Guide to the Rev. Robert Emory Papers
Prepared by Swetha Iyengar, student assistant, and L. Dale Patterson,
Archivist
United Methodist Archives and History Center
General
Commission on Archives and History, Madison, New Jersey
3/30/2005
(Published for the Drew University Methodist Library)
Overview of Records
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| Record Creator: |
Emory, Robert |
| Title: |
Robert Emory Papers |
| Dates: |
1825-1848 |
| Abstract: |
Robert Emory (1814-1848) was an American educator, minister and historian. These papers contain correspondence, sermons and addresses. |
| Extent: |
1.08 cu. feet |
| Resource ID:
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drew.ms.2765 |
Biographical Note
Robert Emory (1814-1848)an American educator, minister, and historian of the Methodist Book of Discipline, was born in Philadelphia, July 29, 1814, the oldest son of Bishop John Emory. Finishing at Columbia University with highest honors in 1831, he studied law, but after three years became professor of ancient languages at Dickinson College from 1834 to 1839. He then entered the Baltimore Conference and rose to a presiding eldership before returning to Dickinson as president in 1844.
Awarded a D.D.by Columbia in 1846, he also went to London as a delegate to the Evangelical Alliance. His Life of the Rev. John Emory (1841) remains the standard work on his father. The History of the Discipline (1843) is a painstaking and still valuable collection of Methodist law up to 1840, more usefully arranged and indexed than the original Disciplines, which were searched out and used by the author.
Emory died of tuberculosis at thirty-four, leaving a wife, two children, and a reputation characterized by his Dickinson colleague, John McClintock, as "the purest and best of all the men I have yet known on earth."
Scope and Contents
The collection contains a variety of correspondence, sermons, and addresses. There is correspondence with family members as well as more formal correspondence with colleagues and Dickinson College. It appears that he was working on a Bishop Asbury biography when he died in 1848.
Arrangement
Materials have been arranged in the following manner.
Grouped into broad topics and then by date.
Preferred Citation
When citing material
from this collection please use the following format: Direct reference to the item or its file
folder, Robert Emory Papers, Methodist Collection - Drew University, Madison, New Jersey. Do not
make use of the item's call number as that is not a stable descriptor.
Access Restrictions
Copyright still owned by Drew. Permissions to publish must be directed to Drew.
Restrictions on Use
Detailed use
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General Commission on Archives and History. Photocopying is handled by the staff and may be
limited in certain instances. Before using any material for publication from this collection a
formal request for permission to publish is expected and required.
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Subject Terms |
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Genre Terms |
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Correspondence. |
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Sermons |
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Subject Names - Corporate |
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Dickinson Collge |
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Methodist Episcopal Church |
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Subject Topics |
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Education |
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Itinerancy |
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Subject - Geographic |
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Pennslyvania |
| Call Number |
Folder Title |
Date(s) |
| 2139-3-1:
1 |
Letters to Father |
1832-1864 |
| 2139-3-1:
2 |
Letters to Family |
1846-1848 |
| 2139-3-1:
3 |
Letters to Family |
1845-1848 |
| 2139-3-1:
4 |
Letters to Family |
1842-1845 |
| 2139-3-1:
5 |
Letters to Family |
1842-1845 |
| 2139-3-1:
6 |
Letters to Family |
1825-1841 |
| 2139-3-1:
7 |
Letters to Dickinson College |
1846-1848 |
| 2139-3-1:
8 |
Letters to Dickinson College |
1846-1848 |
| 2139-3-1:
9 |
Letters to Dickinson College |
1846-1848 |
| 2139-3-1:
10 |
Letters to Dickinson College |
1842-1844 |
| 2139-3-1:
11 |
Letters to Dickinson College |
1832-1844 |
| 2139-3-2:
1 |
Guardianship Papers |
1850 |
| 2139-3-2:
2 |
Honors Certificates |
1814-1848 |
| 2139-3-2:
3 |
Methodist Bishop Papers |
1818-1946 |
| 2139-3-2:
4 |
Methodist Bishop Papers: Relating to Alexander McCaine charges |
1817-1818 |
| 2139-3-2:
5 |
Newspaper Clippings |
1844-1848 |
| 2139-3-2:
6 |
Miscellaneous Papers |
1836-1886 |
| 2139-3-2:
7 |
Letters to R. Emory |
1832-1846 |
| 2139-3-2:
8 |
Letters to R. Emory |
1820-1835 |
| 2139-3-2:
9 |
Personal Letters to R. Emory |
1820-1835 |
| 2139-3-2:
10 |
James Nicol's Memorial Letter and Will |
1850 |
| 2139-3-2:
11 |
Letters of Introduction for Europe trip |
Undated |
| 2139-3-2:
12 |
Letters to Geo. G. Cookman re: Dickinson |
1839 |
| 2139-3-2:
13 |
Notes,Discourse and Valedictory speech |
1839-1846 |
| 2139-3-2:
14 |
Sermons,Addresses and Lectures |
1839-1843 |
| 2139-3-3:
1 |
Life of Asbury: Folder 1 |
1814-1848 |
| 2139-3-3:
2 |
Life of Asbury: Folder 2 |
1814-1848 |
| 2139-3-3:
3 |
Journal Extracts on Asbury |
1814 |
| 2139-3-3:
4 |
Memorandum and Journal |
1836 |
| 2139-3-3:
5 |
Photocopies: Folder 1 |
1789-1835 |
| 2139-3-3:
6 |
Photocopies: Folder 2 |
1814-1848 |
