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Bishop George
Daniel Browne was the tenth Bishop of the Episcopal Church of Liberia
(1970-1993) and sixth archbishop of the Anglican Church of the Province of
West Africa. His intellectual and leadership contributions to Liberia and the
Episcopal Church were highly significant. After his death in 1993, his widow
held his books and personal papers at the family farm in Virginia, Liberia, a
community outside Monrovia. During the 2003 civil war, the Browne farm
suffered destruction and looting at the hands of the rebels. In the room
containing Bishop Browne's library, books, his personal papers and documents
were torn off the shelves and scattered about. Later Mrs. Brown re-shelved
these materials and attempted to dry out the papers and re-file them. But there
were major concerns about the termites and other pests as well as the
pervasive damp. Responding to reports from visitors who saw “a crying need
for rescuing his papers and books,” Dunn and Stone worked in cooperation with
the Browne family, including son Canon Herman Browne, the Archbishop of
Canterbury's Secretary for Anglican Communion Affairs, and The Archives of
the Episcopal Church in Austin, Texas.
During the August 2004 trip, Dunn and Stone packed the Browne papers
and they now await shipment to Austin.
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