Catalogue description COLLINS PAPERS

Papers concerning the Fellowship of the Transfiguration of Our Lord founded by Collins when Royal Air Force chaplain at Yatesbury, Wilts., a training camp for air crew. The papers include pastoral letters and news-sheets, 1943-55 (ff.1-181); a membership card (f.188); form of service of resolution (ff.189-92); copies of letters from Collins to Joan -, 1943, and (f.209) of a letter to Ken Madgett, 1944 (ff.194-209); list of district secretaries (f.213); minutes of council meeting at Birmingham with preamble to policy statement, 10-11 January 1948 (ff.217-19); report of a committee on liaison with Christian Action, May 1949 (ff.224-6); minutes of the third convention held at Sunbury-on-Thames, Middx., 5-6 May 1951 (ff.230-6); list of members, April 1980 (f.239); a history of the foundation of the Fellowship, 12 January 1948 (ff.244-53).

The Fellowship, which was the precursor of Christian Action, sought in its Rule of Life 'to make the social, economic and political implications of the Gospel effective in local, national and international affairs'.