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Contributing Institution:
The Huntington Library
Title: Zachary Macaulay papers
Creator:
Macaulay, Zachary,
1768-1838
Identifier/Call Number: mssMY
Physical Description:
31 Linear Feet
(24 boxes and 3 volumes)
Physical Description:
1,014 Items
Date (inclusive): 1793-1888
Abstract: The Zachary Macaulay papers consist of
letters, manuscripts, and documents relating to the affairs of Zachary Macaulay and his
family from 1793-1888.
Language of Material:
English .
Open to qualified researchers by prior application through the Reader Services Department.
For more information, contact Reader Services.
The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to quote from
or publish images of this material, nor does it charge fees for such activities. The
responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is one, and obtaining
necessary permissions rests with the researcher.
[Identification of item]. Zachary Macaulay papers, The Huntington Library, San Marino,
California.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Purchased from Maggs Bros. of London, 1952.
Zachary Macaulay (1768-1838), was an English philanthropist and abolitionist, and member of
the Clapham Sect; governor of the Freedom Province, a colony established in Sierra Leone for
the freed slaves (1793-1799); secretary of the Sierra Leone Company (1799-1808); editor of
the Christian observer (1802-1823); and one of the founders of the Anti-Slavery society.
Letters, manuscripts, and documents relating to the affairs of Zachary Macaulay and his
family; Hannah More, Clapham Sect, especially Henry Thornton and his family; the antislavery
movement, including the affairs of the Sierra Leone Colony, Anti-Slavery society, and
activities of William Wilberforce, Thomas Clarkson, and other abolitionists. Of particular
importance is Macaulay's journal kept while governor of the Sierra Leone colony. Social life
in Calcutta in 1863 as represented in the papers of Macaulay's son-in-law, Sir Charles
Edward Trevelyan, governor of Madras (1859-1860) and finance minister of India (1862-1865),
his wife, Hannah More Macaulay Trevelyan, and their children.
Processed by Huntington Library staff, 1955. In 2019, Gina C Giang created a finding
aid.
Existence and Location of Copies
This collection has been digitized in its entirety (with the exception of Box 18, Folders
13-14, Box 21, and Box 22) and the digital reproductions are available in the
Huntington Digital Library.
Existence and Location of Copies
Available in microfilm as part of Abolition & emancipation. Part 1 [microform] : papers
of Thomas Clarkson, William Lloyd Garrison, Zachary Macaulay, Harriet Martineau, Harriet
Beecher Stowe & William Wilberforce from the Huntington Library. mss MFilm 00813 reel
1-9.
Materials arranged chronologically.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Antislavery movements -- Great
Britain
Clapham Sect
Freedmen -- Sierra Leone
Slave trade -- Great Britain
Great Britain -- History -- 18th century -- Sources
Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
-- Sources
Kolkata (India) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century
Sierra Leone -- History -- To 1896 -- Sources
Family papers -- Great Britain
Journals (accounts) -- Great Britain
Personal papers -- Great Britain
Letters (correspondence) -- Great Britain
Clarkson, Thomas, 1760-1846
More, Hannah, 1745-1833
Trevelyan, Charles E. (Charles Edward),
1807-1886
Trevelyan, Hannah More Macaulay, Lady,
1810-1873
Anti-slavery Society (Great
Britain)
Sierra Leone Company
Madras (India : Presidency). Governor (Trevelyan: 1859-1860)
Macaulay (Family)
Trevelyan family