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Wickham family. Wickham family papers, 1785-1958 (inclusive), 1814-1901 (bulk).

Title: Wickham family papers, 1785-1958 (inclusive), 1814-1901 (bulk).

The papers contain correspondence, family papers, diaries, sermons, photoprints, and other materials documenting the personal lives and professional careers of Joseph Dresser Wickham, Elizabeth Cooke Merwin Wickham and several Wickham, Merwin, Porter, and Roe relatives. The Wickham family papers have extensive material on such family subjects as relationships between brothers and sisters and parents and children, courtship, death, marriage, and the difficulties endured by stepmothers and clergymen's wives and on secondary education in the mid-nineteenth century, missionary work, religious conditions in Vermont, and Connecticut social life and customs.

ArchivalResource: 11.5 linear ft. (27 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702153775 View

Smith, Eli, 1801-1857. Eli Smith papers, 1819-1869.

Title: Eli Smith papers, 1819-1869.

The papers include correspondence with Smith's missionary colleagues and with his family. There are also letters to and from his first wife Sarah Lanman Smith and his third wife Hetty Simpkins Butler Smith, and some papers of Hetty Smith after his death. Subjects include the history of the ABCFM missions in the Middle East, the making of Arabic type for the Beirut press, and various of Smith's scholarly interests including the geography of the Holy Land.

ArchivalResource: 3 cartons (3.6 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/612237367 View

Justin Perkins (AC 1829) Papers, ca. 1830-1869

Title: Justin Perkins (AC 1829) Papers ca. 1830-1869

Educator, minister and missionary to Persia. Collection includes correspondence with others in his field, manuscript sermons, lectures and notes, some newspaper clippings and pamphlets, and some bound manuscripts, mostly letters and journals.

ArchivalResource: 6 archives boxes; (3 linear ft.)

http://asteria.fivecolleges.edu/findaids/amherst/ma153.html View

William Goodell Papers, 1818-1917

Title: William Goodell Papers 1818-1917

Clergyman and missionary to Armenians in the Turkish empire. Correspondence, journals, religious and other writings, Goodell’s translation of the New Testament from Greek into Armeno-Turkish, and other items primarily related to Goodell’s missionary work in the Turkish empire under the sponsorship of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. Also includes letters of Goodell’s daughter and granddaughter describing conditions at Harput, Turkey, during the massacre of Armenians by the Kurds, 1895-1896.

ArchivalResource: 50 items; 2 containers; 0.8 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009025 View

Brown, Francis, 1784-1820. Letter, 1817 Oct. 30, Hanover, N.H., to the faculty of Andover Theological Seminary, Andover, Mass.

Title: Letter, 1817 Oct. 30, Hanover, N.H., to the faculty of Andover Theological Seminary, Andover, Mass.

Recommends James Marsh and William Goodell, graduates in the Dartmouth class of 1817, for admission to Andover Theological Seminary.

ArchivalResource: 1 fold. leaf ; 25 x 41 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/237364990 View

, 1819-1869.

Title: 1819-1869.

Eli Smith was a missionary in the Middle East and translator of the Bible intoArabic, 1826-1857. The papers include missionary and family correspondence andscholarly papers chiefly on philology and geography.

ArchivalResource: 3 cartons (3.5 linear ft.)

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Bird, Isaac, 1793-1876. Papers, 1824-1836.

Title: Papers, 1824-1836.

Sent to the Holy Land by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions in Boston, Isaac Bird was one of the first American missionaries in the Middle East and his wife, Ann Parker Bird, was the very first American missionary spouse. Collection contains letters sent to Bird from other missionaries and American officials, as well as merchants presumably regarding material for the schools Bird was attempting to establish in Lebanon, where he was based. Includes: Letter from Isaac Bird in Jerusalem, 1824 March 24, to William Goodell in Beirut concerning Mr. Fisk's health and not trusting a "papist" doctor who "suffered the Jew to die because he would not clean a watch for his friend gratis," with a postscript by another missionary, J. King; 1827 Sept. 10, Tripoli, from G. Catziflis to Isaac Bird (in Italian), with a postscript by Ann Bird about the plague there; 1830 April 30, Malta, passport for Antonio Bajada, "a British subject aged twenty-one years," to travel to Beirut; 1830 Dec. 18, Smyrna, from Josiah Brewer mentioning Dr. Yates and Mr. [Joseph] Wolff, whose former servant, "Yooseph," "may have been employed by our common enemies to sow strife amongst brethren;" letter (in Arabic), 1830, from Joseph Wolff to the Maronite Patriarch in Mount Lebanon; letter (in Arabic), 1831, Jaffa, from "Papas Joel;" 1831 July 29, Alexandria, J. Barker (American consul); 1831 Dec. 16, Boston, Rufus Anderson to Isaac Bird and George B. Whiting, Beirut, with news of the A.B.C.F.M.; 1832 May 1, Smyrna, from J. Van Lennep, regarding the travel plans of other missionaries and mentioning the political situation in Greece; 1832 Aug. 1, Malta, from E. Hallock to Ann Bird, regarding the school she is operating and the clothing and other goods she is sending to Beirut; 1833 March 20, Damascus, from Robert Tod, suggesting that [Bird?] counsel the bearer of the letter, "the Moslem Ibrahim," on "the falsehood of the Koran;" 1833 May 8, Baghdad, from John Parnell, with news of missionary activity and the controversial baptisms of Armenian converts; 1833 May 13, Constantinople, from Hanson & Co. regarding a bill of lading; 1834 Jan. 29, from Yusuf Laflufy ["a Greek Catholic ... and a youth of great boldness and decision"], in Arabic; 1834 July 25, Baalbek, from G.B. Whiteley, requesting more Arabic tracts like that of Asaad Shidiak [the "Maronite apostate"] and reporting on missionary activity in the area; 1835 Jan. 21, Jerusalem, from George B. Whiting, reporting on Dr. Dodge's health. See letters of Ann Parker Bird to her family, 1822-1823, detailing passage from Boston to Beirut (Mss. .L697), and daughter Emily Ann Bird's journal, "Shipboard life on barque 'Metamora'," 1836, for an account of the return passage (Mss. .L697 .b). Collection includes miniature wedding portraits of Isaac and Ann Parker Bird, 1822, by the miniaturist Nathaniel Rogers.

