AJSAHistoryVol2Iss2 September 2017

CATHERINE BOOTH’S REMINISCENCES
AND THE LOST PAGES

David Malcolm Bennett, with assistance from Gordon Taylor1

Introduction

Catherine Booth’s Reminiscences were written towards the end of her life, mainly and perhaps
entirely, during her final illness. Certainly, some of the later parts of it could not have been written
before 1888, because, for example, on manuscript page 953 events are mentioned that occurred early
in 1888 and in August 1889. While it is possible that she handwrote the early parts of the
Reminiscences herself, most of it was dictated by her and compiled with extra material by other
people, a process that was supervised by her and the Founder. This article looks at how the
Reminiscences was compiled and used, and, especially considers the problem of more than 600
missing pages.

Recording the Reminiscences

There are some newspaper reports that refer to the compiling of these Reminiscences, which give us
some idea of when and how they were produced.

In September 1888, the following appeared in several newspapers:

Another item of interest to the religious world is that Mrs. Booth, wife of the head of the Salvation
Army, is preparing a volume of “reminiscences,” and this cannot fail to throw some light upon
the inner history of one of the most striking movements of modern times. Any who have ever
received letters from Mrs. Booth, especially if she dealt in them with her own history or feelings,
are being invited by “the General” to send them to him, he promising their safe return when done
with.2

In October of the next year a similar request appeared in The War Cry. It said,

Any friends who have in their possession letters from Mrs. Booth, or newspaper reports of any of
her addresses or meetings during the years from 1865 to 1875, would greatly oblige if they would
lend them for a short time. They should be addressed to the Chief-of-Staff, 101, Queen Victoria
Street, London, E.C., and marked, “Reminiscences,” and have the name and address of the owner
upon them.3

In September 1889, The War Cry said,

Our readers will be pleased to learn that Mrs. Booth has suffered less during the past
week, although the pain continues with little or no intermission. With the little relief there

Reference citation of this paper
David Malcolm Bennett, with assistance from Gordon Taylor, “Catherine Booth’s Reminiscences and the lost
pages”, The Australasian Journal of Salvation Army History, 2, 2, 2017, 151-163.
1 This article was triggered by a discovery made by Gordon Taylor and is also partly dependent upon his research. I
thank him for permission to use that research.
2 Birmingham Daily Post, (UK, Friday, 21 September 1888), 5.; South Wales Echo. (UK, Friday, 21 September 1888),
3.; and others. It is worth noting that many still chose to put “the General” in quotation marks. At least one paper
referred to Catherine as “Mrs. ‘General’ Booth”, Cheltenham Chronicle, (UK, Saturday, 11 October 1890), 9.
3 The War Cry, (London, Saturday, 5 October 1889), 8.

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has come the ability to give more attention to her ‘Reminiscences,’ on which she has been
able to work for two or three hours on most days.4

Not that everyone was pleased about the prospect of publication. The Lady’s Pictorial said,

I fear Mrs Booth, wife of the ‘General,’ must be charged with not altogether acting up to the spirit
of the Book of which she is, no doubt, a devout student, for she threatens to publish her
‘Reminiscences.’ Well, they should be interesting. I only hope that the ‘Hallelujah Sal’ and
‘Lively Liz’ element will be kept within the narrowest possible bounds.5

In June 1890 one brief report read “Mrs Booth has completed her ‘Reminiscences,’ but the book
will not be published during her lifetime. It deals largely with personal matters.”6 That might give the
impression that the publication was delayed because of sensitive material (“personal matters”), but it
is unlikely that anyone ever expected it to be published that year or even early in the next, and most
people close to Catherine would have known that she was not going to live much longer. She died on
4 October that year.

On 6 October, so just after her death, the Pall Mall Gazette reported,

During the short pauses between the days of intense pain Mrs. Booth dictated and revised the
‘Reminiscences’ of her life, which, when published, will no doubt form one of the most
interesting chapters in the history both of the religious movements of our own time and of the
battle for the equality of the sexes.7

A few days later some newspapers reported, “Much of the time during her protracted illness was
employed in dictating and revising the ‘Reminiscences’ of her life, which are to be published.”8 The
Broughty Ferry Guide said, “During the weary months of waiting for death … she beguiled the tedium
of many an hour in preparing her Reminiscences for the press.”9

As mentioned above, it is possible that Catherine wrote the early parts of the Reminiscences
herself, though as the first 616 pages are missing we cannot know that. The later parts certainly were
dictated, as they appear in writing that is clearly not Catherine’s. Bramwell Booth said that after his
mother was taken ill she began to “arrange and dictate the story of her life.”10 This does not
necessarily mean, however, that she began the process immediately after she had been diagnosed with
cancer in February 1888. It probably began when she became unable to attend and speak at meetings
on a regular basis.

On 29 December 1888, W. T. Stead, the journalist, wrote to Bramwell Booth suggesting that a
stenographer sit beside his mother’s bed or chair and take down Catherine’s thoughts. This was done11
and these Reminiscences must be the result of that, though, as we shall see, there was also the
involvement of an editor in its composition (indeed, the word “Editor” appears at various points).
This editor may have been General William Booth, for he seems to have exercised a degree of
supervision over its production.

The process probably was that Catherine dictated, the stenographer took it down in shorthand
(additional shorthand notes do appear on some pages) and later wrote it up in longhand. This was

4 The War Cry, (London, Saturday, 21 September 1889), 9.
5 Reported in the Sheffield Weekly Telegraph, (UK, Saturday, 27 October 1888), 11.
6 Dundee Advertiser, (UK, Friday 20 June 1890), 6.
7 Pall Mall Gazette, (UK, Monday, 6 October 1890), 6.
8 Dover Express, (UK, Friday, 10 October 1890), 6.; Leeds Times, (UK, Saturday, 11 October 1890), 3.; and others.
9 Broughty Ferry Guide (UK, Friday, 10 October 1890), 2.
10 Bramwell Booth, On the banks of the river, (Finleyville, PA: Voice of Nazarene, n.d.), 41.
11 Catherine Bramwell-Booth, Catherine Booth: The story of her loves, (London, UK: Hodder, 1970), 427.

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then presumably read back to Catherine and, probably, the editor, who advised on any necessary
corrections. Two main stenographers were used, and several other people wrote notes of different
kinds on the manuscript.

