This box contains religious papers, chiefly of the Hastings family and primarily dating from the seventeenth century.
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.
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.
The Hastings Collection contains 50,000 items and is the family archive for the Earls of Huntingdon, dating from 1100 to the 1890s.
Peter Smiths first sermon -- 19 leaves, unfoliated and unpaginated
Sermon on Isaiah 40:7 -- 8 leaves, unfoliated and unpaginated