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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 Kerr McKinney Manuscript Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SCM 368
Scope and Contents

The collection was given to the Seminary Archives in 1952 by Dr. McKinney's widow. It contains sermon manuscripts written by Dr. McKinney, largely from the latter years of his pastorate. There are several hundred bound and unbound sermons. These papers remained unorganized in the Seminary library's "Alumni Alcove" collection. The collection also contains expository notes of Dr. McKinney.

Dates: 1900 - 1952

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

M. Richard Shaull papers

 Collection — Box 1-6
Identifier: SCM 419
Scope and Contents

The M. Richard Shaull Papers consist of personal and professional correspondence to and from Shaull; writings and publications by Shaull and others on Christianity and theology in Latin America, liberation theology, theology and political theory, ethics; subject files, lecture and course notes; and photographs and memorabilia Shaull collected during his ministry and teaching careers in the United States, Brazil, and Costa Rica.

Dates: 1938 - 2003

Labor Temple Lectures

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: SCM 298
Content Description

Thirty typewritten lectures on classic western civilization delivered at the Labor Temple in New York. Included are lectures given in 1938 on H.G. Wells' "The Anatomy of Frustration" and William Morris' "News from Nowhere." The collection also contains a series of eleven lectures on "Spiritual Values in World Literature" given in 1937 by Morris Gordin, labor activist, Russian revolutionary, and one-time Press Commissar of the Third International, according to a notice about the series.

Dates: 1932 - 1941

Henry F. Lee Scrapbook

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: SCM 299
Content Description

One scrapbook compiled of newspaper clippings

Dates: 1850 - 1920