PP. Personal Papers
Found in 39 Collections and/or Records:
Abner H. Tippett Collection
The Tippett Papers are divided into six sections, which were removed from a notebook. All relate to Southern Baptist church organizations and activities. Materials are primarily related to Sunday School and Training Union in the late 1950s and early 1960s and include materials for teachers, lesson outlines, attendance contests, and information on enlargement campaigns.
Albert Henry Newman Collection
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).
Albert T. Spalding Collection
The Albert T. Spalding Collection includes a book, journals, account books, personal writings, and papers from Spalding’s time as a Baptist pastor and Mercer University trustee.
Alec F. Thompson Collection
This collection includes files from different Baptist churches, such as Groove Level Baptist, Beaufort Baptist, and Woodland Hills Baptist Church.
Arthur L. Rich Collection
This collection contains Arthur Rich’s Music Department scrapbooks. It also holds some sheet music, one written in Italian.
Bartow D. Ragsdale Collection
Box 1 contains correspondence, account papers, and Bursar records. Box 2 contains speeches, sermons, and other materials related to his work in the Baptist denomination. Box 3 contains copper plate lithographs used in the printing of The Story of Georgia Baptists.
Benjamin Osgood Peirce Collection
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.
Burt P. Richardson Collection
The Richardson collection contains three notebooks of class/lecture notes. One is dated 1903 and the other two are undated.
Carter and Agnes Morgan Collection
Charles H. Stone Collection
In this collection, there are different papers describing Charles Stone’s career as a librarian and librarian emeritus, such as poems, research, clippings, reports, etc.