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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
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San Marino, CA 91108
Manuscripts
Brock Collection: Correspondence of the editor of the Richmond standard
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Manuscripts
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
Papers, chiefly routine correspondence with a few documents, accumulated by the editors and managers. Included are accounts, advertisements, letters from contributors, readers, subscribers, and advertisers, correspondence relating to the merger with Richmond Examiner (1866) and the company management. The majority of the letters are addressed to George C. Wedderburn and W. W. Berry.
mssBR Box 176
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Manuscripts
Scattered correspondence accumulated by the editors, chiefly by Wyatt M. Elliott, Alexander Moseley, and John Camden Shields. Included are letters from readers, contributors, subscribers, and advertisers, mostly relating to accounts and subscriptions.
mssBR Boxes 178 & 179
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Manuscripts
Correspondence, accumulated by the editors of the Religious Herald, particularly by Alfred Elijah Dickinson, with a few letters addressed to Jeremiah B. Jeters. Most ante-bellum and Civil War letters deal with colporteurs. The post-war correspondence relates mostly to accounts of the individual and corporate subscribers and advertisers. There are also few items dealing with the affairs of the Southern Baptist Convention. Included are letters from John Albert Broadus, a manuscript of his "The Revised New Testament: General Remarks" (ca. 1866), a group of articles by Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry, articles and reviews by Jeremiah Bell Jeters, and a few other articles and letters to the editor
mssBR Box 184
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Manuscripts
Correspondence accumulated by the editors of the Richmond Dispatch. The collection includes articles, reports, literary contributions, book reviews, letters to the editor, and other pieces submitted for publication. Many articles deal with Virginia history, particularly colonial and Civil War era, state and national politics, and foreign affairs. Also included are pieces dealing with the newspaper's finances, subscription, and editorial policies, and a few pieces of personal correspondence of William D. Chesterman, one of the editors.
mssBR Boxes 174 & 175
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Manuscripts
Letters to J. D. K. Sleight, business agent of the Presbyterian Committee of Publication in Richmond, Va., chiefly from subscribers in Virginia, Tennessee, Alabama, the Carolinas and other Southern States. Also included are letters from E. Thompson Baird, the Committee's Secretary
mssBR Box 161
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Manuscripts
Letters and articles accumulated by the editors of The Central Presbyterian, particularly William Brown, his wife Elizabeth H. Smith Brown, William T. Richardson, and James Power Smith
mssBR Boxes 180-183