This collection is made up of administrative records from the Council of Bishops and predecessor organizations. It includes the minutes of the Bishops meetings and their position papers.

Leontine Turpeau Current Kelly's personal papers include materials pertaining to her election as bishop to the California-Nevada Conference and her activities before and after her election. The collection includes a large number of correspondences related to speaking engagements, social concerns, and a variety of other topics including her election to be the first African American female bishop, personal correspondences, and awards. Also included in this collection are clippings, publications, awards, sermon materials and sheet music.

This collection contains materials relating to Clymer's life after his college days at Asbury. The earliest records are correspondence, addresses/sermons, and the graduate papers from the 1940's. Clymer's correspondence, the largest quantity of the record types in the collection, covers every year from 1942 through 1993, except for about ten years between the mid-1950's and 1967. Clymer's collection of addresses, sermons, and lectures is the next largest group of records, and dates from the early 1940's through the late 1980's. The collection also contains copies of some of Clymer's publications. The original accession contained copies of his books and books in which he was a contributor, as well as articles in widely circulated journals. These have been removed and transferred to the Methodist Library, Drew University, Madison, New Jersey. The collection also contains various clippings, programs, pamphlets, reports, and photographs.