Jonathan Edwards collection GEN MSS 151 Collection Overview REPOSITORY: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library P. O. Box 208330 New Haven, CT 06520-8330 (203) 432-2977 beinecke.library@yale.edu http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/ CALL NUMBER: GEN MSS 151 CREATOR: Edwards, Jonathan, 1703-1758 TITLE: Jonathan Edwards collection DATES: 1696–1972 BULK DATES: 1726–1758 PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 18 linear feet (40 boxes) LANGUAGE: English SUMMARY: The collection consists of writings, correspondence, documents, printed materials, photographs, and artifacts documenting the lives and work of Jonathan Edwards and his family. Jonathan Edwards' papers contain the great majority of his surviving manuscripts. These include over one thousand sermons; private theological and philosophical notebooks, including the nine volume "Miscellanies" and four volume "Notes on the Scripture;" Edwards'interleaved Bible. In addition, there is a box of Jonathan Edwards' correspondence; principal correspondents include Joseph Bellamy and Thomas Foxcroft. Other Edwards family papers include several of Timothy Edwards's sermon notebooks; correspondence belonging to Jonathan Edwards (1745-1801), Jonathan Walter Edwards, and Hannah Edwards Wetmore (principal correspondents are Calvin Chapin, Moses Tryon, Joseph Bellamy, Lucy Wetmore Whittelsey and Chauncey Whittelsey); printed material (chiefly numerous family Bibles) and a broadside Thanksgiving Proclamation by George Washington dated October 1789; photographs of Edwards family members; and papers relating to the history of the collection. ONLINE FINDING AID: To cite or bookmark this finding aid, please use the following link: https:// hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.edwards Requesting Instructions To request items from this collection for use in the Beinecke Library reading room, please use the request links in the HTML version of this finding aid, available at https://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/ beinecke.edwards. To order reproductions from this collection, please send an email with the call number, box number(s), and folder number(s) to beinecke.images@yale.edu. Key to the container abbreviations used in the PDF finding aid: Page 3 of 125