This project started with a trunk of my maternal grandfather’s manuscripts.

The materials were unordered. Many manuscripts were individually bound, some with a loop of string, some a brad, some a straight pin.

Some sermons, perhaps 15-20 of them, were in envelops with the title and date of the sermon on the envelope.

And then there were collections. Some pretty obvious, such as the hand-bound collections of sermon notes from Earl C. Davis’ time in Petersham, Massachusetts.

There was an over-all typewriter paper box with “Pittsfield Mostly” written across the top.

It was filled with string-bound blocks of typed texts, each an inch or more thick. These were full sermon texts from 1908-1918.

And then there were some other collections detailed in the sub-pages here.

For the most part I have pulled these collections apart and organized the materials chronologically.