PP. Personal Papers

Scope and Contents This collection contains Kerr Boyce Tupper’s diaries, personal sermon notes/readings, and ministerial records, 1872-1904; class notes at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1872-1875; lectures and addresses in 1882-1895. Also included in the collection are the church membership lists of First Baptist Church, Paducah, Kentucky, 1877-1880; Michigan Avenue Baptist Church, Chicago, Illinois, 1880-1881; and First Baptist Church, Marquette, Michigan, 1881. The collection also contains...

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The Donald M. Bain collection contains a scrapbook about Donald M. Bain’s life as a Scottish American who served in the Confederate Army. The volume is hardback and measures 8” x 10” x 2.25”.

Scope and Contents The Ivy Walker Duggan Papers contains four volumes covering the time period of 1828-1869: two volumes of printed Baptist Association minutes, one volume of printed letters from Duggan at battle fronts (1861-1865), and one journal by George R. Barker (1869). Mercer received the collection in 1992 through Furman B. Lewis from the estate of Mrs. Walter B. Hill, the daughter of Ivy W. Duggan. The collection was cataloged as part of the Georgia Archives and Manuscripts Automated Access...

Scope and Contents The Duncan Family Collection is divided into 5 series. Series 1 contains materials from Pope Alexander Duncan Sr., while Series 2-5 contain materials from Pope Alexander Duncan Jr. As a general rule, Duncan Sr.'s (d. 1938) sermon notes (Series 1) extended to no more than two handwritten half-sheets of paper or one typed half-sheet paper. He marked a few of them Gd = Good or Gt = Great. No full manuscripts were found. Most sermons were used only once or twice. A few were used...

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This collection contains documents and artifacts from Hazel Grady’s work and life. The series span from biographical information to information on her education, her ministry, and her life outside the church.

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The Ferrol Sams collections contains eleven boxes of handwritten and typed book manuscripts, both edited and unedited; it also contains the author’s correspondence and other personal papers.

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The collection includes Dr. Stella Stewart Center’s correspondence, lecture notes, research, notebooks, publications, and photographs.

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This collection contains two framed photo montages in fair condition and an unbound scrapbook in poor condition.

Scope and Contents Folders 1-13 contain approximately 60 letters from both C. C. Anderson and Henry Bunn while serving the Confederate Army, as well as between other members of the Bunn family during the Civil War.Folder 14 contains a White and Lord Leger No. 1, kept with only a few exceptions by Christopher Cowan Anderson, that originally had a complete set of alphabetical pages and about 370 numbered pages. Many pages were cut or torn from the ledger and are missing. The lower portions of a...

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The collection is composed of four record center boxes of papers, including records of court cases, speeches, correspondence, photographs, and articles. There are also three boxes of scrapbooks, framed photographs, and regalia.