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The series contains an unidentified reel of film, and a cassette of the radio programme Dateline recorded on the 25th October (no year given), which includes interviews with Professor Toynbee and M.S. Aznoni on the Middle Eastern conflict

Articles + Sermons + Publications
Address to the Prayer Book Society of N.S.W. 22nd May 2010. BY Tom Frame
License for Parochial Reader in the Diocese of Sydney for Desmond Francis Arthur Bright [28/4/1967]
Sermon Preached at St. Philip’s, Church Hill, Sydney on Saturday, 7th March, 1987 at 11 a.m., on the Day of the Annual General Meeting of the Prayer Book Society in Australia, New South Wales Branch
The Elite Joins Battle for King’s English. By Geoffrey Barker [The Age, 7/11/78]
Sermon Preached by The Rt. Revd. L.E.W. Renfrey, O.St J., B.A., Th.L, Patron of the Prayer Book Society in Australia, at a Celebration of the Holy Communion in St. John’s Church, Gordon, N.S.W., Prior to the Annual General Meeting of the N.S.W. Branch of the Society on Saturday, 4th March 1989
The Anglican Digest. Transfiguration A.A. 1986
The Red Book and All That. An Address Delivered at a Meeting of the Victorian Branch of the Prayer Book Society on 8th December 1984 at St John’s Toorak by Bishop John Mckie
Text of the Sermon Delivered by the Reverend Allan Yuill. B.A., Th.L, Dip. B.S., To the N.S.W. Branch of the Prayer Book Society’s Prayer Book Day in St. Philip’s, Church Hill, Sydney 6th May, 1995
Help Us Secure the Benchmarks of Devotion
King’s Teignton Parish Chronicle [vol.79, no.2, February 1974]
Letters
Newsletter of the Prayer Book Society of Canada [no.30, February 1994]
Newsletter of the Prayer Book Society of Canada [no.31, June 1994]
The Prayer Book Society Bulletin [no.2, Sydney, 1988]
The Prayer Book Society Bulletin [Sydney, 1986]
A Sermon Preached at St. Philip’s, Church Hill, 7th November 1987. By Bishop Gordon Arthur
A Book for all Seasons. Reflections on the Book of Common Prayer
1988 National Bicentennial Conference on the Book of Common Prayer. 18-20th March 1988 in Melbourne, Victoria at St. Paul’s Cathedral Trinity College, University of Melbourne Christ Church, Glenyon Road, Brunswick
Sermon Preached by The Rt. Revd. L.E.W. Renfrey, O.St J., B.A., Th.L, Patron of the Prayer Book Society in Australia, at a Celebration of the Holy Communion in St. John’s Church, Gordon, N.S.W., Prior to the Annual General Meeting of the N.S.W. Branch of the Society on Saturday, 4th March 1989
An Australian Prayer Book in General Synod. Monday, 29th August to Wednesday, 31st August, 1977
Tradition and Change. A Reflection on Prayer Book Revision. An Address Delivered at a Meeting of the Victorian Prayer Book Society on 16th February 1985 at Holy Trinity, East Melbourne by Dr. David Penman, Archbishop of Melbourne
Liturgy, Language and Renewal. A prayer Book Society Address. Delivered at Footscray by John Stanley Martin on 1st May 1982
Oblation in the Book of Common Prayer. An Address Delivered at a Meeting of the Victorian Branch of the Prayer Book Society on Saturday June 8th, 1985 at St. Paul’s Cathedral, Melbourne by Bishop Lionel Renfrey
An Uncommon Controversy [Adelaide Advertiser, 9/9/80]
General Synod Press Release No.5. Anglicans Have a New Prayer Book [31/9/77]
The Order of 1549
Christ Church Cathedral, Newcastle. 300th Anniversary of the English Prayer Book of 1662. An Attempt to Trace its Origins – A Demonstration of the Service of Holy Communion According to The Prayer Books of 1549 and 1552
Hallowed by thy Cranmer’s English [Sydney Morning Herald, 23/4/86]
‘A Headmaster Reflects’. Robert Rofe, Headmaster of Brighton Grammar School Victoria. Delivered at a Meeting of the Victorian Branch of the Prayer Book Society at Holy Trinity East Melbourne 15th February 1986
An Address Given at St. John’s Church, Gordon on 9th March 1991 During the Annual General Meeting of the Prayer Book Society in Australia (N.S.W. Branch). By Kenneth J. Cable
The Language of Liturgy. An Address to the Reader’s Association, Diocese of Sydney at the Church of Saint Thomas, North Sydney on Tuesday Evening, 28th May 1985. By Barry Spurr

