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

 Person

Found in 47 Collections and/or Records:

General: 1949, 1949

 Sub-Series
Identifier: BAI 1/17/30
Scope and Contents

Correspondence and related items, including letters from his wife Florence Jewel Baillie, his brother Donald Macpherson Baillie, Sir Edward Victor Appleton, Henry Pitney Van Dusen, Hugh Martin and Thomas Forsyth Torrance. Includes material relating the University of Edinburgh, clothing ration books, a paper on eschatology and items relating to an insurance claim due to illness.

Dates: 1949

General: 1950, 1950

 Sub-Series
Identifier: BAI 1/17/31
Scope and Contents

Correspondence and related items, including letters from his wife Florence Jewel Baillie, his brother Donald Macpherson Baillie, Mona Anderson, Ian W Fraser, Sir Zwinglius Frank Willis and Henry Pitney Van Dusen. Includes material relating to the World Council of Churches and letters congratulating John Baillie on being appointed Principal of New College. Also includes a paper, 'The Idea of Orthodoxy'.

Dates: 1950

General: 1950-1951, 1950-1951

 Sub-Series
Identifier: BAI 1/17/32
Scope and Contents

Correspondence and related items, including letters from his wife Florence Jewel Baillie, his brother Donald Macpherson Baillie, Sir Zwinglius Frank Willis, Thomas Stearns Eliot and Reinhold Niebuhr. Includes material relating to the erection of a gravestone for John Baillie's cousin, Elizabeth Catherine Gallant, BBC broadcasts, biographical information on Alexander Martin, and a visit to France.

Dates: 1950-1951

General: 1952, 1952

 Sub-Series
Identifier: BAI 1/17/33
Scope and Contents

Correspondence and related items, including letters from his wife Florence Jewel Baillie, his brother Donald Macpherson Baillie, Ifor Leslie Evans and Reinhold Niebuhr. Includes material relating to the estate of John Baillie's father-in-law, Richard Fowler.

Dates: 1952

General: 1955, 1955

 Sub-Series
Identifier: BAI 1/17/37
Scope and Contents

Correspondence and related items, including letters from William Roxburgh Forrester and Reinhold Niebuhr. Includes letters instructing publishers as to recipients of complimentary copies of Donald Macpherson Baillie's To whom shall we go? ( 1955) and John Baillie's A diary of readings ( 1955).

Dates: 1955

General: 1957, 1933-1957

 Sub-Series
Identifier: BAI 1/17/42
Scope and Contents

Correspondence and related items, including letters from William Roxburgh Forrester and some earlier ( 1939-1953) letters from Henry Sloane Coffin. Also correspondence with Anderson & Nairn, stockbrokers and Shepherd & Wedderburn WS, solicitors, regarding investments and the estate of Donald Macpherson Baillie.

Dates: 1933-1957

General: 1957-1958, 1957-1958

 Sub-Series
Identifier: BAI 1/17/44
Scope and Contents

Correspondence and related items, including letters from his wife Florence Jewel Baillie and Thomas Stearns Elliot. Includes material relating to his investments.

Dates: 1957-1958

General: 1958-1959, 1958-1959

 Sub-Series
Identifier: BAI 1/17/46
Scope and Contents

Correspondence and related items, including letters from Mona Anderson, Thomas Stearns Elliot and Hans-Heinrich Harms. Includes material relating to the World Council of Churches and other ecumenical matters.

Dates: 1958-1959

General: 1959, 1959

 Sub-Series
Identifier: BAI 1/17/48
Scope and Contents

Selected notices, letters and similar, including a financial appeal notice from the General Council and the Graduates' Association of the University of Edinburgh and a letter from Hugh T Kerr.

Dates: 1959

General addresses, c1912-c1955

 Sub-Series
Identifier: BAI 1/4/3
Scope and Contents

Lectures and addresses given by John Baillie to various audiences throughout his professional life. Includes lectures on the church and international affairs, priesthood and the modern world, Christianity in Scotland, the ecumenical movement, ethics in relation to nuclear weapons, agnosticism, education and theology and war.

Dates: c1912-c1955