Lucy Rider Meyer Archives Collection List
ca 1857-1986
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Contents
Lucy Rider Meyer
Lucy Rider Meyer Personal Papers
Notes on the Founding of the Chicago Training School transcribed
from Lucy Rider Meyer’s letters and diaries (1p, typewritten, 8 ½”x9)
Lucy Rider Meyer (as Jeannie L. Rider) Speaking Engagements 18671874
Photographs (some photocopied) of Lucy Rider Meyer:
(1) 1857 (age 8)
(2) 1871
(3) 1872
(4) 1885
(5) 1890 (2 poses)
(6) 1900
(7) 1910
(8) 1914
(9) 1915
(10) 1920
(11) Photocopied picture of Lucy Rider Meyer in her garden on
Tamarack Farm in Twin Lakes, Michigan
(12) One photograph of Lucy Rider and J. Shelley Meyer ca 1890.
Products of Her Pen
(1) Books – a published list of her books
(2) 1986 – a handwritten list of her books, poems, and songs
(3) “1986 Publications to Investigate” handwritten list of books
perhaps for research about LRM
(4) “Her Recorded Publication from all sources” [ca 1914]
Assorted Writings of Lucy Rider Meyer
(1) Notes jotted on the back of John Crerar Library slips
(2) “The Do Without Band of Bloomtown” [pamphlet 2 !/2”x 6” 16pp,
ca 1885] [2 copies one missing pages]
(3) “Highlighting the History of CTS” notes from news stories, Lucy
Rider Meyer’s diary, etc. [ca 1885, 5 pp typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”]
(4) “The Mother in the Church” 1901 [bound booklet, 18 pp, 6”x8”]
(5) “Just a Plain Little Woman” published in The Adult Bible Class
Monthly, August 1922. [2 pp, 9” x 112”]
(6) “For Jesus’ Sake” (tract, 4pp, 3 ½”x 6” ca 1885)
(7) “An Open Letter to Teachers” (with Lottie E. Lowry) (tract, 4pp,
4”x6” ca. 1885)
(8) “Bears and Fishes in Yellowstone Park” by Lucy Rider Meyer in
Social Progress (n.d.)
(9) “Helps to Bible Study: The Jewish Sacrifices and their Meaning” by
Lucy Rider Meyer Deaconess Series No 1 (8pp 7x9) (Chicago: The
Message Publishing Co, n.d.)
(10) Fellow-Laborer with Paul by Marianne Farningham [glued to #15]
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(11) “One Girl and Her Education” by Lucy Rider Meyer [published
n.d. n.p.]
(12) “A Lonely Old Woman” (9p., n.d. handwritten on a notepad,
5”x7”, poor condition)
(13) [odd collection of handwritten notes on various topics perhaps
made during a meeting] (5pp, 5”x6”)
(14) Christmas – a devotional [published in the Bulletin Nov 1924]
(15) Favorite Sayings of LRM:
“If you cannot understand you can always have faith”
“If you have something to say, stand up and say it. Then sit down!”
Speeches by Lucy Rider Meyer
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(1) “A Missionary Training School for Women: A Paper Read before
the Chicago Methodist Episcopal Minister’s Meeting June 15,
1885” [printed pamphlet, 16 pp, 3” x 7”)
(2) Speech at Lesemann Inauguration by LRM [1917] (3 pp, 8 ½” x 10)
(3) ‘Outline for Addresses” [by Lucy Rider Meyer?] Outlines for
several different speeches about the Chicago Training School [1 p,
8 ½” x 11”, typewritten]
(4) “The Amusement Question” given before the Methodist
Preachers Body, also the Baptist and the Presbyterian Bodies.
(ca1920) (25 pp, typed and handwritten, 8 ½”x11”)
(5) The Beginnings of Wesley Hospital 1914. (2 copies – one 15 pages
long with pages missing, one 17 pages long. Each has unique
handwritten notes and corrections. A letter to Perley Lowe,
11/10/1914, refers to her desire to protect her husband’s
anonymity to ensure her husband received the proper credit (see
“General Correspondence” file) Typewritten, 8 ½”x11”)
(6) Her Last Sermon – Jonah – preached at St. James Church Chicago
Dec 4, 1921.
