Samuel Ralph Harlow papers
Scope and Contents
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.
Dates
- created: 1862-1970
- Other: Date acquired: 10/01/1977
Creator
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright to these papers has not been assigned to the Amistad Research Center. It is the responsibility of an author to secure permission for publication from the holder of the copyright to any material contained in this collection.
Extent
9.62 Linear Feet
Language of Materials
English
Source of Acquisition
Ruth Harlow (Mrs. Harold J. Berman)
Method of Acquisition
Gift
Appraisal Information
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.
Other Descriptive Information
Detailed finding aid with correspondence index attached as PDF.
Processing Information
Processed January 1979 by Lester G. Sullivan Jr.
Subject
- American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (Organization)
- Amerikaniko Kollegio Hellados (Athens, Greece) (Organization)
- Harlow, S. Ralph (Samuel Alpha), 1885-1972 (Person)
- International College (Smyrna, Turkey) (Organization)
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (Organization)
- Smith College (Organization)
Geographic
Topical
- Armenian massacres, 1915-1923
- Christians -- Arab countries
- Congregational churches -- Clergy
- Congregationalists
- Future life
- Genocide -- Turkey
- Human rights
- Jewish-Arab relations
- Pacifism
- Parapsychology
- Spanish-American War, 1898
- Spiritualism
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
- Zionism
Uniform Title
- Title
- Samuel Ralph Harlow papers
- Author
- Lester G. Sullivan Jr.
- Description rules
- Other Unmapped
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- eng
Repository Details
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