Bert J. Morris Collection, 1907-1958

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Morris, Bert Jasper, 1875-1959. Bert J. Morris Collection, 1907-1958

Bert J. Morris Collection, 1907-1958

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70279248

The items in Series 1 relate to Morris' life until his retirement in the late 1940s. The series contains correspondence and ephemera relating to his personal life (1907-1947); correspondence, ephemera and publications relating to the College of the Pacific (1909-1918) and to the Bureau of Vocational Guidance at Harvard University (1918-1919); correspondence, ephemera, photographs, reports and students lists of the University of California, Berkeley Wesley Foundation (1919-1925) and a Morris manuscript history of the Foundation, as well as pamphlets of the history of other Wesley Foundations & clippings. The items in Series 2 relate to Morris' presidency of the California-Nevada Annual Conference Historical Society during the 1950s. They consist of: correspondence, ephemera and minutes produced by the Cal-Nev Methodist Historical Society; programs and reports of the California-Nevada Conference of the Methodist Church (1948-49; 1956; 1958); and, books, bulletins, flyers, magazines, periodicals, pamphlets, newspapers and photographs relating to Methodism and to other historical societies in California. Series 3 contains Morris' manuscript drafts and notes for Morris' a history of California and a history of religion in California. Series 4 consists of publications and unpublished materials by Edward Blakeman, a Methodist contemporary of Morris' and a religious educator at various universities.

6.25 linear feet

University of the Pacific, William Knox Holt Memorial Library