[Sermons].
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Watertown - SpecialHIST CONVERS FRANCIS COLLECTION CF 67 1818-1819 Sermons 1-21Library Use Only
Watertown - SpecialHIST CONVERS FRANCIS COLLECTION CF 68 1819-1821 Sermons 22-49Library Use Only
Watertown - SpecialHIST CONVERS FRANCIS COLLECTION CF 69 1820 Sermons 50-76Library Use Only
Watertown - SpecialHIST CONVERS FRANCIS COLLECTION CF 70 1820-1821 Sermons 77-100Library Use Only
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A collection of individually published sermons.
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On the back page, Francis writes the locations of where he gave the sermon and at what times.
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C. Francis used a sermon more than once.
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Beilby Porteus (or Porteous; 8 May 1731-13 May 1809), successively Bishop of Chester and of London was an Anglican reformer and leading abolitionist in England - see box 14.
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Numbers 25 and 26 sermon are missing in Box 2.
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No 270, Francis adds "weather bad, cardigan thin."
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No. 334 is missing from box 12.
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No. 432 has a title page: Errors in education, a discourse delivered at the anniversary of Derby Academy in Hingham May 21, 1828 by Convers Francis, minster of the Congregational Church in Watertown, published by request. Note on T.p. "This discourse was published & the manuscript sent back to me". Many of Convers Francis' sermons were published in the Liberal Preacher, published 1827-1843
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No. 443 has a partial letter tucked inside. It was also published in the Liberal Preacher, May 1832.
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Sermons no. 557 is missing from box 17.
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Sermons no. 564 and no. 570 are missing in box 18.
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Sermons nos. 572-626 and 628-630 are missing.
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Sermons no. 627 and no. 631 are found in box 18.
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Sermons nos. 632-702 are missing.
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Sermons nos. 710, 712-713, 717-1718, and 720 are missing from box 19.
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In box 20, the number 760 is used twice with the same title but appears to have been revised.
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No sermon no. 761 seems to exist.
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Sermons nos. 769-787 are missing from box 20.
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Sermons nos. 801 and 802 are missing from box 21.
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Sermon 817 has notes written on the back of partial letters in box 22.
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Sermon 830 is missing from box 22.
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Sermons no. 905 to 952 are missing from box 24.
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Sermons 982-984 are missing from box 24.
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Sermon no 993 is missing from box 24.
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Sermon 1036 is missing from box 25.
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Several sermons in box 25 were first given in the Watertown Baptist church.
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Sermon 1053 cover is pasted on top of sermon 1056 in box 26.
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After 1842, Francis was Parkman Professor of Pulpit Eloquence at Harvard.
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Sermon 1081 has insert from "Life Correspondence of Robert Southey, edited by his son" p.125 New York ed.
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Written on the cover of sermon 1087: Hymn 738 in the Cheshire collection.
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Sermon no 1092 is missing from box 26.
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All but two sermons in box 26 between sermon1040 and sermon 1062 were delivered first in the Baptist Church.
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Sermons no. 1101 and 1105 are missing from box 27.
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In box 27, sermon 1104 includes a letter from son, George, concerning payment for a sermon.
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In box 27, sermon 1119, there are footnotes: "Dryden, dedication of his translation of the Georgics" and "see Grinden on Figurative Language."
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Sermon no. 1131 was given to Rev. Dr. [name illegible] on cover of sermon 1130 in box 27.
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Not on sermon 1138 in box 27, "see DeWette: Theodore, II 602c."

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Francis, C. [Sermons] .

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Francis, Convers, 1795-1863. [Sermons]. .

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Francis, Convers, 1795-1863. [Sermons] .

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Francis, Convers. [Sermons]

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