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Theophilus A. Wylie papers, 1814-1992, bulk 1830-1895

A Guide to his Papers at the Indiana University Archives

Finding aid prepared by Archives Staff

Summary Information

Repository
Indiana University Archives
1320 East Tenth Street
Herman B Wells Library E460
Bloomington, IN 47405-7000
Phone: 812-855-1127
Email: archives@indiana.edu
http://www.libraries.iub.edu/archives

Creator
Wylie, Theophilus Adam, 1810-1895.

Title
Theophilus A. Wylie papers, 1814-1992, bulk 1830-1895

Collection No.
C202

Extent
6.2 cubic feet (7 boxes)

Language
Materials are in English, Greek, and Latin.

Abstract
Theophilus A. Wylie was the cousin of Indiana University's first president Andrew Wylie and spent most of his adult life at IU, beginning in 1836,serving as its librarian, professor, vice president, and at one point, its interim president. Collection consists of Wylie's correspondence, diaries, sermons, drawings, and writings.

Access Restrictions

Collection is open for research. Advance notice required.

Biographical Note

Theophilus Adam Wylie was born to Samuel Brown and Margaret Watson Wylie on 8 October 1810, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. As a young man Wylie was educated at the English Academy of Rev. Dr. S.W. Crawford and at the Wylie and Engles School where he received a “"classical" education. In 1828 Wylie entered the junior class at the University of Pennsylvania where his father was vice provost and a professor of ancient languages. Wylie completed his undergraduate work in 1830 and graduate work in 1833.

After graduation Wylie began to teah but also entered the Theological Seminary of the Reformed Presbyterian Church, following in his father's footsteps, who had served as the paster of the Reformed Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia for more than fifty years. In Wylie's diaries from this time period we learn of his reluctance to study theology, stating that his heart was not in it and that he did not think he was a very good orator. Nonetheless, he did earn a license to preach in 1836 and went on to a long career in the ministry.

1836 also marked another significant event in Wylie's life when the Indiana College Board of Trustees offered Wylie a professorship in Natural Philosophy and Chemistry. Wylie accepted the position on a pro-tempore basis and arrived in Bloomington, Indiana, to start instruction at the beginnning of the send term on 1 May 1837. Wylie was re-appointed full term to the college and faculty in Septemer 1837. After his permanent appointment Wylie returned briefly to Philedelphia to marry Rebecca Dennis on 5 November 1838.

By 1852 prospects at the now-Indiana University looked grim. Wylie’s half-cousin and University President Andrew Wylie had died in office and the new president, Alfred Ryors, lasted little more than a year. The school also suffered from chronic financial problems due in large part to regular under-funding by the state legislature. In response to the dire circumstances the school faced, Wylie took a new position at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. The situation at Indiana soon improved, however, and in 1854 during the presidency of William M. Daily, Wylie returned to campus, never to leave the school again until his retirement in 1886.

During Wylie’s tenure at IU, he served the university in a variety of functions. In addition to his position as Professor of Natural Philosophy and Chemistry from 1837-1852 and 1854-1863, Wylie also served as Professor of Ancient Languages from 1863-1867 and as Professor and chair of Natural Philosophy from 1867-1886. Wylie is also given credit for being the first professor to give significant attention to both physics and chemistry at Indiana University, building the campus’ first lab in 1840.

In addition to his role as an educator on campus, Wylie also had many administrative roles on campus. The first of these administrative roles was two stints as interim president, superintendent of buildings and grounds, University Librarian for 38 years, and service as the first vice-president of the university from 1882-1884. During Wylie’s tenure as vice-president, IU suffered the worst disaster it had known to that point in its existence. On 12 July 1883 the whole campus at seminary square burned to the ground as a result of a lightning strike directly to the science building. After much discussion, the campus was relocated to its current location at Dunn’s Woods in 1884. Wylie retired from active service at the university in 1886.

In his personal life, Wylie was a very religious man who was deeply dedicated to his family, friends, and his scientific pursuits. After the death of Andrew Wylie’s widow, Theophilus and his wife Rebecca purchased the former president’s home. The two would live with six of their eight children in this house until both of their deaths. The house served as a center of activity for Wylie’s scientific activities, including celestial studies aided by the observation deck on the roof of the house and photography upon the invention of the daguerreotype.

Wylie was an active member of the Bloomington community, serving as pastor in Bloomington’s Reformed Presbyterian Church. In 1869, Wylie’s congregation joined the United Presbyterian congregation and together they built a new church in 1872 at the Northeast corners of 9th Street and College Avenue. As a pastor, Wylie was described as more of a scholar of the bible than a great orator, with his knowledge of the classical languages allowing him a deeper insight to the testaments meaning.

Theophilus Wylie died at home on 9 June 1895. Upon his death Sarah Park Morrison, the first woman to graduate from Indiana University wrote of him:

“Great child-like man! Whose life not e’en a child could scan With else than partial eye Could Death not pass thee by? That body frail with ill beset, And now a tenement to let, The tear, not I who can Repress, Friend, Sage and Wit, and Christian Gentleman!”

Arrangement

Correspondence, Diaries, Research notes and notebooks, Ledgers and financial materials, Indiana University History research, Sermons, lectures and public addresses, Writings, Library of Theophilus A. Wylie, and Drawings.

Scope and Content Note

The papers of Theophilus Wylie have been organized into ten series: Correspondence; Diaries; Research notes and notebooks; Administrative files; Ledgers and financial materials; Indiana University history research; Sermons, lectures and public addresses; Writings and publications; Library; and Drawings.

The Correspondence series is described at the item level and is arranged in chronological order, spanning 1830-1895. Frequent correspondents include brother Theodorus William John Wylie (TWJW), Rebecca Dennis, who becomes his wife in 1838, and various Indiana University faculty and trustees.

The Diaries series contains both the original diaries kept by Theophilus Wylie during his lifetime and a sub-series of transcriptions of those diaries done by Elizabeth Greene in the 1980s. The transcriptions also contain translations of the Greek and Latin sections of the original diaries. Highlights of the diaries include passages concerning the specific goings on around the Indiana University campus from 1837 through Wylie’s retirement in 1886, including the fire of 1883 which resulted in the re-location of the university to its current location east of Seminary Square at Dunn’s Woods. The Addenda consists of material discovered after the initial transcription of the Wylie diaries. Each sub-series has been arranged in chronological order.

The Research notes and notebooks series consists of material gathered by Wylie while conducting various scientific investigations or as he was pursuing his own personal interests. The series is arranged in chronological order and consists primarily of his notebooks containing numerous chemistry and mathematical calculations.

The Administrative files series contains documents created by Wylie in the performance of various official duties. This series has been arranged in alphabetical order by folder heading and is further organized into three sub-series: General administrative files, Interim presidential files, and Church records. The Interim presidential files cover Wylie’s short tenure as interim president after William Daily’s departure in 1859. Included in this sub-series are records concerning purchases for the university library, his class attendance records, reports, draft resolutions drawn up by the university faculty, a baccalaureate address to the senior class, and documentation dealing with the senior exams in 1859. The Church records sub-series contains the minutes of the Monroe County Bible Society, the membership roster of Reformed Presbyterian Church from 1840-1857 and a document detailing the transfer of church property to the United Presbyterian Church circa 1872.

The Ledgers and financial material series is comprised of material relating to financial transactions undertaken by Wylie. The series is arranged in chronological order, with the second half of the collection documenting the running of the household at Wylie house, which is now a historic landmark registered with the National Register of Historic Places. The Indiana University history research series chronicles Wylie’s work on his publication Indiana University, its history from 1820, when founded, to 1890. Included in this series are lists of IU alumni, faculty members, and administrators. This series is arranged in alphabetical order.

The Sermons, lectures, and public addresses series comprise all of the surviving public speeches Wylie gave during his lifetime. The bulk of the series consists of religious sermons delivered by Wylie as pastor of the Reformed Presbyterian Church in Bloomington, Indiana. Most are fully written out addresses but in some instances, there are simply notes that he most likely later turned into full addresses. The first subseries, By Subject, are arranged in chronological order. The second subseries includes lectures by Wylie based on the books of the Bible, and is arranged according to the book's placement in the Bible. The bulk of this material deals with the book of Psalms, the book of Matthew, and the book of Revelation. This subseries also includes un-translated passages in both Greek and Latin.

The Writings and publications series is one of the smaller series in the collection and is comprised primarily of poetry written by Wylie. The series is arranged in alphabetical order by title of the work.

The Library series contains material documenting the development and growth of Wylie’s personal library, which was donated to Indiana University by the Boisen Family when ownership of Wylie house was transferred to the University. Today the complete book collection can be accessed at Wylie house by appointment. In this series there is a list of books that comprise the collection found at Wylie house, and a piece written by Anton Boisen about the history of the library. Also found in this series is a sub-series of pamphlets collected by Wylie and assumed to have been part of his library; contained therein are catalogues from other institutions and assorted published lectures. The series is arranged in alphabetical order.

