The Granbery Papers are part of the Jackson-Greenwood Collection donated to Southwestern by Mrs. Ruth G. Jackson of San Antonio in 1975. W. W. Jackson and his wife, Ruth Jackson, were friends of the Granberys. He invited Granbery to teach in San Antonio after Granbery was dismissed from Southwestern. Apparently May Granbery gave the collection to Ruth Jackson, who in turn donated it to Southwestern.

The collection is primarily family correspondence but also includes genealogical information, documents, passports, photographs, business cards, and a large collection of postcards, some from Italy, France, Greece, Turkey, Macedonia, Germany, England, Finland, Mexico, United States, and Canada. Many of the postcards appear to be from the era of World War One and the 1920s.

The correspondence is divided into two series. The first series includes mainly personal correspondence between Bishop John C. Granbery and his wife, Ella Granbery and condolence letters regarding his daughters’ death, Ruth and Fay, and his wife’s death. The correspondence also includes some letters about the Civil War and Reconstruction, travels throughout Europe, and correspondence regarding the Methodist Church in relation to the Methodist Conferences and helping to establish a Methodist presence in Brazil and throughout the country by preaching. The second series is subdivided into personal correspondence between John C. Granbery, Jr., May Granbery, Ella Granbery Tucker, and H.C. Tucker and correspondence between various members of the Granbery Family and various people. The second series is mainly made up of personal correspondence, correspondence regarding Southwestern University, and letters regarding the Methodist Church and the political state in Brazil. A set of The Emancipator is cataloged separately from this collection.

References to John C. Granbery, Jr.’s speeches, lectures and papers in other collections at Southwestern University. Granbery also published the various editions of the Christian Advocate.

Obituary of Professor Sanders 1937 Location: Dan K. Utley, “Information on W. C. Vaden House,” Small Collections, Box 2, Folder 4.

Reports to Faculty about religious activity at the Y.M.C.A and Y.W.C.A Location: SU Faculty 1913–34, June 5, 1917, pp. 112–113. SU Trustees 1913–25, June 12–13, 1919, pp. 283–284.

Gave a talk to a combined meeting of the Review Club and the Art Club. His topic was “The Soul’s Revolt, or the Protest of Individualism against Over-Socialization.” Location: MKSB #21, p. 15, “Dr. John C. Granbery Addresses Review Club,” Georgetown Commercial, October 13, 1913.

Elected chairman of the Methodist Social Service Commission in Texas, a creature of the seven Annual Conferences, he addressed it on April 9, 1914. Location: Sudo-Shimamura, “Granbery: Three Controversies,” p. 18. He quotes “An Address to the Social Service Commission,” taken from the Texas Christian Advocate, April 19, 1914.

Late 1914 Granbery delivered an address before the State Conference of Charities and Corrections in San Antonio. Though the title of the talk was “Social Service in the South,” the next day it was excerpted in the San Antonio Express under the headline: “Dr. Granbery Predicts Great Labor War.” Location: MKSB #22, p. ?, “Dr. Granbery Predicts Great Labor War,” San Antonio Express, November 16, 1914.

Granbery says that the reporters had misconstrued his speech by taking much of it out of context, which made it sound revolutionary, and by the Advocate that he had no one to blame but himself if he was not careful enough to speak in such a way that he would be understood and too careless to correct misstatements in the press if he detected them. Location: 202. MKSB #22, p. 29, “Another Deliverance from Dr. Granbery,” Texas Christian Advocate, after November 29, 1914.

One speech was entitled “Social Problems of Interest to Women.” Location: MKSB #21, p. 38, “Social Problems of Interest to Women,” Georgetown Commercial, December 4, 1914.

But he did feel that there was, objectively speaking, a “tendency … toward common ownership and management of the instruments of production.” Location: MKSB #22, p.?, “What Is Socialism,” address of Dr. J. C. Granbery, in one of the Georgetown newspapers, January 6, 1915.

The newspaper report of a baccalaureate sermon given by him in Thorndale states that his “splendid sermon was well received and highly appreciated.” Location: MKSB #23, p. 15, “Dr. Granbery at Thorndale,” Georgetown Commercial, June 4, 1915.

One of his addresses in Bryan was to a meeting of Italians Location: MKSB #23, p. 28, “Dr. Granbery in Bryan,” WC Sun, August 26, 1915.

His attendance as a delegate to the Democratic convention in San Antonio in May, He recounted his convention experiences in class and said that he learned many things with which he was previously unfamiliar. Location: MKSB #23, p. 80, “Dr. Granbery at San Antonio,” Megaphone, May 30, 1916.

He gave another overview of the convention in the evening to an audience of citizens at the town hall.208 He let it be known regarding the 1916 gubernatorial election that he was against Governor Ferguson because he supported the liquor traffic. Location: MKSB #23, p. 64, “Dr. Granbery Writes on McDonald Address,” Georgetown Commercial, June 30, 1916.

In the fall of 1916, Granbery addressed the opening of Baylor University. Granbery’s topic was “Some Aspects of Texas Civilization.” He spoke of factors in the state’s development and of the ways in which the human race can be improved. Location: MKSB #23, p. 67, “Dr. Granbery Addresses Baylor University,” published in the Waco Morning News, reprinted in the Georgetown Commercial, September 8, 1916.

He then submitted a paper calling on the faculty to express its regret for “the appearance of these advertisements in the Megaphone” and suggested that, when the present contracts cease, “there be no further advertisement of tobacco in any Southwestern University publication.” The faculty referred to matter to the President. Location: SU Faculty 1913–34, November 6, 1916, p. 82.

Toward the end of a meeting of the faculty on June 5, he “presented a paper dealing with certain Faculty matters signed by three members of the Faculty and after reading moved that same be referred to the Board of Trustees as a statement from the Faculty. On division of the house the motion was lost.” the contents of the paper are not given. Location: SU Faculty 1913–34, June 5, 1917, p. 116.

Writing to Cody from Greece on July 25, 1919, Granbery talks about the Southwestern faculty with affection. He says that he cherishes its members in his heart. Location: Cody Collection, Incoming Correspondence, Letter of July 25, 1919, from John C. Granbery, writing while on a boat going to Smyrna, Greece, to Cody, Box 1, Folder 5.

When Bishop returned to Georgetown for the Centennial Celebration in 1940, Mrs. Granbery, who was also in Georgetown at the time, entertained him for a special breakfast. He wrote her a letter of thanks in which he referred to the Granberys as “daily intimates” who helped give to his life “so much of its substance—and of its better flavors.” Location: GL, Letter to May Catt Granbery, Georgetown, from C. M. Bishop, Houston, April 23, 1940.

An article honoring Waggoner on his birthday in 1941, Location: MKSB #36, p. 32, John C. Granbery, “Honoring Luther J. Waggoner,” WC Sun, June 6, 1941.

It was in a speech by Granbery at the University of Texas in April, 1936, as a participant in an equivalent student peace rally that he began his address by repeating three times successively, “God Damn the War,” quoting from Harry Emerson Fosdick and Walt Whitman. Location: Sudo-Shimamura, “Granbery: Three Controversies,” pp. 43–47.