George Howe Papers, 1835-1879.

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Howe, George, 1802-1883. George Howe Papers, 1835-1879.

George Howe Papers, 1835-1879.

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Correspondence re business of the Presbyterian church and imprints relating to Howe's writings and publications. Two letters to Rev. Samuel C. Jackson, 22 Jan. and 15 April 1835, urging Jackson to accept the pastorate of the Third Presbyterian Church (Charleston, S.C.) and discussing the internal politics of the church; two letters to Rev. William M. Reid, 10 Jan. 1837 and 8 Jan. 1844, re calling a new pastor for the congregation in Columbia, S.C., and financial support for ministerial students; a letter from Rev. Thomas Smyth, 1845, discussing the October issue of Edinburgh Presbyterian Review, which printed reviews of Howe's "Discourse on Theological Education" and Smyth's "Confirmation Examined." Reviews of Howe's book on theological education from the "Presbyterian," the "New York Observer," the "Boston Recorder," the "Southern Chronicle," and the "South Carolinian"; an 1849 broadside titled "Dr. Howe's Reply to J. F. Mittag and A. L. Crawford," discussing criticisms of Howe's article on the "Unity of the Human Race" in "Southern Presbyterian Review" and anthropological vs biblical arguments re justication for slavery; the broadside was published in response to Mittag's attack on Howe, which had appeared in the "Charleston Daily Courier," 12 September 1849. Letter, 27 Jan. 1872, Columbia, S.C., from Howe at Columbia Theological Seminary to [Charles Augustus Aiken, professor at Princeton Theological Seminary], discussing a plan for the future given the econmic hardships of life in S.C. during Reconstruction, and commending his inaugural discourse [published, 1872, as Inauguration of the Rev. Chas. Augustus Aiken, D.D., as Professor of Christian Ethics and Apologetics in Princeton Theological Seminary, November, 1871], "The distinction you made between the variable and the constant in our defensive argumentation is well taken" and approving "the division of labour in our older seminaries.... We must follow on at a distance and more slowly, especially in the deep pecuniary depression under which we are labouring in this greatly misgoverned portion of our land." Manuscript, 16 May 1879, in which Howe certifys to the baptism of members of his church prior to the family's relocation to Washington, D.C.: "Carl St. Clair, and Frank James, sons of Mrs. Elizabeth Henry and Carl McKinley, their mother, a member of this church, about removing to Washington City"; "Undated letter from Norman Smyth to Howe, re a review of his work.

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