The Drawings series consists of drawings rendered by Theophilus Wylie. An accomplished artist in his spare time, Wylie frequently drew renditions of his surroundings at Wylie House, in Bloomington, and of his interpretations of the political climate of the time. Items of interest in this series include a political cartoon entitled “Major Jack Downing his Vision,” various images of Wylie House, and a drawing of the university campus in its former location at Seminary Square before the fire of 1883. This series is arranged in alphabetical order.

The final series, Ephemera, consists of odds and ends collected by TAW -- newspaper clippings, recipes, menus, etc.

Separated Material

There are ephemera items stored separately that are associated with this collection. The ephemera items include proto-type mercury switches invented by Wylie. For more information on these items, please ask the Archives staff.

Folders "Semi-Centennial Anniversary of the United Presbyterian Congregation of Bloomington, Indiana" and "Sarah Showers property assessment" were transfered to the Bloomington and Monroe County historical collection, Collection C219, in August 2019.

Related Material

See also the Andrew Wylie papers ( Collection C1), the presidential records of Andrew Wylie ( Collection C207), as well as the Wylie family papers ( Collection C203). Indiana University’s Wylie House Museum also holds extensive manuscript materials from the Wylie families.

Related photographs may be available in the University Archives Photograph Database Link

Administrative Information

Acquisition Information
Accessions 1098, 1220, 1223, 1225, 1054, 1186, 96/022, 0437, 1225, and 0749.
Usage Restrictions
Collection is in the public domain. For more information, please contact the Indiana University Archives staff.
Preferred Citation
[Item], Theophilus A. Wylie papers, Collection C202, Indiana University Archives, Bloomington.
Processing Information
Processed by Archives Staff.

Completed in 2015.

