Collections : [Burke Library at Union Theological Seminary]

This collection contains records of the Subcommittee of the East Asian Committee of the Foreign Missions Conference of North America (FMCNA), who organized a study conference about Christian work in post-war China. Included is correspondence, schedules, and records from the conferences.

Erwin Hart Richards was a Congregational missionary for thirty-three years in South East Africa. The collection consists of correspondence from the period when Richards was treasurer of the Board of Foreign Missions for the Methodist Episcopal Church.

Henry Haverstick Ranck (1868-1948) was a graduate of the UTS class of 1893 and a Reformed Church minister. The collection contains letters sent by Ranck to his then fiancée, Mary H. Byrne (later Mary Byrne Ranck), while he was a student, as well as a photocopy of the Rank/Ranck family newsletter from 1986.

David J. Langston; M.Div, UTS 1971; Ph.D. English-American Literature, Stanford 1977; student member of Union's Core Experimental Program 1968-1970. The collection includes primary drafts, proposals, memoranda, ephemera, photographs, and published matter concerning Core programming at Union during the late 1960s-early 1970s as well as student activities in and around Union on issues such as anti-war activism, racial justice, and anti-apartheid organizing.

Edward Robinson (1794-1863) was a Presbyterian minister, Biblical scholar, Union Theological Seminary professor, and its first librarian. This collection contains the manuscript originally entitled "Biblical Researches in Palestine and the Countries in the South," appendices of English-Arabic lists and language exercises, travel itineraries, a guide to Arabic pronunciation, and supplementary materials relating to travel; galley proofs of the Friedrich Wilhelm Gesenius lexicon with handwritten annotations by Robinson and possibly others; as well as two plastic-bound transcripts, indexed, of letters exchanged between Edward Robinson and Moses Stuart between 1826 and 1830.

The Young Mens and Womens Christian Associations were founded as a response to unhealthy social and living conditions in cities at the end of the Industrial Revolution. The collection contains pamphlets, reports, and correspondence regarding the YMCA 19th World Conference in Helsinki, Finland; pamphlets, correspondences, minutes, and questionnaires related to the YMCA Constantinople Branch in Turkey between 1926-1928; reports regarding the history and progress of the YMCA and YWCA in different countries; and pamphlets, questionnaires, records, and history of the YMCA in different parts of the world including Japan, Czechoslovakia, Poland, China and Belgium.

Arthur C. McGiffert Sr. was a Presbyterian Congregational minister, church historian, and UTS President (1917-1926). The collection consists of correspondence, sermons, addresses, personal and professional papers, and two photographs.

This collection contains records related to the American Committee for Armenian and Syrian Relief, established in 1915 to respond to the Armenian Genocide, and incorporated through an Act of Congress and renamed Near East Relief in 1919.

Preserved Smith was a minister in Rowe and Mendon, Massachusetts, an American Revolutionary War veteran, and grandfather to UTS alumnus Henry Preserved Smith. The collection contains two volumes of Bible notes written in Warwick, Massachusetts in 1820.

Robert Brank Fulton graduated as part of the UTS class of 1938, was ordained in the Presbyterian Church, and was actively involved in teaching and relief work with the Yale Christian Association and through teaching positions throughout China. The collection contains reports on famine prevention and relief efforts by the China International Famine Relief Commission, as well as a publication entitled "The C.I.F.R.C. Fifteenth Anniversary Booklet."