1588-1924; bulk: 1761-1923
Guide to the Collection
Processing funded by the North Shore Unitarian Veatch Foundation of Plandome, New York.
Abstract
This collection consists of papers of Unitarian clergyman, transcendentalist, author, and social reformer James Freeman Clarke, including correspondence, sermons and lectures, journals, personal notebooks, financial papers, etc., as well as papers of his wife Anna (Huidekoper) Clarke and other members of the Clarke and Huidekoper families.
Biographical Sketch
James Freeman Clarke (1810-1888) was a Unitarian clergyman, transcendentalist, author, and social reformer. The son of Samuel (1779-1830) and Rebecca Parker (Hull) Clarke (1790-1865), step-grandson of James Freeman (1759-1835), and grandson of William Hull (1753-1825), Clarke graduated from Harvard College in 1829 and Harvard Divinity School in 1833. From 1833 to 1840, he worked as a minister in Louisville, Kentucky, where he edited the Western Messenger, a transcendental journal that contained the first published writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson.
In 1839, Clarke married Anna Huidekoper (1814-1897), the daughter of Harm Jan Huidekoper (1776-1854) and sister of Frederic (1817-1892) and Elizabeth Huidekoper (1819-1908) of Meadville, Pennsylvania. (Harm Jan and Frederic Huidekoper were co-founders of the Meadville Theological School.) The Clarkes' children were: Herman Huidekoper Clarke (1840-1849); Lilian Freeman Clarke (1842-1921), a social reformer and translator; Eliot Channing Clarke (1845-1921), a civil engineer; and Cora Huidekoper Clarke (1851-1916), a naturalist and author.
In 1841, James Freeman Clarke founded the Church of the Disciples in Boston. Except for a leave of absence between 1850-1854, he was the pastor of that church until his death in 1888. In a radical departure from traditional New England congregational churches, all seats in the church were free, and the laity were full participants in its operation. When Clarke was forced to take sick leave and the church property was sold, the congregation continued to meet until he could return.
Clarke was a non-resident professor at the Harvard Divinity School from 1867 to 1871. He had been a member of the Transcendental Club and was one of the early biographers of his close friend Margaret Fuller (1810-1850). He also owned the Brook Farm property after the collapse of the utopian community there. Clarke was a strong advocate of political and social reform throughout his life. Among the causes he supported were the abolition of slavery, women's suffrage, civil service reform, temperance, and educational reform. He was a member of both the Massachusetts Board of Education and the Board of Overseers of Harvard University. Though a theological conservative, he championed religious liberty. He served as secretary of the American Unitarian Association and was intimately involved in the operations of his own church, as well as local and national Unitarian church government, for 55 years.
Collection Description
The Perry-Clarke collection consists primarily of the papers of Unitarian clergyman, transcendentalist, author, and social reformer James Freeman Clarke. Included are personal and professional letters to Clarke; bills and receipts; notes and drafts of his sermons and lectures; and personal notebooks, writings, journals, and accounts. Among the subjects are Clarke's career as a minister in Louisville, Kentucky, and as editor of the Western Messenger there; his tenure as pastor of the Church of the Disciples in Boston from 1841 until his death in 1888; Unitarian affairs; social reform; and Harvard University.
The collection also contains Clarke family papers, including papers of his parents Samuel and Rebecca (Hull) Clarke; correspondence and financial papers of his wife Anna (Huidekoper) Clarke and their children, including many letters to Anna from her sister Elizabeth Huidekoper; volumes of Clarke and Huidekoper family members, including diaries of Lilian Freeman Clarke and Sarah Freeman Clarke and volumes related to the Church of the Disciples, the New England Hospital for Women and Children, and the Society for Helping Destitute Mothers and Infants; the 1844 journal and commonplace-book of Margaret Fuller; and a collection of autograph letters by noted literary and historical figures.
All letters and volumes are individually described in the MHS card catalog.
NOTE: This guide includes an index of significant correspondents and select subjects represented in the collection.
Acquisition Information
The Perry-Clarke collection represents a portion of the papers of James Freeman Clarke that were in the hands of his grandson, James Freeman Clarke, when Arthur S. Bolster, Jr. wrote his dissertation (Harvard, 1954) and biography, James Freeman Clarke. The collection was deposited at the Massachusetts Historical Society in November 1968 and given to the MHS in November 1979 by Alice de V. Perry (Mrs. Lewis F. Perry) of Chestnut Hill, Mass. The Margaret Fuller journal and commonplace-book was deposited in 1985 and given to the MHS in March 2013 by Alice de V. Perry.
Other Formats
Digital facsimiles of the Samuel Clarke logbook are available on Life at Sea, a digital publication of Adam Matthew Digital, Inc. This digital resource is available at subscribing libraries; speak to your local librarian to determine if your library has access. The MHS makes this resource available onsite; see a reference librarian for more information.
Detailed Description of the Collection
I. Loose manuscripts, 1761-1923
This series consists of correspondence, financial documents, writings, and other papers of James Freeman Clarke, as well as papers of Clarke family members. Included are undated and dated manuscripts, letters from Elizabeth Huidekoper to Clarke's wife Anna (Huidekoper) Clarke, and many sermons and lectures delivered by Clarke between 1834 and 1888.
NOTE: See the index below for significant correspondents and select subjects represented in this series.
A. Undated manuscripts
ca. 415 itemsLetters to James Freeman Clarke, A-O
Arranged alphabetically by author.
Letters to James Freeman Clarke, P-Z
Arranged alphabetically by author.
Miscellaneous unidentified letters and manuscripts
Cut-slip James Freeman Clarke autographs
Miscellaneous unidentified financial papers
Detached envelopes, fragments, etc.
B. Dated manuscripts, 1761-1923
This subseries contains letters, bills, and receipts to James Freeman Clarke and his family. Included in Box 1 are a few papers of his parents, Samuel and Rebecca (Hull) Clarke. Papers dating from after James Freeman Clarke's death consist of letters, bills, receipts, and cancelled checks to his wife and children.
1761-1836
ca. 250 itemsIncluded are bills, deeds, and correspondence concerning the Clarke family, Samuel Freeman, and the business affairs of Samuel and Rebecca Clarke; letters and bills to James Freeman Clarke related to his early ministerial career; and family and personal correspondence.
1837-1845
ca. 275 itemsIncluded are letters and bills to James Freeman Clarke, many concerning the publication of the Western Messenger. Much of the personal and financial correspondence dates from Clarke's residence in Louisville, Kentucky. Principal correspondents include Samuel Osgood and Mann Butler.
1846-1853
ca. 325 itemsIncluded are bills, receipts, and letters to James Freeman Clarke concerning Unitarian affairs in Boston, as well as a large number of personal bills and receipts. Principal correspondents include George W. Bond, Samuel Cabot, Jr., Samuel Osgood, and Jane Ann Pintle.
1854-1859
ca. 250 itemsIncluded are letters to James Freeman Clarke concerning Unitarian affairs, politics, and personal matters; mortgage deeds and leases for Brook Farm; and letters describing events in Lawrence, Kansas Territory. Principal correspondents include Ephraim Nute, H. M. Chapin (also for earlier periods), and H. B. Tuttle.
1860-1863
ca. 250 itemsIncluded are letters to James Freeman Clarke related to personal matters and Unitarian affairs, as well as material concerning the Civil War, the occupation of the coast of South Carolina, and church-related relief activities. Principal correspondents include Amory Dwight Mayo, Susan E. B. Channing, Edward L. Pierce, and E. W. Hooper (concerning South Carolina).
1864-1866
ca. 250 itemsIncluded are letters to James Freeman Clarke on personal matters and his work with the Harvard University Board of Overseers. Correspondence for 1865-1866 contains many letters from Harvard faculty members related to curriculum reform; some letters are addressed to Dr. James Walker (1794-1874). Principal correspondents also include Charles Brigham and William T. Clarke.
1867-1869
ca. 250 itemsIncluded are letters to James Freeman Clarke on Harvard University business and the operations of the American Unitarian Association. Principal correspondents include Dr. James Walker, John Ware, Frederick W. Bird, William B. Weeden, and Thomas Hill. All but Walker and Ware are heavily represented in later correspondence.
1870-1872
ca. 250 itemsIncluded are letters to James Freeman Clarke concerning prison reform and other social reform movements, as well as Unitarian affairs. Principal correspondents include John C. Zachos (correspondence from 1860-), M. G. Underwood, Enoch C. Wines, William B. Weeden, and Thomas Hill.
1873-1875
ca. 250 itemsIncluded are letters to James Freeman Clarke concerning philanthropic and Unitarian activities. Principal correspondents include Waldo Higginson and Henry B. Rogers (correspondence from 1860-). NOTE: Beginning in 1873, an increasing proportion of the collection consists of personal bills and receipts to the Clarke family.
1876-1877
ca. 225 itemsIncluded are letters to James Freeman Clarke and members of his family, much of it related to family matters or private business, as well as letters concerning Harvard University examinations for women, Clarke's autograph collection, and amateur astronomy. Principal correspondents include Charles F. Dunbar and A. Thorndike Rice.
1878-1879
ca. 250 itemsIncluded are letters and bills to James Freeman Clarke and his children. Many of the bills are for taxes and utilities. Principal correspondents include Mary Hewitt (her correspondence extends into the 1880s).
1880-Sep. 1882
ca. 250 itemsIncluded are letters and bills to James Freeman Clarke and his family.
Oct. 1882-1883
ca. 275 itemsIncluded are bills, receipts, and some letters to James Freeman Clarke related to civil service reform and other subjects. Principal correspondents include John Jay.
1884
ca. 300 itemsIncluded are bills, receipts, and some letters to James Freeman Clarke.
1885
ca. 275 itemsIncluded are bills, receipts, and some letters to James Freeman Clarke.
1886
ca. 275 itemsIncluded are bills, receipts, and some letters to James Freeman Clarke.
1887-1888
ca. 275 itemsIncluded are letters and some bills to James Freeman Clarke, 1887-June 1888; bills and receipts to Clarke's estate, 8 June-31 Dec. 1888; and family correspondence.
1889-June 1890
ca. 300 itemsIncluded are bills, receipts, canceled checks, and personal business correspondence of Clarke family members, primarily Anna (Huidekoper) Clarke and Eliot Channing Clarke, as well as letters from Houghton Mifflin Company concerning publications by James Freeman Clarke.
July 1890-1891
ca. 350 itemsIncluded are bills, receipts, canceled checks, and personal business correspondence of Clarke family members; letters to Anna (Huidekoper) Clarke, Lilian Freeman Clarke, and Eliot Channing Clarke; and letters from Houghton Mifflin Company concerning the autobiography of James Freeman Clarke.
1892-Apr. 1894
Included are bills, receipts, and canceled checks of Anna (Huidekoper) Clarke; letters to Lilian Freeman Clarke; and personal business correspondence of Eliot Channing Clarke.
May 1894-May 1895
ca. 350 itemsIncluded are bills, receipts, and canceled checks of Anna (Huidekoper) Clarke and Eliot Channing Clarke, primarily the latter's.
June 1895-1896
ca. 300 itemsIncluded are bills, receipts, and canceled checks of Eliot Channing Clarke and Anna (Huidekoper) Clarke.
1897-1909
ca. 350 itemsIncluded are bills, receipts, and personal business correspondence of Eliot Channing Clarke, as well as letters to and copies of letters from Lilian Freeman Clarke and Cora Huidekoper Clarke.
1910-1923
ca. 200 itemsIncluded are bills, receipts, tax forms, and letters to Lilian Freeman Clarke, Cora Huidekoper Clarke, Susan Lowell Clarke, and Eliot Channing Clarke.
C. Letters from Elizabeth Huidekoper to Anna (Huidekoper) Clarke, 1838-1887
ca. 750 lettersThis subseries contains personal letters from Elizabeth Huidekoper to her sister Anna (Huidekoper) Clarke, the wife of James Freeman Clarke.
Undated letters
1838-1877
1878-1882
1883-1887
D. Notes and drafts of sermons, lectures, etc., 1834-1888
ca. 825 sermonsThis subseries contains manuscript notes and drafts of sermons, lectures, addresses, Sunday School lessons, and essays by James Freeman Clarke. Undated material is arranged first, organized alphabetically by title, followed by dated material organized chronologically, then unidentified notes and fragments. Many of the sermons, lectures, etc. include notations of place(s) and date(s) delivered; these notations are included in the list below, as well as information about where the material appears in print. The Saturday Evening Gazette regularly printed Clarke's sermons between 1873 and 1888.
Lists of sermons
Undated sermons and lectures
Arranged alphabetically by title.
"Abide with us, for the day is far spent"
"Address to the people" (ordination sermon)
1. Sandwich; 2. Canton; 3. Deerfield; 4. East Bridgewater.
"Alexandria and Plotinas, and Jews of Alexandria" (lecture notes)
"Angels and devils; the devil"
"Assyria of the monuments" (lecture notes)
["Astronomy"] (notes for various lectures and two letters on verso)
"Atheism and theism" (lecture notes)
"Be accommodating"
Text missing."The Bible: where it came from and what it is"
"Book of Job"
"Book of revelation" (two sets of notes)
"Captivity of the Jews in Babylon and return"
Text missing."Christ and him crucified"
"Christ the image of the invisible God"
"Christ the mediator"
Text missing."Christian civilization"
"Christian doctrine"
"Christianity and objections to Christianity"
"Cohen's Pharisees" ("Les Pharisees par J. Cohen, Paris 1877")
"Common sense views of a spiritual providence"
"Creation"
"Creation; paradise; the deluge"
"Criticisms of free religion upon Christianity examined"
"Demonstration of the existence of God"
"Destruction of the Old South Church"
"Discourses on the Reformation" (sermon)
"Duties"
"The early history of Babylon"
"Early life and conversion of Loyola"
"The end of the commandment is love"
Text missing."The essential doctrines and duty of Christianity" (lecture notes)
"The evils of inflation in all its forms" ("Sunday Oct. 17")
"The fall of man; and its consequences, or Natural and hereditary deformity"
"The foundation of religion in the soul, or basis of religious knowledge and life"
"The foundations of religious knowledge"
"The four antichrists of the present day"
Text missing."Fourth gospel"
"Fourth lecture on the practical doctrines of Christianity"
"The future life"
"God"
"Holy Ghost"
"How can we know the genuine teachings of Jesus, if the gospels are not verbally inspired?"
