PP. Personal Papers

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Included with Brown’s notes and writings are many photocopies of documents held at the archives of the Foreign [now International] Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, Richmond, Virginia.

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The Timothy F. Callaway Collection is comprised of sermon notes, a face stamp, clippings, correspondence, and essays from Mr. Callaway’s career. Series 3, Mixed Sermons (Box 3), remains unprocessed.

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The Cardwell Papers contain articles written by Cardwell for Church Administration, Church Training, The Deacon, Home Life, The Christian Index, and several Mercer University publications, including the Mercerian. In addition, there are pamphlets and units in three issues of Source, a Training Union study guide, written by Cardwell from 1965-1985. The articles were compiled and given to Mercer by Dr. Cardwell.

Scope and Contents The papers cover the personal life and preaching career of Daniel Webster Key. The majority of the collection (5 folders) is correspondence, both personal and professional, from the last year of Dr. Key’s life (1926-1927). Also contained within the papers are several folders of sermons and sermon notes written by Dr. Key. Of special interest is a notebook containing a record of marriages, funerals, and baptisms performed between 1882-1920 by Dr. Key. The collection also contains...

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The collection mainly contains McConnell’s sermon notes and outlines from 1856-1929.

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These papers offer information on the general life at Mercer from 1986-1990, which includes the Godsey-GBC Conflict of 1987-1988 sparked by Mercer being named one of the “Top Ten Party Schools” by Playboy magazine. Clippings from various local and state newspapers outline the attacks on and defense of Mercer during those years. The collections also include some artifacts, such as shirts, buttons, and bumper stickers from the time.

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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...