bMS 518

Dewey, Orville. Papers, 1819-1886.

Summary Information:

• Call Number: bMS 518
• Title: Dewey, Orville. Papers, 1819-1886
• Repository: Andover-Harvard Theological Library, Harvard Divinity School, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138-1911
• Quantity: 1 box

Administrative Information:

• Acquisition Information: Gift of William F. Dewey, 1983
• Access: There are no restrictions on access to this collection.

Biographical Note:

Orville Dewey (1794-1882) was born in Sheffield, Massachusetts, and graduated from Williams College in 1814, Andover Seminary in 1819, and was awarded a DD from Harvard Divinity School in 1839. He served as the pastor of the Congregational Church in Gloucester, Massachusetts, for one year before becoming a Unitarian. He then went on to serve as the minister of the Federal Street Church in Boston (1821-23), the First Church in New Bedford Massachusetts (1823-33), the Second Congregational Church (later Church of the Messiah) in New York City (1835-48), and the New South Church in Boston (1857-61). Dewey was one of the founders of the Employment Society, which was the first organized attempt to help the city's poor. He also served as the fourth president of the American Unitarian Association from 1845 to 1847. His publications include a series of lectures given at the Lowell Institute, which included The Problem of Human Destiny (1864), Discourses on Various Subjects (1835), and The Old World and The New (1836).

Scope and Content:

This collection contains biographical information, lectures, and correspondence.

Container List:

• bMS 518/1 (1) Biographical information.

Series I. Lectures

• bMS 518/1 (2) Dewey, Orville. "On American Freedom in its individual and social relations and aspects." 1852.
• bMS 518/1 (3) Dewey, Orville. "On Slowness as a law of human progress." 1850.

