Abner Johnson Leavenworth Papers, 1825-1850.

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.

Terms of access:

Before publishing quotations or excerpts from any materials, permission must be obtained from the Curator of Manuscripts, Swem Library, College of William and Mary and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.

Preferred citation:

Abner Johnson Leavenworth Papers, Manuscripts and Rare Books Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Summary

Creator:
Leavenworth, Abner Johnson.
Abstract:
Papers of Rev. Abner J. Leavenworth.
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

Abner Johnson Leavenworth Papers, Manuscripts and Rare Books Department, 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.

Almost all of letters are to or from A. J. Leavenworth.

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.

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, n.d.

Followed by a letter from an unknown person to A. G. M[?] asking for aid in securing a position with the South Side Rail Road.

Arrangement:

This collection has been broken down into three Series: Series 1 are the letters, Series 2 are the accounts and Series 3 are other papers.

Physical description:
121 items.