Baptists -- History -- Georgia

Scope and Contents

The Albert Henry Newman Collection contains correspondence to and from Newman, a prominent Baptist Church Historian, from 1926 to 1933; correspondence between Spencer B. King, Jr. and Frederick Eby (1956) pertaining to a biographical sketch of Newman for the Encyclopedia of Southern Baptists; Newman’s lecture notes on church history; and the book A Manual of Church History by T. J. Morgan (1880).

Scope and Contents The Joseph M. Hendricks Collection consists of two accessions, one received from him in 2004 and the other received in 2025 from his wife and daughter. The 2004 accession is subdivided into files on people, committees, and subjects and is arranged within those subdivisions by alphabetical order. The 2025 accession was processed by Hendricks’ daughter. The collection contains articles, awards, clippings, correspondence, minutes, photographs, and other records from Hendricks’ career at...

Scope and Contents The Rufus Washington Weaver Collection contains reports, correspondence, and other university-related documents from his time at Mercer University. The folders of the Weaver Papers are not in alphabetical order throughout the collection as a whole, but rather are generally alphabetized in groups of folders. Some groups stretch over several boxes, some groups span only one box or a portion of a box. Additionally, groups of records are not necessarily in chronological order. Items in box 6 are...