Series II. Correspondence

• bMS 518/1 (4) Bartlett, G.E., to Orville Dewey, Nov. 13, 1864; letters to Bartlett from Dewey, 1869-86 (5 letters)
• bMS 518/1 (5) Bartol, Cyrus Augustus, to Dewey, Dec. 15, 1879.
• bMS 518/1 (6) Bartol, Cyrus Augustus, to Dewey, Sept. 1, 1845.
• bMS 518/1 (7) Bellows, Henry Whitney, to Mrs. Orville Dewey, June 24, 1880.
• bMS 518/1 (8) Bellows, Henry Whitney, to Mrs. Dewey, Sept. 14, 1880. (missing pp. 5-8).
• bMS 518/1 (9) Bellows, H.W., to Mrs. Dewey, Dec. 22, 1880.
• bMS 518/1 (10) Bellows, H.W., to Mrs. Dewey, Jan. 1, 1881.
• bMS 518/1 (11) Bellows, H.W., to Mrs. Dewey, Sept. 18, 1881.
• bMS 518/1 (12) Bellows, H.W., to Mrs. Dewey, Nov. 12, 1881.
• bMS 518/1 (13) Bellows, H.W., to Mrs. Dewey, Jan. 13, 1882.
• bMS 518/1 (14) Bryant, William Cullen, to Orville Dewey, March 29, 1850.
• bMS 518/1 (15) Bryant, W.C., to Dewey, April 2, 1851.
• bMS 518/1 (16) Bryant, W.C., to Dewey, May 24, 1854.
• bMS 518/1 (17) Bryant, W.C., to Dewey, Feb. 17, 1857.
• bMS 518/1 (18) Bryant, W.C., to Dewey, Feb. 5, 1863.
• bMS 518/1 (19) Bryant, W.C., to Dewey, May 17, 1874.
• bMS 518/1 (20) Bryant, W.C. to Orville Dewey, Nov. 6, 1874.
• bMS 518/1 (21) Channing, William Ellery, to Orville Dewey, Feb. 11, 1828.
• bMS 518/1 (22) Channing, William Ellery, to Orville Dewey, March 16, 1880.
• bMS 518/1 (23) Collyer, Robert, to Orville Dewey, Oct. 11, 1879.
• bMS 518/1 (24) Combe, George and Cecilia, to Orville Dewey, Friday afternoon, [1840].
• bMS 518/1 (25) Committee of Management, First Unitarian Church, Washington, D.C., to Orville Dewey, May 25, 1852.
• bMS 518/1 (26) Curtis, George, to Orville Dewey, May 23, 1842.
• bMS 518/1 (27) Curtis, George William, to Orville Dewey, Dec. 30, 1874.
• bMS 518/1 (28) Dewey, Jane and Mary Dewey, to Orville Dewey, July 28, 1819.
• bMS 518/1 (29) Dewey, Jane, to Orville Dewey, Oct. 8, 1819.
• bMS 518/1 (30) Dewey, Jane, to Orville Dewey, March 9, 1853.
• bMS 518/1 (31) Dewey, Jerusha and Mary Dewey, to Dewey, Dec. 3, 1837.
• bMS 518/1 (32) Dewey, Mary and Mary Dewey (mother of Orville), to Orville Dewey, Feb. 22, 1836.
• bMS 518/1 (33) Dewey, Orville, to Henry Whitney Bellows, Jan. 28, 1882.
• bMS 518/1 (34) Dewey, Orville, to Joseph H. Oates, April 24, 1835.
• bMS 518/1 (35) Dewey, Orville, to Henry Whitney Bellows, Jan. 28, 1882.
• bMS 518/1 (36) Eliot, Samuel Atkins, to Orville Dewey, Nov. 23, 1855.
• bMS 518/1 (37) Frothingham, Nathaniel Langdon, to Orville Dewey, Oct. 15, 1846.
• bMS 518/1 (38) Hale Edward Everett, to Orville Dewey, July 25, 1874.
• bMS 518/1 (39) Huntington, Frederick Dan, to Orville Dewey, Nov. 17, 1847.
• bMS 518/1 (40) King, Thomas Starr, to Orville Dewey, Nov. 14, 1848.
• bMS 518/1 (41) King, Thomas Starr, to Orville Dewey, Jan. 12, 1864.
• bMS 518/1 (42) Kirkland, C[aroline] M[atilda], to Orville Dewey, Dec. 17, 1847.
• bMS 518/1 (43) Kirkland, C.M., to Dewey, Sept. 13, 1849.
• bMS 518/1 (44) Lee, William George, to Orville Dewey, Dec. 19, [1831].
• bMS 518/1 (45) Minot, K.S., to Orville Dewey, March 22, 1868.
• bMS 518/1 (56) Oates, Joseph H., to Orville Dewey, March 2, 1835.
• bMS 518/1 (47) Pebody, Ephraim, to Orville Dewey, Dec. 4, 1855.
• bMS 518/1 (48) Putnam, George, to Orville Dewey, Aug. 9, 1849.
• bMS 518/1 (49) Putnam, George, to Orville Dewey, Sept. 29, 1851.
• bMS 518/1 (50) Putnam, George, to Orville Dewey, Feb. 8, 1865.
• bMS 518/1 (51) Putnam, George, to Orville Dewey, Oct. 31, 1873.
• bMS 518/1 (52) Sears, David, to Orville Dewey, Oct. 22, 1833.
• bMS 518/1 (53) Sears, David, to Orville Dewey, Oct. 30, 1833.
• bMS 518/1 (54) Sears, David, to Orville Dewey, May 29, 1834.
• bMS 518/1 (55) Sedgwick, Susan Ann Livingston (Ridley), to Orville Dewey, Jan. 10, 1865.
• bMS 518/1 (56) Sedgwick, Mrs. Henry, to Orville Dewey, Jan. 14, 1832.
• bMS 518/1 (57) Short, J. Lettis, to Orville Dewey, Aug. 30, 1870.
• bMS 518/1 (58) Wesson, David A., to Orville Dewey, June 30, 1865.
• bMS 518/1 (59) Wasson, Robert, to Orville Dewey, Dec. 24, 1833.
• bMS 518/1 (60) Whipple, John, to Orville Dewey, Feb. 24, 1847.
• bMS 518/1 (61) [Wiseman], to Orville Dewey, Saturday evening [1833 or 1844].

back to top