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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 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

The Frederic Lawrence and Kenaston Twitchell Oxford Group Manuscript Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SCM 238
Scope and Content The Oxford Group Manuscript Collection consists of clippings, reprints, pamphlets, leaflets, newsletters, invitations, magazines, letters, some handwritten notes, drafts, and books. The collection comprises 2.5 linear feet (6 boxes) with records dating from 1924-1983 (bulk: 1928-1938). The records document the early years of the Oxford Group. They were collected by Frederic C. Lawrence and by Kenaston Twitchell. There are three series in this collection. Series I was given to the...
Dates: 1924-1983

The Robert Robinson Manuscript Collection

 Collection
Identifier:  SCM 384
Scope and Contents This collection consists entirely of three manuscript notebooks. Volume one contains notes on the Hebrew text of the Old Testament, as well as financial notes from a church in Kersey (1896-97). The second volume is a manuscript concordance of Ecclesiasticus. The third volume contains notes on the history of missions.These notebooks were given to the Seminary sometime before Jan. 16, 1939, when they were marked by the library. They were catalogued with the library's Alumni Alcove...
Dates: 1939

The William H. Felmeth Manuscript Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SCM 382
Scope and Contents

This collection contains a variety of Felmeth’s personal materials. These include selected sermons by Felmeth dated 1958-1977 and two folders of color photographs of uncertain date that seem to depict Felmeth’s PTS class of 1942 reunion, retirement party and other special events. The collection also includes retirement memorabilia, color facsimiles of Felmeth’s World War II scrapbook and four medals from the Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge honoring sermons by Felmeth.

Dates: 1942 - 1977