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Collection material in English
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the LC Catalog. They are grouped by name of person or organization, by subject or location, and by occupation and listed alphabetically.
The papers of Peter Marshall, Presbyterian clergyman and chaplain of the United States Senate, and his wife, Catherine Marshall, author, were deposited in the Library of Congress by Catherine Marshall LeSourd in 1964 and converted to a gift in 1970. Additional gifts were received, 1968-1969.
The papers of Peter Marshall and Catherine Marshall were arranged and described in 1966 and expanded in 1979 and 1985. The finding aid was revised in 2013.
Sound recordings and television tapes have been transferred to the Library's Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division where they are identified as part of these papers.
Copyright in the unpublished writings of Peter Marshall and Catherine Marshall in these papers and in other collections of papers in the custody of the Library of Congress has been dedicated to the public.
The papers of Peter Marshall and Catherine Marshall are open to research. Researchers are advised to contact the Manuscript Reading Room prior to visiting. Many collections are stored off-site and advance notice is needed to retrieve these items for research use.
A microfilm edition of these papers is available on six reels. Consult a reference librarian in the Manuscript Division concerning availability for purchase or interlibrary loan. To promote preservation of the originals, researchers are required to consult the microfilm edition.
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: Container or reel number, Peter Marshall and Catherine Marshall Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
The papers of Peter Marshall (1902-1949) and Catherine Marshall (1914-1983), husband and wife, span the years 1927-1964, with the bulk of the material concentrated in the period 1933-1956. Personal materials of Peter Marshall comprise about a fourth of the collection, including a small amount of correspondence and a large file of notes for his sermons. The sermons, about 850 in number, cover the period 1933 through January 1948 and include such well-known sermons as “Singing in the Rain,” “Go Down Death,” “Under Sealed Orders,” “The King is in the Audience,” and “Rendezvous in Samarra.” There are also synopses of many of the sermons and various indexes that list the sermons by title, date, location, subject matter, and quotations used. The collection is organized into seven series: Peter Marshall: Sermons , Peter Marshall: Correspondence , Catherine Marshall: Correspondence , Catherine Marshall: Book and Article File , Scrapbooks , Addition I , and Addition II .
Catherine Marshall's papers, in addition to treating her own career as an author and lecturer following the death of her husband, are mainly oriented to the life of Peter Marshall and to her biography of him,
A significant portion of the papers concerns the production by Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation of
Also in the collection are other manuscripts of Catherine Marshall's published works, some of which include both original drafts and corrected copies of proofs.
The Scrapbooks series is composed mainly of printed material including some correspondence relating to Peter Marshall's election as chaplain of the United States Senate, his death, and Catherine Marshall's subsequent career as an author. Addition I and Addition II contain miscellaneous sermons and ideas for sermon, written prayers, seminary papers of Peter Marshall, and other material.
An appendix to this finding aid lists the names and dates of correspondents in the Peter Marshall: Correspondence series of the collection.
This collection is arranged in seven series:
Texts of sermons by Peter Marshall and related material.
Organized into two groups and arranged as filmed, with Group 2 preceding Group 1. Numbers to sermons were assigned by Marshall. Includes various indexes.
Available on microfilm. Shelf no. 13,847
Family letters and general correspondence of letters sent and received by Peter
Marshall. Names and dates of correspondents are listed in an
Arranged by type and therein chronologically.
Available on microfilm. Shelf no. 13,847
Letters sent and received by Catherine Marshall.
Arranged chronologically, with travel correspondence organized according to location and miscellany filed at the end of the series.
Drafts and production material of Mrs. Marshall's published books and articles and an unpublished work. The manuscript of
Arranged by title of work.
Mainly biographical material about Peter Marshall and publicity relating to the books and movie about him.
Arranged in chronological sequence.
Miscellaneous sermons, prayers, articles, and seminary papers of Peter Marshall.
Arranged by type of material.
Material for sermon ideas, typescripts of sermons and prayers, and miscellany relating to Peter Marshall.
Arranged by type of material.