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bMS 594

Eliot, Samuel Atkins, 1862-1950. Papers, 1869-1951.

Summary Information:

Call Number: bMS 594
Title: Eliot, Samuel Atkins, 1862-1950. Papers, 1869-1951.
Repository: Andover-Harvard Theological Library, Harvard Divinity School, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138-1911
Quantity: 17 boxes

Administrative Information:

Access: There are no restrictions on access to this collection.

Biographical Information:

For biographical information, see bMS 496.

Scope and Content:

The collection is organized into five series:

Series I. Sermons, Addresses, and Other Writings
Series II. Notes and Fragments of Sermons, Addresses, and Other Writing
Series III. Correspondence
Series IV. Subject Files
Series V. Photographs and Oversized Materials

Note: For further collections for Samuel Atkins Eliot, (1862-1950) see bMS 135, bMS 496 and bMS 11183.

Container List:

Series I. Sermons, Addresses, and Other Writings

bMS 594/1 (1) Feb. 23, 1890. "Some things we need in Denver" (handwritten manuscript; incomplete)
bMS 594/1 (2) March 1890. "Christianity and modern thought II. The unbelief of the believers" [sermon at Unity Church] (typed manuscript)
bMS 594/1 (3) May 25, 1890. "Help from the hills: the mountain view" (handwritten manuscript)
bMS 594/1 (4) Jan. 1891. "The Unitarian idea of foreign missions" (handwritten manuscript)
bMS 594/1 (5) May 1892. "Municipal patriotism no. 1: Denver's dangers" (handwritten manuscript; incomplete)
bMS 594/1 (6) Jan. 1, 1893. "Living in the present" [sermon at Church of the Saviour, Brooklyn, NY] (reprint)
bMS 594/1 (7) Nov. 1894. "The ventures of faith" (handwritten manuscript)
bMS 594/1 (8) May 1895. "The larger reverence" (handwritten manuscript)
bMS 594/1 (9) Nov. 18, 1895. [address at Founder's Day Banquet, General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen, Brooklyn, NY] (reprint)
bMS 594/1 (10) April 1896. "The household of God" (handwritten manuscript; incomplete)
bMS 594/1 (11) Dec. 22, 1896. [address at 16th Annual Festival of the New England Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA] (reprint)
bMS 594/1 (12) Feb. 1897. "The wings of the morning" [sermon at First Unitarian Church, Brooklyn, NY] (reprint)
bMS 594/1 (13) March 1897. "The burning heart" [sermon at First Unitarian Church, Brooklyn, NY] (reprint)
bMS 594/1 (14) May 13, 1897. "The friendliness of earth" (handwritten manuscript)
bMS 594/1 (15) 1898. [address at Unitarian Festival] (typed manuscript)
bMS 594/1 (16) May 27, 1898. [sermon at installation of the Rev. James Eells, First Church, Boston, MA] (reprint)
bMS 594/1 (17) July [1898?]. "The commonplace of miracle" (typed manuscript)
bMS 594/1 (18) Dec. 27, 1900. [address on free congregational system of Unitarian Church] (typed manuscript)
bMS 594/1 (19) 1901. [address at AUA annual meeting] (reprint)
bMS 594/1 (20) Oct. 3, 1901. [address at dedication of restored meeting house of First Parish of Concord, MA] (reprint)
bMS 594/1 (21) 1902. "The joy of the ministry: installation of President Southworth, Meadville [Theological Seminary?]" (typed manuscript)
bMS 594/1 (22) 1902. "Charge to the minister" [sermon at New Bedford, MA] (typed manuscript)
bMS 594/1 (23) 1903. [address at Decoration Day] (typed manuscript)
bMS 594/1 (24) Dec. 20, 1903. "The Lord is at hand [Phil 4:4]" (typed manuscript)
bMS 594/1 (25) Jan. 5, 1905. "Religious influence" [address at St. Louis Congress of Arts and Sciences] (clipping)
bMS 594/1 (26) June 1905. "A constructive imagination" [commencement oration at University of Colorado] (reprint)
bMS 594/1 (27) June 4, 1905. [sermon on Heb 11:8] (typed manuscript)
bMS 594/1 (28) Oct. 15, 1905. "The peril of the prosperous." In Hearst's Boston American (clipping)
bMS 594/1 (29) June 4, 1908. "The liberal church of today: its outlook" (reprint)
bMS 594/1 (30) July 16, 1908. "Missionary efficiency." In The Christian Register (typed manuscript of article)
bMS 594/1 (31) Jan. 21, 1909. [untitled article in The Christian Register] (typed manuscript of article)
bMS 594/1 (32) 1910. "The administrative ideals of a free church" [address at American Unitarian Association] (reprint)
bMS 594/1 (33) Jan. 4, 1912. "The challenge of the new year to the churches." In The Christian Register (typed manuscript of article)
bMS 594/1 (34) 1913. "The call of the hour Protestant Christianity" (typed manuscript)
bMS 594/1 (35) Jan. 26, 1913. "What we should and what we should not sacrifice for the sake of church unity" [sermon at Harvard Church, Brookline, MA] (typed manuscript; incomplete)
bMS 594/1 (36) June 12, 1913. "The call of the hour" (reprint)
bMS 594/1 (37) 1915. [president's annual address] (typed manuscript)
bMS 594/1 (38) Aug. 24, 1915. [sermon at General Conference, San Francisco, CA] (typed manuscript; incomplete)
bMS 594/1 (39) Feb. 11, 1916. "An exponent of the Harvard spirit" [on Thomas Mott Osborne] (typed manuscript)
bMS 594/1 (40) April 2, 1916. [letter to Secretary of Anniversary Committee, 75th Anniversary of the Church of the Disciples] (reprint)
bMS 594/1 (41) Jan. 11, 1917. "Our ambassadors." In The Christian Register (clipping)
bMS 594/1 (42) Feb. 4, 1917. "Light and life: a dedication sermon preached in the Church of the Saviour, Brooklyn, N.Y." (typed manuscript)
bMS 594/1 (43) April 12, 1917. "The witness of the churches in time of war." In The Church Register (clipping)
bMS 594/1 (44) May 30, 1919. [address at dedication of New Hampshire Bay Washington Memorial Chapel, Valley Forge, PA] (typed manuscript)
bMS 594/1 (45) June 26, 1919. "The pilgrim tercentenary" [address at Commission on the Celebration of the Tercentenary of the Landing of the Pilgrims] (reprint)
bMS 594/1 (46) July 5, 1920. [address at International Congregational Council, Old South Church, Boston, MA] (typed manuscript)
bMS 594/1 (47) 1923. "The free faith in the world" [address at the General Conference] (reprint)
bMS 594/1 (48) Jan. 1924. "A message from the new president." In Facts and Factors / published quarterly by the Massachusetts Federation of Churches (pamphlet)
bMS 594/1 (49) Nov. 6, 1927. [address at installation, Arlington Street Church, Boston, MA] (handwritten manuscript)
bMS 594/1 (50) July 1928. "The First Conference of Chaplains: report of the chairman of the committee." In Massachusetts Federation of Churches Bulletin, no. 52 (clipping)
bMS 594/1 (51) July 1929. "Special reading list for the tercentenary of the Massachusetts Bay Colony." In Bulletin of General Theological Library (clipping)
bMS 594/1 (52) May 21, 1930. "Puritanism and Methodism." In Zion's Herald (clipping)
bMS 594/1 (53) June 7, 1930. [address at presentation of Dudley tablet, State House, Boston, Massachusetts] (typed manuscript)
bMS 594/1 (54) Feb. 9, 1931. [letter to First Unitarian Society of Salt Lake City on the occasion of their 40th anniversary] (reprint)
bMS 594/1 (55) June 1931. [commencement address at Stonleigh-Prospect Hill School] (typed manuscript)