Prayers composed by Lucy Rider Meyer
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(1) I Live and Move in the Safety of God’s Presence at All Times
(typewritten, glued to a card with #s 2 and 3, 3”x6”)
(2) Airplane Blessing (typewritten, glued to a card with #s 1 and 3,
3”x6”)
(3) Prayer for Protection (typewritten, glued to a card with #s 1 and
2, 3”x6”)
(4) Lord I Pray for the City (1p, typewritten, clipping 3”x3”)
(5) Lord Keep Me From Being Afraid of Thee and Thy Leading (1p,
typewritten, clipping 2”x3”)
(6) I Thank Thee Father That I Live in This Time (1p, p. 52 torn from
“In Memoriam” 6”x9”)
(7) On Rev. 14 and 15 (1p, typewritten 7 ½”x10)
(8) For Blessing on Friends (1p, typewritten 4”x8 ½”)
(9) Oh Lord We Are Glad of This Word [for blessings and inspiration]
(1p, typewritten, 8 ½”x11”)
(10) Oh, Jesus Christ, Who Art Eternal (about awakening to truth)
(2pp typewritten 7 ½”x10)
(11) Hymn 375 prayer (1p, typewritten 7 ½”x10)
(12) Hymn 354 prayer (1p, typewritten 7 ½”x10)
(13) Hymn 317 prayer (1p, typewritten 7 ½”x10)
(14) Prayer on I John 18 (1p, typewritten 7 ½”x10)
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(15) Our Hearts Tremble Sometimes (1p, typewritten, 8 ½”x6”)
(16) Lord, Hear Our Prayer and Lead Us into Truth (1p, typewritten, 8
½”x6”)
(17) We Pray for the World (1p, typewritten, 8 ½”x5”)
(18) Oh Lord Bless As Thou Canst (1p, typewritten, 8 ½”x1” cut)
(19) If Every Heart Here is Not Satisfied (1p, typewritten, 8 ½”x3” cut)
(20) Lord We Thank Thee for This Word (1p, typewritten, 8 ½”x1”cut)
(21) Oh Lord God, the Jehovah… (focus on the school’s needs) (1p,
typewritten, 8 ½”x11”)
(22) …The Burden That is Upon Our Own Hearts… (1p, typewritten, 8
½”x6”)
(23) Hymn 424 prayer (1p, handwritten, 8x10)
(24) Oh, Lord, In the Midst of the Details of Our Daily Life… (1p,
typewritten, 8 ½”x11”)
(25) Eternal Are They Mercies Lord (1p, typewritten, 8 ½”x11”)
(26) Hymn 451 Prayer (2pp, typewritten, 8 ½”x11”)
(27) Bless With Us Our Dear Friends… (1p, typewritten, 8 ½”x11”)
(28) Hymn 106 Prayer (1p, handwritten 7 ½”x10)
(29) …Help Us to Take to Our Own Hearts this Word of Exhortation
(1p, typewritten, 8 ½”x11”)
(30) We Thank Thee Our Father for This Word (2pp, typewritten, 8
½”x11”)
(31) Fragment “…may be better…” (1p, typewritten, 8 ½”x11”)
(32) Fragment “…may they be drawn to thee…” (1p, typewritten, 8
½”x11”)
(33) #16 Blessing over food (1p, hand transcribed, 8 ½”x11, used at an
alumni gathering in 1984)
(34) Lord Keep Us From Growing Narrow (1p, hand transcribed, 8
½”x11, used at an alumni gathering in 1984)
(35) #16 Help Me to Understand Lord (1p, hand transcribed, 8 ½”x11)
(36) LRM Chapel Prayer [1924 June Bulletin] (1p, handwritten, 8
½”x11)
(37) Lord, I pray for the great city (1p, typewritten, [p 53, torn from
“Some Little Prayers”], 6”x8”)
Poems composed by Lucy Rider Meyer
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(1) “The Burden” [6 copies, 3 different printed cards, one cut from a
publication]
(2) “Just the Common Humdrum of Life” a Christmas poem [signed
by Belle James]
(3) “Her Li’l Daughter” [2 copies – 1 from a publication, one the
original with editorial notes)
(4) “I am a Christian”
(5) “The Teacher and His Task”
