Overview
Papers of Unitarian minister Nathanael Seaver, Jr. including sermons, essays, clippings, and notes.
Dates
- Creation: 1880-1904.
Extent
1 boxesCollection includes eight sermons, 1891-1904; a handwritten essay entitled Parishes and parsons of the olden time and newspaper clippings. Also includes a notebook, ca. 1880, including clippings from Sunday School magazines of Seaver's stories with manuscript revisions and additions; notes on his projected collections of the Billy Duncan stories, the Montrose stories/sketches, and the Torty stories.
Biographical / Historical
Nathanael Seaver, Jr. (1836-1919) was born in Boston and graduated from Harvard Divinity School in 1864. He was ordained to the Unitarian ministry in Walpole, New Hampshire, and also served parishes in Davenport, Iowa, and Dorchester, Melrose, Scituate, Marshfield, Templeton, Millbury, Leicester, and Pittsfield, Massachusetts.
Acquisition Information
Gift of Melrose Unitarian Universalist Church, 1979.
- Title
- Seaver, Nathanael, 1836-1919. Papers: A Finding Aid.
- Author
- Andover-Harvard Theological Library
- Language of description
- und
- EAD ID
- div00358
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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