Article + Sermons + Publications
Reprinted From the Great Bible of 1539. Ecclesiasticus Chap 44 vv1-15
Cranmer’s Bible
The Book of Common Prayer in Australia : Future Conservation Some Suggestions and Two Proposals. By John Bunyan
Sermon – Presented by The Rev. J.Elliot. Saturday, 7th May, 1988.
Sermon Preached by the RT. Revd. L.E.W. Renfrey, O.St J., B.A., Th.L., Patron of the Prayer Book Society in Australia, at a celebration of the Holy Communion in St. John’s Church, Gordon, N.S.W., Prior to the Annual General Meeting of the N.S.W. Branch of the Society on Saturday, 4th March 1989
Am I the Only One Out of Step? [Church Scene, 660, 10/7/92]
Sermon Delivered in St. Philip’s Church, Sydney by the Rector, the Revd. J.E. Jones, AM on Saturday 4th May, 1991
Prayer Book Society Day. Holy Communion 12 noon, 4th May, 1991
The Prayer Book Society in Australia. Set Out Below are Extracts Copied From the Presidential Address to Sydney Diocesan Synod on 14th October 1991 by the Archbishop of Syndey The Most Reverend D.W.B. Robinson, AO, MA, ThD.
The Celestial Auereole. By H.L. Speagle [Adelaide, Prayer Book Society,1982]
Church Music and the Prayer Book. [By Clifford Boyd, 13/2/82]
The Text of an Address by Barry Spur to the Prayer Book Society (Australian Branch) at St. Paul’s Church, Bankstown NSW on 4th July, 1981. When We Worship
Thomas Cranmer and the Three-Legged Stool. By Graham Cole
Thomas Cranmer 1489-1599 [Parish Chronicle, St. Andrew’s Anglican Church Roseville, July 1989
‘Teach the Free Man How to Praise’ [The Spectator, 24/6/89]
The Book of Common Prayer and the Wisdom of the Church of England
The Machray Review [no.4, February 1994]
Strong Reasons. A Paper Given to the Inaugural Meeting of the Prayer Book Society in Victoria at the Parish Church of St. Mark, Camberwell, on 26th March, 1981, and at the Annual Meeting of the Prayer Book Society (Australian Branch) at the Parish Church of St. Thomas, North Sydney, on 21st March, 1981. By H.L. Speagle
Address to the Prayer Book Society in the Chapter House of St. Andrew’s Cathedral, Sydney, on Saturday 5th November 1994 by Kenneth Cable, AM, MA, Dlitt, ThD, FRAHS, FSAG
The Doctrine of the Prayer Book in the Pastoral Ministry
A Sermon by Bishop Renfrey. Preached at St. Thomas’, North Sydney on Saturday, 1st March, 1980 at a Service Marking the Inauguration of the Australian Prayer Book Society
New South Wales Branch. Annual Report for the Year Ended 31st December 1987. Presented to the Fourth Annual General Meeting on Saturday, 12th March, 1988
Text of the Sermon Delivered on 4th March 1995 by the Society’s Patron, Bishop L. Renfrey
The Feast of the Transfiguration [6/9/88]
Can the BCP Survive?
Eastern Elevation of Herod’s Temple
The 1662 Communion Office
From the Great Bible of 1539. The Acts of the Apostles Chap 13, vv 1-13
Why Liturgy Should be Left Alone. By Alan Peterson [Sydney Morning Herald, 29/4/86]
The Parish Church of Saint Philip Service Book [2/7/89]
Sermon Preached at St. Philip’s Sydney by the Rev. W.E. Weston on 6/5/89
Sermon Preached at the Eucharist Preceding the AGM of the N.S.W. Branch of the Prayer Book Society in Australia at St. John’s Church Gordon. By Rev. L.E.W. Renfrey
Divisive Language – A Reply to the Liturgical Commission’s Proposals for the Introduction of Inclusive Language Into the Liturgy. By Caroline Moore
Philosophy, Language and the Reform of Public Worship
One Man’s Advent
The Elusive Language of Prayer. By Clifford Longley [The Times, 21/4/86]
The Wisdom of Tolerance. By John Whale [Church Times, 9/5/86]
ASB v BCP [Church Times, 25/4/86]
[Book Review] The Oxford Book of Prayer: Edited by George Appletone. Oxfrod University Press. 1985. By Tom Baker
Christian Sacraments and the Human Life-Cycle. Brief Encounters
The Secularization of Liturgy. Future of Anglican Theology
Introduction
On Charles Stoddart and Arthur Conolly
The Occasional Sermon Delivered by The Right Reverend Lionel E.W. Renfrey, OST J., B.A., Th.L., Assistant Bishop and Dean of Adelaide, President of the Society at the Service of the Holy Communion. Held in the Church of Saint Thomas at North Sydney, on Saturday 12th March 198
Cranmer’s Bible
The Nunc Dimittis
Second Lesson – Hebrews Chap. Xi, 32 to xii
First Lesson – Ecclesiasticus Chap. Xliv, 1-15
Second Lesson – Hebrews Chap. Xi 32 to xii

