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bMS 190

Kirk, Hazel Ida. Papers, 1886-1957.

Summary Information:

Call Number: bMS 190
Title: Kirk, Hazel Ida. Papers, 1886-1957.
Repository: Andover-Harvard Theological Library, Harvard Divinity School, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138-1911
Quantity: 16 boxes

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Biographical Note:

Hazel Ida Kirk (1885-1957) graduated from the Canton Theological School of St. Lawrence University in 1915 and was ordained to the Universalist ministry the same year. She served parishes in Ogdensburg, New York; Eastham, Danvers, and Taunton, Massachusetts; Pawtucket, Rhode Island; and Rumford, Maine. Kirk served as a missionary in Japan from 1918 to 1923; was president of the Women's National Missionary Association from 1929 to 1933; and also held various offices in the Women's Universalist Missionary Society of Massachusetts from 1934 to 1939.

Scope and Content Note:

This collection is divided into eleven series. The first series consists of correspondence, arranged chronologically. Series II consists of biographical papers which include ordination material, certificates, and travel receipts. Series III contains programs and miscellaneous papers, arranged chronologically. Series IV is biographical clippings, also arranged chronologically. Series V consists of scrapbook material, such as correspondence, programs, and clippings. Series VI consists of subject files that include clippings and notes for sermons and lectures. Series VII contains writings by Kirk. Series VIII is sermons and services, arranged chronologically by original date of delivery. Series IX contains lectures, essays, poems, and miscellaneous compositions by Kirk. Most of these lectures were given several times; they are arranged here by the (often approximate) date of original composition. Series X is scrapbooks, photographs, and pictures. Series XI, labeled miscellaneous items, consists of Kirk's diplomas.

Container List:

Series I. Correspondence, 1886-1957

bMS 190/1 (1) Correspondence, 1886-ca. 1913.
bMS 190/1 (2) Correspondence, 1914-1915. Includes letters on her ordination, June 3, 1915.
bMS 190/1 (3) Correspondence, 1916-1917.
bMS 190/1 (4) Correspondence, January-June 1918.
bMS 190/1 (5) Correspondence, July-September 1918. Includes letters on her appointment as missionary to Japan.
bMS 190/1 (6) Correspondence, October-December 1918. Includes letters on her trip to Japan.
bMS 190/1 (7) Correspondence, 1919-1922.
bMS 190/1 (8) Correspondence, 1923. Includes letters on her return from Japan.
bMS 190/1 (9) Correspondence, 1925-1926.
bMS 190/1 (10) Correspondence, 1927-1929. Includes letters, October 22, 1927 from Hannah Jewett Powell (1866-1954), 21 November 1927 from Roger Etz (1886-1950), November 7, 1929 from Georgene Bowen (1898-).

bMS 190/1 (11) Correspondence, 1930. Includes letters: November 1, from Roger Etz; October 10, and six letters in December from Georgene Bowen.
bMS 190/2 (1) Correspondence, 1931. Includes postcard, January 8, from Georgene Bowen.
bMS 190/2 (2) Correspondence, 1932.
bMS 190/2 (3) Correspondence, 1933. Includes letters, March 26, July 23, and fragment [September], from Ordell E. Bryant (1885-1948).
bMS 190/2 (4) Correspondence, 1934-1935.

bMS 190/2 (5) Correspondence, 1936.
bMS 190/2 (6) Correspondence, 1937.
bMS 190/2 (7) Correspondence, 1938.
bMS 190/2 (8) Correspondence, 1939. Includes letter, April 24, and telegram, May 10, from Cornelia Otis Skinner (1901-).
bMS 190/2 (9) Correspondence, 1940-1942.
bMS 190/2 (10) Correspondence, 1943-1944.
bMS 190/2 (11) Correspondence, 1945-1946.
bMS 190/2 (12) Correspondence, 1947.
bMS 190/2 (13) Correspondence, 1948-1949.
bMS 190/2 (14) Correspondence, 1950-1951.
bMS 190/2 (15) Correspondence, 1957.

Series II. Biographical Papers, 1900-1955

bMS 190/2 (16) Certificates of membership and award, contracts, 1900-1950. Includes documents on ordination, church membership, ministries.
bMS 190/2 (17) Educational certificates, 1912-1929.
bMS 190/2 (18) MS. poem, "Ode (owed) to Hazel," by her father, S.T. Kirk.
bMS 190/2 (19) Passports, receipts for foreign travel, 1918-1930.

