Dall, C. H. A. (Charles Henry Appleton), 1816-1886. Papers, 1836-1886.
Overview
Sermons, lectures, correspondence, clippings, and miscellaneous notebooks kept by Unitarian minister and missionary Charles Henry Appleton Dall.
Dates
- Creation: 1836-1886.
Extent
14 boxesSermons, lectures, correspondence, clippings, and miscellaneous notebooks kept by Charles Dall. Includes material on his ministry in Toronto (1850-1854) and extensive papers relating to his missionary work in India.
Biographical / Historical
Charles Henry Appleton Dall (1816-1886) graduated from Harvard College in 1837 and Harvard Divinity School in 1840 and was then ordained to the Unitarian ministry. He was sent to St. Louis where he organized the first free school for the poor located west of the Mississippi River. Rev. Dall served Unitarian parishes in Maryland, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Ontario, Canada, until 1855 when he became the first foreign missionary of the Unitarian Church in America. Rev. Dall's missionary work took him to Calcutta, India, where he established five schools and worked with Hindu social and cultural reformers.
Arrangement
Organized into the following series:
- Series I. Sermons
- Series II. Lectures
- Series III. Correspondence
- Series IV. Newspaper clippings
- Series V. Notebooks
- Series VI. Photograph album and miscellaneous documents
Acquisition Information
Gift of Unitarian Universalist Association, 1968. The correspondence in boxes 13 and 14 was a gift to the American Unitarian Association in 1942 from Mr. C. Whitney Dall.
- Title
- Dall, C. H. A. (Charles Henry Appleton), 1816-1886. Papers: A Finding Aid.
- Author
- Andover-Harvard Theological Library
- Language of description
- und
- EAD ID
- div00124
Repository Details
Part of the Harvard Divinity School Library, Harvard University Repository
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