'The children of believers: their standing in Christ, the reason of their training for Christ' and 'The epistle of assurance: the first epistle of St John'

Mostly histories of Sydney parishes. Also includes files on the Hon. Charles Moore, St Michael's Vaucluse, the first Christian service in Australia, "Denbigh Pilgrimage" and the formation of the parish of St Philip.

Articles – Notes
-A Short History of the Church of All Saints, Balgowlah
-Inscription on Stone (Marble) in Cobbitty Church Cemetery
-St. Paul’s Church, Canterbury
-Cathedrals of Australia
-Pilcher Cave and Mountain
-Transcription of Heard J. Pilcher’s tombstone
-Educational Excellence. Bowral’s Facilities are Outstanding.
-The Story of the Glorious British Flag on the Golden Upper Hawkesbury, N.S.W., with Special Reference to the Pitt Town Vicinity.
-Bishop Barker Drives Again
-Foundation of the Diocese of Riverina
-Exeter: 16.2.1957. (1) The Church of Saint Aidan
-St. Faith’s, Narrabeen Notes.
“The Pioneering Days of the Rev. A.G. Stoddart.”
-Heber Chapel, St. Paul’s Church, Cobbitty
-C. of E. Burial Ground, Lagoon Flats, Burragorang
-In the Church Chancel [Transcription of memorial to Elizabeth Jane Bourke]
-Transcription of Foundation Stone, St. Phillip’s Parish Hall
-The Church on the Hill (St. Bartholomew’s Church, Pyrmont)
-St. Peter’s Cemetery, Richmond
-Extract From Lecture “Appin”, Read by J.F. Browne, Before Society of Australian Genealogists. 25, March 1948 (St. Mark’s Church of England)
-Sketch of flag at Dockyard Church
-The Commission of H.M.A.S. “Kookaburra” at Garden Island, N.S.W., on Friday 11th May, 1956
-Service for the Launching of Ships of Her Majesty’s Australian Navy
-St. Matthew’s Church, Manly
-From Weslyn District Minutes
-Newtown Weslyn Church
-Newtown Methodist Church
-Newtown Australian Methodist Chapel
“And the Priest Standing at the North Side of the Table”
-Transcription of Tablet at St. James’ Church, Sydney
-Two grave inscriptions at Raphael Street, Lidcombe
-Australia’s First Cathedral
-Wording on two brass tablets (St. Pauls, Stockon-on-Tees)
-Parish Hall Stone transcription and Rector’s List of South Bathurst.
-Rector’s List of Bathurst South
-The Dockyard Church
-Circular Letter from P.W Gledhill. Concerning Centenary Gathering in Remembrance of the Dunbar Wreck
-History of Manly
-History of Two Land Grants via the Bassett Darley Estate Act
-St. George’s Church, Hurstville
-Extracts from Burial Registers- Camperdown Cemetery
-Extracts from a Pamphlet in the Guildhall Library Entitled “Historical Records of St. Mildred’s, Bread Street”, by the Rector, The Rev. -Canon Adam Glendenning Nash M.A
-History of the Church [Fairlight Church]
-Various Notes [Fairlight Church]
-St. Jude’s, Dural
-Church Point Pilgrimage
-St. Peter’s, Cook’s River, Conversation Transcript
-Gifts to All Saints
-On Francis Howard Greenway
-St. Stephen’s Church, Penrith, Consecration
-Bishop Broughton

