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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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John Franklin Goucher papers, 16??-1962, bulk 1880-1922

14 linear feet

Correspondence; minutes; and reports regarding missions and Christian colleges in China, India, Japan, and Korea, 1880-1922; also manuscripts, photographs, and memorabilia from his estate.

Missionary Research Library collection on ecumenical and world-wide mission work, 1792 -- 1990

14 linear feet
This collection contains material related to ecumenical and world-wide mission work and committees and conferences, education, churches and religion, and missionaries, as well as photographs and maps and subject and topic files, including some on geographic locations, as well as the earliest records in the collection (1792) which pertain to Presbyterian Moderators of the General Assembly. Formats include reports, minutes, papers, photographs, negatives and maps.

Marsh Family manuscripts, 1795 -- 1810

0.5 linear feet
John Marsh the Elder was an ecclesiastical leader and alumnus of Harvard College (1761); his sons Ebenezer Grant Marsh (Yale, 1795) and John Marsh the Younger (Yale, 1804) were educated and served in Protestant communities in New England, Ebenezer as a Hebrew scholar and John Marsh the Younger as a preacher and active member of the Temperance movement. The collection contains biographical, historical, and religious manuscripts written by these three Marsh family members.

Robert E. Speer Papers, 1795-1947

38 linear feet

Pamphlets, reports, correspondence, and minutes collected by prominent American church leader, author, and missionary statesman who served on the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the United States for 46 years and was a founding member of the Foreign Missions Conference of North America.

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.

William Carey letter, 1800-12-09

2 linear feet
William Carey was an English Baptist missionary in England, known as the "father of modern missions," who founded the English Baptist Missionary Society (1792). He translated the Bible into Bengali, and was subsequently appointed Professor of Sanskrit and Bengali at Fort William College in Calcutta. He founded the Agricultural and Horticultural Society of India (1820), as well as hundreds of schools and churches. This collection contains one handwritten letter by William Carey, written in December 9, 1800, soon after Carey had relocated from Bengal to Serampore. The letter addresses an individual who Carey calls "My Dear Bro."

Lorenzo Warriner Pease papers, 1811 -- 1896

3 linear feet
Lorenzo Warriner Pease was a Presbyterian missionary in Cyprus. The collection contains diaries and correspondence by Pease and his family, sermons, essays and notes, linguistic manuals, and studies, as well as surrogate photocopies of some collection material.

American Marathi Mission records, 1813 -- 1962

0.5 linear feet
This collection contains material related to the American Marathi Mission, the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) first Protestant mission in Western India, compiled in 1962 by Louise Gliem Fisher. Materials include general background information and reports on various mission stations, as well as typescript material pulled together from minutes, reports, diaries, brochures, and correspondence.

Chi Alpha, 1816-1967

14 boxes

Manuals (annual) containing historical sketch, constitution, list of members and officers, 1882-1937 (incomplete); meeting records including order of exercises, 1883-1926, and Centennial Meeting , 1829-1929, Nov. 30, 1929; scrapbook, 1829-1929, containing letters, programs, and clippings; minutes, including original transcript of minutes of the first meeting of Chi Alpha, Nov. 28, 1829, first book of minutes, 1829-1933, minutes, Nov. 27, 1829-Feb. 26, 1938 (21 v.) and Jan. 4, 1964-Dec. 16, 1967 (2 v.); Secretary's annual report, 1852-1938; Treasurer's annual report, 1858-1926; Topic Committee's annual report, 1897-1925; two committee reports, 1845, 1881; thirteen letters, 1838-1901; address, essays, and poems related to Presidents' inaugurals, 1867-1926, and other events, 1863-1938; obituaries of members, 1816-1937; and six memorial pamphlets.

Samuel Leigh papers, 1818 -- 1824

0.25 linear feet
Samuel Leigh was a Wesleyan Methodist missionary to Australia and New Zealand. The collection contains typed copies of correspondence and journal entries from nineteenth-century manuscript originals by Samuel Leigh to fellow missionaries abroad.

Auburn Theological Seminary records, 1818 -- 2001

110 linear feet
The papers of Auburn Theological Seminary consist of records of the institution, including historical documents dating from its founding, institutional publications such as catalogues, and detailed alumni records as well as personal papers, scrapbooks, some photographs and sermons from faculty and alumni. The move from Auburn to New York City is well documented. The majority of the collection consists of manuscript notebooks, correspondence, sermons and personal papers with miscellaneous deeds, photographs and other documents.