"How can we make ourselves generous?"
"Inscriptions and cuneiform writing"
"Is there any proper distinction between N. and R. religion?" ("In what sense did Jesus claim to be master?")
"Isaiah the prophet" (lecture notes)
"Jewish Kabbalah; the gnostics; the Talmud"
"Joel, Amos, Hosea"
"Kicking against the pricks"
"Kingdom of Heaven"
"[Law of] vicarious suffering [common to us all]"
"Lead us not into temptation"
"Life = weariness"
Text missing."Life of Jesus"
"Literary articles and history lessons"
"Love abides" (sermon)
"Miracles"
"N[ew] T[estament]"
"Notes on Miss Martineau's autobiography"
"Notes on the history of the atonement"
"Now is the accepted time, now is the day of salvation"
"One thing is needful"
"Paganism and Christianity" (lecture notes)
"Palestine: history and geography"
"A perfume tempered together pure and holy"
"Picturesque Palestine" (13 maps)
"Positivism; Comte and Spencer"
"The power of hope," Church of the Disciples (sermon)
"Principles and methods of the Church of the Disciples"
"Progress in religion" (lessons for Washington)
"The prophet Elijah"
"Providence"
"Reading for radicals"
"Religion hidden and manifest"
"Sacrifices"
"Savonarola; his contemporaries"
"Sermon on the mount" ("Lessons for Bible class on Monday [afternoon]")
"Sermons on positive doctrines of Christianity" (miscellaneous notes, "Lesson one")
"Shaking the earth and the heavens" (sermon)
"Solomon" (lecture notes)
"The son of man"
Text missing."Souls and bodies" ("Bodies; number five")
"The spirit and the bride say, come!" (sermon)
"Sunday School lessons and Bible lessons" (loose leaves)
"The temptation of Jesus"
"Theism and philosophy" (lecture notes)
"Thou shalt have no other God before me..."
"Thy kingdom come," [Williams Hall] (sermon)
"To fear and to be afraid" (sermon)
"Two kinds of goodness" (sermon)
"Wendte's dedication" ("Chicago conference; early days in Kentucky")
"What constitutes a belief in the Christian religion?"
"What is the power of the resurrection of Christ?"
"What think you of Christ?"
Text missing."Where did the Old Testament come from?" (afternoon Bible class)
"Whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it"
"Who is a minister of the new covenant?"
Dated sermons and lectures, 1834-1888
Arranged chronologically. Each item is filed at its earliest known date or cross-referenced from that date.
"Suffering of Jesus," 6 Apr. 1834 (sermon)
1. Hollis Street Church, 6 July [1834]; 2. Louisville, 31 May 1835; 3. 5 Mar. 1837.
"The life was the light of man," Amory Hall, 24 Oct. 1841 (sermon)
1. Amory Hall, 24 Oct. 1841; 2. Amory Hall, 11 Sep. 1842; 3. New York, Feb. 1843; 4. Waltham, July 1843; 5. Meadville, Oct. 1843; 6. Temple, Apr. 1845; 7. [Freeman] Place, Apr. 1849; 8. Meadville, Sep. 1852.
"Jesus, the Christ, the son of God," Part I: Divine mission of Jesus, 5 Dec. 1841 (sermon)
1. Amory Hall, 5 Dec. 1841; 2. Amory Hall, 3 Dec. 1843.
"Give us this day our daily bread," 1841
1. Amory Hall, 19 Dec.; 2. Amory Hall, 31 July 1842; 3. Temple, Aug. 1846.
"Whence hath this man this wisdom and these mighty works?" Amory Hall, 23 Jan. 1842 (sermon)
"The Lord's prayer," [Amory Hall], 31 July 1842 (sermon)
1. 31 Jan. 1847.
"Forgive us our debts," 7 Aug. 1842
"Why stand ye here, all the day, idle?" Amory Hall, 15 Jan. 1843
1. Amory Hall, 15 Jan. 1843; 2. Meadville, 3 Sep. 1843; 3. Temple, Mar. 1845; 4. Temple, Aug. 1847; 5. Meadville, 4 Jan. 1852.
"What is man?" 12 Nov. 1843 (second lecture)
"The Trinity," Part II: Lectures on Christian doctrine, Amory Hall, Nov. 1843
"The seed is the word," Mar. 1844
"Expediency," Apr. 1844
1. Apr. 1846.
"Be ye doers," July 1844 (sermon)
1. Temple, July 1844; 2. Temple, Jan. 1846.
"All saints," 3 Nov. 1844
"Lord's prayer," Temple, 5 Jan. 1845 (sermon)
1. [?]; 2. Temple, 5 Jan. 1845.
"Lecture the first [on Christian doctrine]," [16 Feb. 1845]
1. [?]; 2. 16 Feb. 1845.
"Let your yea be yea," 18 May 1845 (sermon)
1. 18 May 1845; 2. Chicago, Aug. 1845; 3. Meadville, 31 Aug. 1845; 4. Temple, Dec. 1846; 5. Boston, Oct. 1869.
"Be perfect as your father in heaven," 25 May 1845 (sermon)
1. 25 May 1845; 2. Nov. 1846; 3. Meadville, 1852.
"Come unto me and I will give you rest," Sep. 1845
1. Meadville, Sep. 1845; 2. Boston, Philip Place, Sep. 1845; 3. Temple, Nov. 1846; 4. Indiana Place, Sep. 1860.
"Lecture on new birth," [lecture 6], 15 Mar. 1846
1. Mar. 1846; 2. Meadville, Aug. 1846; 3. Freeman P.C., June 1849.
"The twelve: Lecture on the life of Jesus," 4 Oct. 1846
"Outward evidence of Christianity," 1846
"The church as it was; the church as it is; the church as it may become," 27 Apr. 1847
"Constructive and destructive methods," May 1847
1. May 1847; 2. Hingham, 1847; 3. Watertown, 1847.
"All saints," 5 Nov. 1848
"Outward evidence of Christianity," 1848
1. Lectures on positive doctrine, 1846; 2. Jamaica Plain, May 1846; 3. Dr. Gannett's, 17 May 1846; 4. Medford, Stetson, May 1846; 5. Albany, June 1846; 6. Putnam's, Roxbury, July 1846; 7. Meadville, Aug. 1846; 8. Dorchester, Aug. 1846; 9. Chapel in Freeman Place, Apr. 1848.
"[...the doctrine of the end, and the doctrine of the means]," Meadville, 1850 (sermon)
Title page missing.1. Freeman Place, Boston, 1851.
"[He taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes]," Meadville, 5 Sep. 1852 (sermon)
Title page missing.1. Boston, June 1855.
"[And all the churches shall know that I am he which searcheth the heart]," Meadville, Oct. 1852 (sermon)
Title page missing."Charity never faileth," Meadville, [July 1853] (sermon)
1. Meadville, July 1853; 2. Brookline, Mass., [1853]; 3. Williams Hall, Mar. 1854; 4. Portland, 1855; 5. Salem, 1855; 6. Beverly, 1855; 7. Indiana Place, Mar. 1856; 8. Indiana Place, 1867.
"The seed is the word," 1853
1. Masonic Temple, Mar. 1844; 2. New Bedford, July 1844; 3. Temple, Nov. 1845; 4. Edmunds, 1845; 5. Meadville, Sep. 1853.
"Think of the true and the good," 1853
"What is truth?" Boston, 29 Jan. 1854
1. Boston, 29 Jan. 1854; 2. Meadville, 19 Feb. 1854; 3. Indiana Place, May 1855; 4. Salem, 1855; 5. Indiana Place, 1859.
"Vital Christianity," Oct. 1855
"Coming of Christ and...judgment," Boston, Aug. 1856
"A little leaven," Oct. 1856
"All things are yours," [1856]
"Demoralization of the north by slavery," 1856
1. Boston, Church of the Disciples; 2. Salem, Jan. 1856; 3. Manchester, N.H., 1856.
"With what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again," 1856 (sermon)
1. 1856; 2. 1861.
"Let your speech be with grace, seasoned with salt," Jan. 1859
"Whitsunday," 12 June 1859
1. 12 June 1859; 2. 8 June 1862; 3. 15 May 1864; 4. 9 June 1867 (with additions).
"Is Christianity a failure?" 25 Dec. 1859 (sermon)
2. 25 Dec. 1861.
"Authority of the New Testament," Sep. 1860 (sermon)
1. Sep. 1860; 2. Jan. 1865.
"The seed is the word," 21 Oct. 1860
"Ministers of the new covenant," Boston, Oct. 1860 (charge to a minister)
1. Lexington: Staples; 2. Westminster: C. O'Daniel; 3. Roxbury: Putnam.
"The prophet Daniel," Dec. 1860
"Christ and his church," [1860]
"The Holy Ghost and its coming," 1860
"Miracles," [1860]
1. [?]; 2. Social meeting, 1860.
"So many voices and each its signification," 1860
"Daily bread," Sep. 1861
"Seek first," Indiana Place, [1861] (sermon)
1. Brooklyn; 2. Boston; 3. Meadville; 4. Williams Hall; 5. Salem: Clapps, 1856.
"Paradoxes of Christianity," 19 Jan. 1862
1. 19 Jan. 1862; 2. Dorchester, Feb. 1862; 3. Indiana Place (with alterations).
"The grace of God which [bringeth] salvation," 2 Feb. 1862
"The son of man is come to seek and save those who are lost," 4 May 1862
"The shadow of the almighty," 26 Oct. 1862
"The branch in the vine," [Nov. 1862] (sermon)
1. Nov. 1862; 2. Aug. 1865; 3. June 1877.
"Man does not live by bread alone," 1862
"Thou fool," 1 May 1863
"Spirits in prison," June 1863
"Laborers with God," Sep. 1863 (sermon)
2. June 1872.
"Steps of belief," fourth lesson, 22 Nov. 1863
Text missing."Prophets who have been since the world began," Jan. 1864
"Jesus knew what was in me," 16 Oct. 1864 (sermon)
2. June 1879.
"Mountains," Mar. 1865
"Things behind," May 1865
"Quench not the spirit," 9 Oct. 1865
"Drink ye of it," Oct. 1865
"The map and ring: a story of conscience," [Nov. 1865]
Annotation: "Told the Sunday school Nov. 1865 and written out afterward."
"New things and old," Dec. 1865 (sermon)
"Foolishness of God," 1865
"Breadth, length, depth, height," [Jan. 1866] (sermon)
1. Jan. 1866; 2. Divinity School, Jan. 1869.
"Meaning of death of Jesus," 9 Apr. 1866
"The spirit," 20 May 1866 (sermon)
1. Whitsunday, 20 May 1866; 2. Whitsunday, 5 June 1870.
"Vacation," Indiana Place, Sep. 1866 (sermon)
1. Indiana Place, Sep. 1866; 2. Brookline St., 1 Aug. 1869; 3. June 1874.
"Corner stone," Nov. 1866 (sermon)
"Man greater than the temple," 1 Dec. 1866 (sermon)
"Silence and speech," 23 Dec. 1866
2. Oct. 1870; 3. Chicago, 1871; 4. Irvington, July 1871; 5. Bar Harbor, Aug. 1871.
"Able ministers," [Dec. 1866] (ordination sermon)
1. Groton, Dec. 1866; 2. Indiana Place, Dec. 1866; 3. Newburyport, May 1877.
"Children and their baptism," [Jan. 1867] (sermon)
1. [?]; 2. Jan. 1867.
"The Doors," Mar. 1867
"David," [lectures on the Old Testament], Apr. 1867
1. [?]; 2. Social meeting, Apr. 1867.
"Go and teach all nations," 2 June 1867
"Owe no man anything but to love one another," July 1867
"Address given at Middlefield," 13 Sep. 1867
2. Barnstable, Oct. 1867.
"The west," Oct. 1867
"All saints," Nov. 1867 (sermon)
1. Temple, 3 Nov. 1844; 2. Temple, 7 Nov. 1847; 3. Meadville, Oct. 1852.
"Not to destroy but to fulfill," Nov. 1867
"Thought it not robbery to be equal with God," 15 Dec. 1867
"Palm Sunday," 1867
"Election sermon," 1 Jan. 1868
Printed by vote of the Legislature.
"If any man be in Christ he is a new creature," Feb. 1868
"Beginning at the right end," Mar. 1868 (sermon)
"Fast day," 2 Apr. 1868
"Palm Sunday," 5 Apr. 1868
"Idle words and industrious words," 3 May 1868
"He who exalteth himself shall be abased," Sep. 1868
"Human brotherhood," 4 Oct. 1868 (sermon)
2. 1875.
"All saints," 1 Nov. 1868 (sermon)
1. 5 Nov. 1848.
"The powers that be are ordained by God," Church of the Disciples, 21 Nov. 1868 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
1. 21 Nov. 1868; 2. Dec. 1875.
"All things are yours," Nov. 1868 (sermon)
1. Boston, 1856?; 2. Boston, 1861; 3. Indiana Place, 1868.
"Thanksgiving sermon," Indiana Place, Nov. 1868
2. [Church of the Disciples], Dec. 1868.
"Enoch walked with God," 1868
1. Washington, N.H., Aug. 1868.
"Now," 1868
"The real antichrist: even now many antichrists," 1868
1. Indiana Place, Dec. 1868; 2. Lynn, [Dec. 1868].
"To us there is one God the father," [1868]
"He calleth them by name," Jan. 1869 (sermon)
1. [?]; 2. Cooper Institute, May 1869; 3. [Dorchester], 1870; 4. Worcester, 1870; 5. Chicago, 1871; 6. Church of the Disciples, 1872; 7. Rufus Ellis, First Church, 1872; 8. Meadville, 1873.
"Christ and his church," 7 Mar. 1869 (sermon)
1. 1860?; 2. 1863; 3. 7 Mar. 1869.
"Religious elements in human nature," Cambridge, 1 June 1869
"Translation of the Bible into its modern equivalents," June 1869
"The west," Sep. 1869
1. Oct. 1867.
"Isaiah," [Nov. 1869] (lecture notes)
"The prophet Elijah," Nov. 1869
"Thanksgiving day," [Nov.] 1869 (sermon)
"Fourth discourse in the second series on free religion and Christianity," 19 Dec. 1869 (sermon)
"Possessed with a devil," Dec. 1869
"Eating and drinking Christ," 1869
1. Sep. 1869; 2. Apr. 1869; 3. Meadville, 1870; 4. Young Men's Christian Association, Hollis Street, Dec. 1870; 5. Lowell (installation); 6. Providence; 7. Chicago; 8. Bar Harbor, 1871.
