The Hastings Collection, Religious Box 3 - Seventeenth-century sermons and sermon notes

GEMMS Manuscript ID
GEMMS-MANUSCRIPT- 1246
(old series: GEMMS-MANUSCRIPT-1199)
Title
Seventeenth-century sermons and sermon notes
Shelfmark
The Hastings Collection, Religious Box 3
Creation Date
ca. 1600 - 1847
Contents Note

This box contains religious papers, chiefly of the Hastings family and primarily dating from the seventeenth century.

Acquisition

The Hastings Collection was purchased by the Huntington Library in January 1927 from Maggs Bros. of London, who had acquired the papers from Edith Maud Abney-Hastings, Countess of Loudoun. In addition, a group of c. 100 miscellaneous Hastings manuscripts was purchased from Lady Edith Maclaren in 1977.

Source of Data

Guide to British Historical Manuscripts in the Huntington Library (San Marino, CA: Huntington Library, 1982), pp. 78-82 and 138; Henry E. Huntington Library Hastings Manuscripts, ed. by Kim Watson (List & Index Record Society, 1987), pp. 287-288; Hannah Yip.

Other Note

The Hastings Collection contains 50,000 items and is the family archive for the Earls of Huntingdon, dating from 1100 to the 1890s.

Sermons Contained
URLs
http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8d2200p/entire_text/ Information about the Hastings Family Papers.
GEMMS record created
September 24, 2019
GEMMS record last edited
July 15, 2024