Clergy and Other Religious Professionals
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The library's collection of personal papers of Unitarian, Universalist, and Unitarian Universalist clergy is unparalleled.
Papers of Unitarian clergy include:
- William Ellery Channing sermons and letters, which includes two drafts of his sermon preached at the ordination of Jared Sparks in Baltimore in 1819 and published as "Unitarian Christianity"
- Theodore Parker papers, which includes his largely unpublished journals
- Edward Everett Hale papers that include scrapbooks, sermons, letters, and material related to Antioch College
- Charles Henry Appleton Dall papers
- Charles William Wendte papers
- Samuel Atkins Eliot papers, his sermons and addresses, documents, and photographs
- Frederick May Eliot correspondence and his personal papers, his manuscript sermons, prayers, and poems and papers related to his role as American Unitarian Association president and army chaplain
- Anita Trueman Pickett letters and lectures
Papers of Universalist clergy include:
- Hosea Ballou papers and the Ballou family papers
- Hosea Ballou II papers
- Thomas Whittemore papers
- Quillen Hamilton Shinn papers
- Family papers of Roger Frederick Etz
- Clarence Russell Skinner papers
- Alfred Storer Cole papers
- Edna Bruner papers
- Hazel Ida Kirk papers
- Journals of John Mather Austin, minister of the Universalist Society of Auburn, New York, and editor of the Christian Ambassador
- And also Universalist lay worker Georgene Bowen's papers
Papers of clergy whose ministry extended after the consolidation include:
- Robert Jules Raible papers
- Ralph Norman Helverson papers
- Joseph Barth papers
- Dana McLean Greeley papers
- Paul Nathaniel Carnes
- Lon Ray Call papers
- David Hicks MacPherson papers
If you know of biographies of clergy or collections of sermons that the library should purchase, please submit a Purchase Request.
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The library collects biographies, autobiographies, correspondence, sermons, and other religious works of Unitarian, Universalist, and Unitarian Universalist clergy and religious professionals.