In August 1889 Catherine moved to Clacton-on-Sea in the southern county of Essex and never
returned to London.12 According to the official History of The Salvation Army, Fred William Fry took
dictation from Catherine from that same month,13 and may have done so earlier. Fry still seems to
have been in Clacton in March 1890.14 His initials appear after a brief note on manuscript page 1044a
of the Reminiscences, and his name after another even briefer note on page 1052. The writing in these
two notes is similar to that of the stenographer most used in the main text, though those notes are very
short and not completely adequate for comparison. Fry, therefore, was, presumably, one of the two
stenographers, but why his initials and name should appear in two places and not in others remains a
mystery. Perhaps these two notes were added by him at a later date.

In May 1889 Emma Booth-Tucker, one of Catherine’s daughters, arrived back in England from
India.15 One would have expected her to have been involved in the process of recording these
memoirs, for she certainly helped care for her mother from soon after her arrival.16 It is also quite
clear that Frederick Booth-Tucker, Emma’s husband, used this material extensively in what was to
be the first major biography of Catherine Booth. However, surprisingly he does not mention it as a
source in the preface to that book. Instead he gives as his sources “Thousands of letters, articles,
speeches, and reports”. He also paid tribute to Emma’s help with the biography.17 She (“Mrs. B.
Tucker”) is also mentioned as being present on page 921 of the manuscript of Reminiscences.18 She
seems to have had a hand in its preparation, but how much is unclear. However, while the original
text shows that various hands were involved in the actual writing process, Emma’s handwriting is
nowhere to be seen.

Early in June 1891 The War Cry said, “The General is giving some time to Mrs. Booth’s
‘Reminiscences,’ with regard to certain portions of which his recollection of the facts is most
valuable.”19

It seems to have been at the end of that month that Frederick Booth-Tucker was given the task
of turning the Reminiscences into a biography. The War Cry reported,

Rapid progress is being made with the preparation of Mrs. Booth’s Memoirs. The General has
been closely engaged during the last four or five weeks in sorting and arranging material, and in
recording such information as will be needed for the early completion of the biography. The duty
of editing and composing the life has been entrusted to Commissioner Booth-Tucker, and he is
very desirous that comrades and friends who have in their possession any letters from Mrs. Booth
will kindly forward them to him. If so desired, names can be omitted, thus retaining the privacy
of the letters, which will be carefully returned to their owners if so wished. Correspondence on

12 Bramwell Booth, On the banks, 41.
13 Arch R. Wiggins, The History of The Salvation Army, vol. 4, (London, UK: Salvation Army, 1964), 299.
14 There is a newspaper report about an Army meeting at Clacton, which says, “Some hymns were sung, accompanied
by Mr. Frye [sic] on the cornet and pianoforte,” Essex Standard, (UK, Saturday, 15 March 1890), 7.
15 Western Daily Press, (UK, Friday, 17 May, 1889), 7; and Pall Mall Gazette, (UK, Saturday, 18 May 1889), 4.
16 Bramwell-Booth, Catherine Booth, 428 & 466, fn.18. There are references to Emma being often with her mother
during her last days in Bramwell Booth, On the banks, 39, 66, 80-83, 86.
17 F. de L. Booth-Tucker, The Life of Catherine Booth (2 vols.), (London, UK: Salvation Army, 1892), 1:v-viii.
18 David Malcolm Bennett (ed.), The Diary and Reminiscences of Catherine Booth, (Brisbane, Australia: Camp Hill
Publications, 2005), 109; and David Malcolm Bennett (ed.), The Reminiscences of Catherine Booth, The Booth Letters
CD (Brisbane, Australia: Camp Hill Publications, 2011), 64.
19 The War Cry, (London, Saturday, 6 June 1891), 8.

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the subject should be marked as “Personal,” and addressed to Commissioner Booth-Tucker, 101,
Queen Victoria Street.20

However, according to Booth-Tucker, he “received [his] material [at] the end of July 1891.”21
Presumably, the Reminiscences was a/the major part of that “material”. But something had already
gone seriously wrong.

The Lost Pages

In October 2016, Gordon Taylor came across an English newspaper article dated July 1891 which
reported that “600 pages” of these reminiscences had been misplaced. He and I did further research
and we each discovered numerous articles dated late June and July 1891 which all reported the same
thing.

The most detailed of these said,

General Booth has had a somewhat serious mishap (says the Chronicle) in connection with the
compilation of the late Mrs. Booth’s autobiography. Thirteen hundred pages of manuscript were
prepared by the General for Mrs. Booth and revised by her while she lay dying at Clacton-on-
Sea. Six hundred of these pages have been mislaid, the most diligent search for them has been
unavailing, and now they are given up as lost. Naturally the General is greatly concerned at this,
especially as the missing pages were associated with a sad crisis in his life. All that can be done
in the circumstances is for General Booth to replace the lost pages as best he is able from memory.
That will be the easier, however, since the autobiography of ‘the mother of the army’ will in large
measure also be the biography of the army’s ‘only general’.

The anticipation is that the autobiography will extend to three bulky volumes. While
General Booth has been giving such spare time as falls to him to the autobiography, the actual
editor will be Commissioner Booth-Tucker, his son-in-law. Commissioner Booth-Tucker is well
qualified for the work. Before he took up the editorship some thought had been given to a
suggestion that the materials that Mrs. Booth left should be handed over to a recognised literary
man for treatment.22 As yet, nothing of a definite nature can be said regarding the publication of
the autobiography, but the probability is that the first volume will be ready towards the end of
this year. As could be imagined, the publication of the work is looked forward to with keenest
interest by General Booth’s followers, and it may safely be said that they are not the only people
interested.23

It is worth noting here that the word autobiography is used several times, so that appears to have been
how it was seen at that stage.

It has been well known in recent times that more than 600 pages of Catherine Booth’s
Reminiscences had been lost. In 2004-2005, when I transcribed, edited and published them from
photocopies of the handwritten documents, the first manuscript page was 617 and dated August 1862.
When that book was published, I said in the introduction:

20 The War Cry, (London, Saturday, 4 July 1891), 8.
21 Booth-Tucker, Catherine Booth, 1:vii.
22 It is tempting to think that the “recognised literary man” considered was W. T. Stead, who had helped the General
with In Darkest England and the Way Out, and had great admiration for Catherine Booth. If it was Stead, he was
presumably not available.
23 Those that had this report in its entirety included, Norwich Mercury, (UK, Wednesday, 8 July 1891), 2.; Kirkintilloch
Herald, (UK, Wednesday, 8 July 1891), 6.; Falkirk Herald, (UK, Wednesday, 8 July 1891), 8; Star, (Guernsey, UK,
Thursday, 9 July 1891), 1.; Thetford & Watton Times, (UK, Saturday, 11 July 1891), 2; and Canterbury Journal, (UK,
Saturday, 11 July 1891), 2.

