Jonathan Edwards collection GEN MSS 151 Windsor, Connecticut; son Jonathan Edwards (1745-1801) and his son Jonathan Walter Edwards; and sister Hannah Edwards Wetmore (1713-1773) and her daughter Lucy Wetmore Whittelsey. Series IV, Edwards Family Writings (1704-1904), is arranged alphabetically by author and then by title. There are a large number of religious writings such as sermons and confessions of faith, as well as personal diaries. Included are Timothy Edwards's sermon notebooks, the journal of Jonathan Edwards (1841-1886), kept while he was a child, four sermons by Chauncey Whittelsey, and a "memoranda" written by a Mrs. Pearce after the death of her husband, on a piece of paper joined to itself, which may have been worn as an armband (box 24, folder 1376). There are also fourteen sermons and other writings by unidentified authors. Series V, Edwards Family Correspondence (1715-1908) is organized into four subseries: Jonathan Edwards (1745-1801), Jonathan Walter Edwards, Hannah Edwards Wetmore, and Other Correspondents. In Jonathan Edwards's correspondence, there are seven folders of letters to his son Jonathan Walter Edwards, and two folders of letters from Calvin Chapin. Principal correspondents of Jonathan Walters Edwards include a Jonathan Edwards (whose letters date from 1814-1819), Moses Tryon, and Mary Edwards Hoyt. Hannah Edwards Wetmore's letters include letters from John Sargeant, a suitor of hers whose presence caused a rift with her betrothed, a Mr. Rockwell. A paper in Series X entitled, "Hard Hearted Hannah" by John De K. Alsop discusses this correspondence (box 37, folder 1669). The Other Correspondents file includes letters to Joseph Bellamy, Samuel Andrew Law, Chauncey Whittelsey, and Lucy Wetmore Whittelsey. Series VI, Genealogical Notes and Other Family Papers (1696-1891), is housed a single box. Besides the genealogical notes, it includes documents such as wills, indentures, deeds, certificates, a prayer in Mahican (box 29, folder 1596), and a bound volume of manuscript poems and printed illustrations belonging to Lydia Eliza Hollingsworth Kennedy (box 29, folder 1605). Series VII, Printed Material , is arranged alphabetically by title when known, or type of material; family Bibles and other volumes, however, are listed at the end of the series, as stored. The series includes pamphlets, ephemera removed from (and referenced to) family Bibles, clippings, an array of Bibles and religious works belonging to family members, and a broadside Thanksgiving Proclamation by George Washington in October 1789 (box 38, folder 1682). Series VIII, Visual Material (1783-1908), contains a box of vintage cabinet cards, daguerreotypes, engravings, silhouettes, and photographic postcards of Edwards family members. Series IX, Artifacts , includes a scrap of Sarah Pierpont Edwards's wedding dress and a linen bedsheet made by Esther Stoddard Edwards (box 36, folder 1656). Series X, History of the Papers (1767-1972) is organized into two sections: Correspondence, arranged by correspondent, and Agreements, Inventories, and Related Papers, arranged alphabetically by type. The correspondence consists of letters between descendants of Edwards, and regards the disposition of the papers. Page 7 of 125