The Revd. Hosea Ballou 2d

The Revd. Hosea Ballou 2d, founding president of Tufts, made his reputation as a scholar, educator, minister, and leader in the Universalist church. His library, preserved in Special Collections, reflects his work and interest in religion, history, languages & literature, education, and science. Sprinkled throughout are books about travel and adventure in then-remote and rugged places: Patagonia, the Rocky Mountains, northern Maine, the Alps, North Wales, Armenia, Kurdistan, Nepal.

Shown here are leaves from a pocket notebook recording, in Ballou's own hand, a trip to the White Mountains of New Hampshire. He drew upon these notes for an article in the Universalist Quarterly, Jan. 1846. A half-century later, the notebook was a source for Hosea Starr Ballou's biography of his uncle.