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Columbia University: Burke Library at Union Theological Seminary

Columbia University: Burke Library at Union Theological Seminary

Union Theological Seminary
3041 Broadway
New York, NY 10027, United States
Located on the campus of Union Theological Seminary, the Burke Library is the largest theological library in the western hemisphere, containing rich collections for theological study and research. With holdings of over 700,000 items, the Library is recognized as one of the premier libraries in its field and includes extensive holdings of unique and special materials.

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Elizabeth A. Clark collection of research materials, circa 2000 -- 2020

0.75 linear feet
Elizabeth A. Clark was the John Carlisle Kilgo Professor Emerita of Religion and Professor of History at Duke University, and a scholar of Late Antiquity and early Christian history. The collection contains handwritten subject notes and working materials from Clark's research for her book "Founding the Fathers: Early Church History and Protestant Professors in Nineteenth-Century America" (2011), including notes from significant time spent at Burke Library pursuing this research; reviews and publicity about "Founding the Fathers;" as well as papers, presentations, and later work.

Elwood G. and Donald G. Tewksbury papers, 1872 -- 1959

2.5 linear feet
Elwood G. Tewksbury was a missionary and college teacher in China. He and his wife and two sons, Donald G. and Malcolm G. Tewksbury, were besieged in the British legation during the Boxer Rebellion. Donald George Tewksbury later became a professor of Comparative Education at Teachers College, Columbia University, and Malcom Gardner Tewksbury authored two textbooks on speaking Chinese. The collection contains clippings and correspondence documenting Elwood Tewksbury's ordination, missionary activities in China, and role in the Boxer Siege of Peking in 1900, as well as papers of his sons relating to China.

Emilie Grace Briggs Papers, 1884-1945

16 boxes

Collection contains family and publishers correspondence, doctoral dissertation, drafts of books and articles, research notes, bibliography notebooks, collections of devotional quotations, clippings, material relating to her father, memorabilia, and educational certificates.

Emilie M. Townes papers, 1960 -- 2022

36.25 linear feet
Emilie M. Townes is a womanist ethicist and an author and speaker on African American women and the church, specializing in themes such as the oppressive forces of race, sex, and sexuality in the church and society. She has held appointments at the Vanderbilt University Divinity School, the Yale Divinity School, and Union Theological Seminary. The collection contains addresses and sermons, publications, correspondence, coursework and teaching material, memorabilia, and other related materials that reflect her life, work, and thought as a womanist theologian.

Emory Warren Ross papers, 1877-1971, bulk 1900-1965

14.75 linear feet

Circular letters of Conseil Protestant au Congo, 1929-1960; minutes, reports, and other documents, including materials and correspondence on the Jubilee history of the Conseil Protestant du Congo, 1928; Protestant mission and religious liberty in the Congo; Catholic-Protestant relations and relations between missions and government; Commission pour la protection des indigenes; reports of Foreign Missions Conference of North America, Africa Committee, 1929-1964; report letters from American Presbyterian Congo missionaries, 1931-1960; other correspondence including some with Chester Bowles and Alan Paton, 1920-1965; articles by Emory Ross, 1919-1956; and pamphlets and documents on various church and other organizations.

Encuentro Latinoamericano de Cristianos por el Socialismo Records, 1972

1 box

Includes internal working documents; miscellaneous preparatory materials, organization material, correspondence, press releases, domestic news releases, and regular periodic correspondence of the Secretariado Chileno Sacerdotal Cristianos por el Socialismo Etapes prior to and after the conference.

Ernest Findlay Scott papers, 1944 -- 1959

0.25 linear feet
Ernest Findlay Scott was a UTS faculty member and New Testament scholar of the early twentieth century. The collection contains correspondence on both personal and theological subjects, as well as correspondence related to the donation of the collection to the Burke Library.

E. R. Roger papers, circa 1840 -- 1880

3.5 linear feet
E. R. Roger wrote the sermons in this collection between 1840 and 1880, some of which include a specific date and location, such as Hartford and Augusta in Maine. The collection also contains loose sheets of notes, unnumbered sermons, and personal correspondence.

Erwin Hart Richards correspondence, 1905 -- 1907

0.5 linear feet
Erwin Hart Richards was a Congregational missionary for thirty-three years in South East Africa. The collection consists of correspondence from the period when Richards was treasurer of the Board of Foreign Missions for the Methodist Episcopal Church.

