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Includes Executive, Northeastern Jurisdiction, Southeastern Jurisdiction, Church Archives Commission, and Methodist Heritage Books

Baker was registrar of the Wesley Historical Society from 1943-1949 and secretary from 1949-1960. The records address administrative matters such as membership fees, meetings, and subscriptions, but occasionally take up various historical, collecting, and genealogical questions. Arranged alphabetically by topic.

Small album, originally bought from a Bayswater bookseller, unknown owner. Contains over a dozen pasted-in colorful Christmas-season cards, many stamps in the form of arms, monograms, and crests, cards, and a few pressed plants. There are a few handwritten explanatory notes accompanying the crests and monograms. Some of the monograms are from Russia, with Cyrillic characters. Includes a few handwritten notes with dates of travel - India, 1868, and Mt. Sinai, 1865, with a pencil sketch of the latter with water and a boat in the foreground. There is also one tiny photograph of a man, possibly the owner.

Anonymous album bound in stamped cloth on boards containing stamps with intricate and colorful arms, monograms, crests, and other cut-out emblems. Symbols represent royalty, nobility, military units, hotels, ships, English cities, clubs, schools, and commercial enterprises such as banks and insurance agencies. Last pages contain many advertisements from the coin and stamp dealers (the Lincolns, London) who sold this particular model of collector's album; latest date on the stamps advertised for sale is 1897.

Album sold by Marcus Ward & Co., owned by a Percival B. Walker (inscription on inside cover), housing colorful and intricate stamps of arms, monograms, crests, and other symbols. Symbols represent royalty, nobility, military units, hotels, ships, English cities, clubs, schools, and commercial enterprises. A stamp mentions the late Prince Albert, leading to the dating of the album. Bound in leather with gilt edges and stamping.

Friendship album according to an inside cover inscription belonging to "A. Mabel Hall" of Blackthorn House, Bacup, Lancashire, England. An Annie Mabel Hall of Mytholme House, Waterfoot (Lancashire), was married in 1918 to Nicholas Tomlinson; the bride's father was cotton manufacturer Horace Hall. Entries includes pen and ink sketches of animals, people, and flowers, as well as poems, aphorisms, and other inscriptions, almost all dated, by men and women chiefly from Lancashire; they may have been the album owner's school friends. Two individuals added "Lowther College" to their names, which was a private school in Lancashire for girls.

Signed on first page with the name Martha Skelton. Bound with leather and marbled paper with gilt edges. Earliest date is accompanied by place name "The Elms," but there is no other location indicating residence of creator. Contents consist of inscriptions from friends; long poems and essays on themes such as love, heroism, death, and spirituality; valentine cards; original, fine sketches of locales and botanical drawings in color by Skelton and others; advertising leaflets; cards with caricatures, cartoons, and illustrations of individuals and scenes, including a colored engraving of "The Wooly-Headed Boy" from Knaresboro, a color drawing titled "Byron Contemplating the Ruins of Rome", and a silhouette of Napoleon; and memorabilia, including pressed plants from historical sites, chiefly in England. There are many loose items, but others are mounted on the pages. Missing pages 1-11.

Friendship album, bound in calf with gilt edges and tooling, with the name Mary Slade on first page, resident most likely in England. Chiefly long entries consisting of copies of poems and writings as well as original writings on topics such as impermanence, heroism, and spirituality; interspersed with original, well-executed drawings, small watercolors, and sketches of locales in England and in Europe, most without captions, rural characters such as "Cottage Girl," and birds and plants. A little less than half of the album is blank.

Friendship album, owner unknown, covered with worn marbled paper on boards. Place names (Almondbury, Poole, Horbury, Overton) center around West Yorkshire. The name David Haigh appears several times, with a letter laid in written by him while at the Overton School, to his parents, Dec. 1844. Chiefly consists of page-length entries with copied poems by authors such as Shelley, and writings such as "Rob Roy" as well as original writings on topics such as the home chapel, spirituality, death, love, and valor. Includes one poem titled "African Chief," describing the "noble captive in chains." Entries are interspersed with pasted-in engravings of castles and ruins, along with several very small mounted late 19th and early 20th century photographic portraits, one of David Haigh, and a photographic greeting card from the Anthony family, Almondbury/Poole. There is also a pressed leaf from the "Cowthorpe Oak," North Yorkshire, and bluebell flowers from the Waterloo battle site.