Sermon on "being, going," [1869]
Annotation: "For Mr. Stevens."
"The orthodox and liberal view of faith in Christ," 29 Jan. 1870 (sermon)
Text missing."Hearers and doers," Church of the Disciples, 1 May 1870 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette, [May 1887].
1. 1 May 1870; 2. Meadville, 1870; 3. Bar Harbor, 1870; 4. South Manchester, 1875; 5. Church of the Disciples, July 1875; 6. Hudson, Mass., Sep. 1875 (ordination of [Hilary Bygrave]).
"Thanksgiving sermon," Nov. 1870
"Christmas sermon," 25 Dec. 1870 (sermon)
Text missing."Possessed with a devil," 1870
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette, 26 Oct. 1873; Go Up Higher, or Religion in Common Life.
1. Dec. 1869; 2. Oct. 1873; 3. Cleveland, 1870; 4. Bar Harbor, 1870.
"Easter," Apr. 1871
"Retribution," Cambridge Church, May 1871
"Things behind," June 1871 (sermon)
1. [?]; 2. May 1865; 3. Rewritten June 1871.
Article on Dr. Gannett, 23 Sep. 1871
Text missing.Printed in the Christian Register?
"Conformity and transformation," Sep. 1871
"Liberal Christianity, its meaning and value," 19 Nov. 1871 (sermon)
2. Rewritten 1874 ("Unitarian Sunday").
"Thanksgiving," Nov. 1871 (sermon)
"A little leaven," 1871
1. Oct. 1856; 2. Rewritten Jan. 1865; 3. Revised Jan. 1865; 4. Chelmsford, 1870 (installation); 5. Quincy, 1871.
"Mountains," 1871 (sermon)
1. Mar. 1865; 2. Sep. 1871.
"Confessing and denying Christ," Church of the Disciples, 13 May 1872 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
Annotation: "James Freeman Clarke did not preach."
"Let your yea be yea, and your nay, nay," May 1872 (sermon)
"Religion made for man and not man for religion," Sep. 1872
"The word of wisdom," Oct. 1872
"Whitsunday," 1872 (sermon)
"House of prayer and den of thieves," 9 Feb. 1873 (sermon)
"Encourage children and others," 16 Mar. 1873
"Fast day sermon," 3 Apr. 1873
"Palm Sunday," 6 Apr. 1873
1. 5 Apr. 1868; 2. 6 Apr. 1873.
"The seat of the scornful," 20 July 1873
Text missing."Thanksgiving sermon," 27 Nov. 1873
"Vital Christianity," 1873 (sermon)
1. Boston, Oct. 1855; 2. Dorchester, Nov. 1855; 3. Indiana Place, 1857; 4. Reynolds, Jamaica Plain; 5. Osgood's, Dec. 1857; 6. Providence, Mar. 1858; 7. Salem, North Church, 1858; 8. Meadville, 1860; 9. Rewritten Jan. 1867; 10. Dr. Putnam's, [1867]; 11. Exeter, [1867]; 12. Waltham, [1867]; 13. Baltimore, [1867]; 14. Chicago, 20 Oct. 1867; 15. Northfield, Vt.; 16. Rewritten 1873.
"Become as little children," 1873 (sermon)
"Let your speech be with grace, seasoned with salt," [1873]
1. Jan. 1859; 2. 186-; 3. 1873.
"Now," 1873
1. 1868; 2. July 1873; 3. New York, 1873; 4. Fitchburg.
"The son of man is come to seek and save those who are lost," [1873] (sermon)
1. 4 May 1862; 2. 1867; 3. June 1873.
"Sentiment and sentimentalism," Boston, 4 Oct. 1874 (sermon)
1. Boston, 4 Oct. 1874; 2. Portland, 7 Oct. 1874; 3. Dr. Putnam's, Roxbury, Aug. 1876.
"Homes in heaven and on earth," Oct. 1874
"The grace of God which [bringeth] salvation," Church of the Disciples, 13 Dec. 1874 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
1. 2 Feb. 1862; 2. Stone Chapel, 1862; 3. Rewritten Dec. 1874.
"Thought it not robbery to be equal with God," [15 Dec.] 1874 (sermon)
1. 15 Dec. 1867.
"Think of the true and the good," June 1875 (sermon)
1. Meadville, 1853; 2. Williams Hall, 1854; 3. Dorchester, Mr. Hall's vestry, 1855; 4. Beverly, 1855; 5. Salem, 1855; 6. Indiana Place, Apr. 1856; 7. Rewritten June 1875.
"What is taught by the silence of Jesus," Church of the Disciples, [June] 1875 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
"Liberty: how law sets us free, or true liberalism and false liberalism," 4 July 1875 (sermon)
"The shadow of the almighty," Hollis Street Church, July 1875 (sermon)
1. 26 Oct. 1862; 2. July 1865; 3. South Boston, 1868; 4. Hollis Street, July 1875.
"The three salvations," 24 Oct. 1875 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette; Go Up Higher, or Religion in Common Life.
"The spirit of fear, and the spirit of power," Church of the Disciples, [13 Nov. 1875] (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette; Go Up Higher, or Religion in Common Life.
"The diary of 1875," Church of the Disciples, 2 Jan. 1876 (sermon)
Text missing.Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
"The religion of science," 23 Jan. 1876
"Symmetrical development," Church of the Disciples, 30 Jan. 1876 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
"Religious life the root of intellectual progress," Church of the Disciples, 12 Mar. 1876 (sermon)
"Ideas of Jesus concerning God; compared with those of other teachers," 19 Mar. 1876
Annotation: "Bible lesson 2nd."
"A sermon on faith and knowledge," Church of the Disciples, 19 Mar. 1876
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
"The how and why in nature," Church of the Disciples, 26 Mar. 1876 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
"Birthright goodness, and goodness which we pay for," Church of the Disciples, 2 Apr. 1876 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette; Go Up Higher, or Religion in Common Life.
"The resurrection of Jesus and our own," Church of the Disciples, 16 Apr. 1876 (Easter sermon)
"The personality of God," Church of the Disciples, 23 Apr. 1876 (sermon)
Printed in the Christian Register.
"The Holy Ghost, and its coming," [4 June 1876] (sermon)
1. 1860; 2. 1863 (altered); 3. 1876.
"What the Declaration of Independence has done during the last hundred years; and what it is still to do," 2 July 1876 (sermon)
"Work of a minister," 2 Nov. 1876 (charge to Mr. S. P. [Romans] at Dorchester)
"All saints and all souls," Church of the Disciples, 5 Nov. 1876 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
"Owe no man anything but to love one another," Nov. 1876
1. July 1867; 2. Sep. 1870.
"Christmas sermon," [1876]
"Possessed by the devil," 1876
"Quench not the spirit," 1876
Text missing.1. 9 Oct. 1865; 2. Hollis St., 1868; 3. Leominster, 1868; 4. Brooklyn, 1868; 5. Haverhill, Oct. 1868; 6. Roxbury (Free Chapel), Nov. 1868; 7. Troy, 1868; 8. Cambridge, 1869; 9. Boston Theater; 10. Chicago, 1871; 11. Bar Harbor, 1871; 12. Dorchester, 1871; 13. Music Hall, 3. Mar. 1872; 14. Philadelphia, June 1872; 15. Warren Ave. Church of Disciples; 16. Jamaica Plain; 17. Lowell; 18. Louisville, Ky., 1873; 19. Meadville, 1873; 20. Boston Theater; 21. Washington, 1876; 22. Keene, N.H.
"The word of wisdom," Providence, Jan. 1877 (sermon)
1. Oct. 1872; 2. June 1873 (ordination of Savary at Canton); 3. Brooklyn, 1876; 4. Louisville, 1876.
"If any man be in Christ he is a new creature," Church of the Disciples, 18 Feb .1877 (sermon; two sets of notes)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette; Go Up Higher, or Religion in Common Life.
1. Feb. 1868; 2. Providence Theater; 3. Boston Theater; 4. [?] Dec. 1868; 5. Haverhill Public Hall; 6. Hartford Theater.
"Nicodemus and regeneration," 18 Feb. 1877
"Transition periods; when people are neither one thing nor the other," Church of the Disciples, 4 Mar. 1877 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
"On the difference between 'Come' and 'Go' in religion," Church of the Disciples, 11 Mar. 1877 (sermon)
"Immortality," [1 Apr. 1877] (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette; Go Up Higher, or Religion in Common Life.
"Eating and drinking Christ," Church of the Disciples, 8 Apr. 1877 (sermon)
"To us there is one God the father," Church of the Disciples, 15 Apr. 1877 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
1. [1868].
"To every seed his own body," Church of the Disciples, 6 May 1877 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
"Tables," Church of the Disciples, 20 May 1877 (Whitsunday sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
"Man does not live by bread alone," [Sep. 1877]
1. 1862; 2. Sep. 1877.
"Paradoxes of the Christian life," Church of the Disciples, Sep. 1877 (sermon)
"Crisis and development," Church of the Disciples, 7 Oct. 1877 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
"The prayer of faith, and the prayer of form," Church of the Disciples, 14 Oct. 1877 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
"Faithfulness in all things," Church of the Disciples, 21 Oct. 1877 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
"Daily bread," 1877
1. Indiana Place, Sep. 1861; 2. Brooklyn, 1861; 3. Cambridge; 4. Stone Chapel, 1862; 5. Rewritten 1869; 6. Milwaukee, 1869; 7. [?] Avenue, 1877.
"Dorothea L. Dix," 1877
"The seed is the word," 1877
1. 21 Oct. 1860; 2. 2 June 1877.
"The present difficulties of the nation," 6 Jan. 1878 (sermon)
Text missing.Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
"The organ of reverence and its cultivation," Church of the Disciples, 17 Feb. 1878 (sermon)
"How is Christ the Messiah?" 17 Mar. 1878 (Bible lecture)
1. Sunday afternoon Bible class, 17 Mar. 1878; 2. Bible class, Apr. 1886.
"On finishing everything, or the two extra pennies," Church of the Disciples, 24 Mar. 1878 (16 lectures on self culture)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
Lecture at social meeting, 10 Apr. 1878
1. Liquification of gases; 2. The telephone; 3. The phonograph.
"Palm Sunday," Laird Bolliers Church, 16 Apr. 1878 (sermon)
1. 1867.
"Easter sermon," Church of the Disciples, 21 Apr. 1878
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
"The Christian ministry at the present day," Frank G. Peabody's church, Cambridge, Apr. 1878 (sermon)
"Every man his proper gift from the Lord," Church of the Disciples, 5 May 1878 (sermon; 20 lectures)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
"The religion of science," 30 May 1878 (baccalaureate sermon to the senior class, Cornell)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette, 23 Jan. 1876.
1. Church of the Disciples, 23 Jan. 1876; 2. College Hill, 30 May 1878; 3. Philadelphia conference, Oct. 1878.
"Moral misalliances," Church of the Disciples, 2 June 1878 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette, 7 Mar. 1880.
"Who is my neighbor?" 15 Sep. 1878 (sermon)
2. Jamaica Plain, 1878.
Saratoga conference, 29 Sep. 1878
"The ethics of the ballot box," Church of the Disciples, 3 Nov. 1878 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette; Every-Day Religion.
"The true coming of Christ," Church of the Disciples, 10 Nov. 1878 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette; separately printed, Boston, 1886, etc.
"He who says to his brother thou fool! is in danger of hell fire," Church of the Disciples, 17 Nov. 1878 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
"Translation of the Bible into its modern equivalents," Church of the Disciples, 24 Nov. 1878 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
1. June 1869; 2. Worcester, June 1869; 3. [?]; 4. New York, Dec. 1878.
"Thou fool," Nov. 1878 (sermon)
1. 1 May 1863; 2. 3 Feb. 1867 (altered); 3. June 1871; 4. Nov. 1878.
"Is the world growing less religious or more so?" Church of the Disciples, 8 Dec. 1878 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
"Is man by his constitution a religious being?" Lecture 1st on "Previous questions in religion," Church of the Disciples, 22 Dec. 1878 (sermon)
Text missing.Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
"Not to destroy but to fulfill," 1878
1. Nov. 1867; 2. Oct. 1870; 3. Roxbury, 1878.
"Notes for a lecture on Milton," 1878
"So many voices and each its signification," [1878] (sermon)
1. [?]; 2. 1860; 3. Feb. 1864; 4. Sep. 1867; 5. 1878.
"Previous questions in religion, faith, knowledge, and belief," Church of the Disciples, 5 Jan. 1879 (sermon)
"Previous questions concerning design in nature," Church of the Disciples, 19 Jan. 1879 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
[Sermon on] emphasis in religion, 22 Feb. 1879
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette; Every-Day Religion.
Annotation: "Notes to preach from. Magnolia Aug. 28, 1881."
"Previous questions concerning providence," Church of the Disciples, 23 Feb. 1879 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
"Previous questions concerning freedom of the will and its limitations," Church of the Disciples, 2 Mar. 1879 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
"Previous questions concerning evolution and theism," Church of the Disciples, 9 Mar. 1879 (sermon)
"Previous questions concerning the belief in immortality," Church of the Disciples, 16 Mar. 1879 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
"Previous questions concerning prayer," Church of the Disciples, 30 Mar. 1879 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
"Palm-Sunday and its lessons," Church of the Disciples, 6 Apr. 1879 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
"What we possess and what we own," Church of the Disciples, 20 Apr. 1879 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette; Every-Day Religion.
"Everything beautiful in its time," Church of the Disciples, 27 Apr. 1879 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
1. New York, Church of Nemiah, May 1879; 2. Cambridge, 1879.
"Spirits in prison," [Boston], [June 1879] (sermon)
1. June 1863; 2. July 1867 (with additions); 3. Saco, July 1867; 4. Boston, June 1879.
"The new and old way of discussing the divinity of Jesus," Church of the Disciples, 14 Sep. 1879 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette, 18 Jan. 1880.
"Foolishness of God," 5 Oct. 1879
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
1. 1865; 2. Rewritten 5 Oct. 1873; 3. Rewritten 5 Oct. 1879.
