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David N. Hempton, "Thomas Allan and Methodist Politics, 1800-1840," 1982.

Printed material on founder of African Methodist Episcopal Church (AMEC).

Typescript and photocopy of Allwood letter to Mary Davison and of his last will and testament. A photocopy of a JW letter to Allwood, 1758 Sept. 13, is mentioned in a note by Baker, but not present.

Includes essay "A True and Primitive Foot for the Church: the Work and Thought of Thomas Sherlock as Bishop of London on Behalf of Bishops for America," by Emora T. Brannan, 1969.

Includes transcribed letter, Thomas Rankin to the Stewards, Leaders, and the Society in New York, 1773 June 24.

Contents include: photocopied manuscript material, engraving of Annesley, and article "An Inquiry Into Sources for the Annesley Family," by Betty O. Young, circa 1985.

Includes tracings, circa 1946, of two items: Chapel Steward's minutes, 1792 July 20; and Society Steward's book, 1797 July 10.

Contents include: various correspondence, notes, printed material, research on Asbury's travels in America, and short writings on Asbury that appear to bear no direct relationship to FB's 1976 book, From Wesley to Asbury: Studies in Early American Methodism. Correspondence from 1950s often concerns efforts by FB and others to track down original Asbury letters and their location. Unpublished FB addresses and articles here include "Francis Asbury--Father in God of American Methodism" and "Francis Asbury--John Wesley's Episcopal Apprentice."

Typewritten transcription of letter to his mother from William Ault (1786-1815), a missionary who accompanied Thomas Coke to establish Methodist missions in Ceylon. Writing from Bombay before going on to Ceylon, Ault speaks of the death of his wife and of Coke en route from England.

Transcription of letter to Cassandra Austen, 1799 Jan. 24, found in the Dodsworth Bequest.

Series of a dozen articles by Rev. Robert Haire, entitled "The Life of Adam Averell: an Account of his Travels as a Preacher of the Gospel in Ireland, England, Scotland, and Wales."

Detailed notes, probably by F.F. Bretherton and/or Marmaduke Riggall, on the life of "Baddiley of Hayfield" and his encounters with JW.

Includes: photocopy of Ball's signature, 1768; photocopy of Memorials of Hannah Ball, by Joseph Cole, 1880; 1897 clipping that reproduces two JW autograph letters to Ball, 1771 Dec. 9 and 1781 July 12; and invitation and brochure celebrating Hannah Ball Bi-centenary, 1933.

Approximately 60 transcriptions of letters by Bardsley to his family, John Wesley, Joseph Benson, Mary Fletcher, and others.

Photocopy of Luke Tyernan's 1863 list of Wesleyan manuscripts at Barnard Castle.

Materials are separated into categories but not fully arranged. Many of the letters, research, and transcriptions by Baker and other scholars here expand or comment upon the complex relationships among the diaries and journals of John Bennet, Grace (Murray) Bennet, and Richard Viney, all of which, as transcribed by Marmaduke Riggall in the 1920s, are held in the Frank Baker Collection of Wesleyana and British Methodism, Volumes Series, Writings Subseries.