Papers of James Mearns, 1855-1922, hymnologist and vicar

Correspondence and related material, including a pasted-up copy of Julian's Dictionary of Hymnology with manuscript revisions.

James Mearns, hymnologist, was born in 1855 in Coldstream, Scottish Borders, Scotland. He was educated at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, and the United Presbyterian College in Edinburgh, Scotland. He was ordained in the Church of England, and subsequently became vicar at Ashby de la Launde, Lincolnshire, England, and at Rushden, Hertfordshire, England. Later he became the rector at Wallington, Hertfordshire. He died in 1922.

The arrangement of this material reflects the original order in which it was received

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Gift : General Assembly of the Church of Scotland : August 1974 : ACCN 4719

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This material has been appraised in line with standard GB 247 procedures

The collection came to the United Free Church College (subsequently Trinity College), Glasgow in 1923, along with Mearns's collection of circa 2,000 printed books on hymnology, and was transferred with the rest of the College Library to the University of Glasgow in 1974.

None expected

GB 247 Mearns collection, 2,000 hymnological works collected by James Mearns, Glasgow University Library, Special Collections Department

GB 058 Add MSS 69438-9 James Mearns, notes made for Dictionary of Hymnology 1894-95, British Library, Manuscripts Catalogue); GB 058 MSS Mus. 314-323 James Mearns, hymnological indices, British Library, Manuscripts Catalogue.