Box 8

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This series contains one document comprised of two folio-sized leaves containing handwritten lists authors and titles in columns labeled 2 through 13. The document is untitled and undated and presumably comprises a library shelflist. An earlier draft of the shelflist dated January 14, 1808 is included in a financial journal in the collection (HUG 1871 Box 1, Folder 8).

Title supplied by cataloger.

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One folio-sized leaf and a fragment of a second leaf containing a printed list of the last names of members of the Harvard Class of 1821 and 1822 and a fragment of a second printed class list containing names from the Class of 1821 and1824. The fragment also contains a short handwritten account of University expenses.

Title supplied by cataloger.

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Paper notebook with marbled paper covers containing handwritten academic questions, references and lecture schedules related to the study of Christian Revelation. Laid-in to the notebook is a fragment of a printed class list with names from the Classes of 1826 and 1827, and two printed Detur bookplate forms on a slip of paper.

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Paper notebook with marbled paper covers containing handwritten academic questions and references related to the study of the Congregational Church, the "sacred Office," and notes on Samuel Austin's Dissertations upon several fundamental articles of Christian theology and Sereno Edwards Austin's The death of Christ.

Scope and Contents: Paper notebook with marbled paper covers containing handwritten schedules of Biblical text assigned to Divinity School students between 1827 and 1830. Laid-in the notebook is a scrap of paper with an invitation from Mr. and Mrs. Levi Hedge [Mary Holyoke Kneeland Hedge, 1773-1853] to Henry Ware for dinner, dated October 1, 1828. Written tête-bêche, with an interleaved section of notes, on the last page of the volume is a transcription of an article published on August 10, 1827 in the ...

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Paper notebook with marbled paper covers containing handwritten questions in about religion. The notebook includes laid-in leaves with additional questions, notes, and lists with names of the members of the Divinity School Classes of 1829 and 1830.

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Paper notebook with blue paper covers containing handwritten attendance lists for the Divinity School Senior (Class of 1840), Middle (Class of 1841), and Junior (Class of 1842) classes, and weekly lecture schedules for the year.

Title supplied by cataloger.

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Nine-page handwritten draft of a letter from Ware to Thomas Dobson responding to Dobson's letter of February 9th discussing Ware's Letters addressed to Trinitarians and Calvinists. Ware's draft is written on two printed lists with the last names of the members of the Harvard Classes of 1820-1823.

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Four folio-sized leaves containing a five-page letter from Thomas Dobson of Philadelphia to Ware regarding Dobson's belief in the "existence of mankind in a former state."

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One octavo-sized leaf containing a handwritten letter from Ware to Rev. Mr. Brooks with scheduling requests for Brooks' Sunday visit to Harvard.

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One octavo-sized leaf containing a handwritten letter from George Ticknor to Ware scheduling an academic examination.

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Two leaves containing a handwritten draft of twenty-one questions, directed to Captain Augustus Heard, related to Christianity, conversion, and the likely response Unitarianism in India.

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Paper notebook containing handwritten notes on A system of phrenology by George Combe (1788-1858).

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Pamphlet by Henry Ware, Jr., published by Cambridge Press: Metcalf, Torry, and Ballou in 1837. The pamphlet does not have annotated. The cover is inscribed "Geo. F. Ware."

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One leaf containing a manuscript reproduction of pages one and two of a printed edition of "Sermon II. The Eternity of God" from Sermons of the Rev. James Saurin, late pastor of the French church at the Hague.

Title supplied by cataloger.

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One small-sized leaf containing a handwritten tally of the use of the Greek conjunction "γαρ" in the first ten chapters of Romans.

Title supplied by cataloger.

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Paper notebook with marbled containing a handwritten article on duty that begins, "Duty (le devoir) is a human action exactly conformable to the law, which imposes upon us the obligation of it."

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This series contains a manuscript copy of of Thomas Barker's An inquiry into the scripture meaning of the word Satan, and its synonimous terms, the Devil, or the Adversary, and the Wicked-One. (London, 1772).

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One leaf containing a handwritten draft of an advertisement to the "Superintendents of Sunday Schools" regarding the price of the Ware's An inquiry into the foundation, evidences, and truths of religion.

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One folio-sized leaf containing a printed certificate of deposit from the District of Massachusetts Clerk's office filled out for An inquiry into the foundation, evidences, and truths of religion, and signed by the Clerk of the District, Francis Barrett.

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One oversized leaf containing a petition signed by Parish members requesting the Committee of the First Parish in Hingham call a meeting to discuss the salary of Henry Ware.

Title transcribed from document verso.

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One folio-sized leaf containing a handwritten copy of an undated four-part proposition created by Henry Ware regarding his salary.

Title transcribed from document verso.

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One leaf containing a handwritten chart of the deaths, baptisms, and church members per year between 1787 and 1801, presumably in Hingham. Most of the chart appears to have been created in 1799, with statistics for 1800 and 1801 added at a later date.

Title supplied by cataloger.

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One octavo-sized leaf containing a handwritten proposition of the Hingham Parish to create a committee to "ascertain, what has been the appreciation & depreciation of money for each year from 1787 to the present time" in regards to the salary of Reverend Ware.

Title transcribed from document.

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One folio-sized leaf containing a handwritten copy of a proposition to select a Committee to ascertain "the difference in the price of the articles of living from the year 1787 to April 1802." The document is unsigned and undated.

Title transcribed from document verso.