Archbishops’ Papers: Finding Aids


Barber, M. Early Modern Archbishops' Papers. List of Papers, 1664-1824 (typescript).
Includes papers of the following archbishops: Thomas Tenison (1695-1715), John Potter (1737-47), Thomas Herring (1747-57), Matthew Hutton (1757-8), Thomas Secker (1758-68), Frederick Cornwallis (1768-83), John Moore (1783-1805), and Charles Manners Sutton (1805-28).
Sayers, J.E. & Bill, E.G.W Calendar of the papers of Charles Thomas Longley, Archbishop of Canterbury 1862-1868 in Lambeth Palace Library, (London, 1976). (published)
Index to the letters and papers of Archibald Campbell Tait, archbishop of Canterbury, 1868-82, (typescript, 1989). The collection covers his earlier career at Oxford and Carlisle, and includes some material, particularly on the church overseas, as Bishop of London, though the bulk of this (vols. 105-59) is noted under Fulham Papers.
Index to the letters and papers of Edward White Benson, archbishop of Canterbury, 1883-1896, in Lambeth Palace Library, (London, 1980). (published)
Barber, M Index to the letters and papers of Frederick Temple, archbishop of Canterbury, 1896-1902, in Lambeth Palace Library, (1975). (published)
Catalogue of the correspondence and papers of Randall Thomas Davidson, archbishop of Canterbury, 1903-1928, (typescript, 1993). The papers cover his entire career as chaplain to both Archbishop Tait (1876-1882) and Archbishop Benson (1883), Dean of Windsor (1883-1891), Bishop of Rochester (1891-5) and of Winchester (1895-1903), and from 1903 as Archbishop of Canterbury.
Summary catalogue of the papers of Cosmo Gordon Lang, archbishop of Canterbury, 1928-1942, (typescript, 1986). (published)
Summary catalogue of the papers of William Temple, archbishop of Canterbury, 1942-1944, (typescript, 1981). (published)
Aspin, R.K. & Pick, G. Catalogue of the correspondence and papers of Geoffrey Francis Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1945-1961, (typescript, 1993). (published)
Catalogue and index of the correspondence and papers of Michael Ramsey, archbishop of Canterbury, 1961-1974, in Lambeth Palace Library
List of ordination papers for the dioceses of Winchester, 1895-1902, and of Canterbury, 1902-1944 (typescript).*
[These ordination papers for the diocese of Winchester, 1895-1902, and the diocese of Canterbury, 1902-1944, were transferred respectively to Hampshire Record Office and Canterbury Cathedral Archives in 2003 and are no longer held at Lambeth Palace Library.]
List of the Archbishop's Assyrian Mission Papers, 1879-1931, (typescript, 1990).*
These comprise correspondence of the archbishops, and not the archive of the mission itself.
Frappell, R., Frappell, L., Withycombe, R. & Nobbs, R. Anglicans in the Antipodes: an indexed calendar to the papers and correspondence of the archbishops of Canterbury, 1781-1961, relating to Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific, (Greenwood, 1999).