Hopedale Community collection, 1821-1938
By: [ed. by Jack T. Ericson]
Series: Hopedale Community collection, 1821-1938
Publisher: Microfilming Corporation of America
Published: 1976
Place of publication: Glen Rock, N.J
Language: eng
Format: [microform] /
Subjects: Collective settlements; History; Sources; Periodicals; Christian socialism; Universalism; Hopedale Community
Description: A collection of materials related to the Hopedale Community of Mendon, Massachusetts. The collection contains manuscript materials (minutes of the Hopedale Community, minutes of the meetings of the Hopedale Inductive Communion, proceedings of the trustees and executive council of Fraternal Community No. 1, financial records, the Inductive Harbinger, Adin Ballou's funeral and marriage registers, an 1854 map of Hopedale, photographs), 9 serials (including the complete Practical Christian, 1840-1860, Radical Spiritualist, Spiritual Reformer, The Progressive Age, the Modern Age, The Independent Messenger, The Non-Resistant), printed matter 1823-1938 (books, pamphlets, tracts, broadsides, including 40 works by Ballou).
Notes: Principal repository of the microfilmed collection is the Bancroft Memorial Library, Hopedale, Mass.
Table of contents: title: Manuscripts, 1821-1918; title: Serials, 1831-1860; title: Printed matter, 1823-1938.