Series 1: Correspondence, 1913 -- 1926
This series is open for research.
2.5 linear feet; 2.5 linear feet; 5 boxes
This series contains substantial correspondence regarding publications, lectures, addresses, invitations to speak, correspondence with certain institutions and individuals, and other professional and personal correspondence. The bulk of correspondence is from the period of McGiffert's presidency at Union Theological Seminary (1917-1926). Some of the publications included in that grouping of correspondence (Folders 1-7) are: "God of the Early Christians," Martin Luther, the Man and His Work, and The Rise of Modern Religious Ideas. Some of the publishers included in that grouping of correspondence (Folders 8-15) are: The American Journal of Theology, The Christian Work, The Macmillan Company, and Charles Scribner's Sons. The correspondence in Box 5, folder 12 is related to McGiffert's summer property in West Falmouth, Massachusetts, as well as a boat and car used there. The correspondence in Box 5, Folder 13 relates to financial matters both personal, such as payment of income tax and investments, and UTS-related, such as payment for a new chapel window and messages seeking to improve telephone service for the president. The correspondence in Box 6, Folder 1 is connected to the McGiffert family and includes writings from family members such as Rev. Dwight F. Mowery, one of McGiffert's sons-in-law, and James H. McGiffert, a cousin of McGiffert and an attorney at the National City Bank in Cleveland, Ohio.
This series is arranged by type of correspondence.
Box 1 Folder 1-7
Publications, 1915 -- 1926
Box 1 Folder 8-15
Publishers, 1915 -- 1926
Box 1 Folder 16-18
Lectures, 1916 -- 1925
Box 1 Folder 19
Addresses, 1916 -- 1923
Box 2 Folder 1-2
Invitations to speak -- Churches/Religious Groups, 1915 -- 1926
Box 2 Folder 3-4
Invitations to speak -- Educational Institutions, 1915 -- 1926
Box 2 Folder 5
Invitations to speak -- Organizations, 1915 -- 1926
Box 2 Folder 6
Invitations to committee membership, 1915 -- 1926
Box 2 Folder 7-11
Institutions, 1916 -- 1926
Box 3 Folder 1
Institutions, 1916 -- 1926
Box 3 Folder 2
List of Individuals, 1913 -- 1926
Box 3 Folder 3-19
Individuals A-L, 1913 -- 1926
Box 4 Folder 1-12
Individuals M-Z, unidentified, 1913 -- 1926
Box 4 Folder 13
List of correspondents, 1913 -- 1926
Box 4 Folder 14-17
Election to UTS presidency A-Y, 1917 -- 1918
Box 4 Folder 18-19
Inauguration A-W, 1918
Box 4 Folder 20
Honors, 1916 -- 1922
Box 5 Folder 1-8
Organizational memberships A-W, circa 1916 -- 1922
Box 5 Folder 9
List of correspondents, circa 1916 -- 1922
Box 5 Folder 10
Class reunions, 1915 -- 1926
Box 5 Folder 11
Travel, 1920 -- 1926
Box 5 Folder 12
West Falmouth, 1916 -- 1926
Box 5 Folder 13
Financial, 1916 -- 1926
Box 5 Folder 14
McGiffert Family, 1919 -- 1924
Box 5 Folder 15
Memorial and obituary materials, including photographs, circa 1919 -- 1924
Series 2: Writings, 1883 -- 1925
This series is open for research.
0.25 linear feet; 0.25 linear feet; 1 box
This series contains writings and notes of McGiffert including addresses, sermons, and other pieces. Known titles of writings are in quotation marks.
This series is unarranged.
Box 6 Folder 1
Farewell address to graduating class, 1925
Box 6 Folder 2
Memorial address, Western University, circa 1883 -- 1925
Box 6 Folder 3
"Epic of the Themes", circa 1883 -- 1925
Box 6 Folder 4
"Literature and Life," Chi Alpha, 1906
Box 6 Folder 5
"The Pastor and the Professor in Relation to Criticism," Chi Alpha, 1903
Box 6 Folder 6
"Hospital Nurses", circa 1883 -- 1925
Box 6 Folder 7
Longfellow, First Congregational Church, 1883
Box 6 Folder 8
Robert Burns, circa 1883 -- 1925
Box 6 Folder 9
The Religions of Authority and the Religion of the Spirit, Auguste Sabatier, circa 1883 -- 1925
Box 6 Folder 10
"The Temptation of a Young Clergyman", circa 1883 -- 1925
Box 6 Folder 11
What is There in Religion, Henry Sloane Coffin, 1923
Box 6 Folder 12
"Appreciation of President Eliot" for The Christian Register, Boston, circa 1883 -- 1925
Box 6 Folder 13
The Autobiography of Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, circa 1883 -- 1925
Box 6 Folder 14
Notes, circa 1883 -- 1925
Series 3: General, 1882 -- 1921
This series is open for research.
1 linear feet; 1 linear foot; 2 boxes
This series contains a printed volume of McGiffert's Marburg Dissertation (Dialogue between a Christian and a Jew) dedicated to the Rev. Phillip Schaff from 1889, early notebooks, a scrapbook of news clippings of reviews of his work "A History of Christianity of in the Apostolic Age," and a diary.
This series is unarranged.
Box 7 Folder 1
Memorabilia - programs, bibliography, 1918 -- 1921
Box 7 Folder 2
Rome diary, 1882 -- 1887
Box 7 Folder 3
Common-place book, 1883
Box 7 Folder 4
Hebrew word book, circa 1883
Box 7 Folder 5
Dialogue between a Christian and a Jew, 1889
Box 8
Scrapbook of reviews of A History of Christianity of in the Apostolic Age, circa 1882 -- 1921