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The Quin Papers include over 700 sermons, a complete set of pocket diaries, scrapbooks, ledgers documenting clergy received and transferred, ordinations, and postulants in the Diocese of Texas, letters of ordination, printed material, appreciations, correspondence and other materials pertaining to Bishop Quin. Also included is a notebook belonging to Mrs. Hortense Quin from the 1946 Triennial meeting and typescript notes for addresses she wrote regarding those meetings.

The Papers of Katharine Putnam document segments of her work as a deaconess stationed in China in the decades leading up to the Communist revolution in the late 1940s. The correspondence and diaries present limited details of Putnam’s life with the most documentation dating from World War II. Photographs comprise the bulk of the collection, most of which are related to the China Mission with approximately one fifth being cultural scenes of China. Also included are several liturgies written in Chinese as well as an album of photos and inscriptions that was created as a memento to Putnam upon her departure from China in 1950.

This collection consists of trial records related to The Diocese of Newark vs George Gaines Swanson, as appealed to the Court of Review of Province II in 1989-1990. The official record on appeal is bound in four volumes, with a table of contents in the first volume. Records in these volumes include the original presentment, related correspondence, motions and court orders, transcripts of court proceedings, exhibits, and the notice of appeal. Notable among the exhibits are correspondence between Swanson and John Shelby Spong, and a transcript of Swanson's version of events leading up to the appeal. Records of the appeal proceedings are unbound and include the Appellant's Brief on Appeal, the Appellant's Reply Brief, the Decision of the Court of Review and a transcript of telephone conversations between Swanson and Denise Haines, the Archdeacon of Urban Ministry for the Diocese of Newark.

Records of DFMS real and personal property and similar assets under management, including legal obligations in governmental filings, tax filings, response to civil inquiries, and litigation that may fall to this area of management.

These records primarily document Dr. Clifford P. Morehouse's six-year tenure as President of the House of Deputies (1961-1967) and include correspondence and General Convention meeting materials. A smaller group of materials including correspondence and reports documenting Morehouse’s involvement as a member of Executive Council rounds out the collection.

The content of the recordings of the Pacific Basin Conference include speakers, presenters, plenary sessions, reports, discussions, and question and answer sessions. Although some speakers on the recordings are unidentified, the identified conference speakers and presenters include:

Dr. Bernard Cooke, professor at Holy Cross College, Worcester, Massachusetts and Roman Catholic scholar
Rev. George C. Harris, Episcopal Bishop of Alaska
Dr. F. Ross Kinsler, specialist in adult education, missionary educator, one of the founders of Theological Education by Extension, and director of San Francisco Theological Seminary’s Southern California Extension Center
Dr. Kosuke Koyama, professor at Union Theological Seminary, New York and minister of United Church of Christ
Rev. Jaci C. Maraschin, priest of the Brazilian Anglican Church and professor at Federacao Escolas Superiores, Sao Paulo
Patricia N. Page, specialist in adult education and faculty at Church Divinity School of the Pacific, Berkeley
Rev. David M. Paton, canon of Canterbury Cathedral and noted expert on Roland Allen
Most Rev. Paul Reeves, Archbishop of New Zealand
Dr. Macu (Matthew) Salato (referred to in ENS and Living Church as Matthew Solato), physician, diplomat, and lay canon of the Anglican cathedral in Suva, Fiji

The records of the Overseas Department document the missionary endeavors of The Episcopal Church in China from 1835 to 1954 and include correspondence, reports, financial records, publications, and visual records. The three geographic districts in which Episcopal missions were located, Shanghai, Hankow, and Anking, as well as Chung Hua Sheng Kung Hui, the Holy Catholic Church in China, are represented.

These records include photographs, minutes, letter press books, and diaries that were produced by or are about the China Mission.

ACI records on Okolona School include meeting minutes of the Board of Trustees (1938-1953, 1966) and its Executive Committee (1941, 1948-1952), the school President’s reports (1937-1942, 1944-1946, 1948), and financial records (1935-1968). ACI Director’s correspondence (1937-1944, 1950-1951) is primarily with the school’s principals and the bishops of Tennessee and Mississippi. This series includes a survey report of the school by the George Peabody College for Teachers (1946).