Scope and Contents
The collection contains correspondence, writings, and personal and professional papers documenting the life and activities of nineteenth and early twentieth century American pastor Joseph Hopkins Twichell. Correspondence consists of letters from Twichell, chiefly to his family, dating from 1855 to 1864, and incoming letters from Frederick Edwin Church, William Reed Eastman, and others. There are notebooks and scrapbooks dating from Twichell's service in the 71st New York Volunteers during the Civil War and later materials, including journals, travel diaries, notebooks, scrapbooks, photograph albums, and drafts of sermons and speeches, document his personal and clerical activities.
Dates
- 1855-1918
Creator
Conditions Governing Access
The materials are open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
The Joseph Hopkins Twichell Papers is the physical property of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. Literary rights, including copyright, belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns. For further information, consult the appropriate curator.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Joseph Twichell and Mrs. Charles Ives, 1951, and Charles P. Twichell and Mrs. Burton P. Twichell, 1967.
Arrangement
Organized into three groupings: May 1945 Acquisition, October 1967 Acquisition, and October 1967 Acquisition.
Extent
7.72 Linear Feet (22 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Catalog Record
A record for this collection is available in Orbis, the Yale University Library catalog
Persistent URL
Abstract
Collection contains correspondence, writings, and personal and professional papers documenting the personal life and activities of Nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American pastor Joseph Hopkins Twichell. Correspondence consists of letters from Twichell, chiefly to his family, dating from 1855 to 1864, and incoming letters from Frederick Edwin Church, William Reed Eastman, and others. There are notebooks and scrapbooks dating from Twichell's service in the 71st New York Volunteers during the Civil War and later material, including journals, travel diaries, notebooks, scrapbooks, photograph albums, and drafts of sermons and speeches, document his personal and clerical activities.
Joseph Hopkins Twichell (1838-1918)
Joseph Hopkins Twichell was born 27 May 1838 in Southington, Connecticut to Edward Twichell and Selina Delight Carter. He attended schools in Southington and graduated from Yale University with the class of 1859. He began his theological studies at Union Seminary in New York, but they were interrupted by the outbreak of the Civil War, during which he served as chaplain of the 71st New York Volunteers. After the war, he resumed his theological studies at Andover Theological Seminary and, in 1865, he took over as pastor of Asylum Hill Congregational Church in Hartford, Connecticut, where he remained until his death.
Biographical information taken from "Joseph Hopkins Twichell." Dictionary of American Biography. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1936. Biography In Context. Web. 21 June 2013.
Processing Information
This collection received a basic level of processing, including rehousing and in some instances minimal organization. Various acquisitions associated with the collection have not been merged and organized as a whole. Each acquisition is described separately in the contents list below, identified by a unique call number and titled according to month and year of acquisition.
The finding aid for this collection is compiled from individual preliminary lists for each acquisition that were created at or around the time of receipt by the library. The preliminary lists were migrated to comply with current archival descriptive standards and merged into a single file in 2007-2008. As part of the migration, modifications were made to the formatting of individual lists; however, the content of the lists was neither modified nor verified. During baseline processing of the collection in 2013, minor revisions were made in the arrangement and description.
This finding aid may be updated to account for revisions in arrangement and description.
Former call numbers: Za Twichell and Uncat Za Ms 167.
- Asylum Hill Congregational Church (Hartford, Conn.)
- Authors, American -- 19th century -- Archives
- Church, Frederic Edwin, 1826-1900
- Clergy -- Connecticut -- Hartford
- Clergy -- New England -- 19th century
- Congregational churches -- Sermons
- Eastman, William Reed, 1835-1925
- Photographic prints
- Sermons -- Connecticut -- Hartford
- Twichell, Joseph Hopkins, 1838-1918
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
- United States. Army. New York Volunteers, 71st
- Title
- Guide to the Joseph Hopkins Twichell Papers
- Author
- by Beinecke staff
- Date
- 2007-05-16
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
Part of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Repository
Location
121 Wall Street
New Haven, CT 06511
Opening Hours
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