Evangelical Alliance records, circa 1800 -- 1944

5 linear feet
The Evangelical Alliance for the United States of America was a voluntary society for the promotion and manifestation of Christian unity, as well as the protection of religious liberty at home and abroad. Included in the collection are administrative records, correspondence, scrapbooks, and a photo album. Some records are in other languages such as German and French.

Ezra Abel Huntington Papers, 1868-1902

4 boxes

Manuscript notes of Huntington's lectures on polemic theology by James Richards, 3 v.; manuscript notes on biblical introduction, criticism and interpretation, biblical types and exegetical notes on the Bible, 23 v.; THE HEBREW BIBLE, resons for a thorough knowledge it, by E.A. Huntingtopn, 1871, reprinted from THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN REVIEW; EZRA ABEL HUNTINGTON, memorial addresses by Rev. Charles E. Robinson and others, 1902; notebook; manuscript notes on Huntington's lectures on the Epistle to the Romans and Ephesians by William Henry Bates, 1868; and manuscript notes on Huntington's lectures on the Epistle to the Romans by C.H. Smith, 1879., 2 v.

Ezra Hall Gillett papers, 1797 -- 1906

6.75 linear feet
E. H. (Ezra Hall) Gillett (1823-1875) was a UTS alum, Presbyterian minister in Harlem, N.Y., and a Professor of political science at New York University. The collection consists of sermons by Gillett and his father, other writings including diaries, and teaching and class notes.

Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America records, 1905 -- 1971

1.5 linear feet
The Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America (FCC), officially founded in 1908, differed from other Christian Unity movements due to its emphasis on cooperation between denominations through service rather than an attempt to unite upon definitions of theology and polity. In 1950 the FCC was integrated into the National Council of Churches. This collection contains newspaper and magazine articles, journals, pamphlets, booklets, correspondence, minutes, reports, and position papers.

Foreign Missions Conference of North America (FMCNA) Records, 1894-1968

68 boxes

The Foreign Missions Conference of North America (FMCNA) Records comprise materials documenting inception and institutional proceedings. Established to create dialogue between missions-based action committees confronting contemporary crises of war, famine, and poverty. Collection contains materials such as correspondence, records, pamphlets, and photographs.

Francis Brown papers, 1832-1940, bulk 1909-1914

18 linear feet

Correspondence including Union Settlement and Union Theological Seminary; General Synod of the Presbyterian Church, 1908-1915; Hebrew-English lexicon manuscript; Hebrew seminar record book, 1893-1906; lecture notes made by N.N. Skinner; earthenware Astarte figurine obtained at Megiddo.

Frank C. Laubach papers, 1924 -- 1952

2.75 linear feet
This collection contains correspondence, reports, and teaching materials of Frank C. Laubach, a Christian missionary and educator who played a prominent role in world literacy by establishing the "Each One Teach One" literacy teaching method and founding the Committee on World Literacy and Christian Literature (FMCNA and NCC), World Literacy, Inc., and Laubach Literacy, Inc.

Frank Joseph Rawlinson papers, 1924 -- 1937

0.5 linear feet
Frank Joseph Rawlinson was a Baptist missionary and lecturer in China, and for over two decades served as editor of The Chinese Recorder. The collection contains notes and drafts of his lectures and research on Christianity in China and Chinese religious culture, correspondence with Abbe Livingston Warnshuis, and other materials.

Franklin Grasson Davis papers, 1876 -- 1883

0.25 linear feet
Franklin Grasson Davis was a Methodist minister from Clay, Ohio who served as a missionary in India from 1875-1884. The collection contains a diary from his time in the field.

Frederick Clifton Grant papers, circa 1894 -- 1976

1 linear feet
Frederick C. Grant (1891-1974) was a New Testament scholar and Episcopalian priest; president of Seabury- Western Theological Seminary; Edward Robinson Professor of Biblical Theology at Union Theological Seminary 1939-1959; and editor-in-chief of the Anglican Theological Review. The collection contains annotated notebooks on New Testament research, book reviews and galleys, and correspondence related to the Episcopal Theological School and Albion College.

