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The Speer Family papers cover four generations of the family, although the bulk of the material focuses on the last two, specifically on Robert Elliott and Emma Bailey Speer and their children. The papers begin, chronologically, with Robert Speer, an Irish immigrant and grandfather to Robert Elliott Speer. His son, Robert Milton Speer, was a Pennsylvania lawyer, politician, and Robert Elliott Speer's father. The papers of Robert Elliott Speer, a well-known Presbyterian missionary of the early twentieth century, are the main connection between the different series; his brothers William McMurtrie Speer and Victor Speer, both journalists, have their own individual series. Robert Elliott's wife, Emma Bailey Speer, attended Bryn Mawr College, associated with the class of 1894, and was the long-time president of the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA). Robert Elliott and Emma Bailey's children—Margaret Bailey Speer, Bryn Mawr College class of 1922, missionary, and school administrator, and Elliott and William Speer, also both school administrators—are represented as well. The papers of Robert Elliott and Emma Bailey Speer's nuclear family make up the bulk of the collection.

Robert Elliott Speer (1867-1947) was the second of five children born to Robert Milton Speer and Martha Ellen McMurtrie Speer in Huntington, Pennsylvania. His grandfather, Robert Speer (1803-1852), immigrated to America from Ireland in 1822, became a U.S. citizen and eventually postmaster of Huntingdon. His father, Robert Milton Speer (1838-1890), was a Pennsylvania-based attorney and was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives twice, in 1871 and 1873. Robert Elliott Speer spent two years at Phillips Andover Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, after which he entered Princeton University, in 1885. While at Princeton, Speer met and was deeply influenced by Dwight L. Moody, and thus he decided on a career of missionary service after his graduation in 1889. Speer spent the year following graduation visiting colleges as a spokesman for the Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions. In the fall of 1890, he entered Princeton Theological Seminary but left in his second year to become Secretary of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., a position he was to hold for over 46 years.

Robert Elliott Speer was a world leader in the ecumenical Protestant missionary movement during the first half of the 20th century, when the movement reached its climax. His duties as secretary took him on many trips to the Far East and to South America, as well as on innumerable shorter trips throughout the U.S. He was also prominent in other organizations, and held positions as President of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America (1920-1924) and Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (1927). Although he retired in 1937, he continued to travel, and lectured widely until his death in 1947.

Robert Elliott Speer's brothers are also represented in the collection:

William McMurtrie Speer (1865-1923) was born in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, and was educated at Yale and Albany Law School. He began his career in journalism while still in college, writing for "The News of New Haven." Eventually, he became the managing editor of this paper. He also wrote for the Albany, New York papers "The Sun," as a political and legislative correspondent and "The Star," as a city editor. Later, he was on the editorial board of several other papers. He was a member of the Constitutional Convention in 1892, and last served as a special United States Attorney General, investigating profiteering in coal. He married Margaret Howard Post in 1899.

Victor Speer (1872-1909) was a newspaperman, writer, and poet. He struggled during his time at Andover, but found success later in life as a reporter on "The Buffalo Express" during the Pan-American Expansion. He served on the Arizona frontier in the Army. When Mayor J.N. Adam was elected in Buffalo, New York, Victor was selected to serve as his secretary. He died suddenly from rheumatism of the heart while in this capacity, leaving a wife but no children.

Emma (Doll) Bailey Speer (1872-1961) was born in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Charles Lukens Bailey and Emma Harriet Doll. After attending Miss Stevens School in Philadelphia, she entered Bryn Mawr College in 1890, leaving after her sophomore year in 1892 to return home, where she spent a year before her marriage. She married Robert Elliott Speer in 1893, and together they had five children, born between 1898 and 1910. Throughout her lifetime, she was closely associated with the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA), serving that organization in a variety of capacities. After becoming President of the National Board in 1915, she promoted the YWCA's involvement in emergency war relief work, and championed the cause of great numbers of young women workers who were then moving into the cities. Under her leadership, more residences were opened, and programs of recreation and practical education were given additional support.

Emma Bailey Speer's active interests included the missionary movement, the suffrage movement, as well as new movements for international peace and sex education. Named honorary president of the National Board of the YWCA after her retirement in 1932, she continued to serve the YWCA with great distinction for many years.

Elliott Speer (1898-1934) was born in Englewood, New Jersey, the oldest child of Robert Elliott and Emma Bailey Speer. He graduated from Princeton University in 1921, served for a year in World War I with the YMCA, and studied at the Theological College of the United Free Church in Edinburgh, Scotland. After working as chaplain, head of the Bible Department, and trustee at several American educational institutions, he returned to Edinburgh to complete graduate work in theology. Afterwards, in 1932, he was appointed headmaster of Mt. Hermon and Northfield Schools, in Mt. Hermon, Massachusetts. He was murdered in his home there in 1934, leaving his wife, Holly, and three small daughters.

Margaret Bailey Speer (1900-1997) was also born in Englewood, the second child of Robert Elliott and Emma Bailey Speer. After graduating from Bryn Mawr College in 1922, she traveled throughout the United States with Maude Royan, a British preacher, pacifist, and suffragist, serving as her secretary and companion. She spent the academic year of 1923-1924 teaching English literature at Sweet Briar College, and the next year, 1924-1925, as a warden at Bryn Mawr. In the late summer of 1925, she sailed for China as a missionary under the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. to be a teacher at Yenching University in Peking. Her first assignment was teacher of English in the Women's College. She later served as acting and then full dean of the Women's College. Detained and interned by the Japanese at the outbreak of war in 1941, she was repatriated to the United States in late 1943. She accepted the position of Headmistress of the Shipley School, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, in 1944, and remained there until her retirement in 1965. Following her retirement, she remained active in a number of local civic organizations, including a position as Chairman and founding member of the Lower Merion Human Relations Council. Margaret Speer lived for a number of years with Augusta Wagner, who she met while abroad in China.

William Speer (1910-1985) attended the Hotchkiss School and Princeton. Upon graduating in 1933, he entered secondary education, teaching English. In 1941, he moved into academic administration, serving as assistant to the headmaster of the Gilman School, although he postponed his career to join the Navy. Upon his return, he held various administrative positions at Rutgers University, the Loomis School and Harvard, until he was appointed associate dean of students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1953. In 1956, he became MIT's first associate dean for counseling. William was married to Elizabeth Lester (Betty).

The immediate Speer family also included Constance (Pat) Sophea Speer (1907-2000), who attended Bryn Mawr, class of 1929 (graduated in 1930), married Robert F. Barbour, and moved to England, and Eleanor Speer (1903-1906), who died at age three.

The collection also includes a small sampling of letters from Margaret Howard Speer Satterthwaite, William McMurtrie Speer's daughter and Robert Elliott Speer's niece.

The Speer Family papers contain, principally, the personal papers of Robert Elliott Speer and his immediate family members: his wife, Emma Bailey Speer, and his children, Margaret Bailey Speer, Elliott Speer, and William Speer. Also included in the collection are smaller groups of material from William McMurtrie Speer and Victor Speer, Robert Elliott's brothers, Robert Milton Speer, Robert Elliott's father, and Robert Speer, Robert Elliott's grandfather. The collection, which ranges from 1802- 1982, primarily consists of correspondence between family members, but there are also diaries, account books, copies of speeches and addresses, and family photographs.

The collection is divided into eight series: "Series I: Genealogical and Biographical Material," "Series II: Papers of Robert Elliott Speer," "Series III: Papers of Emma Bailey Speer," "Series IV: Papers of Margaret Bailey Speer," "Series V: Papers of Elliott Speer," "Series VI: Papers of William Speer," "Series VII: Miscellaneous Material," and "Series VIII: Satterthwaite Supplement."

