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barnh1900.xml
A Guide to the Henry Barnard Papers at the Connecticut
Historical Society
Compiled by NHPRC Prjoect Staff
EAD conversion sponsored by grant funding from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission. Grant # 98-101
Connecticut Historical Society,
November 1998
1 Elizabeth Street Hartford, CT 06105
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Henry Barnard
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Henry Barnard Papers
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1828-1899
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Collection consists
predominantly of correspondence to and from Henry Barnard
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2 boxes; 30
folders; 254 items; 0.40 feet
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Manuscript stacks
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An index of 83 catalog cards is
available to access Barnard related material in other collections at the item level. Access is
through writer, recipient and date. The card catalog is located in the library reading room.
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Daniel Coit Gilman Papers. MS. 1,Milton S.
Eisenhower Library,The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD.
Henry Barnard Papers. Trinity College and the Watkinson Library, Hartford, CT.
Henry Barnard Papers. Fales Library and the Elmer Holmes Bobst Library, New York, NY.
Henry Barnard
Papers and the Elias Loomis Papers. Beinecke Rare Book and
Manuscript Library,Yale University, New
Haven, CT.
Horace Mann Papers. Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, MA.
Letters of Henry Barnard. Special Collections, James P. Adams
Library, Providence, RI.
Manuscript
Collection. Rhode Island Historical Society, Providence, RI.
Lyman Draper Collection. The State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, WI.
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Collection consists predominantly of correspondence, both personal and business related. Of
particular noet are those letters addressed to Barnard as corresponding secretary of the
Connecticut Historical Society concerning a celebration of the first Constitution of Connecticut.
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Materials are organized into 3 series, based
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Emily Barnard Collection
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Connecticut
Historical Society Collection
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Broadsides
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Materials in this collection are arranged
chronologically in each series to compliment access points from the card catalog.
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Henry Barnard was born on January 24, 1811 in Hartford, Connecticut, to Chauncey Barnard and Elizabeth Andrus. Barnard graduated with a BA from Yale
College in 1830 and before studying law taught at Wellsboro Academy inPennsylvania. He studied law
with Willis Hall in New York City, and with William Hungerford in Hartford; in 1833 he
entered Yale Law School. He was admitted to the Connecticut bar in
1835.
That same year Barnard was elected to the Connecticut General
Assembly(without even standing as a candidate), and was returned in that capacity
for three successive years. In1838 he framed a Bill for the State Board of School
Commissioners, passed as
'An Act to provide for the better supervision of the common
schools.'
His proposals, which meant an increase in taxes, met with some opposition from
conservatives, and as the political climate changed Barnard left the Legislature.
Barnard,
however, remained in Hartford until 1845, involving himself with the
founding of the Hartford Young Men's Institute, which later became Hartford Public Library, and with work as secretary of the Connecticut Historical Society. In 1845 he was appointed as secretary of the Board of Education of Rhode Island, returning to Connecticut in 1849 as Superintendent of Common
Schools. Between 1850and 1854 Barnard was
Principal of the state normal school in New Britain, and from 1858 until 1860, Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin. In 1851 Yale
College awarded him the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws; Union College followed in the
same year, and Harvard College in 1852.
Barnard established and edited the
Connecticut Common School Journal
, the
Journal of the Rhode Island Institute of
Instruction
, and as the encyclopedic
American Journal of Education
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ran to 32 volumes and appeared at irregular intervals until 1882. These works were instrumental
in establishing Barnard, alongside Horace Mann, as a nationally recognized educational reformer
with broad popular and political support.
Barnard became the first US Commissioner of
Education in 1867, but the noted educationalist was only partially successful in Washington,
where he found Congress ill disposed to educational reform.
Henry Barnard was married to Josephine Desnoyers of Detroit in 1847; they had five children. Barnard died in Hartford on July 5, 1900.
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Series 1: Emily Barnard Collection
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1833-1888
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13 folders; 93 items
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BARNH/1900 -- I.
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Consists of letters to Henry Barnard, poems regarding the first Constitution
of Connecticut, and replies from notable persons to invitations to the Connecticut Historical
Society's bicentennial celebration of the Constitution.
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Folder
A
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Archive control file.
Undated
(7 items)
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Folder I.1
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Invitation, letter of introduction.