(6) Scholars All for Jesus! [Lucy Rider Meyer written before 1908] a
poem about teaching [these are the words to the song “All My
Class for Jesus” with an additional verse] (1p typewritten)
(7) “Mother and Father” by Lucy Rider Meyer
(8) “Ships That Pass in the Daytime” by Lucy Rider Meyer
(9) Untitled poem about death (“Hushed in and curtained with a
blessed dearth”) by Lucy Rider Meyer
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(10) “The Tides” (transcribed perhaps by Isabelle Horton with notes
about its composition)
(11) “Venice” (transcribed perhaps by Isabelle Horton with notes
about its composition)
(12) “Out of the Depth” (transcribed perhaps by Isabelle Horton with
notes about its composition)
(13) “Charity” (transcribed perhaps by Isabelle Horton with notes
about its composition)
(14) “Birdie and Kittie” (1 p, typewritten, 8 ½” x 8”)
Songs by LRM
(1) breakfast Saturday morning (a hymn by Lucy Rider Meyer),
n.d., n.p. (3x5 card)
(2) “Closing Prayer” n.d., n.p. (3x5 card)
(3) school song by LRM (3 copies)
(4) He was not willing, song by LRM
(5) All My Class for Jesus, song by LRM [glued to cardboard with
#6]
(6) Peace I Leave With You [[glued to cardboard with #5]
(7) Class Song (to the tune of Santa Lucia)
(8) W’en Ye Doan’ Know What To Do
(9) The Mother [on the same page with #10]
(10) Dey’s a Li’l’ Six Feet of Groun’, Somewhere (A Spiritual) [on
the same page with #9] 1919
(11) Dey’s a Li’l’ Six Feet of Groun’, Somewhere [original with
notes? And a handwritten copy] 1919
(12) A Blessing for Our Friends (to the tune of Eidelweiss)
(13)“The Lord Bless Thee and Keep Thee” sheet music [The
Northfield Benediction?] copyright 1891
(14) “The Winds Are Whispering: Chautauqua Song, 1875)” by
Lucy Rider Meyer. Sheet music.
(15) “Forgiven” (transcribed perhaps by Isabelle Horton with
notes about its composition)
(16) “De Lard, He’ll Carry You Through” (2 copies, sheet music,
3pp., 8”x10”)
(17) “Battle Song” [two pages glued to cardboard backing]
Bible Studies on Which Lucy Rider Meyer Was At Work 1920-21
(1) Notes on “the Apostle Paul” and “formless things”
(2) Evolution
(3) Hebrews
(4) Samuel
(5) Newsclipping about the “evil days” (Los Angeles earthquakes and
World War I - 1914)
(6) Hebrew Prophecy and the Prophets (outline 2 copies,
typewritten, 8 ½”x11)
(7) Prophecy and the Prophets (typewritten, 4pp, 8 ½”x11)
(8) What is Prophecy? (2pp, typewritten, 8 ½”x11)
(9) God made known to the old Israelites…the Bible.. (typewritten,
7pp various sizes and shapes)
(10) Who were Hebrews? (handwritten, 2pp, different sizes)
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(11) Prophecy and the Prophets of Israel: General Plan of Teaching
(typewritten, 1p, 8 ½”x11)
(12) Elijah, crisis, leaders, kings (handwritten, 1p, 8 ½”x11) (written on
the back of Sermon on the Mount)
(13) Sermon on the Mount (typewritten, 1p, 8 ½”x11) (#12 is written
on the back of this)
Autobiographical Writings
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(1) “Deaconesses: Biblical, Early Church, European, American”
[various selected pages, 12pp, photocopies, 8 ½” x 11” n.d.)
[includes a photograph of the Chicago Training School faculty
1890]
(2) “A Bit of Autobiography” [3pp typewritten 8 ½”x 11” n.d.]
