Scope and Content From the Collection: This collection contains a copybook maintained by S. Harvey Johnson, a Methodist minister residing in Patrick County, Virginia around the turn of the twentieth century. The book is titled "Thoughts, Original and Selected with Incidents, Illustrations, etc." Largely religious in subject matter, the book includes sections headed "What to Preach," "How to Preach," and "Life, Its Sources and Purpose," among others. Though the book itself is undated, it contains one passage copied from a speech...