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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 338 Collections and/or Records:

The John Calvin Manuscript Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SCM 334
Scope and Contents

Photograph facsimiles of Calvin's sermons from Geneva published in the Supplementa Calviniana II with a description on page VII of the introduction, giving a list of blank folios and oddities in pagination of the manuscript. Our photograph facsimiles lack folio pages 1a, 39a, 525a, and 577a.

Photograph facsimiles of: label on back, title on binding, and 616 folio pages worth of material.

Dates: 1513 - 1529

The John Clark Bayless Manuscript Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SCM 023
Scope and Content

This collection contains sermon manuscripts and correspondence by the Reverend Bayless. Most of the letters have also been transcribed, with typescripts enclosed. Several of these letters are written to his parents while he was a student at Princeton and record his personal thoughts on the Seminary.

Dates: 1838-1865

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 John Dorrance Manuscript Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SCM 048
Scope and Content

This collection consists of ten manuscript sermons.

Dates: undated

The John Ellsworth Peters Collection on the Class of 1873

 Collection
Identifier: SCM 207
Scope and Content

This collection consists of news clippings, obituaries, necrology reports, and biographical materials, and published materials by members of Princeton Theological Seminary's class of 1873, of which Peters was a member and for which he served as alumni secretary.

Dates: 1873-1923

The John Gresham Machen Manuscript Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SCM 008
Scope and Content

This collection contains materials by and about J. Gresham Machen, as well as published and unpublished materials on the 1929 reorganization of Princeton Theological Seminary.

Dates: 1915-1936

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 Henry Livingston Manuscript Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SCM 111
Scope and Content

This collection consists of a volume of manuscript notes taken by a student of Dr. Livingston’s courses at New Brunswick Theological Seminary.

Dates: undated

The John Jay Pomeroy Manuscript Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SCM 246
Scope and Content

The collection primarily consists of items carried by, written by, or given to Pomeroy during his chaplaincy at the time of the Civil War. Other items (mostly books) from his study are also included.

Dates: 1862-1864