Series III. Programs and Miscellaneous Papers, 1910-1955

bMS 190/3 (1) Programs, 1914-1930. Includes programs of meetings and services at which Hazel Kirk presided or spoke.
bMS 190/3 (2) Miscellaneous papers, including membership cards, tickets, ca. 1910-ca. 1930.
bMS 190/3 (3) Programs, ca. 1930-ca. 1932.
bMS 190/3 (4) Programs, ca. 1932.
bMS 190/3 (5) Programs, ca. 1933.
bMS 190/3 (6) Programs, ca. 1934.
bMS 190/3 (7) Programs, ca. 1935.
bMS 190/3 (8) Programs, ca. 1936.
bMS 190/3 (9) Programs, ca. 1937.
bMS 190/3 (10) Programs, ca. 1938-ca. 1939.
bMS 190/3 (11-13) Miscellaneous papers, 1930s.
bMS 190/4 (1) Programs, ca. 1940.
bMS 190/4 (2) Programs, ca. 1941-ca. 1949.
bMS 190/4 (3) Miscellaneous papers, 1940s.
bMS 190/4 (4) Programs, miscellaneous papers, 1950s.

Series IV. Biographical Clippings, 1913-1955

bMS 190/4 (5) Clippings, 1913-1929.
bMS 190/4 (6) Clippings, 1930-ca. 1933.
bMS 190/4 (7) Clippings, ca. 1934-1939.
bMS 190/4 (8) Clippings, 1940-ca. 1949.
bMS 190/4 (9) Clippings, 1950-1955, and n.d.

Series V. Scrapbook Material: Correspondence, Programs, Clippings, 1911-1931

bMS 190/5 (1-2) Scrapbook pages, 1911-1919.
bMS 190/5 (3-4) Scrapbook pages, 1919-1925.
bMS 190/5 (5-7) Scrapbook pages, 1925-1928.
bMS 190/6 (1) Scrapbook pages, 1929, folder 1.
bMS 190/6 (2) Scrapbook pages, 1929, folder 2. Includes letter, October 3, from Roger Etz.
bMS 190/6 (3-4) Scrapbook pages, 1930.
bMS 190/6 (5-6) Scrapbook pages, 1931.

Series VI. Subject Files: Clippings and Notes for Sermons and Lectures

bMS 190/6 (7) -
bMS 190/8 (9) Japan.
bMS 190/8 (10-23) Commonplace files. Quotations on various topics for use in sermons and speeches.

Series VII. Writings by Hazel Kirk, 1913-1955

bMS 190/8 (24) College notes, 1913-1914. St. Lawrence (Canton) Theological School.

Series VIII. Sermons and Services, 1914-1955

bMS 190/9 (1) Letter, Gladys H. Wright to Louise Durgin, November 10, 1966, explaining Hazel Kirk's shorthand symbols used in sermon and lecture notes, with reply, September 11, 1968.
bMS 190/9 (2-4) Sermons, 1914.

bMS 190/9 (5-14) Sermons, 1915.
bMS 190/9 (15-31) Sermons, 1916.
bMS 190/9 (32-56) Sermons, 1917.
bMS 190/9 (57-61) Sermons, 1918.
bMS 190/10 (1-4) Sermons, 1924.
bMS 190/10 (5-8) Sermons, 1925.
bMS 190/10 (9-21) Sermons, 1926.
bMS 190/10 (2-40) Sermons, 1927.
bMS 190/10 (41-92) Sermons, 1928.
bMS 190/11 (1-33) Sermons, 1929.
bMS 190/11 (34-67) Sermons, 1930.
bMS 190/11 (68-97) Sermons, 1931.
bMS 190/12 (1-24) Sermons, 1932.
bMS 190/12 (25-37) Sermons, 1933.
bMS 190/12 (38-39) Sermons, 1935.
bMS 190/12 (40-41) Sermons, 1936.
bMS 190/12 (42) Sermon, 1937.
bMS 190/12 (43-44) Sermons, 1938.
bMS 190/12 (45-47) Sermons, 1939.
bMS 190/12 (48) Sermon, 1940.
bMS 190/12 (49-53) Sermons, 1941.
bMS 190/12 (54-58) Sermons, 1946.
bMS 190/12 (59) Sermon, 1947.
bMS 190/12 (60) Sermon, 1948.
bMS 190/12 (61) Sermon, 1955.
bMS 190/12 (62-70) Undated sermons and services.
bMS 190/12 (71) Sermons submitted for publication.

