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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 Frank Sergeant Niles Manuscript Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SCM 205
Scope and Content

This collection includes sermons preached by the Reverend Niles at the First Presbyterian Church of Princeton. It also includes calendars, correspondence, family papers, and other material by or about Frank Niles.

Dates: 1927 - 1950

The Charles Nisbet Manuscript Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SCM 147
Scope and Content

This collection consists of lectures and sermons by Charles Nisbet.

Dates: 1788-1804, 1858

The Henry James Owen Manuscript Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SCM 156
Scope and Content

This collection consists of a memorial scrapbook of the Reverend Owens, including clippings, obituaries, correspondence and other items.

Dates: 1878

Joseph and Augusta Owen Manuscript Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SCM 157
Scope and Content

This collection includes the diaries of Joseph Owen, missionary to India in the mid-nineteenth century, and of his wife Augusta.

Dates: 1840 - 1861

The Francis Landey Patton Manuscript Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SCM 066
Scope and Content

This constructed collection includes student notes of Patton lectures, printed lecture notes (with student marginalia by Robert E. Speer), biographical materials, news clippings, and correspondence.

Dates: 1871 - 1907

The William Miller Paxton Manuscript Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SCM 090
Scope and Content

This collection consists of sermons, addresses, notes taken as a student, biographical materials, lecture notes, class records, faculty memoranda, and other material from the life of William Miller Paxton.

Dates: 1845-1902

The Persian Manuscript Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SCM 101
Scope and Content

This is a constructed collection including materials in Persian and Arabic-language materials from Persia (now Iran). Provenance notes are listed with the items below.

Dates: 1767, 1787, 1797, 1921

The J.B. Phillips Manuscript Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SCM 208
Scope and Content

This collection consists of more than 50 personal letters to and from J.B. Phillips and from Dr. Walter James, from 1953 to 1980. Some letters contain small water colors painted by Mr. Phillips. It also includes some additional miscellanea.

Dates: 1953 - 1982

The Arthur Tappan and Delavan Leonard Pierson Manuscript Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SCM 209
Scope and Content The collection contains extensive papers of A.T. Pierson, as well as many of his son's. Among these are letters from C.H. Spurgeon, John Wanamaker, Woodrow Wilson, Helen Keller, Charles Lindbergh, A.A. Hodge, William Henry Green, Hudson Taylor, and many others. There are also several scrapbooks maintained by A.T. Pierson. In addition, there is a significant amount of miscellany, including notes, sermons, and article manuscripts. Unfortunately, in the case of the miscellany, it is...
Dates: 1854 - 1899

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