"Series I: Genealogical and Biographical Material" contains a large amount of genealogical and biographical material related to the Speer and Bailey families, including: genealogical charts of the Speer and Bailey families; material written on the Speer and Bailey family genealogies; "Recollections of My Father" and "Reminisces" by Robert Speer; biographical information on Robert Milton Speer, Robert Elliott Speer, and Emma Bailey Speer; memorial tributes to Robert Elliott Speer and Emma Bailey Speer; and clippings related to Robert Elliott Speer.

"Series II: Papers of Robert Elliott Speer" is divided into three subseries: "Robert Speer," "Robert Milton Speer," "and Robert Elliott Speer." The subseries "Robert Speer" contains a bound volume containing land deeds and letters and a bound volume containing miscellaneous papers. The subseries "Robert Milton Speer" is primarily correspondence, both personal and professional, from circa 1860s-1880s. It also contains Robert Milton Speer's receipts, including his children's tuition bills and academic reports. The subseries "Robert Elliott Speer" comprises the bulk of this series. Robert Elliott Speer was a prolific letter writer, and this subseries contains an enormous amount of correspondence, largely with other family members. He wrote especially often to his daughter, Margaret Bailey Speer, and his wife, Emma Bailey Speer. Robert Elliott's letters to his daughter, Margaret, deal primarily with family matters. However, subsequent to her departure for China in August 1925, his letters occasionally provide information on China and the China missions for which he was responsible. These letters number approximately 360, dated from September 1925 to July 1937. Robert Elliott's letters to his daughter give an informal impression of events also described in his administrative reports. In his approximately 1400 letters to his wife, Emma, he describes his travels and events he participated in, speeches made at conferences and assemblies, the people he was meeting, and the larger themes of politics and religion. His letters show a remarkable perception of foreign cultures, with their problems and possibilities. While these two sets of letters are the bulk of the Robert Elliott Speer material in the collection, there are also numerous letters to all of his family; several published pamphlets; tributes and memorials; financial information; and some personal writings.

"Series III: Papers of Emma Bailey Speer" contains correspondence with her parents and other family members, talks and speeches, devotional material, diaries, and a large sampling of incoming letters from notable people, ranging from Herbert Hoover to M. Carey Thomas, which primarily address Emma Bailey's professional goals as president of the YWCA. Letters sent from her time at Bryn Mawr College are notable for their descriptions of student life in the late 1800's. The bulk of her letters, however, are correspondence with Robert Elliott over the course of their lives together; together, their letters number close to 3000. In Emma's letters, she mostly spoke of daily life: the children's activities, domestic crises, visits by friends, and her participation in the YWCA and other organizations. Additionally, she comments on politics, books she is reading, and cultural events she has attended.

"Series IV: Papers of Margaret Bailey Speer" consists largely of correspondence, which ranges from her time as a student at Bryn Mawr, to her missionary work in China, to her speeches and correspondence as the Shipley School headmistress, to her humanitarian work on the Main Line following her retirement. Her papers are largely personal, except for the Shipley era material, which takes on a decidedly professional tone: they mostly consist of her speeches to the students, parents, and alumnae (at the time, the school was all-girls), as well as an assortment of letters to various important figures, such as poet Marianne Moore, Bryn Mawr class of 1909, and Adlai Stevenson, asking them to visit and speak at the school. A folder of letters sent on her retirement and one of remembrances collected for Trina Vaux's book, "Recollections of Margaret Bailey Speer," speaks to her formidable presence at the school. There are approximately 120 letters from her time at Bryn Mawr, which paint a fascinating picture of life at the school during the early 1920's: M. Carey Thomas, professors, student activities, classmates, and scholarly work are all discussed in detail. Her letters from China provide insight into the country at the time. They describe her roles in the country, the volatile political climate on the eve of World War II, and the impact of those tensions and events on the students and the University. She also discusses her visitors, the struggle to keep the Women's College independent, and the relationship of life at Yenching and the larger missionary movement. She provides, towards the end of her China letters, much insight into the situation "behind enemy lines," expressing the frustration of trying to communicate her well-being to those at home.

"Series V: Papers of Elliott Speer" are representative of his short but productive life. They include letters to his parents through his years at Phillips, Princeton, and the University of Edinburgh, and show that he controlled his parent's affairs while they were travelling abroad, arranged in chronological order. They include day-to-day accounts of his family life while in Edinburgh and wartime diaries from his time spent with the YMCA during World War I. His papers from his time at Mount Hermon indicate that he was a controversial figure among the school board's older members: in 1929, the Chairman of the Board, William R. Moody, son of the school's founder and Robert Elliott Speer's early mentor Dwight L. Moody, resigned in protest over Elliott's liberal philosophies towards the running of the school. However, the Speer and Moody families resolved their differences, and the plethora of tributes following Elliott's untimely murder five years later indicate he was a very popular leader. The series also contains memorial materials organized by Robert Elliott Speer in preparation for his book "Memorial of Elliott Speer" (see Box 18a). "Series VI: Papers of William Speer" is primarily comprised of letters between William and his parents, from his time at Hotchkiss through the Princeton years and into his life in academia. These mostly detail daily events—his letters to his brother Elliott present some of his anxieties regarding finding a job after graduation. This series also includes letters from William's wife, Elizabeth (Betty) to her in-laws, Robert Elliott and Emma, as well as some of Robert Elliott and Emma Bailey Speer's correspondence with their daughter Constance (Pat).

"Series VII: Miscellaneous Material" contains two subseries "Photographs" and Miscellany." "Photographs" consists of family photos, including loose Yenching photos and several family photo albums. "Miscellany" contains a variety of materials, including cassette tapes with oral histories; religious pamphlets; miscellaneous materials and letters; materials related to Robert Elliott Speer's estate; remembrances of Robert Elliott Speer; and miscellaneous newspapers and letters.

"Series VIII: Satterthwaite Supplement," named after its benefactor, Margaret Howard Speer Satterthwaite, is divided into four subseries: "Robert Milton Speer," "William McMurtrie Speer (1865-1923)," "Margaret Howard Speer Satterthwaite," and "Victor Speer (1872-1909)." The subseries "Robert Milton Speer" contains a large amount of correspondence with his wife, Martha Ellen McMurtrie Speer, from 1871-1875; his books; his speeches; his letters on politics; writings and poems; materials related to state politics; legal matters and bills; and materials related to his illness and death, including his will. The Satterthwaite supplement also contains material from Robert Milton Speer's two sons, William McMurtrie and Victor, and his grand-daughter, Margaret Howard Speer Satterthwaite (William McMurtrie's daughter). "William McMurtrie" consists primarily of correspondence, much of which is to his father and which chronicles his time at The Hill School, Yale, and later, at his different positions as a journalist. The subseries also contains letters to his mother, siblings, and other family members. "Margaret Howard Speer Satterthwaite" contains letters from Clara McMurtrie Speer, Robert Elliott Speer, Emma Bailey Speer, Mary Cowen Speer, Elliott Speer, and the Huntingdon High School Graduation Program. "Victor Speer" includes letters to his father and brothers William and Robert Elliott, as well as detailed reports of his academic and disciplinary problems while at Andover. They also include his writings and poems.

The Speer family was highly involved in both the Presbyterian Church and academic administration. This bulky collection provides a well-rounded view of four generations of the family, from missionary work to political careers. Since much of the material is personal correspondence between family members, it would be of tremendous worth to anyone interested in the Speers themselves, but it also has more general value to those interested in the Presbyterian Church circa the 19th-20th centuries; Protestant missionary work; Bryn Mawr College; Yale University; Princeton University; Yenching, China; World War I, etc.

Gift of Margaret Bailey Speer, Constance Speer Barbour, and William Speer, December 1982. Additional gift by Ann and Sheafe Satterthwaite, 1992.

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Bryn Mawr College
Finding Aid Author
Christina Wagner, Melissa Torquato
Finding Aid Date
June 1, 2011
Access Restrictions

This collection is open for research.

Use Restrictions

The Speer Family papers are the physical property of the Special Collections Department, Bryn Mawr College Library. Literary rights, including copyright, belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns.