Series IX. Lectures, Essays, Poems, and Miscellaneous Compositions

bMS 190/12 (72) Diary, April 12-June 4, 1918. Concerns her U.S. travel as field secretary for the Clara Barton Guild.
bMS 190/12 (73) Easter and Christmas greetings to parishes: Danvers, Massachusetts, 1926-1933; Rumford, Maine, 1945-1947.
bMS 190/12 (47-78) Lectures on Japan, 1931-1946, 1950, and n.d.

bMS 190/13 (1) Lectures on various subjects, 1926-1927.
bMS 190/13 (2) Lectures, 1928-1929.
bMS 190/13 (3) Lectures, 1930-1931.
bMS 190/13 (4) Lectures, 1932.
bMS 190/13 (5) Lectures, 1933.
bMS 190/13 (6) Lectures, 1934.
bMS 190/13 (7) Lectures, 1935.
bMS 190/13 (8) Lectures, 1936-1937.
bMS 190/13 (9) Lectures, 1938-1940.
bMS 190/13 (10) Lectures, 1941, 1945, 1946.
bMS 190/13 (11) Lectures, 1947-1949, 1952.
bMS 190/13 (12-14) Lectures, n.d.
bMS 190/13 (15) Lecture notes [for Women's National Missionary Association course?], n.d.
bMS 190/13 (16) Essays: "Women in Industry," n.d.; "Shadows on the Shoji," 1955.
bMS 190/13 (17) Poems, Psalms, Prayers.

Series X. Scrapbooks, Photographs, Pictures, 1904-ca. 1934

bMS 190/13 (18) Scrapbook. Young People's Christian Union: National Conventions, 1904-1909. Includes photographs, clippings, programs, memorabilia.
bMS 190/13 (19) Loose photographs and clippings from previous scrapbook.
bMS 190/14 (1-3) Photographs. Groups and buildings at St. Lawrence University, 1911-1915.
bMS 190/14 (4) Photographs. Hazel Kirk, ca. 1911-1918.
bMS 190/14 (5) Scrapbook. "Universalist Churches in which I have spoken," ca. 1914-1918. Includes photographs and postcards.
bMS 190/14 (6) Loose photographs and postcards from previous scrapbook.
bMS 190/14 (7) Photographs. Camp Murray, Northfield, ca. 1919-1920.
bMS 190/14 (8) Scrapbook. Murray Grove, New Jersey, 1924. Photographs.
bMS 190/14 (9) Scrapbook. Ferry Beach, Maine, [1924]. Photographs. See also bMS 146/10 (1) for her scrapbook on Ferry Beach, ca. 1912-1914.
bMS 190/14 (10) Scrapbook. "Church of the Messiah, First Universalist, New Haven, Conn.," ca. 1924-1925. Photographs.
bMS 190/14 (11) Loose photographs from previous scrapbook.
bMS 190/14 (12) Scrapbook pages. Photographs of North Carolina groups and churches, ca. 1930-1931.
bMS 190/14 (13) Photographs. Ferry Beach, Maine; North Carolina, [Medford, Mass.?], n.d.
bMS 190/14 (14) Miscellaneous photographs, ca. 1914-ca. 1934.
bMS 190/14 (15-16) Scrapbook pages. Trip to Japan, 1918. Includes photographs and memorabilia.
bMS 190/14 (17) Scrapbook. Japan: Tokyo (including Blackmer Home), Arakawa, Karuizawa, ca. 1918-1920. Photographs.
bMS 190/15 (1) Photograph. Sacred Bridge, Nikko, Japan.
bMS 190/15 (2) Scrapbook. Japan: Tokyo, Blackmer Home, Myogi, ca. 1918-1920. Photographs.
bMS 190/15 (3) Scrapbook. Japan, ca. 1918-1920.
bMS 190/15 (4) Scrapbook. Japan, ca. 1918-1920.
bMS 190/15 (5) Loose photographs from previous scrapbook.
bMS 190/15 (6) Scrapbook. Japan: Shizuoka, 1920-1923.
bMS 190/15 (7-10) Photographs. Japanese customs and occupations; probably used with lectures.
bMS 190/15 (11-13) Japan memorabilia, ca. 1918-1923. Small reproductions of prints by Hiroshige and others, probably cut from books or greeting cards.
bMS 190/15 (14) Japan memorabilia. Includes picture cards, calendar.
bMS 190/15 (15) Negative album, 1918-1920.

bMS 190/15 (16) Negative album, 1918-1920.
bMS 190/15 (17) Negative album, 1919-1920.
bMS 190/15 (18-19) Negative albums, 1921-1923.
bMS 190/15 (20) Negative album, 1922-1924. Includes photographs of Japan, European and English cities taken on trip from Japan, and of North Carolina and Ferry Beach.
bMS 190/15 (21) Negatives. Japan, Korea, China, ca. 1922.
bMS 190/16 (1) Scrapbook. Japan: Karuizawa, Nikko, Shizuoka, ca. 1920-1923. Photographs.
bMS 190/16 (2) Scrapbook. Korea and China, Hong Kong and Manilla, Western Europe, 1922-1923.

Series XI. Miscellaneous Items

bMS 190/16 (3) Diploma. St. Lawrence (Canton) Theological School, June 1914.
bMS 190/16 (4) Diploma. St. Lawrence University, June 1915.