PP. Personal Papers

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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.

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This collection entails administrative papers, self-study manuscripts, and faculty papers from Warnock’s years at Mercer University.

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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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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.

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

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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.

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

Scope and Contents The collection primarily consists of music and theatre programs collected by Lantz during her lifetime. These programs include Lantz’s performances and those that she attended at Indiana University, Tift College, and Mercer University. The programs were originally grouped by organization and date, and this order has been retained where possible. Some programs include handwritten notes on the front and/or back of the item. The collection also contains Lantz’s college degrees, “Lois Lantz Day”...

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The Henry H. Tucker collection contains one account book. The financial transactions in the front of the book were recorded in 1884 and 1885. The back of the book contains clippings which have been glued to the pages. Most clippings are reviews of Tucker’s book, The Old Theology Restated.

Scope and Contents The Strozier Papers contain certificates of membership (Emory University fraternities, 1931); correspondence, mostly in the form of endorsements of Strozier for the position of Judge Advocate General (1918); a manuscript entitled “The War on the Home Front,” written by Strozier (1943); a news clipping of W. A. Strozier winning an Emory University alumni award; a photograph of Strozier (date unknown); and a scrapbook compiled by Strozier.The first few pages of the scrapbook are an...