Letters written during the time that New England Transcendentalist Charles Gordon Ames, D.D. (1828-1912) was minister of the Church of the Disciples in Boston and Clara Bancroft Beatley in charge of the church school. The letters refer to many church school matters. Includes two addresses by Ames, one entitied A Century's Retrospect, the other given at the Unitarian Festival, May 25, 1906.