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• Author/Creator:Stiles, Ezra, 1727-1795.
  
• Title:Ezra Stiles papers, 1667-1991 (bulk 1740-1795).
  
• Physical Description:40.23 linear feet (89 boxes) + 3 broadside
  
• Links:View a description and listing of collection contents in the finding aid
  Materials acquired 1805-circa 1975: view page-level subject indexes in A Guide to the Microfilm Edition of the Ezra Stiles Papers at Yale University
  View a selection of digital images in the Beinecke Library's Digital Images Online database
  

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  • Location:BEINECKE (Non-Circulating)
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  • Call Number: GEN MSS 1475
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    
  • Notes: Former call numbers: Ms Vault Stiles, Uncat Ms Vault File Stiles, Uncat Ms Vault 321, Gen Mss File 468, Gen Mss Misc 2986 F-1, Gen Mss Misc 3032 F-1, Gen Mss Misc 3032 F-2, MS Vault Section 2 Drawer 1, Ms Vault Shelves North Haven, MS Vault Shelves Yale, Z20 005 1, Z20 005 2, Z20 005 3, Z20 005 4, Z34 099, Z36 006/6, Z36 270, ZZ35 5, ZZ35 5:2, and Z117 175/3
    

   
• Notes:Associated material: Edward Taylor Collection (GEN MSS 1476), Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
  Associated material: Records of the Treasurer, Yale University (RU 151), Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library.
  Associated material: Yale University Corporation Records (RU 164), Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library.
  Associated material: Yale Objects Collection (RU 104), Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library.
  Associated material: Ezra Stiles Collection (MSS 7), New Haven Museum.
  Associated material: Second Congregational Church Records, Newport Historical Society.
  Chiefly in English and Latin; some materials in Hebrew or French.
  Bequest of Ezra Stiles (Yale 1746), 1805. Additions acquired by gift and purchase from Stiles family descendants and other sources, circa 1805-2011. For more information, see the finding aid.
  
• Organization:Organized into seven series: I. Correspondence, 1703-1903. II. Itineraries, 1760-1794. III. Literary Diary, 1769-1795. IV. Meteorological Journals, 1763-1795. V. Miscellaneous Volumes and Papers, 1667-1948. VI. Sermons, 1751-1794. VII. Information About Ezra Stiles and the Stiles Papers, 1957-1991.
  
• Access and use:This material is open for research. Items requiring conservation treatment: restricted fragile material. Temporary removal forms have been filed in the Papers. Microfilm or paper reference surrogates may be available. For further information consult the appropriate curator.
• Biographical / Historical note:Ezra Stiles (1727-1795) (Yale 1746), minister of the Second Congregational Church, Newport, Rhode Island, 1755-1776, and the First Congregational Church, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 1777; Yale College tutor, 1749-1755, and president of Yale College, 1777-1795.
  
• Summary:The Ezra Stiles Papers contain correspondence; autograph manuscript writings, many incorporating maps and drawings; personal papers and artifacts; family papers; and writings by others and printed material owned by Ezra Stiles or the Stiles family. Correspondence, 1740s-1795, consists of incoming letters, autograph manuscript copies of outgoing letters, and related family and third-party correspondence. Writings by Stiles, 1740s-1795, include research notes, drafts, and other works, with emphases on biblical scholarship and languages; New England history, church history, and population; Native American population, languages, and cultures; and astronomy, meteorology, and silk production. Other papers include diaries relating to his research and writing, 1769-1795; diaries containing notes on travel in New England and the middle-Atlantic region, 1760-1794; diaries of weather observation in Newport, Rhode Island, and New Haven, Connecticut, 1763-1795; and sermons, 1751-1789. Most materials date from Stiles’s years as a minister in Newport, Rhode Island, 1755-1777, or his career at Yale as a student and tutor, 1742-1755, and as president, from 1777 until his death in 1795. Also present is a small amount of manuscripts relating to New England history or the Stiles family, 1660s-1730s; family papers, 1790s-1830s; papers of later descendants, 1840-1940s; and printed material about Stiles and the Stiles Papers, 1950s-1990s. The Papers document Stiles’s career as a clergyman and educator, his intellectual interests, and his engagement with colleagues and contemporary events. The Papers are a resource for the study of Yale and New Haven history, Native Americans in New England, and colonial and American religion, education, politics, science, and intellectual and social life.
  
• Publications:The Literary Diary of Ezra Stiles, edited by Franklin Bowditch Dexter (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1901).
  Extracts From the Itineraries and Other Miscellanies of Ezra Stiles, edited by Franklin Bowditch Dexter. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1916).
  
• Other formats:Materials acquired 1805-circa 1975: available on microfilm from Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
  
• Format:Archives or Manuscripts
• Indexes/Finding aids:Finding aid available.
  For page-level subject indexing of Series II. Itineraries, Series III. Literary Diary, and Series V. Miscellaneous Volumes and Papers, see A Guide to the Microfilm Edition of the Ezra Stiles Papers at Yale University, edited by Harold E. Selesky (New Haven: Yale University Library, 1978).
  
