John D. Nutting Papers
Scope and Contents
The John D. Nutting Collection contains the personal library and papers of Rev. John D. Nutting of Cleveland, Ohio. Rev. Nutting was a pastor, missions official, and missionary to Mormons. This collection includes pro and contra-Mormon material, some dating from the nineteenth century.
The collection is organized into eleven series: Biographical, Correspondence, Manuscripts, Maps, Newspapers and Articles (1877-1919), Anti-Mormon Pamphlets, Periodicals, Utah Gospel Mission, Nutting Family Materials, Secondary and Collection-related Materials.
Biographical materials relate to Nuttings time at Wheaton College, from which he graduated in 1870. His mother, Sarah, and his sister, Ruth, were on faculty in Art at Wheaton.
Correspondence is between Nutting and Mrs. France Carothers Blanchard. Charles Blanchard was an instructor of Nutting, and later president of Wheaton College. The correspondence dates from 1882-1883.
Manuscript material includes essays, bible lessons and notes and poetry.
A large portion of the collection is devoted to published material from newsclippings and articles to periodicals and anti-Mormon pamphlets. These materials date from 1877-1947.
Nutting's library, including rare copies of early editions of the Book of Mormon,may be searched in the library catalog as keyword: SC/09
Nutting ran the Utah Gospel Mission and its press in Cleveland, Ohio.
Dates
- Created: 1830-2017
- Other: Majority of material found in 1878-1927
- Other: Date acquired: 06/1951
Creator
- Nutting, John Danforth, 1854-1949. (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
The John D. Nutting Collection of Mormon literature, by terms of the gift, is open to inspection and use in the Special Collections only, and only to "properly identified persons."
Conditions Governing Use
Duplication may be restricted if copying could cause damage to items.
Extent
8 boxes
5 Linear Feet
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement Note
The collection is arranged by series with folder level control.
Source of Acquisition
Gift
Method of Acquisition
In June 1951, Mrs. John D. Nutting of Cleveland, Ohio presented to Wheaton College the library of her late husband, the Reverend John D. Nutting. Rev. Nutting was a missionary to the Mormons and a mission official for more than forty years.
Other Descriptive Information
The John D. Nutting Collection contains the personal library of Rev. John D. Nutting of Cleveland, Ohio. Rev. Nutting was a pastor, missions official, and missionary to Mormons. This collection includes pro and contra-Mormon material from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
- Articles.
- Biographies.
- Christianity and other religions.
- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints -- Doctrines.
- Clippings files.
- Congregational churches -- Utah.
- Congregationalism.
- Correspondence.
- Essays.
- Evangelicalism -- Relations -- Latter Day Saint churches.
- Free Congregational Church (Hudson, Ohio)
- Literature -- Societies, etc.
- Manuscripts for publication.
- Marriage -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
- Missions to Mormons
- Mormon Church
- Mormon Church -- Controversial literature.
- Mormon Church -- Doctrines.
- Mormonism.
- Mormons -- United States.
- Poetry.
- Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
- Space and time.
- Student newspapers and periodicals.
- Utah Gospel Mission (Cleveland, Ohio)
- Utah.
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni.
Creator
- Nutting, John Danforth, 1854-1949. (Person)
- Nutting, Rufus, Jr. (Person)
- Nutting, Sarah Hubbard. (Person)
- Nutting, Ruth Frances. (Person)
- Nutting, Wallace. (Person)
- Title
- John D. Nutting Papers
- Author
- Buswell Library Special Collections Staff
- Date
- 05/01/2008
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
Part of the Special Collections Repository