Series 1: Memorial books, 1830 -- 1909
This series is open for research.
2.25 linear feet; 2.25 linear feet; 5 boxes
This series contains bound "In Memoriam" books. There is a four volume set, followed by three other books for a total of seven books. Volume one contains family notices, sermons and addresses, tributes to Dr. Adams, notes on his resignation from the pastorate, his last illness, the death of Dr. Adams, and obituary notices. The topics are covered by newspaper clippings, typescripts, and published pamphlets. Volume two contains correspondence to members of Adams' family and other individuals, congratulatory letters on the Bishop Potter controversy, pastoral letters and letters to the senior class of UTS in 1880, and an account of a visit to the Czar and the Evangelical Alliance abroad. The letters are typed copies which also contain pasted newspaper clippings. Volume three contains sermons, addresses, correspondence, minutes, and further obituary and death information for William Adams. The materials are typed copies and also contain pasted newspaper clippings. The end of the book contains original material including a diploma from Andover Seminary dated 1830. Volume four contains typed copies of letters to Adams's first wife, Susan, from 1830, and to his second wife, Martha, 1834-1835. The final letter is one from Martha to her husband dated 1880. Untitled volumes 1-2 were created to memorialize Dr. Adams after his death; however the publication of the books never came to fruition. His daughter Mary E. Brown made two typed copies of these books. One pertained to William Adams' time as President of Union from 1873-1880, and contains a series of letters and testimonials on Dr. Adams's work at the seminary, with reminiscences of the faculty as well as the students after Adams' death. Thomas Hastings, Charles Cuthbert Hall, Charles Briggs, Francis Brown and Charles Gillett are just a few of the people who reminisced about Adams in the book dated 1893-1909. There are two copies of this volume. The final volume contains newspaper clippings and whole newspapers, sermons, pamphlets, typescripts, and obituaries for William Adams.
This series is arranged in numerical order by volume.
Series 2: Sermons, 1834-1873
This series is open for research.
12 linear feet; 12 linear feet; 24 boxes
This series contains sermons written by Adams from the 1830s through the mid-1870s.
This series is arranged chronologically.
Box Series 2 Box 1
Numbers 62-115, 1834-1835
Box Series 2 Box 2
Numbers 116-171, 1836-1837
Box Series 2 Box 3
Numbers 172-234, 1837-1838
Box Series 2 Box 4
Numbers 235-279, 1838-1839
Box Series 2 Box 5
Numbers 280-344, 1840-1841
Box Series 2 Box 6
Numbers 345-408, 1841-1843
Box Series 2 Box 7
Numbers 409-468, 1844-1846
Box Series 2 Box 8
Numbers 469-529, 1847-1848
Box Series 2 Box 9
Numbers 530-584, 1849-1850
Box Series 2 Box 10
Numbers 585-641, 1851-1853
Box Series 2 Box 11
Numbers 642-691, 1853-1854
Box Series 2 Box 12
Numbers 692-739, 1855-1856
Box Series 2 Box 13
Numbers 740-801, 1857-1858
Box Series 2 Box 14
Numbers 802-841, 1859-1860
Box Series 2 Box 15
Numbers 842-874, 1860-1861
Box Series 2 Box 16
Numbers 875-914, 1861-1862
Box Series 2 Box 17
Numbers 915-956, 1862-1863
Box Series 2 Box 18
Numbers 957-994, 1863-1865
Box Series 2 Box 19
Numbers 995-1024, 1865
Box Series 2 Box 20
Numbers 1025-1068 , 1866-1867
Box Series 2 Box 21
Numbers 1069-1118 , 1867-1868
Box Series 2 Box 22
Numbers 1119-1174 , 1869-1870
Box Series 2 Box 23
Numbers 1175-1217 , 1871-1872
Box Series 2 Box 24
Numbers 1218-1265 , 1872-1873