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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 Mendenhall J. Dennis Manuscript Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SCM 075
Scope and Content This collection of nineteenth century papers was unidentified in the archives for many years. Certain items in this collection suggest that Rev. Mendenhall J. Dennis, D. D. was their creator. A book labeled "Exercises," is signed "M. J. Dennis." Other manuscripts in this collection exhibit similar handwriting and subject content to this piece. An "Estimate Book," from the Job Room at the United Brethren Publishing House, as well as other papers, place the provenance of the collection in...
Dates: 1875-1892, bulk undated

The John DeWitt Manuscript Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SCM 047
Scope and Content

This constructed collection includes correspondence, biographical materials, sermons, manuscripts, printed course outlines, and published pamphlets.

Dates: 1881 - 1910

The Samuel Dodd Manuscript Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SCM 136
Scope and Content

This collection contains one bound travel diary written by Samuel Dodd while on route to his mission in China, from June 1 through September 27, 1861. The collection also includes a photograph of Dr. Dodd with his wife and three sons, as well as a letter which he wrote from China in 1875, addressed to Charles Aiken of Princeton Seminary.

Dates: 1861

The George Stewart Duncan Manuscript Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SCM 137
Scope and Content

This collection consists of two bound manuscripts handwritten by George Stewart Duncan, including his 1887 thesis for Princeton Seminary.

Dates: 1887 - 1888

The William Roy Dupree Manuscript Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SCM 076
Scope and Content

This collection includes the course notes of Reverend Doctor William Roy Dupree, taken while a student at Princeton Seminary, 1944-46 (B.D.) and 1953-56 (graduate studies). Notes are photocopies of originals. They provide an excellent window into the classroom life of the Seminary during his years, including notes from courses taught by Émile Cailliet, Joseph Hromádka, Lefferts Loetscher, Paul Lehmann, and many others.

Dates: 1944-1946, 1953-1956

The Mary Jeanette Ebenhack Manuscript Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SCM 077
Scope and Content

This collection consists of various course notes, papers, and syllabi from Mary Ebenhack's student work at the Seminary.

Dates: 1974 - 1977

The Carl Hopkins Elmore Manuscript Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SCM 127
Scope and Content

This collection includes biographical information, photographs, diary and sermon notebooks, sermons and talks, bulletins and directories, and miscellaneous materials, including Elmore's work "That Difficult Person, Myself." Also included are the papers of his wife Amelia Josephine Burr Elmore.

Dates: 1919 - 1956

The Jesse Maxwell Corum Manuscript Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SCM 228
Scope and Content

This collection consists of manuscript sermons by Jesse Maxwell Corum and a small amount of miscellaneous personal materials that he collected.

Dates: 1913-1961

The William Durant Manuscript Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SCM 126
Scope and Content

This collection consists of four volumes of manuscript sermons.

Dates: 1873 - 1911

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