PP. Personal Papers

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The Crawford Doyle Burgess Collection contains a record of his pastorates, photographs, certificates, and other papers from his career.

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Letters of Joseph Perryman Carson to his family while serving in the Confederate Army in Virginia, 1864-1865, and other miscellaneous family letters.

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The Carswell Family Collection scrapbook contains biographies, histories, and genealogies of the Carswell, Janes, and Hobbs families. There are maps, letters, and brief stories in the scrapbook.

Scope and Contents The Cockfield Papers contain materials compiled by Cockfield during the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, while teaching at Mercer University. The collection contains correspondence, newspaper clippings, items related to the business of the history department, minutes of meetings of the Board of Student Publications, and items related to the Faculty Welfare Committee and College of Liberal Arts. Jamie H. Cockfield gave the papers to the Archives in August 1996.In 2015 three additional...

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The Thomas J. Holmes collection contains correspondence, programs, paperwork, and other publications related to Rev. Holmes’ time at Mercer.

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The Caroline Paul King Papers contain materials related to Mrs. King’s career as a musician and music teacher (1928-1970), including programs, correspondence, news clippings, photographs, certificates, and adjudicators’ comment sheets from competitions and festivals. There is also a folder of newspaper clippings and programs relating to Mrs. King’s family, 1950-1998.

Scope and Contents The Charles Christopher CoCroft papers consist of six folders of papers dating from 1928-1932. The first folder contains primarily correspondence between Chris and his father, Christopher Columbus CoCroft. Other folders include school notes on Mary Shelley and papers on Beethoven, Shakespeare, and various forms of drama. Also included in the papers are small documents such as a Washington Library (Macon, Georgia) card, various receipts, a photograph, fraternity cards, and a...

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The Allen Beza Comish Collection contains Comish’s personal papers, which includes budgets, meeting notes, and reservations from his time at Mercer University.

Scope and Contents The collection contains 24 scattered issues of "The Countryman" (1862-1865), which was a pro-Confederate newspaper published weekly by J. A. Turner at Turnwold Plantation in Putnam County, Georgia. In addition to being a newspaper published by a plantation during the American Civil War, the newspaper is notable for its role in launching the journalistic career of Joel Chandler Harris. Within the Paul Mercer Cousins Collection, "The Countryman" serial is separated by year and issue. The...

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The Eric Klingelhofer Collection contains two folders of materials related to the Faculty Welfare Committee at Mercer University: one covering 1990-93 and another 1994-96. Correspondence, meeting notes, and handouts are included and deal with issues such as faculty salaries, sabbatical policies, and University policies on faculty members’ consulting or taking other jobs outside their University duties.