975
APF accounts and balance sheets
1 bundle 
D23/Box20/3   1952 - 1968
Accounts and Balance Sheets of the Society of St Peter Apostle for Native Clergy
1 bundle 
D23/Box20/4   1930 - 1976
Fides missionary photographs:
12 files 
D23/Box20/4/1   1960 - 1976
Kenya
1 file 
D23/Box20/4/2   1958 - 1974
Lesotho
1 file 
D23/Box20/4/3   1952 - 1954
Liberia
1 file 
D23/Box20/4/4   1955 - 1963
Madagascar
1 file 
D23/Box20/4/5   1960 - 1974
Mali
1 file 
D23/Box20/4/6   1962 - 1966
Niger
1 file 
D23/Box20/4/7   1957 - 1973
Nigeria
1 file 
D23/Box20/4/8   1960 - 1964
Uganda
1 file 
D23/Box20/4/9   1933 - 1973
Japan
1 file 
D23/Box20/4/10   1961 - 1973
Rome
2 files 
D23/Box20/4/11   1931 - 1974
Miscellaneous, including India, Cameroon, Vietnam, Columbia etc
1 file 
D23/Box20/5   1838 - 2017
Miscellaneous items:
1838: obituary card for Maria-Joanna Florin RIP (Bruges)
1874: Letter addressed to Fr Shortland of Penzance and old 1874 advertisement for Clenfield starch
1936: Letter from
2010: Papal Visit official collector’s edition CD (unopened) ‘Pope Benedict XVI The Journey’
2015 & 2017: Autumn Newsletter Local Secretaries
2015: Mission Today Calendar
2015-2017: Legacy Mission News
2015: Poster. Catholic Mission in Today’s World. World Mission Day Conference. Prof Lamin Sanneh. Heythrop College
2016: Poster. Catholic Mission in Today’s World. World Mission Day Conference. Fr Robert O’ Neil MHM. Heythrop College
2017: Mission Together Volunteer Newsletter
1 file 
Box 21
Reference: D23/Box21
D23/Box21/1   1995 - 2016
DVDs:
A: 1995 Sunday worship BBC radio 4 - Pakistan (Audio only)
A1: Radio Veritas Asia FABC
B: 2003 Ordination of Bishop Cornelius “Cor” Schilder MHM, Ngong, Kenya
C: 2004, 2005,2006, 2008 photos, Cameroon, DRC, SA, Sudan by the Mill Hill Fathers
D: 2004 photos of Papua New Guinea
E: 2004, 2005 Photos from Mill Hill Missionaries
F: 2005, May. List in Italian of approved projects
G: 2005 booklet as pdf. “The Founders of the Pontifical Mission Societies”
H: 2005 Photo Library: Nicky Pisa, Cardinal Cormac, Bishop Vincent Nichols
I: 2005 Photos from the Congo from Fr Fons Eppink MHM
J: 2005 Tsunami of Boxing Day 2004 report by Fr Tony Martyn
K: 2005 Photos of ?India ( “Mark's photos”)
L: 2005 to 2008 photos by Mill Hill from Cameroon, Congo, South Africa and Sudan
M: 2006 Long list of projects approved at the Rome, May meeting
N: 2006 AGM and final Mass at Mill Hill, St Joseph's College
O: 2006 APF Masses - rallies and Mgr Dale
P: 2006 Photos of the National Directors' General Assembly, Rome 2006 with photos of Pope Benedict XVI
Q: 2006 Handbook for National Directors (NDs) from Rome - Mgr Heinrich Hozer
R: 2006 Kakuma, NW Kenya, from Fr Fons Eppink MHM
S: 2006 Mass and reception for Cardinal Napier September 2006
T: 2006 Papua New Guinea photos
U: 2006 photos for World Mission Sunday, Card Cormac, stations of the Cross, Kakuma
V: 2006 Tanzania - Religious Sisters
W: 2007 African Scandal “of the West's economic policies”
X: 2007 (1) Reports on PMS projects financed in 2007
Y: 2007 (2) Reports on PMS projects financed in 2007 for the National Direction in Inghilterra-Galles (Eng and Wales)
Z: 2007 The Meeting of the European National Directors in Durham, England - minutes with photos
AA: 2007 Assorted photos: African baby, mother and child, girl with candles, ?family with three babies
BB: 2007 Photos of the current Red Box and for Mission Sunday, October 2006 photos of Papua New Guinea
CC: 2007 Ethiopia Bushello Medical Centre - music tracks and PowerPoint
DD: 2007 Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor at Westminster with Cardinal Turkson, Mgr Dale, Canon Cronin
EE: 2007 Mission Rosary from Missio Scotland
