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Baillie, John, 1886-1960 (Scottish theologian and ecumenical leader)

 Person

Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:

1937, 38, 39 file, 1937-1939

 Sub-Series
Identifier: BAI 1/17/8
Scope and Contents

1937, 38, 39 file consists of:


  1. letters, notes, press cuttings and related material
Dates: 1937-1939
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Professor John Baillie, and Baillie Family Papers / Papers of John Baillie / General filing correspondence

American trip, 1941, 1941

 Sub-Series
Identifier: BAI 1/17/11
Scope and Contents

American trip, 1941 consists of:


  1. leaflets and programmes
  2. letters and telegrams
  3. notes and ephemera
  4. press cuttings
  5. visas and travel documentation
Dates: 1941
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Professor John Baillie, and Baillie Family Papers / Papers of John Baillie / General filing correspondence

An Account of My Experiences During the Retreat from France, 10th May to 17th June 1940, c1945

 File
Identifier: BAI 1/13/7
Scope and Contents

1 handwritten and 3 typewritten manuscripts/copies of an unpublished account of John Baillies experiences during the retreat from France in 1940, together with an issue of the London Gazette and a related telegram of the period.

Dates: c1945
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Professor John Baillie, and Baillie Family Papers / Papers of John Baillie / Manuscripts

German papers, 1945-1946

 Sub-Series
Identifier: BAI 1/17/22
Scope and Contents

Letters, diary, reports, travel documentation, notes and notebooks relating to John Baillie's visit Germany as part of a British Council of Churches delegation.

Dates: 1945-1946
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Professor John Baillie, and Baillie Family Papers / Papers of John Baillie / General filing correspondence

Late 1941-late 1942 file, 1941-1942

 Sub-Series
Identifier: BAI 1/17/12
Scope and Contents

Correspondence, press cuttings and related items, including letters from his brother Donald Macpherson Baille, Mona Anderson, David Smith Cairns, George Freeland Barbour and Alexander Martin. Many press cuttings relate to John Baillie's work around United States involvement in the Second World War.

Dates: 1941-1942
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Professor John Baillie, and Baillie Family Papers / Papers of John Baillie / General filing correspondence

Moot papers, 1941-1947

 Series
Identifier: BAI 1/7
Scope and Contents

minutes of meetings and papers discussed

Dates: 1941-1947
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Professor John Baillie, and Baillie Family Papers / Papers of John Baillie

Official Delegation to the Nazi leaders, 1936

 Sub-Series
Identifier: BAI 1/17/6
Scope and Contents

Official Delegation to the Nazi leaders consists of:


  1. conference papers & reports
  2. copy of Zwei Jahre Arbeit an der Reichsautobahn (Two years' work on the Reich's motorway)
  3. newspapers
  4. notes and ephemera
Dates: 1936
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Professor John Baillie, and Baillie Family Papers / Papers of John Baillie / General filing correspondence

Overseas Broadcast, 1941

 Item
Identifier: BAI 1/6/12
Scope and Contents

Broadcast by John Baillie examining events during the Second World War.

Dates: 1941
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Professor John Baillie, and Baillie Family Papers / Papers of John Baillie / Broadcasts

Papers of John Baillie, 1900-1964

 Sub-Fonds
Identifier: BAI 1
Scope and Contents

school and university notes; awards and achievements; lectures, addresses and broadcasts; sermons and prayers; manuscripts of published works; papers relating to the World Council of Churches, British Council of Churches, General Assembly of the Church of Scotland and other organisations; personal and professional correspondence

Dates: 1900-1964
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Professor John Baillie, and Baillie Family Papers

Taken or sent home from America, summer 1945, 1945

 Sub-Series
Identifier: BAI 1/17/21
Scope and Contents

Correspondence, press cuttings and related items for the period of and around John Baillie's visit to the United States immediately at the end of the Second World War and including letters from his wife Florence Jewel Baillie, his brother Donald Macpherson Baillie, publishers, Reinhold Niebuhr and Mathew Willard Lampe (State University of Iowa).

Dates: 1945
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Professor John Baillie, and Baillie Family Papers / Papers of John Baillie / General filing correspondence

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