"All souls belong to God," Church of the Disciples, 2 Nov. 1879 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette; The Hour Which Cometh, and Now Is.
"It is more blessed to give than receive," Church of the Disciples, 30 Nov. 1879 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
"Are justice and mercy opposed in God or man?" Church of the Disciples, 14 Dec. 1879 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
"Christmas," 1879
"The doors," 1879
1. Mar. 1867; 2. June 1873; 3. June 1879.
"How can man be perfect as God is perfect?" Church of the Disciples, 25 Jan. 1880 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
"The spirit in the wheels," Church of the Disciples, 1 Feb. 1880 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
"Speaking the truth in love," Church of the Disciples, 15 Feb. 1880 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette; Every-Day Religion.
2. June 1883; 3. Magnolia, Aug. 1883.
"The great gulf," Church of the Disciples, Mar. 1880 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette as "Great gulfs, and bridges over them," 14 Mar. 1880.
1. [?]; 2. Sep. 1862.
"The three that bear record," Church of the Disciples, 18 Apr. 1880 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
"The Holy Ghost, the comforter," Church of the Disciples, 16 May 1880 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
"A dream of fruit-trees in a garden," Church of the Disciples, 6 June 1880 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
"The family in heaven and earth," Church of the Disciples, 20 June 1880 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette; Every-Day Religion.
"Standing in the door-way," Church of the Disciples, 27 June 1880 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette; Every-Day Religion.
"Idle words and industrious words," Church of the Disciples, 11 July 1880 (sermon)
1. 3 May 1868; 2. 29 Aug. 1875; 3. Nahant, 1879; 4. Church of the Disciples, 11 July 1880.
Brief of a sermon preached at Manhattan Beach, 5 Sep. 1880
"The one thing needful," Church of the Disciples, 17 Oct. 1880 (sermon)
"Seek, and ye shall find," Church of the Disciples, 24 Oct. 1880 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
"Mere mortality," Church of the Disciples, 31 Oct. 1880 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
Annotation: "For Washington, Apr. 1884."
"Classification of saints," Church of the Disciples, 7 Nov. 1880 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
"The true cross of Christ," Church of the Disciples, 14 Nov. 1880 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
"The thanksgiving of humanity," Church of the Disciples, 28 Nov. 1880 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
"Homes in heaven and on earth," Church of the Disciples, 5 Dec. 1880 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette; The Disciple's Pulpit, Vol. II; separately published.
1. Oct. 1874.
"Be perfect," [1880] (sermon)
"Possessed by a devil," 1880 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
1. Cincinnati, Lowell, 1876; 2. Providence, 1879; 3. Cornell University, 1880; 4. New York, 1880.
"Religion made for man, not man for religion," 1880
1. Sep. 1872; 2. Dorchester, Sep. 1872; 3. South Manchester, Oct. 1872; 4. Church of the Messiah, N.Y., Feb. 1873; 5. Troy, Mar. 1873; 6. Christian Union, 1876; 7. Lowell, 1880.
[Bible lecture I], "Bible lectures," [9 Jan. 1881] (introduction to a series of afternoon lectures; partially printed)
"Where did the Bible come from?" 16 Jan. 1881 (Sunday afternoon Bible class lessons; second talk)
[Bible lecture II], "The Bible," 16 Jan. 1881 (lecture notes)
With a letter from Mrs. George W. Gay to James Freeman Clarke, Boston, 11 Jan. 1881, attached.
Bible lecture III, 23 Jan. 1881
"Abraham and his times," 30 Jan. 1881
Annotation: "Lecture 4."
"Thomas Carlyle, the John the Baptist of our time," Church of the Disciples, 13 Feb. 1881 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
"The ideas of the apostle Paul," [sixth lecture]: "The heart of Paul," Church of the Disciples, 20 Feb. 1881 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
"Moses and his law," 20 Feb. 1881 (afternoon lecture)
"What God gives he gives forever," Church of the Disciples, 6 Mar. 1881 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette; The Disciple's Pulpit, Vol. II.
"The ideas of the apostle Paul," [seventh lecture]: "The inspiration of Paul," Church of the Disciples, 13 Mar. [1881] (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
"Why are not men as assiduous at church as women?" 14 Mar. 1881
Annotation: "For minister's meeting."
"The ideas of the apostle Paul," [eighth lecture]: "Was Paul a Calvinist?" Part I, Church of the Disciples, 20 Mar. [1881] (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
"The ideas of the apostle Paul," [ninth lecture]: "Did Paul teach the Calvinist doctrine of vicarious atonement?" Church of the Disciples, [27 Mar. 1881] (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
"The ideas of the apostle Paul," [eleventh lecture]: "Paul's ideas in regard to the resurrection and the spiritual body," Church of the Disciples, 17 Apr. 1881 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
"John Gorham Palfrey and some of his contemporaries," Church of the Disciples, 8 May 1881 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
"The ideas of the apostle Paul," [last (twelfth) lecture]: "Paul's view of human progress and the future of our race," Church of the Disciples, 15 May 1881 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
"What is the chaff to the wheat?" Church of the Disciples, 22 May 1881 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
"Whitsunday sermon," Church of the Disciples, 5 June 1881 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
"The genuine prayer," Church of the Disciples, 12 June 1881 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
"All saints and all souls," Church of the Disciples, 6 Nov. 1881 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
"The bliss of sorrow," Church of the Disciples, 27 Nov. 1881 (sermon)
"The amplitude of the Christian faith," Church of the Disciples, 25 Dec. 1881 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
"He who exalteth himself shall be abased," Church of the Disciples, [1881] (sermon)
Text missing.Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette, 19 June 1881.
1. Sep. 1868; 2. Aug. 1870.
"What shall I do to inherit eternal life?" Washington, 1881 (sermon)
Title page missing.Bible lecture IV, [1881] (partially printed)
Bible lecture V, [1881] (partially printed)
Bible lecture VI, [1881] (partially printed)
Bible lecture VII, [1881] (partially printed)
Bible lecture IX, [1881]
Bible lecture X, [1881] (partially printed)
Bible lecture XI, [1881]
Bible lecture XII, [1881]
Bible lecture XIII, [1881]
Bible lecture XIV, [1881]
"What shall be the future of religion in the United States?" Church of the Disciples, 1 Jan. 1882 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
"How to make the most of life," Church of the Disciples, 8 Jan. 1882 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
2. Washington, D.C., 19 Mar. 1882.
"The ideal and the actual Christ," [first lecture on Christianity and modern thought], Church of the Disciples, 15 Jan. 1882 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
"What do we know of God?: Some recent agnostic theories," [second lecture on Christianity and modern thought], Church of the Disciples, 22 Jan. 1882 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
"Henry W. Bellows," Church of the Disciples, 12 Feb. 1882 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
"Originality of Jesus," Feb. 1882 (sermon)
1. Sunday after Mar. 31; 2. King's Chapel, Sunday after 23 Feb. 1879 (written out into sermon Feb. 1882).
"The Andover creed and everlasting punishment," Church of the Disciples, 16 Apr. 1882 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
"Annual meeting of the B. and F. Unitarian Association," 31 May 1882
Annotation: "Answer to the resolution welcoming the foreign delegates."
"The letter and spirit," Church of the Disciples, [3 Dec. 1882] (sermon)
"The sin which easily besets us, and the good which is ready to help us," Church of the Disciples, 7 Jan. 1883 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
2. New York, All Souls; 3. Cambridge, Appleton Chapel, 2 Dec. 1883; 4. Washington, 27 Apr. 1884; 5. Atlanta, 1884; 6. Collyers, N.Y., 1884; 7. Philadelphia; 8. Feb. 1886.
"The religion which passes away, and that which abides," [Church of the Disciples], 14 Jan. 1883 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
1. Church of the Disciples; 2. New York, 21 Jan. 1883.
"Discourse on the Bible," Music Hall, 11 Mar. 1883 (sermon)
"The blessings of our knowledge and of our ignorance in regard to a future state," Church of the Disciples, 25 Mar. 1883 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
"Fast day sermon," Church of the Disciples, 5 Apr. 1883 (sermon)
"Equalities and inequalities," Church of the Disciples, 8 Apr. 1883 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
"What do Unitarians believe [about] the Holy Ghost?" [Church of the Disciples], 13 May 1883 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
"Thou bearest not the root, but the root thee," Church of the Disciples, 27 May 1883 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
"When he came to himself," Church of the Disciples, 10 June 1883 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
"There remaineth a rest," Church of the Disciples, [16 Sep. 1883] (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette, 29 Nov. 1883.
"The Holy Spirit, the comforter," Church of the Disciples, 21 Oct. 1883 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
"Luther and the results of the Reformation," Church of the Disciples, 11 Nov. 1883 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
"Is Christianity a supernatural revelation?" Church of the Disciples, 18 Nov. 1883 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
"The four gospels of modern thought," Church of the Disciples, 9 Dec. 1883 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
"Vis Inertiae in nature and life," Church of the Disciples, 6 Jan. 1884 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette; Every-Day Religion.
"True and false manliness," Church of the Disciples, 20 Jan. 1884 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
"Sermon on the Mount: saying and doing," Church of the Disciples, 9 Mar. 1884
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
"...Two leading theories in regard to knowledge and its sources," read to the Ladies Metaphysical Club, 18 Mar. 1884
"Good stronger than evil," Church of the Disciples, 30 Mar. 1884 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
"The events of Passion Week," Church of the Disciples, 6 Apr. 1884 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
"The evidential character of faith," Church of the Disciples, 20 Apr. 1884 (sermon)
"Think of good things not of bad things," Church of the Disciples, 18 May 1884 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
"The unknown God and the known God," Church of the Disciples, 25 May 1884 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
"What does the Holy Spirit mean today?" Church of the Disciples, 1 June 1884 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
"The gate of heaven," Church of the Disciples, 28 Sep. 1884 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
"The unseen world," Church of the Disciples, 5 Oct. 1884 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
"The old and the new view of the hereafter," Church of the Disciples, 19 Oct. 1884 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette; The Disciple's Pulpit, Vol. II.
"The simplicity that is in Christ," Church of the Disciples, 18 Jan. 1885 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
"Christ the mediator, the law of universal mediation," Church of the Disciples, 25 Jan. 1885 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
"The faithful creator," Church of the Disciples, 1 Feb. 1885 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
"The book written without and within," Church of the Disciples, 8 Feb. 1885 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
"Washington's birthday; or, the power of character," Church of the Disciples, 15 Feb. 1885 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
2. All Saints Church, N.Y., 22 Feb. 1885.
"The house of God and the gate of heaven," Church of the Disciples, 22 Feb. 1885 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
"The measure of a man; that is, of an angel," Church of the Disciples, 1 Mar. 1885 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
"A place for everything, and everything in its place," Church of the Disciples, 15 Mar. 1885 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
"When I am weak, then I am strong," Church of the Disciples, 14 June 1885 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette, 21 Feb. 1886.
"All things are yours," Church of the Disciples, [21 June 1885] (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette, 10 Jan. 1886.
"A blameless body," Church of the Disciples, 11 Oct. 1885 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
"A blameless soul," Church of the Disciples, 18 Oct. 1885 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
"A blameless spirit," Church of the Disciples, 25 Oct. 1885 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
"Fellow citizens with the saints," Church of the Disciples, 1 Nov. 1885 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
"Holy ground," Church of the Disciples, 15 Nov. 1885 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
"What is the chief end of man?" Church of the Disciples, 22 Nov. 1885 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
"The prophet Balaam's brief compendium of religion," Church of the Disciples, 29 Nov. 1885 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
"Picturesque Palestine," Lecture 1, [Nov. 1885]
"Picturesque Palestine," Lecture 3, 1 Dec. 1885
"The Bible a panorama of life," Church of the Disciples, 6 Dec. 1885 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette; Every-Day Religion.
"Picturesque Palestine," Lecture 4: "Jerusalem," 8 Dec. 1885
"Turning points in history and human life," Church of the Disciples, 13 Dec. 1885 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
"Picturesque Palestine," Lecture 5, 15 Dec. 1885
"The gospels in the gospels," Church of the Disciples, 20 Dec. 1885 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
"The evolution of Christianity," Church of the Disciples, 27 Dec. 1885 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
"The single talent well employed," Church of the Disciples, 3 Jan. 1886 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
"Why should we profess and call ourselves Christians?" Church of the Disciples, 24 Jan. 1886 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
"Power, love and a sound mind," Church of the Disciples, 31 Jan. 1886 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
"Currents, counter-currents and eddies," Church of the Disciples, 14 Feb. 1886 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
"Do not be discouraged," Church of the Disciples, 28 Feb. 1886 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
"To know God, or be known of him," Church of the Disciples, 7 Mar. 1886 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
"The Hercules and Wagoner of today," 8 Mar. 1886 (essay)
"Sin and confession in modern thought," Church of the Disciples, 16 May 1886 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
"The fast which God has chosen," Church of the Disciples, 14 Mar. 1886 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
"The scientific basis of prayer," 26 Mar. 1886
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
"Questions which cannot be suppressed," Church of the Disciples, 28 Mar. 1886 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
"Nicodemus and Christ," Church of the Disciples, 4 Apr. 1886 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
"Public questions which cannot be suppressed," Church of the Disciples, 8 Apr. 1886 (Fast Day sermon)
"The meaning and importance of the resurrection," Church of the Disciples, 25 Apr. 1886 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
"The law of progress," Church of the Disciples, 2 May 1886
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
"The anarchist tragedy in Chicago, and its lessons," Church of the Disciples, 9 May 1886 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
"The broad church," Church of the Disciples, 6 June 1886 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette; The Disciple's Pulpit, Vol. II.
"The law of the spirit, of life: Spiritual influences in accordance with laws," 13 June 1886 (Whitsunday sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
"Mind your own business," 20 June 1886 (sermon)
"Lo! God is here!" Church of the Disciples, 27 June 1886 (sermon)
2. Magnolia, 11 July [1886]; 3. Newport, R.I., 1886.
"What did Jesus himself teach concerning probation and the condition of the heathen?" Church of the Disciples, 24 Oct. 1886 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
"The life of a great university," Church of the Disciples, 7 Nov. 1886 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
"Christ's teaching concerning himself," Channing Hall, 15 Dec. 1886 (Sunday School talk)
Annotation: "Read, second time at Channing Hall S. School Talks," 16 Dec. 1886.