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Sadly, many pages of these Reminiscences are missing. The first extant page is 617 (1862) and
the last 1,113b (1875). Apart from the first 616 pages, the following are also missing: 629, 630,
800-803, 814-31, 842-46, 848, 853-894, 966-73, 976-99, and possibly others after 1,113b, though
Catherine may have been too ill to continue dictating after that. (Note that there are a few
additional pages given the reference “a” and “b” after an already designated number.) There also
appear to be some pages missing without any break in the page numbers, which presumably
means that the numbers were added after these pages were lost. Certainly, these final page
numbers are later additions. The missing pages, apart from many other problems, means that
what [remains] begins mid-sentence in 1862, during the Booths’ ministry as independent
evangelists. The Reminiscences as they now exist contain no details of Catherine’s early life.

There are also a few sheets, not reproduced in this edition, that act as contents lists to some
pages of the Reminiscences. These sheets are clearly old and probably go back to the time soon
after these memoirs were compiled. One note on the first of these sheets says about page 645:
“St Just is mentioned. Where should it come in? In April 1862 before these papers commence.”
If someone, possibly in the late nineteenth century, could state that “these papers [the
Reminiscences] commence” after “April 1862”, this suggests that the pages before 617 may have
been missing from very early on. However, Frederick Booth-Tucker clearly had access to
extensive material about the early part of Catherine’s life, and much of that is most likely to have
come from an earlier section of the Reminiscences, therefore in 1891-92 they must have still
existed.24

However, that closing sentence must now be amended. Now we can say, “From June 1891 they
probably did not exist.”

While most of these newspaper reports say that there were 600 missing pages, one or two say
“a thousand”.25 This could mean that the pages after 1,113b (perhaps no more than 200 – the report
says that there were 1,300 pages altogether) were also missing at this time. However, “a thousand”
may have been a throw away remark made by a person unknown and not anything approaching an
exact figure. Therefore, the pages after 1,113b could have been misplaced at another time. It is also
likely that the other missing pages mentioned in the original introduction to the published edition of
the Reminiscences were lost while biographers and historians were using them.

The report about the 600 missing pages seems to have originated in the Daily Chronicle towards
the end of June 1891, as there are quotations from it, some quite brief, in the Pall Mall Gazette, the
Dundee Evening Telegraph, the Sheffield Evening Telegraph, the Leeds Mercury and the Daily
Gazette on 30 June, the Aberdeen Evening Express and the Aberdeen Journal on July 1, and the
Inverness Courier on 3 July and in other papers, some of which mention the Chronicle as the source.
I have been unable to find the original article in the Chronicle, and have not found any reference to
the missing pages earlier than 30 June 1891.

While the Pall Mall Gazette, the Dundee Evening Telegraph, and the Sheffield Evening
Telegraph were all evening newspapers, the Leeds Mercury and the Daily Gazette appear to have
been morning papers. This means that the report in the Daily Chronicle must have appeared on 29
June or earlier.

This suggests that the 600 missing pages were lost in the middle of June 1891 or even earlier,
because, presumably, the search for them had been going on for some time before it was reported in
the Chronicle.

24 Bennett, Diary and Reminiscences, 45-46.; Bennett, Reminiscences CD, 4-5.
25 For example, Western Times, (UK, Monday, 6 July 1891), 2.

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What was Catherine Bramwell-Booth’s Source?

Yet Gordon Taylor has pointed out that Catherine Bramwell-Booth seems to have had access to early
pages of the Reminiscences in her biography of Catherine Booth, published in 1970.26 She gives
“Reminiscences” as her source on 46 occasions, but gives no page number in any of the relevant
endnotes (Note, in this section I will use “Reminiscences” for the source Bramwell-Booth quotes
from, and Reminiscences for what we believe Catherine Booth dictated.). For example, she gives the
“Reminiscences” as the source of her information in endnotes, 1, 2, 3, 8, 10, 15, 16, 20, 31, 33, 41,
43 and 46 in the first part of her book, which deals with Catherine Mumford’s life before she met
William Booth. But that part of the Reminiscences appears to have been lost in 1891.

When Bramwell-Booth’s quotations and endnotes are examined, oddities abound. First,
Bramwell-Booth sometimes quotes without giving her source.27 In many of these instances the source
can only be guessed. Second, with regard to one quotation she refers to Catherine Booth’s “brief
reminiscences”.28 The Reminiscences as they stand today, with many pages missing, contain over
65,000 words. Can that be considered brief? Perhaps! However, if one assumes that Bramwell-Booth
had the complete text, which adds more than 600 pages, then it is far from brief. It would presumably
be well over 100,000 words, and thus quite long.

In the seven “Books” that make up Bramwell-Booth’s book most of these references to the
“Reminiscences” are in the early period. That is, there are 13 in Book 1, 20 in Book 2, eight in Book
3, one in Book 4, and four in the early part of Book 5. But there are none in the later stages of Book
5 or in Books 6 and 7. In other words, these “Reminiscences” deal with the early years, which, for
the most part, were, presumably, in the 616 pages now missing from the beginning of Catherine
Booth’s Reminiscences.

The Reminiscences as we have it today only covers the years 1862-75. I have been able to trace
only five Bramwell-Booth quotations where she might be copying from these Reminiscences. They
are in the later part of Book 3 and in Book 5. It will be helpful to examine these instances and compare
them both with Booth-Tucker’s book and the Reminiscences.

The last two of these are particularly helpful. They come from Book 5, endnotes 35 and 38, of
Bramwell-Booth’s book, and concern the conversion of William Bramwell Booth. Here is the first:

Bramwell-Booth, Book 5, endnote 35: “His mother recorded, ‘I had been anxious on his behalf
… and one night at the circus I had urged him very earnestly to decide for Christ. For a long time
he would not speak but … I shall never forget the feeling … when my darling boy, only seven
years old … deliberately looked me in the face and answered “No”.’”29

Booth-Tucker: “‘For some little time,’ says his mother, ‘I had been anxious on his behalf. He
had appeared deeply convicted during the Cardiff services, and one night at the circus I had urged
him very earnestly to decide for Christ. For a long time he would not speak, but I insisted on his
giving me a definite answer as to whether he would accept the offer of salvation or not. I shall
never forget the feeling that thrilled through my soul when my darling boy, only seven years old
… deliberately looked me in the face and answered “No”.’”30

26 Email, Gordon Taylor to David Bennett, (Wednesday, 2 November 2016).
27 For example, Bramwell-Booth, Catherine Booth, 59, in which the first two quotations are from Catherine Booth’s
Diary, 8 July and 6 June 1847 respectively, but there is no reference to indicate that. See also the quotation on page 151,
just after en. 174.
28 Bramwell-Booth, Catherine Booth, 23.
29 Bramwell-Booth, Catherine Booth, 309.
30 Booth-Tucker, Catherine Booth, 1:373.