bMS 594/1 (56) Oct. 11, 1933. [address at celebration of tercentenary of First Church in Cambridge, MA] (typed manuscript)
bMS 594/1 (57) 1934. [address at 70th birthday of Rabbi Stephen Wise] (typed manuscript)
bMS 594/1 (58) June 1935. "Life is a series of commencement days" [address at Carleton College] (clipping)
bMS 594/1 (59) Aug. 1935. "The untraveled way." In The Minnesota Alumni Weekly,
vol. 35, no. 2 (clipping)
bMS 594/1 (60) Nov. 10, 1936. [address on contacts of religion and international problems in Denver, CO] (handwritten manuscript)
bMS 594/1 (61) Dec. 6, 1936. [commencement address at 75th anniversary of dedication of unidentified church building] (handwritten manuscript)
bMS 594/1 (62) Jan. 21, 1937. "Francis Greenwood Peabody: his work and hopes for Hampton" [Founder's Day address]. In The Southern Workman / published monthly by Hampton Institute; vol. 66, no. 3 (journal)
bMS 594/1 (63) Nov. 11, 1937. [address and introductions at World Alliance Banquet, Boston, MA] (handwritten manuscript)
bMS 594/1 (64) June 1, 1938. "A minister's reading." In Zion's Herald (clipping)
bMS 594/1 (65) 1939. [address to [Harvard Divinity School?] alumni] (handwritten manuscript)
bMS 594/1 (66) July 16, 1939. "Fiftieth anniversary address." In Fifty Years: Union Church of Northeast Harbor, 1889-1939 (pamphlet)
bMS 594/1 (67) Oct. 1939. "Memories and forecasts" (clipping/reprint)
bMS 594/1 (68) Jan. 23, 1940. "Some Cambridge pundits and pedagogues." In Papers Read During the Year, 1940 (pamphlet?)
bMS 594/1 (69) 1942. [address at AUA annual meeting] (handwritten manuscript)
bMS 594/1 (70) April 28, 1942. "All aboard the 'Natwyethum.'" In Cambridge Historical Society, vol. 28 (1942) (reprint)
bMS 594/1 (71) May 21, 1942. [address/greeting to 50 year ministers, AUA] (handwritten manuscript)
bMS 594/1 (72) July 24, 1943. "After victory--what?" In Christian Science Monitor: Weekly Magazine Section (clipping)
bMS 594/1 (73) 1944. [address at Metropolitan Conference, Church of the Saviour] (handwritten manuscript)
bMS 594/1 (74) April 22, 1945. "At the Golden Gate" [address at San Francisco Conference of newly founded United Nations] (reprint)
bMS 594/1 (75) Nov. 8, 1945. [foreword for anthology of poetry for old people] (typed manuscript)
bMS 594/1 (76) Jan. 1, 1946. [fundraising solicitation for Unitarian Historical Library, Boston, MA] (circular)
bMS 594/1 (77) March 2, 1947. [address at Laymen's Rally, Arlington Street Church, Boston, MA] (handwritten manuscript)
bMS 594/1 (78) March 11, 1947. [address at dinner for Charles O. Richardson] (handwritten manuscript)
bMS 594/1 (79) May 27, 1947. "Some musical memories of Cambridge." In Cambridge Historical Society (reprint)
bMS 594/2 (1) Oct. 1947. [address at Bunker Hill Monument Association] (handwritten manuscript)
bMS 594/2 (2) Nov. 2, 1947. [address at Hackley School] (handwritten manuscript)
bMS 594/2 (2.1) Dec. 24, 1947. [address to Rotary Club of Boston luncheon] (pamphlet/reprint)
bMS 594/2 (3) June 4, 1948. [address on/at Bunker Hill] (handwritten manuscript)
bMS 594/2 (4) Aug. 22, 1948. "A faithful friend: memorial of Rufus M. Jones" [sermon at Union Church, Northeast Harbor, ME] (reprint)
bMS 594/2 (5) Dec. 1948. "Christmas." In Liberal's Challenge, vol. 3, no. 2 (newsletter)
bMS 594/2 (6) Nov. 6, 1949. "Old ways and new days" [60th anniversary sermon]. In The Christian Register (typed manuscript)
bMS 594/2 (7) [sermon on Acts 22:28] (typed manuscript)
bMS 594/2 (8) [address to AUA?] (typed manuscript)
bMS 594/2 (9) "Annual address of the President [of the AUA?]" (clipping/reprint)
bMS 594/2 (10) "As to its organization and administration." In Organization of Unitarianism (clipping)
bMS 594/2 (11) "Being mayor of Boston a hundred years ago." In Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, vol. 66 (reprint)
bMS 594/2 (12) "Christianity and the war" (typed manuscript)
bMS 594/2 (13) [address at the Church of the Disciples] (handwritten manuscript)
bMS 594/2 (14) "Church unity" (clipping/reprint)