Folder List

Series: Box 1 Correspondence, 1830-1895,  undated 
Philomathean Society to TAW, 1830  [image]View item(s)
Alexander Black to TAW, 1 January 1830  [image]View item(s)
Adam Wylie to TAW, 18 December 1830  [image]View item(s)
Ebenezer N. Elliott to TAW, 18 December 1830  [image]View item(s)
TAW to Andrew Wylie? regarding Chair of Pure Mathematics, March 1830  [image]View item(s)
TAW to Mr. Blair, 1 March 1830  [image]View item(s)
Andrew Wylie to TAW, 29 March 1837  [image]View item(s)
Jason Blaisden to TAW regarding TAW's election to Professorship, 30 March 1837  [image]View item(s)
John N. McLeod to TAW, 11 April 1837  [image]View item(s)
Susan Wylie (sister) to TAW, 2 May 1837  [image]View item(s)
Henry C. Davis, W.A. Gorman, and B.L.T. Henderson to TAW regarding Philomathean Society, 16 May 1837  [image]View item(s)
Samuel Wylie (cousin) to TAW, 29 May 1837  [image]View item(s)
Margaret McLeod (sister) to TAW, 9 June 1837  [image]View item(s)
Samuel Brown Wylie (father) to TAW, 9 June 1837  [image]View item(s)
Susan Wylie (sister) to TAW, 9 June 1837  [image]View item(s)
John N. McLeod (Brother-in-law) to TAW, 29 June 1837  [image]View item(s)
W. J. Wylie to TAW regarding Parent’s carriage accident and health, 9 August 1837  [image]View item(s)
John N. McLeod to TAW, 27 August 1837  [image]View item(s)
Rebecca Isabelle Dennis to TAW,
regarding his proposal of marriage to her, 24 May 1838  [image]View item(s)
regarding Marriage Proposal, 18 June 1838  [image]View item(s)
Richard Dennis to TAW (prospective son-in-law), 28 July 1838  [image]View item(s)
Samuel Brown Wylie (father) to TAW, 15 September 1838  [image]View item(s)
John Mcleod to TAW, 15 October 1838  [image]View item(s)
Theodorus William John Wylie (TWJW) to TAW,
30 November 1838  [image]View item(s)
Samuel Brown Wylie (father) to TAW, 3 August 1840  [image]View item(s)
TWJW to TAW, 28 August 1840  [image]View item(s)
TWJW to TAW, circa 27 November 1840  [image]View item(s)
W. J. Wylie to TAW (in Latin), 1841  [image]View item(s)
Susan Wylie (sister) to TAW, 19 May 1841  [image]View item(s)
TWJW to TAW, 26 August 1841  [image]View item(s)
Susan Wylie (sister) to TAW, 27 September 1841  [image]View item(s)
F. McCollough to TAW regarding honorary membership to the Mechanics Institute, November 1841  [image]View item(s)
TWJW to TAW,
30 November 1842  [image]View item(s)
15 December 1942  [image]View item(s)
Susan Wylie (sister) to TAW, 9 August 1843  [image]View item(s)
TAW to Rebecca Wylie, 15 October 1843  [image]View item(s)
A.D. Bache to TAW regarding Bache's request for references, 27 November 1843  [image]View item(s)
TWJW to TAW, 26 March 1844  [image]View item(s)
Susan Wylie (sister) to TAW, 23 October 1844  [image]View item(s)
W.A. of Pittsburgh? to TAW re: treatment for “neuralgic condition," 28 October 1844  [image]View item(s)
TWJW to TAW, 20 February 1845  [image]View item(s)
R.Q. Roache and Students to TAW regarding course work on geology, 25 February 1845  [image]View item(s)
TWJW to TAW, 21 March 1845  [image]View item(s)
Adam Marshall to TAW, 6 June 1845  [image]View item(s)
William Kennedy to TAW, 9 August 1845  [image]View item(s)
TWJW to TAW,
28 June 1847  [image]View item(s)
21 July 1847  [image]View item(s)
A.M. Stewart to TAW, 15 September 1847  [image]View item(s)
TWJW to TAW, 2 February 1848  [image]View item(s)
J.R. Campbell to TAW, 15 April 1848  [image]View item(s)
John McLeod to TAW, 10 November 1848  [image]View item(s)
A.D Bache to TAW, 22 February 1849  [image]View item(s)
Edward H. Courtenay to TAW regarding vacancy at the college, 13 June 1849  [image]View item(s)
J. Dale to TAW, 19 July 1849  [image]View item(s)
Robert Watson (uncle) to TAW, 11 September 1849  [image]View item(s)
Joseph Bell to TAW, 15 April, 1850  [image]View item(s)
John N. McLeod (brother in-law) to TAW, 25 June 1850  [image]View item(s)
Truman Phelps to TAW, 28 June 1850  [image]View item(s)
Susan Wylie (sister) to TAW, 12 November 1850  [image]View item(s)
Margaret McLeod to TAW regarding death of TAW’s son, 27 March 1851  [image]View item(s)
Joseph Bell to TAW regarding Jenny Lind, 15 April 1851  [image]View item(s)
Unidentified cousin to TAW regarding the death of his son, 2 May 1851  [image]View item(s)
John McLeod to TAW, 15 July 1851  [image]View item(s)
TW Wylie to TAW, 17 July 1851  [image]View item(s)
Susan Wylie (sister) to TAW, August 1851  [image]View item(s)
Susan S. Dennis (mother in-law) to TAW, 26 November 1851  [image]View item(s)
W.C. Anderson to TAW, 19 March 1852  [image]View item(s)
Susan Wylie (sister) to TAW, 16 April 1852  [image]View item(s)
Robert Hamill to TAW,
9 June 1852  [image]View item(s)
6 August 1852  [image]View item(s)
J.W. Scott to TAW, 28 September 1852  [image]View item(s)
W.C. Anderson to TAW, 29 September 1852  [image]View item(s)
H. McMillan to TAW, 1 October 1852  [image]View item(s)
John McMillan to TAW, 2 October 1852  [image]View item(s)
TAW to Miami University (OH) President William Caldwell Anderson regarding offer of position, 14 October 1852  [image]View item(s)
John I. Morrison to TAW urging reconsideration of resignation, 23 October 1852  [image]View item(s)
Joel Collins to TAW regarding Professor of Mathematics position at MU, 10 November 1852  [image]View item(s)
TAW’s resignation letter to IU President Alfred Ryors, 15 November 1852  [image]View item(s)
John McLeod to TAW, 7 December 1852   [image]View item(s)
TAW to John I. Morrison regarding move from Bloomington, 6 January 1853  [image]View item(s)
R.L. Ruddick and H.T. Wilson to TAW, 14 February 1853  [image]View item(s)
George W. Hardin to TAW, 25 February 1853  [image]View item(s)
William Alexander to TAW, 21 March 1853  [image]View item(s)
P. Cory Conklin to TAW, 3 June 1853  [image]View item(s)
J.W. Dritt to TAW, 12 June, 1853  [image]View item(s)
John I. Morrison to TAW, 24 June 1853  [image]View item(s)
J. Baldwin Mabury to TAW, 10 August 1853  [image]View item(s)
J.F. Frazer to TAW, 20 August, 1853  [image]View item(s)
John I. Morrison to TAW, 23 September 1853  [image]View item(s)
Jimmy Stinson to TAW, 23 September 1853  [image]View item(s)
William Daily to TAW, 9 January 1854  [image]View item(s)
R.B. Abbott to TAW, 22 February 1854  [image]View item(s)
William Daily to TAW, 17 June 1854  [image]View item(s)
D.H. McDonald to TAW, 24 July 1854  [image]View item(s)
R. Baird to TAW,
7 September 1854  [image]View item(s)
26 September 1854  [image]View item(s)
Robert Hamill to TAW, 29 January 1855  [image]View item(s)
Daniel Read to TAW,
14 February 1855  [image]View item(s)
1 March 1855  [image]View item(s)
James Woodburn to TAW, 6 March 1855  [image]View item(s)
William M. Daily to TAW, 24 March 1855  [image]View item(s)
James Darwin Maxwell to TAW, 5 April 1855  [image]View item(s)
William M. Daily to TAW, 7 April 1855  [image]View item(s)
John Armstrong to TAW,
16 April 1855  [image]View item(s)
2 May 1855  [image]View item(s)
Charles Elliott to TAW, 14 November 1855  [image]View item(s)
J.W. Hall to TAW, requesting TAW’s return to Miami University, 27 May 1856(?)  [image]View item(s)
TAW to T.W.I. Wylie, 21 November 1856  [image]View item(s)
Isaac N. Porch to TAW, December 1856  [image]View item(s)
Caleb Mills to TAW, 8 January 1856  [image]View item(s)
S. Bollman to TAW, 9 February 1857  [image]View item(s)
William M. Daily to TAW, 3 March 1857  [image]View item(s)
William Claybourne Tarkington to TAW, 21 March 1857  [image]View item(s)
TWJW to TAW,
13 April 1857  [image]View item(s)
3 June 1857  [image]View item(s)
Lucien Greathouse to TAW, 25 June 1857  [image]View item(s)
TWJW to TAW, 4 September 1857  [image]View item(s)
John McLeod to TAW, 26 August 1857  [image]View item(s)
W.C. Tarkington to TAW, 10 December 1857  [image]View item(s)
Caleb Mills to the Faculty of Indiana University, 17 December 1856  [image]View item(s)
TAW, Elisha Ballantine, Daniel Kirkwood, and James Woodburn to Samuel C. Willson, President Indiana University Board of Trustees regarding talk of their removal, between 1858-1861  [image]View item(s)
E.G. McFerson to TAW, 18 January 1858  [image]View item(s)
William M. Daily to TAW, 20 July 1858  [image]View item(s)
Erolethian Society to TAW, 11 December 1858  [image]View item(s)
John A. Cartwright to TAW, 23 December 1858  [image]View item(s)
William M. Daily to TAW,
10 January 1859  [image]View item(s)
29 January 1859  [image]View item(s)
Robert Charles Foster to TAW, 31 January 1859  [image]View item(s)
Caleb Blood to TAW, 8 February 1859  [image]View item(s)
L. Bollman to TAW, 8 February 1859  [image]View item(s)
Jesse W. Walker to TAW, 13 February 1859  [image]View item(s)
W.K. Edwards to TAW, 1 March 1859  [image]View item(s)
TAW to John M. App, 5 March 1859  [image]View item(s)
John M. App to TAW, 9 March 1859   [image]View item(s)
Joseph Henry to TAW, 18 March 1859  [image]View item(s)
Thomas W. Zook to TAW regarding admission to IU, 19 March 1859  [image]View item(s)
Harry C. Barton to TAW, 10 April 1859  [image]View item(s)
TAW to Harry C. Barton, 15 April 1859  [image]View item(s)
Samuel Campbell Willson to TAW, 18 May 1859  [image]View item(s)
John Alley to the president and professors of Indiana University, 24 June 1859  [image]View item(s)
Elisha Ballantine to the Board of Trustees, 12 July 1859   [image]View item(s)
John G. McCallister to TAW, 12 July 1859  [image]View item(s)
Charles M. Campbell, Thomas D. Tharp, and John Mullany to TAW, 15 July 1859  [image]View item(s)
TAW to J.R.M. Bryant, 18 July 1859  [image]View item(s)
R.O. Kinne to TAW, 18 November 1859  [image]View item(s)
J.W. Faires to TAW, 19 December 1859  [image]View item(s)
TAW to former student regarding problems during Daily presidency, circa 1859-1860  [image]View item(s)
TAW to B.A. Gould regarding comet sighting, 27 June 1860  [image]View item(s)
John H. Lathrop to TAW, 28 June 1860  [image]View item(s)
A.B. Constantine to TAW regarding Sermons, 30 August 1860  [image]View item(s)
S.W. Crawford to Cousin, 9 January 1861  [image]View item(s)
Robert Hamill to TAW, 2 August 1861  [image]View item(s)
TAW to Richard Wylie, 3 August 1861  [image]View item(s)
TAW to W.S. Charles, 12 September 1861  [image]View item(s)
W.S. Stormont to TAW, 20 November 1861  [image]View item(s)
James Woodburn to TAW, 5 April 1862  [image]View item(s)
S. W. Musgrave to TAW, 18 June 1862  [image]View item(s)
Charles M. Campbell to TAW, 1 January 1863  [image]View item(s)
J.B. Sanders to TAW, 31 October 1863  [image]View item(s)
William Kirkpatrick Edwards to TAW, 12 February 1864  [image]View item(s)
Daniel Read to TAW,
21 April 1865  [image]View item(s)
16 June 1865  [image]View item(s)
B.H. Polk to TAW, 10 July 1865  [image]View item(s)
J.W. Faires to TAW, 22 January 1866  [image]View item(s)
Daniel Read to TAW, 1 May 1866  [image]View item(s)
John L. Mansfield to TAW, 17 August 1867  [image]View item(s)
Edwin M. Stanton to TAW, 21 January 1868  [image]View item(s)
Joseph Henry to TAW, 28 January 1868  [image]View item(s)
Nathan M. Brown to Rev. Turner regarding photos of TAW, 5 February 1868  [image]View item(s)
M.J. Wylie to TAW, 13 October 1868  [image]View item(s)
John F. Frazer to TAW, 26 June, 1869  [image]View item(s)
T.A. Cheney to TAW regarding photos of faculty, 24 June 1870  [image]View item(s)
George A. Bricknell to TAW, 9 July 1870  [image]View item(s)
Joseph Henry to TAW accepting I.U.'s offer to once again take observations, 9 March 1871   [image]View item(s)
TAW to Richard Owen,
15 July 1871  [image]View item(s)
regarding Bloomington campus and astronomy (Photocopy of original - see attached letter), 17 July 1871  [image]View item(s)
Julius William Youche to TAW regarding Annual appropriation to I.U. by the State Legislature, 2 December 1872  [image]View item(s)
Robert J. Morrison to TAW regarding "Bone Bank" of the Wabash River, 8 August 1873  [image]View item(s)
TAW to O.W. Gray regarding response to a request for longitude and latitude, 25 June 1874  [image]View item(s)
Hugh Aiken McKelvey to TAW regarding former student asking for a course catalog, 21 November 1874  [image]View item(s)
David Banta to TAW regarding enrollment of his son George Banta to Indiana University, 26 July 1875  [image]View item(s)
Francis M. Parker to TAW regarding statements made by Prof. Proctor in class, 30 March 1876   [image]View item(s)
Invitation to the wedding of Mary Agnew McLeod and Sinclair Adam, 7 June 1876  [image]View item(s)
Joseph H. Smith to TAW regarding illness of Daniel Kirkwood, 28 June 1876  [image]View item(s)
E. Sterling to TAW regarding meteors, 22 December 1876   [image]View item(s)
E. Sterling to TAW regarding meteor, 28 December 1876  [image]View item(s)
C.L. Doolittle to TAW regarding meteor, 29 December 1876  [image]View item(s)
Invitation- Phi Delta Theta, 1877  [image]View item(s)
C.L. Doolittle to TAW regarding meteor, 6 January 1877  [image]View item(s)
H.A. Newton to TAW regarding meteor observations, 10 April 1877  [image]View item(s)
Hermann B. Boisen to TAW (letter is in German), August 1877  [image]View item(s)
TAW to Judge Rhoades, 1878  [image]View item(s)
Rebecca Dennis Wylie to TAW, 15 July 1878  [image]View item(s)
TAW to the Bloomington City Council regarding street grading, 188?  [image]View item(s)
Persifor Frazer to TAW, 5 April 188?  [image]View item(s)
TAW to Professor Barker regarding meteor shower/dust, 25 May 1880  [image]View item(s)
O.D. Munn to TAW regarding Meteor, 5 January 1881  [image]View item(s)
W.C.L. Taylor to Theophilus Wylie regarding members of the class of 1855, 2 August 1881   [image]View item(s)
William Julius (Lowe) Bryan to TAW, 16 November 1881  [image]View item(s)
Richard Owen to TAW, 29 November 1881
Edward Kahler to TAW, 22 March 1882  [image]View item(s)
Ormaond Stowe to TAW, 7 April 1882  [image]View item(s)
R.D. Speek to TAW regarding M. Hummer, 10 April 1882  [image]View item(s)
John Eaton to TAW, 4 December 1882  [image]View item(s)
William Springer to TAW, 20 December 1882  [image]View item(s)
John W. Foster to TAW, 4 January 1883  [image]View item(s)
Benjamin Harris Brewster to TAW, 1 March 1883  [image]View item(s)
