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Portraits of other Wesley family members, and also broader categories such as "Group settings and scenes" and "Wesleyan sites" (meaning places associated with Wesley, but in which no dramatic scene is depicted). The Wesleyan Portraits scrapbook and the disbound scrapbook, "Roots of Methodism," also contain images of other people and sites important to the early history of Methodism, including Joseph Benson, Thomas Coke, Adam Clarke, John and Mary Fletcher, George Whitefield, the Countess of Huntingdon, and Francis Asbury.

Collection of approximately 140 portrait and landscape engravings, clippings, photographs, and other materials relating to Wesley family and early background of Methodism. The original portfolio, received disbound, was compiled by Miss A.E.F. Barlow of Bolton, England, and given to scholar Frank Baker in 1948. It appears that other materials were mixed in at some point; these have the same general subject matter, though with a separate numbering scheme not reflected in the original index, which is housed in the first box. The second box predominantly consists of these additional materials. Portraits of the Wesleys appear in both groups of material.

Item count of 1000 includes the engravings in the Wesleyan scrapbook and in the disbound scrapbook, "Roots of Methodism," some of which are not of the Wesley family.

Letters and miscellaneous writings of William Arthur (1819-1901), Wesleyan Methodist minister, missionary to India (1839-1841), President of the Conference (1866), and prolific author. Among many other interests, Arthur vigorously supported the temperance movement and opposed slavery and Roman Catholicism. Correspondents include Jabez Bunting, George Osborn, and Morley Punshon.