COLL. Manuscripts Collections

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Early settler and businessman in Grandville, Michigan. The collection includes correspondence detailing family news, business matters, land payments in Michigan, and financial needs.

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Jacoba N. Robbert was a founder of Pine Rest, daughter of Dr. Henricus Beuker, and wife of Rev. Jan Robber. This collection contains her notes on books of the bible, materials from Pine Rest, and correspondence with her son, George.

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Writer and linguist. The collection includes a scrapbook entitled “Sketches from Life” with a detailed listing of the published and unpublished articles, Yankee-Dutch readings, poems, postcards, advertisements, and letters; manuscripts; correspondence; clippings; exercise book; obituary; photocopy photographs; and family photographs.

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Missionary for the United Presbyterian Church of North American Egypt. The collection includes diary (1921-1922, 1951), travel accounts (1921-1949), reminiscences (1977), correspondence (1918-1977), mission reports, notes on church history, published articles, postcards, photographs, travel albums, and personal papers.

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The Peter de Jonge Collection consists of handwritten sermons in both Dutch and English that were written by the minister between the years of 1914 and 1921.

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The collection includes personal copybook written by Dirk Vanden Heuvel, a farmer in Genderen, Noord Brabant (a descendant settled in the Pella, Iowa area); and a genealogy of the Pieter Rus family (1981).

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Professor at Calvin Theological Seminary and Princeton Theological Seminary. The collection includes: inaugural addresses of 1888 (and translation, 2005), and 1894, sermons, addresses, correspondence with Abraham Kuyper, plus bound manuscripts of mimeographed class notes on systematic theology, dogmatics, the teaching of the Epistle to the Hebrews, biblical theology of the Old and New Testament. In Dutch and English.

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Professor of Old and New Testament Exegesis at Calvin Seminary. Reports and pamphlets referring to the controversy in the Christian Reformed Church over the teachings of R. Janssen at Calvin Seminary, also correspondence.

Abstract Reformed Ecumenical Council (REC), formerly Reformed Ecumenical Synod (RES), was a world-wide organization in confessional ecumenism (united testimony to the Reformed faith). REC and World Alliance of Reformed Churches (WARC) disbanded in 2006 and together created a new organization named World Reformed Communion, later modified into World Communion of Reformed Churches (WCRC), 2010. The collection includes articles of association, reports, letters, conference materials, directories,...

Abstract The John Heath-Stubbs collection measures 2.2 cubic feet and dates from 1946 to 2000. This collection was donated by John E. Van Domelen, an English professor and Calvin College alumnus, who became acquainted with Heath-Stubbs in 1960. John Van Domelen was immediately captivated by Heath-Stubbs and his work. Van Domelen published a book of essays on Heath-Stubbs’ poetry in 1993. The materials in this collection are evidentiary of Von Domelen’s preparation for his book of essays as well as...