Guide to the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Commission on Ecumenical Mission and Relations Secretaries' Files: Venezuela Mission

Descriptive Summary

Title

United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Commission on Ecumenical Mission and Relations Secretaries' Files: Venezuela Mission

Inclusive Dates

1897-1966

Call Number

RG 159

Creator(s)

United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Commission on Ecumenical Mission and Relations.

Quantity

3.00 cubic feet (3 boxes)

Language

Portions of this collection are in Spanish

Restrictions on Access

Open for research.

Repository

Presbyterian Historical Society, 425 Lombard Street, Philadelphia, PA 19147-1516 USA

Biographical Note / Administrative History

Administrative History

The PCUSA's mission in Venezuela was established in 1897 with the arrival of the Reverend and Mrs. Theodore S. Pond who had been transferred from the neighboring mission in Colombia. Dr. and Mrs. Pond remained the only missionaries in Venezuela until 1912, when they were joined by the Reverend and Mrs. Frederick F. Darley. Later, in 1919, the Reverend and Mrs. C. Arthur Phillips arrived and served until 1958. Though the mission is still in existence today, both it's size and the scope of it's activities have greatly diminished.

Collection Overview

This collection documents the history of the PCUSA's Venezuela Mission from 1897-1958. Also included are some post-1958 UPCUSA COEMAR records. Mission minutes, annual reports, executive and missionary correspondence dominate this collection. Individual subjects are not documented extensively but the activities of the mission and personnel who served there are reflected in the mission and station meeting committee reports. The mission's financial status is also well documented through the quarterly reports and statistical summaries.

Organization and Arrangement

When arranging this collection, provenance had to be disregarded since no practical order was discernable. The original chronological arrangement has been superseded by a topical one, as follows:

BOX 1: SERIES 1: MINUTES, 1913-1961

BOX 1: SERIES 2: REPORTS, 1897-1960

BOX 2: SERIES 3: BOARD AND MISSION LETTERS, 1913-1955

BOX 2: SERIES 4: CORRESPONDENCE, 1900-1966

BOX 3: SERIES 5: FINANCIAL REPORTS, 1922-1958

BOX 3: SERIES 6: CABLES, 1923-1950

BOX 3: SERIES 7: COMMITTEE ON COOPERATION IN LATIN AMERICA/FIVE YEAR PLAN, 1913-1948

BOX 3: SERIES 8: MISCELLANY, 1907-1965

Administrative Information

Processing Information

The folders in this collection are numbered consecutively with each subseries begining again at Number 1. Therefore, the researcher must specify the series title, not just the box and folder number, when requesting materials.

The researcher should be advised that some of the missionary correspondence, and to a lesser extent the executive correspondence, both in series 8, are written in Spanish. No attempt was made to segregate these items.

Related collections include RG 99, Secretaries' Files of the Venezuela Mission, 1911-1972. Some duplication of the materials may exist.

Collection processed and finding aid prepared: 1982
Frederick J. Heuser, Jr., Archivist

Finding Aid revised: July 1992
Stephanie Muntone, Processing Archivist

Catalog Headings

The following headings have been used to index the description of this collection in the society’s electronic catalog.

Corporate Subject

Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Missions Venezuela.

United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Missions Venezuela.

Committee on Cooperation in Latin America.

Topical Subject

Missions--Venezuela.

Genre-form

Correspondence. aat

Financial records. aat

Minutes (administrative records) aat

Reports. aat

Corporate Added Name

Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Foreign Missions.

United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Venezuela Mission.

Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Venezuela Mission.

Collection Inventory

Box	Folder	Description

1	1	Finding Aid to Record Group 159

		SERIES 1: MINUTES, 1913-1961

		Mission Minutes
1	2	Volume 1, 1913-1917
1	3	Volume 2, 1917-1920
1	4	Volume 3, 1920-1922
1	5-11	1923-1930
1	12-21	1931-1940
1	22-31	1941-1950
1	32-33	1952-1953
1	34	1956
1	35-37	1959-1961

1	1-6	Mission Executive Committee Minutes, 1954-1959
1	1-19	Station Meeting Minutes, 1940-1959

		SERIES 2: REPORTS, 1897-1960

1	1-13	Annual Reports of Caracas Station, 1897-1910

		Deputation Reports
1	1	#1-3, 1923
1	2	Report of Secretary of the Venezuela Mission regarding Assignments (Draft Notes), 1939
1	3	Report, Preview of Venezuela Mission Problems (prepared for Deputation), 1939
1	4	Minutes, Special Deputation Meeting of the Venezuela Mission, 1940

		Station Meeting Committee Reports
1	1	1950
1	2	1951
1	3	1953

		Missionary Reports
1	1-2	1922-1923
1	3-12	1931-1939
1	13-23	1940-1950
1	24-25	1952-1953
1	26	1956
1	27-28	1959-1960

