Guide to the Charles A. Merrill Papers
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Guide to the Charles A. Merrill Papers, ca. 1841-1895
Collection number: Mss 59
Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara
Contact Information:
- Department of Special Collections
- Davidson Library
- University of California, Santa Barbara
- Santa Barbara, CA 93106
- Phone: (805) 893-3062
- Fax: (805) 893-5749
- Email: special@library.ucsb.edu
- URL: http://www.library.ucsb.edu/speccoll/speccoll.html
- Processed by:
- Special Collections staff; latest revision by D. Tambo
- Date Completed:
-
27 September 2002
- Encoded by:
- David C. Gartrell
© 2002 Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Descriptive Summary
Title: Charles A. Merrill Papers,
Date (inclusive): ca. 1841-1895
Collection Number: Mss 59
Creator:
Merrill, Charles A.
Extent:
.8 linear feet
(2 document boxes)
Repository:
University of California, Santa Barbara. Library. Department of Special Collections
Santa Barbara, California 93106-9010
Physical Location: Del Sur
Abstract: Correspondence, manuscripts of letters to editors, sermons, financial records, Methodist ministerial and camp meeting flyers
and pamphlets, essays, and poems of Charles A. Merrill, a Methodist minister from Holyoke, Massachusetts.
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
Access Restrictions
None.
Publication Rights
Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish or
quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for publication is given
on behalf of the Department of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply
permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.
Preferred Citation
Charles A. Merrill Papers. Mss 59. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Acquisition Information
Donation by R. W. Knight, ca. 1969.
Biography
No information about the Merrill family is known, aside from the material contained in the collection.
Scope and Content of Collection
Correspondence, manuscripts of letters to editors, sermons, financial records, Methodist ministerial and camp meeting flyers
and pamphlets, essays, and poems of Charles A. Merrill, a Methodist minister from Holyoke, Massachusetts. Includes letters
of Merrill's son Elmer T. Merrill to Merrill family members during his stay in Europe during the 1880s. Also includes some
materials regarding the temperance movement. Most items are from Massachusetts, especially the Springfield and Northampton
areas.
Box 1: 1 - 10
Merrill, Charles A. (CAM)
Box 1: 2
Correspondence - early (also some other early material like Sons of Temperance documents), 1841 - 1862
Box 1: 3
Correspondence (postal cards), early 1890s
Box 1: 4 - 5
Financial (mainly invoices, New England Methodist Depository and various Springfield, Mass. businesses), ca. 1850s-1895, n.d.
Box 1: 6
Letters to editors / sermons, n.d.
Box 1: 7 - 10
Miscellany (including school grade cards, temperance material, Methodist ministerial and camp meeting flyers and pamphlets,
essays, and poems), ca. 1870s-1890s
Box 2: 1 - 5
Merrill, Elmer T. (ETM) - Correspondence to various Merrill family members, including his extended stay in Europe, ca. 1878 - 1894
Box 2: 6
Merrill Family - Correspondence to/from various family members, ca. 1870s-1880s
Box 2: 7
Photographs - unidentified (includes three cyanotypes), n.d.
