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This series contains documents related to Daniel Day Williams's research, teaching, and publishing, including material related to conferences, lectures, and presentations on science and theology, and material specifically related to the Theology-Science Discussion Group to which he belonged. Also included is correspondence from and work by some of the group's members, including the nuclear physicist and Episcopal priest William G. Pollard ("The Mystery of Matter" and "Nature and Supernature"); Harold K. Schilling, professor of Physics and Dean of the Graduate School at Pennsylvania State University ("Cosmic Mystery", as well as prints and reprints of his "On the Significance of Science for Religious Thought", "A Human Enterprise", and "Concerning the Nature of Science and = Religion"); Harmon R. Holcomb from the Department of Philosophy at the University of Kentucky; and Frederick Ferré from the University of Georgia. Other= materials include "Understanding Science" by John J. Compton, as well as Williams's personal notebook from 1935.

This series contains a handwritten manuscript in the Telugu language, thought to be a Buddhist primer, as well as correspondence from 1936 written by Fleming and Missionary Research Library staff regarding this primer. Two of Fleming's shorter writings are also included: his pamphlet "The Missionary Occupation of India" from 1918 details Christian missionary presence in India, and his booklet "Education through Stone and Glass" circa 1949 discusses the religious symbolism of the architecture of UTS. Also included are two photographs, one of Booker T. Washington and C. F. Andrews, and the other of Deaconess Ellen Lakshmi Goreh, the daughter of Nehemiah Nilankantha Goreh, an early convert in India.

This series contains a diary kept by Darley Downs during his internment at Los Banos, the internment camp in the Philippines where he was held, as well as correspondence and newspaper clippings. The diary, kept in the back pages of a salary ledger book, begins in June 1942 in Dansalan (page 45) and continues through April 1945 in Emporia, Kansas (page 143). A transcription of entries from June 1942 through January 1943 (page 45-72), created by Downs' son AJ Downs in 1997, is also included. Correspondence includes a Department of State memo on Downs, letters from Downs to his family, a telegram announcing Downs' rescue, and a letter to Downs from friends in the Philippines. The photocopied newspaper clippings-- from publications including the New York Times, the Boston Globe, The Christian Science Monitor, and the Emporia Gazette-- relate to Darley Downs and the release of Americans from Los Banos.

This series contains secondary material on John Eliot collected by Eliot biographer David Chamberlin, including articles and publications, illustrations, photographs, and pamphlets related to Eliot's life and pastoral work, Native Americans, and other people and buildings from Eliot's time period. This series also contains material related to the 300th anniversary of the state of Massachusetts, as well as selections of Chamberlin's correspondence in the course of his research on Eliot.

This series consists of four notebooks which contain personal and historical notes, meeting minutes, reflections, and summaries, including church meeting records from Haddam, Connecticut; notes regarding families in the town of Haddam and a treatise of Reverend Henry Whitfield; biographical and genealogical notes concerning families of Middletown and Durham, Connecticut, the Chauncy family, the Battle of Brimington, and old Church Records from Stockbridge; and historical and ecclesiastical notes regarding the Laws of the Colony of Connecticut in Religion; minutes of the Synod of New York and Philadelphia and Associations of Connecticut, and personal entries related to a Tour of St. Louis in 1845 and the Great West of America.

This series contains notebooks with course notes and research notes from Parker's time at Union Theological Seminary from 1947-1948. Included are notes from courses taken with major UTS figures such as Reinhold Niebuhr and John Bennett.