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

 Person

Found in 23 Collections and/or Records:

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

Marriage of John Baillie and Florence Jewel Fowler, 1918-1919

 Series
Identifier: BAI 3
Scope and Contents

The marriage of John Baillie and Florence Jewel Fowler series consists of:


  1. correspondence relating to engagement and marriage
  2. lists of wedding presents
  3. newspaper accounts
Dates: 1918-1919
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Professor John Baillie, and Baillie Family Papers

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

Notes on various lectures/topics, 1911-c1920

 Item
Identifier: BAI 1/2/24
Scope and Contents

A booklet containing notes on a lecture The Franco-Prussian War and the French Collapse at Sedan, made while John Baillie was at the University of Marburg, with later notes entitled An Alpine Holiday (Switzerland) and The Dardanelles Campaign: a Retrospect.

Dates: 1911-c1920
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Professor John Baillie, and Baillie Family Papers / Papers of John Baillie / Student notes

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 Florence Jewel Baillie, 1897-1969

 Sub-Fonds
Identifier: BAI 2
Scope and Contents

The papers of Florence Jewel Baillie consist of:


  1. correspondence from John Baillie
  2. correpondence with the wider Fowler and Pearse families
  3. diaries
  4. general papers and correspondence
Dates: 1897-1969
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Professor John Baillie, and Baillie Family Papers

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

Papers relating to Donald Macpherson Baillie, 1908-1961

 Series
Identifier: BAI 7
Scope and Contents

The papers relating to Donald Macpherson Baillie consist of:


  1. articles, cuttings and ephemera
  2. career/employment resumés and references
  3. correspondence
  4. memorials and letters of condolence
Dates: 1908-1961
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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