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Charitable society for the education of indigent pious young men for the ministry of the Gospel records

 Collection
Call Number: MS 1242
Abstract:

The records include a copy of a constitution, minutes of annual meetings, financial accounts, and correspondence. These papers are also known as the Connecticut Education Society Records.

Dates: 1814-1909

James Wesley Cooper papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 791
Abstract: Chiefly correspondence and diaries of James Wesley Cooper documenting his career as a Congregational minister, and his service as a Fellow of Yale University (1886-1916). The only personal correspondence are forty-four letters from Cooper to his fiancée in 1865 and fourteen additional letters (1877-1905). The diaries (1869-1914) provide a daily record of his work as a minister and of his visits to churches and schools in the South supported by the American Missionary Association. He was an...
Dates: 1787-1925, bulk 1787-1916

Gad Day family papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 1225
Abstract: Four generations of a Connecticut and Massachusetts family, beginning with Josiah Day who is represented by his surveyor's notebook, 1742-1743. The principal figure is his great-grandson, George Edward Day,clergyman and professor at the Yale Divinity School, 1863-1895. Included in the papers are his correspondence, a diary (1832-1837), genealogical notebooks and the account book of his estate. Also represented are his father, Gad Day, with correspondence, accounts and deeds (1811-1844), his...
Dates: 1742-1910

Divinity School, Yale University, records

 Collection
Call Number: RU 167
Abstract:

The records consist of reports, minutes, lists, correspondence, subject files, daybooks, alumni records, student prize materials, and student data documenting the administrative operations of the Yale Divinity School.

Dates: 1825-1991

Divinity School, Yale University, student records

 Collection
Call Number: RU 913
Abstract:

The records consist of letters, application forms, transcripts, notes, recommendations, and evaluations documenting students of the Yale Divinity School.

Dates: circa 1845-1999

Gilbert-Cheever family papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 700
Abstract: The papers document the families formed by the marriages of two sisters, Mary and Fanny Goodridge, to William Hinman Gilbert and Henry A. Cheever, respectively. William H. Gilbert was a clergyman from Weston, Connecticut who, with his wife, taught in schools in Vermont and Massachusetts. Henry A. Cheever was a sea captain who settled in San Francisco ca. 1853 and brought his wife and children there from Massachusetts. The papers consist of correspondence, diaries, journals, record books,...
Dates: 1836-1891

Sterling Divinity Quadrangle, Yale University, photographs

 Collection
Call Number: RU 628
Abstract:

The materials consist of photographs documenting the construction of Sterling Divinity Quadrangle at Yale. Also included are interior and exterior views.

Dates: 1931-1959

Karl Owen Thompson collection

 Collection
Call Number: MS 1217
Abstract:

A collection of approximately one hundred letters relating to Yale University. Included are letters by five Yale presidents, Yale faculty members, and letters received by George E. Day of the Divinity School. Also an essay in Latin written in 1859 by A. W. Van Hengel.

Dates: 1828-1932