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BOX 712-738 Robert J. Breckinridge Papers, 1807-1871
BOX 712 Diaries, 1836-1837, 1859-1861
Arranged chronologically.
BOX 712-713 Correspondence, 1821-1869
Letters sent and received in chronological arrangement.
BOX 712 1821-1829
1830-1869, undated
(16 folders)
BOX 713 Undated
(8 folders)
BOX 714 Subject File, 1841-1855
Arranged alphabetically by subject title.
BOX 714 Account books, 1841-1855
Annual returns of Kentucky Militia
Defense of Robert J. Breckinridge against Robert Wickliffe
(2 folders)
Legal separation
Minutes of the Presbytery
Shelby estate
Slaves
BOX 715-729 Speech, Article, and Book File, 1831-1869
Speeches, articles, and the manuscript of one book.
Arranged by type of manuscript and alphabetically arranged within each group.
BOX 715 Speeches
"The Calling of the Church of Christ"
"Emancipation With Colonization"
"The Great Deliverance and the New Career"
"Presbyterian Government, Not a Hierarchy but a Commonwealth"
"Presbyterian Ordination"
"Presbyterian Ordination, Not a Charm But an Act of Government"
"The Rule of Faith"
"What Are the Advantages of Domestic Slavery?"
Nov. 13, 1831
Oct. 12, 1840
Nov. 9, 1840
Mar. 14, 1848
1849
June 25, 1850
July 4, 1857
Undated
(2 folders)
Introductory remarks, notes
Review of speech by Robert J. Breckinridge
Lectures
1835
BOX 716 1840
May 3, 1840
circa 1850, 1852
1853-1869, undated
(12 folders)
Sermons
1832
1833
BOX 717 1834-1855, undated, and untitled
(21 folders)
Articles
"The Acts of the Apostles"
"Advantages of a Republican Form of Government"
"The American Bible Society's Committee on Versions and Its New Bible"
"The Anti-Christian Spirit of the Papal Church"
"An Autumn Night"
"A Card"
"The Causes and Results of the American Revolution"
"The Christian Pastor"
(2 folders)
BOX 718 "The Civil War: Its Nature and End"
"Essays, Practical and Speculative"
"Exposition of Psalm 1.5"
"God Is in History"
"Hughes-iana"
"Improvement of the Human Mind"
"An Inquiry Into the Original Condition of Mankind"
"Latin Exegesis"
"Moral Philosophy"
"The Necessity of Government and Danger of Precipitate Changes"
"Old Age"
"On Dignity of Character"
"One of the Possible Futures of the United States"
"An Oration for Liberty"
"Origin of Governments and Their Proper Claim to Authority and Respect"
"Our Country"
"The Peace Panic--Its Authors and Objects"
"Popery in the Island of St. Michael"
"Prelatical Jesuitism"
"Presbyterian Government"
"The Province of Reason in Judging of Religion"
"Religious Excitement in the City of Baltimore"
"The Secession Conspiracy in Kentucky and Its Overthrow; With the Relations of Both to the General Revolt"
BOX 719 "Sketch of the Life and Character of Washington"
"The Spread of Popery"
"State of the French Papal Clergy"
"Struggles in Kentucky During Three Years Succeeding the First Overthrow of the Secession Conspiracy in 1861"
"Suggestions in Regard to the Board of Publication of the Presbyterian"
"This Is the Law of the House"
"To the Citizens of Baltimore"
1834-1849
(3 folders)
Untitled, undated
(7 folders)
BOX 720 Books
Breckinridge's Works
The Knowledge of God
(5 folders)
BOX 721-23 The Knowledge of God
(37 folders)
BOX 724-29 Bound speeches and articles (23 vols.)
BOX 730-738 Miscellany, 1807-1920
Bills and receipts, notebooks, printed matter, and other miscellaneous items.
Arranged alphabetically by type of material.
BOX 730 Bible extracts
Bills and receipts
1807, 1815-1837
(9 folders)
BOX 731-34 1838-1859
(26 folders)
BOX 735 1860-1869, undated
(4 folders)
Commonplace book, 1836
Deeds, indentures, summonses
Farm inventories
Foreign travels, 1832, 1836-1837
(2 folders)
BOX 736 Genealogy
Hymn, "Kentucky's Hymn to Maine"
Legal case
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