Guide to the The Papers of Robert Whitaker

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Guide to the The Papers of Robert Whitaker 1885/1918

Sutro Library, California State Library

Overview of the Collection

Collection Title: The Papers of Robert Whitaker

Dates: 1885-1918

Bulk Dates: 1901-1917

Identification: M000006

Physical Description: 1.25

Language of Materials: English

Repository: Sutro Library, California State Library

1630 Holloway Avenue

5th floor

San Francisco, CA, 94132-4030

URL: http://www.library.ca.gov/about/sutro_main.html

Email: sutro@library.ca.gov

Phone: 415-469-6100

Administrative History:

Robert Whitaker was a pastor, pacificist, political acitivist, and writer. He was born in 1863 in Padiham, Lancashire, England, and died in Los Gatos, CA in 1944. In 1869 he moved with his family to the United States. After attending Andover Newton Theological School, Whitaker served as a missionary in Mexico from 1887-1888. He went on to hold several pastorates in the western United States including Oakland, CA, Seattle, WA, and Los Gatos, CA.

Whitaker was heavily involved in Socialist and Labor organizations and was acquainted with other agitators such as Eugene Debs, Upton Sinclair, Jack London, and Fanny Bixby Spencer. He spent considerable energy agitating for Socialist causes and to this end founded several presses such The Progressive Publishing Company, U.F.I. Press, and Whitaker and Ray, Co.

Access Terms

This Collection is indexed under the following controlled access subject terms.

Personal Name:

Whitaker, Robert, 1863-1944.

Topical Term:

Activists

Pacifists

Poetry

Socialism

Administrative Information

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Preferred Citation:

[Identification of item] Robert Whitaker Papers, 1885-1918, M000006, Sutro Library, California State Library, San Francisco, Calif.

Related Materials:

Collection of Robert W. Whitaker, 2003-11-01. Graduate Theological Union Archives, Berkeley, CA.

Information about related materials is available at http://pdf.oac.cdlib.org/pdf/gtu/whitaker.pdf

Arrangement of Materials:

The collection has been divided into six series: Series I. Nonfiction; Series II. Fiction; Series III. Lectures and Sermon Outlines; Series IV. Flyers; Series V. Periodicals; Series VI. Poetry/Verse,

Scope and Contents

This collection contains sermon outlines, fiction and nonfiction essays, articles, flyers, and poetry.

Box 1

Series 1: Nonfiction 1910-1918

Box 1, Folder 1

Cupid and the Cloth, [1 of 4] [n.d.]

Box 1, Folder 2

Cupid and the Cloth, [2 of 4] [n.d.]

Box 1, Folder 3

Cupid and the Cloth, [3 of 4] [n.d.]

Box 1, Folder 4

Cupid and the Cloth, [4 of 4] [n.d.]

Box 1, Folder 5

Jesus Christ, the same yesterday and today and forever 1885

Box 1, Folder 6

Johnston of Stanford 1919

Box 1, Folder 7

One woman's worth: The story of Lucretia Watson Taylor [1913]

Box 1, Folder 8

Sharing our Thanksgiving 1918

Box 1, Folder 9

Victory or Peace 1918

Box 1, Folder 10

Why callest thou me good? 1913

Box 1, Folder 11

The wickedness of doing nothing: an appeal for positive living 1913

Box 1, Folder 12

The yesterday and today of Socialism [n.d.]

Box 2

Series 2: Fiction 1900-1907

Box 2, Folder 1

A California girl: an idyl of married life, [1 of 2] [n.d.]

Box 2, Folder 2

A Calfiornia girl: an idyl of married life, [2 of 2] [n.d.]

Box 2, Folder 3

The chamber of silence 1903

Box 2, Folder 4

Made to order 1902

Box 2, Folder 5

A mix-up of souls 1907

Box 2, Folder 6

Smith's Valley; Wanted an original deed; Two of a kind 1900

Box 2, Folder 7

A strong-minded woman 1907

Box 2

Series 3: Lectures and Sermon Outlines 1901, 1909-1910

Box 2, Folder 8

Lectures on Biblical Christiology 1901

Box 2, Folder 9

Sermon outline - The city that would not [1909-1910]

Box 2, Folder 10

Sermon outline - How big is your God? [1909-1910]

Box 2, Folder 11

Sermon outline - The new birth [1909-1910]

Box 2, Folder 12

Sermon outline - And let him that heareth say come [1909-1910]

Box 2, Folder 13

Sermon outline - What does conversion mean to a modern man? [1909-1910]

Box 2, Folder 14

Sermon outline - Jesus and other masters [1909-1910]

Box 2, Folder 15

Sermon outline - Mohammed the prophet of Islam [1909-1910]

Box 2, Folder 16

Sermon outline - Confucius the Christ of China [1909-1910]

Box 2, Folder 17

Sermon outline - Jesus and Marcus Aurelius [1909-1910]

Box 2, Folder 18

Sermon outline - Jesus and Emerson [1909-1910]

Box 2, Folder 19

Sermon outline - What did Jesus mean by 'love your enemies' [1909-1910]

Box 2, Folder 20

Sermon outline - The contentiousness of the gospel [1909-1910]

Box 2, Folder 21

Sermon outline - The yea and the amen [1909-1910]

Box 2, Folder 22

Sermon outline - Vision and affirmation [1909-1910]

Box 2, Folder 23

Sermon outline - The inconveniences of omnisicence [1909-1910]

Box 2, Folder 24

Sermon outline - The passing of old authority [1909-1910]

Box 2, Folder 25

Sermon outline - A working faith in man [1909-1910]

