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Includes correspondence and rosters.

Includes correspondence and rosters.

Includes correspondence and rosters.

Includes correspondence and rosters.

Includes correspondence and rosters.

Includes table of contents, Part I [childhood], Part II: "I go east to college", Part III: "You'd make a good newspaper woman", Part IV: "I throw my lot with the advertisers", and Part V: "Nanna".

Includes Part VI: "Friends", and Part VII: "Travel".

Includes Part VIII: "Firsthand unusual stories about dogs, pussy cats, kangaroos, lions, etc.", and Part X: "History in the making". Part IX, described in the table of contents as "My Books - a little unusual in slant", is not included in the collection.

Filmed by Duke Univ. Libraries.

Film contains several items relating to Baker's research, including information about William Grimshaw (1708-1763), a Church of England clergyman; Benjamin Ingham (1712-1772), who eventually formed his own denomination, the Inghamites; and James Everett, a collector of Wesleyana. Rubenstein accession 1991-0037.

Sent to Baker in 1972 by Prof. Hans Hildebrandt; contains dictation on footnotes and correcting misprints for an unidentified work.

Canadian broadcast. Box bears the name of Karl Schuessler, who prepared CBC radio documentaries.

Raymond George (d. 1998) was a prominent scholar of British Methodism.

Materials about the history of the Baker collections at Duke, including: addresses and exhibits honoring Frank Baker, chiefly from the 1980s; several published and unpublished articles by Baker and other authors about different aspects of the collections; and clippings and other publicity. Arranged alphabetically by author, speaker, or topic.

Baker's extensive inventories of the various portions of the original 1961 purchase, with many subsequent cataloging notes appended over the years; containing over 7000 items, these lists probably remain the fullest inventory of the printed materials in any single place, including the online catalog.

Arranged in reverse chronological order. Folder 9 contains Baker's original list of materials sold to the library circa 1960.

Photocopies of title pages of 18th century publications received by the library from Frank Baker, as of 1983. Photocopies were made for Dr. Baker's personal files and then returned at a later date. Arranged as received, alphabetically by title.

Lists of potential purchases and sales of Methodistica and Wesleyana, from and to various private dealers and libraries other than Duke University.

Correspondence with the staff of Duke University Libraries also appears in other series, most extensively under correspondence in the Baker Collections Files.