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[Identification of item], Walter Albert Stanbury Papers, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University.
The Walter Albert Stanbury Papers were received by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library as a gift in 1948 and 1956.
Processed by Rubenstein Library staff, 1956
Encoded by Carrie Mills and Meghan Lyon, May 2011
Accession(s) described in this finding aid: 48-1772, 56-0198
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Methodist clergyman of Ashboro (Randolph County), North Carolina.
These papers consist of 2015 sermons delivered by the Reverend Stanbury between 1915 and his death in 1954; addresses; articles; general correspondence; reports, minutes, correspondence, etc. concerning the work of the Wesley Foundation, a Methodist student organization, in N.C. colleges and universities; constitution and minutes of the N.C. Council of Churches, 1935-1937; Homecoming Day address by the Rev. Stanbury at Greensboro College and a copy of the program, March 9, 1940; outlines for conferences on parental education, 1925-1934; correspondence relative to Centenary Methodist Church of Winston-Salem, 1941-1943; folder of correspondence with Irene Price, artist, about a portrait of Furnifold M. Simmons.
In the general correspondence there are letters in 1945 about the appointment of Prof. James T. Cleland to teach homiletics in the Duke Divinity School. The folder labeled "Special Addresses" contains an address the Reverend Stanbury delivered at the funeral of Henry R. Dwire at Winston-Salem in 1944.
There is a scrapbook of newspaper accounts of the Sunday morning service at West Market St. Methodist Episcopal Church, Greensboro, N.C., covering Stanbury's pastorate, 1933-1937.
At some point in his life the Reverend Walter Albert Stanbury changed his middle name from Adair to Albert. His wedding invitation (1909) and his listing in the annuals of Trinity College use "Adair." However, his obituary in the 1954 minutes of the Western North Carolina Conference, his published book,
These are searchable subject entries for this collection. Performing a search on these subjects in the Duke University Libraries online catalog will bring up other related research materials.
The bulk of this collection is sermons given by Walter Albert Stanbury over the course of his career. Some boxes in the collection are out of sequential order from the whole.