Collection Inventory

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2 boxes

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1 boxes

Genealogical charts of the Speer and Bailey families. 1 folders.
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1 folders

Material written re: Speer family genealogy. 1 folders.
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1 folders

Bailey Family Genealogy. 1 folders.
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1 folders

Miscellaneous letters and biographical notes relating to the Speer family. 1 folders.
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1 folders

Robert Elliott Speer to/from Robert B. Louden (cousin) re: family genealogy. 1 folders.
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1 folders

Correspondence, pamphlets, biographical materials (originally in scrapbook compiled by Robert Elliott Speer). 2 folders.
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2 folders

"Family Records" of Speer Family. 1 items.
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1 itemsAlbum containing pre-printed genealogical sheets with manuscript additions.

"Chronological Record"-- notes by Robert Elliott Speer re: memories, travels, important dates, etc. 1 items.
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1 itemsBound volume

"Recollections of My Father" and "Reminiscences" by Robert Elliott Speer. 1 folders.
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1 folders

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1 boxes

Biographical information on Robert Milton Speer, Robert Elliott Speer, and Emma Bailey Speer. 1 folders.
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1 folders

Memorial tributes and Memorial service booklets--Robert Elliott Speer. 1 folders.
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1 folders

Memorial tributes to Robert Elliott Speer. 2 folders.
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2 folders

Memorial service booklets-- Robert Elliott Speer. 2 folders.
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2 folders

Memorial tributes to Emma Bailey Speer. 2 folders.
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2 folders

Clippings re: Robert Elliott Speer. 1 folders.
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1 folders

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18 boxes

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Bound volume containing land deeds and letters. 1 items.
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1 itemsVolume contains: deeds from 1802 and 1826 in Huntingdon Co., Pennsylvania, letters from cousin John Martin in Ireland, letters to mother, letters to wife and children, bills of sale, receipts

Bound volume containing miscellaneous papers. 1 items.
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1 itemsVolume contains: citizenship papers, Masonic Lodge membership, postmaster credentials, correspondence relating to postmaster appointment, letters to wife, business correspondence, letters from son, George W. Speer

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4 boxes

Letters from political and legal associates, 1860-1867. 3 folders.
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3 folders54 letters

Civil War Letters, 1862. 1 folders.
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1 foldersTwo letters from soldiers to Speer regarding progress of war, Pennsylvania politics, government ethics

Letters from Martha Ellen McMurtrie Speer, 1875-1876. 2 folders.
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2 folders8 letters

Letters written to Robert Milton Speer re: wife's death, 1876. 1 folders.
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1 folders15 letters

Certificates of Robert Milton Speer's election to Congress, 1870-1872. 1 folders.
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1 folders

Robert Milton Speer's will. 1 folders.
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1 folders

Robert Milton Speer's letters to/from sons, 1881. 1 folders.
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1 folders

Victor Speer to Robert Milton Speer, 1886-1887. 1 folders.
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1 folders

Victor Speer-- Poems, 1883-1889. 1 folders.
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1 folders

Victor Speer-- Essays. 1 folders.
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1 folders

Letters to Robert Milton and Robert Elliott Speer on Victor Speer's death. 1 folders.
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1 folders

Charles William Eliot to Victor Speer. 1 folders.
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1 folders

Margaret Agnes Speer to Robert Milton Speer, 1881-1889. 1 folders.
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1 folders

1881-1883. 1 folders.
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1 folders

1884. 1 folders.
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1 folders

1885. 1 folders.
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1 folders

1886. 1 folders.
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1 folders

1887-1888. 1 folders.
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1 folders

1889. 1 folders.
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1 folders

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1 folders

"Contents of Yellow Envelope"-- children's tution and academic reports. 1 folders.
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1 folders

Additional tuition bills and grade reports. 1 folders.
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1 folders

Legal receipts (?). 1 folders.
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1 folders

Assorted receipts for goods, services rendered, etc. 1 folders.
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1 folders

Miscellaneous receipts, bills, clippings. 1 folders.
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1 folders

Transcriptions of Robert Milton Speer's 1857 and 1858 diaries by Robert Elliott Speer. 1 folders.
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1 folders

Line-a-day diaries, 1857-1884. 23 items.
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23 items1857, 1858, 1859, 1860, 1861, 1863, 1864, 1865, 1866, 1870, 1871, 1872, 1873, 1874, 1876, 1877, 1878, 1879, 1880, 1881, 1882, 1883, 1884

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13 boxes

Bound volume of letters to Robert Milton Speer from Andover days, 1883-1884. 1 items.
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1 itemsapproximately 180 pages

Bound volume of letters to Robert Milton Speer from Andover days., 1884-1885. 1 items.
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1 itemsapproximately 120 pages

Bound volume of letters to Robert Elliott Speer from Robert Milton Speer, his sister Mary, his brother William, and letters from Robert Elliott Speer to his mother, future wife Emma, her parents (Mr. and Mrs. Charles Lukens Bailey) , 1887-1888. 1 items.
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1 items

Account books of entire adult life, 1891-1947. 3 items.
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3 items1891-1906; 1907-1930; 1931-1947

United States passports. 2 items.
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2 items1924 and 1939

Miscellaneous letters and lecture notes. 1 folders.
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1 folders

Financial papers re: estate of Robert Elliott Speer (1949) and Certificate of Devise (1951). 1 folders.
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1 folders

From Clara and Edward Stewart McMurtrie (also, Arthur McMurtrie to Robert Elliott Speer, Clara to Emma Bailey Speer), 1911-1946. 1 folders.
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1 folders26 letters

Miscellaneous letters. 1 folders.
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1 folders

From the Speer children. 1 folders.
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1 folders

From Elliott Speer, 1927-1931. 1 folders.
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1 folders3 letters

From William Speer, 1921-1930. 1 folders.
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1 folders12 letters

From friends re: death of Elliott Speer. 1 folders.
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1 folders2 letters

Scrapbook containing letters from friends and colleagues, memorabilia of William Speer, advertisments, bills, drawings, prayers, report cards, articles by Emma Bailey and Margaret Bailey Speer re: Robert Elliott Speer, honorary degrees. 1 items.
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1 items

Miscellaneous letters to various family members., 1926-1935. 1 folders.
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1 folders21 letters

To Clara McMurtrie, 1911-1931. 1 folders.
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1 folders86 letters

To Clara McMurtrie, 1931-1936. 1 folders.
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1 folders75 letters

To Edward Stewart McMurtrie, 1911-1924 (1911-1914). 1 folders.
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1 folders67 letters

To various family members while traveling, 1896-1897. 1 folders.
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1 folders20 letters

Miscellaneous letters and cables about Robert Elliott Speer's illness in Persia, 1896. 1 folders.
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1 folders

To Elliott Speer, 1907-1915. 1 folders.
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1 folders28 letters

To Elliott Speer, 1926-1934. 1 folders.
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1 folders40 letters

To Elliott Speer, 1924-1929. 1 folders.
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1 folders

To Elliott Speer, 1929-1934. 1 folders.
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1 folders

To Constance Speer, 1910-1925. 1 folders.
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1 folders54 letters

To William Speer, 1915-1932. 1 folders.
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1 folders45 letters

To Bob (nephew), 1930. 1 folders.
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1 folders

"Letters 1887-1892 to RES". 1 items.
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1 itemsBound volume

