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This collection contains outgoing letters and a diary related to Jeremiah Howard Nixon, a Presbyterian preacher in Cambridge, New York, and Indianapolis, Indiana, in the 1850s and 1860s. The bulk of the collection consists of letters that Nixon wrote to his wife Flora about his travels around the United States and Europe. His diary covers the years 1862-1863.

This collection contains approximately 217 outgoing letters from Presbyterian minister Jeremiah Nixon to his wife Flora and a diary that Nixon kept between 1862 and 1863.

The Correspondence series contains Nixon's letters about his travels around the United States and Europe, in which he commented on personal matters and church affairs. He occasionally commented on contemporary politics, including a brief note about the South just after the end of the Civil War ([April 12, 1865]). One series of letters concerns his travels throughout Europe in the spring of 1868, and Nixon shared his impressions of Glasgow, Shropshire, Paris, Rome, and Geneva. While in France, he wrote about the effects of his unfamiliarity with the local language, and in Rome he mentioned the city's long history (May 9, 1868). Nixon's Diary, written from September 13, 1862-December 29, 1863, contains brief daily entries about his religious life and activities, which included studying, preaching, and attending funerals.

This collection contains two notebooks that Josiah Addison Cary kept about sermons he heard while in New York City from 1838-1839 and 1844-1845, as well as an empty wallet. Cary most frequently heard Presbyterian minister Thomas Harvey Skinner, who spoke on a variety of religious topics such as morality and faith.

This collection contains two notebooks that Josiah Addison Cary kept about sermons he heard while in New York City from 1838-1839 and 1844-1845, as well as an empty wallet.

The first volume (around 120 pages) contains notes on sermons that Cary attended almost weekly between February 4, 1838, and February 17, 1839, with a gap between June and December 1838. Among the clergymen he heard were Thomas Harvey Skinner (1791-1871), Dr. Cox of the Spring Street Church, Dr. Burchard of the "Ch. Chapel," J. Parker, and "Dr. Beecher." Cary most frequently attended Thomas Skinner's sermons, which often related to morality and faith.

The second volume (around 220 pages), which Cary kept between June 30, 1844, and September 7, 1845, is entitled "Reports of Sermons in Mercer Street Church" and mainly contains notes on services by Thomas Skinner. The entries, composed almost weekly and often several pages long, contain contain citations of relevant Biblical verses and an outline of each sermon's main points. Frequent topics included the human conscience and morality, particularly in Dr. Beecher's sermon of June 24, 1838, and other aspects of faith and Christian life. Skinner also delivered a sermon addressing the Catholic Church's power in Europe and the role of religion in the establishment of the American colonies (February 16, 1845).