Norman C. Mealy collection of 18th century Methodist hymnals.

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Norman C. Mealy collection of 18th century Methodist hymnals.

Photocopies of early Methodist hymnals from the 18th century, including those edited by John Wesley and Thomas Butts, with Norman C. Mealy's research notes on the hymns and the hymn books.

2 boxes; (.5 linear feet)

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Butts, Thomas, composer.

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Mealy, Norman

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Norman Carleton Mealy was born on June 22, 1923 in Troy, New York. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in music from the State University of New York at Potsdam, did post-graduate work at the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis, and studied music analysis and musicology at the University of California at Berkeley. Mealy also attended the Episcopal Theological Seminary, Harvard Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and received an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree i...

Wesley, John, 1703-1791

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John Wesley, evangelist and founder of Methodism, was born 17 June 1703, in Epworth, Lincolnshire, England, and died 2 March 1791, in London, England. He was educated at Christ Church College, Oxford (1724); was ordained a deacon in the Church of England (1725); and was elected a fellow of Lincoln College (1726). He eventually embarked upon a new ministry, along with his brother, Charles (b. 1707), which resulted in their separation from the Anglican church; they and other "Methodists" served as...