23 Jan 1907-24 Oct 1915. 1 folders.
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1 folders37 letters

30 Sept 1917-16 Oct 1921. 1 folders.
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1 folders52 letters

23 Oct 1921-21 Apr 1925. 1 folders.
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1 folders35 letters

10 Sept 1925-31 Jan 1928. 1 folders.
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1 folders19 letters

6 June 1928-23 Apr 1929. 1 folders.
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1 folders16 letters

5 June 1929-16 Apr 1932. 1 folders.
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1 folders35 letters

4 May 1932-29 Nov 1933. 1 folders.
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1 folders42 letters

5 Jan 1934-24 July 1934. 1 folders.
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1 folders23 letters

21 Aug 1934-19 Jan 1935. 1 folders.
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1 folders25 letters

29 Jan 1935-21 Nov 1935. 1 folders.
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1 folders25 letters

6 Dec 1935-21 May 1936. 1 folders.
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1 folders23 letters

8 June 1936-26 July 1937. 1 folders.
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1 folders35 letters

1 Nov 1941-20 Jan 1942. 1 folders.
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1 folders8 letters

1934-1937. 1 folders.
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1 folders

1945-1947. 1 folders.
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1 folders

To Margaret Bailey Speer--carbon copies. 2 folders.
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2 folders

4 Dec 1891-27 Apr 1892. 1 folders.
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1 folders35 letters

28 Apr 1892-7 June 1892. 1 folders.
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1 folders36 letters

8 June 1892-25 July 1892. 1 folders.
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1 folders24 letters

26 July 1892-9 Sept 1892. 1 folders.
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1 folders23 letters

10 Sept 1892-7 Oct 1892. 1 folders.
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1 folders24 letters

8 Oct 1892-17 Nov 1892. 1 folders.
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1 folders35 letters

18 Nov 1892-19 Dec 1892. 1 folders.
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1 folders25 letters

20 Dec 1892-29 Jan 1893. 1 folders.
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1 folders39 letters

1 Feb 1893- 28 Feb 1893. 1 folders.
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1 folders

1 Mar 1893-30 Mar 1893. 1 folders.
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1 folders27 letters

3 Apr 1893-16 Apr 1893. 1 folders.
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1 folders13 letters

15 Jan 1894-13 Sept 1898. 1 folders.
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1 folders51 letters

8 Jan 1900-29 Oct 1901. 1 folders.
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1 folders61 letters

1 July 1902-28 Oct 1902. 1 folders.
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1 folders35 letters

19 June 1903-25 Oct 1903. 1 folders.
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1 folders16 letters

23 May 1904-27 Dec 1905. 1 folders.
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1 folders49 letters

1 Mar 1906-28 Dec 1906. 1 folders.
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1 folders46 letters

13 Jan 1907-25 Nov 1907. 1 folders.
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1 folders58 letters

11 Jan 1908-30 Dec 1908. 1 folders.
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1 folders18 letters

6 May 1909-8 July 1909. 1 folders.
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1 folders7 letters, plus cables and itinerary

9 July 1909-26 Oct 1909. 1 folders.
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1 folders13 letters

5 Jan 1910-19 Jan 1910. 1 folders.
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1 folders16 letters, plus cables

14 Jan 1911-14 Nov 1911. 1 folders.
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1 folders45 letters

12 Jan 1912-10 Nov 1912. 1 folders.
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1 folders16 letters

21 Jan 1913-31 Dec 1913. 1 folders.
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1 folders38 letters

1 Jan 1914-4 Oct 1914. 1 folders.
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1 folders32 letters

12 Apr 1915-7 Sept 1915. 1 folders.
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1 folders33 letters

8 Sept 1915-11 Dec 1916. 1 folders.
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1 folders47 letters

17 Jan 1917-25 Dec 1918. 1 folders.
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1 folders41 letters

7 Jan 1919-27 May 1919. 1 folders.
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1 folders53 letters

3 Aug 1921-30 Sept 1921. 1 folders.
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1 folders22 letters

6 Oct 1921-20 May 1922. 1 folders.
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1 folders22 letters

14 Sept 1922-31 Dec 1923. 1 folders.
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1 folders26 letters

7 Feb 1924-12 Dec 1924. 1 folders.
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1 folders46 letters

12 Jan 1925-30 June 1926. 1 folders.
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1 folders38 letters

2 Oct 1926-12 Nov 1927. 1 folders.
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1 folders56 letters

5 Jan 1927-30 Nov 1927. 1 folders.
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1 folders56 letters

6 Jan 1928-24 Oct 1928. 1 folders.
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1 folders47 letters

15 Jan 1929-15 Dec 1929. 1 folders.
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1 folders47 letters

21 Jan 1930-17 June 1930. 1 folders.
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1 folders50 letters

23 June 1930-23 Nov 1930. 1 folders.
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1 folders53 letters

18 Feb 1931-11 Dec 1931. 1 folders.
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1 folders62 letters

20 Jan 1932-24 Oct 1932. 1 folders.
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1 folders77 letters

21 Jan 1933-25 Nov 1933. 1 folders.
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1 folders56 letters

3 Mar 1934-28 Aug 1934. 1 folders.
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1 folders51 letters

8 Mar 1935-28 Dec 1935. 1 folders.
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1 folders73 letters

4 Feb 1936-28 Nov 1936. 1 folders.
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1 folders66 letters

28 Jan 1937-8 Nov 1937. 1 folders.
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1 folders34 letters

28 Feb 1938-16 Nov 1938. 1 folders.
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1 folders25 letters

19 Feb 1939-9 Nov 1939. 1 folders.
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1 folders30 letters

11 Feb 1940-6 Dec 1940. 1 folders.
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1 folders56 letters

20 Jan 1941-4 Nov 1941. 1 folders.
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1 folders70 letters

7 Jan 1942-24 Apr 1942. 1 folders.
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1 folders56 letters

24 Apr 1942-2 Dec 1942. 1 folders.
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1 folders57 letters

8 Jan 1943-21 Apr 1943. 1 folders.
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1 folders66 letters

17 May 1943-16 Nov 1943. 1 folders.
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1 folders50 letters

4 Dec 1943-12 Oct 1947. 1 folders.
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1 folders54 letters

5-year line-a-day diaries, 1937-1946. 2 items.
Physical Description

2 items

Medallion from the Ulster-Irish Society of New York, 1941. 1 items.
Physical Description

1 items

Typed lists of books in Robert Elliott Speer's personal library and records of their dispersal after his death. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders

Pamphlets published by Robert Elliott Speer, 1889-1951. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders1) "The Liberalistic Temper," Valedictory Oration from Princeton, 19 June 1889 2) "Ring in the New," 1923 3) "'Re-thinking Missions' Examined," 1933 4) "A Foreign Missionary Appraisal," 1 Jan 1937 5) "One Century Past, Another to Come," 1937 6) "What Consitutes a Missionary Call," 1944 7) "The Fellowship of the Spirit," Easter/Pentacost 1947 8) "Not Against One Another but Together," Baccalaureate Sermon, The Hill School, 8 June 1947 9) "Basic Problems Challenging Foreign Missions," published posthumorously, 1951 10) "The Spiritual Resources of Christian Higher Education" 11) "A Frank Talk about Gambling and Betting" 12) "Some Changing and Unchanging Things in Foreign Missions" 13) "What the Church May Expect of its Schools and Colleges" 14) "The Christian Gentleman" 15) "Are Foreign Missions Done For?" 16) "Returning Jerusalem to Jesus" 17) "What Shall I Do After the War" 18) "Christian Tithing, a Privilege"

"Memorial of Elliott Speer". 2 items.
Physical Description

2 itemsBound volumes

"Memorial of Elliott Speer". 2 items.
Physical Description

2 itemsManuscripts

Letters to Margaret Bailey Speer, Constance Speer Barbour, and Robert F. Barbour (in China and England, respectively) from Robert Elliott Speer, re: Elliott Speer's murder, 1934. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders3 letters, plus copies

"Deacon," vols. 1 and 2. 2 items.
Physical Description

2 itemsBound volumes

Material correspondence. 2 folders.
Physical Description

2 folders

"Eleanor"-- reflections by RES and EBS on death of their child Eleanor, later additions on death of oldest son Elliott. 3 items.
Physical Description

