Manuscript Collection Inventory Illinois History and Lincoln Collections University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Note: Unless otherwise specified, documents and other materials listed on the following pages are available for research at the Illinois Historical and Lincoln Collections, located in the Main Library of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Additional background information about the manuscript collection inventoried is recorded in the Manuscript Collections Database (http://www.library.illinois.edu/ihx/archon/index.php) under the collection title; search by the name listed at the top of the inventory to locate the corresponding collection record in the database. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Illinois History and Lincoln Collections http://www.library.illinois.edu/ihx/index.html phone: (217) 333-1777 email: ihlc@library.illinois.edu
1 Blair-Stifler Family Papers, 1835-1976 Box 1: REBECCA STIFLER Correspondence, 1849-68 WARREN LEVERETT (1805-1872) Correspondence, 1858-72 Invitations, 1859-70 WASHINGTON LEVERETT (1805-1889) Correspondence, 1864-88 MARY ANN LEVERETT (1812-1901) Correspondence, 1835-45 1862-1871 1872 1873 1874 1875-79 1880-84 1885-88 Box 2: 1889-91 1892 1893 1894 1895-96 1898-1901 Undated Invitations, 1874-99 Quarterly Statements, Upper Alton Baptist Church, 1894-99 Box 3: WILLIAM HENRY STIFLER (1840-1895). See also Oversize Box 34. Correspondence, 1859-71 1872-80
2 Box 4: Box 5: 1881-84 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891-92 1893 1894 (2 folders) 1895 (2 folders) 1896 Undated Address Book, undated Autograph Book, 1873 1880 Bank Account Books, 1890, 1895 Canceled Checks and Receipts (4 folders) Box 6: Canceled Checks and Receipts (2 folders) Clergyman s Vade Mecum, 1870-73 Conference Notes, 1891-3 Diaries, 1859, 1864, 1869 1881 Financial Account Books, 1871-74 1881-84 Box 7: Funeral Sermons, 1882-95 Invitations, 1888-90 Life Insurance Policies Marriage Certificates, 1872-76 1877-79 1880-83 1888 1889 1890 1891
3 Box 8: 1892 Membership Cards, First Baptist Church, Sioux Falls, S.D., 1893 (2 folders) Miscellaneous Mortgage, 1889 Notebooks, 1864 1866 1867 1883 Box 9: 1893-95 undated Notes for Sermons and Bible Study (7 folders) Box 10: Pastoral Visiting Record, 1869 Pastor s Complete Handbook and Register, 1875 The Present Attitude of the Roman Catholic Church to American Institutions, undated A Record of God s Dealings with the Band of Hope in Shurtleff College, 1869 Register of Church Members, Pana, Ill., 1870 Report to Board of American Baptist Home Missionary Society re: Roger Williams University Incident, 1887 Returns of Marriage, 1880-84 Rock Island Prison Barracks Materials (includes Recollections of the Civil War ), 1864-91 Scrapbooks, 1860-69 1877-91 1890-95 Box 11: Sermons, 1862-69 1870-73 1874 1875 1876 1877 Box 12:
4 Box 13: Box 14: Box 15: Box 16: Box 17: Box 18: Box 19: 1878 1879 1880 1881-82 1883-84 1885-87 1888-90 1891-92 1893 1894 1894 (2 folders) 1895 (2 folders) Undated (2 folders) Undated (7 folders) Undated (7 folders) Undated (6 folders) Undated (7 folders) Specifications for Building of W. H. Stifler, 1889 Statements of Church Affairs, 1878-9 Subscribers List, Baptist Brevities, 1889-90 Treasurer s Book, Missionary Society, Roger Williams University, 1885 Troy, Ill., Materials, 1867 MARY LEVERETT GREENE (1839-1918)
5 Correspondence, 1860-79 1880-83 1884-88 1889-90 1895-1917 Unknown Dates WILLIAM WARREN LEVERETT (1841-1872) Correspondence, 1862-72 SARAH BROWN STIFLER (1845-1948) Correspondence, 1855-65 1866 1867 1868-70 Box 20: Box 21: Box 22: Box 23: 1871-72 1873 1874-75 1877-80 1881-82 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 (2 folders) 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 (2 folders)
6 Box 24: Box 25: Box 26: Box 27: Box 28: 1896 1897 (2 folders) 1898 1899 1900 1901 (2 folders) 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 (2 folders) 1907 (2 folders) 1908 1909-11 1912 1913-14 1915 1916-17 1918 1919 1920-24 1925-28 1929 1930 1931 (2 folders) 1932 1933-40 1941-44 1945 (2 folders) 1945 (7 folders)
7 Box 29: 1945 (2 folders) 1947-48 Undated (2 folders) Bank Account Book, 1899-1908 Canceled Checks and Receipts Diaries, 1863-65, 1867-68 Box 30: 1869 Financial Account Books, 1892-96 1895-1901 1897-1901 1899-1913 Greeting Cards (2 folders) Box 31: Greeting Cards (6 folders) Invitations, 1892-1903 Box 32: 1904-5 1906-9 1910-14 1915-31 School Notebook, 1857-58 LUCY LEVERETT GREENE (1867-1919) Correspondence, 1873-90 MARY ATHERTON STIFLER (1875-1889). See also Oversize Box 34. Correspondence--From, 1880-86 1887-89 Box 33: Correspondence To, 1884-88 Drawings Financial Account Book, 1886 Miscellaneous
8 JULIET LEVERETT STIFLER (1877-1953) Correspondence, 1884-93 1895 (2 folders) 1896-1941 WILLIAM WARREN STIFLER (1883-1954) Correspondence, 1884-95 1896-1901 Box 34: Box 35: 1902 1903 (2 folders) 1904 (2 folders) 1905-12 ROY BLAIR (1886-1971) Correspondence, 1901-4 1906 (2 folders) 1907 (2 folders) 1908 (6 folders) 1909 (6 folders) 1913-14 1919-29 1930 1934 Box 36: 1938-48 1949 1950-9 Greeting Cards Miscellaneous Newspaper Clippings Visitors Book, Funeral, 1971 LUCY STIFLER BLAIR (1887-1976) Correspondence, 1887-99 (2 folders) 1900-3 (4 folders) 1904
9 Box 37: Box 38: 1905 (3 folders) 1906 (2 folders) 1907 (2 folders) 1908 (8 folders) 1909 (7 folders) 1910-11 1912-16 1917-18 1919-28 1930-6 1937-42 (2 folders) 1943-4 1945 1946-51 1952-5 1956-70 1971 1972-6 Composition Book Drawing Book Financial Account Book, 1922-5 Greeting Cards (2 folders) Invitations Miscellaneous Newspaper Clippings School Writings Spelling Blanks, 1896-7 Box 39: THE BLAIRS (ROY AND LUCY) Correspondence, 1911-19 1923-39 1940-2 (2 folders) 1943 1944 (2 folders) 1945 1946 1947 1948 (2 folders)
10 1949 (2 folders) 1950 (2 folders) 1951 (2 folders) 1952 1953 Box 40: 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 (2 folders) 1959 (2 folders) 1960 1961-2 1963 1964 (2 folders) 1965 1966-71 Greeting Cards (4 folders) Box 41: Greeting Cards (6 folders) Box 42: OVERSIZE WILLIAM HENRY STIFLER Estate and Pension Matters, 1889-99 1900-1 1902-4 1906-12 Notebook, 1872 MARY ATHERTON STIFLER Scrapbook, undated