John Wanamaker to TAW, 2 July 1885  [image]View item(s)
Invitation to the 55th Meeting of the British Association For the Advancement of Science, 9 September 1885  [image]View item(s)
John W. Foster to TAW, 11 January 1886  [image]View item(s)
Rich T. Allison to TAW, 14 September 1886  [image]View item(s)
F.P. Leavenworth to TAW, 3 November 1886  [image]View item(s)
Matthew M. Campbell to TAW regarding past colleagues, 5 November 1886  [image]View item(s)
Morton C. Hunter to TAW regarding University Square, Indianapolis Real Estate Matter, 24 January 1887  [image]View item(s)
Augustus Orwig Reubelt to TAW regarding recommendation, 12 March 1887  [image]View item(s)
Charles Harris to TAW regarding asking for a recommendation, 18 March 1887  [image]View item(s)
E. Gwathmey to Theophilus Wylie regarding Brother, 24 March 1887  [image]View item(s)
James Alexander McCaughan to TAW regarding his conduct as a student under Wylie, 5 May 1887  [image]View item(s)
Richard Owen to TAW regarding geology, 18 June 1887  [image]View item(s)
B.E. Rhoads to TAW regarding sending brother’s daughter to the university, arrangements, 23 August 1887  [image]View item(s)
Augustus Orwig Reubelt to TAW, 26 September 1887  [image]View item(s)
James S. Nutt to TAW regarding biographical note in university history, 25 November 1887   [image]View item(s)
Ebenezer N. Elliott to T.A. Wylie, 12 January 1888  [image]View item(s)
Joseph Sherbourne Jenkes to TAW regarding father's death and Benjamin Harrison’s nomination for president, 6 July 1888  [image]View item(s)
John H. Kelly to TAW regarding school for his son, 18 July 1888  [image]View item(s)
George A. Bricknell to TAW regarding Wylie's 50th wedding anniversary, 14 November 1888  [image]View item(s)
Richard Owen to TAW, 4 January 1889
John W. Foster to TAW, 21 June 1889  [image]View item(s)
TAW to Richard Owen, 13 February 1890  [image]View item(s)
J.M. Bishop to TAW, 24 April 1890  [image]View item(s)
W.B. Burford (Applegate) to TAW regarding university history, 8 November 1890  [image]View item(s)
TAW to J.W. Scott, circa 1891  [image]View item(s)
Arthur C. Mellette to TAW, 3 June 1891  [image]View item(s)
TAW to Arthur C. Mellette, 14 March 1892  [image]View item(s)
Cornelia M. Trimble to TAW,
16 September 1892  [image]View item(s)
27 February 1893  [image]View item(s)
TAW to Arthur C. Mellette, 20 April 1893  [image]View item(s)
TWJW to TAW, 15 May 1893  [image]View item(s)
TAW to Arthur C. Mellette, 7 June 1893  [image]View item(s)
TAW to the Kansas Mantel Co., 26 July 1893  [image]View item(s)
TAW to Joseph Swain regarding Kirkwood Hall dedication, circa 1894  [image]View item(s)
TWJW to TAW, 30 October 1894  [image]View item(s)
Margaret McLeod to TAW, 7 December 1894  [image]View item(s)
TWJW to TAW, 11 December 1894   [image]View item(s)
Charles L. Hyde to TAW, 1 March 1895  [image]View item(s)
W.L. Anderson to TAW regarding lodgings, 9 July 18??  [image]View item(s)
J.S. Armstrong to TAW, undated  [image]View item(s)
Matthew M. Campbell to President, Monroe County Lyceum, (T.A. Wylie?), undated  [image]View item(s)
R. Harding Davis to TAW regarding Professor Harding, 16 October 18??  [image]View item(s)
Envelope Addressed to Wylie with the entire faculty listed on the front, 3 December 18??  [image]View item(s)
John F. Frazer(?) to TAW regarding nursery rhyme “Bye Baby Bunting,” undated  [image]View item(s)
Unidentified cousin to TAW regarding consideration of headmaster position at Old Milton Academy (Milton, Pennsylvania), 10 April 18??  [image]View item(s)
M.N. Scott to TAW regarding happenings in Oxford and Miami University and his/her boarding house, undated  [image]View item(s)
TWJW to TAW, undated  [image]View item(s)
Series: Box 1 Diaries, 1830-1895 
Subseries: Originals, 1830-1892 
29 June 1830-17 October 1835  [image]View item(s)
October 1831-5 April 1834  [image]View item(s)
Box 2 19 October 1835-17 March 1836  [image]View item(s)
27 February 1836-18 February 1838  [image]View item(s)
19 April 1837-1843  [image]View item(s)
Box 3 22 July 1838-14 January 1844   [image]View item(s)
15 April 1854-17 March 1858  [image]View item(s)
1 January 1857-28 December 1857  [image]View item(s)
23 May 1858-14 May 1865  [image]View item(s)
21 May 1865- 16 March 1873   [image]View item(s)
23 March 1873- 2 December 1877  [image]View item(s)
23 December 1877-27 March 1881  [image]View item(s)
3 April 1881-6 September 1885   [image]View item(s)
13 September 1885-7 October 1888  [image]View item(s)
14 October 1888-29 September 1889  [image]View item(s)
6 October 1889-3 July 1892  [image]View item(s)
Subseries: Box 3 Transcriptions of Diaries, 1987-1992 
Memo and Notes, 1987  [image]View item(s)
Title Page and Table of Contents, 1987  [image]View item(s)
Preface, 1987  [image]View item(s)
Introduction, 1987  [image]View item(s)
Journal I (29 June 1830-17 October 1835) p. 1a-81 [image]View item(s)
Journal II (19 October 1835-17 March 1836) p. 81a-136 [image]View item(s)
Journal III (27 February 1836-18 February 1838) p. 137-194 [image]View item(s)
Journal IV (19 April 1837-13 October 1843) p. 195-222 [image]View item(s)
Journal V (22 July 1838-January 1844) p. 223-254 [image]View item(s)
Journal VI (15 April 1854-17 March1858) p. 255-270 [image]View item(s)
Journal VII (1 January 1857-28 December 1857) p. 271-286 [image]View item(s)
Journal VIII (23 May-14 May 1865) p. 287-340 [image]View item(s)
Journal IX (23 March 1873-2 December 1877) p. 341-406 [image]View item(s)
Journal X (23 December 1877-27 March 1881) p. 407-456 [image]View item(s)
Journal XI (3 April 1881-6 September 1885) p. 457-532 [image]View item(s)
Journal XII (13 September 1885-7 October 1888) p. 533-590 [image]View item(s)
Journal XIII (6 October 1889-3 July 1892) p. 591-640 [image]View item(s)
Appendix p. 641-660 [image]View item(s)
Index p. 661-690 [image]View item(s)
Addenda to the TAW Diaries. Transcribed by Elizabeth M. Greene, 1992  [image]View item(s)
Series: Box 3 Research notes and notebooks, 1828-1883 
Trigonometry Notebook, 1828-1830  [image]View item(s)
Math Notebook and Poem, 1828-1832  [image]View item(s)
Chemistry Notebook, 1829  [image]View item(s)
Commonplace Book, 1835  [image]View item(s)
Box 4 Chemistry Notebook, 1839  [image]View item(s)
Chemistry Notebook, September 1840  [image]View item(s)
Commonplace Book, 1843-1892  [image]View item(s)
Notebook, November 1862 - 6 October 1883  [image]View item(s)
Orbital Revolution, notes from Daniel Kirkwood sent to TAW, 12 October 1871  [image]View item(s)
Observations about the Meteor seen in the latter part of December 1876  [image]View item(s)
Mathematical Calculations of Sound, 1879  [image]View item(s)
Examination of Water Sample from the IU Cistern, 27 July 1880  [image]View item(s)
Eclipse of the Moon, June 1881  [image]View item(s)
Astronomy, 1 June 1882   [image]View item(s)
Meterology of Indiana, July 1882 
Meteorological Record, September 1882  [image]View item(s)
Meteorological Record, November 1882  [image]View item(s)
Celestial Observation in Bloomington Related to Krakatoa, 13 December 1883  [image]View item(s)
Notebook, 1887  [image]View item(s)
Patent for Instruments for Drawing Circles #371.160, October 1887  [image]View item(s)
Geometrical Calculations for Spheres, undated  [image]View item(s)
Greek conjugations (with sermon notes on back?), undated  [image]View item(s)
Longitude and Latitude Notes, undated  [image]View item(s)
Math and Physics, undated  [image]View item(s)
Mathematical Computations, undated  [image]View item(s)
Moon Phases, undated  [image]View item(s)
Notebook, undated  [image]View item(s)
Notebook (Greek), undated  [image]View item(s)
An Oak Tree, undated  [image]View item(s)
Orbital Velocity Computations, undated  [image]View item(s)
Origin of the Modern Calendar, undated  [image]View item(s)
Original Patent Jacket, “Scientific American Patent Agency, Munn & Co., New York,” undated  [image]View item(s)
Pyramid Data, undated  [image]View item(s)
Relations of the Mean Motions of the Planets, undated  [image]View item(s)
Scientific and Mathematical Data (Algebra?), undated  [image]View item(s)
Treatments for Cholera, undated  [image]View item(s)
Series: Administrative Files, 1831-1888 
Subseries: Box 4 General, 1838-1888 
Account between TAW and Indiana University, 1838-1839  [image]View item(s)
Books Purchased for Indiana State University From G. Von Maack, Kiel, Class Record, undated  [image]View item(s)
Class Record, Grecians, Greek Grammar, Latin Grammar, Composition and Declamation-Freshman Sophomore, Junior, Senior, and Irregular classes, 2 January 1863-21 June 1867  [image]View item(s)
Class record, 1884-1885  [image]View item(s)
College Bell Receipt, 1857 August 15  [image]View item(s)
“Dr. Owen’s Queries,” Transcribed by TAW, January 1867  [image]View item(s)
Draft letter, undated  [image]View item(s)
Draft letter protesting graduation honors, 1880  [image]View item(s)
Draft of resolution of the faculty regarding Prof. Elisha Ballantine, 1867 June 10  [image]View item(s)
Exhibition of the Athenian Society, 1853 April 4  [image]View item(s)
Freshman Class of I.U. to TAW, 1855 June  [image]View item(s)
Indiana University Summer Tramp, 1880  [image]View item(s)
Library Committee Report, 1865  [image]View item(s)
List of Absentees, 1847 December 6  [image]View item(s)
Maxwell, David H. - Announcement of summer session, 1851  [image]View item(s)
Memo addressed to “Superintendents of Public Instruction…Board of Education, unsigned, undated  [image]View item(s)
Minutes of the Faculty of Miami University regarding the resignation of TAW, 1855 May 11  [image]View item(s)
Miscellaneous, circa 1883  [image]View item(s)
Petition to the Indiana Legislature, undated  [image]View item(s)
Petition of the class in Mechanics to the Faculty of Indiana University, undated  [image]View item(s)
Petition of the Senior Class to the Faculty of I.U. asking to be examined, 1862 June 9  [image]View item(s)
Professor of Physics report, circa 1883  [image]View item(s)
Professor of Physics report, 1886  [image]View item(s)
Resolution… “Resolved that the Faculty be requested to invite the next Senior Class…," undated  [image]View item(s)
Resolution of Trustees on T.A. Wylie’s Resignation, 1868  [image]View item(s)
Roll Book used by R.M. Patterson of University of Pennsylvania taken to University of Virginia, then to Indiana University by T.A. Wylie, (NOTE: not used by him until January 1838), 1838-1843  [image]View item(s)
Supplemental Report of the Trustees on Indiana State University, undated  [image]View item(s)
University contract with Bloomington regarding movement of campus to Indianapolis (clipping), undated  [image]View item(s)
42nd Commencement, 1871 June 29  [image]View item(s)
54th Commencement, June 1883  [image]View item(s)
Subseries: Box 4 Interim Presidential records, 1859 
Baccalaureate Discourse to the Graduating Class of the Indiana State University, delivered on the Sabbath Preceding the Commencement, 10 July 1859   [image]View item(s)
George P. Sander, Editor of the American Almanac, 1 March 1859  [image]View item(s)
Statement regarding the Faculty’s examination of the Senior Class, 9 June 1859   [image]View item(s)
Subseries: Box 4 Church Records, 1831-1887,   undated 
Monroe County Bible Society minutes, 18 September 1887  [image]View item(s)
Reformed Presbyterian Church, Invitation to union prayer meeting issued to Mr. Hopkins by TAW, undated  [image]View item(s)
Reformed Presbyterian Church, Membership Roster, 1840-1857  [image]View item(s)
Reformed Presbyterian Church, Transfer of Church Property to the United Presbyterian Church, undated  [image]View item(s)
Reformed Presbyterian Church, The 2nd Annual Report of the Juvenile Foreign Missionary Society of the 1st Reformed Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, 1831  [image]View item(s)
Series: Box 4 Ledgers and Financial Materials, 1814-1891,   undated 
Ledger, 1814-1827  [image]View item(s)
TAW in Account with Indiana College, September 1838  [image]View item(s)
Accounts between TAW and various merchants, 1838-1848  [image]View item(s)
Agreements and Bonds, 1841-1847  [image]View item(s)
Property Tax Receipt, 31 May 1850   [image]View item(s)
Property Tax Receipt, 30 December 1852  [image]View item(s)
Furniture Receipt, 16 January 1853  [image]View item(s)
Ledger, 25 September 1855-29 September 1855  [image]View item(s)
Subscription Renewal for Silliman’s Journal, 1 August 1857  [image]View item(s)
Property Tax Receipt, 15 August 1857  [image]View item(s)
Notebook, 1868  [image]View item(s)
Bank Note, 23 November 1874  [image]View item(s)
Ledger, 1877-1879  [image]View item(s)
Postage Receipt, 1879-1880  [image]View item(s)
Property Information, 1881  [image]View item(s)
Receipt for Groceries from C. Meadows, September 1885  [image]View item(s)
Receipt for Mail Box Rental, 31 December 1889  [image]View item(s)
Expiration Bulletin for the Chicago Daily News, 30 March 1891  [image]View item(s)
Receipt for Beef from Joseph Smale, undated  [image]View item(s)
Receipt for Carpet Repair from Sarah Kilough and Nancy Killough, undated  [image]View item(s)
Series: Box 4 Indiana University History Research, 1882-1890,  undated 
Admission of women [image]View item(s)
Alumni Association [image]View item(s)
Alumni who served in the Army during the Rebellion [image]View item(s)
Alphabetical Alumni Listing (fragment) [image]View item(s)
List of names of persons whose addresses TAW cannot find [image]View item(s)
Collegiate Alumni,
1830-1839  [image]View item(s)
1840-1849  [image]View item(s)
1850-1859  [image]View item(s)
1860-1869  [image]View item(s)
1870-1875  [image]View item(s)
Box 5 1876-1879  [image]View item(s)
1880-1885  [image]View item(s)
1886-1887  [image]View item(s)
Common Schools [image]View item(s)
Faculty - Owen, Richard
Honorary Degrees [image]View item(s)
Indiana University History Notebook [image]View item(s)
Law Alumni,
1844-1849  [image]View item(s)
1850-1859  [image]View item(s)
1860-1869  [image]View item(s)
1870-1872  [image]View item(s)
1873-1877  [image]View item(s)
Law School drafts [image]View item(s)
Letters relating to history [image]View item(s)

