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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 William Harris Manuscript Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SCM 261
Scope and Content

This collection consists of largely of sermon and Sunday school lesson manuscripts, plus one file box of correspondence, printed lecture notes with Harris' student marginalia, mementos, and other items. Of special note are hand sewn, leather bound marriage and baptism ceremonies and hand drawn and printed maps.

For the sermons and Sunday school lesson manuscripts, the date and location that the material was used is often written on the back of the first page.

Dates: 1831 - 1885

The Jesse Herrmann Manuscript Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SCM 185
Scope and Content

This collection consists of correspondence, sermon manuscripts, and typescripts from special lectures written by Jesse Herrmann.

Dates: 1943 - 1949

The Andrew Hunter Manuscript Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SCM 116
Scope and Content

This collection includes 18 unbound sermons by Andrew Hunter (1773-1794), and one file of biographical information about him.

Dates: 1773 - 1794

The Caspar Wistar Hodge Jr. Manuscript Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SCM 087
Scope and Content This collection includes six boxes of Dr. Hodge's own carefully labeled manuscript notes used for class lectures at Princeton Seminary. Of special interest are his early thoughts on Karl Barth and his comments on the relation of science to theology. The collection also contains two boxes of manuscript sermon and "conference talks" used by Dr. Hodge. Conference talks were devotional lectures delivered at the Seminary. Miscellaneous items preserved in the collection include Hodge's...
Dates: 1894 - 1935

The Caspar Wistar Hodge Sr. Manuscript Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SCM 098
Scope and Content

This collection includes sermons, course lectures, correspondence, and miscellaneous materials.

Dates: 1844 - 1891

The William Hallock Johnson Manuscript Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SCM 191
Scope and Content

This collection consists of Dr. Johnson's notes and correspondence, as well as biographical materials and an autobiographical essay.

Dates: 1896 - 1930

The Edward J. Jurji Manuscript Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SCM 143
Scope and Content

This collection consists of biographical material, correspondence, lecture notes, articles, addresses, manuscripts for published works, sermons, and miscellanea.

Dates: 1939 - 1980

The Alford Kelley Manuscript Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SCM 118
Scope and Content This collection consists of 8 volumes of scrapbooks dated 1895-1941. It includes materials related to pastorates of Malvern, Frazer, and Westminster Presbyterian churches; work with the prohibition movement (Anti-Saloon League of Philadelphia); and...
Dates: 1895 - 1941

The Hugh Thomson Kerr Jr. Manuscript Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SCM 144
Scope and Content

This collection includes class material and other papers from courses that Dr. Kerr taught at Princeton Seminary, as well as files relating to his work as editor on the Seminary publication, Theology Today.

Dates: 1931 - 1992

The Russell Martin Kerr Manuscript Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SCM 192
Scope and Content

This collection consists of course notes taken by Russell Kerr at Princeton Theological Seminary from 1941 to 1942, and notes from summer continuing education courses at the Princeton Institute of Theology in 1949 and 1955.

Dates: 1941-1942, 1949, 1955