1833
(2 items)
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Folder I.2
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Letters to Henry Barnard, and of introduction.
1834
(3
items)
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Folder I.3
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Letters to Henry Barnard, and of introduction.
1835
(15 items)
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Folder I.4
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Letters to Henry Barnard,
and of introduction.
1836
(7 items)
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Folder I.5
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Letters to Henry Barnard, and of introduction.
1838
(6 items)
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Folder I.6
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Letters to Henry Barnard.
1839
(6 items)
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Folder I.7
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Letters to Henry Barnard re. the Connecticut Historical Society's celebration of the
first Constitution of Connecticut.
April 3-10, 1840
(15 items)
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Folder I.8
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Letters to Henry Barnard re.
the Connecticut Historical Society's celebration of the first Constitution
of Connecticut.
April
11-20, 1840
(19 items)
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Folder I.9
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Letters to Henry Barnard, and of introduction.
April 21-30, 1840
(2 items)
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Folder I.10
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Poems sent to Henry Barnard for the Connecticut Historical Society celebration of the first Constitution of
Connecticut.
April,
1840
(3 items)
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Folder I.11
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Letters to Henry Barnard for the Connecticut Historical Society celebration of the first Constitution of Connecticut.
April, 1840
(2 items)
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Folder I.12
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Letter of introduction for Henry Barnard.
1888
(1 item)
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Folder I.13
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Letters
to and concerning Henry Barnard.
[18--?]
(5
items)
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Series 2:
Connecticut Historical Society Collection
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1792-1838
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16 folders; 183 items
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BARNH/1900 -- II.
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Consists of
letters to and from Henry Barnard.
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Folder II.1
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Letters to Eli Todd.
1828
(2 items)
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Folder II.2
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Letters of
introduction for Henry Barnard (one in German).
1830-1835
(8 items)
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Folder II.3
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Letters
to Henry Barnard.
1836-1839
(11 item)
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Folder II.4
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Letters to Henry Barnard and supporting documents re. the Connecticut Historical Society's Celebration of
the first Constitution of Connecticut.
1840
(19 items)
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Folder II.5
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Letters to Henry Barnard.
1841-1849
(19 items)
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Folder II.6
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Letters to Henry Barnard
with supporting documents and letters of introduction. (One in French).
1850-1853
(10 items)
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Folder II.7
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Letters to Henry Barnard, and letters of introduction.
January - June, 1854
(11
items)
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Folder II.8
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Letters to Henry Barnard, and letters of introduction. (One in German, one in Dutch).
July - December,
1854
(11 item)
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Folder II.9
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Letters to Henry Barnard, and letters of
introduction.
1855-1857
(19 items)
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Folder II.10
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Letters to Henry Barnard, and letters of
introduction. (One in German).
1858-1859
(14
items)
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Folder II.11
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Letters to Henry
Barnard, and letters of introduction. (One in German).
1860-1869
(14 items)
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Folder II.12
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Correspondence of Henry Barnard, including letters in French and German).
1870-1879
(20 items)
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Folder II.13
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Letters
and, supporting documents, to Henry Barnard.
1880-1890
(11items)
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Folder II.14
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Letters to Henry Barnard.
1890-1899
(4 items)
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Folder II.15
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Letters to Henry Barnard.
18--?
(20 items)
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Folder II.16
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Letter to T. Bland. from George Tucker.
Williamsburg,
September 21, 1781
(1 item)
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Series 3: Broadsides
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1838
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1 folder; 1 item
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BARNH/1900 -- II.
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Consists of an advertisement of
lecture series at the Hartford Young Men's Institute.
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Folder II.17
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Facsimile of a broadside advertising a series of lectures at the Hartford Young Men's Institute
1838
(1 item)
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Access Restrictions
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There are no
restrictions on access to the collection.
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Use Restrictions
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Use of the material requires compliance with the Connecticut Historical Society's
Library Regulations.
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Preferred Citation
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Item,
The Henry Barnard Papers (US/CTH/BARNH/1900 -- box #. Folder #), at the Connecticut
Historical Society.
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Processing Details
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Collection was physically processed by Marilyn Paul-Lewis under an NHPRC grant (#89-003) in
November, 1998.
Finding aid and EAD instance compiled by Stephen Yearl in
November, 1998.
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Accruals
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The collection is
open, but additional material is not expected.
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