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Reminiscences: manuscript pages 694-95: “I had been getting a little anxious about him. (695)
I knew that he was deeply convicted at Cardiff, and one night there at the circus I had urged upon
him very earnestly the importance of his making the decision on which his salvation depended.
For a long time he would not speak, but I forced him to give me an answer as to whether he would
accept the offers of salvation or not, and I shall never forget the feeling that thrilled through my
soul when my darling boy, only seven years old, about whom I had formed such high expectations
with respect to his service for the Master, deliberately looked me in the face and answered,
“No!”31

Here Bramwell-Booth’s account has more similarities with Booth-Tucker’s than it does with the
Reminiscences. It would, therefore, seem more likely that Bramwell-Booth is copying from Booth-
Tucker or another source than directly from the Reminiscences. For example, it would seem highly
unlikely that each would independently change “I had been getting a little anxious about him”, as in
the Reminiscences, to “I had been anxious on his behalf.” Yet she claims to be quoting from the
“Reminiscences.”

The second is similar:

Bramwell-Booth, Book 5, endnote 38: “Catherine ‘discovered him kneeling at the communion
rail among a crowd of little penitents. He had come out of his own accord from the middle of the
hall’.”32

Booth-Tucker: “It was therefore, not only with joy, but some little surprise that I discovered him
in one of my Walsall meetings kneeling at the communion rail among a crowd of little penitents.
He had come out of his own accord from the middle of the hall, and I found him squeezed in
among the rest, confessing his sins and seeking forgiveness.”33

Reminiscences, manuscript page 694: “It was in one of these meetings that I found, weeping
with a broken heart, my dear Bramwell. I did not see him at first. No one had asked him to come.
He had volunteered out of the middle of the hall, and I found him squeezed in among/in the crowd,
confessing his sins and seeking the forgiveness of God. I need not say that I dealt faithfully with
him.”34

All three of these accounts tell the same story. The first two have many similarities and it is likely
that each is either copying from the same source, or that Bramwell-Booth is copying from Booth-
Tucker, even though she again gives “Reminiscences” as her source. However, the account in the
Reminiscences is so different it would seem unlikely that Booth-Tucker was using it, though he often
tended to revise the text of his sources. It would seem even more unlikely that Bramwell-Booth was
using the Reminiscences.

The next refers to Catherine speaking to the wealthier classes:

Bramwell-Booth, Book 3, endnote 122: “I felt the responsibility of this opportunity very
strongly. It was expected that a number of very respectable people, so called, would attend the
meetings. To preach to such a class is always supposed to be a more important and difficult task
than to preach to people in a lower society… I believe I was somewhat influenced by such feelings
when I was about to commence. But on entering the hall, as my eyes glanced over row upon row
of intelligent expectant countenances, I realized that they above all others needed the plainest
utterances of truth, and this had inspired me with confidence.”35

31 Bennett, Diary and Reminiscences, 70.; Bennett, Reminiscences CD, 27-28.
32 Bramwell-Booth, Catherine Booth, 309.
33 Booth-Tucker, Catherine Booth, 1:373.
34 Bennett, Diary and Reminiscences, 69-70.; Bennett, Reminiscences CD, 27.
35 Bramwell-Booth, Catherine Booth, 227.

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Booth-Tucker, “I felt the responsibility of this opportunity very strongly. It was expected that a
number of very respectable people, so called, would attend the meetings. To preach to such a class
is always supposed to be a more important and difficult task than to preach to people in a lower
scale of society … I believe I was somewhat influenced by such feelings when I was about to
commence … But on entering the hall, as my eye glanced over row upon row of intelligent,
expectant countenances, I realised that they above all others needed the plainest utterances of
truth, and this has inspired me with confidence.”36

Reminiscences, manuscript pages 778-79: “I know I felt the responsibility of them very
strongly. It was, as I have already observed, in the heart of the aristocratic West End, and it was
fully expected that I should have a number of highly respectable people, so called, in my audience.
To preach to such a class is always supposed to be a more important and difficult task than to
preach to people in a lower scale of society and possessed of less intelligence and culture. I
suppose I was somewhat influenced with this kind of feeling before the duty fell to my lot… when
on rising to speak I have looked over the building, crowded with intelligent and highly educated
people, I have always felt that they, before all others, needed the plainest utterance of truth, and
it has inspired me with confidence rather than otherwise for its proclamation.37

There are only a few minor differences between Bramwell-Booth and Booth-Tucker, but the

Reminiscences account has more differences. It once again would seem that Bramwell-Booth is

copying from Booth-Tucker or another similar source, not the Reminiscences. But Booth-Tucker may

have adapted the Reminiscences text to suit his purposes.
The other two endnotes refer to William Booth’s call to the East End of London:

Bramwell-Booth, Book 3, endnotes 123 and 124: “One night after the meeting, arriving home
between eleven and twelve o’clock as usual… William … flung himself into the arm-chair … and
burst out with, ‘Oh, Kate, as I passed the flaming gin palaces tonight, I seemed to hear a voice
sounding in my ears, “where can you go and find heathen such as these?” … I feel I ought at
every cost, to stop and preach to these East End multitudes.’

“… Catherine tells, ‘I sat gazing into the fire. The devil whispered “this means another new
departure, another start in life” … the question of our support constituted a serious difficulty.
Hitherto we had been able to meet our expenses by collections from respectable audiences. It was
impossible to suppose that we could do so among the poverty stricken East-Enders...’

[But she said,] “‘Well, if you feel you ought to stay, we have trusted the Lord once for our
support, and we can trust Him again.’”38

Booth-Tucker, “‘I remember well,’ says Mrs. Booth, ‘when the General decided finally to give
up the evangelistic life and to devote himself to the salvation of the East-Enders. He had come
home from the meeting one night, tired out as usual. It was between eleven and twelve o’clock.
Flinging himself into an easy chair, he said to me, ‘Oh! Kate, as I passed the doors of the flaming
gin-palaces tonight, I seemed to hear a voice sounding in my ears, “Where can you go and find
such heathen as these, and where is there so great a need for your labours?” And I felt as though
I ought at every cost to stop and preach to these East End multitudes.’

