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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 Robert Patterson Manuscript Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SCM 370
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of three copies of a typescript of Patterson's 250 page memoir. These items were organized as a manuscript collection in May of 1997.

Dates: 1873

The James Richards Manuscript Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SCM 371
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of two volumes of manuscript notes produced by students in Dr. Richards' courses at Auburn Seminary. One of the notebooks belonged to George Randall Shumway, who attended Dr. Richards' lectures on Didactic Theology and Moral Science in 1833. The other notebook gives no indication of its source or date other than that it contains notes on Dr. Richards' lectures on Didactic Theology at Auburn.

Dates: 1833

The Joseph Gaston Symmes Manuscript Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SCM 374
Scope and Contents

These sermons and lectures were discovered at a Flea Market in the Summer of 1997 by the Rev. James O'Conner, a PCA minister of New Hope, Pennsylvania. He gave them to the Seminary Library.

Dates: 1852 - 1873

The William Sherman Skinner Manuscript Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SCM 379
Scope and Contents

The papers of Dr. W. Sherman Skinner were donated to the Seminary Archives in 2000 by his son, the Rev. Sherman Skinner of Lawrenceville, NJ. The collection consists primarily of sermon manuscripts, personal documents, correspondence, and Dr. Skinner's files of sermon illustrations, sermon topics, and scripture references. These items were organized into a manuscript collection in July of 2000.

Dates: 1927 - 1976

The John H. Sinclair Manuscript Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SCM 380
Abstract

The Rev. John Henderson Sinclair (b. 1924) is a member of the Princeton Theological Seminary Classes of 1947 (B.D.) and 1953 (M. Th.). This collection consists of one Hollinger Box of lecture notes taken by the Rev. Sinclair during his two degree programs. The notes were well organized and have been carefully preserved.

This collection was given to the Seminary Archives and Special Collections by the Rev. Sinclair in October, 1998.

Dates: 1924 - 1958

The John R. Rodman Manuscript Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SCM 381
Scope and Contents

The collection contains course notes from John Rodman's time at PTS.

Dates: 1943 - 1945