Douglas, John Albert (1868-1956)

Scope and Content

Correspondence of Canon J.A. Douglas, vicar of St. Luke, Camberwell, and honorary general secretary of the Church of England Council on Foreign Relations (1933-1945), concerning relations between the Church of England and the Eastern Orthodox Churches during the first half of the 20th century. Many of the papers relate to the period 1920-38, during much of which Douglas was editor of "The Christian East".

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Other Finding Aids

Descriptions based on typescript catalogue and index of the papers by Valerie Wallace (an assistant and secretary to Canon Douglas at the Council for Foreign Relations).

Related Material

Lambeth Palace Library:

MSS. 2616, 3219.

Council for Foreign Relations archive (ref: CFR).

London University Library.

Guildhall Library.

Cambridge University Library.

Bibliography

Hughes, Michael, 'Archbishop Randall Davidson' (Abingdon, 2018) [Lambeth Palace Library H5198.D2H8]Robbins, Keith, and Fisher, John, 'Religion and Diplomacy: Religion and British Foreign Policy 1815 to 1941' (St, Louis, Dordrecht, 2010).[Lambeth Palace Library A65.I7R6]Tsurikov, Vladimir, 'Metropolitan Antoni (Khrapovitskii)' (Jordanville, NY: Foundation of Russian History, 2014): Andrei Psarev references the papers of Canon Douglas from p.92 [Lambeth Palace Library H478.M2] 'Sobornost' Issue 33:2, 2011, contains article by Psarev referring to Douglas papers [Lambeth Palace Library H1.S6 [Tower] ]