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MS. Manuscript Collections

 Record Group
Identifier: MS
Letters, sermons, lecture notes, scrapbooks, photographs, and other resources from individuals and groups associated with the Seminary and covering Presbyterianism, Christian missions, ecumenism, and many other topics.

Found in 339 Collections and/or Records:

The David Deforest Ely Manuscript Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SCM 078
Scope and Content This collection consists of a bound volume of Reverend Ely's personal notes. The majority of the text is a diary, which Reverend Ely maintained from January 1831 to February 1833. The latter portion of the volume contains sermon notes. Upon delivering the volume to the Seminary library in August of 1979, Dr. Arthur Byers, former secretary of the Seminary, described the diary as of, "an introspective kind, but containing numerous comments on the scene roundabout him, including life in the...
Dates: 1831 - 1833

The Benjamin Franklin Farber Manuscript Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SCM 079
Scope and Content

This collection consists primarily of a large collection of Reverend Farber's sermons. It also contains his personal papers, including correspondence, family information, and his 1918 war diary.

Dates: 1918-1964, bulk undated

The Kenneth Sperber Gapp Manuscript Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SCM 080
Scope and Content

This collection includes biographical material, papers and correspondence, printed articles, and Dr. Gapp's 1934 Princeton University doctoral dissertation, "Famine in the Roman world."

Dates: bulk 1930s

The Daniel Foster Manuscript Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SCM 237
Scope and Content

This collection consists of manuscripts by and about the Reverend Daniel Foster. Most are sermons, some on the Revolutionary War and John Hancock, but there are also journal and letter fragments.

Dates: 1779-1795

The Luke Foster Manuscript Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SCM 115
Scope and Content

This collection consists of manuscripts by and about the Reverend Luke Foster. Rev. Foster was a Congregationalist pastor in Rutland, Massachusetts, from 1813 to 1817. He was a graduate of the University of Vermont, class of 1811.

Dates: 1805 - 1830

The James Everett Frame Manuscript Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SCM 140
Scope and Content

This collection consists of Greek notes, an index of Greek words, and the bibliography of James Frame's thesis.

Dates: 1895

The Henry S. Gehman Manuscript Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SCM 082
Scope and Content

This collection includes personal and biographical materials, lecture notes, papers and addresses, 70 card files, and miscellanea.

Dates: 1911 - 1963

The Carl Robert Geider Manuscript Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SCM 174
Scope and Content

This collection consists of notes from courses taken at Princeton Theological Seminary, 1954-57.

Dates: 1954 - 1957

The Norval Geldenhuys Manuscript Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SCM 128
Scope and Content

This collection consists of Norval Geldenhuys’ thesis: "The authority of the Lord and the Apostles in the New Testament and in the early church" (1946).

Dates: 1946

The George Musgrave Giger Manuscript Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SCM 177
Scope and Content

This collection contains manuscript sermons written by the Reverend Doctor George Musgrave Giger and his manuscript translation of Francois Turrettini’s Institutes of Elenctic Theology.

Dates: undated