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Benjamin Osgood Peirce Collection
Collection
Identifier: MU-PP-0104
Scope and Contents
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.
Dates:
1838-1849, 1914
Burt P. Richardson Collection
Collection
Identifier: MU-PP-0107
Scope and Contents
The Richardson collection contains three notebooks of class/lecture notes. One is dated 1903 and the other two are undated.
Dates:
1903
May F. McMillan Collection
Collection
Identifier: MU-PP-0089
Scope and Contents
The May F. McMillan Papers document the creation of the Masters of Liberal Arts Program.
Dates:
1970s-1980s
Rollin and Mary Anne Armour Collection
Collection
Identifier: MU-PP-0185
Scope and Contents
The collection is comprised of five series. Series 1 contains a small amount of papers related to the personal lives of the Armour Family. Series 2 contains course materials, research, notes, and correspondence from the academic and theological career of Rollin Armour. Series 3 contains articles, worksheets, and research from the counseling career of Mary Anne Armour. Series 4 contains correspondence, papers, and business materials from the Georgia Children’s Home. Series 5 contains planning...
Dates:
1960-2009
Shelton P. Sanford Collection
Collection
Identifier: MU-PP-0111
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...
Dates:
1839-1891
William Fielding Ogburn Collection
Collection
Identifier: MU-PP-0090
Scope and Contents
This collection contains diplomas, journals, publications, and scrapbooks, all in good condition.
Dates:
1940-1959, 1986
William Singleton Collection
Collection
Identifier: MU-PP-0120
Scope and Contents
The collection contains a book that was given to William Singleton from Thomas Stocks. Singleton wrote that the book was given to him at Penfield in 1863, and a good third of the volume includes mathematical problems from 1864. Lists of Mercer matriculates from the administration of Pres. H. H. Tucker, dating from the Spring 1867 term through the Fall 1870 term, follow the mathematical problems. The next section of the volume is mainly blank pages with a few loose items interfiled followed...
Dates:
1829-1864