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PP. Personal Papers

 Record Group
Identifier: PP

Found in 40 Collections and/or Records:

Abner H. Tippett Collection

 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

Albert Henry Newman Collection

 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: 1880-1934

Albert T. Spalding Collection

 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: 1831-1881

Alec F. Thompson Collection

 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

Arthur L. Rich Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MU-PP-0103
Scope and Contents

This collection contains Arthur Rich’s Music Department scrapbooks. It also holds some sheet music, one written in Italian.

Dates: 1941-1979

Bartow D. Ragsdale Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MU-PP-0102
Scope and Contents

Box 1 contains correspondence, account papers, and Bursar records. Box 2 contains speeches, sermons, and other materials related to his work in the Baptist denomination. Box 3 contains copper plate lithographs used in the printing of The Story of Georgia Baptists.

Dates: 1914-1928

Benjamin Osgood Peirce Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MU-PP-0104
Scope and Contents

The collection contains mostly letters between Peirce, his wife, and his parents (1812-83) while he was at Penfield. The letters discuss personal, family, and school matters. Most of these items are photocopies.

Dates: 1838-1849, 1914

Burt P. Richardson Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MU-PP-0107
Scope and Contents

The Richardson collection contains three notebooks of class/lecture notes. One is dated 1903 and the other two are undated.

Dates: 1903

Carter and Agnes Morgan Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MU-PP-0083
Scope and Contents The Carter and Agnes Morgan Collection contain materials documenting their missionary life over the course of the twentieth century. They contain a transcript of Edgar L. Morgan’s (Carter’s father) journal chronicling his work in China from 1905-1927; Post Scripts, newsletters written by Carter as he and Agnes served as missionaries in Hawaii, Hong Kong, and the Philippines from 1948-1996; and biographical materials and a diary from Silas Emmet Stephens, Carter’s uncle and a missionary to...
Dates: 1948-1996

Charles H. Stone Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MU-PP-0121
Scope and Contents

In this collection, there are different papers describing Charles Stone’s career as a librarian and librarian emeritus, such as poems, research, clippings, reports, etc.

Dates: 1821-1966