T.E. Ruth

Component identifier:

Series 48

Content Summary:

Rev. T.E. Ruth, born in England in 1875 came to Melbourne in 1914 as minister at the Collins Street Baptist Church. In 1923 he was invited to be the minister to Pitt Street Congregational Church, Sydney. He retired in 1939 and died in Sydney in 1956. He and the Brookes became close friends after 1914, and shared a common interest in the Conscription Referenda of 1916 and 1917. The series contains their correspondence from 1923 until 1956. There is also a collection of Ruth's writings comprising typescript copies of sermons, pamphlets issued by the Loyalist League of Victoria, and cuttings of his articles in the press.

Immediate source of acquisition:

The papers of Herbert Brookes were presented to the National Library in April 1967 by his widow Ivy Deakin Brookes. In October 1967 she deposited her own extensive collection, and together they form the Brookes Papers.

Names:

Brookes, Ivy

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