PP. Personal Papers

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Included with Brown’s notes and writings are many photocopies of documents held at the archives of the Foreign [now International] Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, Richmond, Virginia.

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The Timothy F. Callaway Collection is comprised of sermon notes, a face stamp, clippings, correspondence, and essays from Mr. Callaway’s career. Series 3, Mixed Sermons (Box 3), remains unprocessed.

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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.

Scope and Contents The papers cover the personal life and preaching career of Daniel Webster Key. The majority of the collection (5 folders) is correspondence, both personal and professional, from the last year of Dr. Key’s life (1926-1927). Also contained within the papers are several folders of sermons and sermon notes written by Dr. Key. Of special interest is a notebook containing a record of marriages, funerals, and baptisms performed between 1882-1920 by Dr. Key. The collection also contains...

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The collection mainly contains McConnell’s sermon notes and outlines from 1856-1929.

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These papers offer information on the general life at Mercer from 1986-1990, which includes the Godsey-GBC Conflict of 1987-1988 sparked by Mercer being named one of the “Top Ten Party Schools” by Playboy magazine. Clippings from various local and state newspapers outline the attacks on and defense of Mercer during those years. The collections also include some artifacts, such as shirts, buttons, and bumper stickers from the time.

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The Walter L. Moore Collection consists of 7 boxes of articles, sermons, manuscripts, and correspondence, all in good condition.

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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).

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The George Garnet Strange Collection contains the writings of George Strange, including undated addresses to church and school groups and church correspondence.

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The May F. McMillan Papers document the creation of the Masters of Liberal Arts Program.