PP. Personal Papers

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The collection primarily consists of music programs collected by Collins during his lifetime. These programs include Collins’ performances and those that he attended at Tift College and other institutions (mainly churches). The programs are in chronological order. The collection also contains Collins’ college degrees, plaques, a scrapbook, and a framed item from Tift College.

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

Scope and Contents The Eugene S. Mitchell Collection consists mainly of items from Mitchell's education at Mercer University (1857-1860) and correspondence from during and after the American Civil War (1862-1871). Series 1 consists of correspondence, mostly from Mitchell to Chloe Emma Lewis, his future wife. The bulk of the letters were written between 1863 and 1865 from Mitchell’s service in the Virginia battlefields of the Civil War. Only three letters in the collection were written by people...

Scope and Contents The Rufus Washington Weaver Collection contains reports, correspondence, and other university-related documents from his time at Mercer University. The folders of the Weaver Papers are not in alphabetical order throughout the collection as a whole, but rather are generally alphabetized in groups of folders. Some groups stretch over several boxes, some groups span only one box or a portion of a box. Additionally, groups of records are not necessarily in chronological order. Items in box 6 are...

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The James C. Williams collection contains a physician’s daily log possibly from 1949 that belonged to one of Dr. Williams’ relatives.

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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 Harold L. Sangster Collection contains correspondence, personal research, bulletins, diplomas, and sermons from Rev. Sangster’s career. Most of his original files have been maintained. The Personal Series has been arranged alphabetically. The Sermons Series has been subdivided roughly by date preached, special event, topic, and miscellaneous. Miscellaneous sermons were often not filed or in any particular order.

Scope and Contents The Louie D. Newton Papers consists of the personal papers of Louie Devotie Newton with materials dated 1879-1986. There are 29 boxes in total. The papers include correspondence, clippings, printed material, photographs, ephemera, audio visial materials, and a scrapbook (1939) of clippings pertaining to the Baptist World Alliance. The materials document Newton's pastorate at Druid Hills Baptist Church (Atlanta, Ga.), his activities with the Southern Baptist Convention, and his broadcasts on...

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This collection contains an album of friendship belonging to Willena Sherwood, in which friends wrote notes or poetry to Sherwood from 1863-1869. The collection also contains photocopies of records pertaining to Sherwood and her family, supplied by the Washington Memorial Library.

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The Bridges Smith collection includes 117 illustrated envelopes postmarked between 1894 and 1917 and mailed by family, business associates, and friends. A small amount of correspondence dates into the early 1920s and is a mixture of business and pleasure in subject matter. Smith was related to Miss Sallie Boone, Mercer Librarian (1904-1934) and Librarian Emeritus (1934-1951).