Box 10
Container
Contains 27 Results:
letter from Mary Buel to Mrs. Christy Evangelides
Item — Box: 10, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents
Evangelides, wife of Christodoulous Evangelides who was the subject of William Cullen Bryant’s poem “Greek Boy”; She has just arrived in Piraeus and describes her house, the view, etc. Next time she will write in Greek.
Dates:
1752 - 2013
Program of annual National Baptist Convention in Fort Worth
Item — Box: 10, Folder: 10
Dates:
1752 - 2013
letter from Wm. R. Carter concerning a manuscript.
Item — Box: 10, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents
The letter is on the letterhead of Negro General Baptist Headquarters in Los Angeles, signs a General Missionary to Negroes
Dates:
1752 - 2013
W. D. Powell
File — Box: 10, Folder: 11
Scope and Contents
Most are from other missionaries and contain information about the mission work, an SBC missionary to Mexico from 1882 to 1898, 8 letters to Powell plus a clipping
Dates:
1752 - 2013
Spurgeon, Petzolt, Frost, Hobart, Fuller letters
File — Box: 10, Folder: 12
Scope and Contents
Two Spurgeon letters. The first does not have a year date and refers to his great sorrow. “Why should we not suffer. We must be like our Head.” The other letter, dated 1887, deals with U. S. – British tension and stresses diplomacy rather than fighting. He doesn’t feel important enough to write to the President; Missions to the Crow Indians. This letter, signed by W. A. Petzolt, is on letterhead of Crow Indian Baptist Missions “maintained by The American Baptist Home Mission Society”. ...
Dates:
1752 - 2013
Pulis, Ball, MacArthur, Johnson letters
File — Box: 10, Folder: 13
Scope and Contents
John Pulis graduated from Colgate in 1861 and then served as pastor in Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Nebraska. This 1895 letter was to John S. Applegate (also a Colgate grad) thanking him for the book he had written on the life of Col. George Arrowsmith, who was killed at the battle of Gettysburg. The three were good friends. Pulis and Arrowsmith had been roommates at Colgate; George H. Ball (1819--1907) was a Free Will Baptist teacher and pastor. Also an educator, he founded Keuka...
Dates:
1752 - 2013
Baptist pastor, James A. Langley, Biddle letters
File — Box: 10, Folder: 14
Scope and Contents
1858 letter from a woman (not Baptist) to her mother. The new Baptist pastor, Rev. Mr. Fuller, has been boarding with her, and she writes about it. “He appears to be quite a smart man FOR A BAPTIST.” His salary is to be six hundred dollars. Elder Swan (no doubt Jabez Smith Swan), the great revivalist is holding forth now. He and Fuller baptized 14 last Sabbath. Fuller encouraged her to become Baptist, so she partly condescends by lending him her old overcoat which he dipped seven times....
Dates:
1752 - 2013