Correspondence, May 1849-December 1850

The records of the Missionary Lyceum survived in five volumes of varying sizes, entitled Account book, Records, Register, Correspondence, and Letter book. In the fall of 1978, in order to preserve them longer, the letters were removed from the letter book, put into folders, and the decaying volume discarded. An alphabetical index of letter-writers was made. The small amount of correspondence in the Correspondence volume was also removed and the volume discarded.

The contents of the Correspondence volume are now found in Folder 1. They include 16 letters to and from the Lyceum, copied over by the corresponding secretary. The file also includes "Memorandum of the correspondence of the M. Lyceum" and lists of corresponding members, honorary members, and honorary members ex officio.

The correspondence that was removed from the letter book is now in folders 2-14. A name index to the correspondence in folders 1-14 is as follows: Abeel, D. Bangs, Nathan (President 1841-42) Bannister, Henry (Class of 1836) Burton, Jabez Bushnell, Horace (Honorary 1842) Cogswell, William Curry, Daniel (Class of 1837) Dempster, John (Honorary 1848) Disoway, Gabriel P. (Honorary 1833) Durbin, J. P. (Class of 1853) Dwight, H. (Class of l835) Fisk, H.F. (Class of l860) Fisk, Willbur (President 1830-1839) Fitzgerald, Adelaide Fox, Henry G. Fulton, James Greene, D. Hall, Charles Hale, J.G. Haven, Erastus O. (Class 1842) Jacobs, Simon P. Kettell, George F. Kidder, Daniel P. (Class of 1836) King, Jonas Kingsbury, Benj. Jr. La, Daniel Leagen, M., et. al. Lovejoy, J. Palmer, L. Parker, Benj. W. Peters, Absalom Rich, Charles Ripley, H.W. Seys, John Simpson, M. Spaulding, Justin (Honorary 1844) Spaulding, R. Stevens, A. Stone, A.S. Suckley, George Tefft, Benjamin F. (Class 1835) True, Charles K. Trumbull, Robert Wilson, A. Winslow, M.

The Record of Meetings, in box 2 folder 1, includes minutes of meetings, rosters of members for every year, and versions of constitutions dated October 1834, 1 May 1848, and summer 1858.

The Register, in box 2 folder 2, includes an address on the motives for sustaining the Missionary Lyceum and the obligation of Christian students to sustain it (21 September 1834); a report on the Green Bay Mission (4 January 1836); a report on the moral and religious condition of the Ottoman Empire (18 April 1836); and rosters of members, classes of 1859-1873.

The Account Book, in box 2 folder 3, includes income, expenditures, initiation fees, and receipts. Most expenditures were for wood, oil, locks, and cleaning and repairs. It also records payments by members to the Chique Chaque Eating Club.