William Ellery Channing papers 1791-1892.

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William Ellery Channing papers 1791-1892.

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Correspondence, financial records and other personal papers of Boston, Mass. Unitarian minister William Ellery Channing, 1791-1842. Includes correspondence with his mother Lucy Channing, grandfather, William Ellery, wife Ruth Gibbs Channing, and uncle Henry Channing, among other family members discussing education, health, work as a tutor in Richmond, Virginia, 1799, and work in Boston as a Unitarian minister, 1802-42. Also, correspondence with friends including Catherine Codman, Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, Henry Dwight Sedgwick, and Unitarian minister Joseph Tuckerman, discussing religious life, sermons and friendship, 1820-42; letters addressed to Ezra Gannett regarding his view on slavery, 1832; and various letters received by Channing inviting him to preach. Collection also includes sermons, 1802-40; lectures and speeches; an account book recording college expenses at Harvard, 1795-98; travel diaries kept in New Hampshire and Vermont, 1821, Europe, 1822, and Santa Cruz, California, 1830; and records related to the posthumous publication of Channing's writings, 1892. Also, a folder of letters written by William Ellery Channing to friends and family, 1811-42 (not on the William Ellery Channing microfilm).

7 boxes.

Massachusetts Historical Society

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Massachusetts Historical Society

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Ellery, William, 1727-1820

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William Ellery (December 22, 1727 – February 15, 1820) was a Founding Father of the United States, one of the 56 signers of the United States Declaration of Independence, and a signer of the Articles of Confederation as a representative of Rhode Island. Born in Newport, Rhode Island, he received his early education from his father before graduating from Harvard College in 1747. After working as a merchant, customs collector, and as clerk of the Rhode Island General Assembly, Ellery started pr...

Channing (Family : Channing, William Ellery, 1727-1820)

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The Channings were a prominent Massachusetts family with strong ties to the Unitarian church and the anti-slavery movement. From the guide to the Correspondence and other papers, 1825-1936., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) ...

Tuckerman, Joseph, 1778-1840

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Clergyman. From the description of Joseph Tuckerman correspondence, 1836-1840. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70983139 Unitarian minister and social reformer. A.B., Harvard, 1798. Minister, North Chelsea (now Revere), Mass. (1801-1826). Minister-at-large, Boston (1826-1836). Tuckerman was one of the first to call the church's attention to the growing problem of urban poverty. From the description of Papers, 1803-1840 (inclusive). (Harvard University, Divinity Sch...

Channing, William Ellery, 1780-1842

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William Ellery Channing (1780-1842) graduated from Harvard College in 1798. He served on the board of the Harvard Corporation from 1813 to 1826, where he worked for the establishment of the Divinity School, which occurred in 1816. A Unitarian minister, Channing served as the pastor of the Federal Street Church in Boston from 1803 until his death in 1842. In 1819 he gave the landmark Unitarian sermon, Unitarian Christianity, which upon publication sold thousands of copies. A believer in the aboli...

Sedgwick, Henry D. (Henry Dwight), 1785-1831

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Channing, Lucy Ellery, 1752-1834.

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Peabody, Elizabeth Palmer, 1804-1894

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Elizabeth Palmer Peabody was at the center of the Transcendentalist movement in New England. Although she wrote and published many works, she is best remembered for her support and friendship of Emerson, Hawthorne, Margaret Fuller and many others. She published the journal Dial, founded the famous West Street Book Shop and Publishing House, and introduced kindergarten to America. From the description of Elizabeth Palmer Peabody letters, 1846-1854. (Pennsylvania State University Libra...

Codman, Catherine.

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Channing, Henry, 1760?-1840

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Channing, Ruth Gibbs, 1778-1870.

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