FF: 2008 Christian Aid Week Empowering People
GG: 2008 India, Fr Siluvai and catechesis
HH: 2008 Fr Ephraim Odiambo MHM
JJ: 2008 St Oda's School for the Blind, Kenya
KK: 2008 Tamanrasset, Algeria - North African Scenes and people [?Berber]
LL: 2008/9 St Cornelius Drop-in Centre with children and youth. Kenya
MM: 2008 APF-Mill Hill Partnership workshop with photos of summer Masses. PowerPoint presentation
NN: 2008-2010 APF-Mill Hill Masses at Freshfield, Wrexham, Birkenhead, Maidenhead, Oxford, Llantarnam, Sheffield, Durham Salford and Weaste
OO: 2005 Mill Hill? Centenary? Basankusu, Congo
PP: 2008 May list of approved projects
QQ: 2007 Burma seminarian photos
RR: 2007 Buddhists, Sisters, Burma
SS: 2007 Seminarians, Burma for Mission Tomorrow magazine 2008
TT: 2009 The old or original furniture of the PMS offices 23 Eccleston Square
UU: 2009 Kenya narrative and photos. Children, animals, sunset. Stefan Kaminski
VV: 2009 taken 2007/08 Photos of Kenya - photos for Mission Sunday 2009
XX: 2009 Report of some projects financed by PMS - colour
YY: 2009 Report of some projects financed by PMS - colour presentation
ZZ: 2010, 2009, 2008 PMS Pictures of PNG: Aitape, Berena, Bible-reading, children, PNG cultures and others
1: 2010 Fr Anthony Chantry MHM speaks about mission
2: 2010 La Costruzione della Comunione Ecclesiale e' la chiave della missione
3: 2010 Maasai people photos (Kenya)
4: 2010 Mass at Herbert House, Freshfield APF-Mill Hill with Mgr John Dale and Fr Anthony Chantry MHM
5: 2010 Mgr John Dale, National Director, in Rome, May
6: 2010 Volunteering for APF-Mill Hill guidelines, logos, promotional material
7: 2010 Ghana slide show with song, by Eileen Tompkins with Teresa Tagg and others
8: 2010 Ghana trip as above with some stills and video clips
9: PMS Czech office, Diana of Guyana, 23-minute video for World Mission Sunday
10: 2011 APF-Mill Hill 75th Anniversary
11: 2011 “Paddy's Wigwam”, window, waiting for service to begin, Abraham. Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral
12: “Reach Out Give Life”. World Mission Sunday DVD from Australia Catholic Mission (undated)
13: 2013 The National Directors of PMS General Assembly in May, Rome
14: Uganda Pearl of Africa. DVD in English. Czech Missio Office. Telepace
15: Papua New Guinea. DVD in English. Czech Missio Office. Telepace
16: 2009 Ebukuya School for Hearing Impaired, Kenya - slides
17: 75th Anniversary of the PMS in the Philippines - songs
18: 2009 Kaplamai - church, Kenya. Slides
19: Lamu and Malindi, Kenya (Sr Brenda) Slides
20: “The Treasures of Mission” Czech Office - the life of seminarians and work of SPA
21: Lusaka, Zambia, City of Hope - Project of Salesians Sisters
22: Catholic Mission (Australia) School Program - “Fight for their rights” DVD
23: Alive in Christ. Making Mission Possible in your Parish. A CAFÉ/CASE DVD
24: 2008 “Nigeria 2008” by Sr Janet Fearns
25: Institute of Fundraising Major Donors Conference Nov 07, PP and Audio
26: Mission Together goes to Nigeria. A PowerPoint presentation. “Somewhere from Nowhere”
27: Pope John Paul II with small child. Pope ordaining seminarian from Africa
28: Burma. A ?priest and a young woman. Fr John Dale
29: PMS (Pontifical Missions) visit to Pakistan. Film and slides
30: 2014 Red Box short film on Cambodia (6.5 minutes) Missio and Mill Hill
31: 2012-13 Mission Together Journey to India CD
32: 2015-2016 Mission Together in Malawi CD Publications-related discs
AX: 2006 PMS Website + corrections May 2006 with screen shot inside cover
BX: 2005 Mission Today, Summer complete pdf From PMS Czech Office: Papua New Guinea documentary
CX: 2005 Mission Today Autumn
