Descriptive Summary

Creator: Lovejoy, Elijah P. (Elijah Parish), 1802-1837

Title: Elijah P. Lovejoy, Papers

Dates: 1804-1891

Abstract: The papers of Elijah Parish Lovejoy, born in 1802 near Albion, Maine, was a preacher, editor, and abolitionist

ID: S 585.1

Quantity: 4 small boxes (1.3 linear feet)

Language: English

Repository: Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University

Biographical Sketch

Elijah Parish Lovejoy, born in 1802 near Albion, Maine, was a preacher, editor, and abolitionist. He studied theology at Princeton Theological Seminary in 1832, and served as a preacher in St. Louis, Missouri. He became editor of the Observer, a reform newspaper. In 1835, he moved to Alton, Illinois, and established a newspaper that met with opposition in the town. Three of his presses were destroyed by mobs, and Lovejoy died in 1837 while defending his fourth press.

Scope and Contents

The collection includes correspondence, sermons, lectures, newspapers, news clippings, and family memorabilia created by, or related to, Lovejoy and his family. The collection bulks with correspondence (1824-1853) and concerns abolition, temperance, religion, and theology. The first two files contain transcripts of some of the correspondence and poems compiled by college students for a class project from 1973-1974.

Due to the fragile nature of the materials, the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library has digitized this collection to protect the original materials while maintaining access.

Restrictions

Access Restrictions

Open for research

Index Terms

The subject hearings used by the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library are derived from the Library of Congress and/or locally developed.

Subjects (Persons)

Lovejoy, Elijah P. (Elijah Parish), 1802-1837

Lovejoy family

Places

Alton (Ill.)--History

Alton (Ill.)--Riot, 1837

Subjects

Abolitionists--Illinois

Abolitionists--Illinois--Alton

Abolitionists--United States

Antislavery movements

Freedom of the press--United States

Riots--Illinois--Alton--History--19th century

Related Material

For related materials located in the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, see the following collections.

Merton Lynn Dillon Papers, 1960-1961

Austin Wiswall Papers, 1863-1912

Harriet Wiswall Papers, 1863-1865 and undated

Administrative Information

Acquisition

Gifts, 1959-1961

Processed by

Abel Ramirez, 2000

Additional Sources

Dillon, Merton lynn. "Elijah P. Lovejoy: Abolitionist Editor." Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1961.

Beecher, Edward. "Narrative of Riots at Alton in Connection with the Death of Rev. Elijah P. Lovejoy." Alton, Illinois: G. Holton, 1838.

Gill, John. "Tide Without Turning: Elijah P. Lovejoy and Freedom of the press." Boston: Starr King Press, 1958

Lovejoy, Joseph Cammet and Owed Lovejoy. "Memoir of the Rev. Elijah P. Lovejoy." New York. Arno Press, 1969.

Moore, Richard Ray. "Elijah P. Lovejoy: the Making of a Reformer." Thesis (M. A.)--Texas Technological College, 1960.

Simon, Paul. "Freedom's Champion--Elijah Lovejoy." Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1994

Collection Inventory

Transcriptions compiled by Students, 1973-1974

Box 1

Folder 2, Papers: Inventory and Manuscript Transcriptions, Compiled in 1973

Folder 2, Correspondence and Manuscripts, 1804

Folder 3, Correspondence and Manuscripts, 1805

Folder 4, Correspondence and Manuscripts, 1810

Folder 5, Correspondence and Manuscripts, 1812

Folder 6, Correspondence and Manuscripts, 1807

Folder 7, Correspondence and Manuscripts, 1815

Folder 8, Correspondence and Manuscripts, 1816

Folder 9, Correspondence and Manuscripts, 1817

Folder 10, Correspondence and Manuscripts, 1820

Folder 11, Correspondence and Manuscripts, 1822

Folder 12, Correspondence and Manuscripts, 1823

Folder 13, Correspondence and Manuscripts, 1824

Folder 14, Correspondence and Manuscripts, 1825

Folder 15, Correspondence and Manuscripts, 1826

Folder 16, Correspondence and Manuscripts, 1827

Folder 17, Correspondence and Manuscripts, 1828

Folder 18, Correspondence and Manuscripts, 1829

Box 2

Folder 1, Correspondence and Manuscripts, 1830

Folder 2, Correspondence and Manuscripts, 1831

Folder 3, Correspondence and Manuscripts, 1832

Folder 4, Correspondence and Manuscripts, 1833

Folder 5, Correspondence and Manuscripts, 1834

Folder 6, Correspondence and Manuscripts, 1835

Folder 7, Correspondence and Manuscripts, 1836

Folder 8, Correspondence and Manuscripts, 1837

Folder 9, Correspondence and Manuscripts, 1838

Box 3

Folder 1, Correspondence and Manuscripts, 1839-1850

Folder 2, Correspondence and Manuscripts, 1839

Folder 3, Correspondence and Manuscripts, 1840

Folder 4, Correspondence and Manuscripts, 1841

Folder 5, Correspondence and Manuscripts, 1842

Folder 6, Correspondence and Manuscripts, 1844

Folder 7, Correspondence and Manuscripts, 1845

Folder 8, Correspondence and Manuscripts, 1843

Folder 9, Correspondence and Manuscripts, 1846

Folder 10, Correspondence and Manuscripts, 1847

Folder 11, Correspondence and Manuscripts, 1848

Folder 12, Correspondence and Manuscripts, 1849

Folder 13, Correspondence and Manuscripts, 1850

Folder 14, Correspondence and Manuscripts, 1852

Folder 15, Correspondence and Manuscripts, 1853

Folder 16, Correspondence and Manuscripts, 1854

Folder 17, Correspondence and Manuscripts, 1856

Folder 18, Correspondence and Manuscripts, 1857

Folder 19, Correspondence and Manuscripts, 1861

Folder 20, Correspondence and Manuscripts, 1862

Folder 21, Correspondence and Manuscripts, 1863

Folder 22, Correspondence and Manuscripts, 1864

Folder 23, Correspondence and Manuscripts, 1865

Folder 24, Correspondence and Manuscripts, 1867

Folder 25, Correspondence and Manuscripts, 1869

Folder 26, Correspondence and Manuscripts, 1870

Folder 27, Correspondence and Manuscripts, 1871

Folder 28, Correspondence and Manuscripts, 1872

Folder 29, Correspondence and Manuscripts, 1879

Folder 30, Correspondence and Manuscripts, 1881

Folder 31, Correspondence and Manuscripts, 1885

Folder 32, Correspondence and Manuscripts, 1886

Folder 33, Correspondence and Manuscripts, 1890

Folder 34, Correspondence and Manuscripts, 1891

Box 4

Folder 1, Essay, Manuscripts, Sermons, undated

Folder 2, Clippings, Photographs, Pamphlets, undated

Folder 3, Sermons, Poems, Correspondence, undated