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and 21 August, 1854; undated memorandum; Rev. John Crawford Woods, BA, ‘Rambling
Recollections’, 3 vols., MS, SAA, vol. 1, pp.107-8.
21 Dorothy Scott, The Halfway House to Infidelity. A History of the Melbourne Unitarian Church
1853-1973, Melbourne, 1980, pp.1-3. I am grateful to David Hilliard for drawing my attention
to this book.
22 Spence, Autobiography, p.28.
23 Register: 2 May, 28 May, 5 July, 2 August, 4 September, 12 September, 17 September, 27
September, 1 October, 3 December, 1856, advertisements.
24 S.H. Mellone, Liberty and Religion. The first century of the British and Foreign Unitarian
Association, London, 1925, pp.67, 12-14, 70; H. McLachlan, The Unitarian Movement in the
Religious Life of London, London, 1934, pp.21, 19-20, 48-49, 178-182; Register, 5 July 1856,
advertisement; Woods, op. cit., pp.61-62.
25 Minutes of AUC, minutes for 8 June 1857.
26 Rev. John Crawford Woods, BA, ‘Unitarian Opinion Concerning the Bible: what it is and
what it is not’, 1 st Series Unitarian Belief No. 6, Adelaide, 1881, p.62; ‘The Unitarian Belief
Concerning Salvation’, 1 st Series Unitarian Belief No.4, Adelaide, 1881, pp.33-34; Woods,
‘Unitarian Opinion Concerning the Bible’, p.59.
27 Spence, Autobiography, p.63.
28 Rev. J. Reid, In Memoriam. The Rev. John Crawford Woods, B.A., Adelaide, 1906, letter iii.
29 Her brother, John, who shared her change of faith, attended a general congregational meeting
in November that year, see pencil name at end of list in Minutes of AUC, minutes for 16
November, 1856; Spence, Autobiography, p.28.
30 Spence, Autobiography, p.63.
31 C.H. Spence, sermon on The Three Reverences, 24 November [no year], MS, SAA, p.3.
32 Spence, Autobiography, p.28.
33 Woods, ‘The Unitarian Belief Concerning Salvation’, p.42.
34 See R.V. Holt, The Unitarian Contribution to Social Progress in England, London, 1938; Jo
Manton, Mary Carpenter and the Children of the Streets, London, 1976; Ethel E. Metcalfe,
Memoir of Rosamond Davenport-Hill, London, 1904; Scott, Halfway House, pp.59, 67-8.
35 C.H. Spence, sermon on the Christian Church, 7 December 1897, MS., SAA, p.24.
36 For the calculations establishing the Unitarians’ minority even in the districts where most of
them lived, see S.M. Eade [Magarey], ‘A Study of Catherine Helen Spence 1825-1910’, MA
thesis, Australian National University, 1971, pp.113-14 and Appendix B; Minutes of AUC,
first annual report.
37 Genealogy of the family of Francis Clark and Caroline Hill, unpublished, n.d., kindly lent to
me by Mrs. C. Barham Black; Unitarian Christian Church [UCC], Annual Reports for 1865,
1870, 1882, 1890-2, 1895-1900, 1907, 1911; M.E. Crompton, ‘Pioneers and the Centenary
in the Unitarian Christian Church, Adelaide’, MS., kindly lent to me by Miss M.E. Crompton;
John Howard Clark, The Heir of Linne A Drawing-Room Burlesque, Adelaide, 1869; tickets
for entertainments given by the Association for Mutual Improvement in connection with
the Unitarian Christian Church, SAA; notebook containing minutes of proceedings of social
meetings held during 1870, kindly lent to me by Miss M.E. Crompton.
38 Trust Deed of the Unitarian Church of South Australia, SAA; Register, 26 December 1856.
39 Trust Deed; Janet K. Cooper [Ramsay], ‘The foundation of culture in Adelaide. A study of
the First Colonists’ Transplantation of Ideas and Art: 1836-1857’, MA thesis, University of
Adelaide, 1970, pp.21-2; John Tregenza, Professor of Democracy, Melbourne, 1968, p.39.
40 Library Record of Australasia, i, 4, p.113.
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