The Library of Congress >  Researchers >  Search Finding Aids  >  T. De Witt Talmage papers, 1831-1902

T. De Witt Talmage papers, 1831-1902

Contact UsHelpSearch All Finding Aids
Some or all content stored offsite.
ContainerContents
BOX 1 Correspondence, 1831-1902
Personal correspondence of T. De Witt Talmage and of Samuel K. Talmage. Also correspondence about the twenty-fifth anniversary of T. De Witt Talmage’s pastorate at the Brooklyn Tabernacle, contracts of lecture tours, and church appointments signed by Talmage.
Arranged chronologically.
BOX 1 Correspondence, 1831-1902
BOX 2-6 Diaries and Notebooks, 1865-1900
Diaries, including of a visit to the Holy Land and trip around the world; minutes of the Session, Central Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn, N.Y.; and notebooks. Diaries are lacking for 1866, 1870-1872, 1875, 1879, 1883, 1891, 1894, 1898-1899.
Grouped by type of material. The diaries are arranged chronologically.
BOX 2 Diaries, 1865-1900
BOX 3 Diaries, Holy Land, 1890; trip around the world, 1894
BOX 4 Minutes of the Session, Central Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn, N.Y., 1847-1871
BOX 5-6 Notebooks
BOX 7-26 Writings
Drafts, fragments, and printed copies of sermons; lectures; drafts of Talmage’s autobiography, with the concluding chapters by his wife; and speeches and articles by Talmage.
Drafts of sermons are arranged alphabetically by title. Lectures are arranged chronologically. Printed sermons, sermon fragments, and a file of speeches and articles are unarranged.
BOX 7 Sermons
BOX 7 A-F
BOX 8 G-O
BOX 9 P-Tha
BOX 10 The-Z
BOX 11-12 Unsorted
BOX 13-18 Fragments
BOX 19 Lectures
BOX 19 1866-1881
BOX 20 1882-1884
BOX 21 1885-1886
BOX 22 1887-1891
BOX 23 1892-1893
BOX 24 Undated
BOX 25 Autobiography, including final chapters by Eleanor McCutcheon Collier Talmage
BOX 26 Speech and article file
BOX 27-33 Printed Matter and Miscellany
Bound and unbound newspaper clippings of articles by and about Talmage. Also miscellaneous pamphlets and photographs.
Arranged by type of material.
BOX 27-28 Scrapbooks
BOX 29-33 Clippings

Contents List