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Articles and unpublished research by Baker and other authors on early American Methodism. Baker titles gathered here include: "Let's Start an Argument," 1962; "The Beginnings of American Methodism," 1963; "When Did Methodism Begin?" 1963; "'Come over and Help Us' -- America to Wesley," 1971; "John Wesley and America," 1984; and "The Status of Methodist Preachers in America, 1769-1791," 1985.

Includes a disparate variety of ephemera collected by Frank Baker, including tickets to the Jubilee, June 1887; a ticket to a ship-launching (Thunderer, 1831); a small booklet summarizing The Pilgrim's Progress, that originally accompanied a card-game; a very tiny Victorian-era photographic stamp depicting an unidentified family in a formal group portrait; and a circulation bookplate from the Hull Subscription Library, 1775.