Thomas Robbins collection, 1792-1852.

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Thomas Robbins collection, 1792-1852.

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Personal papers of a Connecticut minister, book collector, and librarian at the Connecticut Historical Society. Includes letters from his family while Thomas was a student at Yale College; a long letter home from his travels in Vermont, 1801; letters home while he served in the Western Reserve of Ohio as a missionary for the Missionary Society of Connecticut, 1803-1806; minutes of Society meetings at East Windsor, Connecticut, where he was minister beginning in 1809; notes for sermons as well as complete sermons; letters from his sister Sarah Battel; sermon reviews, 1810-1814; correspondence and bills and receipts from book dealers; records of his donations to the American Board of Foreign Missions and his activities in the Temperance movement; invitations to preach at various churches in Connecticut and Massachusetts; and correspondence with Chauncey A. Goodrich, Benjamin Ely, Eleazar Lord, William Stebbins, Milo L. North, and Peter Starr. Also includes 13 volumes of his diary. Materials are arranged chronologically. Also a collection of "school papers" consisting of school visitor reports for Augustus Washington's school and the First and Second Colored Schools; correspondence about the Foreign Mission School in Cornwall, Connecticut; and data on and about various schools in Connecticut and Massachusetts.

9.0 linear feet (16 boxes, 13 volumes).

Connecticut Historical Society

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