Guide to the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Special Committee on the Revision of the Book of Common Worship Records
Open for research.
At the suggestion of the Rev. Henry Jackson Van Dyke, the 140th General Assembly (PCUSA) (1928) appointed a special committee to consider and if necessary to undertake revision of the Book of Common Worship, which had been in use throughout the Presbyterian Church since 1906. Dr. Van Dyke had chaired the 1903 Committee on Forms of Service which had published the original Book of Common Worship, and he was appointed chairman of the Special Committee on the Revision of the Book of Common Worship. Louis Fitzgerald Benson and other surviving members of the original committee joined Van Dyke in forming the nucleus of the new committee. The revised Book of Common Worship was published in 1932.
Record Group 66 contains minutes, reports, correspondence and manuscripts relating to the work of the committee and the publication of the revised Book of Common Worship.
SERIES 1: ADMINISTRATIVE RECORDS, 1928-1933
SERIES 2: ROBERT HASTINGS NICHOLS CORRESPONDENCE, 1928-1932
SERIES 3: MANUSCRIPTS AND PROOFS, 1930-1932, UNDATED
Collection processed and guide prepared in 1970 by Frederick M. Schalow.
Notes added to finding aid September, 1991 by Stephanie Muntone, Processing Archivist.
| Box | Folder | Description | |
| 1 | 1 | Finding Aid to Record Group 66; Introductory material | |
| SERIES 1: ADMINISTRATIVE RECORDS, 1928-1933 | |||
| 1 | 2 | Organization, Minutes and Reports of the Committee | |
| 3 | List of members of the Committee | ||
| 4 | Correspondence, 1928 | ||
| 5 | Correspondence, 1929 | ||
| 6 | Correspondence, 1930 | ||
| 7 | Correspondence, 1931 | ||
| 8 | Correspondence, 1932 | ||
| 9 | Questionnaire of 1928 (?) and responses to it | ||
| 10 | Title duplication correspondence, 1932-1933 | ||
| 11 | Letter of October 11th, 1929 with replies | ||
| 12 | Meeting of November 12th, 1929-- | ||
| SERIES 2: ROBERT HASTINGS NICHOLS CORRESPONDENCE, 1928-1932 | |||
| 1 | 13 | Henry Jackson Van Dyke, 1928-32 | |
| 14 | Lewis Seymour Mudge, 1928-32 | ||
| 15 | Henry Barraclough, 1929-32 | ||
| 16 | Charles R. Erdmann, 1929-32 | ||
| 17 | Henry Jackson Van Dyke's copy of the 1926 Book of Common Worship with his amendments and emendations | ||
| 18 | Examples and samples of Orders of Service | ||
| SERIES 3: MANUSCRIPTS AND PROOFS, 1930-1932, UNDATED | |||
| 1 | 19 | Order of Morning Service | |
| 20 | Order of Evening Service | ||
| 21 | Baptism and Holy Communion | ||
| 22 | Prayers | ||
| 23 | Litanies | ||
| 24 | The Burial of the Dead | ||
| 25 | Miscellaneous Orders of Service | ||
| 26 | Page and Galley Proofs | ||
| 27 | Miscellaneous correspondence, manuscripts and proofs | ||
| 28 | Book of Common Worship | ||
| 29 | Pamphlet #2, the Book of Common Worship | ||
| 30 | Trial proofs, 1930 | ||
| 31 | The Psalter | ||
| 32 | Corrected final proofs, 1931 | ||
| 33 | Bound volume of Final proofs, 1932 |