#  Clergy and Other Religious Professionals 

 



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To explore our rich collections, search for names in

- [HOLLIS Catalog](http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hul.eresource:hollisds)
- [HOLLIS for Archival Discovery](https://hollisarchives.lib.harvard.edu/)
- [Harvard Digital Collections](https://library.harvard.edu/collections/explore-collections)

For help finding information in our collections, please [contact a research librarian](mailto:research@hds.harvard.edu).

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](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/div00100/catalog) and [letters](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/div00480/catalog), which includes [two drafts](/exhibits/featured-images/draft-page-of-channings-baltimore-sermon "Channing's Baltimore Sermon (Draft)") of his sermon preached at the ordination of Jared Sparks in Baltimore in 1819 and published as "Unitarian Christianity"
- [Theodore Parker papers](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/div00101/catalog), which includes his largely [unpublished journals](/exhibits/featured-images/parkers-journal-entry-on-emersons-divinity-school-address "Parker's Journal Entry on Emerson's Divinity School Address")
- Edward Everett Hale papers that include [scrapbooks](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/div00089/catalog), [sermons](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/div00110/catalog), [letters](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/div00122/catalog), and [material related to Antioch College](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/div00512/catalog)
- [Charles Henry Appleton Dall papers](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/div00124/catalog)
- [Charles William Wendte papers](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990006038260203941/catalog)
- [Samuel Atkins Eliot papers](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/div00135/catalog), his [sermons and addresses](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/div00594/catalog), [documents, and photographs](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/div11183/catalog)
- [Frederick May Eliot correspondence](https://hollisarchives.lib.harvard.edu/catalog/div00578) and his [personal papers](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/div00070/catalog), his [manuscript sermons, prayers, and poems](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/div00173/catalog) and [papers](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/div00111/catalog) related to his role as American Unitarian Association president and army chaplain
- [Anita Trueman Pickett letters and lectures](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/div00180/catalog)

Papers of Universalist clergy include:

- [Hosea Ballou papers](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/div00366/catalog) and the[ Ballou family papers](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/div00128/catalog)
- [Hosea Ballou II papers](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/div00359/catalog)
- [Thomas Whittemore papers](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/div00352/catalog)
- [Quillen Hamilton Shinn papers](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/div00510/catalog)
- [Family papers of Roger Frederick Etz](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/div00205/catalog)
- [Clarence Russell Skinner papers](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/div00434/catalog)
- [Alfred Storer Cole papers](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/div00179/catalog)
- [Edna Bruner papers](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/div00642/catalog)
- [Hazel Ida Kirk papers](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/div00190/catalog)
- [Journals of John Mather Austin](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/div00144/catalog), minister of the Universalist Society of Auburn, New York, and editor of the *Christian Ambassador*
- And also Universalist lay worker [Georgene Bowen's papers](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/div00168/catalog)

Papers of clergy whose ministry extended after the consolidation include:

- [Robert Jules Raible papers](<https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/div00538/catalog >)
- [Ralph Norman Helverson papers](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/div00601/catalog)
- [Joseph Barth papers](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/div00595/catalog)
- [Dana McLean Greeley papers](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/div00130/catalog)
- [Paul Nathaniel Carnes](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/div00533/catalog)
- [Lon Ray Call papers](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/div00711/catalog)
- [David Hicks MacPherson papers](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/div00599/catalog)

If you know of biographies of clergy or collections of sermons that the library should purchase, please submit a [Purchase Request.](https://library.harvard.edu/services-tools/purchase-request)

To donate a book or pamphlet to the library, or if you are considering donating personal papers, please see [Donate Materials](/collections/special-collections/contact "Donate Materials").



 

 

The library collects biographies, autobiographies, correspondence, sermons, and other religious works of Unitarian, Universalist, and Unitarian Universalist clergy and religious professionals.



 



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  Rev. Mary Billings