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Samuel Ralph Harlow papers

 Collection
Identifier: 167

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.

Title
Samuel Ralph Harlow papers
Author
Lester G. Sullivan Jr.
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Language of description note
eng

Repository Details

Part of the Amistad Research Center Repository

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