Frederick John Foakes-Jackson papers, 1916 -- 1945

0.75 linear feet
Frederick John Foakes-Jackson (1855-1941) was an Anglican minister, church historian, dean of Jesus College Cambridge (1895 - 1941), and Briggs Professor of Christian Institutions at Union Theological Seminary (1916-1934), Emeritus (1934). The collection contains correspondence, sermons, personal notes, biographical records, a notebook, and memorabilia reflecting Jackson's academic life during his time at Union Theological Seminary and the impact of his death.

Frederic Mayer Bird papers, 1846 -- 1910

1.25 linear feet
Frederic Mayer Bird (1838-1908) was an Episcopal priest, army chaplain, college professor, UTS alumnus, and editor from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. The collection contains correspondence and writings related to hymnology and hymnody.

Gale A. Yee papers, 1966-2014, bulk 1968-2014

7.5 linear feet

The Gale A. Yee papers contain draft manuscripts of her book Poor Banished Children of Eve : Women as Evil in the Hebrew Bible and comments from readers, drafts of other professional writings (published and unpublished), her lecture notes for Old Testament classes, her student papers and exams from Loyola University and the University of St. Michael's College (in Toronto), drafts of her doctoral thesis, large numbers of articles and papers relating to travel to Rome and Jerusalem. The bulk of the material in this collection spans Yee's university education in the early 1970s and her writings from the 1960s to 2014.

Gay L. Byron papers, circa 1980 -- 2015

13 linear feet

Personal papers including coursework, teaching materials, conference materials, committee work, research files, correspondence, grant materials, manuscript drafts, and other materials.

George Bowen papers, 1846 -- 1862

0.25 linear feet
George Bowen, a graduate of Union Theological Seminary, served as a missionary in Bombay, India from 1848 until his death in 1888. Bowen was editor of the Bombay Guardian from 1854-1888. The collection includes one bound notebook containing his lectures, sermons, notes, and comments.

George Heber Jones papers, 1898 -- 1918

1 Linear Feet
George Heber Jones was a pioneer Methodist missionary in Korea. The collection contains correspondence; lectures and notes; a sermon; outlines; seminar notes and syllabi; news clippings; and annotated chapters from Heber's books, including a substantial collection of resources and reference materials for his published work, Christianity and World Democracy.

George Hooper Ferris manuscript, circa 1896

0.25 linear feet
George Hooper Ferris attended Union Theological Seminary from 1893 to 1896, and was a pastor in Tarryton, New York, New Haven, Connecticut, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. This collection contains one 225 page manuscript entitled "The Christianity of Ignatius;" the title page bears the inscribed signature, "G.H. Ferris, A.M."

George Merriam Newell papers, 1905 -- 1960

2.5 linear feet
George Merriam Newell had a 37-year career as a school teacher and missionary in Fuzhou 福州, Fujian 福 建 province, China. The collection contains correspondence, reports, maps, and publications.

George N. Burleigh diary, 1888

0.25 linear feet
George N. Burleigh was a New York City resident who served as a Christian missionary in Cape Town, South Africa. This collection contains a handwritten diary detailing his work in Cape Town in 1888.

George Washington Blagden papers, 1830 -- 1873

0.25 linear feet
George Washington Blagden was a Protestant pastor who spent the bulk of his career at the Old South Church in Boston, Massachusetts. The collection contains a record of marriages from 1830 to 1836, and Blagden's self-indexed writings relating to plans for sermons from 1863 to 1873.

George W. Barrett papers, 1974 -- 1999

0.75 linear feet
George West Barrett was an Episcopal Church minister who in New York and California who irregularly ordained Episcopal women priests in Washington D.C. in 1975. The collection contains correspondence, publications and audio-visual materials related to the Washington irregular ordinations.

George W. Webber papers, 1942-2010, bulk 1962-1998

4 boxes

Collection includes correspondence, sermons, speeches, interview transcripts, accolades, course syllabi and press reports on anti-Vietnam War activism, EHPP, MUST, NYTS presidency, Nicaragua mission and creation of Master of Professional Studies in Ministry degree program at Sing Sing Correctional Facility.

Gertrude S. Bigelow papers, circa 1887 -- 1976, bulk 1887 -- 1926

0.25 linear feet
Gertrude S. Bigelow was a Presbyterian missionary teacher in Japan. The collection contains correspondence, news clippings, commencement programs, and provenance notes.