bMS 594/2 (15) [writing on Congregationalism] (typed manuscript)
bMS 594/2 (16) "The congregational inheritance of the Unitarian churches (clipping/reprint)
bMS 594/2 (17) [address at dinner before installation of R. B. Day] (handwritten manuscript)
bMS 594/2 (18) "Democratic efficiency" (clipping)
bMS 594/2 (19) "The dynamics of American life" (typed manuscript)
bMS 594/2 (20) "Emmanuel--God with us" (clipping)
bMS 594/2 (21) [sermon on Ezek 33] (typed manuscript)
bMS 594/2 (22) The Fighting Chance for the Protestant Churches [foreword] (clipping)
bMS 594/2 (23) [address on Howard Gill] (typed manuscript)
bMS 594/2 (24) [Golden Jubilee sermon (at Rotary Club?) entitled "Sam Eliot's credo"] (clipping)
bMS 594/2 (25) "The grace of Jesus Christ" (handwritten manuscript)
bMS 594/2 (26) [sermon on Heb 11:8] (typed manuscript)
bMS 594/2 (27) "High school address" (typed manuscript)
bMS 594/2 (28) [sermon on Jer 2:13] (typed manuscript)
bMS 594/2 (29) [sermon on John 15:27] (handwritten sermon)
bMS 594/2 (30) [address at Life Members of AUA dinner] (typed manuscript)
bMS 594/2 (31) [sermon on Luke 2:9] (typed manuscript)
bMS 594/2 (32) [sermon on Luke 19:1-6] (typed manuscript)
bMS 594/2 (33) [sermon on Luke 21:19] (typed manuscript)
bMS 594/2 (34) [sermon on Luke 24:50 and Isa 30:15] (handwritten manuscript)
bMS 594/2 (35) "A master program" [introduction to plan for the Boston metropolitan area] (typed manuscript)
bMS 594/2 (36) [sermon on Matt 21:3] (typed manuscript)
bMS 594/2 (37) "The minister in his relation to the services of music" (typed manuscript)
bMS 594/2 (38) [writing on music] (typed manuscript)
bMS 594/2 (39) [address at (unidentified) National Conference] (typed manuscript)
bMS 594/2 (40) [address at (unidentified) National Conference] (typed manuscript)
bMS 594/2 (41) "A nation's crown" (clipping)
bMS 594/2 (42) "The obligation of privilege" (typed manuscript)
bMS 594/2 (43) "Thomas Mott Osborne" (typed manuscript)
bMS 594/2 (44) "Lucia M. Peabody" (typed manuscript)
bMS 594/2 (45) "A plea for efficiency" (typed manuscript)
bMS 594/2 (46) "A practical Christianity" [sermon at First Unitarian Church, Brooklyn, NY] (reprint)
bMS 594/2 (47) "The preservation of historic houses: excerpts from an address at a joint meeting of the Cambridge and Lexington Historical Societies" (reprint)
bMS 594/2 (48) "A prophetic church" [address at dedication of church] (clipping/reprint)
bMS 594/2 (49) [sermon on Ps 8:3-4] (handwritten manuscript)
bMS 594/2 (50) [sermon on Ps 137] (typed manuscript)
bMS 594/2 (51) "The relationship of Puritanism and Methodism" [address at banquet for bishops of Methodist Episcopal Church in Boston, MA] (clipping)
bMS 594/2 (52) [sermon on Rev 4:3] (typed manuscript)
bMS 594/2 (53) [address, acting as representative of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., upon receiving award for distinguished service to conservation] (handwritten and typed manuscript)
bMS 594/2 (54) [sermon on Rom 8:3] (typed manuscript; incomplete)
bMS 594/2 (55) [sermon on I Sam 11:6] (typed manuscript)
bMS 594/2 (56) "Satisfactions of the ministry" (handwritten manuscript)
bMS 594/2 (57) [address at Sunday Evening Club] (typed manuscript)
bMS 594/2 (58) "The training of ministerial efficiency" [Tate Lecture at Manchester College] (typed manuscript)
bMS 594/2 (59) "Universalist and Unitarian cooperation" (typed manuscript)
bMS 594/2 (60) "The uses of adversity" (typed manuscript)
bMS 594/2 (61) "The vision of the founders" [address at Founder's Day at Hackley School] (clipping/reprint)
bMS 594/2 (62) "The war work" (clipping)
bMS 594/2 (63) "Weakness of theological education" (handwritten manuscript)
bMS 594/2 (64) "What religion is and does" (pamphlet/reprint)
bMS 594/2 (65) "What the Boston City Club means to me" (clipping)
bMS 594/2 (66)-(68) Undated and untitled sermons
bMS 594/2 (69) Excerpts from church calendars

