Papers of Luther Rice - Collection 334

[Note: The BGC Archives does not have the original documents of this collection. What it does have is a microfilm edition of the papers, which it purchased from a publisher, as did many other archives and libraries.]

[Note: What follows is a description of the documents in this collection which are available for use at BGC Archives in Wheaton, Illinois, USA. The actual documents are not, in most cases, available online, only this description of them. Nor are they available for sale or rent.]

Table of Contents

Brief Description of This Collection

Title Page and Restrictions

Biography of Luther Rice

An Essay on the Contents of the Collection (Scope and Content)

Lists of Microfilmin This Collection (Location Records)


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Restrictions

There are no restrictions on the use of this collection.

Biography

Baptist clergyman, educator, missionary and missions promoter, founder of Columbian College (now George Washington University). Born 1783; died 1836.

Scope and Content

Microfilm of list of correspondents, lecture notes on theology and other topics, school records of Columbian College, diary, financial record book, letters of Baptist educator, missionary, and leader Luther Rice. Also a copy of the 1814 constitution (and later suggested revisions) of the General Missionary Convention of the Baptist Denomination in the United States for Foreign Missions. Originals filmed by the Historical Commission of the Southern Baptist Church.

Provenance

The materials for this collection were received by the Center in May 1986 from the Billy Graham Center Library.

Accession 86-56
June 6, 1986
Frances L. Brocker
J. Nasgowitz

LOCATION RECORD
Accession 86-56
Type of Material: Microfilm

The following item is located in the CENTER LIBRARY MICROFILM ROOM:

Reel 1 - List of correspondents, lecture notes on theology, diary, financial records, etc. of Luther Rice.

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