3 itemsBound volume, plus 2 enlargements

Personal Bible of Robert Elliott Speer, annotated. 1 items.
Physical Description

1 items

Map of tramps. 2 items.
Physical Description

2 items2 copies

"Random Personal Recollections". 1 items.
Physical Description

1 itemsBound volume

"Childhood-Boyhood". 1 items.
Physical Description

1 itemsBound volume of letters

"Letters of my Father and Mother, and some from Will, Mary, and some to them", 1875-1886. 1 items.
Physical Description

1 itemsBound volume

Robert Elliott Speer's notes. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders

Physical Description

16 boxes

Physical Description

16 boxes

Old family papers, including promissory notes, land deeds, receipts, hymns. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders

Letters to Sarah Elder Doll on the death of her husband, Gilbert Martin McCauley (Emma Bailey Speer's aunt and uncle), 1901. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders17 letters

Miscellaneous letters to Emma Bailey Speer from Bailey relatives and clippings of family events, 1898-1963. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders12 letters, plus clippings

Letters to Emma Bailey and Robert Elliott Speer, and to Emma Harriet Bailey (EBS' mother) from her father, Charles Lukens Bailey, 1891-1898. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders6 letters

Letters from Emma Harriet Bailey to Emma Bailey Speer, from Sarah McAllister Elder (EBS' grandmother) to Emma Harriet Bailey, from friends to Emma Bailey Speer, and from M.L. Hayes to Robert Elliott Speer's mother., 1890-1912. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders37 letters

Letters from Emma Bailey Speer to her parents, sister Fay, 1884-1905. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders16 letters

Memorial tributes to Charles Lukens Bailey and Emma Harriet Bailey, 1909, 1912. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders

Clippings re: Charles Lukens Bailey. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders

Undated devotional materials authored by Emma Bailey Speer. 3 folders.
Physical Description

3 folders

Talks and speeches, 1921-1955. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders

Miscellaneous notes, prayers, travel writings, and memorials of college friends. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders

Physical Description

1 boxes

Diaries, 1897-1959. 11 items.
Physical Description

11 items1) 1 Jan 1887-25 July 1896 2) 18 Feb 1897-25 June 1897 3) 1 July 1897-10 Aug 1897 4) 3 Jan 1926-31 Dec 1926 5) 1 Jan 1927-27 Nov 1927 6) 1 Jan 1947-31 Dec 1951 7) 1 Jan 1952-30 Dec 1956 8) 1957 9 & 10) 1958 11) 1959

Address books. 2 items.
Physical Description

2 items

Commonplace books. 2 items.
Physical Description

2 items

Birthday book. 1 items.
Physical Description

1 items

U.S. passports. 3 items.
Physical Description

3 items1926, 1929, 1949

Day book. 1 items.
Physical Description

1 items

Marriage announcement: Robert Elliott Speer to Emma Doll Bailey. 2 items.
Physical Description

2 items

From Herbert Hoover, 1920, 1931. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders4 letters

From John D. Rockefeller, Jr., 1919-1932. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders4 letters

From Elizabeth Cutter Morrow (Mrs. Dwight Morrow), 1921-1938. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders5 letters

From Robert Sherwood, 1954. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders1 letter

From Ida Tarbell, 1937. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders1 letter

From Alys Pearsall Smith Russell, 1890. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders1 letter

From Grace Dodge and Mabel Cratty, 1910, 1919, 1921. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders3 letters

From Jessie Willcox Smith, 1923. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders1 letter

From M. Carey Thomas, 1918. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders2 letters

Miscellaneous letters from close friends and relatives, 1899-1952. 2 folders.
Physical Description

2 folders

From Helen W. Coleman, 1901-1917. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders15 letters

From the Princeton Theological Seminary, 1957-1959. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders

From Housatonic Regional High School, 1953. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders

Letters to Emma Bailey Speer re: engagement to Robert Elliott Speer, 1892. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders22 letters

To Florence E. Smith, 1914-1922. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders14 letters

To Sarah Belknap "Belle" Sherwood Hawkes, 1897-1916. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 foldersNOTE: Hawkes' papers can be found at the Presbyterian Historical Society in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and the Billy Graham Center at Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois

From missionaries in Persia, 1896-1916. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders

To Emma Bailey Speer, re: Robert Elliott Speer in Persia, 1922. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders9 letters

To Emma Bailey Speer re: election to the presidency of the YWCA, 1915. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders28 letters

To Miss Lambart re: Emma Bailey Speer's resignation from the presidency of the YWCA, 1932. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders41 letters

Miscellaneous letters to Emma Bailey Speer, 1896-1960. 2 folders.
Physical Description

2 foldersapproximately 40 letters

To Emma Bailey Speer on Robert Elliott Speer's death, 1947. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders46 letters

To Emma Bailey Speer, thanking her for gift of Robert Elliott Speer's "Five Minutes a Day", 1948-1949. 3 folders.
Physical Description

3 folders

To Emma Bailey Speer re: death of Michi Kawai, Bryn Mawr 1904 and Japanese graduate. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders

To parents, Mary Cowen Speer re: Robert Elliott Speer's sickness in Persia, 1896. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders12 letters

To Margaret Bailey Speer, 1905-1920. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders25 letters

To Margaret Bailey Speer, 1921-1937. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders39 letters

To Elliott, Constance (Pat), and William Speer, 1906-1951. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders15 letters

To Mrs. A.H.F. Barbour, 1920-1928. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders11 letters

To Mrs. John J. Egan , 1939-1943. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders14 letters

YWCA correspondence, 1918-1930. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders9 letters

Emma Bailey Speer to Robert Elliott Speer-- undated. 4 folders.
Physical Description

4 folders

1891-1892. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders49 letters

1891-1892. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders30 letters

1891-1893. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders26 letters

1892-1893. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders29 letters

1892-1893. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders35 letters

1892-1893. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders33 letters

1892-1893. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders31 letters

1892-1893. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders28 letters

1892-1893. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders12 letters

1893-1894. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders54 letters

1895-1896. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders36 letters

1898-1899. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders26 letters

1899. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders20 letters

1899-1900. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders12 letters

1901. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders25 letters

7 July 1901-24 June 1902. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders21 letters

5 July 1902-6 Sept 1902. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders13 letters

8 Sept 1902-20 Dec 1904. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders24 letters

8 May 1905-3 July 1906. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders17 letters

29 Sept 1906-17 Jan 1907. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders16 letters

20 Jan 1907-24 Sept 1908. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders20 letters

31 Mar 1909-31 May 1909. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders21 letters

4 June 1909-11 Oct 1909. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders19 letters

15 Feb 1910-12 Nov 1911. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders25 letters

9 Mar 1912-16 Oct 1914. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders24 letters

11 Apr 1915-8 May 1915. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders20 letters

10 May 1915-17 July 1915. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders27 letters

18 July 1915-7 Sept 1915. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders18 letters

10 Sept 1915-30 Sept 1916. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders21 letters

1 Oct 1916-3 Sept 1919. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders20 letters

1920. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders9 letters

21 Feb 1921-25 Sept 1921. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders22 letters

2 Oct 1921-Sept 1923. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders19 letters

21 Feb 1924-6 Nov 1925. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders22 letters

1 Sept 1926-3 Oct 1927. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders26 letters

20 Apr 1928-3 Oct 1928. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders16 letters

4 May 1929-21 July 1929. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders29 letters

14 Aug 1929-20 July 1930. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders31 letters

18 Aug 1930-28 May 1932. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders26 letters

14 June 1932-5 Dec 1932. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders28 letters

21 Jan 1933-27 May 1934. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders32 letters

3 June 1934- 26 Aug 1934. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders14 letters

25 Mar 1935- 30 July 1935. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders22 letters

2 Aug 1935-29 July 1936. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders27 letters

6 Aug 1936-2 Dec 1936. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders23 letters

28 Jan 1937-Nov 1937. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders21 letters

23 Apr 1938-20 Feb 1940. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders33 letters

22 Feb 1940-1 Dec 1940. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders30 letters

20 Jan 1941-20 Mar 1941. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders25 letters

20 June 1941-31 Jan 1942. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders35 letters

1 Feb 1941-23 June 1942. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders32 letters

23 Aug 1942-1 Dec 1942. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders39 letters

1 Jan 1943-27 Feb 1943. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders36 letters

1 Mar 194309 Dec 1943. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders33 letters

22 Feb 1944-22 Aug 1944. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders38 letters

16 Jan 1945-30 Mar 1947. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders25 letters

Smith Alumnae Quarterly, announcing honorary degree. 1 items.
Physical Description