Series II. Notes and Fragments of Sermons, Addresses, and Other Writing

bMS 594/3 (1)-(20) Unsorted notes and fragments
bMS 594/4 (1)-(17) Unsorted notes and fragments
bMS 594/5 (1) [1887-?]. Notes on theological education
bMS 594/5 (2) [1890?]. Notes on ethics of social reforms
bMS 594/5 (3) [1892?]. Notes for class on "Forces modifying Christianity"
bMS 594/5 (4) March 31, 1931. Notes for address at nurse's graduation, Sanford, ME
bMS 594/5 (5) Dec. 4, 1934. Notes for address at police lunch
bMS 594/5 (6) June 1935. Notes for "Talks on the Rocks, Star Island"
bMS 594/5 (7) [1938]. Notes on Charles Eliot (1859-1897), brother of Samuel A. Eliot
bMS 594/5 (8) Nov. 4, 1945. Notes for sermon at Hackley School
bMS 594/5 (9) Dec. 30, 1945. Notes for new year's sermon at Second Church, Boston and at Boston Rotary Club (on Jan. 2, 1946)
bMS 594/5 (10) Jan. 1946. Notes for parish dinner
bMS 594/5 (11) Jan. 2, 1946. Notes for speech at Boston Rotary Club
bMS 594/5 (12) Feb. 1946. Notes for four discussions with adult Bible class on "A comparison of the Four Gospels"
bMS 594/5 (13) Nov. 10, 1946. Notes for sermon/talk on Hosea
bMS 594/5 (14) Jan. 13, 1948. Notes for address at 50th Anniversary Dinner
bMS 594/5 (15) April 9, 1950. Notes for Easter service
bMS 594/5 (16) Notes on being a minister
bMS 594/5 (17) Notes on California
bMS 594/5 (18) Notes for Decoration Day address
bMS 594/5 (19) Notes for lecture on "How and why the Unitarian movement began"
bMS 594/5 (20) Notes on ministry
bMS 594/5 (21) Notes for pamphlet on ministry
bMS 594/5 (22) Notes for address at Proctor Academy
bMS 594/5 (23) Notes for address at schools
bMS 594/5 (24) Notes for address at dedication of Sears Chapel, Weston, MA
bMS 594/5 (25) Notes for Second Register
bMS 594/5 (26) Notes for vesper service