Biographical Writings about Lucy Rider Meyer
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(1) “Presentation speech to Mr. and Mrs. Meyer on the occasion of
their Twenty-fifth Wedding Anniversary, in the city of Milwaukee
– May 21st, 1910.” By Isabelle Horton.
(2) Lucy Rider Meyer 1922 [Isabelle Horton?])
(3) “Tribute to Lucy Rider Meyer” by Isabelle Horton. Vesper Service
Sunday March 6, 1924.
(4) Character Study Lucy Rider Meyer (speech at Alumni Annual May
8, 1981) (2pp, typed and handwritten)
(5) “Lucy Rider Meyer: Methodism’s Jane Addams” with footnotes
(1981) (16pp, typewritten, , 8 ½”x11”)
(6) “Lucy Rider Meyer” a poem by Floyd Holden
(7) Lucy Rider Meyer was a special student…1877-78. Card from
Miles Humphreys to Belle L. James
(8) “Saint Lucy” by John F. Fisher, Dean of University of Southern
California
(9) “Lucy Rider Meyer: A Tribute” by B. Elizabeth Squire 11/8/1896
(10)“Possessed by a Dream” by Thelma Campbell about Lucy Rider
Meyer. Includes poem “The Mother” by Lucy Rider Meyer, in The
World Outlook (n.d.)
(11)“Lucy Rider Meyer” (n.a.) about LRM’s composition “Northfield
Benediction” in The Northfield Alumnai Chronicle 2/1926.
(12)Tribute to Lucy Rider Meyer ca 1923 (2pp, 8 ½”x11” typewritten)
(13) Character Study of LRM Author unknown
(14) “LRM” author unknown (handwritten, 2 pp, 8 ½”x11”)
(15) “LRM Biographical Data” (handwritten, 1p, 8 ½”x11”)
(16) “The Why and the How” by isabelle Horton with a note by Belle
L. James (10pp, typewritten, 8 ½”x11”)
(17) Speech by Irva Colley Brown [a list of times and places the speech
was given is included] (2 copies, both with notes) (49pp,
typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”)
(18) “Old Saints and Sinners in New Clothes: The Modern Eye” a
sermon delivered by Robert Bruce Pierce (brochure) ca 1960s
(2pp, 8 ½”x 16”)
Newsclippings and Obituaries re: Lucy Rider Meyer
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(1) “The Methodist Ministers” (source unknown, n.d.) article
about a speech on missionaries to be given by Julia [sic] Rider
Meyer to a meeting of Methodist clergy. (1p, poor condition,
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2 ½”x2 ½”, clipped to a card) [perhaps related to the 1885
clipping]
(2) “The Methodists” [“from a Chicago paper in Spring of 1885”]
article about a speech on the need for a school for
missionaries given to a meeting of Methodist clergy. (1p,
poor condition, 2 ½”x2 ½”, glued to a card)
(3) “Victim of a World-Wide Conspiracy” amusing article about
publishing a photograph of Lucy Rider Meyer without
permission. [Poor quality photocopy] Deaconess Advocate
August 1911.
