Abner Johnson Leavenworth Papers

Access and use

Location of collection:
College of William and Mary
Special Collections Research Center
Earl Gregg Swem Library
College of William and Mary
400 Landrum Drive
PO 8795
Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795
Contact for questions and access:
Phone: (757) 221-3090
Fax: (757) 221-5440
Restrictions:

Collection is open to all researchers. Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility.

Terms of access:

Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.

Preferred citation:

Abner Johnson Leavenworth Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Summary

Extent:
1.417 Linear Feet
Creator:
Leavenworth, Abner Johnson
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

Abner Johnson Leavenworth Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Background

Scope and content:

Correspondence and papers of Rev. Abner J. Leavenworth, Presbyterian clergyman relating to his theological studies at Andover, Massachusetts and New Haven, Connecticut and his ministry at Waterbury and Bristol, Connecticut, Charlotte, North Carolina and Warrenton and Petersburg, Virginia. Includes correspondence and accounts, 1835-1838, with Turner & Hughes, booksellers in Raleigh, North Carolina. Includes correspondence with his wife Elizabeth M. Peabody Leavenworth and a letter, 1832, from missionary friends in Turkey.

Mutilated

Date changed to 5 Sept[ember] 1828 by recipient of letter, 25 Aug[ust] 1828

Postscript by William Chester

Postscript by Lydia Root

Forwarded to Bristol, Connecticut

An extract from the minutes of a meeting of the committee of the American Tract Society, held in New York, 26 Jan[uary] 1836, appears on the same sheet.

Copy.

Copy. The letter includes a copy of an amendment to a contract between Abner J. Leavenworth and Joseph Sumner regarding Sumner's salary.

Forwarded to [Abner J.] Leavenworth, at Petersburg, Virginia

Postscript by E.M. Leavenworth

Includes, on same sheet, Samuel G. Whittelsey, to Rev. A.J. Leavenworth, unknown date

Copy

Copy

Copy

Letter, 1861 April 1, from Abner.J. Leavenworth, founder of Leavenworth's Female Seminary in Petersburg, Virginia to his sister. In the letter, Leavenworth writes about his failing health, confederate officers, inviting his sister to stay "before Virginia goes out of the Union,' and the aptitude of several of the female students at the seminary.

Acquisition information:
Acc. 2014.121 was received by Special Collections via Fedex on 5/19/2014. The letter was purchased for Swem Library with support from the SCRC Donors Fund.
Processing information:

Box and folder list compiled by Gabbie DeCuir in October 2012.