Scope and Contents
Secretary's record books, financial records, reports of treasurer, secretary, librarian, journal editor, and other officers and committees; administrative papers and correspondence, 1914-1978, including separate files on Fund for Universalist Studies committee, 1968-1974, library committee, 1968-1975, transfer of the library, 1972-1976, and library microfilming projects, 1973-1974; publications and journal editorial correspondence, 1959-1976; Universalist Historical Society Library records and correspondence, 1881-1977, concerning gifts and acquisitions and scholarly and genealogical queries. Correspondents include Hosea Starr Ballou, Georgene Bowen, Alfred S. Cole, Richard Eddy, Dana McLean Greeley, Kenneth L. Patton, Elmo Robinson, Thomas J. Sawyer, and John Van Schaick.
Dates
- Creation: 1834-1978
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
Extent
5 linear feet (13 boxes)Biographical / Historical
The Universalist Historical Society was founded in 1834 to collect and preserve manuscripts, books, and printed material related to the subject and denomination of Universalism, and to promote publication on the same subject. Its headquarters were in Boston. The Society's library was housed at Tufts College from 1869 until 1976 when it was given to the Andover-Harvard Theological Library, (later called Harvard Divinity School Library). The Society itself was consolidated with the Unitarian Historical Society in 1978 to form the Unitarian Universalist Historical Society.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Placed on permanent deposit by the Universalist Historical Society, 1976. Treasurer's records, 1968-1978, were gift of Unitarian Universalist Historical Society, 1983.
Processing Information
This finding aid was migrated as part of the legacy finding aid project, 2023-2024. Materials were not reviewed as part of this project to verify accuracy of the existing description. In order to make finding aids compliant with DACS (Describing Archives: A Content Standard), some titles have been updated, and in cases where no date information appeared in the legacy finding aid, the material was designated undated.
- Language of description
- eng
- EAD ID
- div00202
Repository Details
Part of the Harvard Divinity School Library, Harvard University Repository
Special Collections at Harvard Divinity School Library preserves and makes accessible primary source materials documenting the history of religion and theology, with particular historical emphasis on American liberal religious traditions. Though the historical strengths of the collections have been in the field of Christianity, other religious traditions are increasingly reflected, in step with Harvard Divinity School's evolving focus on global religious studies. Known as Andover-Harvard Theological Library since 1911, it was renamed the Harvard Divinity School Library in 2021.
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