Series III. Correspondence

bMS 594/6 (1) ca. 1869. Childhood letters and drawings
bMS 594/6 (2) 1880's. Unsorted correspondence
bMS 594/6 (3) 1887-1888. Unsorted correspondence (primarily S. A. Eliot to Charles W. Eliot I)
bMS 594/6 (4) 1880's-1890's. Unsorted correspondence
bMS 594/6 (5) 1889-1893. Unsorted correspondence (letters from S. A. Eliot and Frances H. Eliot)
bMS 594/6 (6) 1890's. Unsorted correspondence (primarily S. A. Eliot to his family)
bMS 594/6 (7) 1895-1901. Unsorted correspondence
bMS 594/6 (8) 1900-1910. Unsorted correspondence
bMS 594/6 (9) [191-?]. Correspondence re death of J. P. Hopkinson (father of Frances H. Eliot)
bMS 594/6 (10) 1910-1918. Unsorted correspondence
bMS 594/7 (1) ca. 1911. Letters from children
bMS 594/7 (2) Nov. 1918. Letter from Charles W. Eliot II to S. A. Eliot, with enclosure
bMS 594/7 (3) 1919. Correspondence re death of Mary E. Hopkinson (mother of Frances H. Eliot)
bMS 594/7 (4) 1920. Correspondence re trip to Europe
bMS 594/7 (5) 1920's. Unsorted correspondence
bMS 594/7 (6) 1920's. Unsorted correspondence
bMS 594/7 (7) 1922. Correspondence re Western trip
bMS 594/7 (8) Oct. 2, 1926. [S. A. Eliot's marine 'log' to his children]
bMS 594/7 (9) Oct.-Nov. 1929. Correspondence re birth of twins
bMS 594/7 (10) 1930's. Unsorted correspondence
bMS 594/7 (11) 1930's. Unsorted correspondence (primarily 70th birthday greetings)
bMS 594/8 (1) 1930's. Unsorted correspondence (primarily 70th birthday greetings)
bMS 594/8 (2) 1930's. Unsorted correspondence
bMS 594/8 (3) 1940's. Unsorted correspondence
bMS 594/8 (4) 1940's. Unsorted correspondence
bMS 594/8 (5) 1941. Letter/notes re trip to Washington
bMS 594/8 (6) 1950-1951. Unsorted correspondence
bMS 594/8 (7) Undated and unsorted correspondence (some incomplete; personal and ministerial)
bMS 594/8 (8) Correspondence with Frances H. Eliot
bMS 594/8 (9) Undated and unsorted correspondence
bMS 594/8 (10) Undated and unsorted correspondence (primarily thank-you letters and letters to Frances H. Eliot)
bMS 594/8 (11) Undated and unsorted correspondence (miscellaneous family correspondence, scraps, poetry, etc.)

