{"id":184,"date":"2021-08-05T09:00:58","date_gmt":"2021-08-05T13:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/dbaird\/?page_id=184"},"modified":"2026-03-18T08:42:48","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T12:42:48","slug":"manuscripts-1924-1933","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/dbaird\/manuscripts-1924-1933\/","title":{"rendered":"The Manuscripts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This project started with a trunk of my maternal grandfather’s manuscripts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The materials were unordered. Many manuscripts were individually bound, some with a loop of string, some a brad, some a straight pin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Some sermons, perhaps 15-20 of them, were in envelops with the title and date of the sermon on the envelope.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There was an over-full typewriter paper box with “Pittsfield Mostly” written across the top.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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And then there were some other collections detailed in the sub-pages here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the most part I have pulled these collections apart and organized the materials chronologically.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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