Correspondence, 1961

This collection documents the life, career, and interests of Samuel Ralph Harlow, who was a Congregational clergyman, missionary to the Near East, and professor of religion and Biblical literature at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. The collection is comprised largely of correspondence (ca. 3800 items), along with diaries, sermons, poems, prayers, manuscripts of Harlow's books, other writings, scrapbooks, and other papers that relate to Harlow's interest in the afterlife and paranormal phenomena. Other subjects include the Harlow family, Smith College and other schools, Christian religious publications, International College at Smyrna (Turkey, later in Beirut, Lebanon), Pierce College at Athens, (later in Ellinikos, Greece), Arab countries, Zionism and Israel, American Jewry, NAACP, African Americans and race relations, social action, pacifism, political topics, Massachusetts history, Abraham Lincoln, other historical subjects, and Harlow's travels. Harlow's papers include a scrapbook of clippings on the Spanish-American War, pasted over a letter book kept by Harlow's grandfather, Roland Greene Usher, while a U.S. Army paymaster during the Civil War. Correspondents include Marian Anderson, James L. Barton, Herbert Roswell Bates, Harold J. Berman, Ruth (Harlow) Berman, Roland B. Gittelsohn, Catherine Harlow, Elizabeth Harlow, Harold C. Harlow, Jr., John Stafford Harlow, Evan Hill, John Haynes Holmes, John F. Kennedy, Phyllis Monteleone, Rose Morse, Florence W. Pell, James Perkins, Linda Carol Harlow Robinson, Abram L. Sacher, Ian Stephenson, Kenneth A. Taylor, Norman Thomas, Jack Van, Carl Herman Voss, and Anna Whitworth.