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Descriptive Summary

Repository: Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University
Location: b
Call No.: MS Am 1569.1
Call No.: MS Am 1569.2
Call No.: MS Am 1569.3
Creator: Clarke, James Freeman, 1810-1888.
Title: Additional papers,
Date(s): 1717-1888.
Quantity: 11 boxes (5.5 linear ft.)
Abstract: Sermons, compositions, journals, and student papers of the Unitarian clergyman and author James Freeman Clarke.

Acquisition Information:

Historical Note

Clarke was a Unitarian clergyman, author, and reformer closely associated with the Transcendentalists. He was minister in Louisville, Ky. (1833-1840) and at the Church of the Disciples in Boston (1841-1850, 1854-1888). Clarke was editor of the Western Messenger (1836-1839). In 1839 he married Anna Huidekoper, daughter of Harm Jan Huidekoper, businessman, lay theologian, and founder of Meadville Theological Seminary.

Arrangement

Organized into the following series:

• I MS Am 1569.1: Sermons
• II. MS Am 1569.2: Papers
• III. MS Am 1569.3: Notebooks and diaries

Scope and Content

Contains sermons preached by Clarke in Louisville, papers from his student days at Harvard College, poems, short stories, sketches of Europe and New England, journals, scrapbooks, a commonplace book, etchings of Clarke, and diaries of his daughter Lillian Freeman Clarke, among other items. Includes copies of letters mounted in notebooks regarding family news and financial matters.

Container List

• Series: I. MS Am 1569.1: Sermons
  *58M-223
  • Clarke, James Freeman, 1810-1888. 62 MS. sermons written and preached in Louisville 1833-1840, but many repreached 1840-1859. 1 box.

• Series: II. MS Am 1569.2: Papers
  *58M-224
  Compositions and other papers of James Freeman Clarke.
  • (1) The Independent voter, and Independent party in politics. A.MS. (unsigned) speech given 7 Apr [1884] at dinner of Mass. Reform Club. 6s.(7p.)
  • (2) Various MS. papers on lectures of campaign of 1884. 1 folder.
  • (3) Various papers of European trip of 1882. 1 folder.
  • (4) Miscellaneous papers covering later years; 1840-1888. 1 folder.
  • (5) Invitations from churches and appointment to positions. 1 folder
  • (6) Louisville accounts of J.F.C. 1 folder.
  • (7) Papers as student at Harvard College; 1825-1829. 1 folder.
  • (8) MS. pages of Journal of Understanding. 9s.(18p.)
  • (9) MS. pages from Journal of People and Things. 2s.(4p.)
  • (10) A Temperance Tale. A.MS.s. (initials); [n.p.,n.d.] 2s.(5p.)
  • (11) Loose poems for Exotics. 1 folder.
  • (12) MS. leaves omitted from the Biography. 1 folder.
  • (13) Squash End. A Yankee Story. A.MS. (unsigned); [n.p.,n.d.] 39s.(39p.)
  • (13a) ? A.MS.
  • (14) Miscellaneous church papers. 1 box.

• Series: III. MS Am 1569.3: Notebooks and diaries
  *58M-225
  Notebooks and diaries of James Freeman Clarke.
  • (1) Folder of European Sketches; 1849-1853.
  • (2) Album of European sketches; 1849.
  • (3) Album of Sketches, Rome to Vienna; 1853-1854.
  • (4) Album of European Sketches; 1853.
  • (5) Album of miscellaneous sketches;[ n.d.]
  • (5a) New England Sketchbook; 1848.
  • (6) MS. Commonplace book of poetry.
  • (7) MS. book of poems; 1845-1888.
  • (8) Poems by J.F.C. - MS. and TS.
  • (9) Journal of Thoughts and Reading; 1838.
  • (10) Journal; 1839-1840.
  • (11) Scrapbook of pictures & readings; 1840.
  • (12) The letters of a sister (Sarah F. Clarke 1831-1840).
  • (13) Auto-Biography. J.F.C. Or thoughts & events out of my life.
  • (14) Scrapbook of Cora Clarke's European Trip 1882.
  • (15) Journal of Journey to Europe in 1849.
  • (16) Journal; 1850-1851.
  • (17) Album of poems; 1818-
  • (18) Autobiographical annals from my diaries; 1851-1853.
  • (19) Journal; 1866-1869.
  • (20) General Account book; 1859-1860.
  • (21) 3 Expense books; 1846, 1849 and 1855.
  • (22) Lilian Clarke's diaries; 1881, 1883, 1885, 1888, 1889. 5v.
    Includes card of pressed flowers/leaves tucked into pocket of one diary.
  • (23) President Cleveland and his administration.
  • (24) Studies towards the life of a business woman. Being conversations with Mrs R. P. Clarke in the winter of 1864-1865, by Caroline H. Dall. 3v.
  • (25) Etchings of J.F.C.
  • (26) Family Letters, 1717-1845. Mounted in notebooks.