(Several fragments)

Lists of Graduates of Law Department [image]View item(s)
Lists of Members of the Board of Trustees [image]View item(s)
Lists of Members of the Board of Visitors [image]View item(s)
Lists of Presidents and Professors [image]View item(s)
Lists of Students who attended but did not graduate [image]View item(s)
Miscellaneous Notes and Drafts [image]View item(s)

(Large number of various drafts and note; unorganized)

Notes on Buildings [image]View item(s)
Notes on Preparatory Department [image]View item(s)
Notes on Societies [image]View item(s)
Note re: "Two ancient scraps" [image]View item(s)
Presidents, William Daily [image]View item(s)
Presidents, David Starr Jordan [image]View item(s)
Presidents, John Hiram Lathrop [image]View item(s)
Presidents, Lemuel Moss [image]View item(s)
Presidents, Cyrus Nutt [image]View item(s)
Presidents, Alfred Ryors [image]View item(s)
Presidents, Andrew Wylie [image]View item(s)
“Scribble Book,” historical sketch with list of I.U. professors [image]View item(s)
Notebook containing miscellaneous notes, Vol. 1 [image]View item(s)
Notebook containing miscellaneous notes, Vol. 2 [image]View item(s)
Sketch of Colonel Ketcham [image]View item(s)
Tables of Contents [image]View item(s)
Series: Box 5 Sermons, lectures and public addresses1835-1891, undated 
Subseries: Box 5 By subject, 1830-1891 
“Is Dueling in Any Case Justifiable?” circa 1830 

