Collections : [Burke Library at Union Theological Seminary]

Sophia Lyon Fahs was a Unitarian educator, author, editor, minister, innovator in religious education of children, one of the first women faculty members at Union Theological Seminary, and wife of Methodist minister Charles Harvey Fahs. The collection contains papers from Sophia Lyon Fahs' UTS Alumni File as well as her personal files, including materials related to her husband Charles Fahs' writings; correspondence with her biographer Edith Hunter as well as general correspondence; Riverside Church Sunday School papers and religious education publications; and materials donated by Dorothy Beck Fahs, including articles about SLF, memorials, and correspondence, as well as drafts and correspondence related to Cobb and Dorothy Fahs' work on Old Tales for a New Day (Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books, 1981), the companion volume to Sophia Fahs' earlier books on mythic stories for children.

This collection contains records of the state councils of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America, including bulletins, magazines, newspapers, pamphlets, correspondence, annual meeting minutes, and reports from New York, Ohio, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Alabama, California – Nevada, Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Maine, Minnesota, Oregon, Texas, Vermont, Virginia and Washington.

The Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions began in 1886 with intention to meet the needs of boards and missionary societies by nurturing students to become missionary candidates, and to emphasize the need for missionaries throughout the world. The collection includes correspondence and organizational records, including publications, manuals, a bibliography, minutes, and historical and other materials.

UTS Alumnus of 1964; collection contains correspondence from and clippings about UTS faculty.

Munshi Abdullah was a writer, interpreter, and translator of Malay. The collection contains a two volume, 335 page typescript of the autobiography of Munshi Abdullah, as translated from the Malay by W.G. Shellabear.