- Collection Overview
- Collection Description & Creator Information
- Access & Use
- Collection History
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Collection Overview
- Creator:
- Alward, Jonathan Pennington, 1812-1841
- Collector:
- Princeton University. Library. Special Collections
- Title:
- Selected Papers of Jonathan Pennington Alward
- Repository:
- Manuscripts Division
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/bz60cw267
- Dates:
- 1834-1874 (mostly 1834-1841)
- Size:
- 1 box and 0.4 linear feet
- Storage Note:
- Firestone Library (mss): Box 1
- Language:
- English
Abstract
The Jonathan Pennington Alward Collection consists of correspondence and assorted writings of the Basking Ridge, N.J., native Jonathan Pennington Alward—a clergyman, missionary, and graduate of Princeton (Class of 1836)—and his family.
Collection Description & Creator Information
- Description:
Consists of works, correspondence, and journals of Alward. Included are sermons, school essays, letters to his parents, brother, and sisters while a student at the College of New Jersey (now Princeton) and the Princeton Theological Seminary, and as a missionary. Alward's journals (1839-1840) describe his lengthy ocean voyage to Africa on board the Saluda, visits to various places in Liberia, West Africa, where he and others were seeking to establish a mission in the interests of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church, and their return to the United States after deciding on Cettra Kroo, Liberia, as a suitable place for the mission. Also present are a letter (circa 1840) by Alward to Walter Lowrie presenting an account of his travels and letters by his younger brother, Joseph (Class of 1853), and other family members.
- Collection Creator Biography:
Alward was an American clergyman and missionary, a graduate of Princeton (Class of 1836).
Collection History
- Acquisition:
Gift of estate of Mary E. Alward.
- Archival Appraisal Information:
No appraisal information is available.
- Processing Information:
This collection was processed by Jim Flannery in 2003. Finding aid written by Jim Flannery in 2003.
Access & Use
- Access Restrictions:
Collection is open for research use.
- Conditions for Reproduction and Use:
Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. No further photoduplication of copies of material in the collection can be made when Princeton University Library does not own the original. Inquiries regarding publishing material from the collection should be directed to RBSC Public Services staff through the Ask Us! form. The library has no information on the status of literary rights in the collection and researchers are responsible for determining any questions of copyright.
- Credit this material:
Selected Papers of Jonathan Pennington Alward; Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/bz60cw267
- Location:
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Firestone LibraryOne Washington RoadPrinceton, NJ 08544, USA(609) 258-3184
Find More
- Subject Terms:
- Clergy -- United States -- 19th century.
Missionaries -- Liberia -- 19th century.
Missions -- Liberia -- 19th century.
Ocean travel -- 19th century. - Genre Terms:
- Family papers.
Journals.
Sermons. - Names:
- College of New Jersey (Princeton, N.J.)
College of New Jersey (Princeton, N.J.). Class of 1836.
Saluda (Ship).
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Foreign Missions - Places:
- Africa, West -- Description and travel -- 19th century.
Liberia -- History -- To 1847 -- Sources.
