COLL. Manuscripts Collections

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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...

Abstract Director of University Libraries, California State University at Northridge. The collection includes speeches; articles; papers; correspondence including personal letter files; two scrapbooks with photos and clippings; William Saroyan papers, consisting of correspondence and galley proofs in connection with the publication of Two Short Paris Summertime Plays of 1974, published by the Northridge Libraries; and records of library-related organizations and groups such as the American Library...

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Pen Queens was a women's writing club (Grand Rapids, Michigan area) organized "to glorify God through writing and to encourage each other in producing marketable, acceptable material." The collection includes the constitution, membership directories, minute books, anniversary booklets, writings (club assignments, unpublished, and published), newspaper clippings, and a group photograph.

Abstract Professor of history at the University of South Dakota, Vermillion, South Dakota. The collection includes articles entitled "The Coming of the Dutch to the Dakotas," "Dutch Immigrants in New Jersey before World War I," "Dutch 'Utopias' that Failed," "The Formative Years of the Dutch Reformed Church on Long Island," "Dutch Settlement in Wisconsin," "Dutch in Emmons County," "Dominie Johannes Megapolensis," "Dutch Reformed Church and Negro Slavery," and "Dutch Clergyman's Library of the Early...

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Nigerian missionary; Director of the Institute of Church and Society; Lecturer; Researcher and Writer. This collection includes correspondence, reviews, and articles.

Abstract Bethesda was a place for Christian mercy, i.e., the tubercular, the asthmatic, the mentally impaired, and the emotionally impaired. The collection includes a history paper (including information on Bethesda’s precursor at Maxwell City, New Mexico, 1898-1908); articles of incorporation; minutes; yearbooks; reports; briefs; public relations materials; audio-visual materials (including an extensive collection of photographs); albums; handbooks; correspondence; financial statements; newspaper...