Series IV. Subject Files

bMS 594/9 (1) Andover, 1887-1888
bMS 594/9 (2) Anti-Semitism/Children to Palestine
bMS 594/9 (3) Arlington St. Church - calendars
bMS 594/9 (4) Arlington St. Church - clippings
bMS 594/9 (5) Arlington St. Church - C. W. Eliot draft chapter
bMS 594/9 (6) Arlington St. Church - memo for Prudential Committee, [1917?]
bMS 594/9 (7) Arlington St. Church - proprietor's/treasurer's reports
bMS 594/9 (8) AUA - affairs, 1944-1947
bMS 594/9 (9) AUA - anniversary reports (excerpts)
bMS 594/9 (10) AUA - anniversary banquet and presentation of annual award to S. A. Eliot, Boston, May 25, 1950
bMS 594/9 (11) AUA - annual meetings - miscellaneous excerpts from addresses at ~
bMS 594/9 (12) AUA - apportionment plan
bMS 594/9 (13) AUA - Boston church merger plan
bMS 594/9 (14) AUA - Channing, William Ellery - bust at Hall of Fame, New York
bMS 594/9 (15) AUA - circular - material for ~
bMS 594/9 (16) AUA - Committee on the Supply of Ministers
bMS 594/9 (17) AUA - conditional gifts
bMS 594/9 (18) AUA - conference autonomy - various resolutions about ~
bMS 594/9 (19) AUA/UUA - consolidation plans, 1960
bMS 594/9 (20) AUA - correspondence courses in theology, Sept. 13, 1910 (memo)
bMS 594/9 (21) AUA - Duschak, Dr. Lional H. - letter from S. A. Eliot
bMS 594/9 (22) AUA - Eliot, S. A. - letter to son Charles W. Eliot II re his resignation from Board
bMS 594/9 (23) AUA - equipment for missionary service
bMS 594/9 (24) AUA - finance committee - apportionment plan, 1910
bMS 594/9 (25) AUA - finances - historical notes, 1897-1907
bMS 594/9 (26) AUA - foreign relations, Nov. 20, 1913 (clipping)
bMS 594/9 (27) AUA - "Forty questions for an alliance meeting" (memo)
bMS 594/9 (28) AUA - Hale, Dr. - letter from S. A. Eliot, Feb. 17, 1900
bMS 594/9 (29) AUA - "The indifference of laymen" (memo)
bMS 594/9 (30) AUA - Committee on Legislation and Administration - minutes of meeting, Jan. 30, 1930
bMS 594/9 (31) AUA - "The Longfellow anniversary." In The Christian Register, Jan. 31, 1907 (clipping)
bMS 594/9 (32) AUA - men admitted to fellowship and not settled, 1903-1909
bMS 594/9 (33) AUA - "The ministerial aid fund" (clipping/reprint)
bMS 594/9 (34) AUA - "Ministerial ethics," Jan. 21, 1915 (clipping)
bMS 594/9 (35) AUA - Ministerial Exchange Committee
bMS 594/10 (1) AUA - miscellaneous papers
bMS 594/10 (2) AUA - miscellaneous reports
bMS 594/10 (3) AUA - "A missionary method" (clipping)
bMS 594/10 (4) AUA - "The missionary service" I (clipping)
bMS 594/10 (5) AUA - "The missionary service" II (clipping)
bMS 594/10 (6) AUA - missionary service - "Suggestions of a plan for special missionary service"
bMS 594/10 (7) AUA - "The new year," Dec. 29, 1910 (clipping)
bMS 594/10 (8) AUA - "Objectives for the year ending April 30, 1926 for the guidance of the field and office staff of the Association," May 1, 1925
bMS 594/10 (9) AUA - "Our work together for 1917" (pamphlet)
bMS 594/10 (10) AUA - Permanent Fund - "Agreement between corporation and trustees of Permanent Fund"
bMS 594/10 (11) AUA - Publication Department - financial statement, May-Aug. 1918
bMS 594/10 (12) AUA - Religious Education Department - "Description of the proposed books of the new series of Sunday school manuals" (pamphlet)
bMS 594/10 (13) AUA - social services committees
bMS 594/10 (14) AUA - "Things we are trying to do together" (proofs/printed material, with pencil corrections)
bMS 594/10 (15) AUA - "To the churches and Sunday schools of the Unitarian fellowship," Jan. 12, 1915 (printed form letter)
bMS 594/10 (16) AUA - Western Unitarian Conference resolution, May 7, 1910
bMS 594/10 (17) AUA - Williams - letter from S. A. Eliot, March 30, 1911
bMS 594/10 (18) Awards, tributes, organizations, chronology
bMS 594/10 (19) Blackmar Trust
bMS 594/10 (20) Boston Common Society
bMS 594/10 (21) Brooklyn, NY - Church of the Saviour - report by Charles Stelzle, 1920
bMS 594/10 (22) Bryce, Lady - letter from S. A. Eliot, May 21, 1927
bMS 594/10 (23) Bunker Hill Monument Association - S. A. Eliot's presidential opening address at annual meeting, June 17, 1948

