This collection contains Kerr Boyce Tupper’s diaries, personal sermon notes/readings, and ministerial records, 1872-1904; class notes at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1872-1875; lectures and addresses in 1882-1895. Also included in the collection are the church membership lists of First Baptist Church, Paducah, Kentucky, 1877-1880; Michigan Avenue Baptist Church, Chicago, Illinois, 1880-1881; and First Baptist Church, Marquette, Michigan, 1881. The collection also contains minutes of the Pastors’ Conference of Grand Rapids and Vicinity, 1879-1883. It also contains notes and stories of unknown authors.