• Cite as:Ezra Stiles Papers. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
  
• Subjects:Alison, Francis, 1705-1779.
  Brattle, William, 1662-1717.
  Callender, John, 1706-1748.
  Chauncy, Charles, 1705-1787.
  Clap, Thomas, 1703-1767.
  Daggett, Naphtali, 1727-1780.
  Dwight, Abigail Williams Sergeant, 1721-1791.
  Eliot, Jared, 1685-1763.
  Foote, Charles J.
  Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.
  Gale, Benjamin, 1715-1790.
  Gannett, Ezra S. (Ezra Stiles), 1801-1871.
  Gannett, Ruth Stiles, 1765-1808.
  Holmes, Abiel, 1763-1837.
  Holmes, Mary Stiles, 1767-1795.
  Honeywood, St. John, 1763-1798.
  Hubbard, John, 1703-1773.
  Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826.
  Karigal, Haijm Isaac, 1733-1777.
  Leavitt, Emilia Stiles, 1762-1833.
  Leavitt, Jonathan, 1764-1831.
  Lydius, John Henry, 1694-1791.
  Stiles, Abel, 1709-1783.
  Stiles, Elizabeth, 1758-1795.
  Stiles, Elizabeth Hubbard, 1731-1775.
  Stiles, Ezra, 1727-1795.
  Stiles, Ezra, 1759-1784.
  Stiles, Isaac, 1697-1760.
  Stiles, Mary Checkley, 1745-1801.
  Taylor, Edward, 1642-1729.
  Washington, George, 1732-1799.
  Webster, Pelatiah, 1726-1795.
  Whittelsey, Chauncey, 1717-1787.
  Winthrop, John, 1714-1779.
  Stiles family.
  Hubbard family.
  Leavitt family.
  Taylor family.
  Congregational Church (North Haven, Conn.)
  Great Britain. Stamp Act (1765)--Early works to 1800.
  North Church (Portsmouth, N.H.)
  Redwood Library Company.
  Second Congregational Church (Newport, R.I.)
  Yale College (1718-1887)
  Yale College (1718-1887)--Administration.
  Yale College (1718-1887)--Examinations.
  Yale College (1718-1887)--Faculty.
  Yale College (1718-1887)--Finance.
  Yale College (1718-1887)--Presidents.
  Yale College (1718-1887)--Students.
  Bible--Theology--Early works to 1800.
  Astronomy--Observations--Early works to 1800.
  Clergy--Connecticut--Early works to 1800.
  College presidents--Connecticut--Early works to 1800.
  College teachers--Connecticut--Early works to 1800.
  Comets--Early works to 1800.
  Congregational churches--New England--Early works to 1800.
  Congregational churches--Connecticut--Early works to 1800.
  Congregational churches--Clergy--Early works to 1800.
  Congregational churches--Doctrines--Early works to 1800.
  Congregational churches--Education--Early works to 1800.
  Congregational churches--Sermons--18th century.
  Congregationalists--New England--Early works to 1800.
  Great Awakening--Early works to 1800.
  Hebrew language--Study and teaching--Early works to 1800.
  Indians of North America--New England--Early works to 1800.
  Indians of North America--New England--Antiquities--Early works to 1800.
  Indians of North America--Connecticut--Early works to 1800.
  Indians of North America--Rhode Island--Early works to 1800.
  Indians of North America--Languages--Early works to 1800.
  Indians of North America--Population--Early works to 1800.
  Meteorology--New England--Early works to 1800.
  Meteorology--Observations--Early works to 1800.
  Pequot Indians--Early works to 1800.
  Printing--Connecticut--Early works to 1800.
  Scientific apparatus and instruments--New England--Early works to 1800.
  Sermons, American--New England--18th century.
  Silk industry--New England--Early works to 1800.
  New England--Church history--18th century.
  New England--Description and travel--Early works to 1800.
  New England--Intellectual life.
  New England--Maps--Early works to 1800.
  New England--Social life and customs--18th century.
  New England--Social life and customs--To 1775.
  New Haven (Conn.)--History.
  New Haven (Conn.)--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
  New Haven (Conn.)--History--Revolution, 1775-1783.
  New Haven (Conn.)--History--Invasion, 1779.
  New Haven (Conn.)--Intellectual life--18th century.
  New Haven (Conn.)--Maps--Early works to 1800.
  New Haven (Conn.)--Population--Early works to 1800.
  New Haven (Conn.)--Religious life and customs--Early works to 1800.
  New Haven (Conn.)--Social life and customs--18th century.
  Rhode Island--History.
  Rhode Island--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
  Rhode Island--History--Revolution, 1775-1783.
  Newport (R.I.)--Intellectual life--18th century.
  Newport (R.I.)--Maps--Early works to 1800.
  Newport (R.I.)--Population--Early works to 1800.
  Newport (R.I.)--Religious life and customs--Early works to 1800.
  Newport (R.I.)--Social life and customs--18th century.
  United States--Church history--To 1775.
  United States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
  United States--History--French and Indian War, 1754-1763.
  United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783.
  United States--History--Confederation, 1783-1789.
  United States--History--1783-1815.
  Venus (Planet)--Transit--Early works to 1800.
  United States--Church history--18th century.
  
• Genre/Form:Almanacs--New England--18th century.
  Buckles (strap accessories)
  Diaries--Connecticut--New Haven--18th century.
  Diaries--Rhode Island--Newport--18th century.
  Drawings (visual works)
  Manuscript maps.
  Orations--Connecticut--18th century.
  Seals (artifacts)
  Sermons--Connecticut--18th century.
  Sermons--Rhode Island--18th century.
  Storage boxes.
  Weather diaries--Connecticut--New Haven--18th century.
  Weather diaries--New England--18th century.
  Weather diaries--Rhode Island--Newport--18th century.
  
• Occupation:Clergy Connecticut 18th century.
  College presidents Connecticut 18th century.
  College teachers Connecticut 18th century.