Samuel Sobieski Nelles fonds

Series 8: Writing and memorabilia

Series Number

8

Name of Creator

Nelles, Samuel Sobieski

Dates of Material

1846-1902

Title

Writing and memorabilia

Extent

12 cm of textual records

Scope and Content

Series consists of various writings, including extracts, notes and reflections, 1848–1886; and personal memorabilia, including Victoria College programmes and material after Nelles death, 1846–1902.

Box 14 holds written material which does not fall into any of the previously mentioned categories. It includes scripture studies, religious meditations, selected extracts from a variety of sources, and miscellaneous notes. The box also contains an assortment of personal documents and memorabilia, including a scrapbook on Nelles completed after his death by J.G. Hodgins.

Note(s)

Box/File List

Identifier Titlesort ascending Date
1991.197V-14-279 Selected Extracts. “Scraps.” Victoria University.
December 28, 1880
1991.197V-14-275 Selected Extracts. “Fellow Voices.” Toronto.
May 10, 1850
1991.197V-14-276 Selected Extracts. Victoria College.
December, 1850
1991.197V-14-267 Scripture Studies. Letter to the Romans.
[1850]
1991.197V-14-266 Scripture Studies. Letter to Romans, Toronto, Mark’s Gospel. London. The New Testament.
September 18, 1849 - July 16, 1850.
1991.197V-14-301 Scrapbook on S.S. Nelles Compiled by J.G. Hodgins Includes photograph of Nelles, engraving of “Old Vic” and Faraday Hall, telegram from William Kerr notifying Hodgins of Nelles’ death, funeral programme, various obituary notices and newspaper reports of memorial services, abstracts of letters from Nelles to Hodgins, and information relating to the Nelles Memorial Fund.
1871–1887
1991.197V-14-285 Review of the Reverend Baptist Noel’s Essay on Church and State for the Christian Guardian. Toronto.
March 27, 1849
1991.197V-14-268 Religious Reflections.
October 15, 1848
1991.197V-14-269 Religious Meditations. Toronto.
1849–1850
1991.197V-14-270 Religious Commentaries.
1850–1851
1991.197V-14-295 Programme for Nelles’ Funeral.
October 19, 1887
1991.197V-14-290 Prayers for the Conversion of the World, for the Nation, for the Church.
n.d.
1991.197V-14-287 Parody on Hamlet’s Soliloquy. “Soliloquy in a Barber’s Shop.”
February 22, 1854
1991.197V-14-286 Notes on Church History.
1849
1991.197V-14-284 Notebook. “Wesleyana, being brief extracts from Wesley’s Writings.”
n.d.
1991.197V-14-277 Notebook. “Select Sentences from Various Authors.”
February 8, 1854
1991.197V-14-271 Notebook. “Religious Meditations.”
April 30, 1865–July 9, 1871
1991.197V-14-273 Notebook. “Poetic Extracts.” Port Hope. Includes lists of books to be purchased.
January, 1848
1991.197V-14-278 Notebook. “Notes in Reading.”
1863–1865
1991.197V-14-291 Notebook. Texts and Topics.
n.d.
1991.197V-14-274 Notebook. Proverbs, Precepts, Rules, and Principles. Toronto.
March, 1850
1991.197V-14-289 Notebook. Memoranda on College Matters. Drafts of Address on Federation. July, 1886. Sermon. Twenty-third Psalm. London. July 3, 1886.
1886
1991.197V-14-282 Notebook of Selected Extracts.
[188-]
1991.197V-14-280 Notebook of Selected Extracts.
1885
1991.197V-14-281 Notebook of Selected Extracts.
[188-]
1991.197V-14-294 Nelles’ Graduation Programme from Wesleyan University
1849
1991.197V-14-293 Miscellaneous Notes.
n.d.
1991.197V-14-292 Miscellaneous Memoranda.
1868, 1880, 1886, n.d.
1991.197V-14-300 List of Nelles Memorial Subscriptions.
n.d.
1991.197V-14-297 Invitation to Unveiling of Busts of Dr. Ryerson and Dr. Nelles.
November 15, 1902
1991.197V-14-288 Introduction to S.G. Phillips’ Need of the World.
1882
1991.197V-14-283 Fragment of Notebook. “Wesleyan Positions.”
[188-]
1991.197V-14-296 Eulogy for S.S. Nelles by the Reverend Dr. William Ormiston. “Blessed are the Dead.”
1887
1991.197V-14-272 Ethical Memoranda.
1886–1887
1991.197V-14-299 Essay Dedicated to Nelles by Mary C. Weaver. “The Fine Arts—Their Origin and Influences.”
n.d.
1991.197V-14-298 Catalogue of the Books in the Library of the Late Rev. S.S. Nelles.
n.d.