Im thinking of doing some research on Edwards – how significant is the manuscript collection at Yale?
• Tryon Edwards, a descendant of Jonathan, wrote:”Perhaps no person ever lived who so habitually and carefully committed his thoughts, on almost every subject, to writing, as the elder President Edwards. His ordinary studies were pursued pen in hand, and with his notebooks before him; and he not only often stopped in his daily rides by the wayside, but frequently rose even at midnight to commit to paper any important thought that had occurred to him. As the result of this habit, his manuscripts are probably more thoroughly the record of the intellectual life of their author than those of any other individual who has a name in either the theological or literary world. The manuscripts are also very numerous. The seventeenth century was an age of voluminous authorship. The works of Bishop Hall amount to ten volumes octavo; Lightfoot’s, to thirteen; Jeremy Taylor’s, to fifteen; Dr. Goodwin’s, to twenty; Owen’s to twenty-eight; while Baxter’s would extend to some sixty volumes, or from thir
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