1 items

Housatonic Valley Regional High School Award of Merit. 1 items.
Physical Description

1 items

Bryn Mawr College Alumni Bulletin- Distinguished Service. 5 items.
Physical Description

5 items5 copies

Bryn Mawr College Distinguished Service award. 1 items.
Physical Description

1 items

Miscellaneous correspondence. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders

Miscellaneous family correspondence. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders

Miscellaneous material. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders

Physical Description

17 boxes

Physical Description

17 boxes

1910-1916. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders10 letters

1918-28 May 1919. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders38 letters

30 Aug 1919-18 Dec 1919. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders22 letters

25 Jan 1920-5 Dec 1920. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders36 letters

10 Apr 1921-1 June 1922. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders18 letters

17 July 1923-12 Dec 1923. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders30 letters

17 Jan 1924-14 Dec 1924. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders43 letters

8 Jan 1925- 28 Apr 1925. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders29 letters

Bryn Mawr College course book. 1 items.
Physical Description

1 items

27 Aug 1925-29 Oct 1925. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders20 letters

31 Oct 1925-24 Dec 1925. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders12 letters

3 Jan 1926-26 May 1926. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders18 letters

28 Mar 1926-13 June 1926. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders17 letters

27 Oct 1926-27 Dec 1926. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders9 letters

7 Mar 1927-26 June 1927. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders19 letters

7 July 1927-29 Dec 1927. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders15 letters

26 Feb 1928-30 Dec 1928. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders17 letters

3 Feb 1929-15 Dec 1929. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders34 letters

2 Jan 1930-19 Aug 1930. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders23 letters

2 Aug 1931-6 Dec 1931. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders14 letters

1 Jan 1932-25 Dec 1932. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders28 letters

9 Jan 1933-17 Dec 1933. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders37 letters

21 Jan 1934-25 Dec 1934. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders33 letters

13 Jan 1935-28 Dec 1935. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders33 letters

5 Jan 1936-27 Dec 1936. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders30 letters

3 Jan 1937-26 Dec 1937. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders30 letters

4 Jan 1938-18 Dec 1938. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders37 letters

1 Jan 1939-31 Dec 1939. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders51 letters

9 Jan 1940-29 Dec 1940. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders58 letters

5 Jan 1941-7 Dec 1941. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders47 letters

15 Jan 1942-30 Dec 1942. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders30 letters, plus cables and other material

5 Jan 1943-11 Oct 1943. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders30 letters, plus cables and other material

Letters to Margaret Bailey Speer and Augusta Wagner from Yenching friends and colleagues, 1943-1946. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders16 letters

Letters to "Dear Friends and Relatives", 1941-1944. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders

Printed material re: Yenching. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders

Texts of speeches given by Margaret Bailey Speer on wartime China, 1944-1946. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders

Yenching publicity material. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders

Miscellaneous printed material. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders

Miscellaneous correspondence about China, 1927-1944. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders6 letters

Miscellaneous China material. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders

Yenching correspondence post-repatriation. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders

Miscellaneous China materials from time abroad/re: "Letters from Yenching". 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders

Miscellaneous China material. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders

Autochromes of sights around Peiping. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders

Articles written by Margaret Bailey Speer re: China. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders

Chapel talks and notes. 5 folders.
Physical Description

5 folders

Shipley Vespers, 1944-1965. 4 folders.
Physical Description

4 folders

Speeches to non-Shipley organizations, 1944-1970. 2 folders.
Physical Description

2 folders

Senior Banner. 2 folders.
Physical Description

2 folders

Christmas Vespers. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders

Christmas Dinner. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders

Commencement Addresses, 1952-1965. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders

Verse talks given mostly at Senior Dinner. 2 folders.
Physical Description

2 folders

Shipley publications re: Margaret Bailey Speer. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders

Speeches to Parents. 2 folders.
Physical Description

2 folders

Speeches to Alumnae. 2 folders.
Physical Description

2 folders

Miscellaneous speeches, "J.T. Stokes" poem, Yarnell auditorium speech, other Shipley items. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders

Obituaries written by Margaret Bailey Speer. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders

Shipley historical material. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders

Articles written by Margaret Bailey Speer for "Concern" magazine, re: Bible studies. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders

Letters to Augusta Wagner, 1952. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders4 letters

Letters to Emma Bailey Speer, 11 July 1952-3 Aug 1952. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders11 letters

Letters to Margaret Bailey Speer re: appointment as Shipley principal, 1944-1945. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders

Letters from Marianne Moore to Margaret Bailey Speer and Augusta Wager, 1962-1964. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders8 letters

Letter from Harry Emerson Fosdick to Margaret Bailey Speer, 1924. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders1 letter

Letter from Adlai Stevenson to Augusta Wagner, 1952. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders1 letter

Letter from Anna M. Rosenberg to Augusta Wagner, 1952. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders1 letter

Correspondence re: National Association of Private Schools for Girls. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders

Letters written to Margaret Bailey Speer on her retirement from Shipley, 1965. 5 folders.
Physical Description

5 folders

Transcriptions from Margaret Bailey Speer's line-a-day diaries, 1918-1922. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders

Notes for "Talk on RES" and "The YWCA, Then and Now", 1967, 1977. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders

Miscellaneous letters from M. Carey Thomas, Cornelia Otis Skinner, Edith Finch (Countess Russell), 1921, 1970s. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders8 letters

Letters to Margaret Bailey Speer on Robert Elliott Speer's death, 1947. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders

Letters to Margaret Bailey Speer on Emma Bailey Speer's death, 1961. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders

Miscellaneous correspondence: inquires about Robert Elliott and Emma Bailey Speer. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders

Correspondence with the Princeton Theological Seminary. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders

Miscellaneous clippings, printed material re: Margaret Bailey Speer. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders

Miscellaneous Shipley material. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders

Miscellaneous letters re: Robert Elliott Speer. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders

Miscellaneous clippings, organizational information, meeting notes. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders

Miscellaneous clippings re: school segregation and student initiatives. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders

Miscellaneous clippings and correspondence re: school segregation (racial and religious). 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders

Miscellaneous clippings and correspondence re: NAACP/school demands. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders

Membership details, etc. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders

Correspondence and meeting minutes. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders

Contents of Margaret Bailey Speer's Human Relations Council looseleaf binder, "Minutes, etc.". 2 folders.
Physical Description

2 folders

Datebooks, 1966-1995. 30 items.
Physical Description

30 items

Datebooks, 1945-1965. 20 items.
Physical Description

20 items

Correspondence and clippings re: Maude Royden. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders

Material re: death of Liu Fung Kei. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders

Miscellaneous Margaret Bailey Speer material. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders

Correspondence re: "Recollections of Margaret Bailey Speer" by Trina Vaux. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders

Margaret Bailey Speer correspondence with Bryn Mawr re: Speer Family Papers. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders

