#  20. Sermons in shorthand 

 



##  Sermons of Edward Holyoke 

 

 

  ![Sermons of Edward Holyoke, written in shorthand](/sites/g/files/omnuum10456/files/2025-10/archives-holyoke-1_0.jpg)

 



 

 [Papers of Edward Holyoke. Sermon made 11 May 1720, preached 22 May 1720.](https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/view/drs:14296975$1i)



   

 

  ![Sermons of Edward Holyoke, 1720-1732, Harvard University](/sites/g/files/omnuum10456/files/2025-10/archives-holyoke-2_0.jpg)

 



 

 [Papers of Edward Holyoke. Sermon made 11 May 1720, preached 22 May 1720.](https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/view/drs:14296975$2i)



   

 

  ![Sermons of Edward Holyoke, 1720-1732, Harvard University](/sites/g/files/omnuum10456/files/2025-10/archives-holyoke-3_0.jpg)

 



 

 Papers of Edward Holyoke. Sermon made 11 May 1720, preached 22 May 1720.



   

 

 

 

 

 

  ![Sermons of Edward Holyoke, 1720-1732, Harvard University](/sites/g/files/omnuum10456/files/2025-10/archives-holyoke-4_0.jpg)

 



 

 [Papers of Edward Holyoke. Sermon made 11 May 1720, preached 22 May 1720.](https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/view/drs:14296975$4i)



   

 

  ![Sermons of Edward Holyoke, 1720-1732, Harvard University](/sites/g/files/omnuum10456/files/2025-10/archives-holyoke2-1_0.jpg)

 



 

 [Papers of Edward Holyoke. Sermon made 29 September 1732, preached 8 October 1732.](https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/view/drs:14296985$1i)



   

 

  ![Sermons of Edward Holyoke, 1720-1732, Harvard University](/sites/g/files/omnuum10456/files/2025-10/archives-holyoke2-2_0.jpg)

 



 

 [Papers of Edward Holyoke. Sermon made 29 September 1732, preached 8 October 1732.](https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/view/drs:14296985$2i)



   

 

 

 

 

 

  ![Sermons of Edward Holyoke, 1720-1732, Harvard University](/sites/g/files/omnuum10456/files/2025-10/archives-holyoke2-3_0.jpg)

 



 

 [Papers of Edward Holyoke. Sermon made 29 September 1732, preached 8 October 1732.](https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/view/drs:14296985$3i)



   

 

  ![Sermons of Edward Holyoke, 1720-1732, Harvard University](/sites/g/files/omnuum10456/files/2025-10/archives-holyoke2-4_0.jpg)

 



 

 [Papers of Edward Holyoke. Sermon made 29 September 1732, preached 8 October 1732.](https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/view/drs:14296985$4i)



   

 

  ![Sermons of Edward Holyoke, 1720-1732, Harvard University](/sites/g/files/omnuum10456/files/2025-10/archives-holyoke2-5_0.jpg)

 



 

 [Papers of Edward Holyoke. Sermon made 29 September 1732, preached 8 October 1732.](https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/view/drs:14296985$5i)



   

 

 

 

 

 

  ![Sermons of Edward Holyoke, 1720-1732, Harvard University](/sites/g/files/omnuum10456/files/2025-10/archives-holyoke2-6_0.jpg)

 



 

 [Papers of Edward Holyoke. Sermon made 29 September 1732, preached 8 October 1732.](https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/view/drs:14296985$6i)



   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

**Edward Holyoke**  
Harvard University, 1720-1732

Edward Holyoke (1689-1769) was the ninth president of Harvard College, serving for thirty-two years from 1737 to 1769. After attending Harvard (A.B. 1705, A.M. 1708), he served as a tutor at the College from 1712 to 1716 and as a Fellow of the Corporation in 1713. From 1709 to 1712, he also served part time as the College librarian. In 1716, he resigned his Harvard positions to become pastor of the Second Church of Marblehead, Massachusetts, where he served for the next twenty-one years. Holyoke returned to Harvard in 1737, when he was appointed president. He died in office in 1769.

Holyoke’s papers include sermons that he delivered as Pastor of the Second Church of Marblehead. They are written in shorthand, following a system developed by Thomas Metcalfe in 1645. There were many systems of shorthand marketed in England starting in the 17th century. See A Brief History of the art of Stenography: with a proposed new system of phonetic short-hand, by William P. Upham, 1877, p. 32. Here the two sermons in shorthand are thought to be Holyoke's, while the sermon in long hand is tentatively attributed to Henry Gibbs, minister in Watertown in the 1690s.

[View Digitized Item 1](http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.ARCH:3332572)

[View Digitized Item 2](http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.ARCH:3332582)

English. Paper.  
Harvard University Archives. UAI 15.870. HOLLIS Catalog: [009534450](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990095344500203941/catalog)



 

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