Notebook with accounts and other financial notes typically on left page of two-page spread, record of sermons delivered Jan. 1863-1 Jan. 1865 on right hand side. 3 pages with names of those put forward for confirmation in Oct. 1863 obscured by blank pages stitched loosely on top.
Several items loose inside. Printed receipt from Colonial and Continental Church Society to Elliott for money raised in a collection; printed notice of annual meeting for Brighton Association of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts.
Printed letter, 27 Apr. 1864, from James Garbett and William Bruère Otter, Archdeacons, announcing that they have withdrawn the proposed address to the Bishop [of Chichester], with MS addition by W. B. Otter. Enclosing printed text of address with invitation, 12 Mar. 1864 sent by Otter to sign and signed by Elliott and M.R. [?] Spencer, Curate of St. Mary’s, who note that they have already signed the Oxford Declaration, as well as Rev. Thomas G[eorge?] Smith, Hon. Chaplain of Brighton Female Penitents’ House, whose first signature this is. Note on back in Elliott’s hand, ‘both these papers to be returned to me’.