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Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0425
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Presbyterian minister Ebenezer Dickey Junkin's pocket sized bound scrapbook of articles submitted to the Presbyterian Watchman and Observer newspaper by his father, George Junkin, D.D. between 1853-1856. George Junkin, under the pen name Theophilus, wrote the series of letters to the Richmond, Virginia publication on the role of the church in higher education. They include his commentary on the relationship between chuch and government. Junkin penned the letters during his tenure as...
Dates:
Inclusive 1853-1856
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0003
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The George A. Baxter Family papers begin in 1797 and trace the history of three generations of the Baxter family in Virginia. The collection contains both correspondence and newspaper articles saved by the family. The letters written by George Baxter primarily describe his ministry from 1798-1840. He writes with concern for both his family and the churches to whom he ministered. The collection also contains many of his sermons which were reproduced in assorted newspapers....
Dates:
1797-1918
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0080
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This collection is the papers of James Lewis Howe, professor of chemistry at Washington and Lee University (1894-1938), which include his correspondence concerning the Presbyterian Church and foreign missions, the Washington and Lee University chemistry department, the American Chemical Society and philately. Also included are notes on archival material for and typescript of Annals of Washington and Lee University during the administration of George Washington Custis Lee,...
Dates:
Inclusive 1893-1951
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0390
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The James S. Moffatt, Jr. Papers consist of ten multi-page type-written letters from Washington and Lee University English professor James S. Moffatt, Jr. to his mother Jennie Grier Moffatt of Due West, South Carolina between 1941 and 1944. Two of the letters are undatet. Moffatt describes his day to day affairs as well as those of his wife, Leila Nance Moffatt, and his son Joseph N. Moffatt. Family members from Due West, South Carolina and Miami, Florida are also mentioned along with other...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.Creation: Inclusive 1941-1944
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0281
Scope and Contents
This broadside by Reverend John Skinner, entitled 'Case of the Rev'd Dr. Skinner', was an important document in the 'Skinner War' controversy at the Lexington, Virginia, Presbyterian Church.
Dates:
1847
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0327
Scope and Contents
This collection contains the records of various women's missionary societies in the Lexington Presbyterian Church (Lexington, Virginia), including minutes written by Margaret Junkin Preston and Ellen Glasgow. There is also a handwritten history (one page, front and back) of the Presbytery that explains the connection between Washington College, Lexington Presbyterian Church, and the Presbytery, which was written circa 1824.
Dates:
Inclusive 1824-1927; Majority of material found within Bulk 1877-1927
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-PP-0203
Scope and Contents
A mid-twentieth century photograph of the Lexington (Va.) Presbyterian Church manse located at the south end of Jefferson Street. The house is in the Gothic Revival style and was completed in 1848.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.Creation: Majority of material found within 1960 - 1975
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-PP-0066
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This collection consists of two matted albumen photographs of the 'Old Monmouth' church. The images are almost identical.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1850 - 1880
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0249
Scope and Contents
Contains printed brochures and photocopied newspaper accounts from the church's 250th anniversary in October 1996, as well as photocopied contents of a 1900 time capsule retrieved on October 12, 1996.
Dates:
1996
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0050
Scope and Contents
This collection includes letters from James Turner, 1759-1829, and his son, Jesse Hopkins Turner, 1788-1863, both Presbyterian ministers in Virginia and North Carolina.
Dates:
Inclusive 1810-1823
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0042
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This collection includes six letters, three of which concern a celebration at the First Presbyterian Church of Niles, Michigan, miscellaneous papers, and obituaries.
Dates:
Inclusive 1866-1872