Gustavus Elmer Emanuel Lindquist Papers, 1897-1955

67 boxes

Correspondence; minutes; reports; surveys of conferences and Home Missions congresses and the American Indian, Indian tribes, reservations, and agencies; maps; photographs; and slides.

Hamilton Wilcox Pierson papers, 1837 -- 1857

0.25 linear feet
Hamilton Wilcox Pierson was a religious educator, President of Cumberland College in Princeton, Kentucky, author, and Secretary of the United States Christian Commission in Toledo, Ohio from 1843-1845. The collection contains personal correspondence, and also contains material related to his work on "American Missionary Memorial."

Hannah Elizabeth Gough Stannard papers, 1913 -- 2006

1.25 linear feet
Hannah (Betty) Elizabeth Gough Stannard was secretary to Harry Emerson Fosdick when he worked at Riverside Church. The collection contains information on activities that Betty Gough Stannard was involved with as one of Fosdick's secretaries, as well as information on other secretaries that Fosdick employed, correspondence, and books given to Betty by Fosdick.

Harold Shepard Matthews papers, 1967

0.25 linear feet
This collection contains a 1967 typewritten manuscript history of the ABCFM missions in North China from 1935 to 1960, compiled by Harold Shepherd Matthews, an American Board missionary in China and China secretary at the ABCFM.

Harrison Sacket Elliott Papers, 1905-2007, bulk 1905-1950

46 boxes

Collection consists of of H.S. Elliott's papers from his brief career as a missionary, as well as an extensive collection of photographs from the same, papers and publications from his lifelong engagement with the YMCA, and his academic and professional papers, including course notes, publication drafts and reviews, and student papers.

Harry Emerson Fosdick Papers, 1900-1997

63 boxes

Collection contains sermons, lectures, correspondence, drafts, reviews, Dorothy Noyes Bibliography project materials.

Harry Frederick Ward Papers, 1880-1979

46 boxes

Correspondence, sermons, addresses, lecture notes, articles, scrapbooks, Religious Freedom Committee, House Un-American Activities Committee.

Heinrich Emil Brunner papers, 1923 -- 1966

1 box
Heinrich Emil Brunner (1889-1966); Hines fellow at UTS, 1919-1920, Swiss Reform pastor in Obstalden, Switzerland, and Professor at the University of Zurich. The collection consists of correspondence between Brunner and Olive Dutcher-Doggett, who was Professor of Biblical History at Wellesley College.

Hendrik Kraemer papers, 1954

0.25 linear feet
Hendrik Kraemer was a Dutch Reformed layman, professor, and church and missionary leader. The collection contains a series of lectures given on "The Christian Faith and Non-Christian Religions" at the University of Geneva in January and February 1954.

Henry A. Stimson papers, 1866 -- 1867

1 box
Henry A. Stimson (1842-1936), UTS class of 1869 and Congregational minister. The collection contains one bound notebook of Stimson's class notes taken while attending Union Theological Seminary from 1866 to 1867.

Henry Ballantine papers, 1888

0.25 linear feet
Mimeograph manuscript originally written by Henry Ballantine (1846-1914), merchant to Bombay and son of American missionary to India Henry Ballantine (1813-1865), describing a trip to the Himalayas and Nepal.

Henry Boynton Smith papers, 1834-1890

15 boxes

Collection contains Letters to Smith, 1837-1874; letters to Mrs. Henry B. Smith in response to her gift of Smith's memoir, edited by her, 1880; scrapbook of book reviews of the memoir; manuscript lecture notebooks; and lectures.

Henry Gerhard Appenzeller papers, 1883-1902, bulk 1884-1898

1 Linear Feet

The collection includes journals, notebooks, correspondence, sermons, and articles.

Henry Haverstick Ranck letters, 1892 -- 1986, bulk 1892 -- 1893

0.5 linear feet
Henry Haverstick Ranck (1868-1948) was a graduate of the UTS class of 1893 and a Reformed Church minister. The collection contains letters sent by Ranck to his then fiancée, Mary H. Byrne (later Mary Byrne Ranck), while he was a student, as well as a photocopy of the Rank/Ranck family newsletter from 1986.