(4) “Deaconesses Hear Lucy Rider Meyer: Chicago Social Worker
Guest at Meeting of Aid Society. Founded Order in America”
(Providence Journal 9/24/1913) (1p., cut to irregular shape,
16” long)
(5) New England Deaconess Journal 2/1918 includes cover
photographs of Lucy Rider Meyer and Josiah Shelley Meyer
and an “Editorial” on the succession of Louis F. W. Lesemann
as president of the Chicago Training School [on page 4] (8pp.,
8”x11”)
(6) “Lucy Rider Meyer, Widely Known as an Educator, Dies”
3/17/1922 (publication unknown) (1p, 2 ½”x8”)
(7) “A Pioneer Leader of Women” by Dr. Louis F. W. Lesemann,
in the Western Christian Advocate 3/22/1922 (1p. 8 ½”x9”)
(8) “Mrs. Lucy Rider Meyer” brief obituary in The Christian
Advocate 3/23/1922 (1p, 3” x 2 ½”)
(9) “Lucy Rider Meyer” obituary article in The Christian Advocate
3/23/1922 (2pp, cut to irregular shapes)
(10)“A Friend of Girls” by Delphia Phillips in The Girl’s Friend
[Dayton Ohio] 8/5/1923 (2pp front and back, 8 ½”x 12”)
(11) “Story on Pages 233-34” a note in the table of contents of
Adult Bible Class Monthly 8/1922 identifying “Just a Plain
Little Woman” as the last thing LRM ever wrote (1p. 2 ½”x 2”,
clipped to a card)
(12)“Two Names in the Methodist Hall of Fame: Baffled to Fight
Better” The Northwestern Christian Advocate 9/6/1928 (2
copies, 1p. cut to irregular shape)
(13) “Lucy Rider Meyer and the Deaconess Movement” in
Explore Spring 1979. (2pp front and back, 9”x10”)
(14) “Our Friends in Christian Social Service” by Elizabeth P.
Gordon in The Union Signal 7/20/1911.
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In Memoriam Lucy Rider Meyer Unprocessed
(1) Letter from Belle L. James to “Dear Friends” concerning the
death of Lucy Rider Meyer on March 16, 1922. [with
handwritten notes from Belle James to Ina Loy Shinn
Katzenberger] [James was with LRM at the time of her death
and recorded her last coherent conversation concerning
whether her nurse was a Christian and her last word “Papa”
her pet name for J. Shelley Meyer]
(2) Memorial Service program (June 15, 1922) (4pp., 7”x10”)
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(3) Necrology of Alumni of Oberlin College: Deaths of Alumni
Reported to the College Secretary During the year Ending
October 1, 1922 (LRM on pages 13 – 14) (32pp., 6”x9”)
(4) “Epitaphs” c.a 1927 (3 pp, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”)
Shelley Rider Meyer (son of Lucy and J. Shelley)
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“At age 37, 1887…” Lucy Rider Meyer’s handwritten account of his
“arrival”
Photograph of Shelley Rider Meyer at age 5
Lucy Rider Meyer Professional Papers
Historical Sketch of LRM and CTS by Irva Brown, Sept 1977 [1960],
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48pp. 8 ½”x11” (typed/photocopy in black binder)
Lucy Rider Meyer’s Principal and Superintendent Reports re: Chicago
Training School and Deaconess Program (Moved to Board of Trustees
Collection Series 2.1)
Course Materials for Classes Taught by Lucy Rider Meyer
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(1) Readings in Mrs. Meyer’s Class
(2) Vital Issues – Evolution
(3) Vital Issues – Required Readings
(4) Vital Issues – Higher Criticism
(5) Vital Issues – Development of the Idea of God (2 copies with
notes)
(6) Sin and Holiness
(7) The Atonement
(8) Required Readings for Week Ending Nov 9th
(9) The Atonement (handwritten notes)
(10) Readings for Vital Issues – A Junior
(11) Philosophy Class – Take Notice
(12) Books Readings Jonah (handwritten notes)
LRM Delegate Badge worn to Ecumenical Methodist Conference
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Toronto 1911
Correspondence – “My Dear Brother” 9/25/1885 (1 letter)
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Correspondence – General
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(1) Lucy Rider Meyer to [?] [n.d.] (postcard)
(2) Lucy Rider Meyer to [?] [n.d.] (handwritten, 5”x8”)
(3) Lucy Rider Meyer to Dear Folks [n.d.]
(4) [J. S. Deneen?] to Lucy Rider Meyer 1/4/1905
(5) [?] to Lucy Rider Meyer and Josiah Shelley Meyer 5/5/1913
(includes content from M.F. Deaver
(6) Alma E. Hall to Lucy Rider Meyer, [ca Oct 1913],
(handwritten, 1 page, 6 ½”x10”)
(7) F.M. Brigham to Lucy Rider Meyer, 10/29/1913
(8) Lucy Rider Meyer to Perley Lowe, 11/10/1914.
