Box 3

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Letter from Charles Washburn Clark to Henry Ferguson, 9/19/1903

Letter from Henry Ferguson to Charles E. Graves, Treasurer of Trinity College, 9/24/1903

Letter, “The best I have,” from Henry Ferguson to Emma J. Ferguson, ca. 1906

Letter from E.M. Camp to Emma J. Ferguson, 4/1/1920

Letter from the Diocese of Rhode Island to Emma J. Ferguson, 6/23/1920

Scope and Contents 1) Register of Services: each entry is numbered (1-1748) and dated (5/29/1872-6/22/1890). The entry includes the part of the service given (e.g. evening prayer, litany, and so forth), the number of the sermon Ferguson used (if applicable), the church at which the service was held and its geographical location, and any additional relevant remarks (e.g. “First service as Rector”).2) List and Index of Sermons: each entry is numbered (1-324) and dated (11/1869-12/24/1892). The list...

Scope and Contents Entries are arranged alphabetically by title/first words:“Bid you farewell and Godspeed…”“Brought up at the feet of Gamaliel…” [earlier draft appended]“The Church a fraternity”“Communicants meeting”“The Great Event which we Recall Today…”“I therefore the prisoner of the Lord…”“Lift up your eyes and look on the fields…”“Mirabilia”“My brethren be strong in the Lord…”...

Scope and Contents Lectures are arranged alphabetically by title/first words. If possible, date or place of first delivery (or both) is given.“The Church and the Roman Empire Lecture VI: The Church and the Barbarians” [undated]“The Great Revolution of the Fourth Century” [undated]“Lecture 1: The Church in the Time of Tertullian,” Saratoga Summer School of Theology, 7/21/1896Lecture 2: “The Faith of the Prayer Book, 5/1879, Trinity Church, Claremont, NH ...

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Lectures are arranged alphabetically by title/first words. If possible, date or place of first delivery (or both) is given.

“Lectures upon Church History” includes: Preface; Lecture I: The Church of the First Three Centuries; Lecture III: The Church of Western Europe; and Lecture IV: The Reformation in Western Europe; Christ Church, Hartford, CT, spring 1892

“Sin: A Lent Lecture” [undated]

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Henry Ferguson papers is a small collection which consists primarily of over several hundred handwritten sermons preached by Ferguson throughout his career as an ordained minister in the Episcopal Church. The collection also includes other writings such as essays and lectures, some of which Ferguson presumably delivered while a professor at Trinity College from 1883 until 1906, as well as at St. Paul's School, Concord, NH from 1906 until 1911. In addition, the collection contains a...

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Entries are arranged alphabetically by title/first words:

“Asceticism and Monasticism”

“St. Augustine”

“St. Benedict the Monk”

“Chapter 1: The World into which Christ Came”

“Cyprian, the Bishop”

“Monasticism was no new thing…”

“St. Jerome, the Scholar”

“Tertullian, The Apologist”

Scope and Contents “I pass on now to the offerings…” [letter to congregation], undated“…to the funds…” [fragment], undated“Interpolations” [fragment], undated“as it appears…” [fragment], undatedLog of illness, undatedMap of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, 1889Miscellaneous notes on Charles I of Anjou, circa 1913Miscellaneous notes in foreign languages, circa 1913“The Mineral Resources of the Philippines,” 1911...

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Certificate of Baptism for Henry Ferguson, 6/11/1848

Certificates (blank) of Confirmation, Holy Communion, and Holy Matrimony

"Ordination to the Priesthood of Reverend Henry Ferguson" (sermon preached at Ferguson's ordination, likely by Bishop Niles), 6/6/1873

"Questions upon Confirmation" (handwritten), undated