Fred Pratt Green scrapbooks, circa 1928-1988.

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Fred Pratt Green scrapbooks, circa 1928-1988.

This collections consists of 51 scrapbooks maintained by Fred Pratt Green from approximately 1971 until he ceased writing hymns in 1988. Green compiled an index to his scrapbooks that includes an index to the first lines of each hymn, references to pieces in Hymns and Ballads by Fred Pratt Green, color-coded references to published works and translations, and information on how a hymn was used. The scrapbooks contain drafts of hymns, photographs, correspondence, bulletins and programs from services that used his hymns, announcements, newspaper and journal clippings, and handwritten notations by Green describing when a hymn was written and reprinted and why and for whom the piece was written.

5 cubic ft. (10 legal size archives boxes)

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Green, Fred Pratt, 1903-2000

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Fred Pratt Green was born in Roby, near Liverpool, England, on September 2, 1903. He was ordained as a Methodist minister in 1928 and served circuits in the north and south of England until 1969. During his career as a minister he wrote numerous plays and hymns. It was not until he retired, however, that he began writing prolifically. Green wrote over 300 hymns and Christian songs as well as commissioned texts for special occasions. One of the most important Methodist hymnists since Charles Wesl...