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Collections of Papers

between 1701 and 1929

Park family papers

Sterling Memorial Library, Yale University, New Haven Connecticut

Litchfield, Connecticut

16 boxes

The Park family papers are composed of correspondence and other papers of Park family members collected and preserved for their autograph or historical value. The papers include six volumes of mounted autograph items as well as unbound documents of American and European authors, scientists, military leaders, statesmen, and clergymen. The papers include a large collection of documents relating to the history, faculty, and administration of Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, and of the Andover Theological Seminary. Particularly numerous are the personal and professional papers of Eliphalet Pearson. The papers also include several documents of John Hoff Duke of Charleston, South Carolina as well as estate papers of Augustine Prevost and documents relating to the early history of Wrentham, ...Massachusetts. Papers of Park family members include intra-family correspondence and items of related Burr, Edwards, and Reeve family members. Marion Edwards Peck's correspondence documents her college years at Bryn Mawr. Correspondence with M. Carey Thomas in the 1920s details the transition of leadership at the college.
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