The core of the M. Homer Cummings Collection is a banker's box containing nearly 400 items. There are approximately 150 sermons, more than 50 songs and poems, nearly 50 newspaper articles about Cummings and his family, and close to 100 newspaper columns written by Cummings himself.
The first item below is an introduction to the Papers, with a Register prepared by the Special Collections department, an index of the sermons, and other aids. From there, the scans follow the same arrangement of “series" and “folders" found in the physical collection.
For additional information about the Papers, please contact please contact Dr. Robert Ellison, Assistant Professor of English and director of the Center for Sermon Studies.
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Series III. Folder 6. Poems, n.d.
Melville Homer Cummings
This folder contains approximately 15 poems and 2 letters: a letter to a parishioner praising her singing voice, and one to Cummings thanking him for making regular payments on his account with the Benson Printing Co., located in Nashville, Tennessee.
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Series III. Folder 7. Handwritten notes, n.d
Melville Homer Cummings
The final folder contains a miscellaneous assortment of letters, sermon manuscripts, and sermon notes or outlines. Topics include “Mutual Dependence” (1 Cor. 3), “A Stairway to Heaven” (Gen. 28:12), “The Misunderstood Christ” (Mark 15:36), and “The Looks of Christ” (several verses in Mark and Luke).
