bMS 180

Pickett, Anita Trueman. Papers, 1899-1960.

Summary Information:

• Call Number: bMS 180
• Title: Anita Trueman Pickett. Papers, 1899-1960.
• Repository: Andover-Harvard Theological Library, Harvard Divinity School, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138-1911
• Quantity: 3 boxes

Administrative Information:

• Access: There are no restrictions on access to this collection. 
• Acquisition Information: Gift of Estelle Pickett Coggins, 1977.

Biographical Note:

Anita Trueman Pickett (1881-1960) was born in Cleveland, Ohio. She attended Emerson College, Meadville Theological Seminary, and Harvard Divinity School. In 1921, she was ordained to the Unitarian ministry at Woburn, Massachusetts. She served congregations in Rowe, Bedford, Barnstable, and Ware, Massachusetts; and served as co-pastor with her husband, the Rev. Harold L. Pickett, in Peabody and Medfield, Massachusetts. She was appointed as clerk for the American Unitarian Association's Department of Religious Education in 1922. Pickett is also the author of Medfield Poems (1927) and How Luke Discovered Christmas (1951). She died in Kingston, New York, at the age of 80. 

Container List:

• bMS 180/1 (1) Letters recording gift of Pickett papers to Harvard, 1976-1977.
• bMS 180/1 (2) Letters written by Anita Truman Pickett, 1952-1960. (6 letters).
• bMS 180/1 (3) Letters written to Anita Truman Pickett, 1901-1953. (9 letters).
• bMS 180/1 (4) Articles published in newspapers and magazines, 1900-1908.
• bMS 180/1 (5) Lecture announcements, 1898-1908.
• bMS 180/1 (6) Lecture: "A Mother's Desire for America." n.d.
• bMS 180/1 (7) Lenten Meditations.
• bMS 180/1 (8) Poetry and Hymns.
• bMS 180/1 (9) Her statement on religion.
• bMS 180/1 (10) Annual Report of the minister, Ware, Massachusetts, 1951-1952.
• bMS 180/1 (11) Pickett's reports on AUA annual meetings, 1952-1959.
• bMS 180/1 (12) Pickett's report on General Alliance meeting, 1958.
• bMS 180/1 (13) Papers relating to the Unitarian Fellowship of Ulster County, Kingston, New York, 1958-1960. Pickett was a member of this organization and its corresponding secretary.
• bMS 180/1 (14) Barnard Memorial, Boston, Massachusetts (Warren Street Chapel). Historical notes. Includes a history of the chapel and records of Pickett's work at the Memorial.

Sermon Notes, 1908-1958

• bMS 180/1 (15) Sermon catalog.
• bMS 180/1 (16) Sermon notes, 1908. Note: most of these sermons were preached several times. For this register they are arranged by the first year they were delivered.
• bMS 180/1 (17) Sermon notes, 1910.
• bMS 180/1 (18) Sermon notes, 1912.
• bMS 180/1 (19) Sermon notes, 1914.
• bMS 180/1 (20) Sermon notes, 1915.
• bMS 180/1 (21) Sermon notes, 1917.
• bMS 180/1 (22) Sermon notes, 1918.
• bMS 180/1 (23) Sermon notes, 1921.
• bMS 180/1 (24) Sermon notes, 1922.
• bMS 180/1 (25) Sermon notes, 1923.
• bMS 180/1 (26) Sermon notes, 1924.
• bMS 180/1 (27) Sermon notes, 1925.
• bMS 180/1 (28) Sermon notes, 1926.
• bMS 180/2 (1) Sermon notes, 1927.
• bMS 180/2 (2) Sermon notes, 1928.
• bMS 180/2 (3) Sermon notes, 1930.
• bMS 180/2 (4) Sermon notes, 1931.
• bMS 180/2 (5) Sermon notes, 1932 (1st folder).
• bMS 180/2 (6) Sermon notes, 1932 (2nd folder).
• bMS 180/2 (7) Sermon notes, 1933 (1st folder).
• bMS 180/2 (8) Sermon notes, 1933 (2nd folder).
• bMS 180/2 (9) Sermon notes, 1934.
• bMS 180/2 (10) Sermon notes, 1935.
• bMS 180/2 (11) Sermon notes, 1936.
• bMS 180/2 (12) Sermon notes, 1937.
• bMS 180/2 (13) Sermon notes, 1938.
• bMS 180/2 (14) Sermon notes, 1939.
• bMS 180/2 (15) Sermon notes, 1940.
• bMS 180/2 (16) Sermon notes, 1941.
• bMS 180/3 (1) Sermon notes, 1942.
• bMS 180/3 (2) Sermon notes, 1943.
• bMS 180/3 (3) Sermon notes, 1944.
• bMS 180/3 (4) Sermon notes, 1945.
• bMS 180/3 (5) Sermon notes, 1946.
• bMS 180/3 (6) Sermon notes, 1947.
• bMS 180/3 (7) Sermon notes, 1949.
• bMS 180/3 (8) Sermon notes, 1950.
• bMS 180/3 (9) Sermon notes, 1951.
• bMS 180/3 (10) Sermon notes, 1952.
• bMS 180/3 (11) Sermon notes, 1953.
• bMS 180/3 (12) Sermon notes, 1956.
• bMS 180/3 (13) Sermon notes, 1957.
• bMS 180/3 (14) Sermon notes, 1958.
• bMS 180/3 (15) Sermon notes, undated.

Biographical File

• bMS 180/3 (16) Biographical material.
• bMS 180/3 (17) Diary kept by Pickett, 1950-1960. Note: The material here represents pages torn from her diary by the family. The remaining pages are in the possession of the family.
• bMS 180/3 (18) Library of Congress copyrights, 1899-1903.
• bMS 180/3 (19) Biographical material about her husband, Harold Lionel Pickett.
• bMS 180/3 (20) Newspaper clippings about Pickett, 1901-1952.
• bMS 180/3 (21) Photographs of Anita T. Pickett.
• bMS 180/3 (22) Pictures of churches where she preached.
• bMS 180/3 (23) Unidentified negative.

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