ArchivalResource: 19 items in box ; 26 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/426050117 View

Perkins, Justin, 1805-1869. Perkins papers, ca. 1830-1869.

Title: Perkins papers, ca. 1830-1869.

Collection contains correspondence to Perkins, manuscript sermons, lectures and notes, pamphlets and journals relating chiefly to his work as a Christian missionary in Persia. Correspondents include: Edwin E. Bliss (AC 1837), Harrison Gray Otis Dwight, Fidelia Fiske, William Goodell, Cyrus Hamlin, Elias Riggs (AC 1829), William G. Schauffler, Benjamin Schneider (AC 1830), Horatio Southgate and William S. Tyler (AC 1830).

ArchivalResource: 6 archive boxes (3 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/51957728 View

Goodell, William, 1792-1867. American missionaries in the Near East and Malta, 1822-1865, v.p.

Title: American missionaries in the Near East and Malta, 1822-1865, v.p.

Correspondents are William Goodell, and his son William, Isaac Bird, Daniel Temple, Pliny Fisk, and Eli Smith and others. Letters are written from Beirut, Jerusalem, Malta and other places. Some letters refer to the Greek War of Independence.

ArchivalResource: ca. 275 items. 6-33 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/237243456 View

United States. Dept. of State. Passport, 1832 August 14, Constantinople, issued to William Goodell.

Title: Passport, 1832 August 14, Constantinople, issued to William Goodell.

ArchivalResource: leaf ; 45 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/7041156 View

Goodell, William, 1792-1867. Papers, 1818-1917.

Title: Papers, 1818-1917.

Correspondence, journals (1831-1849), religious and other writings, legal papers, autographs, printed material, and Goodell's translation of the New Testament from Greek into Armeno-Turkish (1856). Includes descriptions of fires, outbreaks of plague and cholera, hostility of ruling government, and other difficulties faced by missionaries. Letters of Goodell's daughter and grandaughter, Mary Goodell Barnum and Emma Barnum, describe conditions at Harput, Turkey, during the widespread massacre of Armenians by the Kurds.

ArchivalResource: 45 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/28410342 View

Lawes, J. B. (John Bennet), 1814-1900. [Goodell family miscellaneous papers].

Title: [Goodell family miscellaneous papers]. 1859-1939.

Letter to Asa Dodge Smith; letters to Henry H. Goodell from John Lawes and others, and to William Constantine Goodell, all concerning academic affairs and personal matters.

ArchivalResource: 25 items : ill. (1 col.) ; 44 cm. or smaller.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/237614494 View

Wickham Family papers, 1785-1958, 1814-1901

Title: Wickham Family papers 1785-1958 1814-1901

The papers contain correspondence, family papers, diaries, sermons, photoprints, and other materials documenting the personal lives and professional careers of Joseph Dresser Wickham, Elizabeth Cooke Merwin Wickham and several Wickham, Merwin, Porter, and Roe relatives. The Wickham family papers have extensive material on such family subjects as relationships between brothers and sisters and parents and children, courtship, death, marriage, and the difficulties endured by stepmothers and clergymen's wives and on secondary education in the mid-nineteenth century, missionary work, religious conditions in Vermont, and Connecticut social life and customs.

ArchivalResource: 11.5 linear feet (27 boxes)

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.0773 View

James G. Birney papers 1816-1884 1820-1856 Birney, James G. papers

Title: James G. Birney papers 1816-1884 1820-1856 Birney, James G. papers

The James G. Birney papers consist of the personal, political, and professional letters of James Birney, a Kentucky slaveholder, Alabama politician, anti-slavery activist, and presidential candidate. The collection is particularly strong in Birney's political activities with the American Colonization Society, the American Anti-Slavery Society, and the Liberty Party; his role as an abolitionist writer and as the founder and editor of The Philanthropist; and his personal communications with his family and friends.

ArchivalResource: 5 linear feet

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/clementsead/umich-wcl-M-399bir?rgn=main;view=text View

Hamilton College (Clinton, N.Y.). Honorary degree awarded to William Goodell. 1854.

Title: Honorary degree awarded to William Goodell. 1854.

Certificate of award of honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity.

ArchivalResource: 1 p. on fold. leaf. 25 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/5427756 View

William L. Clements Library. James G. Birney papers, 1816-1884, bulk 1820-1856.

Title: James G. Birney papers, 1816-1884, bulk 1820-1856.

The James G. Birney papers consist of the personal, political, and professional letters of James Birney, a Kentucky slaveholder, Alabama politician, anti-slavery activist, and presidential candidate. The collection is particularly strong in Birney's political activities with the American Colonization Society, the American Anti-Slavery Society, and the Liberty Party; his role as an abolitionist writer and as the founder and editor of "The Philanthropist"; and his personal communications with his family and friends.

ArchivalResource: 5 linear feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/758450179 View

Bird, Isaac, 1793-1876. Correspondence, 1824-1834.

Title: Correspondence, 1824-1834.

From various correspondents, including Josiah Brewer, William Goodell and Jonas King, all having to do with early American Board missionaries to the Near East.

ArchivalResource: 6 items (2 folders)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/23955978 View