“I remember the emotion this produced in my soul. I sat gazing into the fire and the devil
whispered to me, ‘This means another new departure – another start in life’…

“I did not answer discouragingly. After a momentary pause for thought and prayer, I
replied, ‘Well, if you feel you ought to stay, stay. We have trusted the Lord once for our support
and we can trust Him again!’”39

36 Booth-Tucker, Catherine Booth, 1:398-99.
37 Bennett, Diary and Reminiscences, 91.; Bennett, Reminiscences CD, 48.
38 Bramwell-Booth, Catherine Booth, 227-28.
39 Booth-Tucker, Catherine Booth, 1:400.

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Reminiscences, supplementary manuscript page between 767-68.40 “I distinctly remember the
occasion on which I believe we decided the question. He came home one night from one of the
meetings, worn out, between 11 and 12 o’clock. Throwing himself into an easy chair, he said to
me, ‘Oh, Katie, as I passed the flaming gin palaces and the doors of the public houses tonight I
seemed to hear a voice sounding in my soul, “Where can you go where there are such heathen as
these and where there is so great a need for your labours?” And I felt as if I ought to stop and
preach to these East End multitudes.’

“I remember the emotion this produced in my soul. I sat looking into the fire and the devil
said to me ‘This means another new departure, another new start in life’. But I did not answer
discouragingly, but after a moment or two’s pause for41 thought and prayer I said, ‘Well, if you
feel you ought to stay, stay. We have trusted the Lord once and we can trust Him again’ – referring
to the matter of our support. And I believe that night the resolution was formed to go on, at any
rate until the Lord made his mind clear to us on the question.”42

The three accounts of this event are similar. Bramwell-Booth’s account could be based on
Booth-Tucker or the Reminiscences, or even on an unknown “Reminiscences”, as it is similar to but

different from the existing manuscripts.

What do all these different readings mean? It is hard to know, but I will make a few suggestions

and consider whether they are likely or not.
Firstly, is it possible that the first “600” pages were lost in 1891, rediscovered by the late 1960s

and then the first 616 were lost again after Bramwell-Booth had written her biography? This would

seem highly unlikely. The original report about the 600 pages was, presumably, only an

approximation, so it would be easy to imagine that the number lost was, in fact, 616.

Secondly, is it possible that a different 600 pages were lost originally, not the first 600, and then

these were found, and then after that 616 pages from the beginning went missing? Again, this would

seem most unlikely. It would be a remarkable coincidence to lose 600 pages, find them and then later

lose close to the same number, though from a different part of the manuscript (It would also be

extremely careless).

The probability is, then, that 616 pages from the beginning of the document went missing in

1891 and they have never been found. But why did Bramwell-Booth claim to quote from pages that

were missing? With that in mind four more possibilities arise.
Firstly, was the “Reminiscences” that Bramwell-Booth quotes from, in fact, Booth-Tucker’s

Life of Catherine-Booth? Where comparisons can be made between all three existing documents,
Bramwell-Booth, Booth-Tucker and the Reminiscences, Bramwell-Booth’s wording is usually more
like Booth-Tucker’s than it is like the Reminiscences. However, at other times Bramwell-Booth
quotes material from the “Reminiscences” which does not appear in Booth-Tucker’s book,43 and
where the same material is given in both it is often worded differently.44 In addition, she also gives
Booth-Tucker’s book as her source on more than 40 occasions, once in conjunction with the
“Reminiscences”. It would seem, then, that we can safely conclude that the “Reminiscences” was not
Booth-Tucker’s biography.

Secondly, after the 600 pages of Catherine Booth’s Reminiscences were lost was another edition

compiled? This would have been literally impossible (mid-1891) because Catherine Booth had been

40 Though this is from an added page in Reminiscences, it is in the hand of one of the original scribes, so it must be
very early.
41 The word “for” is a necessary addition in an unknown hand.
42 Bennett, Diary and Reminiscences, 89.; Bennett, Reminiscences CD, 45-46.
43 For example, Bramwell-Booth, Catherine Booth, Book 1, en. 10; Book 2, ens. 8-11, 14, 26, 29, 30, 32-35.
44 For example, Bramwell-Booth, Catherine Booth, Book 1, ens. 1, 3, 41, 43. This in itself would not be a problem, for
Bramwell-Booth might just be modifying Booth-Tucker’s record, but with the absences just mentioned it further
suggests that Bramwell-Booth is using a different source.

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promoted to Glory by then. However, after the loss, numerous newspaper reports said, “All that can
be done in the circumstances is for General Booth to replace the lost pages as best he is able from
memory. That will be the easier, however, since the autobiography of ‘the mother of the army’ will
in large measure also be the biography of the army’s ‘only general’.”45 It is quite likely that an attempt
at this was made. The question then arises, did Bramwell-Booth use this and call it “Reminiscences”?
While this is possible, if this did happen, that document has also now been mislaid, and it would seem
strange that this replacement document should survive from the early 1890s to the late 1960s and then
disappear.

Thirdly, Catherine Booth often told stories of her early experiences in addresses and articles.
Did Bramwell-Booth use these and call them “Reminiscences”? For example, in Catherine Booth’s
Papers on Practical Religion she tells the story of how she evangelised amongst the poor women in
Gateshead. Bramwell-Booth’s record of this is so similar that it is easy to believe that she is copying
from Practical Religion. In fact, in two places Practical Religion has a word in italics, which is
followed by Bramwell-Booth. While Bramwell-Booth omits a few sentences and a few other words,
and has some minor differences in punctuation, it is otherwise almost identical.46 Therefore it is
possible that Bramwell-Booth used that as her source. It was, after all, a reminiscence.

But there is another possible source for this story. Catherine Booth called that chapter in
Practical Religion, “Compel them to Come in.” She also wrote an article with that title, which had
appeared in the East London Evangelist in March 1869, and it contained this account.47 The wording
is almost identical with the other two records, and has the same words in italics. It is therefore possible
that Bramwell-Booth copied this item from the East London Evangelist, so not from Practical
Religion. However, the East London Evangelist and Practical Religion are given as sources in her
endnotes, so the question then arises why would she call some quotations from those documents by
their proper names and others “Reminiscences”?

