F. F. Bretherton Papers, 1748, 1813-1974, and undated

Extent:

6 boxes, 1500 items

Scope and content:

Correspondence, research notes, albums, clippings, and a variety of other materials created and collected by F. F. Bretherton (1868-1956), a Wesleyan Methodist minister and historian with a lifelong interest in many of the same topics in church history as Frank Baker. A generation older than FB, Bretherton became one of the founding members of the Wesley Historical Society in the late 19th century, later serving as its Secretary from 1919, and as President from 1941.

PROVENANCE AND RELATED MATERIAL: The approximately 1500 items gathered in this series comprise only a small portion of the materials Bretherton gave to FB in the 1940s and 1950; the bulk of his materials were filed by FB with his own and appear in many places in the Baker collections. These manuscripts can sometimes be recognized by the initials "FFB" penciled on items, but more often are recognizable only through familiarity with Bretherton's handwriting. Some eighty monographs from Bretherton, dating to 1785, can be found in the Duke Library's online catalog using the keyword provenance bretherton.

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