bMS 70

Eliot, Frederick May. Papers, 1909-1961

Summary Information:

  • Call Number: bMS 70
  • Title: Eliot, Frederick May. Papers, 1909-1961.
  • Repository: Andover-Harvard Theological Library, Harvard Divinity School, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138-1911
  • Quantity: 26 boxes

Administrative Information:

  • Acquisition Information: Gift of Miss Abigail A. Eliot, 1972
  • Access: There are no restrictions on access to this collection. 

Biographical Information:

For biographical information, please see bMS 378.

Scope and Content:

The collection is organized into twelve series:

See also bMS 111, bMS 173, bMS 378, and bMS 578.

Container List:

Series I. Sermons and addresses, 1911-1917

  • bMS 70/1 (1): Sermons and addresses, 1911-1913.
  • bMS 70/1 (2): Sermons and addresses, 1913.
  • bMS 70/1 (3): Sermons and addresses, 1914.
  • bMS 70/1 (4): Sermons and addresses, 1914.
  • bMS 70/2 (1): Sermons and addresses, 1915.
  • bMS 70/2 (2): Sermons and addresses, 1915-1916.
  • bMS 70/2 (3): Sermons and addresses, 1916.
  • bMS 70/3 (1): Sermons and addresses, 1917.

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Series II. Sermons and addresses, 1932-1958

Note: For other sermons and addresses dated 1917-1932, see Series XII. Sermons and addresses, 1917-1932, boxes 22-26.

  • bMS 70/3 (2): Sermons and addresses, 1932-1933.
  • bMS 70/4 (1): Sermons and addresses, 1933-1934.
  • bMS 70/4 (2): Sermons and addresses, 1934-1935.
  • bMS 70/5 (1): Sermons and addresses, 1935-1936.
  • bMS 70/5 (2): Sermons and addresses, 1936-1937.
  • bMS 70/6 (1): Sermons and addresses, 1937-1938.
  • bMS 70/6 (2): Sermons and addresses, 1938-1939.
  • bMS 70/6 (3): Sermons and addresses, 1939-1940.
  • bMS 70/7 (1): Sermons and addresses, 1940-1941.
  • bMS 70/7 (2): Sermons and addresses, 1941-1942.
  • bMS 70/7 (3): Sermons and addresses, 1942-1943.
  • bMS 70/7 (4): Sermons and addresses, 1943-1944.
  • bMS 70/8 (1): Sermons and addresses, 1944-1945.
  • bMS 70/8 (2): Sermons and addresses, 1945-1946.
  • bMS 70/8 (3): Sermons and addresses, 1946-1947.
  • bMS 70/8 (4): Sermons and addresses, 1947-1948.
  • bMS 70/8 (5): Sermons and addresses, 1948-1949.
  • bMS 70/8 (6): Sermons and addresses, 1949-1950.
  • bMS 70/9 (1): Sermons and addresses, 1950-1951.
  • bMS 70/9 (2): Sermons and addresses, 1951-1952.
  • bMS 70/9 (3): Sermons and addresses, 1952-1953.
  • bMS 70/9 (4): Sermons and addresses, 1953-1954.
  • bMS 70/9 (5): Sermons and addresses, 1954-1955.
  • bMS 70/9 (6): Sermons and addresses, 1955-1956.
  • bMS 70/10 (1): Sermons and addresses, 1956-1957.
  • bMS 70/10 (2): Sermons and addresses, 1957-1958.
  • bMS 70/10 (3): Sermons and addresses, Misc. 1919-1921.
  • bMS 70/10 (4): Sermons and addresses, Misc. 1922-1926, 1932.
  • bMS 70/10 (5): Sermons and addresses, Misc. n.d.

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Series III. College papers

  • bMS 70/11 (1): College Papers.
  • bMS 70/11 (2): College Papers.

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Series IV. Newspaper clipping about Eliot and personal material

  • bMS 70/11 (3): Newspaper clippings about Eliot.
  • bMS 70/11 (4): Personal Material, Misc. (ex. Harvard University bill, dated June 23, 1909).

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Series V. Notebooks of preaching materials

  • bMS 70/12 (1): Notebook of preaching material, 1914.
  • bMS 70/12 (2): Notebook of preaching material, ca. 1915.
  • bMS 70/12 (3): Notebook of preaching material, 1920-1923.
  • bMS 70/13 (1): Notebook of preaching material, 1931-1937.
  • bMS 70/13 (2): Notebook of preaching material, 1941.
  • bMS 70/13 (3): Notebook of preaching material, 1942-1943.
  • bMS 70/13 (4): Notebook of preaching material, 1944.
  • bMS 70/13 (5): Notebook of preaching material, 1945.
  • bMS 70/13 (6): Notebook of preaching material, 1946.
  • bMS 70/13 (7): Notebook of preaching material, 1947.
  • bMS 70/13 (8): Notebook of preaching material, 1947-1951.
  • bMS 70/13 (9): Notebook of preaching material, 1950-1951.
  • bMS 70/13 (10): Notebook of preaching material, 1951.
  • bMS 70/13 (11): Notebook of preaching material, 1954.