The fourth suggestion combines both the second and the third. It is possible that when the 600
pages were lost, William Booth and others collected some of Catherine Booth’s accounts of her early
life from various publications and drew them together. Such a document, perhaps with additional
material, could be reasonably called “Reminiscences”, and this may still have been available in
Bramwell-Booth’s time. This would seem to be the most likely of these suggestions. However, we
are still left with a problem. If this second collection of reminiscences was made, what happened to
it? It also appears to be lost.

In the first quotation that Bramwell-Booth makes in her book she says that “nearly sixty years
later” her grandmother recorded seeing her little brother’s dead body when she was “scarcely more
than two years old”.48 Catherine died at the age of 61, so clearly Bramwell-Booth is saying that this
record was written near the end of her life, as were the Reminiscences. But this quotation does not
appear in the existing pages.

It would seem to be highly unlikely that we will ever find the missing pages. If they could not
be found in 1891, the chances of finding them in the future are slender.

45 Those that had this entire section of the report included, Norwich Mercury, (UK, Wednesday, 8 July 1891), 2;
Kirkintilloch Herald, (UK, Wednesday, 8 July 1891), 6; Falkirk Herald, (UK, Wednesday, 8 July 1891), 8; Star,
(Guernsey, UK, Thursday, 9 July 1891), 1.; Thetford & Watton Times, (UK, Saturday, 11 July 1891), 2.; Canterbury
Journal (UK, Saturday, 11 July 1891), 2.
46 Compare Bramwell-Booth, Catherine Booth,178-79 with Catherine Booth, Papers on Practical Religion. (London:
Partridge 1879), 88-91.
47 East London Evangelist, (London, March 1869), 81-83.
48 Bramwell-Booth, Catherine Booth, 17.

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Booth-Tucker’s Life of Catherine Booth

Booth-Tucker wrote his preface to the completed biography of Catherine Booth on 2 July 1892. This
means that he wrote this massive work in eleven months, which is quite remarkable.

It was, presumably, based heavily upon the still existing pages of the Reminiscences, but also
upon numerous other sources. These included the letters that William and Catherine wrote to each
other, her brief diary (1847-48 and 1852), family memories, and other letters and reports from a
variety of sources. Booth-Tucker also seems to have used autobiographical extracts from Catherine’s
published addresses. For example, he records an example of Catherine’s early ministry amongst
women, which had already appeared in her Papers on Practical Religion (1879),49 and her account
of her call to preach while in Gateshead that was in her Papers on Aggressive Christianity (1880).50
While Booth-Tucker omitted some of the original material in these accounts and made some editorial
“improvements”, as was his habit,51 it seems likely that he drew on Catherine’s addresses for these
incidents, or possibly from the East London Evangelist (see above). Details of those two events were,
most probably, also in the missing pages of the Reminiscences. They were too important to omit.

Numerous reports about the progress of Booth-Tucker’s book appear in newspapers from July
1891. They shed light upon a number of issues. They confirm that right from the start a three-volume
edition was planned,52 though some thought seems to have been given to releasing them a volume at
a time,53 which did not happen. In August, the Pall Mall Gazette said, “Mr. Bramwell Booth is busy
just now arranging for the printers the ‘copy’ for the Life of Mrs. Booth, which the General left in a
forward state before leaving this country for South Africa. The volume will be fully as large as ‘In
Darkest England,’ and is expected to be ready about the end of October.”54 With three volumes it
proved to be considerably larger than In Darkest England.55

Later that month an unattributed report in The War Cry said,

I have been privileged with a hurried glance at the manuscript of the first three chapters of ‘Mrs.
Booth’s Reminiscences,’ upon which Commissioner Booth-Tucker is hard at work. It is early yet
to say very much, but I am satisfied that this work will be by far the most wonderful we have yet
published.56

In November, the Scotsman reported,

The Life of Mrs Booth, in the preparation of which Mr. Booth-Tucker, with the assistance of his
wife, is busily engaged, will not be issued until General Booth has had an opportunity of perusing
the proof-sheets.57

A further update appeared shortly before Christmas in another paper, with a suggested
publication date.

49 Compare Booth-Tucker, Catherine Booth, 1:235-37 with Catherine Booth, Practical Religion, 88-91.
50 Compare Booth-Tucker, Catherine Booth, 1:253-55 with Catherine Booth, Papers on Aggressive Christianity,
(London: Salvationist Publishing, 1880), 136-40.
51 For example, when quoting from the letters of William and Catherine Booth, Booth-Tucker frequently omits or
changes words, and also rearranges the wording.
52 See for example, Western Times, (UK, Monday, 6 July 1891), 2.; Star, (Guernsey, UK, Thursday, 9 July 1891), 1.
53 Daily Gazette for Middlesbrough, (UK, Wednesday, 19 August 1891), 2.
54 Pall Mall Gazette, (UK, Saturday, 8 August 1891), 1.
55 William Booth, In Darkest England and The Way Out, (London, UK: International Headquarters of The Salvation
Army), 1890.
56 The War Cry, (London, 22 August 1891), 8.
57 The Scotsman, (UK, Monday, 2 November 1891), 4.

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The life of the late Mrs. Booth, wife of the founder and head of the Salvation Army, will be
published early in March next. It will be contained in three volumes, with an introduction written
by General Booth. The printing, binding, and publication of the work are in the hands of the
Salvationists themselves, who expect to derive from it a considerable profit… General Booth has
yet to write the introduction. He will do so on his return from India, which is expected early in
February.58

However, that date proved much too optimistic. In February 1892, another report said, “The
life of Mrs. Booth, the Mother of the Salvation Army, will be ready for publication on the second
anniversary of her death, which will be next autumn. It will probably appear in a three volume
form.”59

In July, another report said, “Mrs. Booth’s Life is to appear in a three-volume subscription
edition about the beginning of October[.] A title has not absolutely been decided upon, but most
probably it will be ‘Life of Mrs. Booth, the Mother of the Salvation Army.’ General Booth is going
over the book.”60

The next month, the Pall Mall Gazette said,

The various sizes and styles in which the three separate editions of ‘The Life of Mrs. Booth’ will
appear have at length been decided upon, and should there be no unforeseen delay the work is
now likely to be ready by the anniversary of the death, in October, of the Mother of the Salvation
Army. In arranging the multifarious materials for the biography, Mr. Booth-Tucker has had the
assistance and counsel of the General and several members of the Booth family, and no pains
have been spared to render the work in every respect complete as well as accurate in the smallest
details.61
But there were further delays. In November, the Pall Mall Gazette reported, “The ‘Life of Mrs.
Booth,’ of which there will be three separate editions issued simultaneously, is expected to be ready
for publication early in December.”62
That prediction was only partly accurate. The book was reviewed by newspapers on Monday
12 December 1892, and it appears to have been available to the public two days later. Only the two-
volume edition was mentioned in most of these reports, but that may have been because that was the
edition that the journalists had seen or been made aware of.63 Yet the Yorkshire Evening Post
mentioned two editions. It complained about the price of them. The three-volume edition was “three
guineas” (£3.3 shillings), and the “popular”, two-volume edition, was “15 shillings”.64
It would appear, then, that the biography was published initially in two editions in December
1892. There was a three-volume “de Luxe” edition, with over 1,300 pages, and a “Library” edition in
two volumes, with about 950 pages. The text was the same in each, but the two-volume edition had
smaller print and lacked the marginal notes that were in the larger. The smaller edition was also less
elaborately illustrated. There was also an abridged one-volume edition, which may not have been

published until early 1893. Another abridged edition in two volumes appeared in 1910.