"The approach of Christmas," Church of the Disciples, 19 Dec. 1886 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
"A happy new year," Church of the Disciples, 2 Jan. 1887 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette; The Disciple's Pulpit, Vol. I.
"How the insight of Jesus led to foresight," Church of the Disciples, 16 Jan. 1887 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
"The two economies, that of Jesus and that of Judas," Church of the Disciples, 13 Feb. 1887 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
"Rejoice evermore," Church of the Disciples, 2 Oct. 1887 (duplicate of 1877 sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette; The Disciple's Pulpit, Vol. I.
"Dorothea L. Dix," Church of the Disciples, 9 Oct. 1887 (duplicate of 1877 sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
"Labor troubles; their cause and cure," Church of the Disciples, 23 Oct. 1887 (duplicate of 1877 sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
"The development of good manners," Church of the Disciples, 30 Oct. 1887 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
"Anarchy and law," Church of the Disciples, 13 Nov. 1887 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
"The Lord's prayer," Church of the Disciples, 20 Nov. 1887 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
"The pew system and the free-seat system," Church of the Disciples, 27 Nov. 1887 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette; The Disciple's Pulpit, Vol. I.
"Samson's riddle; strength and sweetness," Church of the Disciples, 4 Dec. 1887 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
"The Lord's prayer," Church of the Disciples, 11 Dec. 1887 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
"Christmas sermon," Church of the Disciples, 25 Dec. 1887
Part of this sermon preached in 1876.
"The transformation of years into life," Church of the Disciples, 1 Jan. 1888 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
"How to get the most out of the coming year," Church of the Disciples, 8 Jan. 1888 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette; The Disciple's Pulpit, Vol. II.
"The mind of Christ," Church of the Disciples, 22 Jan. 1888 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette; The Disciple's Pulpit, Vol. II.
"Know thyself," Church of the Disciples, 29 Jan. 1888 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
"The mind of Christ; five sources of our knowledge," Church of the Disciples, 5 Feb. 1888 (sermon)
Printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette.
"Thy kingdom come," Church of the Disciples, 19 Feb. 1888 (sermon)
"Daily bread," Church of the Disciples, 26 Feb. 1888 (sermon)
"Forgive us our debts," Church of the Disciples, 4 Mar. 1888 (sermon)
"As we forgive those that trespass against us," Church of the Disciples, 18 Mar. 1888 (sermon)
"Lead us not into temptation," Church of the Disciples, 13 May 1888 (sermon)
Unidentified manuscript notes
Included are undated, unidentified manuscript notes and fragments, mostly in the hand of James Freeman Clarke.
Unidentified notes
Unidentified notes
Unidentified notes
II. Volumes, 1774-1908
Arranged alphabetically by author.
This series consists of diaries, letterbooks, notebooks, scrapbooks, accounts, and other volumes, primarily of James Freeman Clarke, but also his wife Anna (Huidekoper) Clarke; his children Lilian Freeman Clarke, Eliot Channing Clarke, and Cora Huidekoper Clarke; his daughter-in-law Alice (Sohier) Clarke; his father Samuel Clarke (1779-1830); his sister Sarah Freeman Clarke; Samuel Clarke (d. 1778); and Constant Freeman. The series also contains volumes of the Church of the Disciples (Boston), a diary/commonplace book of Clarke's friend Margaret Fuller, and volumes of Huidekoper family members.
A. Anonymous volumes, 1850s-1881
Arranged chronologically.
Address book, undated
Drawings, sketches, manuscript maps, etc., undated
"New Light on the Story of the Life of Jesus," undated
Scrapbook containing photographs of Paris and Rome with manuscript notes, undated
Notes on Richard Whately's Elements of Logic, undated
Texts of sermons at Beverly, Mass. (not by James Freeman Clarke), 10 July 1859-5 Jan. 1862
"Cinderella": drawing book containing nine pencil and ink illustrations of the story of Cinderella, [185-]
Incomplete.Address book, 1881
B. Church of the Disciples (Boston) volumes, 1885-1892
Arranged chronologically.
This subseries includes two letterbooks containing letters from past and present members of the Church of the Disciples acknowledging invitations to a reception for James Freeman Clarke held on 6 Apr. 1885, as well as four Post Office Mission record books (indexed) with lists of sermons, books sent, letters written and received, applications, etc.
Letterbook, 12 Mar.-7 Apr. 1885 (with index)
Letterbook, 28 Mar.-12 Apr. 1885 (without index)
Post Office Mission record books, 1 May 1891-1 May 1892
Volume I
Volume II
Volume III
Volume IV
C. Alice de Vermandois (Sohier) Clarke volumes, 1869-1895
Arranged chronologically.
This subseries contains volumes of Alice de Vermandois (Sohier) Clarke (1850-1901), the wife of Eliot Channing Clarke and daughter-in-law of James Freeman Clarke. Volumes consist primarily of notes on sermons, lectures, religion, mythology, etc.
Notes on religion, etc., undated
Notes on mythology, undated
Notes on science, undated
Sermon notes, 14 Feb. 1869-23 Oct. 1872
Sermon notes, 19 Feb. 1871-24 Mar. [1872]
Private notebook, 29 Dec. 1871-
Notes on various lectures, etc., 18 Feb. 1874-[20 Jan. 1875]
Sermon notes, 1 Mar. [1874]-[31 Jan. 1875]
Notes on Greek grammar and various lectures, 10-15 Jan. 1875
Commission books listing children's books with analysis of contents and quality, 22 Feb. 1891-21 Oct. 1895
D. Anna (Huidekoper) Clarke volumes, 1866-1895
Arranged chronologically.
This subseries contains volumes of Anna (Huidekoper) Clarke, the wife of James Freeman Clarke. Included are two subscription books of the New England Hospital for Women and Children and two Massachusetts National Bank account books.
New England Hospital for Women and Children subscription book, 10 Nov. 1866-12 Jan. 1891
This volume also includes subscriptions to the Women's Auxiliary, 1885-1889; Home for Aged Colored Women, 12 Dec. 1866-20 Jan. 1891; and S. E. Industrial School, 4 June 1883-30 Mar. 1890.
New England Hospital for Women and Children subscription book, 1880
Massachusetts National Bank account book, 26 May 1888-30 Apr. 1892
Massachusetts National Bank account book, 2 May 1892-22 Mar. 1895
E. Cora Huidekoper Clarke volumes, [1903]
This subseries contains an autobiographical scrapbook and other papers of Cora Huidekoper Clarke, the daughter of James Freeman Clarke. The scrapbook covers the years 1861-1903 and includes photographs, newspaper clippings, hand-colored botanical drawings, etc.
Autobiographical scrapbook, [1903]
Unbound scrapbook additions, sketches, etc., [190-]
F. Eliot Channing Clarke volumes, [1855]-1894
Arranged chronologically.
This subseries contains volumes of Eliot Channing Clarke, the son of James Freeman Clarke. Volumes relate primarily to his engineering work and include sketches, plans, and notes.
Engineering sketches, undated
Index to drainage plans, Massachusetts Drainage Commission, undated
Writing exercises, [1855?]
Fieldbook of engineering and sewer construction notes, Phoenixville, Pa., 5 May 1869-
Lecture notes, 2 May 1894
G. James Freeman Clarke volumes, 1829-1888
Arranged chronologically.
This subseries contains volumes of James Freeman Clarke, including journals; poetry, translations, and other writings; notes and commonplace books; account books and other financial volumes; and lists and indexes.
"The Antislavery Movement in Boston," undated (corrected page proofs)
"Comparative Theology of Ethnic and Catholic Religions," undated
[239] pp.Included are notes on religion in another hand.
"Extracts in Prose and Verse from different authors," undated
100 pp.[The Four Gospels]: scrapbook of New Testament extracts on the life of Jesus, undated
Incomplete."Latin words in Gradation," undated
"The Legend of Thomas, Called Didymus," undated (corrected page proofs)
List of books in library case, undated (typescript copy)
Miscellaneous writings, journal fragments, translations of German literature, mediations, etc., undated
"Tagbuch," undated
First leaf missing."Book of Extracts and Synopses," 26 Oct. 1829-
Biblical criticism and notes on lectures by John G. Palfrey, [1831-1832]
Notes on Goethe's works and translations of extracts, 1831
"Journal of Myself," "Journal of People & Things," "Journal of Study," etc., 12 Sep. 1831-18 Apr. 1833
Disbound; damaged by fire."Dissertations to Dr. Ware in Dogmatic Theology, 2nd term, middle year," 20 Apr.-2 Sep. 1832
Journals, 1832-1834
Disbound.[1832]
"Book of Reading," 30 Jan. 1833-
To [Margaret Fuller], 23 Apr.-17 May 1833
Louisville, 11 Feb. 1834-
"Theological Common Place Book," 1832
Disbound.Journal kept at Louisville, Kentucky, Sep. 1834-[Apr. 1836]
195 pp.Included are lists of Sunday School scholars, teachers, members of the Unitarian Society, etc.
Manuscript poetry, hymns, etc. by J. F. Clarke, with dedications to his friends, [1834-186-]
"Theological Common Place Book," 1834
[165] pp."Louisville Journal," 30 Mar. 1835-
Poems, in another hand, 1835-1842
Extract book, Mar. 1836
Partially mutilated.Journal, 10 May 1836-[3 Mar. 1839]
Included are lists of sermons delivered, Sep. 1836-23 Feb. 1839; letters written/received, 1836-1838; books read/lent; and calls on parishioners.
"Tables," Nov. 1839-[Jan. 1840]
Included are lists of letters written, Nov. 1839-17 Jan. 1840; letters received, 6 Nov. 1839-18 Jan. 1840; sermons preached, 3 Nov. 1839-12 Jan. 1840; calls made, 9 Dec. 1839-9 Jan. 1840; and miscellaneous events and actions, 9 Nov. 1839-18 Jan. 1840.
"Notes & Reflections," 22 Dec. 1839-[Nov. 1840]
"Joan of Arc - Act IV," [183-] (translation)
Notebook, [183-]
[120] pp.Included are pencil sketches, translations of Goethe, newspaper clippings, etc.
Translations of Schiller and Goethe, "Joan of Arc," [183-]
Notes on "Discourses on Religion" by Dr. Friedrich Schleiermacher, [183-]
[11] pp.Notes on German literature and fragments of translations from Goethe, [183-]
"Notes on the Lectures of R. W. Emerson," [183-?]
"Subscribers to the Western Messenger," [183-]
Inscription: "S. S. Goodwin, Agt., Louisville." Included is a manuscript genealogy of the Curtis family, descendants of William Curtis, who came from England and settled in Roxbury, Mass. in 1632. James Freeman Clarke was a seventh-generation descendant of Curtis.
Letter to James Munro & Co., Louisville, 21 Feb. 1840 (copy)
Included are Bible notes on the verso.
"Notes on Corinthians," Meadville, Dec. 1840
Included are notes on botanical lectures by Dr. [Asa] Gray.
"Historic Memoranda," [1840]
This volume contains statistical tables related to European history, nations, etc.
"Annals of the Church [of the Disciples]": church journal, 30 Jan. 1841-20 June 1852
Included are newspaper clippings and printed material from 1856.
"Notes on Grecian Mythology Class with S. M. [Margaret] Fuller," 1 Mar.-15 Apr. [1841]
Included is a list of attendees and notes on Dr. [Asa] Gray's second course of botanical lectures on the verso.
Journal, [4 Nov. 1841-2 Dec. 1847]
Included are lists of visits, 1846-1847; "books to be read carefully"; sermons preached, 1846-1847; letters written/received, 1846-1847; addresses, 1846; publications, 1846; children in Sunday School, 1847; homeopathic medicine administered; and miscellaneous memoranda.
Commonplace book, Jan. 1842
Partially disbound; damaged by fire.Personal expenses, cash accounts, investments, etc., 1847
Journal of thoughts and events, 1848-1849
Damaged by fire.Included is a visiting list, 1849; letters written/received, 1848; sermons preached, 1848; and miscellaneous loose notes and broadsides.
Personal expenses, cash accounts, investments, etc., 1848
"Extracts & Notes on Reading," Apr. 1850
Personal expenses, cash accounts, investments, etc., 1850-1852
Journal, 16 Sep. 1851-30 Sep. 1853
"Journal of Journey to Europe in 1852," 7 Oct. 1852-[12 Feb. 1853]
"Letters written & received," 1852
Journal, 8 Oct. 1853-Dec. 1854
Included are extracts of letters written by James Freeman Clarke, 30 June 1782-1790; notes for lectures on marriage; addresses of recipients of printed lectures; lecture and sermon plans; investments, 1854; letters written/received, 1854; and expenses and cash accounts, 1853-1854.
Religious commonplace book, [1853]
185 pp.Dedication: "Mrs. Hannah Moore from her friend James Freeman Clarke, Nov. 1853."
Massachusetts Bank account book, 17 Oct. 1854-31 Dec. 1856
"Chicago Investments," 1855-1875
Personal expenses and cash accounts, [1855-1883]
"The Book for Every Thing": commonplace book with index, 1856
[140] pp."American Unitarian Association, Book of the General Secretary," 1859
Included is a diary; a quarterly journal; executive committee memoranda; a list of letters written, etc.
Notes on Christian teachings, 17 Nov. 1859
Inscription: "The object of keeping this book is to learn from the New Testament itself what Christianity teaches concerning: 1. God, 2. Christ, 3. Man, 4. Religion, 5. Duty, 6. Salvation, 7. The Church, 8. The Future Life."
Notebook, 1859-[1872]
Included are Elliot Channing Clarke accounts with James Freeman Clarke, 11 Sep. 1859- (text missing); hospital reports, 1863; subscribers to various funds, Oct. 1870-1872; American Unitarian Association, 1871; and Sunday School, Oct. 1870.
"A Commonplace Book of New Testament Doctrine," 1860
222 pp.Included is a list of the Church of the Disciples Bible class, 1859-1862.
Personal and domestic cash accounts, 1 Jan. 1863-1865
Included are lists of letters written, 1864; events, 1864; newspaper clippings; loose manuscript receipts; Harvard class of 1829 dinner menus; and a pass from General [Benjamin] Butler, 1864.