John Rogers Coe papers, 1819 -- 1823

0.5 linear feet
John Rogers Coe was a Presbyterian missionary and pastor in Whitehall, New York, and the son of the Reverend Jonas Coe (1759-1822) of Troy, New York. This collection contains sermons and Biblical scholarship.

James Morris Whiton Papers, 1819-1921

22 boxes

Collection contains writings, correspondence, journals, the New York State Conference of Religion, photographs and scrapbooks.

Missionary Research Library collection on mission work in North America, 1819 -- 1963

2 linear feet
This collection contains materials compiled by the Missionary Research Library that document mission work in North America during the 19th and 20th centuries, including material pertaining to Christianity, churches, and religion; committees and conferences; reports and bulletins; education; three-dimensional objects and photographs; and subject files.

Preserved Smith notebooks, 1820

0.25 linear feet
Preserved Smith was a minister in Rowe and Mendon, Massachusetts, an American Revolutionary War veteran, and grandfather to UTS alumnus Henry Preserved Smith. The collection contains two volumes of Bible notes written in Warwick, Massachusetts in 1820.

Pliny Fisk papers, 1821 -- 1935

0.5 linear feet
Pliny Fisk was a Middlebury College and Andover Theological Seminary alumnus and Missionary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions stationed in the Near/Middle East. The collection contains provenance notes, Fisk's journal, and Fisk's book of extracts and records.

Edward Robinson papers, 1826 -- 1838

2.75 linear feet
Edward Robinson (1794-1863) was a Presbyterian minister, Biblical scholar, Union Theological Seminary professor, and its first librarian. This collection contains the manuscript originally entitled "Biblical Researches in Palestine and the Countries in the South," appendices of English-Arabic lists and language exercises, travel itineraries, a guide to Arabic pronunciation, and supplementary materials relating to travel; galley proofs of the Friedrich Wilhelm Gesenius lexicon with handwritten annotations by Robinson and possibly others; as well as two plastic-bound transcripts, indexed, of letters exchanged between Edward Robinson and Moses Stuart between 1826 and 1830.

David Washington Cincinnatus Olyphant papers, 1827 -- 1851

0.25 linear feet
This collection contains typewritten copies of letters originally written by David Washington Cincinnatus Olyphant between 1827 and 1851. Olyphant was an American trader with offices in New York and Guangzhou, and a prominent supporter of the American missionary enterprise in China.

Missionary Research Library collection of missionary autographs, 1827, 1906

0.25 linear feet
This collection contains the signatures of well-known missionaries, compiled by the Missionary Research Library. Included is the signature of Robert Morrison (1782-1834) on his copy of Du Halde's Description Geographique Historique, and the signature of Timothy Richard in a short letter.

Charles Waterton papers, 1830 -- 1837

1 box
Two manuscript letters written by Charles Waterton, a British naturalist, ornithologist, and nobleman.

Titus and Fidelia Church Coan papers, 1830 -- 1848

0.25 linear feet
Titus Coan was an Auburn Theological Seminary alumnus and Presbyterian missionary; his first wife Fidelia Church Coan was a teacher who accompanied him to Hawaii on missionary work. The collection contains letters describing events and practical concerns of life in Hawaii, and reflecting on the missionary movement of the time.

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.

William Adams papers, 1830 -- 1909

14.25 linear feet
William Adams was a Presbyterian minister, pastoral theologian, UTS professor and president, and maternal grandfather of William Adams Brown. The collection contains bound "In Memoriam" books, as well as sermons written by Adams from the 1830s through the mid-1870s.

Photograph collection, 1830-1989

30 linear feet

Includes photographs of alumni/ae; miscellaneous Auburn Theological Seminary; Board of Directors with faculty; buildings at [70] Park Avenue and 3041 Broadway; Chi Alpha Society members; class photographs, both indivdual, 1860-present, and group; commencements; community life; student activities including classroom lectures and seminars, performances, and events; conferences; convocations; faculty including some with Board of Directors; inaugurals; lectures; and theologians.

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.

Reginald Humphrey Helfferich papers, 1832 -- 1982

7.25 linear feet
Helfferich was a pastor of the Evangelical and Reformed Church and served the Church World Service of the National Council of Churches of Christ from 1949-1970. This collection contains Reginald Helfferich's correspondence, diaries, family and biographical material, publications, and other personal materials; professional materials including information about Heifer Project International, photographs, materials related to Helfferich's ministerial work as pastor of Christ Evangelical and Reformed Church of Bath, Pennsylvania, and materials related to Helfferich's work with Church World Service (CWS); as well as audio and visual memorabilia from both Helfferich's personal and professional life, primarily Kodachrome diapositive slides, photographs, and postcards from Helfferich's travels in Europe, Africa, India, South America, and beyond.

