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bMS 478

Walker, James. Correspondence, 1815-1859.

Summary Information:

Call Number: bMS 478
Title: Walker, James. Correspondence, 1815-1859.
Repository: Andover-Harvard Theological Library, Harvard Divinity School, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138-1911
Quantity: 2 boxes

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Biographical Information:

James Walker (1794-1874) was born in Woburn, Massachusetts, and graduated from Harvard College in 1814 and Harvard Divinity School in 1817. He was President of Harvard University from February 10, 1853, to January 26, 1860. He served as a Fellow of Harvard University from 1834 to 1853 and as a member of the Board of Overseers from 1825 to 1836 and again from 1864 to 1874. From 1838 to 1853, he served the University as the Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy and Civil Polity while also acting as Preacher of the College. Walker was also a leader of the Unitarian movement and one of the founders of the American Unitarian Association. He was an editor of The Christian Examiner from 1831 to 1859, and he served as a Unitarian minister for the Harvard Church in Charlestown, Massachusetts, for 20 years. His most important work was The Philosophy of Man's Spiritual Nature in Regard to the Foundation of Faith (1834). Following his death in 1874, his library and the bulk of his estate was bequeathed to the Harvard College Library.

Container List:

Note: All letters are to Walker except where noted in the register.

bMS 478/1 (1) Information on presentation of these letters to the A.U.A., January 16, 187-.
bMS 478/1 (2) Bellows, Henry Whitney, 1814-1882. February 19, 1846. (Includes two letters: a). A. Graham to Bellows, 1846 16; b). John Rogers to James Walker, February 12, 1846.
bMS 478/1 (3) Bigelow, Andrew. June 23, 1815.
bMS 478/1 (4) Bowen, Gray. December 11, 1829.
bMS 478/1 (5) Briggs, Charles. June 8, 1827.
bMS 478/1 (6) Briggs, Charles. May 25, 1828.
bMS 478/1 (7) Brigham, Amariah, 1798-1849. November 21, 1835, to the editors of The Christian Examiner.
bMS 478/1 (8) Brooks, Charles, 1795-1872. November 25, 1826, to Blanchard.
bMS 478/1 (9) Brooks, Charles, 1795-1872. January 28, 1842.
bMS 478/1 (10) Brownson, Orestes Augustus, 1803-1876. August 6, 1834.
bMS 478/1 (11) Brownson, Orestes Augustus, 1803-1876. February 17, 1836.
bMS 478/1 (12) Burnap, George Washington, 1802-1859. November 7, 1827.
bMS 478/1 (13) Burnap, George Washington, 1802-1859. February 22, 1853.
bMS 478/1 (14) Channing, William Ellery, 1780-1842. September 14, 1835.
bMS 478/1 (15) Channing, William Ellery, 1780-1842. August 2, 1842.
bMS 478/1 (16) Channing, William Ellery, 1780-1842. August 22, 1840.
bMS 478/1 (17) Channing, William Ellery, 1780-1842. October 28, 1843.
bMS 478/1 (18) Clarke, James Freeman, 1810-1888. January 3, 1837.
bMS 478/1 (19) Cranch, E.P. October 10, 1829.
bMS 478/1 (20) Dewey, Orville, 1794-1882. November 25, 1836.
bMS 478/1 (21) Dwight, Eliza A. November 22, 1847.
bMS 478/1 (22) Ellis, George Edward, 1814-1894. April 2, 1838.
bMS 478/1 (23) Everett, Stevens. May 10, 1827.
bMS 478/1 (24) Flint, Timothy. March 30, 1830.
bMS 478/1 (25) Foote, Mary W. October 12, 1848.
bMS 478/1 (26) Furness, William Henry, 1802-1896. March 28, 1837.
bMS 478/1 (27) Gannett, Ezra Stiles, 1801-1871. April 16, 1828 to Secretary of the Society for the Promotion of Theological Education.
bMS 478/1 (28) Gannett, Ezra Stiles, 1801-1871. August 26, 1836.
bMS 478/1 (29) Gannett, Ezra Stiles, 1801-1871. November 8, to Blanchard(?).
bMS 478/1 (30) Gilman, Samuel, 1791-1859. May 9, 1831.
