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Letterbooks of the American Unitarian AssociationHarvard Divinity School Library is the official archive of the Unitarian Universalist Association, its predecessor denominations, as well as many related organizations.

[Timeline of the consolidation of the Unitarians and Universalists ](https://guides.library.harvard.edu/c.php?g=253864&p=10485840#s-lg-box-33026256)

Highlights of the collection include:

- Some of the earliest surviving Universalist organizational manuscript materials in [records of the Universalist General Conventions beginning in 1793](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/div00163/catalog) and [Philadelphia Universalist Convention, 1789-1805](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/div00407/catalog).
- [Handwritten records of the American Unitarian Association, 1825-1845](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/div91934/catalog) with the first constitution and handwritten minutes of annual meetings.
- [Black Affairs Council records](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/div01144/catalog) and [records of the empowerment controversy in the late 1960s](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/div00531/catalog).
- [Letterbooks of the American Unitarian Association](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/div00571/catalog), a collection of thousands of letters received by the secretaries of the AUA from the earliest organizing period through the 19th century.
- [Records of the Office of Lesbian and Gay Concerns, 1972-1999](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/div01309/catalog).
- Presidential papers and papers of other prominent leaders of the Unitarian Universalist Association and its precedessor denominations.

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