Thank you very much for calling my attention to this new Frank Buchman book.
I’m mentioned in footnote 8 as “B” (with the name Burns after it) and no
further ID of the book than “Oxford Group.” However, I believe I have read,
collected, and placed in the Wilson House and Calvary Church in Pittsburgh all
of the 500 Oxford Group—A First Century Christian Fellowship—Groups—Moral Re-Armament
books, pamphlets, and articles that one
could find or buy or collect; and I acquired the libraries of (1) Treasurer
George Vondermuhll, Jr. of Connecticut. (2) T. Willard Hunter of California.
(3) key books owned by James Draper Newton and his wife Eleanor Forde Newton of
Florida. (3) Key books given to me by the Executive Secretary Ruffin from the library of Moral Re-Armament,
Inc. in Washington D.C. (4) All the Shoemaker and Irving Harris books owned by
Mrs. W. Irving Harris who handled the Oxford Group book stall at Calvary House
in New York. (5) Books, articles, sermons, correspondence and papers in the
Episcopal Church Archives in Austin, Texas. (5) the church records and sermons
at St. Georges/Calvary Church Parish in New York (6) All the papers at Hartford
Seminary where Buchman taught in the early years. (7) Important later books by
British authors who helped me much—Garth Lean (Buchman’s biographer), Michael
Hutchinson (Lean’s colleague), Kenneth Belden of London, Belden’s son, Peter
Howard—Buchman’s successor, and two or three more like Cecil Rose, Howard Rose,
“How do I Begin;” “Life Changers,” “What
is the Oxford Group,” and still more; Howard Blake, James Houck, the Florida
Congressman, T. Willard Hunter, Charles Clapp, Victor Kitchen, two by Buchman’s
“executive secretary” who had many records; dozens by Rev. Samuel M. Shoemaker,
Jr.; then “Soul Surgery,” “Life Began Yesterday,” “For Sinners Only,” several
Harold Begbie books, several quiet time books by Winslow, Carruthers, and many
others mentioned in my Oxford Group, New Light
on Alcoholism, Good Morning, and Books Early AAs Read for Spiritual
Growth.
The copy you sent does not have
all the pages. Hence I don’t know how many this author actually read or cited.
But I intend to get a copy of the book, review it, read it , cite it and use it—where appropriate.
I also will mention your URL, letter to me, and the many Oxford
Group/Shoemaker books you have dealt with on your voluminous site
aabibliography.
Thank you, Diaz, for thinking of me and passing along this news. Your collaborative help and broad
coverage over these many years has certainly been treasured. Thank you again.
Richard G. Burns,
J.D., CDAAC
Author and A.A.
historian, retired attorney, Bible student (pen name “Dick B.”)
46 published titles
& over 1,450 articles on A.A. history and the Christian Recovery Movement
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I shall not die, I shall live to recount the great deeds of Yahweh.
I shall not die, I shall live to recount the great deeds of Yahweh.
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