DX: 2006 Autumn Mission Today separate pages
EX: 2006 Autumn Mission Today centre photo of Pope Benedict XVI and Mgr John Dale
FX: 2006 Spring Mission Today pdf
GX: 2006 Mission Today Calendar for 2006
HX: 2010 Spring Mission Today photos only
JX: 2010 Mission Today Autumn and Calendar
LX: 2007 Mission Today, Spring, pdfs
MX: 2007 Mission Today, Summer, pdfs
OX: 2008 Mission Today, Spring, Summer, Autumn (Mac files which do not open in Word but photos are accessible)
PX: 2007 January Mission Outlook
QX: 2007 January Mission Outlook photos only
RX 2007: April Mission Outlook photos only
SX: 2008 January Mission Outlook magazine photos only
TX 2006: Mission Tomorrow photos
UX: 2009 Missio Branding - logos
WX: 2005-5 Mission Tomorrow photos of seminarians, Sudan (not the magazine itself)
XX: 2006 Mission Sunday four photos of priest and sister with children
ZX 2006 Mission Sunday press articles
2007: European National Directors, Durham, March
2010 Assemblea Generale, Roma
2012 Report of Projects financed that year published 2014
2013 European meeting of National Directors, Lisieux
2016 General Assembly Rome, May
2 boxes 
D23/Box21/2   2003 - 2011
Other DVDs (some duplicating above:
2003 Founders of the Pontifical Mission Societies x2 pdf booklet
?2004 Audio disc of children singing
2004 AGM of the National Council presentation by Monika Chmelova, National Coordinator Mission Together
2004 Mission Today magazine pdfs Spring, Summer, Autumn
2005 Mission Today magazine pdfs Spring, Summer, Autumn
2006 APF-Mill Hill PowerPoint presentation
2006 Calendar (no cover photo)
2006 Missio website 10/11/06
2006 Missio website 6/9/2006
2006 Mission Sunday Poster and catechist notes
2006 Mission Today magazine pdfs Spring, Summer, Autumn
2006 Website 11/12/06
2007 Mission Today magazine pdfs Spring, Summer, for Autumn see the archive R drive
2007 The Meeting of the European National Directors in Durham, England - minutes with photos 2nd copy see above
2008 website and 2006 visit of Card Napier 21/9/2006 - very slow running
2008-2009 Mission Together in Uganda
2010-2011 Mission Together in the Philippines
1 file 
D23/Box21/3   [?1990]
Life of Jésus MAFA
1 slide booklet (80 slides) 
D23/Box21/4   [?1990]
Pauline Jaracot Lyon 1799-1862
1 slide booklet 
Printed Material
D23/PM
Below is a summary of the printed journals in the Missio Archive. With the exception of monographs and pamphlets, these have been catalogued in more detail on the Library Catalogue here: D23/PM

D23/PM/1   1966 - 1988
Missionland
44 issues 
D23/PM/2   1850 - 1969
Annals of the Society of the Holy Childhood / Jambo
1960 - 1961 exists as proof copies only
27 volumes/issues 
D23/PM/3   1838 - 2009
Annals of the Propagation of the Faith /Missions and Missionaries / Mission Today
54 volumes/issues 
D23/PM/4   1974 - 2008
Missions and Missionaries / Mission Today calendars
Not catalogued in Library Catalogue
D23/PM/5   1972 - 2014
The Outlook / Mission Outlook
158 issues 
D23/PM/6   1981 - 1994
The Millhilliana
20 issues 
D23/PM/7   2004 - 2008
Missionary Childhood
4 issues 
D23/PM/8   1974 - 1987; 1990; 2005 - 2009
Mission Sunday newsletters
20 issues 
D23/PM/9   1983; 1998 - 1990
Children Helping Children
5 issues 
D23/PM/10   2010/11 - 2019/20
Mission Tomorrow
10 issues 
D23/PM/11   1896 - 1904; 1914 - 1921
Catholic Missions
12 volumes and 1 file 
D23/PM/12   1848 - 1908
Annales de l'oeuvre de la Sainte Enfance
17 volumes 
D23/PM/13   1827 - 1844
Annale de l'association de la propagation de la foi
6 volumes 
D23/PM/14   1961 - 1966
Missionary Times
2 volumes 
D23/PM/15   [20th century]
Printed monographs and pamphlets
Not yet catalogued
2 boxes