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Pacifist, educational and religious organizations

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MS. Coulson 136

Summary

Folder F.4.1: Fund for Human Need.

Coulson was a patron of the Fund. Miscellaneous correspondence, charter, arrangements for conference, newsletters, 1960-1967.

Folder F.4.2: Institute of Christian Education.

Minor correspondence, numerous memoranda for discussion at conference, outline for a proposed book to be published by the Institute. (Folder consists almost entirely of printed matter.) 1955-1956.

Folder F.4.3: Luton Industrial College.

Coulson was its Honorary President from 1972. Correspondence, printed material regarding the College, 1972-1974.

Folder F.4.4: Methodist Church - VIth Formers Conference.

Coulson attended many of these annual conferences over the years. Correspondence with organisers and participants. 1 p. note by Coulson regarding conferences, 1955-1969.

Folder F.4.5: Methodist Peace Fellowship.

Mostly committee papers and printed matter, with some related correspondence, 1954, 1956-1958, 1962-1973.

Folder F.4.6: Methodist Recorder - 'Science Supplement'.

Coulson helped to plan and launch the Supplement and was a frequent contributor. Correspondence regarding planning and publication (the first issue was in November 1959), with the editor (Professor David Wright) regarding suggestions for articles and/or contributors. The folder also contains numerous letters and mss. relative to a special issue of the Supplement which was devoted to psychical research. 7 pp. ms. and 3 pp. typescript of Coulson's contribution 'Some comments by a scientist'. Comments by the contributors on each other's mss. 1959-1973.

Folder F.4.7: Methodist Student Work Committee.

Correspondence and papers regarding survey on Methodist-Anglican Union, 1969.

Folder F.4.8: Methodist Spiritual Healing and Psychological Committee.

Correspondence regarding methods of nomination to committees and regarding proposed International Christian House in Oxford, 1953-1956.

Folder F.4.9: National Association for Teachers of Religious Knowledge (NATORK).

Correspondence and news-letters, 1967-1968.