		Mission Property Reports/Lists
1	1	1926
1	2-6	1939-1943

		SERIES 3: BOARD AND MISSION LETTERS, 1913-1955

2	1	1913
2	2-5	1916-1919
2	6-14	1920-1929
2	15-17	1931-1933
2	18-31	1937-1950
2	32	1955

		Mission Station Letters
2	1-8	1920-1927
2	9	1942

		Mission Letters to Board
2	1	1922
2	2	1923
2	3	1925
2	4	1926
2	5	1927

		Board General Letters
2	1	(#29, 40), 1930
2	2	(#42), 1931
2	3	(#53), 1934
2	4	(#56), 1935
2	5	(#66), 1938
2	6	(#75-77), 1940
2	7	(#78-79), 1941
2	8	(#80, 82), 1942
2	9	(#84), 1943
2	10	(#87), 1944
2	11	(#88), 1945
2	12	(#92), 1946
2	13	(#106-107), 1949
2	14	(#105A), 1950
2	15	(#124), 1954
2	16	(#126), 1955

		SERIES 4: CORRESPONDENCE, 1900-1966

		Executive Correspondence
2	1	1900
2	2-4	1908-1910
2	5	1913
2	6-10	1916-1920
2	11-20	1921-1930
2	21-24	1931-1934
2	25-28	1937-1940
2	29-38	1941-1950
2	39	1965
2	40	1966

		Missionary Correspondence
2	1	Extracts of Correspondence, 1897-1910
2	2	1912-1914
2	3	1920
2	4	1923
2	5-9	1925-1929
2	10	1932
2	11	1933, 1935
2	12	1937
2	13	1938
2	14-21	1940-1947
2	22	1960
2	23	1964
2	24	1966

		SERIES 5: FINANCIAL ESTIMATES/REPORTS, 1922-1958

3	1-9	1922-1930
3	10-15	1931-1936
3	16	Annual Report, 1937-1938
3	17-27	1938-1948
3	28	Expenditures, 1950
3	29-30	Miscellaneous Financial Items, 1951, 1953
3	31	Mission Financial Statements, 1954
3	32	Salary Revision, 1955
3	33	Miscellaneous Financial Items, 1958

		SERIES 6: CABLES, 1923-1950

3	1-13	1923-1942
3	14-20	1943-1950

		SERIES 7: COMMITTEE ON COOPERATION IN LATIN AMERICA/FIVE YEAR PLAN, 1913-1948

3	1	Minutes, Correspondence, Report, 1931
3	2	Correspondence, 1932
3	3-5	Correspondence, 1940-1942
3	6	Correspondence, 1947-1949
3	7	Report, Five Year Plan, 1948
3	8	Estimates, Five Year Plan, 1948
3	9	Correspondence, 1948

		SERIES 8: MISCELLANY, 1907-1965

		Miscellaneous Reports
3	1	Committee on South America and the Executive Council, 1916
3	2	Work of the Presbyterian Mission in Venezuela, 1920
3	3	Resolutions of Venezuela Missionaries' Conference; Survey of Five Year Period (1923-1927); Miscellaneous Items (1923), 1923-1927
3	4	Forward Looking Program/Survey of Field, 1928
3	5-7	Treasurer's Reports, 1931-1933
3	8	Treasurer's Correspondence (monthly friendship letters), 1937
3	9	Treasurer's Correspondence, 1938
3	10	First Presbyterian Conference of Latin America, 1955
3	11	Presbytery of Venezuela, 1955

		Miscellaneous Items
3	1	Correspondence/Miscellaneous Items re History of Venezuela Mission, 1929?
3	2	Unidentified Blueprint (Caracas?), 1929?
3	3	Medical Bulletins (#32-33), 1932
3	4	Miscellaneous, 1932
3	5	Minutes (?), Latin American Council, circa 1931, undated
3	6	Forms/Correspondence re Furloughs, 1932
3	7	Miscellaneous, 1933
3	8	Operating Procedures/Instructions and Guidelines, 1934
3	9	Miscellaneous, 1934
3	10	Field Correspondence, Latin American Field Council, 1945-1948
3	11	Correspondence from Norman Taylor, 1948-1949
3	12	By-Laws of the Venezuela Mission (revised), 1953
3	13	Summary of Reverend Phillips Contributions to the Venezuela Mission (?) (in Spanish), 1958
3	14	Miscellaneous, undated

		Miscellaneous Items
3	1	Mission Historical File, 1927, 1947-1948
3	2	Correspondence, 1945, 1960-1961, 1963
3	3	Correspondence, 1964-1965
3	4	Miscellaneous, undated
3	5	Minutes, Association of Fraternal Workers in Venezuela, 1954-1965

		Correspondence (F.F. Darley)
3	1-6	1907-1919
3	7	1920-1922, 1931
3	8	Miscellaneous, undated

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