Papers of the Newcomers Christian Fellowship - Special Collections

MsC 358

Manuscript Register

THE RECORDS OF THE NEWCOMERS CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP

Collection Dates: 1941 -- 1965

(Bulk Dates: 1950s to 1960s)

2 linear ft.

This document describes a collection of materials held by the
Special Collections Department
University of Iowa Libraries
Iowa City, Iowa 52242-1420
Phone: 319-335-5921
Fax: 319-335-5900
e-mail: lib-spec@uiowa.edu

Posted to Internet: July 2002

Acquisitions Note: This collection was donated by George W. Forell in August of 1994.

Access and Restrictions: This collection is open for research.

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Related materials

Davis, Mary F. Transforming suffering into love: the first ten years of the Newcomers Christian Fellowship. [New York] 1977. Thesis (Master of Divinity) -- Union Theological Seminary. SPECIAL COLLECTIONS x-Collection FOLIO BV935.N4 D3

Newcomers Christian Fellowship Bulletin xBR 1N4

Box List

Box 1

Checking account records

Newcomers Christian Fellowship (N.C.F.) c/o Fritz Deutsch, January 1957 -- December 1961

Newcomers Christian Fellowship c/o Madeleine Forell, January 1959 -- April 1965

Emergency Committee for German Protestantism, Inc. (E.C.G.P.), January 1959 -- February 1965

Frederick J. and Madeleine Forell, January 1959 -- April 1965

Checkbooks, with record of checks issued

Newcomers Christian Fellowship, c/o Madeleine Forell, June 1958 -- November 1964, 11 v.

Emergency Committee for German Protestantism, Inc., November 1953 -- April 1965, 2 v.

Frederick J. and Madeleine Forell, December 1958 -- December 1963, 36 v.

Audit notices for N.C.F., c/o M. Forell and for F.J. and M. Forell, 1956 -- 1963

Deposit tickets for E.C.G.P., 1963?

Box 2

Receipts and expenses records

Newcomers Christian Fellowship, 1953 -- 1961, 1958 -- 1960, 1960 -- 1962. 3 v.

Emergency Committee for German Protestantism, Inc., 1957 -- 1960, 1959 -- 1965, 1960 -- 1964, 1964 -- 1965. 4 v.

Joint and/or Unidentified:

Series 1: 1956 -- 1959, 1957 -- 1960, 1957 -- 1960, 1959 -- 1961, 1960 -- 1961, 1962 -- 1964. 6 v.

Series 2: 1957 -- 1959, 1961 -- 1964, 1963 -- 1965. 3 v.

Receipts and expenses records (cont.)

Joint and/or Unidentified (cont.)

Series 3: 1955 -- 1960, 1957 -- 1959, 1959 -- 1962, 1961 -- 1965, 1963 -- 1965. 5 v.

Series 4: Budgets, 1956 -- 1965

Miscellaneous bills and receipts, 1957 -- 1964 and undated (5 folders)

Newcomers Christian Fellowship

Budgets and financial reports, 1944 -- 1964

Fund drive records, 1953 -- 1958

Fundraising letters, 1946 -- 1962

Insurance policies and correspondence, 1945 -- 1964

Minutes, 1942 -- 1964

Tax records, state and federal, 1946 -- 1964, including Social Security (2 folders)

Box 4

(Box 4 includes letters from Thomas Mann, Hermann Rauschning, Dorothy Thompson, Bishop George Bell (Bishop of Chichester, U.K.), Alexander Roda Roda, Paul Tillich, Eugene Kozon, and Billy Graham)

N.C.F. and Havens Relief Fund Society, reports and correspondence, 1947 -- 1964

N.C.F. miscellaneous documents and correspondence, 1941 -- 1964 and undated

Emergency Committee for German Protestantism, Inc.

Budgets and financial reports, 1951 -- 1961

Miscellaneous documents and correspondence, 1947 -- 1959

Tax forms, 1947 -- 1953

Lectures and radio sermons by F.J. Forell, 1944? -- 1954 and undated

Miscellaneous documents and correspondence, 1942 -- 1964 and undated

Swedish correspondence, 1942 -- 1946

File Box

Card file of names and addresses.

Miscellaneous, including obituaries.

NOTE: The Newcomers Christian Fellowship Bulletin was removed from the records and cataloged and classified for the "x" collection in the Special Collections Department of the University Libraries. A few duplicate copies can be found in Box 4, "Miscellaneous documents and correspondence."


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