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Yellow paper with notes about book on ministry.

Allin reflects on his golf game: “Golf alone has taught me sufficient humility and provided adequate humiliation to condition my ready admittance of erroneous effort.”

Allin with longtime friends and colleagues Robert Runcie, Archbishop of Canterbury, Alastair Haggart, Primus of the Episcopal Church in Scotland, and Philip Smith, Bishop of New Hampshire, at Christ Memorial Chapel in Jupiter Island, Florida, c.1990.

"Over the Hill" is how Allin inscribed this photo of him and Ann riding off into the sunset at The Virgin Islands Country Club, c.1983.

"Difficult to respond." Allin's journal entry from September 27, 1973, one week before his election.

"An unusually long wait...." Allin's account of election day, October 4, 1973.

"Quiet consideration and conversation between Ann and me." Allin writes of his decision, October 5, 1973.

"I formally accepted my election...." October 6, 1973.

During Allin's tenure as Presiding Bishop he reestablished the "Black Desk" as the Episcopal Commission for Black Ministries, giving black clergy jobs at the national level that his predecessor Hines had overlooked.

"This group must continue and grow." Elected chairman, Allin writes of his hopes for the future of the Committee of Concern, 1966.