Box 4:
-Diocese of Australia 1838-1847
-Diocese of Australia 1836-1847
-Parish of Cook’s River. Formed 12th April 1838.
-Copy of Letter (Portion) Written by Rev. William Cocks, Vicar of Wentworth, to His Sister-in-law in London, in 1873
-A Paper Read by Mr. P.W. Gledhill Before the Members of the Manly, Warringah & Pittwater Historical Society on Thursday, 19th. October, 1933
-St. Matthew’s Church, Manly. List of Memorials
-The Romance of St. James’ Church? Kurnell
-Cook’s Official Log (H.R. N.S.W. Vol.1, pt.1 Cook 1762-1782 p.98)
-Extracts from “The Golden South”, Memories of Australian Home Life from 1843 to 1888, by “Lyth”
-St. Paul’s Middle Harbour. Its Diamond Jubilee
-Parish St. James, Wilcannia, N.S.W. (Formed 1875). Diocese of Bathurst 1875-1889. Diocese of Riverina from 1889. Bishops and Rectors
-St. James’ Church, Sydney
-St. Peter’s, Mount Victoria
-Address Delivered by the Archbishop of Sydney, the Most Rev. Dr. H.K.Mowll, at the Bishop Tyrrell Centenary Commemoration at Morpeth, N.S.W., on June 28th, 1947
-The Salvation Army Symbols
-Australian National Flag
-Copied from “The Church of England Messenger”: February 20, 1953. The Grant of Arms of the Diocese of Melbourne.
St. Peter’s Cook River History 1938-1949
-Sources of Information of Diagram of Parishes Formed from the Parish of Saint Peter, Cook’s River
-Address by the Reverend W.K. Deasey TH.L. at Saint Peter’s, Cook’s River, N.S.W. on Sunday 6.7.1947 -H.M. The King’s Call to Prayer: And Unveiling of Foundation Stone by H.E. the Governor of N.S.W.
-Anglican Heraldry
-Mr. Joseph Cook
-Christ Church, Castlereagh. Early History
-Holy Trinity Church, Kelso
-Christ Church, Castlereagh. Early History
-The Church of Saint Martin, Perthville
-The Church of Saint Paul, Burraga & The Church of the Holy Spirit, Trunkey Creek
-Transcript of Inscription in Honour of Richard Johnson
-Note on Bishop Broughton
-Note on Bishops
-Note on Australia’s Coat of Arms
-Description of Diocese 1870
-Mount Victoria Railway Line
-Transcription of Tablet Memorialising Assistant-Surveyor Edmund Besby Court Kennedy and His Exploration Party
-Transcription of Memorial Dedicated to John Gilbert
-Negative of Mossgiel Church, N.S.W.
-Ghost Town of Mossgiel
-List of Names Sorted According to Religious Denomination [cemetery in Mossgiel?]
-Note on Land Grant History of Wallaringa Estate
-List of Items Transferred Between Churches
-Heber Chapel

-Denbigh Pilgrimage-
-Denbigh Pilgrimage
-Information on Churchwardens, Seat Holders and Church Fittings [1 page, fragmentary]

-St. Philip’s, Sydney-
-Review of the Formation of the Parish of St. Philip’s Sydney.
-St. Philip’s Church of England, Church Hill, Sydney, Historical Notes 1788-1944
-Paper Read by Mr. P.W. Gledhill at St. Philip’s Church Sydney. 16th August 1941. Review of the Formation of the Parish of St. Philip’s
-Review of the Formation of the Parish of St. Philip’s
-Paper Read by Mr. P.W. Gledhill at St. Philip’s Church, Syndey pm 16th August 1941. Review of the Formation of the Parish of St. Philip’s
-Short History of St. Phillip’s Church, Sydney
-Review of the Formation of the Parish of St. Philips
-Parish of St. Philip’s, Sydney

-St. Michael’s, Vaucluse-
-Transcription of Foundation Stone
-Order for Laying the Foundation Stone
-Contributions to the Building Fund of St. Michael’s Church, Vaucluse
-Church News, vol.2, no.5
-Church News, vol.2, no.8
-S.M.H. Tuesday 20th February 1877. St. Michael’s Church, Vaucluse

-First Christian Service-
-Church of England Men’s Society Annual Anniversary Service. Sunday, February 7th, 1915. In Commemoration of the First Christian Service held in Australia, February 3rd, 1788
-When Was the First Service? By T.M.P. Gerry
-First Christian Service in Sydney

-Hon. Charles Moore-
-Drawing of Crest on Gates of Moore Court
-Copy of Charles Moore’s Will
-Transcription of Memorial Dedicated to Charles Moore in St. Philip’s Church, Sydney
-Hon. Charles Moore

