PP. Personal Papers

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This collection includes files from different Baptist churches, such as Groove Level Baptist, Beaufort Baptist, and Woodland Hills Baptist Church.

Scope and Contents The Eugene S. Mitchell Collection consists mainly of items from Mitchell's education at Mercer University (1857-1860) and correspondence from during and after the American Civil War (1862-1871). Series 1 consists of correspondence, mostly from Mitchell to Chloe Emma Lewis, his future wife. The bulk of the letters were written between 1863 and 1865 from Mitchell’s service in the Virginia battlefields of the Civil War. Only three letters in the collection were written by people...

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...

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The James C. Williams collection contains a physician’s daily log possibly from 1949 that belonged to one of Dr. Williams’ relatives.

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This collection entails administrative papers, self-study manuscripts, and faculty papers from Warnock’s years at Mercer University.

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The Harold L. Sangster Collection contains correspondence, personal research, bulletins, diplomas, and sermons from Rev. Sangster’s career. Most of his original files have been maintained. The Personal Series has been arranged alphabetically. The Sermons Series has been subdivided roughly by date preached, special event, topic, and miscellaneous. Miscellaneous sermons were often not filed or in any particular order.

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The Abbie Benton Bonsteel collection contains her correspondence, writings, photographs, scrapbooks, and printed books.

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This collection contains documents and artifacts from Hazel Grady’s work and life. The series span from biographical information to information on her education, her ministry, and her life outside the church.

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The Ferrol Sams collections contains eleven boxes of handwritten and typed book manuscripts, both edited and unedited; it also contains the author’s correspondence and other personal papers.

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The collection includes Dr. Stella Stewart Center’s correspondence, lecture notes, research, notebooks, publications, and photographs.