MS. Manuscript Collections

Scope and Contents This collection consists of correspondence and writings by Barry H. Downing. The correspondence ranges from the late 1960s to the present and is mostly related to his research into the Bible and UFOs. Downing’s writings in this collection include a bound copy of his doctoral dissertation, newspaper articles, book reviews, three bound collections of essays and sermons, and five editions of his book The Bible and Flying Saucers. Additionally, the collection contains reviews by other authors of...

Scope and Content This collection includes 22 lengthy letters written in 1913 by Letitia Belle Sparr Luckett. These describe her first year in Korea as a missionary and school teacher at the Pyongyang Foreign School. Each letter is written on a special Asian paper, several yards in length. Because of the difficulty involved in reading such letters, a photocopy of each has been filed with the originals in the collection. The...

Scope and Content The bulk of this collection consists of sets of correspondence maintained in the original order that Warfield once bundled them. The titles of the original bundles, as labeled by Warfield himself, have been transcribed at the box level. Correspondence sets contain mostly letters to Warfield, with the rare letter from Warfield. The collection also includes lecture and research notes on biblical criticism, systematic theology, and various readings. It includes manuscript works on Augustine,...

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This collection consists primarily of a large collection of Reverend Farber's sermons. It also contains his personal papers, including correspondence, family information, and his 1918 war diary.

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This collection consists of nine discourses on baptism preached to the First Congregational Church, Fair Haven Village, New Haven, Connecticut, in 1843; and a letter from R.G. Hutton, Pastor of the Episcopal Church, Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York, to Mr. Swan, dated May 15, 1869.

Scope and Content The Bernhard W. Anderson Collection contains Anderson’s personal writings, including diaries, datebooks, notes, lectures, sermons, photographs, correspondence, and some publications, and course outlines as well as essay and book manuscripts. It also includes many reviews of his academic work by others, as well as collections of offprints of others’ work and a collection of journals. He also documents the Drew University Crisis of the 1960’s through a collection of student publications,...

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This constructed collection consists chiefly of biographical materials, published and unpublished items on Stockton, and published books on Hawaii missions.

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This collection consists of 0.4 linear feet of manuscripts and typescripts of significant works by and about Dr. Childs, as well as correspondence and course notes.

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This is a constructed collection of Buddhist manuscripts. It consists of ten works on palm fronds and two parabaits (folded paper books).