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III. Materials Covering Multiple Categories
IV. Reference Materials
V. Online Resources at Furman
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• Richard Furman Collection, 1775-1825
  The writings include sermons arranged alphabetically by topic), addresses, and other writings on various subjects, such as slavery, prayer, and treatment for disease.
• Edmund Botsford Family Collection, 1799-1819
  Letters Edmund Botsford wrote to Richard Furman and other ministers, as well as essays, sermons, financial records, and allegories; he was interested in a biracial church.
• Basil Manly, Sr. Collection, 1826-66
  Contains sermons; committed to education, helped found Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.
• James S. Mims Papers, 1835-1854
  Personal correspondence, sermons, lectures, essays, writings; financial records, and reports to Furman University Board of Trustees.
• William B. Johnson, 1831-1862
  Few manuscripts but do have printed materials and correspondence; protégé of Richard Furman
• Ware Family Collection, 1784-1980
  Statement of wife giving up property rights (Margret Garret) 1812; 1838- Assessment of land and slave value of the estate of Adam Jones; 1842 Slave Deeds; 1854 Payment note from T.E. Ware for 5 negroes, Payment note for Furman University for James Ware, Bill of Sale for a Negro Girl. Thomas Edwin Ware owned and operated Ware Place Plantation and mill and the papers primarily represent his business interests; he was the largest slave owner in the district (Greenville District).

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• A sermon : on the constitution and order of the Christian Church Richard Furman, 1791
• An oration : delivered at the Charleston orphan-house before the intendant and wardens of the city, the board of commissioners, and a large assemblage of the benefactors to the institution, October the 18th, 1796 Richard Furman, 1796
• An address to the senior class in Yale-College : delivered in the chapel as a response to the valedictory oration which closed the public performances exhibited by the class after their examination, July 20, 1796 Josiah Stebbins, 1796
• The American remembrancer; or, An impartial collection of essays, resolves, speeches, &c. relative, or having affinity, to the treaty with Great Britain 1795-6
• Christ's famous titles ; and, The believer's golden chain : handled in divers sermons : together with his Cabinet of jewels, or, A glimpse of Sion's glory William Dyer, 1796
• The American Spectator or matrimonial preceptor, 1797
• Three letters, written and originally published under the signature of A South Carolina planter. Charles Pinckney, esquire, senator in Congress, for South Carolina. To which is added, an appendix, containing sundry documents concerning Jonathan Robbins, 1799
• Sun-beams may be extracted from cucumbers, but the process is tedious : an oration, pronounced on the Fourth of July, 1799, at the request of the citizens of New-Haven David Daggett, 1799 Furman Collection
• The gospel preached to every creature : a sermon delivered on Wednesday, the 21st March, 1798 before the Incorporated Baptist Church in Charleston, South-Carolina : being their charity anniversary for the assistance of pious youth, in an education for the gospel ministry : and published at their request Rev. William Hollinshead, 1798

• Domestic Manners of the Americans Mrs. Trollope
• Appeal to the Christian women of the South, A.E. Grimke (bound in Correspondence Between Elmore and Birney, after page 68)
• The Young lady's book of piety: a practical manual of Christian duties for the formation of the female character, 1835
• Society, Manners and Politics in the United States: Being a Series of Letters on North America, Michael Chevalier, 1839
• Woman: her true mission and education, J.M.C. Breaker
• Speech of the Rev. W.H. Brisbane, lately a slaveholder in South Carolina: Delivered before the Female Anti-Slavery Society of Cincinnati, William Henry Brisbane, 1840
• A memoir of Mrs. Henrietta Shuck: the first American female missionary to China, J.B. Jeter, 1846
• The True Orator: An Address Delivered Before the Adelphian Society of the Furman Institution, at the Commencement, 1850
• An address before the students of the Johnson Female Seminary at Anderson, S.C., delivered at its anniversary, August, 1850, James C. Furman
• Address on the death of Mrs. Elizabeth Ann Townes, James C. Furman, 1852
• The teacher's last lesson: a memoir of Martha Whiting, late of the Charleston female seminary, Catharine N. Badger, 1855
• Young America : a Poem Fitz-Greene Halleck, 1864
• Lectures on Man; His Place in Creation, and in the History of the Earth, Ed. James Hunt, 1864
• Methods of Instruction ... James Pyle Wickersham
• Sanders' Rhetorical, or, Union Fifth Reader: Embracing a Full Exposition of the Principles of Rhetorical Reading, with Numerous Specimens, both in Prose and Poetry, from the Best writers, English and American, as Exercises for Practice ... Charles W. Sanders, 1865
• Collection of Hymns for the Use of the Wesleyan Methodist Connection of America, compiled by Wm. H. Brewster, 1865
• Sex in Education: Or, A Fair Chance for Girls Edward H. Clarke, 1873

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• Baptist Newspapers and Periodicals (website)

• Voices of Multicultural America: Notable Speeches Delivered by African, Asian, Hispanic, and Native Americans, 1790-1995, Deborah Gillan Straub, editor, 1996, Reference Collection
• American Orators Before 1900: Critical Studies and Sources, Bernard K. Duffy and Halford R. Ryan, editors, 1987, Reference Collection
• Index to American Women Speakers, 1828-1978, Beverley Manning, 1980 Reference Collection
• Speech Index: An Index to 259 Collections of World Famous Orations and Speeches for Various Occasions, Roberta Briggs Sutton, 1966 Reference Collection
• Oratory in the Old South, 1828-1860, Prepared under the auspices of the Speech Association of America. Waldo W. Braden, editor, 1970, General Collection
• We Shall Be Heard: Women Speakers in America, 1828-present, Patricia Scileppi Kennedy, Gloria Hartmann O'Shields, editors, 1983, General Collection
• I have spoken : American history through the voices of the Indians Virginia Irving Armstrong, compiler, 1971, General Collection
• Oratory in the New South, Waldo W. Braden, editor, 1979, General Collection

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• Biography Resource Center
• Chicago Tribune
• Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619-1895
• History Resource Center
• New York Times Historical 1851-2005 Full Image

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• American Rhetoric: The Power of Oratory in the United States
• American Rhetoric: Online Speech Bank
• American Rhetoric Speech Bank at James Madison University Libraries: Index and full text of over 5000 audio and video (streaming) versions of public speeches, sermons, legal proceedings, lectures, debates, interviews, other recorded media events

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