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PP. Personal Papers

 Record Group
Identifier: PP

Found in 146 Collections and/or Records:

Abbie Benton Bonsteel Papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MU-PP-0008
Scope and Contents

The Abbie Benton Bonsteel collection contains her correspondence, writings, photographs, scrapbooks, and printed books.

Dates: 1896-1951

Abner H. Tippett Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MU-PP-0127
Scope and Contents

The Tippett Papers are divided into six sections, which were removed from a notebook. All relate to Southern Baptist church organizations and activities. Materials are primarily related to Sunday School and Training Union in the late 1950s and early 1960s and include materials for teachers, lesson outlines, attendance contests, and information on enlargement campaigns.

Dates: 1956-1968

Addie E. Davis Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MU-PP-0049
Scope and Contents

The Addie E. Davis collection contains papers from her years at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, sermons and bulletins from church services, audio tapes of sermons, and miscellaneous personal papers and publications.

Dates: 1929-2002; Majority of material found within 1961-2002

Albert Henry Newman Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MU-PP-0087
Scope and Contents

The Albert Henry Newman Collection contains correspondence to and from Newman, a prominent Baptist Church Historian, from 1926 to 1933; correspondence between Spencer B. King, Jr. and Frederick Eby (1956) pertaining to a biographical sketch of Newman for the Encyclopedia of Southern Baptists; Newman’s lecture notes on church history; and the book A Manual of Church History by T. J. Morgan (1880).

Dates: 1880-1956; Majority of material found within 1926-1934

Albert Lindsey Cardwell Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MU-PP-0013
Scope and Contents

The Cardwell Papers contain articles written by Cardwell for Church Administration, Church Training, The Deacon, Home Life, The Christian Index, and several Mercer University publications, including the Mercerian. In addition, there are pamphlets and units in three issues of Source, a Training Union study guide, written by Cardwell from 1965-1985. The articles were compiled and given to Mercer by Dr. Cardwell.

Dates: 1967-1985

Albert Theodore Spalding Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MU-PP-0116
Scope and Contents

The Albert T. Spalding Collection includes a book, journals, account books, personal writings, and papers from Spalding’s time as a Baptist pastor and Mercer University trustee.

Dates: 1849-1920

Alec F. Thompson Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MU-PP-0133
Scope and Contents

This collection includes files from different Baptist churches, such as Groove Level Baptist, Beaufort Baptist, and Woodland Hills Baptist Church.

Dates: 1946-1989

Allen Beza Comish Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MU-PP-0022
Scope and Contents

The Allen Beza Comish Collection contains Comish’s personal papers, which includes budgets, meeting notes, and reservations from his time at Mercer University.

Dates: 1977-1981

Allen Troy and Renva Smith Acree Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MU-PP-0011
Scope and Contents

The Allen Troy and Renva Smith Acree Collection contains the personal papers of Rev. A. Troy and Renva S. Acree. There are family papers, sermon notes, paperwork, newsletters, bulletins, and other papers.

Dates: 1979-2007

Allison James Johnson Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MU-PP-0059
Scope and Contents

The Allison James Johnson Collection consists of two large, heavy ledgers. The accounts have been obscured by hundreds of clippings of secular and religious import, most of which are undated. Some dates can be found: 1905, 1926, and 1929.

Dates: 1905-1929