"Notes and Extracts" from various authors, 1863-1864
"Lessons in the Life of Jesus," Nov. 1866-[16 Jan. 1867]
Included are addresses and Bible notes on the verso.
Boylston National Bank account book, 21 Dec. 1868-18 Mar. 1870
"Calls": list of names, 1869-1874
Notes for Comparative Theology of Ethnic and Catholic Religions class, Divinity School, Cambridge, 6 Oct. 1870-29 June 1871
Included are lists of lectures, students, remarks, etc.
Massachusetts National Bank account books
2 Jan. 1871-30 Nov. 1872
2 Dec. 1872-27 Oct. 1874
3 Nov. 1874-2 Oct. 1876
2 Dec. 1878-2 May 1881
2 May 1881-29 Apr. 1886 (duplicate)
"Church of Disciples Calls," with list of subscribers, 1872
Titles of sermons published in the Saturday Evening Gazette, 5 Jan. 1873-[1888]
19 pp."Reference Index, or Index of Subjects," Mar. 1879
Inscription: "This book is meant to contain references to the Books, Periodicals, &c. where subjects of interest are discussed, or important facts can be found." Included is an undated printed list entitled "Titles of Books Written by James Freeman Clarke, with names of Publishers."
F. A. Hawley & Co. (bank of deposit, Boston, Mass.) account book, 1 May 1879-15 Apr. 1884
"Titles of books on Ethnic Religions," [187-?]
[1] p."History of Christian Civilization: Nineteen Christian Centuries," [187-?]; [1886]
Included are chronological tables, letters tipped-in, and printed charts, as well as an outline entitled "A commonplace book of New Testament doctrine" on the verso.
Notebook of aphorisms, sermon notes, etc., 31 Jan. 1881-[1887]
"Memorandum Book for Deposits in Union Safe & Deposit Banking House," 6 Mar. 1882-[11 Feb. 1883]
"Autographs, European and American, belonging to James Freeman Clarke": index, 1883
196 pp."Catalogue of Books in the Library of James Freeman Clarke," 1884
Included are commentaries on the writings of Herbert Spencer, Matthew Arnold, etc.
New England Trust Company account book, 18 May 1885-1 Feb. 1888
H. Lilian Freeman Clarke volumes, 1861-1908
Arranged chronologically.
This subseries contains volumes of Lilian Freeman Clarke, the daughter of James Freeman Clarke. Included is a memoir of her father, two diaries, account books of the Society for Helping Destitute Mothers and Infants, and other volumes.
Memoir of James Freeman Clarke for Heralds of a Liberal Faith, Vol. III, undated (typescript with manuscript revisions)
Pocket diary, 1 Jan.-31 Dec. 1861
Pocket diary, 1 Jan.-31 Dec. 1864
Christmas gifts, 1884-1895
Christmas gifts, miscellaneous notes and addresses, household accounts, 1885-1893
Notebook, Berlitz School German lessons, Jamaica Plain, 1885-1886
Accounts of the Society for Helping Destitute Mothers and Infants
Expenses, 1897-1899
Expenses, 1899-1900
Lilian Freeman Clarke, in account, 1901-1904
M. C. Magrath, in account, 1901-1903
E. M. Locke and M. C. Magrath, in account, 1903-1905
Expenses, 1906-1907
Expenses, 1908
Index of names and addresses, undated
I. Samuel Clarke (d. 1778) volumes, [1774]-1778
Arranged chronologically.
This subseries contains two volumes of Samuel Clarke (d. 1778), including a navigational volume and log of a voyage from Boston to Antigua in 1775.
Navigational problems and computations, [1774-1775], with log of a voyage from Boston to Antigua, 2 Jan.-26 Feb. 1775
Digital facsimiles of the Samuel Clarke logbook are available on Life at Sea, a digital publication of Adam Matthew Digital, Inc. This digital resource is available at subscribing libraries; speak to your local librarian to determine if your library has access. The MHS makes this resource available onsite; see a reference librarian for more information.
Wastebook of accounts, 1777-30 Nov. 1778
J. Samuel Clarke (1779-1830) receipt book, 1800-1807
This subseries consists of a receipt book of Samuel Clarke, the father of James Freeman Clarke, kept during the years he worked as an importer of British goods with Joseph Coolidge, 23 Jan. 1800-31 Mar. 1807.
K. Sarah Freeman Clarke diary, 1873-1874
This subseries consists of a travel diary by Sarah Freeman Clarke, born Sarah Anne Clarke, the sister of James Freeman Clarke. The diary is entitled "Notes of a Nile Voyage" and was kept from 22 Dec. 1873 to Feb. 1874.
L. Susan Lowell Clarke notebook, undated
This subseries consists of a school notebook probably kept by Susan Lowell Clarke, the daughter of Eliot Channing Clarke. Included are notes on the history of Normandy and Rome.
M. Constant Freeman ledger, 1791-1795
This subseries consists of a financial ledger kept by Constant Freeman & Sons, Boston distillers, 22 Aug. 1791-28 Feb. 1795. Constant Freeman was the father of James Freeman Clarke's step-grandfather James Freeman.
N. Margaret Fuller journal and commonplace book, 1844 (photocopy)
Also available on microfilm, P-321, 1 reel. Published in the Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, Vol. 102, 1990, pp. 38-126.
Original located in Special Colls.
This subseries consists of the journal and commonplace book of Margaret Fuller, a friend of James Freeman Clarke, kept while she was living in Cambridge, Mass. and vacationing in Concord, Mass. in 1844. Entries describe the weather; her health and that of her friends and family; trips to Boston to run errands; thoughts about family, friends, and religion; and her relationships with Ralph Waldo Emerson and Nathaniel Hawthorne. The volume also contains poetry and other literary and commonplace-type entries. Fuller spent four weeks during the summer in Concord, staying with Hawthorne for ten days. The end of the diary covers her trip to Fishkill Landing, N.Y. and New York City, where she took a job writing for the New York Daily Tribune.
NOTE: This journal is a tracing made by William Hull Clarke in 1876 from Fuller's original journal and includes his annotations and redactions, as well as a note by Fuller's mother Margaret Crane Fuller. The location of the original journal is unknown. For more information, see "Stories Unfolded: William Hull Clarke and His Tracing of Margaret Fuller's 1844 Summer Journal" by Martha L. Berg and Alice De V. Perry (Massachusetts Historical Review, vol. 16, 2014, pp. 122-148).
O. Harvard University examinations for women, 1874-[1878]
Included are requests for pamphlets.
P. Anne Willem Huidekoper letter, 1840 (typescript copy)
This subseries consists of a typescript copy of a long letter from Anne Willem Huidekoper (1796-1841) to his uncle Harm Jan Huidekoper, James Freeman Clarke's father-in-law. The letter, written at Amsterdam on 23 Feb. 1840, discusses Huidekoper family history and life in the Netherlands.
Q. Harm Jan Huidekoper memoir, 1840
This subseries consists of a manuscript memoir by Harm Jan Huidekoper, James Freeman Clarke's father-in-law. The memoir, written at Meadville, Penn. on 28 Feb. 1840, is addressed by Huidekoper to his children and includes a genealogical chart.
R. Sigourney family genealogical material, undated
This subseries consists of genealogical notes on the Sigourney family, a family connected to the Clarkes.
III. Miscellaneous non-manuscript material, 1844-1924
A. Printed material, 1844-1924
Arranged chronologically.
This subseries consists of newspaper clippings; broadsides, including Women's Education Association broadsides; circular letters; school examinations; printed forms; and other printed items. The subseries also contains a few engravings and photographs; the James Freeman Clarke memorial issue of Our Best Words, 15 July 1888; and calling cards, including those collected by Clarke during an 1882 trip to England.
Newspaper clippings, etc., 1844-1909
Broadsides, 1849-1924
Circular letters, etc., 1871-1890
School examinations, 1876-1877
Forms, [187-]-1885
Calling cards, undated, 1882
Our Best Words, Vol. IX, No. 14, 15 July 1888 [Clarke memorial number, 3 copies]
Fragments, undated, 1891
Illustrations, undated
Photographs, undated
B. Museum objects
This subseries includes a perpetual calendar, an ink pen, dried flowers, a silk cravat and cap, a wallet, a photograph album, and an envelope of stamps.
IV. Perry-Clarke autograph collection, 1588-1893 (photocopies)
This series consists of a small collection of autograph letters from literary and historical figures, many of them accompanied by engraved portraits and Goodspeed's sales catalog descriptions. The collection was formed after the death of James Freeman Clarke. The autographs are arranged in two subseries: 11 letters related to the Boston Female Asylum (collected in a bound letterbook) and 56 miscellaneous loose autographs.
Originals located in Special Colls.
A. Boston Female Asylum letterbook, 1810-1850
Arranged in the order in which they appear in the letterbook.
Matignon, Francis Anthony
Certificate of baptism, n.d.
Cheverus, Jean-Louis-Anne-Madeleine Lefebvre de
Marriage certificate, 30 June 1817
Freeman, James
Letter to the managers of the Boston Female Asylum, 26 Sep. 1808
Buckminster, J. S. (Joseph Stevens)
Letter to the managers of the Boston Female Asylum, 22 Sep. 1810
Letter to A. L. Frothingham, 24 Sep. 1810
Cheverus, Jean-Louis-Anne-Madeleine Lefebvre de
Certificate of baptism, 31 Dec. 1816
Cappe, Catharine
Letter to Miss [A. L.] Frothingham, 13 June 1817
Everett, Edward
Letter to Miss [A. L.] Frothingham, 24 Sep. 1821
Greenwood, F. W. P. (Francis William Pitt)
Letter to Miss [A. L.] Frothingham, 27 June 1825
Letter to [A. L.] Frothingham, 28 Sep. 1825
Prescott, Catherine Greene Hickling
Letter to the directress and managers of the Boston Female Asylum, 23 Feb. 1847
Everett, Edward
Invitation to G. B. Wales, 17 Nov. 1847
Prescott, William Hickling
Letter to Mrs. Wales, 1 Jan. 1850
B. Miscellaneous autographs, 1588-1893
Arranged alphabetically.
Adolphus Frederick, Prince, Duke of Cambridge
Note to Mr. Bridge, 3 May 1813
Belcher, Jonathan
Letter to Richard Waldron, Boston, 26 Oct. 1741
Bierstadt, Albert
Letter to Mr. [Corle], New York, 25 Oct. 1891
Bloomer, Amelia Jenks
Letter to William J. Bok, Council Bluffs, Iowa, 3 July 1889
Statement, Council Bluffs, Iowa, [3 July 1889]
Blouet, Paul (a.k.a. Max O'Rell)
Letter to [?], New York, 1 Jan. 1888
Burritt, Elihu
Letter to the editor of the Union, Washington, 18 Mar. 1854
Article: "Klopstock's Messiah," [18 Mar. 1854]
Calhoun, John C. (John Caldwell)
Letter to [Martin Davis Hardin], War Dept., 27 Jan. 1819
Canby, Edward Richard Sprigg
Letter to H. W. Halleck, New Orleans, 16 June 1864
Charles XII, King of Sweden
Document, 29 Oct. 1700
Cherbuliez, Victor
Letter to Mr. Darney, 21 May n.d.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
Letter to Miss Cruikshank, [1807]
Cook, Clarence
Letter to Charles Scribner's & Sons, Fishkill-on-Hudson, 3 July 1878
Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock
Postcard to Harper's Bazaar, Normandy, 4 Nov. 1880
Elizabeth, Princess of England, Landgravine of Hesse-Homburg
Letter to Mrs. Boscawen, [1809]
Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany
Letter to Francis Rawdon Hastings, 13 Feb. 1807
Garden, Benjamin
Letter to Gen. Benjamin Lincoln, Fairfield, 30 Oct. 1779
Garrison, William Lloyd
Address: "To the Friends of Freedom in the United States," [24 May 1844]
Letter to Allen W. Dodge, Roxbury, 15 Nov. 1875
George III, King of Great Britain
Document, St. James, 26 Oct. 1802
Letter to the Bishop of St. David's, 17 May 1822
Gladstone, W. E. (William Ewart)
Letter to Mrs. [?], 21 Apr. 1865
Goodale, Dora Read
Letter to Mr. Todd, 29 June 1888
Poem: "Putnam and His Men," [29 June 1888]
Poem: "Destiny," n.d.
Grand, Sarah
See: McFall, Frances Elizabeth (Clarke)
Hall, Charles Francis
Letter to [?], Washington, 5 June 1871
Harris, Miriam Coles
Letter to Mr. Stoddart, Garden City, L.I., 28 Mar. n.d.
Henry III, King of France
Document, 22 Nov. 1588
Kimball, Harriet McEwen
Poem: "Vale!" n.d.
Kossuth, Lajos
Letter to Robert George Gammage, London, 21 Apr. 1855
Leech, John
Letter to Percival Leigh, n.d.
Louis XIII, King of France
Document, 12 Oct. 1629
Louis XIV, King of France
Document, 22 June 1668-14 May 1689
Louis XV, King of France
Document, 4 Sep. 1773
Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron
Letter to [?], London, 18 Sep. 1857
Maintenon, Madame de
Letter to [?], 21 Apr. 1708
Mary, Princess of England, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh
Letter to Miss [Tishell], n.d.
McFall, Frances Elizabeth (Clarke)
Letter to [?], London, 28 Sep. 1893 (signed as Sarah Grand)
Montgomery, James
Letter to Dr. John Aikin, Sheffield, 27 Oct. 1806
Morgan, Daniel
Letter to [?], 2 Mar. 1797
Parker, Gilbert
Letter to Mr. Stoddart, 20 July n.d.
Peck, John J. (John James)
Letter to Edwin McMasters Stanton, 1 Aug. 1862
Pepperrell, William
Land deed, 25 Aug. 1727
Pinckney, Thomas
Letter to Charles Pinckney, 29 Apr. 1787
Polk, James K. (James Knox)
Letter to William G. Childress, Washington, 25 Sep. 1837
Quincy, Josiah
Letter to George Snelling, 29 July 1859
Rush, Benjamin
Letter to Elias Boudinot, Philadelphia, 7 Apr. 1780
Sewall, David
Letter to Samuel Holten, York, 26 Mar. 1783
Sewall, Samuel
Letter to Hannah Sewall, London, 18 Mar. 1689
Sophia, Princess of England
Note to Mrs. Boscawen, n.d.