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Series VI. Miscellaneous notebooks, lectures, essays, etc.

  • bMS 70/13 (12): Notebook of Verse, etc., n.d.
  • bMS 70/13 (13): Unity Church Plan-Book, 1919-1920.
  • bMS 70/14 (1): Christmas and Easter Messages, Eliot Christmas cards.
  • bMS 70/14 (2): The Examiner Club, Boston, Mass., 1953-1958; and Thursday Evening Club of Boston, 1956. General material.
  • bMS 70/14 (3): Funeral Material.
  • bMS 70/14 (4): Hymns.
  • bMS 70/14 (5): MSS Unidentified.
  • bMS 70/14 (6): Minns Lectures, 1953.
  • bMS 70/14 (7): Essay: "Tolerance and Safety in Numbers." Essay and correspondence relating to it chiefly between Eliot and Franklin L. Burdette, 1943-1944.

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Series VII. Notes

  • bMS 70/15 (1): Notes, General.
  • bMS 70/15 (2): Notes for paper on "Emerson's Divinity School Address."
  • bMS 70/15 (3): Notes for talk on extemporaneous preaching.
  • bMS 70/15 (4): Notes on Puritanism.
  • bMS 70/15 (5): Notes on Shakespeare.
  • bMS 70/15 (6): Notes and quotations.
  • bMS 70/15 (7): Notes and quotations.
  • bMS 70/16 (1): Notes and quotations.
  • bMS 70/16 (2): Notes and quotations.
  • bMS 70/16 (3): Notes and quotations.
  • bMS 70/17 (1): Notes and quotations.
  • bMS 70/17 (2): Notes and quotations.

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Series VIII. Quotes and periodical clippings

  • bMS 70/17 (3): quotations.
  • bMS 70/18 (1): Magazine clippings.
  • bMS 70/18 (2): Newspaper clippings.
  • bMS 70/18 (3): Newspaper clippings.
  • bMS 70/18 (4): Notebook of newspaper clippings about the 1937 AUA Presidential election.
  • bMS 70/19 (1): Newspaper clippings about Unitarians, 1921.

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Series IX. Prayers

  • bMS 70/19 (2): Notes and addresses on prayer.
  • bMS 70/19 (3): Printed prayers.
  • bMS 70/20 (1): MSS prayers.
  • bMS 70/20 (2): Senate prayers, 1945. (Delivered before the Mass. Senate.)
  • bMS 70/20 (3): Senate prayers, 1946.
  • bMS 70/20 (4): Senate prayers, 1949-1950.
  • bMS 70/20 (5): Senate prayers, 1951-1955.
  • bMS 70/20 (6): Senate prayers, 1956.
  • bMS 70/20 (7): Senate prayers, 1957.
  • bMS 70/20 (8): Senate prayers, 1958.

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Series X. Baptismal Service

  • bMS 70/20 (9): Baptismal service.

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Series XI. Correspondence

  • bMS 70/21 (1): The Rev. Louis Craig Cornish (1870-1950) Portrait Fund Donations and Correspondence, 1949-1950.
  • bMS 70/21 (2): Letters from Irving R. Murray, executive secretary, Unitarian Commission on World Order, 1946. Pertains to Commission business and includes some of its mimeographed materials. Also a copy of a letter from Pierre van Paassen to Melvin Arnold.
  • bMS 70/21 (3): Letters, A-Z:
    • Carter, H. Stewart
    • Daskem, Max F.
    • Davis, George (and others)
    • Foote, Arthur
    • Hemingford
    • Jaeger, Edgar M.
    • Jones, Ronald P.
    • Oxnam, G. Bromley
    • Pedersen, Walter B.
    • Unidentified
  • bMS 70/21 (4): Correspondence (1936-1937) with the Rev. Leslie T. Pennington pertaining to Eliot's nomination and election as president of the American Unitarian Association.

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Series XII. Sermons and addresses, 1917-1932

  • bMS 70/22:
    • Sermons and addresses, 1917-1919
    • Sermons and addresses, 1919-1920
    • Sermons and addresses, 1920-1921
    • Sermons and addresses, 1921-1922.
  • bMS 70/23:
    • Sermons and addresses, 1922-1923.
    • Sermons and addresses, 1923-1924.
    • Sermons and addresses, 1924-1925.
    • Sermons and addresses, 1925-1926.
  • bMS 70/24:
    • Sermons and addresses, 1926-1927.
    • Sermons and addresses, 1927-1928.
    • Sermons and addresses, 1928-1929.
  • bMS 70/25:
    • Sermons and addresses, 1929-1930
    • Sermons and addresses, 1930-1931.
  • bMS 70/26: Sermons and addresses, 1931-1932.

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