James Osgood Andrew Clark papers, 1807-1945.

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James Osgood Andrew Clark papers, 1807-1945.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/173862940

The collection contains papers of James Osgood Andrew Clark and his family from 1807-1945. The collection includes correspondence, photographs, clippings, sermons, poems, manuscripts and typescripts, construction drawings, biographies, sheet music, and reminiscences. Personal and official correspondence includes letters from Clark to his second wife Ella Anderson Clark, documenting his daily activities, travels, and work, including his service as a delegate to the Ecumenical Methodist Conference in London (1881); letters of Clark's ancestors (1807-1848); Civil War correspondence of a Confederate soldier named Willie R. Ross (1863-1866); letters related to Clark's employment at Emory College; and letters containing information on the fundraising for (through the publication and sale of the WESLEY MEMORIAL VOLUME, a collection of essays about John Wesley which Clark edited) and building of the Wesley Monumental Methodist Church in Savannah, Georgia (with drawings for the church and biographical information about the authors of the essays). Reminiscences contain information about Ella A. Clark, her education at Wesleyan Female College, plantation life, Clark family slaves and songs, and a recollection of slavery days by Lucius H. Holsey. Papers of Lella S. Clark also contain information on slavery and on Andrew Female College in Cuthbert, Georgia, which she had attended and where she taught. Photographs are of various churches, Methodist clergymen, and the Clark family. Clippings are about Clark's life and work, book reviews, the Wesley Monumental Methodist Church, the WESLEY MEMORIAL VOLUME, the London Conference (1881), and the election for president of the United States (1884). Manuscripts are of Clark's writings, in holograph and in typescript.

3.75 linear ft. (9 boxes)

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