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Card labelled 'Albert Schumann, photogr. Atelier. Possibly Rev Theophilus and Caroline Schleicher, parents of Mary Schleicher (the first Deaconess in Australia).

Typescript summaries of the activities of Deaconess House over the previous year.

Conducted by Lisa Hagan, Consultant.

Permanent Loan agreement form, box listing.

Correspondence, reports, copies of meeting minutes relating to the Pallister Girls' Home property in Greenwich.

Architectural plan of house; correspondence relating to the title, trustees, and mortgage of Deaconess House.

Correspondence, board minutes, reports, plans.

The letters concern Deaconess appointments, arrangements for admissions/ordinations, chaplaincy arrangements and other diocesan matters that need to be made known to deaconesses. Also three booklets including the appointments of the Head Deaconess

Women Now journal - issues 2-5, 1992.
The ministry of Deaconesses - Deaconess Cecilia Robinson (Methuen & Co., 1898)
Stages of Revelation and Faith - Rev Mervyn Archdall (Thynne, 1911)
Book of devotions for use in meetings of Church of England Deaconess Work (Sydney, D.S. Ford, 1918)
The order of Deaconesses: past and present - Ethel Panton and Dorothy Batho (London: SCM Press, 1937)
The devotions of a Deaconess (privately printed, 1953)
The call and the commission : a review of the historical background of the ministry of bishops, priests and deacons in the Anglican communion - Weston, William (Dee Why, N.S.W.: William Weston, 1979)
God's Patience - Dorothy Harris (Australia: the author, 1990)
The vision unfolding: Deaconess Institution 1891-1991 (Sydney: Deaconess Institution, 1991)
Women's ministry: a centenary celebration and a vision for the future (1991)
Caught for life: a story of the Anglican Deaconess Order in Australia - Nora Tress (NSW, the author, 1993)
Going it alone: Mary Andrews missionary to China 1938-1951 (Sydney: Aquila Press, 1995)
Anglicans celebrate 150 years: The Sydney Diocese fulfilling the mission of the Church (Sydney: Diocese of Sydney, 1997)