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Frederick A. Bisbee
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The library's large collection of journals is due in large measure to the work of the Universalist Historical Society to collect any issue it could find, to the historical connection of Harvard Divinity School with the American Unitarian movement, and to the library's continuing effort to collect and preserve Unitarian Universalist journals.
Noteworthy examples of the collection include
- James Freeman Clarke's annotated copy of The Dial, a quarterly journal that grew out of a meeting of the Transcendentalist Club.
- A complete set of The Western Messenger (1835-1841)
- Theological Repository, edited by Joseph Priestley (1769-88). Also available online [Harvard Login]
- Universalist Magazine, edited by Hosea Ballou and others (1819-28)
- Universalist Herald, published in Alabama. Also available online [Harvard Login]
- The Universalist Leader (1897-1961) and the Unitarian Register (from 1898 to 1961) along with many of the publications that merged with them.
- Newsletters from many Unitarian and Universalist congregations.
Many journals are available online and discoverable in our catalog, HOLLIS.
About 150 pre-1900 Universalist journals and over 90 pre-1900 Unitarian journals are available in the library, online, or through interlibrary loan.
For insight into the behind-the-scenes activity of the printing of the Leader and the Register, see these archival collections: Universalist Publishing House records, The Christian Register records, and Christian Register Correspondence.
Questions? Ask a research librarian.
