Collectors' Correspondence Subseries, 1833-1953 and undated
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- 400 items
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Small collection of correspondence without provenance, discovered loose amongst Baker's papers. The bulk appears to be correspondence Baker inherited (by gift or purchase) from earlier collectors of Wesleyana and Methodist manuscripts active in the late 19th to early 20th centuries, especially John Austen and G. B. Cocking. In addition to correspondence directly to or from Austen and Cocking, there are numerous letters from late 19th century Methodist preachers and Wesleyan presidents, so that there is some overlap in content with the two subseries immediately preceding this one. Arranged chronologically, by decade, with the exception of the folder of Presidents' Letters described below.
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