(9) [Lucy Rider Meyer] to ? 11/12/1915
(10) Ripley Hitchcock to Lucy Rider Meyer 11/24/1915
(11) George M. Jones, Secretary Oberlin College to Lucy Rider
Meyer 12/23/1915
(12) Delbert Ullrick to Lucy Rider Meyer 3/1/1917
(13) [Lucy Rider Meyer?] to “Dear Friends” 4/17/1917
(14) Lucy Rider Meyer to E.S. Steele 3/25/1920
(15) [Lucy Rider Meyer?] to Dr. Howell 8/28/1920
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(16) E.O. Excell to Lucy Rider Meyer 2/25/1921
(17) G.E. McCammon to Lucy Rider Meyer 9/26/1921
(18) Lucy Rider Meyer to James N. Gamble 11/29/1921
(19) D.W. Howell to Lucy Rider Meyer 12/23/1921
(20) Marion Hope to Lucy Rider Meyer 1/16/1922
(21) Mrs. S.M. Bailey to Lucy Rider Meyer 1/23/1922
(22) Minnie Cutler to Lucy Rider Meyer 2/5/1922
(23) Emmeline C. Knox to Lucy Rider Meyer 2/7/1922
(24) E.B. to Lucy Rider Meyer 2/8/1922
(25) Della Dimmitt to Lucy Rider Meyer 2/17/1922
(26) Lula Clifton to Lucy Rider Meyer 2/20/1922
(27) Minny Cutler to Lucy Rider Meyer 2/21/1922
Correspondence – Nellie M. Curtiss 1921
(1) Nellie M. Curtiss to Lucy Rider Meyer 9/26/1921
(2) Nellie M. Curtiss to Lucy Rider Meyer [n.d. 1921?] (includes
pamphlet “Report of the Methodist Deaconess Home of the
Oregon Conference for year ending September 1, 1921)
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Correspondence - “Doctor” 1907
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Correspondence – N.W. Harris 1908-1915
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(1) N. W. Harris to Lucy Rider Meyer, 9/15/1908, (Handwritten, 1
page, 6 ½”x10”)
(2) [Lucy Rider Meyer?] to N.W. Harris, 9/16/1908, (Typewritten,
3 pages, 8 ½”x11”)
(3) N. W. Harris to Lucy Rider Meyer, 9/17/1913, (Typewritten, 1
page, 5 ½”x 8”)
(4) N. W. Harris to Lucy Rider Meyer, 11/20/1911, (Typewritten,
1 page, 8 ½”x11”)
(5) [Lucy Rider Meyer?] to N.W. Harris, 11/25/1911,
(Typewritten, 1 page, 8 ½”x11”)
(6) N. W. Harris to Lucy Rider Meyer, 11/27/1911,
(Typewritten,1 page, 5x7)
(7) Lucy Rider Meyer to N.W. Harris, 9/16/1913, (typewritten, 1
page, 8 ½”x11”)
(8) Lucy Rider Meyer’s secretary to N.W. Harris, 9/19/1913,
(typewritten, 1 page, 8 ½”x 11”)
(9) N. W. Harris to Lucy Rider Meyer, 9/30/1913, (Handwritten, 1
page, 5 ½”x 8”)
(10) N.W. Harris to Lucy Rider Meyer, 10/6/13, (typewritten, 1
page, 8 ½”x 10”)
(11) Lucy Rider Meyer to N.W. Harris, 10/7/1913, (typewritten, 1
page, 8 ½”x 11”)
(12) N.W. Harris to Lucy Rider Meyer, 10/11/1913, (typewritten,
1 page, 8 ½”x 11”)
