Manuscripts & Archives (UU)

Unpublished Manuscript Letter of permission to form a new church in Jamaica Plain (1770). [bMS 500/4 (19)]

Manuscript " ... so beautiful, so just, so true, & terribly sublime ...." Sample entry from Theodore Parker's Journal. This is the entry for July 15, 1838, written after hearing Emerson's Divinity School Address [ Journal, Volume 1]. Sunday 15 th Emerson...

Unpublished Manuscript " Report of Committee to Select and Publish a Collection of Hymns, November 3, 1791" and includes a list of hymns selected.

Unpublished Manuscript Resolution of the Barnstable County Association of Universalists in 1850 against an amendment to the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 mandating the return of fugitive slaves. For more information, see the exhibit page where this is...

Unpublished Manuscript Page of Ezra Ripley's Outline of His 60th Anniversary Sermon.

Manuscript The displayed page of the draft of Channing's "Baltimore Sermon" features the material which in printed form becomes: "We object to the doctrine of the Trinity, that, whilst acknowledging in words, it subverts in effect, the unity of God...

Photograph of Petitions The petitions shown here were signed at numerous congregations to supplement a 1973 Unitarian Universalist General Assembly resolution. For more information, see the exhibit page where this is displayed.