Physical Description

8 boxes

Physical Description

8 boxes

1904-1908. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders37 letters

1909-1911. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders24 letters

1913. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders47 letters

Jan 1914-June 1914. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders41 letters

Oct 1914- Jan 1915. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders50 letters

Feb 1915-June 1916. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders42 letters

Jan 1916- Fall 1916. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders17 letters

Spring 1917-Fall 1918. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders37 letters

Mar 1919-Oct 1919. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders22 letters

Oct 1919-Sept 1920. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders15 letters

1920-1922. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders14 letters

1924-1927. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders57 letters

Mar 1929-Oct 1930. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders42 letters

Nov 1930-June 1931. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders34 letters

July 1931-Dec 1932. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders45 letters, plus daily activity log

Jan 1933-Dec 1933. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders39 letters

Jan 1934-Sept 1934. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders51 letters

Correspondence between Henry Welles and Elliott and Holly Speer (Elliott's wife), 1931-1934. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders13 letters

Correspondence between Mrs. Coleman and Elliott Speer, 1911-1934. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders

Correspondence between Elliott Speer and others re: Mt. Hermon, 1927-1934. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders

Notes on pacificism and statement of faith. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders

Correspondence re: Northfield controversy. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders

Correspondence between Robert Elliott and Elliott Speer and the Moody family. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders

Thesis summary and letters from Scotland. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders

Elliott Speer's sermons and notes. 8 folders.
Physical Description

8 folders

Ancestry, Boyhood, Andover (Ch. 1 and 2). 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders

Diamond Pond and Canada (Ch. 3). 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders

Edinburgh 1921-1922 (Ch. 6). 3 folders.
Physical Description

3 folders

Bethlehem (Ch. 7). 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders

Lafayette (Ch. 8). 3 folders.
Physical Description

3 folders

Scotland (Ch. 10). 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders

Visit to English Schools (Ch. 11). 2 folders.
Physical Description

2 folders

Headmaster at Mt. Hermon (Ch. 13). 2 folders.
Physical Description

2 folders

Thoughts on Education (Ch. 14). 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders

Friendship for People and Books (Ch. 15). 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders

In Memorium (Ch. 17). 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders

Letters sent to Robert Elliott Speer on Elliott Speer's death. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders

Tributes to Elliott Speer, sent to Robert Elliott Speer. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders

Correspondence between Robert Elliott and Holly Speer, 1934-1935. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders

Elliott Speer's financial records, compiled by Robert Elliott Speer. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders

Correspondence and statements re: Elliott Speer's estate. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders

Correspondence between Robert Elliott Speer and others, 1934-1935. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders

Elliott Speer's war diaries, 6 May 1917-7 Jan 1918. 2 items.
Physical Description

2 itemsOriginal manuscript

Typed transcription of war diaries. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders2 copies

Yearbook from Andover. 1 items.
Physical Description

1 items

Elliott Speer printed materials. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders

Family of Elliott Speer materials. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders

Emma Bailey Speer letter to Elliott Speer, 1929. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders1 letter

Elliott Speer writings and speeches. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders

Miscellaneous. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders

Yankee Trader magazine with article re: Elliott Speer murder. 2 items.
Physical Description

2 items

Scrapbook with clippings re: Elliott Speer's death. 1 items.
Physical Description

1 items

Newspapers and other publications.
Container Summary

1) Northfield Herald 2) The Hermonite 3) The Mount Hermon Alumni Quarterly 4) The Phillipian 5) The Northfield Alumnae Chronicle

Mt. Hermon Board of Trustees material. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders

Physical Description

2 boxes

Physical Description

2 boxes

Letters from William Speer to Elliott Speer. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders

Letters from Elliott Speer to William Speer. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders

Letters from William Speer to Margaret Bailey Speer. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders

Letters from Margaret Bailey Speer to William Speer, 1926-1957. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders

Letters from William Speer to Constance (Pat) Speer , 1925. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders

Miscellaneous letters to William Speer, 1937-1964. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders

Letters from Elizabeth Lester Speer (Betty, William's wife) to Robert Elliott and Emma Bailey Speer. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 foldersNOTE: "Ganny/Granny" is Emma Bailey Speer "Wobby" is Robert Elliott Speer "Enny" is Betty Speer

William Speer at Hotchkiss material. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders

Letters from Robert Elliott and Emma Bailey Speer to Constance (Pat) Speer, 1924-1926. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders

Letters from Robert Elliott and Emma Bailey Speer to Constance (Pat) Speer, 1927-1940. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders

Letters to William Speer re: Robert Elliott Speer's death. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders

Correspondence between William Speer and the police re: Elliott Speer's murder, 1938-1939. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders

Letters from Robert Elliott Speer to Emma Bailey Speer, sent to William Speer by his mother. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders

Robert Elliott Speer to William Speer, 1920-1936. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders

Robert Elliott Speer to William Speer, 1929-1931. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders

Robert Elliott Speer to William Speer, 1932-1935. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders

Robert Elliott Speer to William Speer, 1936-1937. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders

Robert Elliott Speer to William Speer, 1938-1939. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders

Robert Elliott Speer to William Speer, 1940. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders

Robert Elliott Speer to William Speer, 1941. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders

Robert Elliott Speer to William Speer, 1942-1943. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders

Robert Elliott Speer to William Speer, 1945. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders

Robert Elliott Speer to William Speer, 1946. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders

Robert Elliott Speer to William Speer, 1947. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders

Emma Bailey Speer to William Speer--undated. 1 folders.
Physical Description

1 folders

Emma Bailey Speer to William Speer, 1920s. 1 folders.
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1 folders

Emma Bailey Speer to William Speer, 1930s. 1 folders.
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1 folders

Emma Bailey Speer to William Speer, 1934-1935. 1 folders.
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1 folders

Emma Bailey Speer to William Speer, 1936. 1 folders.
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1 folders

Emma Bailey Speer to William Speer, 1937. 1 folders.
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1 folders

Emma Bailey Speer to William Speer, 1938. 1 folders.
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1 folders

Emma Bailey Speer to William Speer, 1939. 1 folders.
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1 folders

Emma Bailey Speer to William Speer, 1940. 1 folders.
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1 folders

Emma Bailey Speer to William Speer, 1940-1941. 1 folders.
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1 folders

Emma Bailey Speer to William Speer, 1942-1943. 1 folders.
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1 folders

Emma Bailey Speer to William Speer, 1944-1945. 1 folders.
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1 folders

Emma Bailey Speer to William Speer, 1946-1947. 1 folders.
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1 folders

Emma Bailey Speer to William Speer, 1948. 1 folders.
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1 folders

Emma Bailey Speer to William Speer, 1949. 1 folders.
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1 folders

Emma Bailey Speer to William Speer, 1950. 1 folders.
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1 folders

Emma Bailey Speer to William Speer, 1957. 1 folders.
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1 folders

Robert Elliott and Emma Bailey Speer to William Speer. 1 folders.
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1 folders

William Speer to Robert Elliott and Emma Bailey Speer, 1910-1924. 1 folders.
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1 folders

William Speer to Robert Elliott and Emma Bailey Speer, 1924-1929. 1 folders.
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1 folders

William Speer to Robert Elliott and Emma Bailey Speer, 1929-1933. 2 folders.
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2 folders

William Speer to Robert Elliott and Emma Bailey Speer, 1933-1936. 1 folders.
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1 folders

William Speer to Robert Elliott and Emma Bailey Speer, 1936-1943. 2 folders.
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2 folders

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1 boxes

Cartes-de-visite of Emma Bailey Speer. 1 folders.
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1 folders

Loose Yenching photos. 1 folders.
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1 folders

Margaret Bailey Speer's loose album page. 1 folders.
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1 folders

