David du Plessis Archive at Fuller Theological Seminary Library

Archive Collections: brief descriptions Under Construction

The Charles E. Fuller papers deal primarily with his radio ministry, Pilgrims' Hour and the  Old-Fashioned Revival Hour, and the cofounding of Fuller Theological Seminary.  Included in the collection are program notes and sound recordings spanning over  forty years, letters sent by radio listeners, and the Heart to Heart newsletter  sent out to OFRH listeners. The papers of Grace Payton Fuller,  which chronicle her life before her marriage to Fuller and the vital role she played in their  radio ministry, are also housed in the archive. The collection is a rich resource for  individuals interested in American religious history, evangelicalism, and twentieth-century popular culture.

David J. du Plessis (1905-1987)

The Du Plessis papers include his correspondence with global religious  leaders and local ministers, sermon notes and outlines, drafts of  ecumenical documents and minutes (including those related to the  International Roman Catholic-Pentecostal Dialogue), letters to this wife, and scores of ephemeral materials from various  charismatic "ministries." Meritorious awards, photographs, newspaper  clippings, church bulletins, and cassette tapes of talks given by Du  Plessis are also found in the collection.

Joseph Mattsson-Boze (1905-1989)

A Swedish immigrant, Mattsson-Boze became a leader in the "Latter Rain," a  splinter movement within Pentecostalism in the 1940s and 1950s. His papers range in  date from 1933 to the early 1970s and include correspondence with  significant figures in classical independent Pentecostal circles. A full run of the Swedish  journal Trons Harold, which became the English journal Herald of Faith, can  be found in the collection. Other short-lived Swedish and English journals  help comprise the Mattsson-Boze Collection. These papers, along with the  DeGregorio Papers listed below, constitute a rich resource for independent  or nondenominational Pentecostalism.

Anthony DeGregorio (d. 1987)

Anthony DeGregorio, a layman, collected materials concerning Pentecostal  Italian immigrants in the northeastern United States in the first half of the twentieth century. The approximately 115 unpublished biographies and  autobiographies (many written in Italian) of significant figures in  Italian-American Pentecostalism offer rare glimpses into a people strongly  opposed to "organized denominationalism." Just as they shed light on the  Italian-American experience. Also found in this collection are draft  histories of about 50 local congregations.

Frances Ure (1982-1987)

The papers of this minor but representative female, itinerant, midwestern  evangelist include teaching outlines, sermons notes, church bulletins,  advertisements of upcoming meetings, poems (a very few of which are  published), bank statements, medical bills, and wartime correspondence and  military medals of Ure's father, who served in the Union Army as a  physician during the Civil War.

The Society for Pentecostal Studies (1970-)

The society brings together academic scholars from classical Pentecostal  and charismatic movements with students of the same movements who are  outsiders or work in groups marginalized by the classical establishment.  Fuller Seminary is designated as the official depository of the  society. Holdings comprise all manner of administrative papers, financial  ledgers, and correspondence related to the society's journal, Pneuma, and  its newsletter.