Donating Manuscripts and Archival Materials

General Information

The following guidelines from the Society of American Archivists offer good general information about donating records to an archival repository:

• Guide to Donating Your Personal or Family Papers to a Repository

• Guide to Donating Your Organizational Records to a Repository

Donating to Andover-Harvard Theological Library

Please contact the curator of manuscripts and archives (617.496.5153) if you are interested in donating manuscripts or archival records to Andover-Harvard Theological Library.

For information about the the library's collecting guidelines and about preparing your materials for donation, please see the following:

• Donating Faculty Papers

• Donating Unitarian Universalist Minister Papers
  (Includes UU ministers and other individuals on a selected basis)

• Donating UU Congregational Records

• Donating UU and UUSC Institutional Records

Records and personal papers are governed by terms of a legal gift agreement, contracted between Harvard University and the donor. Here are two samples of gift agreements. You will need Adobe Reader (download) or comparable software to read documents in Portable Document Format (PDF).

• Sample gift agreement for a collection of personal papers (PDF)

• Sample gift agreement for a collection of organizational records (PDF)