(13) N.W. Harris to Lucy Rider Meyer, 10/14/1913, (typewritten,
1 page, 85½”x 8”)
(14) [Lucy Rider Meyer] to N.W. Harris, 1/6/1914, (typewritten, 1
page, 8 ½”x 11”)
(15) [Lucy Rider Meyer?] to N..W. Harris, 6/1/1914, (typewritten,
2 pages, 8 ½”x 11”)
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(16) [Lucy Rider Meyer?] to N.W. Harris, 6/18/1914, (typewritten,
2 pages, 8 ½”x 11”)
(17) Lucy Rider Meyer to N.W. Harris, 3/24/1915, (typewritten, 1
page, 8 ½”x 11”)
(18) N.W. Harris to Lucy Rider Meyer, 4/1/1915, (typewritten, 1
page, 6”x8”)
(19) Lucy Rider Meyer to N.W. Harris, 4/6/1915, (typewritten, 1
page, 8 ½”x 11”)
(20) Lucy Rider Meyer’s secretary to N.W. Harris, 6/28/1915,
(typewritten, 1 page, 8 ½”x 11”)
(21) Lucy Rider Meyer to N.W. Harris, 7/8/1915, (typewritten, 1
page, 8 ½”x 11”)
(22) [Lucy Rider Meyer?] to N.W. Harris, 7/12/1915,
(typewritten, 1 page, 8 ½”x 11”)
(23) N.W. Harris to Lucy Rider Meyer, 7/19/1915, (typewritten, 1
page, 6x 8”)
(24) N.W. Harris to Lucy Rider Meyer, 7/23/1915, (handwritten, 1
page, 6x10)
(25) [Lucy Rider Meyer] to N.W. Harris [fragment of letter] ca
1915, (typewritten, 1 page, 8 ½”x 11”)
Correspondence – Isabelle Horton 1919-1920
Correspondence – Belle L. James 1911-1921
(1) LRM to Belle L. James 4/13/1911
(2) LRM to Belle L. James 3/28/1914
(3) LRM to Belle James 6/3/1919
(4) LRM to Belle L. James [summer 1921]
(5) LRM to Belle L. James [n.d.]
Correspondence - Ina Loy Shinn Katzenberger
Correspondence - Virginia Kent 1921-1922
(1) Virginia J. Kent to Lucy Rider Meyer 10/1/1921
(2) Virginia J. Kent to Lucy Rider Meyer 2/8/1922
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Correspondence – Luella Kimball 1921-1922
(1) Luella D. Kimball to Lucy Rider Meyer 12/5/1921
(2) Luella D. Kimball to Lucy Rider Meyer 10/7/1921
(3) Luella D. Kimball to Lucy Rider Meyer 8/31/1921
(4) Luella D. Kimball to Lucy Rider Meyer 9/21/1921
(5) Luella D. Kimball to Lucy Rider Meyer 1/14/1922
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Correspondence – Josiah Shelley Meyer 1912
(1) Josiah Shelley Meyer to Lucy Rider Meyer [mailed 1/19/1912]
(2) Josiah Shelley Meyer to Lucy Rider Meyer [mailed 1/24/1912]
(3) Josiah Shelley Meyer to Jennie [Lucy Rider Meyer] 1/26/1912
(4) Josiah Shelley Meyer to Lucy Rider Meyer [mailed 2/8/1912]
(5) Josiah Shelley Meyer to Jennie [Lucy Rider Meyer, n.d.]
(6) Josiah Shelley Meyer to [Lucy Rider Meyer] [2/3/????]
(7) Josiah Shelley Meyer to Jennie [Lucy Rider Meyer, n.d.]
(8) [Josiah Shelley Meyer ?] to Lucy Rider Meyer [n.d.]