Topics include homosexuality, abortion, pornography and censorship

The use of the Old Testament in the early church – 1950s, manuscript notebook
History essay: Account for the rise of tyrants in Greece – 1950s, manuscript
The work of the Holy Spirit – manuscript, 1950s
The laying on of hands in the Pastoral Epistles – typescript, 1960s
The laying on of hands in the ministry of the sick – photocopy of manuscript, 1960s
Confirmation in the light of Prayer Book revision – typescript, 1960s
Church Union in Canada – 2CH broadcast talk 16/10/1966, with related news clippings
The bases of union documents of the Uniting Churches and their statement of Christology – 1960s
The gospel according to St John – 1960s
Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1489-1555 - typescript with annotations, 1960s
To what extent do problems of personality assist in answering the question “Is God knowable?” – manuscript, 1960s
Scholar in theology exam – dogmatics essay: The creeds and formularies of the church are too much in the debt of a Greek metaphysic, which is irrelevant to modern thought –typescript, 1960s
God the Father-typescript, 1960s
The Christian and changes in the pornography laws –text of a broadcast given on 2CH –typescript with annotations, 1964
Prayer Book experimental services –address to the Anglican Church League, St Bede’s Drummoyne, April 28, 1967
A brief introduction to the meaning of holy baptism in the Church of England –typescript, 1960s
Ecumenical relationships – talk delivered at Parramatta Rural Deanery Conference, September18, 1970
The history and practice of confirmation in the Church of England, with special reference to some relevant passages in the Book of Acts and the Pastoral Epistles –typescript, 1971.
Cranmer: the man who gave us the English Bible and Prayer Book –article in Australian Church Record, October 19, 1972
Church and congregation: an examination of some of the findings of the Synod Commission “Looking into the parish” – manuscript, 26/4/1973
Using the Bible – a question of methodology – typescript, given at Young Evangelical Churchman’s League, 28thSeptember 1974
Acts chapter 7 – The new temple – a sermon preached at Holy Trinity Church, Adelaide, on Sunday August 31st, 1975 - typescript
M.A. essay, history seminar: R.H. Tawney (1880-1962) – typescript and manuscript, 2 copies, 1977
M.A. essay, history seminar: G.A. Wood (1865-1928) – typescript, 1977
M.A. essay: Adelaide as a distinctive urban community – manuscript, 1978
M.A. essay: Australian urban history – Larrikinism in the 19th century – manuscript, 1978
M.A. essay: Review of The Roman mould of the Australian Catholic Church, by John N. Molony – manuscript, 1977
M.A. essay: Urban society in Australia – typescript, 1978
Essay: Manning Clark: a theologian in search of a soul – manuscript, 1977
The Moore College Library Lecture 1981: “That woman Jezebel – Moore College after 25 years” – typescript with annotations
The Anglican Church in Sydney and the temperance movement (late 19th to early 20th century – typescript, 1980s
Conference on church and society, held at Figtree, 8 November, 1985 – typescript
Chapel and community: Faculty Conference paper – typescript, 1985
Moore College Commencement of Ministry Address: Building on foundations that others have laid – typescript, 1986
The meaning of worship: a personal view – paper read at Moore College faculty conference – typescript, 1986
Life and death and the challenge to ministry: a Christian response to Australia’s population crisis – Moore College School of Theology 1989
Hearing the accents of Asia – 1989
The doctrine of the church: towards conceptual clarification – 1980s
The four-term year – typescript with annotations, 1980s
Review of ABC religious programs, radio and television – typescript, June 5, 1989
Synod Committee on the meaning and place of the sermon: Draft report 1 – typescript, 1989
Catholic-Anglican dialogue at the micro level: working as partners in inner urban mission (Halifax- Portal lecture) – 7thMay 1996
Early Church History to 451: Bibliography – compiled for Moore College students, 1990
Address to Synod - 1992
A response to Broughton Knox’s paper – Moore College School of Theology - unfinished typescript, 1986
To the father through the features of men’s faces: address at St John’s College for the sesquicentenary of the first Jesuits in Australia – 24/4/1999
Xianity in the 21stcentury – St John’s Darlinghurst, 1999?
William Walton’s Belshazzar’s Feast: script for program break
Conscience and constitution
Evangelization, values and Aboriginal reconciliation
The theology of Australian Anglicanism – essay included in Anglicanism and Society: Australian Anglican History Seminar, 1999
A matter of tradition and design – the theology of Australian Anglicanism: some key tensions – typescript, December 2000
A shared life commentary - Bill Lawton and John McIntyre - 27 April 2024
A study in urban development and interaction - Australians and Italians in the inner Sydney suburb of Leichhardt, with special reference to the period 1950-1971 (MA thesis 1978)
The significance of larrikinism as a feature of city life in Australia during the nineteenth century (MA essay 1978)
Review of John Moloney's 'The Roman mould of the Australian Catholic Church'