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Oversize Papers Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MU-PP-0204
Scope and Contents

The Oversize Papers Collection contains large materials that were separated from personal papers collections and university records for better storage and preservation. The bulk of the collection is diplomas from institutions other than Mercer, but there are also certificates, decrees/proclamations, and professional licenses. The documents are arranged alphabetically by recipient.

Dates: 1847 - 1959

Paul Mercer Cousins Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MU-PP-0023
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...
Dates: 1849-1867

Pearl Amelia Bigler Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MU-PP-0183
Scope and Contents This collection contains materials from the life of Pearl Amelia Bigler. It includes diaries that span from her teens to her death in 1969, correspondence in both English and Portuguese, reports from Brazil regarding her missionary work, Bibles, Tift College yearbooks, passports, a short autobiography, scrapbooks, photographs, slides, and photo film. The scrapbooks range in topic and include photographs, newspaper clippings, postcards, Christmas cards, wedding and birth...
Dates: 1916-1970

Perry Colin Bramlett Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MU-PP-0149
Scope and Contents The collection includes Bramlett’s notes on more than 2,500 hours of talks, tours, and retreats presented to groups in 25 states. Materials Bramlett used in his research and writing on C.S. Lewis and others, emphasizing the man, the writer, and his influence are featured in this collection. Also present are materials on the circle of friends who came to be known as the Inklings, notably J. R. R. Tolkien; Lewis’s brother, Warnie Lewis; his wife, Joy Gresham Davidman; and his illustrator,...
Dates: 1916-2008

Pinckney D. Pollock Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MU-PP-0098
Scope and Contents

With this collection comes two boxes of Pinckney Pollock’s work. In box 1, one can find correspondence, and within box 2 one can find memorial addresses, newspaper clippings, and Trustees’ Minutes excerpts.

Dates: 1897-1903

Prosperity Free Will Baptist Church (Turner Co.) Collection

 Collection
Identifier: GB-CH-275
Scope and Contents The Prosperity Free Will Baptist Church Records contain photocopies of the original records made by Sandra Stratford in the 1980s. The original records were in the possession of descendants of the last clerk of the church at that time, but at the time of donation (April 2025) Stratford did not remember the name of the owner or know if said owner was still living. The records cover most of the existence of the church, from 1905 until 1944. The remaining folders contain Stratford’s research...
Dates: 1905 - 2025

Ray Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MU-PP-0094
Scope and Contents

Box 1 contains correspondence, land records, financial records, tax records, and other mixed documents. Box 2 contains oversized materials such as maps, a notebook, financial records, wills, and keys.

Dates: 1807-1989

Reba Cobb and Patrick Anderson Collection

 Collection
Identifier: CB-PP-0002
Scope and Contents

Boxes 1 and 2 are Reba Cobb’s office files from her time as Resource Coordinator for the National Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, while Box 3 are Patrick Anderson’s office files from his time as chair of the National CBF’s General Assembly Committee and as moderator. Cobb’s and Anderson’s time in those offices overlapped, and thus the papers were delivered and kept together.

Dates: 1990 - 1996

Riley B. Plymale Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MU-PP-0096
Scope and Contents While named the Riley B. Plymale Collection, the collection appears to be more focused on Foreman M. Hawes. Hawes and Plymale were long-time friends. Both were graduates of Mercer University and faculty colleagues at Locust Grove Institute. Included in the collection are files of correspondence and materials related to Locust Grove Institute, Mercer University, and Bessie Tift College, as well as Sigma Alpha Epsilon (Georgia Psi Chapter) and the Masonic Club. Hawes became...
Dates: 1886-1928; Majority of material found within 1919-1928

Robert Brown Bale Papers

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MU-PP-0026
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 1933

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Harris, Rufus Carrollton, 1896-1988 7
King, Spencer Bidwell, Jr., 1904-1977 5
Mercer University. Presidents 5
University of Georgia 5
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Kilpatrick, William Heard, 1871-1965 4
Dowell, Spright, 1878-1963 3
Emory University 3
First Baptist Church of Macon (Macon, Ga.) 3
Janes, Absalom, 1796-1847 3
King 3
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Shorter College (Rome, Ga.) 3
Baptist World Alliance 2
Blakely Baptist Church (Blakely, Ga.) 2
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Coca-Cola Company 2
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Georgia Baptist Children's Home 2
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Godsey, R. Kirby (Raleigh Kirby), 1936- 2
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Mercer University. Publications. 2
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Mercer, Jesse, 1769-1841 2
Morgan 2
Morgan, Carter (Edgar Carter), 1913-2008 2
Morgan, Edgar L., 1878-1965 2
Sanders, Billington McCarty, 1789-1852 2
Sherwood, T. Adiel (Thomas Adiel), 1791-1879 2
Stephens, Silas Emmet, 1874-1926 2
Tucker, Henry Holcombe, 1819-1898 2
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 2
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Weaver, Rufus Washington, 1870-1947 2
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Acree, Allen Troy 1
Acree, Renva Smith 1
Adams, Walter Spurgeon, 1893-1969 1
Alexander III School (Macon, Ga.) 1
Allman Brothers Band 1
Anderson, Christopher Cowan, 1843-1925 1
Ardis, H. Z., 1811-1881 1
Area Water Quality Advisory Committee (Macon, Ga.) 1
Armour, Mary Anne C., 1929-2017 1
Armour, Rollin S., 1929-2018 1
Armstrong, Francis Cavoisier, 1808-1884 1
Armstrong, James, 1776-1835 1
Arnaz, Desi, 1917-1986 1
Asbury, Simon Morris, 1830s-1856 1
Auden, Wyston Hugh, 1907-1973 1
Avant, Augustus S., 1843-1918 1
Avland Development Company 1
Ayers, Jack, 1923-2003 1
Bacon, Augustus Octavius, 1839-1914 1
Bain, Donald Mackenzie, 1847-1931 1
Baker, George R. , 1869 1
Bale, Robert Brown 1
Battle, Archibald John, 1826-1907 1
Baxley Baptist Church (Baxley, Ga.) 1
Berwind-White Coal Mining Company 1
Bessie Tift College. Round Table. (Forsyth, Ga.) 1
Bigler, Pearl Amelia, 1898-1969 1
Blackshear, Charles C. 1
Board of U.S. Civil Service Examiners 1
Bonsteel, Abbie Benton, 1879-1966 1
Bonsteel, Ray L. 1
Boone, Sallie 1
Bootle, William Augustus, 1902-2005 1
Bowen, Thomas Jefferson, 1814-1874 1
Boykin, Solomon 1
Bramlett, Perry Colin, 1945?-2013 1
Brier Patch Music 1
Brown University 1
Brown, Edith West, 1914-2005 1
Buckner, H. F. 1