Correspondence – Mary Moxcey 1922
(1) Mary Moxcey to LRM 2/24/1922
(2) LRM to Mary Moxcey 2/28/1922
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Correspondence – Alice P. Thatcher 1921-1922
(1) Alice P. Thatcher to Lucy Rider Meyer 10/14/1921
(2) Alice P. Thatcher to Lucy Rider Meyer 2/17/1922
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Correspondence – Business (various between LRM and her estate)
1915-1934
(1) Harper & Brothers to Lucy Rider Meyer 11/16/1915
(2) Cayton F. Summy to Lucy Rider Meyer 6/4/1921
(3) [C.?] A. Woodman of the Oliver Ditson Company to Lucy Rider
Meyer 12/8/1921
(4) C.W. Barnes of the Home Quarterly and The Home Visitor to Lucy
Rider Meyer 1/27/1922
(5) “WAF” of the Oliver Ditson Company to Belle L. James regarding
publication of and royalties for Lucy Rider Meyer’s writings and
music and the posthumous disposition of royalties 6/8/1922
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Reviews of Lucy Rider Meyer’s Book “Deaconesses”
High Adventure Editorial Notes
High Adventure: Life of Lucy Rider Meyer by Isabelle Horton (1 copy)
Student and employee reminiscences about Lucy Rider Meyer (9 pp,
handwritten, 3” x 5” cards)
Lucy Rider Meyer Academic Work
Philosophy of Religion (Notebook for Course) Fall 1907
Jesus [Christology?] (Notebook for Course) Fall 1907
Contemporary Theology (Notebook for Course) Fall 1907
Lucy Rider Meyer Scrapbook – do not use [has been scanned]
Lucy Rider Meyer – husband – Josiah (J) Shelley Meyer Papers
Memoirs J. Shelley Meyer
(1) Memoir of the married lives of the Meyers (54pp,
handwritten, 8 ½” x 11”)
(2) Excerpt for inclusion in “High Adventure” by Isabelle Horton
with editorial notes. (2pp., typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”)
(3) Excerpt (3pp., typewritten, 3 ½” x 11”)
Photographs of J. Shelley Meyer
(1) 1865 age 16 with his farm
(2) [ca. 1890]
(3) 1894
(4) 1914 (2 poses)
(5) 1916
“Incidents In Our Work” [early draft of “Modern Miracles: Incidents
of Our Work…for Our Intimate Friends” with editorial notes] a history
of the Chicago Training School dictated by J. Shelley Mayer, Arranged
by Isabella Horton, 57pp. 8 ½”x11” (109pp., typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”)
[ca. 1925]
“Modern Miracles: Incidents of Our Work…for Our Intimate Friends”
a history of the Chicago Training School dictated by J. Shelley Mayer,
Arranged by Isabelle Horton (57pp. 8 ½”x11”) [ca. 1925]
“Mr. Meyer’s Approach to Money Appeals” (2 copies) (2pp,
typewritten, (8 ½”x 11”)
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(1) J. Shelley Meyer to George M. Jones 12/30/1915
(2) Minnie Carter to J. Shelley Meyer 2/21/1922
(3) [?] to J. Shelley Meyer 5/13/1922
(4) Charles M. Stuart to J. Shelley Meyer 5/1/1922
(5) C.A. Woodman to J. Shelley Meyer 6/23/1922
(6) Alice P. Thatcher to J. Shelley Meyer 2/2/1923
Correspondence – Belle James (and other office staff writing on Miss
James’ behalf) Winter 1911/12 – March 1926
Financial Records
“My Wife” a poem about the death of Lucy Rider Meyer by J. Shelley
Rider [ca 1925]
Newsclippings and Obituaries re: Josiah Shelley Meyer
(1) “Methodists to Dine Father of the Mission School” by the
Rev. W[illiam] B. Norton [author of “The Founding of the
Chicago Training School”] (n.p., 1925)
(2) “Our Promoted Friends: J. Shelley Meyer, A Noble Career” by
Louis F. W. Lesemann (The Northwestern Christian Advocate,
July 22, 1926)
(3) “Miami: Coconut Grove’s Elegance…” by Michael Carlton
[with a note by Irva Brown re: one of the houses featured
was frequented by J. Shelley Meyer] (Chicago Sun-Times,
11/10/1985)
In Memoriam – Josiah Shelley Rider
(1) “In Memoriam” by Louis F. W. Lesemann [ca 1926] (1p.,
typewritten, 6x9)
(2) Memorial Service brochure (Founder’s Day, October 20,
1926) (3 copies, 4pp., typewritten, 6x8)
(3) “Josiah Shelley Meyer: In Memoriam” [ca 1926] (photocopy
of text of Eulogy by Louis F.W. Lesemann, 25pp, typewritten,
6x8)
(4) “Epitaphs” c.a 1927 (2 pp, typewritten, 8 ½” x 11”)
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