- Collection:
- Columbia Theological Seminary Manuscript Collection
- Title:
- Letter from Samuel Spahr Laws to W.W. Mills, 1897
- Creator:
- Laws, S. S. (Samuel Spahr), 1824-1921
- Date of Original:
- 1897
1910 - Subject:
- Brothels
Polygamy
Presbyterian Church--South Carolina
Retirement, Mandatory
Retirement age
Seminarians
Theological seminary trustees
Alexander, Archibald, 1772-1851
Bryson, J. H. (John Hannah), 1831-1897
Laws, S. S. (Samuel Spahr), 1824-1921--Personal correspondence
Luther, Martin, 1483-1546
Miller, Samuel, 1769-1850
Mills, W. H. (William Hayne), 1872-1942
Mills, William Wilson, 1837-1905
Mills, William W., active 1837-1868
Palmer, B. M. (Benjamin Morgan), 1818-1902
Thompson, W. T. (William Taliaferro), 1840-1920
Presbyterian Church in the U.S--Education
Theological Seminary in Virginia (Hampden-Sydney, Va.)
Union Theological Seminary in Virginia
Westminster College (Fulton, Mo.)
Camden (S.C.)
Chicago (Ill.)
Columbia (S.C.)
Fulton (Mo.)
Hampden-Sydney (Va.) - Location:
- United States, South Carolina, 34.00043, -81.00009
- Medium:
- letters (correspondence)
personal correspondence
notes (documents) - Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Letter from Samuel Spahr Laws to W.W. Mills concerning the actions taken by the Board of Directors for Columbia Theological Seminary regarding the mandatory retirement of Laws given that he is at least of the age of 70. Laws opens the letter mentioning his appreciation for the opportunity to educate William [Hayne Mills] the son of W.W. Mills, at Columbia Theological Seminary, and then proceeds to protest the action of the Board with an appeal to student reception and his abilities, with mention that professors such as Samuel Miller and Archibald Alexander instructed him at Princeton Seminary when over the age of 80, Columbia (S.C.), June 22, 1897. Also contains a note on the definition and evaluation of brothels as an interrelated question to polygamy and as related to the church, January 14, 1910.
Institution: C. Benton Kline, Jr. Special Collections and Archives, John Bulow Campbell Library, Columbia Theological Seminary - Metadata URL:
- http://cdm17323.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p17323coll7/id/6396
- IIIF manifest:
- https://cdm17323.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/2/p17323coll7:6396/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 9 pages
- Original Collection:
- S. S. Laws papers, 1878-1917
- Holding Institution:
- Columbia Theological Seminary
- Rights:
-
