Overview
Papers of Unitarian minister David Damon, including journals, family papers, and obituaries. The papers span 1820-1845.
Dates
- Creation: 1820-1845.
- Creation: 1838-1843
Creator
- Damon, David. (Person)
Access
There are no restrictions on access to this collection.
Extent
0.35 cubic feet (1 boxes)Collection includes 14 of Damon's handwritten paper-bound journals, 1838-1843. These journals record Damon's contacts with his clerical colleagues, his family members, his work on particular sermons and Lyceum lectures, meetings of voluntary associations to which he belonged, and various other aspects of his personal and professional life. Newspapers with Damon's obituaries, pamphlets, sermons, and other documents are also included.
Biographical / Historical
David Damon (1788-1843) was a Unitarian minister. He graduated from Harvard Divinity School in 1811. He also helped found Cambridge's Harvard Lyceum, studied theology at the Andover Theological Seminary, and was pastor in Lunenburg, Massachusetts, from 1815 to 1827. He was pastor of the West Cambridge Unitarian Church (now the First Parish Unitarian Universalist Church of Arlington) from 1835 to 1843. In 1841, he gave the Dudleian lecture at Harvard.
Acquisition Information
Purchased from Carmen D. Valentino, Rare Books and Manuscripts, November 2002.
Creator
- Damon, David. (Person)
- Title
- Damon, David. Papers, 1820-1845: A Finding Aid.
- Author
- Andover-Harvard Theological Library
- Language of description
- und
- EAD ID
- div00586
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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