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Edward Livingston Wells papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 1170
Abstract:

Nearly half the papers are made up of the texts of Edward Livingston Wells' sermons and a series of lectures on Genesis. The remainder consists of notes (in French) made while he was a student at the Protestant Theological Seminary in Montauban, France.

Dates: 1854-1870

Stephen Williams family papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 1430
Abstract:

The papers consist of a diary kept by Stephen Williams, 1742-1747, of daily life and religious reflection; diaries of his son Andrew Williams, 1783-1785, while teaching school in Cambridge, Massachusetts; and diaries and notes of another son Timothy Williams, 1783 and 1788-1790, which document his education at Yale College and his life in Woodstock and Norwich, Connecticut.

Dates: 1742-1815

James Lockwood Wright papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 1078
Abstract: The papers consist of eleven volumes of a journal kept by Wright from his first years at Yale College in 1828. While there he reports on a lecture by Elias Boudinot on behalf of the Cherokee nation and various temperance and abolition activities. The journals are chiefly devoted to religious meditations and describe the various revival movements of his era and his evangelical work with black residents of New Haven. He also records various aspects of his personal life including five mental...
Dates: 1828-1858