Samuel Johnson papers, 1710-1971, bulk 1710-1772

Summary Information

Description

Summary

Three volumes of correspondence, including some letterbook copies; many sermons, individually bound; prayers; and other manuscript materials. Correspondenbce is with many of his well known contemporaries and deals largely with matters pertaining to his church or to King's College. Shelved with the collection are two card file boxes containing an old handwritten calendar with abstracts, 1710-1914, a set of cross reference entries, and a calendar of material not at Columbia, 1715-1785. Additional letters have been added

Arrangement

Cataloged.

Using the Collection

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Preferred Citation

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Samuel Johnson papers; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.

Accruals

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Ownership and Custodial History

Gift, ca.1914.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Papers: Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--1914. Accession number--M-1914.

Various items: Source of acquisition--Columbiana. Method of acquisition--Transfer; Date of acquisition--1978. Accession number--M-1978.

SJ manuscript: Source of acquisition--6341B, 6192B& 2293B. Method of acquisition--Purchase; Date of acquisition--02/10/1993. Accession number--M-93-02-10.

About the Finding Aid / Processing Information

Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Processing Information

Papers Processed BRC 11/--/1984.

Various items Cataloged HR 1978.

SJ manuscript Cataloged HR 12/09/1996.

Biographical / Historical

First President of King's College (1754-1763), Anglican minister& philosopher.

Subject Headings

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Genre/Form
Abstracts (summaries)	CLIO Catalog	ArchiveGRID
Accounts	CLIO Catalog	ArchiveGRID
Addresses	CLIO Catalog	ArchiveGRID
Bibliographies	CLIO Catalog	ArchiveGRID
Calendars (documents)	CLIO Catalog	ArchiveGRID
Card files	CLIO Catalog	ArchiveGRID
Essays	CLIO Catalog	ArchiveGRID
First drafts	CLIO Catalog	ArchiveGRID
Journals	CLIO Catalog	ArchiveGRID
Letterpress copybooks	CLIO Catalog	ArchiveGRID
Licenses	CLIO Catalog	ArchiveGRID
Lists (document genres)	CLIO Catalog	ArchiveGRID
Notebooks	CLIO Catalog	ArchiveGRID
Notes (documents)	CLIO Catalog	ArchiveGRID
Orations	CLIO Catalog	ArchiveGRID
Prayers	CLIO Catalog	ArchiveGRID
Questionnaires	CLIO Catalog	ArchiveGRID
Samplers	CLIO Catalog	ArchiveGRID
Sermons	CLIO Catalog	ArchiveGRID
Wills	CLIO Catalog	ArchiveGRID
Writs	CLIO Catalog	ArchiveGRID
indexes (reference sources)	CLIO Catalog	ArchiveGRID
Name
Antill, Edward, 1742-1789	CLIO Catalog	ArchiveGRID
Auchmuty, Samuel, 1722-1777	CLIO Catalog	ArchiveGRID
Barclay, Henry, 1712-1764	CLIO Catalog	ArchiveGRID
Bearcroft, Philip, 1697-1761	CLIO Catalog	ArchiveGRID
Berkeley, George, 1685-1753	CLIO Catalog	ArchiveGRID
Bostwick, David, 1721-1763	CLIO Catalog	ArchiveGRID
Chandler, Thomas Bradbury, 1726-1790	CLIO Catalog	ArchiveGRID
Colden, Cadwallader, 1688-1776	CLIO Catalog	ArchiveGRID
Colman, Benjamin, 1673-1747	CLIO Catalog	ArchiveGRID
Columbia University	CLIO Catalog	ArchiveGRID
Cooper, Myles, 1737-1785	CLIO Catalog	ArchiveGRID
Foxcroft, Thomas, 1697-1769	CLIO Catalog	ArchiveGRID
Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790	CLIO Catalog	ArchiveGRID
Horsmanden, Daniel, 1694-1778	CLIO Catalog	ArchiveGRID
Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784	CLIO Catalog	ArchiveGRID
Johnson, William Samuel, 1727-1819	CLIO Catalog	ArchiveGRID
King's College (New York, N.Y.)	CLIO Catalog	ArchiveGRID
Monis, Judah, 1683-1764	CLIO Catalog	ArchiveGRID
Parkhurst, John, 1728-1797	CLIO Catalog	ArchiveGRID
Peters, Richard, 1704-1776	CLIO Catalog	ArchiveGRID
Sewall, Stephen, 1734-1804	CLIO Catalog	ArchiveGRID
Stuyvesant, Nicholas William, -1780	CLIO Catalog	ArchiveGRID
Watts, John, 1715-1789	CLIO Catalog	ArchiveGRID
Wheelock, Eleazar, 1711-1779	CLIO Catalog	ArchiveGRID
Subject
Catalogs	CLIO Catalog	ArchiveGRID
Clergy	CLIO Catalog	ArchiveGRID
College presidents -- 18th century	CLIO Catalog	ArchiveGRID
Deeds	CLIO Catalog	ArchiveGRID
Missionaries -- 18th century	CLIO Catalog	ArchiveGRID
Philosophers -- 18th century	CLIO Catalog	ArchiveGRID