Box 2, Folder 26

Sermon outline - Some immediate minitries of this church [1909-1910]

Box 2, Folder 27

Sermon outline - Church troubles. Their causes and their cure [1909-1910]

Box 2, Folder 28

Sermon outline - The scorn of Jesus [1909-1910]

Box 2, Folder 29

Sermon outline - Common sense and foreign missions [1909-1910]

Box 2, Folder 30

Sermon outline - The humor of Jesus [1909-1910]

Box 2, Folder 31

Sermon outline - Can a man be saved who does not believe in Jesus Christ? [1909-1910]

Box 2, Folder 32

Sermon outline - Were there not ten cleansed? But where are the nine [1909-1910]

Box 2, Folder 33

Sermon outline - Ecclesiates, the Hebrew Rubaiyat [1909-1910]

Box 2, Folder 34

Sermon outline - Modern aspects of evangelism [1909-1910]

Box 2, Folder 35

Sermon outline - The good and evil labor unions [1909-1910]

Box 2, Folder 36

Sermon outline - The resurrection [1909-1910]

Box 2, Folder 37

Sermon outline - Are there few that be saved [1909-1910]

Box 2, Folder 38

Sermon outline - Follow me [1909-1910]

Box 2, Folder 39

Sermon outline - What is true eduction [1909-1910]

Box 2, Folder 40

Sermon outline - The birth of Jesus [1909-1910]

Box 2, Folder 41

Sermon outline - What does patriotism mean to the average American [1909-1910]

Box 2, Folder 42

Sermon outline - A candid plea for prohibition [1909-1910]

Box 2, Folder 43

Sermon outlines for sermons preached during my first year at Los Gatos, California [1909-1910]

Box 2, Folder 44

Sermon outline - A church called Catholic [1909-1910]

Box 2, Folder 45

Sermon outline - The primary Protestant churches: Lutheran and Presbyterian [1909-1910]

Box 2, Folder 46

Sermon outline - The independent churches: Baptist, Congregational, and Quaker [1909-1910]

Box 2, Folder 47

Sermon outline - A study of Methodism [1909-1910]

Box 2, Folder 48

Sermon outline - The liberal churches: Universalist and Unitarian [1909-1910]

Box 2, Folder 49

Sermon outline - Affirmation the best negative [1909-1910]

Box 2, Folder 50

Sermon outline - What is the church good for [1909-1910]

Box 2, Folder 51

Sermon outline - Why I am a Baptist [1909-1910]

Box 2, Folder 52

Sermon outline - Mormonism [1909-1910]

Box 2, Folder 53

Sermon outline - Adventism, and the second coming of Christ [1909-1910]

Box 2, Folder 54

Sermon outline - Spiritualism: are the dead aliv [1909-1910]

Box 2, Folder 55

Sermon outline - Christian Science [1909-1910]

Box 2, Folder 56

Sermon outline - Objections stated [1909-1910]

Box 2, Folder 57

Sermon outline - Socialism [1909-1910]

Box 2, Folder 58

Sermon outline - The church outside the churches [1909-1910]

Box 2, Folder 59

Sermon outline - The church that is to be [1909-1910]

Box 2, Folder 60

Sermon outline - The parable of the mustard seed [1909-1910]

Box 2, Folder 61

Sermon outline - The parable of the tares [1909-1910]

Box 2, Folder 62

Sermon outline - The parable of the leaven [1909-1910]

Box 2, Folder 63

Sermon outline - The parable of the hidden [1909-1910]

Box 2, Folder 64

Sermon outline - The parable of the draw net [1909-1910]

Box 2, Folder 65

Sermon outline - The prosperity of real religion depends upon the prosperity of the Christian type of character [1909-1910]

Box 2, Folder 66

Sermon outline - The moral and spiritual development of the child [1909-1910]

Box 2, Folder 67

Sermon outline - A prisoner's Thanksgiving [1909-1910]

Box 2, Folder 68

Sermon outline - Can a Christian refuse to forgive? [1909-1910]

Box 2, Folder 69

Sermon outline - John Brown as a prophet of righteousness [1909-1910]

Box 2, Folder 70

Sermon outline - The disadvantages of wholesale murder: war and peace [1909-1910]

Box 3

Series 4: Flyers

Box 3, Folder 1

People's Institute: a fellowship of free service 1914

Box 3

Series 5: Periodicals 1912-1919

Box 3, Folder 2

Whitaker's Review and Hand Book 1912-1913

Scope and Contents

Vol.3:no.1-3

Box 3, Folder 3

The Los Gatos Idea 1914-1919

Scope and Contents

Vol.1-4:no.1-11/12(Oct.-Nov./Dec)

Box 3, Folder 4

Service: a magazine of methods 1910

Box 3

Series 6: Poetry/Verse 1902-1920

Box 3, Folder 5

Who weeps today 1917

Box 3, Folder 6

Prison verse, written during my days in jail in Los Angeles 1919

Box 3, Folder 7

Love's Credo 1917

Box 3, Folder 8

My country is the world; a selection of verse celebrating the higher partriotism 1905

Box 3, Folder 9

James Whitcomb Riley 1916

Box 3, Folder 10

A brother man 1917

Box 3, Folder 11

Whatever is 1918

Box 3, Folder 12

My country 1905

Box 3, Folder 13

God garners no green grain 1902

Box 3, Folder 14

Guilty 1920

Box 3, Folder 15

Two heros: The burden 1917

My country and other verse 1905

Scope and Contents

This is a bound book shelved in Sutro's vault. The call# is 811W.