58 Derby Daily Telegraph, (UK, Friday, 18 December 1891), 2.
59 Western Morning News, (UK, Friday, 26 February 1892), 6. See also Manchester Courier and Lancashire General
Advertiser, (UK, Saturday, 12 March 1892), 11.
60 Cornish Telegraph, (UK, Thursday, 21 July 1892), 3.
61 Pall Mall Gazette, (UK, Saturday, 20 August 1892), 3.
62 Pall Mall Gazette, (UK, Saturday, 19 November 1892), 3.
63 Leeds Mercury, (UK, Monday, 12 December 1892), 5.; London Daily News, (UK, Monday, 12 December 1892), 3.;
Northern Daily Telegraph, (UK, Monday, 12 December 1892), 3.; Western Daily Press, (UK, Monday, 12 December
1892), 3.
64 Yorkshire Evening Post, (UK, Monday, 12 December 1892), 2.

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Summary
It is clear that what began as Catherine Booth’s Reminiscences became, in part, Frederick Booth-
Tucker’s The Life of Catherine Booth, which was published at the end of 1892. However, it is
unknown how the 600 plus missing pages of the Reminiscences were lost, or even by whom (The
reports imply, but do not clearly say, that it was the General who lost them). But, as far as can be
established, those pages have never been rediscovered. While Catherine Bramwell-Booth claims to
be quoting from the “Reminiscences”, this appears to be a different document or documents from the
Reminiscences dictated by Catherine Booth. Bramwell-Booth may be quoting from Catherine Booth’s
addresses, recorded in her books, and/or her articles that appeared in Mission and Army magazines,
or, more likely, from a specially compiled collection of these.

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NEW RESOURCE AND REQUEST FOR INFORMATION

The homepage of Survey of London – Histories of Whitechapel1

1 From https://surveyoflondon.org/, accessed on 22 August 2017.

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NEW RESOURCE AND REQUEST FOR INFORMATION

The Survey of London is presently researching Whitechapel, an area of rich significance to the history
of The Salvation Army. An interactive website (surveyoflondon.org) invites contributions from those
with knowledge, memories or images. An example of the kind of information to be found relates to
20-22 Whitechapel Road that The Salvation Army used as a Mission Hall.2 The website can be used
to look at information about specific places and also upload information and images about the
location. Maps and photographs are included to show the location over time and identify the volume
of information about a specific location.

Map, photograph and information about 20-22 Whitechapel Road,
former location of The Christian Mission Mission Hall3

Map, photograph and information about Old Montague Street,
The Salvation Army Hopetown 4

While information can be contributed directly to the website, contact can also be made to - Survey of
London, The Bartlett School of Architecture, 22 Gordon Street, London WC1H OQB. Via telephone
(UK) +44 (0)20 3108 6125 or email [email protected]

2 Information about the property on Whitechapel Road can be viewed and added to at
https://surveyoflondon.org/map/feature/150/detail/#, accessed on 22 August 2017.
3 https://surveyoflondon.org/map/?highlight=150, accessed on 22 August 2017.
4 https://surveyoflondon.org/map/?highlight=150, accessed on 22 August 2017.

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NEW RESOURCES

Two new books have just been published by WIPF and Stock Publishers which may interest readers
of Salvation Army history. Please note that this following information is abridged from the
publisher’s website http://wipfandstock.com/ and is not a paid advertisement.

Saved to save and saved to serve: Perspective on Salvation Army
History
By Harold Hill
Webpage: http://wipfandstock.com/saved-to-save-and-saved-to-
serve.html

About - The Salvation Army has now been around for more than one
hundred and fifty years. The Army and the world have changed beyond
recognition. The movement has not evolved in isolation from the world.
Bringing its own history with it, it nevertheless belongs to the twenty-
first century world as much as William Booth’s little East End Mission
belonged to nineteenth-century London. This book attempts to explore
the interaction between mission and world as it has impacted the
Army’s beliefs and practices as well as the place it now occupies in the wider world. This critical and
analytical study may also be of interest to those beyond the Army’s ranks who would like to learn
more about this remarkable organization.

Lutheran Salvationists? The development towards registration as an
independent faith community in The Salvation Army in Norway with
focus on the period 1975-2005
By Gudrum Maria Lydholm
Webpage: http://wipfandstock.com/lutheran-salvationists.html

About - The idea of a state religion is seldom connected to religious
freedom and liberal, modern, and democratic states. However, such a
situation existed in Norway until 2012, when the Lutheran Church was
the state church of Norway. The relationship between the church and
minority religious movements demanded adaptation and compromises
from the minority churches. The Salvation Army’s enculturation and
accommodation during its 128-year history in Norway illustrates such
a situation. The book examines how The Salvation Army accommodated itself both doctrinally as
well as practically to the situation of a dominant state church. The study reveals such a close affiliation
of Salvationists to the Norwegian Church as a state institution, that it raises the question of whether
a concept of civil religion was implicitly present in Salvationists' view of the state church and their
own adherence to the church. This situation also raises the question of what constitutes a real church.
The book indicates the tension between Lutheran and Salvationist ecclesiology as well as the
influence from the Lutheran Church.

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NEW RESOURCE AND REQUEST FOR INFORMATION
Salvation Army Year Book Statistical Project
David Philpot is currently working on a website that will allow Salvation Army statistics to be
displayed as an ‘animated heat map’ which will show how the statistics change over time. This will
then be displayed on a map of the world for easy visual comparison between countries.

To develop this map the project will use data from The Salvation Army Year Book. For example,
statistics could show the number of senior soldiers for each country or territory, these will then be
animated on a global map.