bMS 478/1 (31) Gilman, Samuel, 1791-1859. October 4, 1835.
bMS 478/1 (32) Greenwood, Francis William Pitt, 1797-1843. June 10, 1831.
bMS 478/1 (33) Hedge, Frederic Henry, 1805-1890. March 14, 1836.
bMS 478/1 (34) Higginson, Stephen. July 10, 1826.
bMS 478/1 (35) Higginson, Stephen. January 13, 1827.
bMS 478/1 (36) Higginson, Stephen. April 24, 1830.
bMS 478/1 (37) Hobbs, Eben. October 18, 1833.
bMS 478/1 (38) Howard, Bezaleel. January 22, 1833.
bMS 478/1 (39) Howard, John R. November 11, 1834, to Bowen.
bMS 478/1 (40) Lamson, Alvan. April 17, 1815.
bMS 478/1 (41) Livermore, Abiel Abbott, 1811-1892. May 13, 1841.
bMS 478/1 (42) May, Samuel Joseph, 1797-1871. August 22, 1822.
bMS 478/1 (43) May, Samuel Joseph, 1797-1871. February 15, 1834.
bMS 478/1 (44) May, Samuel Joseph, 1797-1871. July 19, 1838.
bMS 478/1 (45) Merrick, John. February 10, 1825.
bMS 478/1 (46) Merrick, John. August 28, 1825.
bMS 478/1 (47) Norton, Andrews, 1786-1853. December 25, 1828.
bMS 478/1 (48) Norton, Andrews, 1786-1853. August 16, 1830.
bMS 478/1 (49) Norton, Andrews, 1786-1853. April 16, 1834.
bMS 478/1 (50) Norton, Andrews, 1786-1853. [November 17, 1835].
bMS 478/1 (51) Norton, Andrews, 1786-1853. December 2, 1835.
bMS 478/1 (52) Noyes, George Rapall, 1798-1868. December 20, 1833.
bMS 478/2 (1) Noyes, George Rapall, 1798-1868. February 15, 1834.
bMS 478/2 (2) Noyes, George Rapall, 1798-1868. August 14, 1834.
bMS 478/2 (3) Osgood, Samuel, 1812-1880. September 11, 1839.
bMS 478/2 (4) Peabody, Ephraim, 1807-1856. September 13, 1832.
bMS 478/2 (5) Peabody, Oliver William Bourn, 1799-1848. October 20, 1847.
bMS 478/2 (6) Peabody, Oliver William Bourn, 1799-1848. January 17, 1848.
bMS 478/2 (7) Peabody, William Bourn Oliver, 1799-1847. November 26, 1827.
bMS 478/2 (8) Peabody, William Bourn Oliver, 1799-1847. March 15, 1830.
bMS 478/2 (9) Peabody, William Bourn Oliver, 1799-1847. December 10, 1831.
bMS 478/2 (10) Peabody, William Bourn Oliver, 1799-1847. August 28, 1832.
bMS 478/2 (11) Peabody, William Bourn Oliver, 1799-1847. March 30, 1835.
bMS 478/2 (12) Peabody, William Bourn Oliver, 1799-1847. May 29, 1836.
bMS 478/2 (13) Peabody, William Bourn Oliver, 1799-1847. July 13, 1837.
bMS 478/2 (14) Peabody, William Bourn Oliver, 1799-1847. October 7, 1838.
bMS 478/2 (15) Prentiss, John, 1799-1861. February 4, 1856.
bMS 478/2 (16) Prince, John, 1751-1836. June 15, 1824.
bMS 478/2 (17) Ripley, Ezra, 1751-1841. July 26, 1826.
bMS 478/2 (18) Robinson, Charles, 1793-1862. February 16, 1824.
bMS 478/2 (19) Robinson, Charles, 1793-1862. January 12, 1825.
bMS 478/2 (20) Rogers, John Gray. March 1, 1844.
bMS 478/2 (21) Sprague, William Buell, 1795-1876. December 22, 1848.
bMS 478/2 (22) Stebbins, Rufus Phineas, 1810-1885. December 18, 1844.
bMS 478/2 (23) Sullivan, Thomas Russell. February 28, 1827.
bMS 478/2 (24) [Towne, E.C.] December 10, 1859.
bMS 478/2 (25) Turner, Edward. March 26, 1832.
bMS 478/2 (26) Upham, Charles Wentworth, 1802-1875. July 6, 1835.
bMS 478/2 (27) Vaughan, J.C. July 14, 1839 to James Walker.
bMS 478/2 (28) Walker, Henry A. November 20, 1835, to James Walker.
bMS 478/2 (29) Walker, Henry A. Berlin, December 22, 1835, to James Walker.
bMS 478/2 (30) Walker, Henry A. Berlin, February 15, 1836, to James Walker.
bMS 478/2 (31) Ware, Henry, 1794-1843. August 7, 1828.
bMS 478/2 (32) Whitman, Bernard, 1796-1834. August 4, 1834.
bMS 478/2 (33) Whitman, Jason. May 23, 1833, to Samuel Barrett.
bMS 478/2 (34) Whitman, Jason. June 26, 1837.
bMS 478/2 (35) Worcester, Noah, 1758-1837. August 2, 1836.
bMS 478/2 (36) Flint, James, 1779-1855. Obituary in the Age, by Henry Giles.