Title

Letter from former Yale President Theodore Dwight Woolsey (1820) to Carl Stoeckel

Dates

1885 March 4

Container

box 1, folder 16

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Scope and Contents

Woolsey discusses a book missing from his personal library (Edward Buck's "Massachusetts ecclesiastical law" (1866) and the inability of colonial ministers to unite a couple in marriage and the post-1700 law allowing ministers to unite, with magistrates present.