bMS 594/10 (24) Champlain Society
bMS 594/10 (25) Channing genealogy
bMS 594/10 (26) Children to Palestine, Inc. (Christian-Jewish Committee for the Rescue of Jewish Refugee Children and their Rehabilitation in Palestine) - devotional services
bMS 594/10 (27) Children to Palestine, Inc. - mixed documents, 1943-1950
bMS 594/11 (1) Children to Palestine, Inc. - mixed documents, 1949-1950
bMS 594/11 (2) Children to Palestine, Inc. - "In memoriam Samuel Atkins Eliot, 1862- 1950" (pamphlet)
bMS 594/11 (3) Czechoslovakia - American Relief for Czechoslovakia - certificate of thanks to S. A. Eliot, March 31, 1947
bMS 594/11 (4) Death of S. A. Eliot - letters acknowledging death, 1950
bMS 594/11 (5) Denver, CO - Unity Church - mixed documents, ca. 1890-1893
bMS 594/11 (6) Easter Sunday - Confirmation, 1917
bMS 594/11 (7)-(8) "Education of Indians: a thesis in Philosophy XI," 1887 (handwritten manuscript; two copies)
bMS 594/11 (9) Eliot, Charles W. - mixed documents (esp. John Mason Little of Arlington St. Church and Brooke Herford), ca. 1891-1914
bMS 594/11 (10) Eliot, II, Charles W. - landscape architectural plans - churches in Bolton, Brewster, Northborough, Scituate, and Sterling
bMS 594/11 (11) Eliot, II, Charles W. - mixed documents (including letter from Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1934), 1933-1969
bMS 594/11 (12) Eliot, II, Charles W. - correspondence re S. A. Eliot papers, 1950-1981
bMS 594/11 (13)- Eliot, II, Charles W. - AUA to UUA - merger papers, 1959-1961 (three (15) folders)
bMS 594/12 (1) Eliot, II, Charles W. - UUA and William Ellery Channing bicentennial, 1979-1980
bMS 594/12 (2) Eliot, II, Charles W. - letter to S. A. Eliot (excerpts), 1946-1947
bMS 594/12 (3) Eliot, Ellen D. Peabody - mixed correspondence, 1855-1865
bMS 594/12 (4) Eliot, Ellen D. Peabody - mixed correspondence, 1856-1857
bMS 594/12 (5) Eliot, Ellen D. Peabody - mixed correspondence (primarily to Charles W. Eliot), 1857-1860
bMS 594/12 (6) Eliot, Ellen D. Peabody - mixed correspondence, 1858-1860's
bMS 594/12 (7) Eliot, Ellen D. Peabody - mixed correspondence, ca. 1858-1867
bMS 594/12 (8) Eliot, Samuel A. - Arlington St. Church - newspaper clipping re call (undated)
bMS 594/12 (9) Eliot, Samuel A. - books, addresses, sermons, etc.
bMS 594/12 (10) Eliot, Samuel A. - 50th Anniversary - bulletin and newspaper clippings, 1939
bMS 594/12 (11) Eliot, Samuel A. - memorial plaques at AUA headquarters and Arlington St. Church - newspaper clippings, May 25, 1951
bMS 594/12 (12) Eliot, Samuel A. - notes from engagement books and standard diaries, 1898-1923
bMS 594/12 (13) Eliot, Samuel A. and Frances H. - description of wedding - letter from Leslie to Frances H. Eliot, Oct. 25, 1889
bMS 594/12 (14) Eliot, Frances H. - mixed correspondence, 1889-1893
bMS 594/12 (15) Eliot, Frances H. - correspondence with children and Annie Watts, 1890-1907
bMS 594/12 (16) Eliot, Frances H. - correspondence with S. A. Eliot's parents, 1890-1891
bMS 594/12 (17) Eliot, Frances H. - family correspondence, 1891-1892
bMS 594/13 (1) Eliot, Frances H. - correspondence re her article on Cambridge in
The Atlantic Monthly, 1945
bMS 594/13 (2) Eliot, Frances H. - correspondence re her article "Patriarchal picnics" in The Atlantic Monthly and article on Maine resorts in Lincoln Mercury Times, 1950
bMS 594/13 (3)-(4) Eliot, Frances H. - mixed writings
bMS 594/13 (5) Eliot, Frances H. - obituary notices, April 1954
bMS 594/13 (6) Financial papers
bMS 594/13 (7) "Five years of the American Unitarian Association" (clipping)
bMS 594/13 (8) "From scalping knife to can opener" (re American Indians)
bMS 594/13 (9) Hackley School - minutes of meeting of trustees, Oct. 13, 1916
bMS 594/13 (10) Harvard Athletic Association - certificate of membership for S. A. Eliot, Nov. 10, 1880

