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  • Descriptive Summary
  • Administration Information
  • Biography
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  • Indexing Terms

  • Descriptive Summary

    Title: Clifford Merrill Drury papers
    Dates: 1937-1971
    Collection Number: mssDrurypapers
    Creatorr: Drury, Clifford Merrill, 1937-1971
    Extent: 155 items in 1 box
    Repository: The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens Manuscripts Department
    The Huntington Library
    1151 Oxford Road
    San Marino, California 91108
    Phone: (626) 405-2203
    Fax: (626) 449-5720
    Email: reference@huntington.org
    URL: http://www.huntington.org
    Abstract: The Clifford Merrill Drury papers consist of correspondence, newspaper clippings, research notes, and typescripts related to Drakes Bay (Calif.), Drake's Plate of Brass, the history of religion in California, Rudolph James Wig, and Anson Burlingame.
    Language of Material: The records are in English.

    Administration Information

    Access

    Collection is open to qualified researchers by prior application through the Reader Services Department. For more information, please go to following web site .

    Publication Rights

    The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to quote from or publish images of this material, nor does it charge fees for such activities. The responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is one, and obtaining necessary permissions rests with the researcher.

    Preferred Citation

    Clifford Merrill Drury papers, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.

    Acquisition Information

    Gift from Clifford Merrill Drury, 1972 and 1979.

    Biography

    Clifford Merrill Drury had a noteworthy career as a pastor, seminary professor, historian, and Navy chaplain. Born in 1897 in Early, Iowa, Drury was a graduate of Buena Vista College and San Francisco Theological Seminary and earned a PhD from the University of Edinburgh.

    Scope and Content

    The Clifford Merrill Drury papers consist of correspondence, newspaper clippings, research notes, and typescripts related to Drakes Bay (Calif.), Drake's Plate of Brass, the history of religion in California, Rudolph James Wig, and Anson Burlingame. At the end of the box, there is a miscellaneous folder consisting of a letter from Sacramento County Free Library to Clifford M. Drury and two notes concerning Henry Kendall and the Coloma plaque.

    Indexing Terms

    Personal Names

    Burlingame, Anson, 1820-1870
    Drake, Francis, approximately 1540-1596--Plate of brass
    Drury, Clifford Merrill, 1897-1984
    Wig, Rudolph James, 1883-1968

    Corporate Names

    San Francisco Theological Seminary.

    Subjects

    Protestant churches--California--History
    Religion

    Geographic Areas

    California--Gold discoveries
    California--History
    Drakes Bay (Calif.)

    Genre

    Clippings (information artifacts)
    Letters (correspondence)
    Resarch notes
    Speeches (documents)
    Typescripts