The Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield Manuscript Collection

The library and papers of Professor Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield were bequeathed to the Seminary Library in his Last Will and Testament. Most of the materials in this collection were presented to the Seminary Libraries by the Rev. John E. Meeter in October of 1969. Rev. Meeter worked on the Oxford edition of Warfield's works while at Princeton Seminary. The collection had been given to him for his use by Dr. Ethelbert Warfield (Professor Warfield's brother and last living heir). Other material was sent by Rev. Meeter in 1976, 1987, and by his son-in-law Ralph Quere (after John Meeter's death) in 1999. Portions of this collection were cataloged in the old "Alumni Alcove," and the remaining papers were kept in library storage for many years. The collection was brought together to be organized, and the original finding aid was written in September of 1995 by Bradley Gundlach and Raymond Cannata, under the direction of William O. Harris, Archivist. In 2000 Bradley Gundlach returned to work on the collection and organize the scrapbooks. In August of 2005 accruals from the Seminary archives and facsimile material from other institutions were added to the collection, and some revision to the finding aid was done. In July of 2009, the collection was reprocessed by Daved Anthony Schmidt, and the finding aid was edited by Sarah Seraphin.