("Debated at greath length by the senior class of the University of Pa")

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“The Acts of the Apostles, Part I,” 1 March 1835  [image]View item(s)
“The Acts of the Apostles, Part II,” 6 March 1835  [image]View item(s)
“The Acts of the Apostles, Part III,” 6 March 1835  [image]View item(s)
“The Acts of the Apostles, Part IV?,” March 1835?  [image]View item(s)
"One More and the Last," Lecture from Philippians II 5-11, 8 July 1835   [image]View item(s)
"The Gospel of Jesus Xt, the Son of God" September 1836  [image]View item(s)
“Man a Fool: Homo Stultus, Rescribe et Iterum Utaris”, 1838 or 1839  [image]View item(s)
Anniversary Address before the Monroe County Lyceum, 1842  [image]View item(s)
“The Deity Incarnate," 7 January 1843  [image]View item(s)
Hopewell Church, 18 January 1855   [image]View item(s)
"The Planet Earth" (Lecture given at Miami University) 17 April 1855  [image]View item(s)
Untitled Sermon regarding What makes an act good?, 25 October 1858  [image]View item(s)
“Ye Are All One in Jesus”, 6 March 1859  [image]View item(s)
Untitled Sermon regarding The last supper and the betrayal of Jesus, 1860  [image]View item(s)
“Ministering Spirits," 1 January 1861  [image]View item(s)
“Verily I Say Unto You, They Have Their Reward”, 13 October 1861  [image]View item(s)
“Preach the Gospel to Every Creature”, 1862 
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(Folder 2) - "Presented in College Chapel" [image]View item(s)
Untitled Sermon regarding Concept of “God”,19 January 1862  [image]View item(s)
Book of Genesis, College Chapel, 16 May 1864  [image]View item(s)
“I am Fearfully and Wonderfully Made”, 18 December 1864  [image]View item(s)
Untitled Sermon regarding God, 4 June 1865  [image]View item(s)
Sacrament, 14 October 1865  [image]View item(s)
Untitled Sermon regarding the ministry, 22 October 1865  [image]View item(s)
Evolution, 1866  [image]View item(s)
“A Wise Man is Strong,” 27 January 1866  [image]View item(s)
Address on Optics, 21 April 1866  [image]View item(s)
Untitled Sermon regarding Proof of the divine nature of Christ, 1 December 1867  [image]View item(s)
Untitled Sermon regarding Faith, 30 May 1868  [image]View item(s)
“The Full Appearance of Faith,” 31 May 1868   [image]View item(s)
Natural and Moral Influences, 1874  [image]View item(s)
Work, 1 March 1874  [image]View item(s)
Astronomy Lecture Before the Teacher’s Institute, August 1874  [image]View item(s)
“Dr. Richard Owen’s Religious Life,” Read at Presbyterian Church, Lebanon, Indiana, 19 December 1874  [image]View item(s)
Meaning of Kindness and Humanity, 21 January 1877  [image]View item(s)
Truth, 1878  [image]View item(s)
“Books and Libraries,” 11 January 1878  [image]View item(s)
Vanity, 24 February 1878  [image]View item(s)
“A wise Man is Strong,” 18 May 1879   [image]View item(s)
“The Blessing of God,” 25 May 1879  [image]View item(s)
“Prayer," 25 January 1880  [image]View item(s)
Class lecture on sound with harmonographs, 14 February 1880  [image]View item(s)
Influences, 22 February 1880  [image]View item(s)
“Jehnism," 7 May 1880  [image]View item(s)
“How Forcible Right Word,” 25 September 1880  [image]View item(s)
Nature, 31 December 1880  [image]View item(s)
Untitled Sermon regarding Scientific Astronomy in Biblical times, 25 June 1881  [image]View item(s)
“Illusions," 17 September 1881  [image]View item(s)
Untitled Sermon regarding Interpretation of the Bible, 14 January 1883  [image]View item(s)
Jesus, 18 January 1885  [image]View item(s)
The Kingdom, 22 February 1885  [image]View item(s)
“State of the Congregation," 1886  [image]View item(s)
“Rejoice O’ Young Man in Thy Youth,” 21 February 1886  [image]View item(s)
Law of God, 19 February 1887  [image]View item(s)
“I Have Used Similitude’s,” 14 February 1888  [image]View item(s)
Interest in Your Fellow Man, 26 February 1888  [image]View item(s)
“Be Not Righteous Over Much,” 20 March 1891  [image]View item(s)
“The Air We Breath,” Undated  [image]View item(s)
Box 6 “All Judah Mourned for Isaiah,” Undated  [image]View item(s)
Anthropology, Undated  [image]View item(s)
Deabate: “Are Theatres Beneficial? - Negative,” Undated  [image]View item(s)
“Arise O’ Lord, Plead Thine Own Cause,” Psalm LXXIV: 22, Undated  [image]View item(s)
“Art Thou He That Should Come See?” Undated  [image]View item(s)
“Ask Now of the Days that are Past,” Undated  [image]View item(s)
“Be Sober, Be Vigilant, Because Your Adversary the Devil…” Undated  [image]View item(s)
“Behold My Hands and Feet,” Undated  [image]View item(s)
“Brotherhood of Man,” Fragment, Undated d [image]View item(s)
"Brotherly Kindness,” Fragment, Undated  [image]View item(s)
"The Burning Bush," Undated  [image]View item(s)
Candor, Undated  [image]View item(s)
Capital Punishment, Undated  [image]View item(s)
“The Charge," Undated > [image]View item(s)
“Christ the Great Subject,” Undated  [image]View item(s)
The Commandments, Undated  [image]View item(s)
Composition of the Body, Fragment, Undated  [image]View item(s)
“Correction, Trials are to be Completed in the Present Life,” Undated  [image]View item(s)
Creation, Fragment, Undated  [image]View item(s)
Debate, Capital Punishment, Undated  [image]View item(s)
Debate, “Is the Female Sex Equal to the Male in Intellectual Capacity?" Affirmed, Undated  [image]View item(s)
Debate, "On the Emigration of the Indians to the Territory West of the Mississippi,” Undated  [image]View item(s)
Debate, “Should Slavery be Wholly Abolished in The United States?- Negative," Undated  [image]View item(s)
Discourse Between Philetymus and Psendocheus, Undated  [image]View item(s)
Discourse on God and Nature, Undated 

(Includes partial transcription)