Southey, Robert
Letter to Cornelius Neale, Keswick, 9 Feb. 1820
Stanhope, Philip Henry Stanhope, (5th) Earl
Letter to [?], 11 July 1842
Tyler, John
Letter to the committee for the anniversary of the Battle of New Orleans, Sherwood Forest, 2 Jan. 1852
Wilberforce, William
Letter to the Rev. Dr. [Jedidiah] Morse, London, 12 Feb. 1800
Wilkinson, James
Letter to Solomon Van Rensselaer, 14 Dec. 1819
William III, King of England
Document, 27 Feb. 1697
William IV, King of Great Britain
Letter to Lord Moira, Bushy House, n.d.
Wordsworth, William
Letter to Lord [?], 3 Apr. n.d.
V. Oversize material
Mounted newspaper clipping of James Freeman Clarke's sermons printed in the Saturday Evening Gazette (1868-1888)
Oversize manuscripts removed from the collection
Printed material, including maps and engravings
Select Index
Listed below are significant correspondents and select subjects represented in the collection. Undated and dated items are located in Series I.A. (Undated loose manuscripts) or I.B. (Dated loose manuscripts). Other items may be found throughout an entire series (indicated by the series number) or volume (indicated by the volume number). This index does NOT include the autograph collection (Series IV) because those items are listed individually in the series description above.
Adams, Charles Francis: 15 Oct. 1878; 15 Mar. 1883 |
Adams, Henry: 21 July 1874; 16 Oct. 1874; 20 Nov. 1874 |
Agassiz, Elizabeth C. (1822-1907): 4 undated letters |
Alcott, Amos Bronson: 14 Feb. 1863 |
Allen, Charles Adams: 6 undated letters |
American Unitarian Association: letters from Charles Briggs to James Freeman Clarke, 1835-1839; Vol. 84 |
Andrew, John A.: [1864]; 4 Jan. 1865; signatures throughout collection |
Anthony, Susan B.: 7 Nov. 1859; 14 Feb. 1860; 15 Feb. 1860; 12 Nov. 1866; 24 July 1881 |
Armstrong, Samuel Chapman (1839-1893): 2 undated letters |
Astronomy: correspondence, 1875-1888 |
Autographs: Vol. 103; Series IV |
Bird, Frederick W.: letters to James Freeman Clarke, 1867-1869 |
Bond, George W.: letters to James Freeman Clarke, 1846-1870 |
Botta, Vincenzo (1818-1894): 1 undated letter |
Bowen, Francis: 8 Dec. 1865 |
Brigham, Charles: letters to James Freeman Clarke, 1864-1866 |
Briggs, Charles: letters to James Freeman Clarke (concerning American Unitarian Association), 1835-1839 |
Brook Farm: manuscript map, [186-]; see also Clarke, James Freeman |
Brooks, Phillips: 12 Mar. 1877; 28 Nov. 1877 |
Brown, John: letter from David N. Utter to James Freeman Clarke, 7 Jan. 1885 |
Butler, Mann: letters to James Freeman Clarke, 1837-1854 |
Cabot, Samuel, Jr.: letters to James Freeman Clarke, 1846-1853 |
Channing, Susan E. B.: letters to James Freeman Clarke, 1860-1863 |
Channing, Walter (1786-1876): 8 July 1842 |
Channing, William F. (1820-1901): 6 Mar. 1848 (concerning ether controversy); 7 May 1861; 24 May 1861 |
Chapin, H. M.: letters to James Freeman Clarke, 1846-1859 |
Cheney, Edna D. L. (1824-1904): 1 undated letter |
Child, Francis J. (1825-1896): 2 undated letters |
Church of the Disciples, Boston: Series II.B.; Series II.G. |
Clarke, Alice de Vermandois Sohier (1850-1901): Series II.C. |
Clarke, Anna Huidekoper: correspondence throughout collection (principal correspondent, 1889-1895); Series I.C.; Series II.D. |
Clarke, Cora Huidekoper: correspondence, 1897-1910; Series II.E. |
Clarke, Eliot Channing: correspondence, 1889-1910 (many bills, receipts, etc., 1895-1909); Series II.F. |
Clarke, James Freeman: 15 undated cut-slip autographs; 4 undated letters, including manuscript poem and drafts of letters; May 1848 (notes on water cure at Brattleboro, Vermont); 8 Sep. 1850; 27 Dec. 1851; 20 Mar. 1852; 4 Dec. 1852; 27 Aug. 1857; 13 Apr. 1859; 21 Dec. 1859; 28 Mar. 1861 (proposals concerning Brook Farm); 7 Feb. 1873; 12 Apr. 1874; 19 Apr. 1874; 5 May 1874; 8 May 1874; 9 May 1874; 2 Jan. 1884; Series I.D.; Series II.G. |
Clarke, Lilian Freeman: correspondence, 1890-1910; Series II.H. |
Clarke, Samuel (d. 1778): Series II.I. |
Clarke, Samuel (1779-1830): miscellaneous documents, 1779-1831; Vol. 115 |
Clarke, Sarah Freeman: Vol. 116 |
Clarke, Susan Lowell: correspondence, 1910-1923; Vol. 117 |
Clarke, William T.: letters to James Freeman Clarke, 1864-1866 |
Cooke, George W. (1848-1928): 2 undated letters |
Dall, Caroline H. (1822-1912): 2 undated letters; 20 Dec. 1866; 15 Jan. 1867; 8 Nov. 1884; 30 Sep. 1889 |
Dall, Charles H. A.: 22 Sep. 1859 |
Dana, Richard Henry, Jr. (1815-1882): 9 Feb. 1870; 5 Dec. 1872 |
Diaz, Abby Morton (1821-1904): 4 undated letters |
Dix, Dorothea L.: 19 Dec. 1881; 27 Apr. 1882 |
Dunbar, Charles F.: letters to James Freeman Clarke, 1876-1877 |
Eliot, Charles W.: 2 Jan. 1867; 9 Nov. 1869; 24 Jan. 1870; 13 Feb. 1873; 24 Sep. 1879; 23 June 1881; 14 Mar. 1882; 14 Oct. 1882; 24 May 1886; 9 Jan. 1887; 24 Jan. 1887; 16 Jan. 1888; 18 Jan. 1888 |
Emerson, Ralph Waldo: Series II.G. |
Ether controversy: see Channing, William F. (1820-1901) |
Everett, Charles Carroll (1829-1900): 2 undated letters; letters to James Freeman Clarke, 1860-1865 |
Follen, Charles: 26 Mar. 1860; 21 Mar. 1861 |
Francis, Convers: 1 May 1858; 29 June 1858; 17 Aug. 1858; 7 July 1860; 26 Feb. 1861 |
Freeman, Constant: Vol. 118 |
Fuller, Margaret (1810-1850): Series II.G.; Vol. 119 |
Fuller, Margaret (mother of Margaret Fuller, the author): 26 May 1854 |
Hale, Edward E.: 7 Nov. 1888; 8 July 1902 |
Harvard University, Board of Overseers: letters to James Freeman Clarke, 1864-1872 |
Harvard University, Divinity School: Vol. 44; see also Stearns, Oliver (1807-1885) |
Harvard University, Examinations for Women: correspondence, 1876-1877; Vol. 120 |
Hawthorne, Rose: see Lathrop, Mother Mary Alphonsa (1851-1926) |
Hawthorne, Sophia: 1 undated letter; see also Hawthorne family |
Hawthorne, Una: [May 1864] (2 letters, one with attached note from Elizabeth Palmer Peabody) |
Hawthorne family: 6 June 1864; 1 Oct. 1866; 16 June 1867; 30 June 1867; 7 Aug. 1868 |
Hemenway, Mary (1820-1894): 1 undated letter |
Higginson, Waldo: letters to James Freeman Clarke, 1873-1875 |
Hill, Thomas: letters to James Freeman Clarke, 1867-1888 |
Home for Aged Colored Women: Vol. 21 |
Hooper, E. W.: letters to James Freeman Clarke, 1860-1863 (concerning activities in South Carolina during the Civil War) |
Hopkins, Mark (1802-1887): 21 Nov. 1864 |
Houghton Mifflin Company: correspondence (concerning the writings of James Freeman Clarke), 1889-1891 |
Howe, Julia Ward: 1 undated letter |
Howe, Samuel Gridley: 17 Nov. 1858 |
Howells, William D.: 15 July 1874 |
Howitt, Mary: letters to James Freeman Clarke, 1878-1888 |
Huidekoper, Anne Willem: Vol. 121 |
Huidekoper, Elizabeth: Series I.C. |
Huidekoper, Harm Jan: Vol. 122 |
Jackson, Charles T.: 3 May 1848 |
James, William: 30 Sep. 1887 |
Jay, John (1817-1894): letters to James Freeman Clarke, 1882-1883 |
Lathrop, Mother Mary Alphonsa (1851-1926): 2 undated letters; see also Hawthorne family |
Lawrence, Kansas: letters to James Freeman Clarke, 1856; 1859-1860 |
Lowell, James Russell: 26 Dec. 1865 |
Lyman, Theodore, Jr.: 18 Apr. 1880 |
Mayo, Amory Dwight: letters to James Freeman Clarke, 1860-1863 |
Mitchell, Maria (1818-1889): 1 undated letter |
New England Hospital for Women and Children: Series II.D. |
Norton, Charles Eliot: 16 Oct. 1862; 6 Nov. 1862; 22 Feb. 1867; 12 Dec. 1873; 27 May 1874; 3 July 1877; 13 July 1877; 2 Dec. 1878; 15 Oct. 1879 |
Nute, Ephraim: letters to James Freeman Clarke, 1854-1859 |
Osgood, Samuel: letters to James Freeman Clarke, 1837-1860 |
Ossoli, Sarah Margaret Fuller (1810-1850): see Fuller, Margaret |
Palfrey, John G.: 3 undated letters; 14 Jan. 1834; 18 Mar. 1835; 1 Apr. 1837; 3 July 1837; 11 May 1838; 20 Feb. 1847; 25 Aug. 1858; 11 Sep. 1858; 10 Nov. 1868; 23 Nov. 1874 |
Parkman, Francis: 1 undated letter |
Peabody, Elizabeth Palmer: undated note attached to undated letter from Una Hawthorne to James Freeman Clarke; Apr. 1841; Mar. 1842; Oct. 1842 (receipts from West Street Bookstore) |
Peabody, Ephraim: [Feb. 1835] |
Photographs: Series II; Series III; see also MHS Photo Archives and Photo. 1.381L |
Pierce, Edward L.: letters to James Freeman Clarke, 1860-1863 |
Pintle, Jane Ann: letters to James Freeman Clarke, 1846-1870 |
Prison reform: correspondence of James Freeman Clarke, 1870-1872 |
Quincy, Josiah (1802-1882): 22 Nov. 1878; 5 Dec. 1878 |
Quincy, Josiah (1859-1919): 10 Nov. 1882; 14 Jan. 1884 |
Redpath, James (1833-1891): 22 Aug. 1887 |
Rice, A. Thorndike: letters to James Freeman Clarke, 1876-1877 |
Richards, Laura Howe (1850-1943): 1 undated poem |
Ripley, George: 1 undated letter; 16 Jan. 1837; 15 Dec. 1841; 5 Aug. 1842 (from Brook Farm); 22 Sep. 1842; 27 Apr. 1859; 24 Aug. 1864; 17 July 1878 |
Robbins, Chandler: 8 Oct. 1833 |
Rogers, Henry B.: letters, 1860-1880 |
Schleiermacher, Friedrich F. D. (1768-1834): Vol. 59 |
Sea Islands, South Carolina: correspondence (concerning aid to freedmen), Mar.-Apr. 1862 |
Sewall, Samuel E.: 4 undated letters; 18 Sep. 1882 |
Sigourney family: Vol. 123 |
Society for Helping Destitute Mothers and Infants: Series II.H. |
Sohier, Alice de Vermandois (1850-1901): see Clarke, Alice de Vermandois Sohier (1850-1901) |
Stearns, Oliver (1807-1885): 20 Jan. 1864 (20 pp., concerning reform of Harvard Divinity School); 30 Jan. 1865 |
Tuttle, H. B.: letters to James Freeman Clarke, 1854-1859 |
Underwood, M. G.: letters to James Freeman Clarke, 1870-1872 |
Utter, David N.: 7 Jan. 1885 (concerning John Brown in Kansas) |
Walker, James (1794-1874): letters to Dr. James Walker, 1864-1869 |
Ware, John F. W. (1818-1881): 6 undated letters; letters to James Freeman Clarke, 1867-1869 |
Weeden, William B. (1834-1912): 2 undated letters; letters to James Freeman Clarke, 1867-1888 |
Wells, Kate Gannett (1838-1911): 3 undated letters |
Western Messenger: bills, receipts, letters, 1837-1845; Vol. 62 |
White, Andrew D. (1832-1918): 22 Nov. 1882; 29 Nov. 1882 |
Wines, Enoch C.: letters to James Freeman Clarke, 1870-1875 |
Winsor, Justin: 28 Oct. 1874; 9 Dec. 1874; 12 Apr. 1877; 28 Apr. 1877; 8 July 1879; 27 Aug. 1881; 21 Jan. 1887 |
Winthrop, Robert C.: 14 Jan. 1880; 9 Feb. 1882; 12 June 1884 |
Zachos, John C.: letters to James Freeman Clarke, 1860-1872 |
Preferred Citation
Perry-Clarke collection, Massachusetts Historical Society.
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Materials Removed from the Collection
Photographs
Photographs from this collection have been removed to the MHS Photo Archives. A daguerreotype of an unidentified man has been removed and cataloged separately (Photo. 1.381L).
Printed Material
1. Allen, R. L. Optician and Manufacturer of Astronomical Telescopes... (broadside)
2. Allen, R. L. Prices of Ordinary Styles and Sizes... (broadside)
3. American Ancestry. Form for insertion of lineage in American Ancestry.
4. American Unitarian Association. The Proposed New Unitarian Building. Boston, Sep. 1883. (sheet)
5. American Unitarian Association Ladies' Commission on Sunday School Books. Annual list of books for Sunday School libraries. Boston, 1890, 1891, 1892, 1893, 1895, 1896, 1897, 1898, 1899, 1900, 1901.