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.

Letters, 1835

3 items

Letters, Jerusalem, April 19, 1835 (in English), two in Arabic.

Union Theological Seminary Records, 1836-1986

170 boxes

Also, records of the Union Commission, 1968-1969, include minutes, documents, working papers, and reports. Records of the Union Commission secretariat include minutes, documents, and working papers for May-Oct. 1969.

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."

John Goodman Hall papers, 1837 -- 1863

0.5 linear feet
John Goodman Hall graduated from Union Theological Seminary in 1839 and went on to serve as a Congregational pastor in South Egremont, Mass., Cherry Valley, NY, Fort Plain, NY, and in Ohio. The collection contains two journals, a scrapbook of clippings including selections from Hall's sermons and letters, a pew plan, and brief family history.

Philip Schaff papers, 1838-1896

7 boxes

Correspondence includes letters, 1865-1891, from the American Bible Revision Committee and the British Committee on Bible Revision; notes and lectures; travel diaries, 1844-1890; photograph album; and scrapbook.

Albert Barnes papers, 1840 -- 1859

0.5 linear feet
Albert Barnes was a Presbyterian minister in Philadelphia involved in the New School/Old School dispute, whose experience influenced the founding of Union Theological Seminary in New York, where he was on the Board of Directors from 1840-1870. This collection contains 29 manuscript sermons.

Nathaniel Clarke Locke papers, 1840 -- 1859

1.75 linear feet
Nathaniel Clark Locke was a UTS alumnus of 1844, Presbyterian Minister, and home missionary working in Virginia and Maine, as well as a Pastor of Central Church in Brooklyn and Hempstead Church on Long Island. The collection contains 92 sermons written and delivered by Locke from 1843 to 1859, as well as lectures and essays.

Missionary Research Library collection on mission work in Australia and Oceania, 1840 -- 1956

2.75 linear feet
This collection contains materials compiled by the Missionary Research Library that document foreign mission work in Australia, the Philippines, and Indonesia, largely during the early 20th century, including reports, minutes, correspondence, publications, and a sketchbook.

Charles Augustus Briggs Papers, 1841-1913

108 boxes

Correspondence, sermons, Hebrew-English lexicon, research notes, scrapbooks of clippings, letters copied into journals by Emilie Grace Briggs, books, pamphlets, Bibles, University of Virginia papers, University of Berlin papers, Union Theological Seminary papers, material relating to the Presbyterian Church, articles and miscellaneous. Also included is heresy material relating to Briggs' trial before the Presbytery of New York, 1892, and record of trial proceedings.

Henry White Lecture notes, 1842 -- 1849

1 linear feet
Henry White was a pastor at several New York area Presbyterian churches and Professor of Systematic Theology at UTS from 1836-1850. The collection contains four bound volumes of lectures notes compiled by his students, on lectures in systematic theology given from 1842-1849.

James Hoyt letter, 1844-03-24

0.25 linear feet
James Hoyt was a Union Theological Seminary student from 1841-1844, and an ordained Presbyterian minister. The collection contains a letter from Hoyt to his cousin, Mary Louisa Starr, dated March 24, 1844.

Thomas Samuel Hastings papers, 1845 -- 1911

3 linear feet
Thomas Samuel Hastings was a Presbyterian pastor of New York City and professor and president of Union Theological Seminary. The collection consists of correspondence, writings, and scrapbooks relating to activities of the seminary and the debate concerning the Presbyterian Creed. Included in the collection are also a notebook of his father, Thomas Hastings (1784-1872), and a travel diary that may be of his son, Thomas Hastings (1860-1920).

Charles Eli Bronson papers, 1845 -- 1966

1.25 linear feet
Charles Eli Bronson (1857-1926) was a UTS alumnus of 1884, graduate of Amherst College, and an ordained Presbyterian minister who served in Marlborough, New York; Saginaw, Michigan; and West Hope Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia; and as President of the Philadelphia School of Christian Workers. This collection contains Bronson's sermons and writings, as well as personal materials related to the Bronson immediate and extended families, including genealogical research.

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.

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.