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“The Earth is the Lords and the Fullness Thereof,” Undated  [image]View item(s)
“Education," Undated  [image]View item(s)
Elders, Undated  [image]View item(s)
Evil Influences on the Young, Fragment, Undated  [image]View item(s)
The Existence of God, Fragment, Undated  [image]View item(s)
Faith, Fragment, Undated  [image]View item(s)
“For Ye Are Brought With a Price…” Undated  [image]View item(s)
“The Four Books," Undated  [image]View item(s)
“Give Us Each Day Our Daily Bread,” Undated  [image]View item(s)
“God is Perfect," Undated  [image]View item(s)
“God of Nature and God of Revelation," Undated  [image]View item(s)
God’s Will, Fragment, Undated  [image]View item(s)
Gravity, Fragment, Undated  [image]View item(s)
Guidance/Faith, Fragment, Undated  [image]View item(s)
“The Heart," Undated  [image]View item(s)
“Heaven," Undated  [image]View item(s)
“Heritage of the Heathen,” Undated  [image]View item(s)
“How Shall I Curse When God Hath Not Cursed?” Undated  [image]View item(s)
“The Humanity of Christ,” Undated  [image]View item(s)
Hymn, Fragment, Undated  [image]View item(s)
“I Believe," Undated  [image]View item(s)
“Infidelity," Undated  [image]View item(s)
“Inferences," Undated  [image]View item(s)
Jesus, Undated  [image]View item(s)
“Jesus Christ Crucified," Undated  [image]View item(s)
Jesus’ Death, Undated  [image]View item(s)
“Jesus the Son of Man," Undated  [image]View item(s)
Job, Undated  [image]View item(s)
The Judgment, Undated  [image]View item(s)
Justification of Faith, Undated  [image]View item(s)
Lack of Vision, Fragment, Undated  [image]View item(s)
Lepers, Undated  [image]View item(s)
“Let No Man Deceive Himself,” Undated  [image]View item(s)
“The Life of Godliness, The Advantages of Godliness,” Undated  [image]View item(s)
“Literal and Free Translation,” Undated  [image]View item(s)
The Literal “Word” of God, Fragment, Undated  [image]View item(s)
“The Lord Hath Done Great Things,” Undated  [image]View item(s)
“The Lord’s Prayer," Undated  [image]View item(s)
“Lord, What is Man That Thou Art Mindful of Him?” Undated  [image]View item(s)
“Man Created in the Image of God,” Undated  [image]View item(s)
“Man is Like Vanity," Undated  [image]View item(s)
The Manifestation of Christ, Undated  [image]View item(s)
“Martyrs and Servants," Undated  [image]View item(s)
Masters and Servants, Undated  [image]View item(s)
“Memory," Undated  [image]View item(s)
“Motion," Undated d [image]View item(s)
“Now the Present Age, An Age of Light," Undated  [image]View item(s)
“On Development," Undated  [image]View item(s)
“On Miracles," Undated  [image]View item(s)
“On the Comparative Demerit of Sins,” Undated  [image]View item(s)
“On the Importance of Sound Principles in the Young,” Undated  [image]View item(s)
“On the Superiority of Application to Genius,” Undated  [image]View item(s)
Paul, Undated  [image]View item(s)
“The Past,"Undated  [image]View item(s)
“Prayer-Our Father Who Art in Heaven,” Undated  [image]View item(s)
Profit and Loss, Undated  [image]View item(s)
“The Promise," Undated  [image]View item(s)
“Psalm Singing," Debate, Affirmative, Undated  [image]View item(s)
“Regeneration," Undated  [image]View item(s)
“Remember the Sabbath Day,” Undated  [image]View item(s)
“Repentance Unto Life," Undated  [image]View item(s)
Rooster Analogy to Politics, Undated  [image]View item(s)
Sacred Writers, Undated  [image]View item(s)
“The Shadow, The Flatterer," Undated  [image]View item(s)
Slaves, Undated  [image]View item(s)
“So Teach Us to Number Our Days…” Undated  [image]View item(s)
“The Spectator," Undated  [image]View item(s)
“Surely Each Man Walketh in Vain,” Undated  [image]View item(s)
“There is a Natural Body; There is a Spiritual Body,” Undated  [image]View item(s)
“Thou Shalt Not Follow a Multitude to Do Evil,” Undated  [image]View item(s)
“Thou Shalt Not Kill," Undated  [image]View item(s)
Time, College Chapel, "sometime in Dr. Moss' reign" [1875-1884]  [image]View item(s)
The Truth, Undated  [image]View item(s)
“Uninspired Psalmody," Undated  [image]View item(s)
“The Unity of God," Undated  [image]View item(s)
“The Wages of Sin," Undated  [image]View item(s)
Walking with God, Undated  [image]View item(s)
“Water," Undated  [image]View item(s)
“We Are Our Brothers Keepers,” Fragment, Undated  [image]View item(s)
“We Are Debtors to the Greeks,” Undated  [image]View item(s)
“Week of Prayer," Undated  [image]View item(s)
“Whence Are We," Undated  [image]View item(s)
“Wherefore God Hath Highly Exalted Him,” Undated  [image]View item(s)
“Wherefore I Also…,"Undated  [image]View item(s)
Who Was Jude? Undated  [image]View item(s)
The Wicked, Undated  [image]View item(s)
The Workman, Undated  [image]View item(s)
“Ye Know Not What Manner of Spirit Ye Are Of,” Undated  [image]View item(s)
Zechariah, Fragment, Undated  [image]View item(s)
Untitled and undated sermons regarding: [image]View item(s)
Looking unto Jesus the Author and Finisher of our Faith [image]View item(s)
Gifts of God [image]View item(s)
The Gospel [image]View item(s)
Love of Christ [image]View item(s)
Science and Religion [image]View item(s)
Strengths and Weaknesses [image]View item(s)
Subseries: Box 6 Notes, 1891,   undated 
April 1891  [image]View item(s)
Undated notes [image]View item(s)
Notes on Election, undated  [image]View item(s)
Subseries: Box 6 Eulogies, 1863-1889,  undated 
Ballantine, Elisha, 20 April 1886  [image]View item(s)
Boisen, Anton F. E., 3 March 1872  [image]View item(s)
Bryan, Rev. John, 10 October 1887  [image]View item(s)
Dodds, Dr. and Mrs., December 1886  [image]View item(s)
Dodds, Mrs.,December 1886  [image]View item(s)

"Dr. Dodds died 2 or 3 days before his wife. Notices were given after the death of Dr. D. of his funeral. On the day before that was to take place Mrs. Dodds died, & the funeral were postponed a day, & both were buried in the same grave."

Fee, William O., January 1890  [image]View item(s)
General Eulogy, undated  [image]View item(s)
Howe, Joseph M., 13 July 1886  [image]View item(s)
McDermont, Clark., 23 September 1863  [image]View item(s)
McKinley, Joseph, 29 October 1865  [image]View item(s)
McQuisten, Mary Margaret,undated  [image]View item(s)
Maxwell, Jr., James D.,undated  [image]View item(s)
Nutt, Cyrus, President, Indiana University, 23 August 1875  [image]View item(s)
Small, James, August 1885  [image]View item(s)
Small, Robert, undated  [image]View item(s)
Woodburn, James W. (father of James A. Woodburn), 9 September 1865  [image]View item(s)
Woodburn, Martha Jane (Hemphill), 28 August 1889  [image]View item(s)

("The principal part of this was written by J.A. Woodburn copied by me (T.A.W.) with but little changes")

Woodburn, Rosanna, circa 25 August 1867  [image]View item(s)
Subseries: Box 6 Sermons Based on the Books of the Bible, 1853-1883,  undated 

(NOTE: This sub-series is arranged by the order in which the various books appear in the Bible. Most are undated.)

Leviticus XVII: 11 [image]View item(s)
Numbers X: 29 [image]View item(s)
Deuteronomy,
XXXII: 32 [image]View item(s)
2 Chronicles XXV: 2, 26 September 1875  [image]View item(s)

(incomplete)

Psalms,
VIII: 4-5 [image]View item(s)
XVI: 10-11 [image]View item(s)
XVIII: 2(?) and Proverbs XVIII: 10, 16 May 1852  [image]View item(s)
XXXIII: 13 [image]View item(s)
LXII: 11-12 [image]View item(s)
LXXIII: 23-26 [image]View item(s)
LXXVIII: 54 [image]View item(s)
CVI: 15, 30 January 1859  [image]View item(s)
CXVI: 12-14, 17, and 19 [image]View item(s)
CXLVI: 8-10 [image]View item(s)
Proverbs,
Ecclesiastes,
V: 1, delivered at College Chapel 23 September 1871  [image]View item(s)
VIII: 16-18 [image]View item(s)
Isaiah,
XLV: 22, 23 January 1859  [image]View item(s)
LV: 4 [image]View item(s)

("Monday after Sacrament")

LV: 10-11 [image]View item(s)
Ezekiel,
V: 12,17-18 [image]View item(s)
Nahum I: 7 [image]View item(s)
Malachi IV: 5-6, 16 January 1859  [image]View item(s)
Matthew,
IX: 16-17 [image]View item(s)
XI: 28-30 [image]View item(s)
XII: 36-37 [image]View item(s)
XII: 43-45 [image]View item(s)
XII: 48-50 [image]View item(s)
XIII: 24-30 and 37-43 [image]View item(s)
XVII: 1-8 [image]View item(s)
XVI: 13-16 [image]View item(s)
XVIII: 14 [image]View item(s)
XXI: 28-32 [image]View item(s)
XXII: 37-40 [image]View item(s)
XXV: 14, 30, 18 May 1872  [image]View item(s)
XXV: 14-30 [image]View item(s)
Mark, [image]View item(s)
XI: 12, 14, 20, and 22 [image]View item(s)
XVI: 15, 10 January 1869  [image]View item(s)
Luke,
XII: 15-21 [image]View item(s)
XII: 15-21 [image]View item(s)
XII: 48, 19 December 1869  [image]View item(s)
XII: 48, 12 September 1880  [image]View item(s)
XVI: 1-16 [image]View item(s)
XVI: 11-32, June 1862  [image]View item(s)
XVII: 11-19 [image]View item(s)
XVII: 10-14 [image]View item(s)
XVIII: 10-14 [image]View item(s)
XIX: 13, 15 July 1855  [image]View item(s)
John,
IV: 24, Presented in Church 14 May 1872  [image]View item(s)
VIII: 12,
(Folder 1) [image]View item(s)
(Folder 2) [image]View item(s)
XI: 25-26 [image]View item(s)
Box 7 Acts,
XIV: 15-17 [image]View item(s)
XVI: 30-31 [image]View item(s)
XVII: 24-25 [image]View item(s)
XXVIII: 15 [image]View item(s)
Romans,
VI: 23, 21 June 1877  [image]View item(s)
X: 1-4
(Folder 1) [image]View item(s)
(Folder 2) [image]View item(s)
X: 9,
(Folder 1) [image]View item(s)
(Folder 2) [image]View item(s)
XI: 33-36
at College Chapel, 17 September 1876  [image]View item(s)
(Folder 2) [image]View item(s)
XII: 1-2, 9 July 1864  [image]View item(s)
I Corinthians,
III: 11
(Folder 1) [image]View item(s)
(Folder 2) [image]View item(s)
XIII: 12 [image]View item(s)

(Fragment)

XV: 35, circa 29 August 1853  [image]View item(s)

(Reverse side has letter to "Mr. J. F. McCaw?")