6. American Unitarian Association Ladies' Commission on Sunday School Books. Books approved by the Ladies' Commission, reading for Sunday School and other libraries, since 6 Dec. 1897. (broadside)
7. American Unitarian Association Ladies' Commission on Sunday School Books. By-laws, revised 1893. (broadsheet)
8. American Unitarian Association Ladies' Commission on Sunday School Books. Catalogue of Books for Sunday-School Libraries; 1866-1885, Boston, 1886; 1885-1889, Boston, 1889; 1890-1894, Boston, 1894.
9. American Unitarian Association Ladies' Commission on Sunday School Books. Reader's Report on a Rejected Book. (broadside)
10. Boston. Assessing Dept. "This statement is not open to public inspection. This schedule must be presented to the Assessors at their office, City Hall..." (sheet)
11. Boston. Church of the Disciples. Order of Services at the Dedication of the House of Worship... (sheet)
12. Boston. Church of the Disciples. Semi-Centennial Celebration. 1841, 1891. (broadside)
13. Boston. Church of the Disciples. Sunday School Picnic... (broadside)
14. Boston. Church of the Disciples. Ticket to the Course. Admit the Bearer to Four Shakespeare Readings in the Hall Below the Church of the Disciples... (broadside)
15. Boston. Dept. of Parks. Schedule of assessments made by the Board of Park Commissioners upon the estates benefited by the locating and laying out of a public park... 30 Apr. 1885.
16. Boston. Old South Church. Old South Fair. Fair for the preservation of the Old South Church, in account with Chas. G. Wood, Treasurer... Boston, 1 May 1878.
17. Boston. Old South Church. Old South Fair. Table receipts. 1 May 1878. (broadside)
18. Boston Society for the Care of Girls. Boston Female Asylum. An account of the... Boston, 1889.
19. Boston Society for the Care of Girls. Boston Female Asylum. Exercises at the dedication of the house in Lexington... (broadside)
20. Boston Society for the Care of Girls. Boston Female Asylum. Received payment. (broadside)
21. Boston Society of Natural History. Candidates for office, 1905-1906. (broadside)
22. Boston Society of Natural History. Officers for 1894-1895. (broadside)
23. Boston, Mass. South End Industrial School. The management of this School desire to have the pupils... (broadside)
24. Boston. Stock Exchange. Official Report. First Board. 20 July 1883.
25. Boston. Stock Exchange. Prices and Sales. Second Board. 20 July 1883.
26. Boston. Superintendent of Public Schools. Examination for Certificates of Qualification. Directions to candidates. Boston, Apr. 1876. (broadside)
27. Boston. Superintendent of Public Schools. Examination of Candidates for First-Grade Certificates of Qualification. Boston, 25 July 1876. (sheet)
28. Boston. Superintendent of Public Schools. Examination for Third-Grade Certificates of Qualification. Boston, 25 July 1876. (sheet)
29. Boston. Superintendent of Public Schools. Examination for First-Grade and Third-Grade Certificates. Order and time of examination... Boston, 4-6 Sep. 1876. (broadside)
30. Boston. Superintendent of Public Schools. Examination for First-Grade and Third-Grade Certificates. Boston, Sep. 1876; Principles of education and methods of teaching as applicable to high schools (req.); Principles of education, school organization and modern theories and methods of teaching, with Illustrations of the best methods of teaching (elec.). (sheet)
31. Boston. Superintendent of Public Schools. Examination for First-Grade and Third-Grade Certificates, 1876; Botany, Zoology, Geology (elec.) (sheet); Botany, Zoology, Geology (req.) (sheet); Chemistry, Mineralogy and Geology (elec.) (sheet); English language (elec.) (sheet); English language (req.) (sheet); Essay (req.) (broadside); Greek, Latin, French (req.) (first grade sheet); Geography (req.) (broadside); Human Anatomy and Physiology with School Hygiene (req.) (broadside); Ancient History (req.) (first grade sheet); Ancient History (elec.) (sheet); Medieval and Modern History (req.) (third grade sheet); Latin (elec.) (first grade sheet); Latin (req.) (third grade sheet); Mathematics (elec.) (sheet); Geometry (req.) (broadside); Plane Trigonometry (req.) (first grade broadside); Arithmetic and Algebra (req.) (sheet); Physics and Astronomy (elec.) (sheet); Physics and Chemistry (elec.) (sheet); Physics and Chemistry and Astronomy (req.) (sheet); Psychology (req.). (broadside)
32. Boston. Superintendent of Public Schools. Examination of Candidates for the Second-Grade Certificate of Qualification. Boston, 11 Apr. 1876. (broadside)
33. Boston. Superintendent of Public Schools. Examination for Certificates of Qualification. Directions to candidates. Boston, Apr. 1876. (broadside)
34. Boston. Superintendent of Public Schools. Examination for Second-Grade Certificates. Boston, Apr. 1876; English language (sheet); Latin (broadside); Greek, French and German (sheet); Arithmetic (broadside); Algebra (broadside); Plain and Solid Geometry (broadside); General History (sheet); Geography (broadside); Physiology (broadside); Botany, Zoology (sheet); Physics, Chemistry and Astronomy (broadside); Vocal Music (broadside); Psychology (broadside); History and principles of education and methods of teaching the studies of grammar schools. (broadside)
35. Boston. Superintendent of Public Schools. Examination for Fourth-Grade Certificates of Qualification. Boston, 11 Apr. 1876. (broadside)
36. Boston. Superintendent of Public Schools. Examination of Qualification. Directions to candidates. Boston, Apr. 1876. (broadside)
37. Boston. Superintendent of Public Schools. Examination of Candidates for Fifth-Grade Certificates of Qualification. Boston, 11 Apr. 1876.
38. Boston. Superintendent of Public Schools. Examination for Fourth-Grade and Fifth-Grade Certificates; English language (sheet); Arithmetic, Fourth-Grade (broadside); Arithmetic, Fifth-Grade (broadside); Algebra (broadside); Plane and Solid Geometry (broadside); General History (sheet); Geography (broadside); Physiology and School Hygiene (broadside); Botany and Zoology and Geology, Fourth-Grade (sheet); Natural History, Fifth-Grade (broadside); Physics and Aeronomy (broadside); Music (broadside); Principles of education, and methods of teaching, as applicable to grammar schools, Fourth-Grade (broadside); Principles of education, and methods of teaching, Fifth-Grade. (broadside)
39. Boston. Superintendent of Public Schools. Examination of Candidates for Fifth-Grade Certificates of Qualification. Boston, 15 Feb. 1877.
40. Boston. Water Board. Davis, Wm. F., Water Registrar. Office of the Water Registrar, City Hall. Extract from the ordinance regulating the payment of fractional supplies of water. (broadside)
41. Boylston Insurance Co. of Boston. Statement..., 1 Jan. 1887. (broadside)
42. Brown, Alice. Buckets in the Sea. Boston (Mass. Charitable Eye and Ear Infirmary).
43. Cambridge University. Girton College. The favor of your attention is asked to some considerations... Sep. 1874. (sheet)
44. Cambridge University. Girton College. Jan. 1875.
45. Clarke, James Freeman, D.D. Address delivered at the 17th Annual Exhibition of the Norfolk Agricultural Society, at Dedham...29 Sep. 1865. Boston, 1866.
46. Clarke, James Freeman. Address of James Freeman Clarke, at Tremont Temple, 1 Oct. 1884.
47. Clarke, James Freeman. How to Study the Stars. New York, 1873.
48. Clarke, James Freeman, D.D. James Freeman, D.D., 1782-1835. Boston, 14 Sep. 1850.
49. Clarke, James Freeman, D.D. Memorial and Biographical Sketches; Common Sense in Religion; Ten Great Religions. (sheet)
50. Clarke, James Freeman. Peter at Antioch; or the Vatican vs. Bismarck and Gladstone. A sermon to the Church of the Disciples, Boston, 20 Dec. 1874. Boston, 1875.
51. Clarke, James Freeman. Selections from sermons preached to the Church of the Disciples. (broadside)
52. Collyer, Richard. Letter from Richard Collyer to the editors of the Christian Register. (sheet)
53. Columbus, Ohio. Douglass House, Long Street between Third and High, Columbus, Ohio... (broadside)
54. Cunard Steamship Co., limited. Cunard Line. European Agencies...American Agencies... Jan. 1881. (broadsheet)
55. Cunard Steamship Co., limited. Cunard Line. 1882 proposed sailing between Liverpool, Boston, and New York. (sheet)
56. Curtis, George Ticknor. Observations on the Rev. Dr. Gannet's sermon entitled "Relation of the North to Slavery." Boston, 1854. Republished from the editorial columns of the Boston Courier of 28 June, 30 June, and 6 July 1854.
57. Dixwell, George Basil. Review of Progress and Poverty. Cambridge, 1882.
58. Facts. Advertise and Subscribe! People will read Facts... (broadside)
59. Flonzaley Quartet. Mr. Luce announces for Next Season Three Subscription Concerts... (sheet)
60. Foote, Henry Wilder. King's Chapel and the Evacuation of Boston. Boston, 1876.
61. Frothingham, Octavius Brooks. Colonization. Anti-Slavery Tracts. No. 3.
62. Harvard University Examinations. Examinations for Women. Application for Examination. (sheet)
63. Harvard University Examinations. English Literature. (sheet)
64. Harvard University Examinations. Examinations for Women in 1874. Cambridge, 1873.
65. Harvard University Examinations. Examinations for Women, 1874; Botany, Plane Geometry, Virgil, English, English Literature, German, History of Continental Europe, Latin Grammar and Composition, Latin Grammar and Composition, French Translation Course I, French Translation Course II, French Grammar and History Courses I and II, Greek Grammar, Greek Goodwin's Reader, Physical Geography, History, Elementary Physics, Arithmetic, Algebra.
66. Harvard University Examinations. Examinations for Women, 1875; Algebra, Arithmetic, English Literature, French Translation Course I, French Translation Course II, French Grammar and History Courses I and II, German, German, History, Latin, Physical Geography, Physics, Plane Geometry.
67. Harvard University Examinations. Examinations for Women, 1876; Algebra, Arithmetic, Botany, German, German, English Literature, History, Latin, Physical Geography, Physics, Plane Geometry.
68. Harvard University Examinations. Papers used at the Examinations for Women in 1874, 1875, 1876. Cambridge, 1876.
69. Harvard University. Examinations. Examinations for Women, 1877. Fourth annual examination, 30 May 1877... Algebra, Arithmetic, Botany, English Composition, English Literature, French Translation Course I, French Translation Course II, French Grammar and History Courses I and II, German Grammar and Composition, German Translation, History, Latin, Latin Translation, Physical Geography, Elementary Physics, Plane Geometry.
70. Harvard University. Examinations. Examinations for Women, 1878. Cambridge, Mass., 1877.
71. Harvard University. Examinations. Papers used at the Examinations for Women held at Cambridge, New York, Philadelphia and Cincinnati, 29 May to 6 June 1878. Cambridge, Mass., 1878.
72. Harvard University. Examinations. Examinations for Women, 1879. Cambridge, Mass., 1878.
73. Harvard University. Examinations. Examinations for Women. Cincinnati Local Committee. Feb. 1877.
74. Harvard University. Examinations. Examinations for Women, 1877. New York Local Committee.
75. Harvard University. Examinations. Papers used at the Admission Examinations held at Cambridge, Exeter, New York, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Chicago and San Francisco, 30 June, 1 & 2 July 1881. Cambridge, Mass., 1881.
76. Harvard University. Examinations. Examinations for Women, 1881; English History, Physical Geography, Latin I and Latin II.
77. Harvardiana. September, Vol. IV-No. I. Cambridge, 1873.
78. Huidekoper, Henry Shippen. Personal notes and reminiscences of Lincoln. Philadelphia, 1896.
79. Keith, B. F. Palace Theatre, Cleveland. B. F. Keith's Theatre Program. Week of 16 Apr. 1923.
80. Librairie Guyon. Edition Imprimerie (bookmark). (broadsheet)
81. The London Association of Schoolmistresses. Apr. 1874.
82. Lowell, John. Thoughts upon the conduct of our administration, in relation both to Great Britain and France... Boston, 1808.
83. Lowell, John. The Impartial Inquirer; being a candid examination of the conduct of the President of the United States... by a citizen of Massachusetts. 1811.
84. Lowell, Percival. Oliver Wendell Holmes. 1895.
85. Mademoiselle de la Motte's Music School. Established in Boston, 1854... (broadside)
86. Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston. Collections, 5th series, Vol. II. Belknap Papers, Part II.
87. Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. Boston, Feb. 1883. (broadside)
88. Men and Women of Ohio! Please read and circulate the following opinions in regard to Woman Suffrage... (sheet)
89. National Society of the Colonial Dames of America. Massachusetts. 1923-1924, Officers and Board of Managers. (sheet)
90. [New Orleans World's Industrial and Cotton Exposition, 1884-85]. To the General Committee of Manufacturers, Merchants and Business Men of Boston... Boston, 17 Oct. 1881. (broadside)
91. Newport, R.I. Channing Year. 1780-1880. Special course of sermons. (broadside)
92. Niedermann, Max. Historische Lautlehre des Lateinischen. Heidelberg, 1911.
93. Our Best Words. Shelbyville, Illinois, 13 Dec. 1884. Dear friends in the spirit of "Christmas Present," I want to call your attention to the question: Shall our Best Words continue for 1885... (broadside)
94. Our Best Words. Shelbyville, Illinois. For 1885. A monthly paper for church, sunday-school and home... (broadside)
95. Porter, Maria. These two men walked together in the house of God as friends. A facsimile of a few words spoken by Phillips Brooks at the time of the death of James Freeman Clarke together with portraits. Boston, 1893.
96. Realty Company. To the Stockholders. The annual meeting... Boston, 15 Sep. 1891. (broadside)
97. Roxbury, Mass. First Church. First Religious Society in Roxbury. Act of incorporation... Boston Highlands, 1880.
98. Ryle, John Charles, Bishop of Liverpool. Christ is willing. No. 11. American Tract Society, Boston. (broadside)
99. Services in memory of Rev. William E. Channing, D.D. at the Arlington-Street Church, Boston, 6 Oct. 1867.
100. Sir! Three or four years previous to January 27th 1847, resided in Marshall a colored family... Marshall, Calhoun County, Michigan, 1 Jan. 1849. (sheet)
101. Statements of Societies, References, Employers, Agent, Visitor and others. Confidential. (form)
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