MS. Manuscript Collections

This collection contains the Reverend Simonton's manuscript journal maintained from 1852 to 1866, accompanied by a typescript copy.

This collection consists of material by and about Alexander Silliman. It includes journals, personal notes, course notes, correspondence, and biographical materials.

The collection consists of more than 200 short handwritten essays by freshmen students in the Literary Department of the Syrian Protestant College in 1885. Topics include "Manliness," "Arabic Sciences," "Marriage in Our Country," "The Fights of Boys," "Death," "The Silk Worm," "Strength," "Home Life in Syria," "Ancient Scriptures and Vestige of Antiquity," "The Habits of Our Country," and more. The collection is bound in two volumes.Volume 2 may predate volume 1.

The collection consists of 3 manuscripts bound separately. A letter dated August 6, 1850, from George Bush to Archibald Alexander has been tipped into Dictata in Zachariam.

This collection holds Cailliet's correspondence, lecture notes, addresses and sermons, reviews and articles, associations, and research materials. The material covers his entire life, from his life and studies in France and Europe to his life and work in the United States at several institutions, including the University of Pennsylvania and Princeton Seminary.

This collection consists of notes from a "Dr. Webster’s" lectures on chemistry taken by Thomas Nisbet (University of Edinburgh).

This collection consists of two manuscripts by Johann Eduard Erdmann. The manuscripts are bound together, and include a note recorded by Philip Schaff in Halle, Germany (circa 1939).

This collection consists of a manuscript written in an unknown hand of Wilhelm Gesenius': Einleitung in das Alte-Testament (undated).

This collection consists of 30 volumes of Dr. Fulton's personal journal. Each volume covers one year, from 1893 to 1922. A small file folder of miscellaneous items related to Dr. Fulton was collected by the archives and added to the collection.

This is a constructed collection of Buddhist manuscripts. It consists of ten works on palm fronds and two parabaits (folded paper books).