XV: 57-58 [image]View item(s)
II Corinthians,
IV: 8, 21 November 1869  [image]View item(s)
V: 14-17, 7 October 1877  [image]View item(s)
Galatians,
V: 22-23, 1 June 1870  [image]View item(s)
VI: 2-6, 7 August 1864  [image]View item(s)
Ephesians,
Colossians II: 3 [image]View item(s)
I Thessalonians,
II: 12-13 [image]View item(s)
I Timothy,
III: 15, 25 February 1865  [image]View item(s)
II Timothy III: 16 at College Chapel, 18 November 1880  [image]View item(s)
Titus,
II: 10 at College Chapel, 22 October 1871  [image]View item(s)
II: 12, 5 January 1868  [image]View item(s)
II: 12-13 [image]View item(s)
Hebrews,
II: 14-16 in Bloomington, 24 June 1855  [image]View item(s)
IV: 14-16 in Bloomington, 24 June 1855  [image]View item(s)
IV: 16 in Bloomington, 1 July 1855   [image]View item(s)
IX: 1-4 in College Chapel, 25 November 1883  [image]View item(s)
XII: 28-29 [image]View item(s)
XIII: 13, 16 [image]View item(s)
I Peter,
I: 10 in Bloomington, 20 May 1860  [image]View item(s)
II: 13-17 [image]View item(s)
III: 13-16 [image]View item(s)
III: 16-17 [image]View item(s)
III: 18-22 [image]View item(s)
IV: 12-19 [image]View item(s)
IV: 18-19 [image]View item(s)
II Peter,
II: 1-3 in Bloomington, 9 June 1861  [image]View item(s)
III: 10-12 [image]View item(s)
III: 14-15 [image]View item(s)
I John,
II: 17 at College Chapel, 8 March 1863  [image]View item(s)
Box 8 Revelation,
III: 9-10 [image]View item(s)
III: 12-13 [image]View item(s)
XIX: 6-7, Thanksgiving, 30 November 1866  [image]View item(s)
XXI: 6, 16 August 1865  [image]View item(s)
XXII: 14, 19 July 1868  [image]View item(s)
Series: Box 8 Writings and publications, 1828-1890,  1814-1992 
A Ballad, "Date many years ago"  [image]View item(s)
"Campbell,” - meaning of the name, Fragment, Undated  [image]View item(s)
“Do Not Suffer Me to Go” (poem), August 1849  [image]View item(s)
“Essay On the Propriety of Excluding Foreigners from all Participation in the Political Affairs of the Commonwealth,” circa 1860  [image]View item(s)
“Essay on the Utility of Classical Literature,” undated  [image]View item(s)
From Scientific Intelligence, "Teeth and Bones of Elephas primogenius, lately found near the western fork of White River, in Monroe County, Indiana; communicated by Prof. T.A. Wylie, circa 1860  [image]View item(s)
Greek, undated  [image]View item(s)
Greek Exercise, "An exercise written when a boy in father's school, I believe about the year 1826 or 27. T. A. Waylie, 1890." circa 1826  [image]View item(s)
“History of the Church During the VI Century,” undated  [image]View item(s)
“Interesting Report of Prof. Wylie, of the State University,” Indianapolis Journal, 23 July 1869  [image]View item(s)
Latin inscription [image]View item(s)

"Copy of inscription sent by W.S. Hooper of Shelbyville, Ill Mar 7 '89 to Prof Atwater. Prof. A. gave it to me to try what I could make of it. Am sorry I did not retain my translation."

Miscellaneous, undated  [image]View item(s)
Poetry, Fragments, undated  [image]View item(s)
Poem, "Behold Two Crowns..."circa 1850  [image]View item(s)
Reminiscence about early Bloomington, undated  [image]View item(s)
Reminiscence about a cotton machine, Undated  [image]View item(s)
“There are Different Ways of Telling Whether a Person is a Gentleman,” Undated  [image]View item(s)
“Two Crowns” (poem), undated  [image]View item(s)
“What is Light?" Undated  [image]View item(s)
Series: Box 8 Library of Theophilus A. Wylie, 1832-1861,  undated 
Subseries: Box 8 General, undated 
"List of Books Taken by Rev. T. A. Wylie," undated  [image]View item(s)
List of Maps, undated  [image]View item(s)
Note about search for a book title ,undated  [image]View item(s)
Subseries: Box 8 Collected Publications, 1832-1861 
“Bishop Horne’s Commentary on the Book of Psalms, Vol. 1,”17 November 1836 

(Advertisement)

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“An Article on Literary Property,” April 1839  [image]View item(s)
“The Errors and Malpractices in Education, with the Best Means of Correcting Them," Monthly Lecturer, no. III, Vol. I, June 1841  [image]View item(s)
“Address Delivered Before the Philomathean Literary Institute of the Western University of Pennsylvania,” by David Ritchie, 27 June 1844  [image]View item(s)
“Catalogue of the National Portraits in Independence Hall,”1855  [image]View item(s)
"The Professional Scholarship demanded by the Age," Address of Professor John Young, of the North Western University to the Graduates, at the Commencement, 17 July 1856  [image]View item(s)
“An Address Delivered Before the Alumni of Jefferson College,” by Rev. Isaac N. Shannon,6 August 1856  [image]View item(s)
Veto Messages of Hon. Samuel W. Black, Governor of Nebraska, on the Bills to Prohibit Slavery, Passed at the Sessions of 1860 & 1861, 1861  [image]View item(s)
Series: Box 8 Drawings,1872-1891,  undated 
World Map, 30 December 1872  [image]View item(s)
A Leaf, circa 1881  [image]View item(s)
Wylie House Well, 1882  [image]View item(s)
Comet, 23-24 October 1882  [image]View item(s)

("Something like the vision of the comet I had October 23 [at 4 AM?] 1882. A vision because seen so distinctly, so like a entity that it was hard to believe it was not so. The ground of the comet was perfectly black, very much like a good drawing on the blackboard.")

Sketch of the old Indiana University Campus, before 1883  [image]View item(s)
Man Rowing a Boat, 1884 

(Drawn on 1884 Commencement program)

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“Maple Tree Struck by Lightning,” circa July 1887  [image]View item(s)
“Dr. Robert Hamill," 28 August 1889  [image]View item(s)
“Argippus,” the Dog, 1891  [image]View item(s)
Before and After drawings of Wylie House Out Building Fire, undated  [image]View item(s)

("Have forgotten the date. It was set fire by an incendiary about midnight. I happened to see it very soon after - gave the alarm, & items [?], and the horse & carriage.")

“Character of Calvin,” undated  [image]View item(s)
"Column of smoke from the Spoke factory as seen from 2nd story of dwelling on 2nd St. Very little if any exaggerated." 16 October 18??  [image]View item(s)
Doodles, 1 cow, and figures, Undated  [image]View item(s)
“I Scream,” Woman at Piano, undated  [image]View item(s)
Monroe County Court House,undated  [image]View item(s)
“Mr. Sappy, ”undated  [image]View item(s)
Night Blooming Cereus Bud, undated  [image]View item(s)
“Vinegar Eels,” undated  [image]View item(s)
Wylie House Fireplace/Stove, undated  [image]View item(s)
Wylie House Front Yard Scene, undated  [image]View item(s)
Wylie House, Yard with Out Buildings, undated  [image]View item(s)

(Written on back: "Sketch by T.A. Wylie showing barn lot, with well, carriage house, barn and kitchen house. In center background, orchard. On extreme right, Second Street. I think the house showing on Second Street is Dr. Bryan's old home.")

Box OS3 “Major Jack Downing his Vision,” 1830s  [image]View item(s)

Political cartoon commenting on the presidency of Andrew Jackson and his conflict with the Bank of the United States.

Includes transcription.

Oversized, stored separately.

Series: Box 8 Ephemera,1828-1892, undated 
Clipping about Philadelphia Presbytery, 28 January 1890  [image]View item(s)
Clipping about religious meetings at Wylie Memorial Church, 18 February 1892  [image]View item(s)
Corn Supper Menu, 1889  [image]View item(s)
Honorary Doctorate from Monmouth College, 1857  [image]View item(s)
Newspaper Clippings, 1830s-1890s 
(Folder 1)
(Folder 2)
Philomathean Society invitation, 1828  [image]View item(s)
Printed Items, Miscellaneous, 1850s  [image]View item(s)
Recipe for Board Paper, undated  [image]View item(s)
T.A. Wylie Business Card (found in Minutes of Faculty 1835-1846), circa 1835-1846  [image]View item(s)
University of Pennsylvania, Commencement, 1830  [image]View item(s)
University of Pennsylvania, Gradecards, 1829-1830  [image]View item(s)
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