GREEN, FRED PRATT (1903 - 2000)
Papers, ca. 1928-1988.
MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION 166
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REPRODUCTION: Due to preservation concerns, the scrapbooks may not be photocopied.
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CITATION: Fred Pratt Green Papers, MSS 166, Archives and Manuscripts Dept., Pitts Theology Library, Emory University.
Fred Pratt Green was born in Roby, near Liverpool, England, on September 2, 1903. He was ordained as a Methodist minister in 1928 and served circuits in the north and south of England until 1969. During his career as a minister he wrote numerous plays and hymns. It was not until he retired, however, that he began writing prolifically. Green wrote over 300 hymns and Christian songs as well as commissioned texts for special occasions. One of the most important Methodist hymnists since Charles Wesley, he is credited as a leader of the "hymnic explosion" in England. The writer was made a Fellow in the Hymn Society of America and was honored with an honorary doctorate in Humane Letters from Emory University in 1982. His publications include 26 Hymns, The Hymns and Ballads of Fred Pratt Green, and Later Hymns and Ballads and Fifty Poems. Fred Pratt Green died in his sleep on October 22, 2000.
[Source: Young, Carlton R. Companion to The United Methodist Hymnal. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1993.]
This collection consists of 51 scrapbooks maintained by Fred Pratt Green from approximately 1971 until he ceased writing hymns in 1988. Green compiled an index to his scrapbooks that includes an index to the first line of each hymn, references to pieces in Hymns and Ballads by Fred Pratt Green, color-coded references to published works and translations, and information on how a hymn was used. The scrapbooks contain drafts of hymns, photographs, correspondence, bulletins and programs from services that used his hymns, announcements, newspaper and journal clippings, and handwritten notations by Green describing when a hymn was written and reprinted and why and for whom the piece was written.
BOX # DESCRIPTION DATES
1
Funeral bulletin
2001 June
1
Index to hymns in scrapbooks
1
Scrapbook 1
ca. 1928-1969
1
Scrapbook 2
1970
1
Scrapbook 3 (26 Hymns)
1969-1971 July
1
Scrapbook 4
1971 Oct - 1972 Apr
2
Scrapbook 5
1972 May - Sept
2
Scrapbook 6
1972 Oct - 1973 Jan
2
Scrapbook 7
1973 Feb - Nov
2
Scrapbook 8
1973 Nov - 1974 June
2
Scrapbook 9
1974 May - 1975 Mar
3
Scrapbook 10
1974 Dec - 1975 May
3
Scrapbook 11
1975 May - Dec
3
Scrapbook 12
1976 Jan - Sept
3
Scrapbook 13
1976 Sept - 1977 Mar
3
Scrapbook 14
1977 Mar - Oct
4
Scrapbook 15
1977 Oct - 1978 Mar
4
Scrapbook 16
1978 Mar - July
4
Scrapbook 17
1978 Aug - Oct
4
Scrapbook 18
1978 Oct - Dec
4
Scrapbook 19
1979 Jan - July
5
Scrapbook 20
1979 Aug - Dec
5
Scrapbook 21
1980 Jan - April
5
Scrapbook 22
1980 May - Oct
5
Scrapbook 23 (All relating to New 1983 Methodist Hymn Book)
1980 Nov - 1983 Dec
5
Scrapbook 24
1980 Nov - 1981 Mar
6
Scrapbook 25
1981 Apr - Oct
6
Scrapbook 26 (Hymns and Ballads of Fred Pratt Green)
1981 July
6
Scrapbook 27
1981 Oct - 1982 Jan
6
Scrapbook 28
1982 Jan - June
6
Scrapbook 29
1982 July - Sept
7
Scrapbook 30
1982 Oct - 1983 Jan
7
Scrapbook 31
1983 Jan - April
7
Scrapbook 32
1983 May - Aug
7
Scrapbook 33
1983 Sept - 1984 Jan
7
Scrapbook 34
1984 Feb - April
8
Scrapbook 35
1984 May - Sept
8
Scrapbook 36
1984 Oct - Dec
8
Scrapbook 37
1985 Jan - April
8
Scrapbook 38
1985 May - Aug
8
Scrapbook 39
1985 Aug - Nov
9
Scrapbook 40
1985 Dec - 1986 Jan
9
Scrapbook 41
1986 Feb - May
9
Scrapbook 42
1986 May - July
9
Scrapbook 43
1986 Aug - Oct
9
Scrapbook 44
1986 Nov - Dec
9
Scrapbook 45
1987 Jan - Feb
10 Scrapbook
46
1987 Feb - May
10 Scrapbook
47
1987 June - Aug
10 Scrapbook
48
1987 Aug - Dec
10 Scrapbook
49
1988 Jan - Mar
10 Scrapbook
50
1988 Apr - July
10 Scrapbook
51
1988 Aug - Nov