Yenching views. 1 folders.
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1 folders

Crocheted baby sock. 1 items.
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1 items

Margaret Bailey Speer's portrait for the National Cyclopedia of Amerian Biography. 1 folders.
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1 folders

Album of family photographs. 1 items.
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1 items

"Presented to R.E. Speer by First Presbyterian Congregation, Huntingdon, PA": views of Huntingdon. 1 items.
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1 items

"Diamond Pond" album. 1 items.
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1 items

"Family Album". 1 items.
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1 itemsearly cartes-de-visite and photographs of the family, Diamond Pond, Peiping, and Rockledge

Cassette tapes with oral histories by C. Rittenhouse 1) Y.P. and V.K. Mei 2) Knight Biggerstaff 3) Harold Shaddick. 5 items.
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5 items

English Presbyterian Congregation of Harrisburg Sesquicentennial book. 1 items.
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1 items

Huntingdon Bicentennial material. 1 items.
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1 items

Religious pamphlets.
Edward Bailey tributes. 2 items.
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2 items

Miscellaneous Speer materials re: cousins. 1 folders.
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1 folders

Miscellaneous Speer materials. 2 folders.
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2 folders

Miscellaneous Speer letters. 1 folders.
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1 folders

Miscellaneous Speer materials re: Robert Elliott Speer's estate. 1 folders.
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1 folders

Miscellaneous Speer materials, mostly re: Speer Library at Princeton Theological Seminary. 1 folders.
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1 folders

Miscellaneous Speer material, mostly remembrances of Robert Elliott Speer. 1 folders.
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1 folders

Miscellaneous newspapers and letters. 1 folders.
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1 folders

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7 boxes

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2 boxes

Biographical sketches. 1 folders.
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1 folders

Cassville letters, 1856-1859. 1 folders.
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1 folders

Cassville teaching. 1 folders.
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1 folders

Engagement to Martha Ellen McMurtrie. 1 folders.
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1 folders

Letters from Martha Ellen McMurtrie. 1 folders.
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1 folders

Letters to Martha Ellen McMurtrie. 1 folders.
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1 folders

Letters to Martha Ellen McMurtrie, 1871. 1 folders.
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1 folders

Letters to Martha Ellen McMurtrie, 1872. 1 folders.
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1 folders

Letters to Martha Ellen McMurtrie, 1873. 1 folders.
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1 folders

Letters to Martha Ellen McMurtrie, 1874. 1 folders.
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1 folders

Letters to Martha Ellen McMurtrie, 1875. 1 folders.
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1 folders

Letters to William McMurtrie Speer. 1 folders.
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1 folders

Letters to Robert Elliott Speer. 1 folders.
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1 folders

Robert Milton Speer's books. 1 folders.
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1 folders

Speeches. 1 folders.
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1 folders

Letters on Politics. 1 folders.
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1 folders

Writings and poems (part 1). 1 folders.
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1 folders

Writings and poems (part 2). 1 folders.
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1 folders

Dialogues and poems. 1 folders.
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1 folders

Robert Milton and William McMurtrie Speer's school papers. 1 folders.
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1 folders

Letters from friends (women at Cassville). 1 folders.
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1 folders

Public notices and carrier's address. 1 folders.
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1 folders

State politics. 1 folders.
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1 folders

Legal matters. 1 folders.
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1 folders

Bills. 1 folders.
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1 folders

Papers on Robert Milton Speer's illness and death. 1 folders.
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1 folders

Will and estate. 1 folders.
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1 folders

Condolence letters. 1 folders.
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1 folders

Impossible to categorize. 1 folders.
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1 folders

Photograph. 1 folders.
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1 folders

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3 boxes

Obituaries. 1 folders.
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1 folders

Letters to Robert Milton Speer, Jan-June 1879. 1 folders.
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1 folders

Letters to Robert Milton Speer, Sept 1879-June 1880. 1 folders.
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1 folders

Hill School grades. 1 folders.
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1 folders

Letters to Robert Milton Speer, Sept 1880-June 1881. 1 folders.
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1 folders

Letters to Robert Milton Speer, Sept 1881-June 1882. 1 folders.
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1 folders

Letters to Robert Milton Speer, Sept 1882-June 1883. 1 folders.
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1 folders

Letters to Robert Milton Speer, Oct 1883-June 1884. 1 folders.
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1 folders

Letters to Robert Milton Speer, July 1884-Dec 1884. 1 folders.
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1 folders

Letters to Robert Milton Speer, NYC, Jan 1885-Dec 1885. 1 folders.
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1 folders

Letters to Robert Milton Speer, Jan 1886-Dec 1886. 1 folders.
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1 folders

Letters to Robert Milton Speer, Jan 1887-Dec 1887. 1 folders.
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1 folders

Letters to Robert Milton Speer, Jan 1888-Dec 1888. 1 folders.
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1 folders

Letters to Robert Milton Speer, 1889. 1 folders.
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1 folders

Letters to Martha Ellen McMurtrie Speer, 1872. 1 folders.
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1 folders

Letters from Martha Ellen McMurtrie Speer. 1 folders.
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1 folders

Early letters and essays. 1 folders.
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1 folders

List of William McMurtrie Speer's books, 1880's. 1 folders.
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1 folders

Letters from Margaret Post. 1 folders.
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1 folders

Wedding information. 1 folders.
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1 folders

Correspondence with Richard B. Post. 1 folders.
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1 folders

Letters from Mary Cowen Speer. 1 folders.
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1 folders

Letters from Margaret Agnes Speer. 1 folders.
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1 folders

Letters from Robert Elliott Speer. 1 folders.
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1 folders

Letters from Clara McMurtrie. 1 folders.
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1 folders

Letters from Edward Stewart McMurtrie. 1 folders.
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1 folders

Letters from Margaret McMutrie (grandmother). 1 folders.
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1 folders

Letters from William E. McMurtrie (grandfather). 1 folders.
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1 folders

Letters from Minnie McMurtrie. 1 folders.
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1 folders

Letters from stray relatives. 1 folders.
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1 folders

Letters from friends. 1 folders.
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1 folders

Letters from lady friends. 1 folders.
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1 folders

Business letters. 1 folders.
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1 folders

Health. 1 folders.
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1 folders

Finances. 1 folders.
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1 folders

Letters about William McMurtrie Speer. 1 folders.
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1 folders

Letters from Margaret Howard Speer Satterthwaite. 1 folders.
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1 folders

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1 boxes

Letters from Clara McMurtrie Speer. 1 folders.
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1 folders

Letters from Robert Elliott Speer. 1 folders.
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1 folders

Letters from Emma Bailey Speer. 1 folders.
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1 folders

Letters from Mary Cowen Speer. 1 folders.
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1 folders

Elliott Speer. 1 folders.
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1 folders

Huntingdon High School Graduation Program. 1 folders.
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1 folders

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2 boxes

Photographs. 1 folders.
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1 folders

Letters to Robert Milton Speer. 1 folders.
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1 folders

Letters to William McMurtrie Speer. 1 folders.
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1 folders

Letters from William McMurtrie Speer. 1 folders.
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1 folders

Letters to Robert Elliott Speer. 1 folders.
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1 folders

School reports. 1 folders.
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1 folders

Andover problem. 1 folders.
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1 folders

Writings. 1 folders.
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1 folders

Poems. 1 folders.
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1 folders

Letter from Henry Osborn on dual conciousness. 1 folders.
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1 folders

Death announcements. 1 folders.
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1 folders

William McMurtrie Speer's investigation of death. 1 folders.
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1 folders

Victor and William McMurtrie Speer legal documents. 1 folders.
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1 folders

Bills. 1 folders.
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1 folders

Victor Speer's death and funeral notices. 1 items.
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1 itemsBound volume

Annual message of the Mayor, written by Victor Speer, 1905. 1 items.
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1 items

Print, Suggest