Philpot is looking for people with The Salvation Army Year Book to enter this data into an online
spreadsheet. The spreadsheet can be accessed at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1UJTd8yz8P-7--
2A9Y6xHKhknbn34iHb7SipoXAGPO20/edit?ts=599625c2#gid=0

A screen shot of The Salvation Army Year Book Statistics Project spreadsheet.
The instructions to enter the data are simple. For Sheet1;
1) enter your name and email for the year you enter;
2) if there are any territories or other categories listed on the spreadsheet but not in the Year

Book leave the cell blank; and
3) add new rows as required.
Philpot stated, the main goal at this time is to get The Salvation Army Year Book statistics “in
electronic form (including any errors you think might exist). We’ll work out the best way to interpret
the stats (and clean out errors) at a later date.” The estimated time for the entry of data is about 2
hours per Year Book.
If you have any questions please email David Philpot at [email protected]

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Push The Australasian
Journal of Salvation
Army History
Read it, push it and
write for it!
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Save the date

Salvation Army History Symposium

Theme - History: a collection of memories or a collective myth?

27th – 29th July 2018

Sunshine Coast
Queensland, Australia

REQUEST FOR INFORMATION TO ASSIST WITH RESEARCH

The following researchers have asked for assistance from our readers. If you know of any
information or articles, have photographs, stories or artefacts, please contact them via their email
address as outlined below.

Major Glenda Hentzschel – History of SAGALA (Life-Saving Guards and Scouts) with focus
on Australia. Research and preparations are well underway developing a book that presents a more
complete story of the Life-Saving and SAGALA movements. If you have any information pertaining
to the Life-Saving or SAGALA movements or are a former SAGALA member, please contact
Hentzschel at [email protected]

Dr Glenn Horridge – Orders and medals of The Salvation Army. Horridge would like to hear
of any variations or additions to the list presented in his article (please see pages 102 to 117 of the
previous issue, Vol.2, Iss 1. of AJSAH). He is looking to write a book on the orders and medals
given out by The Salvation Army (or any clubs or groups run by the Army, e.g. SAGALA, Scouts,
Guards, young peoples’ work or services, welfare work, emergency services etc.), as well as medals
received by Salvationists. Please contact him at [email protected]

Graeme Inglis - Family History of the Inglis family. Inglis would like to hear of any information
on his grandfather, Gilbert Joseph Inglis (1887 - 1955). He was a Salvation Army officer
commissioned in NZ and later moved to Australia. Some information has already been provided
from his early life in Gisbourne, NZ from As for Me and My House: A Salute to Early Gisborne
Salvation Army Families, 1886 to 1952 by Joan Hutson. Any additional information would be
greatly received. Please contact him at [email protected]

Garth Hentzschel – History The Salvation Army in Brisbane pre1885. Research has commenced
on the history of The Salvation Army activities in Queensland and specifically Brisbane prior to 1885.
Any information on this time period, please contact Hentzschel at [email protected]

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REVIEWS, COMMENTS, FEEDBACK AND LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
ON

THE AUSTRALASIAN JOURNAL OF SALVATION ARMY HISTORY ~
VOLUME 2, ISSUE 1.

Requests for a printed version

Editorial Note: After a number of people requested the AJSAH to be available in a printed format the
peer review and editorial team investigated costing. For printing and postage to be at a reasonable
cost, the size of the AJSAH would need to decrease and we would need 100 people to subscribe to
each issue. We have therefore decided at this point to not to print the issues, but will be happy to send
pdf files of the AJSAH to readers interested. For a copy of the file, please email the executive editor,
Garth Hentzschel at [email protected]

Major Dr. Harold Hill, retired Salvation Army officer, New Zealand;
Congratulations once more…
Tremendous effort. This is becoming established as an international go-to place for
Salvation Army historical research.
It has the downside of making it likely that anything we now write about Salvation Army
history will run the risk of being out of date and superseded in short order, even by the time we
reach print! Which is a really good problem to have…

Colonel Richard Munn, Territorial Secretary for Theology and Christian Ethics, USA Eastern
Territory;

… this is a quite remarkable Journal, and I commend you and your team, again.
The level of historical detail and specificity, in addition to the broad range of subject matter

is unlike anything I have ever seen.
A hearty congratulations.

Veronica Dawson, Author, Australia;
Congratulations … on producing another successful issue. It made interesting reading.

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Captain Marcus Mylechreest, Corps Officer of The Salvation Army, United Kingdom;
Hi. I'm a corps officer from the UK and I just happened to come across your site. I noticed that
last September you gave a lecture on SA uniform. I'm wondering if you have any information
from that evening? A video online or PowerPoint slides, etc?? I’ve recently completed a
dissertation on the uniform and would be interested to hear how its use and purpose is approached
in Australia. Many thanks for any insight you can share! God bless. Marcus Mylechreest, Captain

Editorial note: Information has been sent to Captain Mylechreest. It is great to receive emails from
interested people.
Angela Dueck, Library Technician, Circulation and Serials, John Fairbank Memorial Library
Booth College & CFOT, Canada;

We would like a copy of the Australasian Journal of Salvation Army History for archival purposes
and for offline use. Could you please send us a print or PDF copy of new issues when they come
out? I noticed your issues are on the ISSUU platform but you have disabled the download
function. We would appreciate it if we could receive a copy of the journal.
Editorial note: pdf copies of each issue of the AJSAH has been sent to the John Fairback Memorial
Library. The review committee has decided that at this point in time the printing of the AJSAH would
not be economically viable. However if you need to have a downloadable copy, please contact the
executive editor via email to receive a pdf version.
Major Michelle Wheeler, Training Co-ordinator (Learning Support) and Module Unit Leader
(Sure Foundations [Salvation Army History]), William Booth College, London, United
Kingdom;
Thank you for sending me the pdf copies of the AJSAH. They were very interesting, particularly
volume 1 issue 2 with the articles including information about the nature of history. This was
especially helpful to me and has given me fresh areas to research.
Colonel Jenty Fairbank, retired officer of The Salvation Army, residing in the United Kingdom;
I am finding many of these articles totally absorbing, … and congratulate you and all concerned
on the online production.

I did just notice one error in a bibliography entry in Volume I Issue 1: Miriam Blackwell,
who wrote the history of the Army’s re-opening in Russia in 1991, is described by you as an
officer. She was, in fact a wonderful ‘one off’ soldier and totally dedicated. …
Editorial note: Please make a note of the error that Miriam Blackwell is a solider and not an officer.

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