Nathan Welby Fiske Papers, 1824-1847
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Fiske Papers
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Fiske, N. W. (Nathan Welby), 1798-1847
Biographical History for: Fiske Papers
Biographical Note Nathan Welby Fiske, the father of Helen Hunt Jackson, was born on April 17, 1798 in Weston, Mass. He graduated with high honors from Dartmouth College in 1817. From there he went to New Castle, Maine where he had charge of the Academy there for one year. After this he returned to Dartmouth where he tutored for two years. He entered the Theological Seminary at Andover in the autumn of 1820, where he spent three years, and closed his preparatory studies for the ministry in the fall of 1823. His was not a career in the ministry, however. He spent only one year preaching in Savannah, Ga., among seamen and others not connected to any organized Christian congregations. After turning down an invitation from the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions to do missionary work in China, he accepted the appointment of Professor of Languages at Amherst College and began his duties in 1824. He was successively Professor of Latin and Greek Languages, 1824-25; Professor of Greek Language and Literature and Belles Letters, 1833-36; Professor of Moral Philosophy and Metaphysics, 1836-47. He died of dysentery in 1847 in Jerusalem, where he had gone for his health.
Scope and Contents of the Collection The bulk of his collection is comprised of notes by Fiske on Greek Language and Literature, Mental and moral philosophy and American History, in which he apparently had an interest.
Presbyterian Church--Clergy--Biography--Sources.
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Latin literature--Study and teaching--Massachusetts--Amherst.
Greek literature--Study and teaching--Massachusetts--Amherst.
Fiske, N. W. (Nathan Welby), 1798-1847.
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Amherst College--Faculty.
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series
Section 1: Correspondence
Three letters to Fiske
Two letters to Fiske
Section 2: Notes for Lectures on Greek Literature & Philosophy, Mental Philosophy, Sacred History, Ancient Geography, American History
subseries
Subsection A: GREEK LITERATURE
Outline of the course in Greek.
Notes on Greek Philosophy
Notes on Greek Literature and History.
Notes on Greek Literature
Two notebooks on Greek Literature.
Rules for pronouncing Latin and Greek - printed pamphlet.
Subsection B: MENTAL AND MORAL PHILOSOPHY
"Outlines of Mental Philosophy or Psychology in a System of Questions" - printed pamphlet (2 copies)
Notes on Will
Two notebooks on Mental Philosophy.
Three notebooks on Mental Philosophy.
Four notebooks on Mental Philosophy.
Seven notebooks on Christian Theology.
Three notebooks on Philosophy of the human mind.
Subsection C: SACRED HISTORY
Seven notebooks on Sacred History.
Subsection D: ANCIENT GEOGRAPHY
Six notes on Ancient Geography.
Six notebooks on Ancient Geography (Assyrian Empire, Egypt, Voyages of Columbus, North America)
Subsection E. AMERICAN HISTORY
Lexington
Progress of Discovery in North America.
Bunker Hill
Campaign in Louisiana, 1814, 1815
Siege of Boston
American Revolution - from Trenton and Princeton Battles to Battle of Brandywine.
Battle of Long Island and retreat to New York
Harrison's History as commander of the Northwestern Army in the late War with Great Britain.
Siege of Yorktown and Capture of Cornwallis
Burgoyne's Expedition
Pertaining to the events after Retreat from Long Island to the Battle of Trenton, including the battle of the White Plains.
Battles of Brandywine, Germantown, Rhode Island.
Causes of the American Revolution.
On the Constitution of the United States.
Evils of the Revolutionary War.
Miscellaneous notes on the Revolutionary War.
Notes for a sermon
Section 3: Published Works
Obituary address at the funeral of the Rev. Royal Washburn, Pastor of the first Church and Parish Amherst, Mass. Jan. 4, 1833 (4 copies). Also a volume containing sermon by Rev. Washburn. 1833
Book - Tuwarri: A Story of the Coral Isles, Boston, Massachusetts Sabbath School Society, 1848. 1848
Book with preface and memoir of author by Fiske: The Course of Time, a poem by Robert Pollok A.M., New York, M'Elrath and Bangee, 1832 (2 copies) 1832
Section 4: Works about Fiske
Sermon preached at the ordination of Fiske by Elias Cornelius.
A Tribute to the Memory of Rev. Nathan W. Fiske. Late Professor of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy in Amherst College by Rev. Heman Humphrey, D.D. (3 copies)
Transferred to book collection; consult library catalog for location.
Death of Professor Fiske - manuscript of article from Hampshire & Franklin Express, July 22, 1847 1847
Section 5: Miscellaneous
Notes on other professor's lectures at the Andover Theological Seminary (5notebooks)
Newspaper clippings