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Memorandum, H. S. Bender to Paul Erb, May 30, 1961]: “for Erb to announce over his signature”, in a prominent place in Gospel Herald––General Council of [MC] Mennonite General Conference had appointed H. S. Bender, Martin [Jesse "J B" Martin, Jesse B Martin, Jesse Bauman Martin], and Erb to develop that plan for delegates to Seventh Mennonite World Conference; some committee proposals; more later •
CONTIGUOUS, H. S. Bender to Paul Erb, May 30, 1961 [to Erb as Editor of Gospel Herald; from H. S. Bender, “for the Mennonite World Conference Executive Committee MWC]: a different version of an announcement for Gospel Herald about delegates; mention that––MWC will be at Kitchener Ontario, with a 7000-seat auditorium; that such a number was too large for discussion groups, so total delegates were limited to 700, with USA and Canada a total of 600, travel costs limiting all other continents [including Europe] to 100; (MC) Mennonite General Conference had been allotted 300....

Joe Todd, manager Publications Division of the Service Engraving Company to H. S. Bender, September 2, 1941 about getting started on this year's Maple Leaf (Goshen College yearbook).
December 23, 1941 Joe Todd, Service Engraving Company to H. S. Bender about materials sent to Bender earlier for review. Details. mention "Panorama of the Campus" and the "History of the Mennonite Church" photoprint. Mention "Roy" [probably Umble} reviewing when he returns.

Document, no date, marked in JHY hand “Sent to Edgar Metzler”; title––“SOME IMPLICATIONS OF THE CONGREGATIONAL DOCTRINE OF THE CHURCH”; 5 closely typed single-spaced pages; some sample statements and topics “... Thus it is out of place for a conference to legislate for a congregation...”; congregational polity; implications for church discipline, implications for close communion; “...a congregation that does not discipline its own members has no right to exclude non-members from communion...”; application to new, mission churches...; ... (more).

Several pieces of manuscript (none signed or dated): • • • “AUTHOR’S PREFACE”—8.7 double-spaced pages. • • • Chapter 20, ‘IN THE NAME OF CHRIST’—9 double-spaced pages. • • • “AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY”—an “Explanatory Note”, 1 double-spaced page; bibliography itself, 8.8 single-spaced pages.

Sheet headed “Appendices”, no date or explanation; 8 duplicates, one marked up considerably.

Table of Contents: One sheet listing contents; no date. •
CONTIGUOUS, Appendices listed with subtitles; no date

Undated document to “Dear Cornelius” (4 double-space pages), very possibly unsent; sender not explicit, but quite obviously by H. S. Bender, especially in light of the letter of February 25, 1948, above; date of writing could have been June or July 1949: In cleaning up his desk [?? before leaving for Europe in June or July 1949?] had come across your comments on John Horsch in January 20, 1948 The Mennonite, which friends had pointed out to Bender “while I was in Europe last year” [?? calendar year or academic year ??]...; continuing, the letter is a document charging Krahn--using soft and “dear brother” kind of language, but nonetheless accusing Krahn--with unbrotherly treatment especially of Horsch, but also more broadly in the course of Krahn’s scholarship; while Bender’s accusations are explicit and clear, Bender surely perceived his larger purpose to be putting a stop to innuendo, scholarly attacks that became personal, and such like, and even larger, the purpose of bringing Mennonite scholars of the various branches together--as Bender said he had been attempting in Mennonite Research Fellowship, inclusion in producing Mennonite Quarterly Review, and other such endeavors; while the document is clearly accusatory, it also has a strong tone of pleading; certainly it is an interesting piece of evidence for studying the legendary antipathy between H. S. Bender and Krahn and studying Bender’s understanding that he had a vision not at all limited by “Old” or MC Mennonite boundaries.

Kennell to "Bro Bender" that he would report the missions relief drive so is sending a bulletin January 7, 1951, with that information.
H. S. Bender to Noah Kennel [sic--likely Noah Kennell-]; no date. about Edgar Metzler coming to Roanoke April 12, Marvin Nafziger of Hopedale February 8 and other young men for March 8 and May 10. Happy to help fill the pulpit this way..."real spiritual food for your congregation."

Document, a Memorandum, no author indicated, dated March 26, 1953: an evaluative one-sheet biography of Hubley.

Document of Pennsylvania German Historical Society, no date--Document, 3-fold flyer explaining what the Society was.

Several sheets of accounts for books, one Dutch and dated February 17, 1954, and one English dated March 24 1954, stapled to a handwritten note of “Nelson” to “Bender”, no date [surely Nelson Springer].

Memorandum, Irvin B. Horst (MCC Amsterdam stationery) to H. S. Bender, April 3, 19?? [no year] [most likely 1958 as was published in 1957]: wanted to purchase 6-volume Die Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart [Religion in History and the Present] for the historical library at EMC [Eastern Mennonite College, later Eastern Mennonite University (EMU)]; about managing the money exchange.

Ulrich Hege to H. S. Bender at MCC Frankfurt), undated: thanks for your card [not extant here]; unfortunately we will not be at home on Monday, leaving early Sunday for Lamprechtshof to visit daughter Annliese Bletscher; mention he will meet Brother Schnebele at Thomashof; suggested Benders might come to Thomashof or Batzenhof and call writer at Lamprechtshof, which was near Thomashof.

Document, unclear signature, no addressee; headed with stamp of Ulrich Hege (Hellmannsberg), penciled note indicating the copy was for Bender; undated: Headed “An das Hilfswerk ‘Christenpflicht’” [Concerning the aid organization ‘Christenpflicht’]; that yesterday the writer had visited the Social Office of Director Weiss and Mr. Maisenbacher; they had already met with Brother Walter Eicher in Ingolstadt; need was especially great in Pforzheim; some statistics...; writer had told Weiss that fellow-religionists in the USA had slacked off somewhat in their support, [apparently thinking that ??] the need in Germany was lessening... (more).

Undated Emil Händiges (stationery of Vereinigung der Deutschen Mennonitengemeinden, signed as principal chairman of that union, and from 1923-1945 pastor of a congregation at Monsheim) to H. S. Bender , undated, penned; [Union of German Mennonite Congregations]: [practically unreadable for this annotator]; apparently something about old congregations at Elbing, West Prussia; mention of the church library with Mennonite and theological materials; mention 20-30 volumes of Pilgram Marbeck [Pilgram Marpeck] books and of Christian Hege, “Täufer in der Kurpfalz” [Anabaptist in the Palatate].