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Correspondence

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus

Found in 68 Collections and/or Records:

Friends of the Centenary College Library records

 Collection
Identifier: SC-Mss. Coll. 32
Scope and Contents

Friends of the Centenary College Library records include meeting minutes, correspondence, membership rosters, brochures, clippings, and financial records.

Dates: 1964 - 1974

Harper family papers

 Collection
Identifier: SC-Mss. Coll. 52
Scope and Contents The Harper family papers consist of clippings, correspondence, memorabilia, diaries, photographs, and writings. Much of the material relates to activities of Methodists in Louisiana during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.Series 1: Clippings (1915-1954) include material related to the 100th anniversary celebration of Louisiana Methodism in 1947, including a letter signed by United States President Harry Truman. Also included are newspaper clippings about the Harper...
Dates: 1819 - 1974

George Lott Harrell correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: SC-Cent. Misc. Mss. 25
Scope and Contents

Collection consists of letters to George Lott Harrell, who was Professor of Natural Sciences and Mathematics at Centenary College of Louisiana. Correspondence relates to ordering Centenary College diplomas and course catalogs. Letter from Isaac D. Wall relates to female students receiving degrees.

Dates: 1904

Gilbert Lewis Hetherwick papers

 Collection
Identifier: SC-Cent. Misc. Mss. 325
Scope and Contents Gilbert Lewis Hetherwick (1920-2008) was the son of Septimus and Addie Gilbert Hetherwick. The family moved from Winnsboro, Louisiana, to Shreveport, Louisiana, in 1921. He graduated from C. E. Byrd High School (class of 1938) and Centenary College of Louisiana (class of 1942). At Centenary, he served as president of the Student Government Association, president of the Kappa Alpha Order (Alpha Iota chapter), and editor of the school newspaper. After graduating from college,...
Dates: 1935 - 1947

Jefferson United Methodist Church (Jefferson, La.) records

 Collection
Identifier: LACUMC-Jefferson UMC
Scope and Contents

This collection documents the activities of the Jefferson United Methodist Church (Jefferson, La.). The collection includes membership records, printed items, clippings, photographs, scrapbooks, and a guest book. Three scrapbooks about the congregation include church histories, bulletins, photographs, clippings, programs, and directories. Another scrapbook (1977-1978) contains correspondence with the Leon and Vicki Reich, missionaries in Indonesia.

Dates: 1947 - 2008

Sarah Baker Austin Joyner letter

 Collection
Identifier: SC-Cent. Misc. Mss. 28
Scope and Contents

Letter corrects errors published in William Hamilton Nelson’s A Burning Torch and a Flaming Fire: The Story of Centenary College of Louisiana (Nashville: Methodist Publishing House, 1931). Corrections relate to Centenary College of Louisiana (Jackson, La.) and concern the Keener and Holcombe families as well as the college’s library book collection.

Dates: circa 1960

Sarah Baker Austin Joyner letter

 Collection
Identifier: SC-Cent. Misc. Mss. 291
Scope and Contents

Letter corrects errors published in William Hamilton Nelson’s A Burning Torch and a Flaming Fire: The Story of Centenary College of Louisiana (Nashville: Methodist Publishing House, 1931). Corrections relate to Centenary College of Louisiana (Jackson, La.) and concern the Keener and Holcombe families.

Dates: 1959

Jubilee Community United Methodist Church (Baton Rouge, La.) records

 Collection
Identifier: LACUMC-2011-032
Scope and Contents

This collection documents the activities of the Jubilee Community United Methodist Church (Baton Rouge, La.). It includes membership records, administrative records, correspondence, and financial records.

Dates: 1995 - 1999

Keener family papers

 Collection
Identifier: SC-Mss. Coll. 50
Scope and Contents The Keener family papers consist of approximately 100 letters, dating from 1825 to 1861, addressed to John Christian Keener or to his wife, Mary Anna Spencer Keener, by members of Mrs. Keener's family. Mrs. Keener's parents, Anna Baker and Richard Spencer, had moved from Maryland, settled first in Georgia, and later Alabama. At the time of the early letters, the Spencers were farming a plantation in Dallas County, Alabama, called Davenport Place. They raised cotton, corn, peaches, and...
Dates: 1825 - 1861

Della Upton Law correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: SC-Cent. Misc. Mss. 29
Scope and Contents

Collection contains two letters written by Della Upton Law. A letter dated 1953 describes the library and Centre Building at Centenary College of Louisiana (Jackson, La.) circa 1900. A letter from 1971 contains the words to the “Centenary College Yell.”

Dates: 1953 - 1971