PP. Personal Papers

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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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This collection includes 2 scrapbooks in Box 1 spanning from 1930-1934, and Box 2 includes more scrapbook pages and publications.

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The Nicholson Papers contain correspondence, photographs, publications, clippings, programs, and handwritten notes spanning Nicholson’s early life and career to his death, but concentrating in particular on his 26 years as Baptist Student Union secretary for the Georgia Baptist Convention.

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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 Sanford collection consists of papers of Shelton Palmer Sanford from 1845-1865 and 1878. The papers include a diary (1878) and account book (1845-1865). The diary discusses day-to-day activities, including the weather, travel, classes taught, and religious and social life in Macon, Georgia. The account book details Sanford’s personal finances (1845-1856) and his account with Georgia Baptist Convention Treasurer Thomas J. Burney for tuition, room, and board for a number of students at...

Scope and Contents The James Ostelle Harrison Papers include typed manuscripts and published articles/columns by Harrison, graduate and professional research, course syllabi and related materials, and news clippings about him. The collection also includes papers created after his death concerning the shrunken head (or “tsantsa”) he brought to Mercer University and attempts to authenticate it prior to its return to Ecuador in 2019. Original folder names (including spelling) and organization have...

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The Manuscript Collection contains correspondence, essays, journals, notes, receipts, and other documents from multiple creators, arranged in alphabetical order. Some of the letters have transcriptions; a few are photocopies.

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The Columbus Roberts Papers include personal records (clippings/time line, correspondence, manuscript, photographs, recordings of interviews, scrapbook, and speeches) as well as materials related to the Georgia Milk Control Board, the Georgia Milk Producers Confederation, the Georgia Temperance League, and Mercer University.

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The George Van Greene Collection contains correspondence and news articles related to the integration process at Mercer University in 1960s. The correspondence is between Greene, Mercer University faculty and staff, and Macon community members. The focus of some of the correspondence is on Sam Oni, the first African American student to attend Mercer University.