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Briggs: Song of Songs Papers, 1913-1939? 7.25 linear feet (7.25 linear feet 15 boxes)

Briggs, Emilie Grace

Charles Augustus Briggs projected a commentary on the Song of Songs; after his sudden death, his children Alanson and Emilie Grace took over the project. Collection consists of introduction, extensive commentary on the Song of Songs, notes on a variety of topics; concordance; Hebrew words; location and archaeological notes; and sketches.

  1. Burke Library at Union Theological Seminary

Charles Augustus Briggs Papers, 1841-1913 108 boxes (108 boxes)

Briggs, Charles A (Charles Augustus), 1841-1913

Correspondence, sermons, Hebrew-English lexicon, research notes, scrapbooks of clippings, letters copied into journals by Emilie Grace Briggs, books, pamphlets, Bibles, University of Virginia papers, University of Berlin papers, Union Theological Seminary papers, material relating to the Presbyterian Church, articles and miscellaneous. Also included is heresy material relating to Briggs' trial before the Presbytery of New York, 1892, and record of trial proceedings.

  1. Burke Library at Union Theological Seminary

Henry Preserved Smith papers, 1864 -- 1925 4.25 linear feet (4.25 linear feet; 9 boxes)

Smith, Henry Preserved, 1847-1927
Henry Preserved Smith (1847-1927) was a Presbyterian minister in Ohio and New York and a scholar with specializations in Hebrew and Cognate Languages, historical and critical interpretations of the Bible who was tried for heresy by the Presbyterian Church, 1892-1894, and was subsequently Professor of Church history and Davenport Professor of Hebrew and Cognate Languages at Union Theological Seminary, 1917-1925. The collection contains scrapbooks as they were assembled by Smith to document his heresy trial, as well as the contemporaneous trial of Charles Augustus Briggs, and three scrapbooks on Hebrew literature, as well as other writings and notes including nine of Smith's notebooks, correspondence, speeches, trial materials, lecture notes, and other materials maintained by Smith during his work as a professor and librarian.
  1. Burke Library at Union Theological Seminary

James H. Ecob papers, 1892 -- 1894 0.25 linear feet (0.25 linear feet; 1 box)

Ecob, James H. (James Henry), 1844-1921
This collection contains 42 letters written to former Presbyterian minister James H. Ecob, the majority concerning his resignation from the Presbyterian church in protest of the heresy trial of Charles Augusts Briggs.
  1. Burke Library at Union Theological Seminary