bMS 594/13 (11) Harvard Natural History Society - certificate of membership for S. A. Eliot, Nov. 17, 1881
bMS 594/13 (12) Harvard University - tercentenary memorabilia/printed material
bMS 594/14 (1) Harvard University - tercentenary memorabilia/printed material
bMS 594/14 (2) Harvard Institute of 1770 - certificate of membership of S. A. Eliot,
Oct. 13, 1881
bMS 594/14 (3) Hopkinson, Corinne Prentiss - letter to Mary Elizabeth Watson re engagement to John P. Hopkinson, Oct. 1, 1863
bMS 594/14 (4) Illustrations
bMS 594/14 (5) Indian report, etc., for New London, CT, 1921
bMS 594/14 (6) Invitations to marriage of S. A. Eliot and Frances Stone Hopkinson,
Oct. 22, 1889
bMS 594/14 (7) Lee Prize Readings, Oct. 20, 1881 (printed list; includes S. A. Eliot)
bMS 594/14 (8) Longfellow Memorial Association - certificate of membership of S. A. Eliot
bMS 594/14 (9) McGiffert, Cushman (son-in-law) - biography of S. A. Eliot (handwritten manuscript)
bMS 594/14 (10)- Memorial services for S. A. Eliot and Frances H. Eliot, Aug. 19, 1951 and (11) July 8, 1956; including tributes, newspaper accounts, etc.
bMS 594/14 (12) Ministry - "Report of the committee on the improvement of the condition of the ministry" (pamphlet; undated)
bMS 594/14 (13) Mt. Auburn Cemetery - plan, 1924
bMS 594/14 (14) "Move against Dr. S. A. Eliot: Unitarian laymen's treasurer would elect new president" (newspaper clipping; undated)
bMS 594/14 (15) Negroes
bMS 594/14 (16)- Northeast Harbor, ME - Union Church; and Mount Desert Larger (17) Parish/Union Meeting House, Somesville, ME - mixed documents
bMS 594/14 (18) Northeast Harbor, ME - Union Church - centennial celebration (includes various historical and topical material), 1989
bMS 594/14 (19) Office of the Minister - Committee on ~ - questionnaire
bMS 594/14 (20) "Our ten years with Dr. Eliot" (remarks by Ellenor Lane at meeting held in Arlington St. Church to celebrate 32nd anniversary of founding of Czechoslovakia), Oct. 28, 1950
bMS 594/15 (1) Parish Council (Northeast Harbor, ME) - meeting minutes, 1929-1930
bMS 594/15 (2) Personal file
bMS 594/15 (3) Plans for sale or distribution of books and periodicals
bMS 594/15 (4) Postcards
bMS 594/15 (5) "Questions and answers" [re work of the AUA], 1912 (pamphlet)
bMS 594/15 (6) Rogers Trust, 1930-1941
bMS 594/15 (7) "Scrap heaps or repair shops" (additional material on prisons)
bMS 594/15 (8) Theological schools - Conference on ~, Cambridge, MA, Aug. 13-16, 1918
bMS 594/15 (9) "Tomorrow's a wonderful day" (film documentary made at Samuel A. Eliot Village in Ben Shemen, Israel, presented by Children of Palestine, Inc.) - invitation to showing
bMS 594/15 (10) The Transcendentalists: an Anthology edited by Perry Miller (Cambridge: Harvard University Press) - review by S. A. Eliot in The Christian Register, vol. 129, no. 9 (Oct. 1950)
bMS 594/15 (11) Unitarian body - ideas for organization of ~
bMS 594/15 (12) Unitarian churches - correspondence re plans for ~, 1922-1926
bMS 594/15 (13) United Unitarian Appeal and Sunday denominational affairs, 1946
bMS 594/15 (14) Ward, Winthrop
bMS 594/15 (15) Whitman, Mrs. - pressed leaf in envelope, 1904
bMS 594/15 (16) Wilbur, Dr. and Mrs. Earl M. - notes on conference re S. A. Eliot, May 27, 1951
bMS 594/15 (17) World Alliance Congress, 1937
bMS 594/15 (18) World Council of Churches - Unitarian position, 1938
bMS 594/15 (19) Writings by other people?
bMS 594/15 (20) Yale Divinity School, 1887-1888

Series V. Photographs and Oversized Material

bMS 594/16 (1) Childhood - various people, 1860's (13 photos)
bMS 594/16 (2) S. A. Eliot's classmates, 1881-1886 (eight photos)
bMS 594/16 (3) S. A. Eliot's friends, etc., 1881-1901 (13 photos)
bMS 594/16 (4) "The General", Auburn, NY; house at Willow Point, Owasco Lake, 1886
(four photos)
bMS 594/16 (5) Nassau, 1887 (eight photos)
bMS 594/16 (6) Studio portraits of S. A. Eliot, 1887-ca. 1910 (12 photos)
bMS 594/16 (7) S. A. Eliot, Frances H. Eliot and the Baldwins; M. E. Watson (grandmother) and Dorothy Watson, 1889 (two photos)
bMS 594/16 (8) Frances H. Eliot, 1889-1895 (four photos)
bMS 594/16 (9) Charles W. Eliot I, -1907 (seven photos)
bMS 594/16 (10) Charles W. Eliot I, 1906-1907 (two photos and one drawing/etching)
bMS 594/16 (11) Studio portraits of S. A. Eliot, later years (eight photos and one clipping of portrait)
bMS 594/16 (12) U. S. Board of Indian Commissioners, 1914-1933 (13 photos)
bMS 594/16 (13) Various group photos, 1920-1943 (six photos)
bMS 594/16 (14) Family gatherings, 1937-1950 (six photos)
bMS 594/16 (15) Duplicates of S. A. Eliot portraits (nine photos and four reprints/clippings)
bMS 594/16 (16) Memorial stone to S. A. Eliot and Frances H. Eliot "for over seventy summers they rejoiced in God's goodness on this island," ca. late 1950's (one photo)
bMS 594/17 (1) Certificate of membership, The Bunker Hill Monument Association, undated
bMS 594/17 (2) Certificate of gratitude for years of service, Arlington St. Church, Boston, undated (ca. 1949)
bMS 594/17 (3) Th. D. diploma, Harvard University, 1925
bMS 594/17 (4) Certificate of gratitude for years of service, Arlington St. Church, Boston,
undated (ca. 1947) (framed)
bMS 594/17 (5) Print of drawing of Unitarian Church, Washington, DC, dedicated by S. A. Eliot (framed)
bMS 594/17 (6) "First Aid Certificate" to Frances H. Eliot from American National Red Cross, April 14, 1916 (framed)
bMS 594/17 (7) Small portrait photograph [of Frances H. Eliot?], undated (in leather and velvet frame case)
bMS 594/17 (8) Medals - Harvard College, 1884 and other (12 items)