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William Alfred Quayle (1860-1925) served as a Methodist minister and Bishop. He was pastor of several different churches and was elected to the episcopacy at the General Conference Church in 1908.
He also became president of Baker University, a Methodist institution that was the first university established in Kansas. He was a book collector, and the Special Collections and University Archives also holds the Quayle book collection regarding the history of printing and the printed book.
The collection is arranged first by initial donation, and then by a later accession. The initial donation consists of correspondence, books by Quayle, letters and documents regarding Quayle's literary works and sermons, and photographs.
Correspondence is arranged chronologically (1891-1922).
Two books by Quayle are included, God's Calendar (1907) and In God's Out-of Doors (1902).
There is also a print titled "Young Aspens" by C.A. Seward.
Photographs in this collection are stored separately under call number PH127. There are two photographs, a snapshot of an unidentified elderly couple in a garden, and a gathering of Methodist bishops at Bethany Methodist Hospital, 1920.
Accession Up320: contains Baker University documents including the University Quarterly (a course catalogue) 1906-1907, clippings regarding the university, correspondence between the University and Quayle's daughter, Allie Quayle; and also a personal ledger of William Quayle's that contains genealogical information, recipes, and a detailed listing of meals eaten between 1920 and 1923.
There are also two manuscripts that may have been written by Quayle: one is titled "Con Amor," which reads as a love letter to a woman, and one is titled, "The Story of Margaret," which reads as a love letter to a daughter who is battling a debilitating disease.
There is also correspondence between Quayle family members (1922), and correspondence addressed to Bishop Quayle. This accession also contains a poem that has someone marked, "possibly a Woodsworth poem."