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"Phillip's Diary" preservation efforts
Beacon Street Diary blog entry, 28 Jan 2010.
"The so-called 'Phillips Diary' is the daybook of Samuel Phillips, who
was ordained as the church’s teacher in 1651 and its pastor in 1682.
Until recently this valuable document was assumed lost, but much to the
delight of Library staff and church members, it turned up — in an old
safe deposit box — and is now in the church's careful possession.
The Phillips diary is thick and fragile, with hundreds of pages of tiny script — it's an absolute wealth of information not just about the church but about daily life in the 1680s. It is, in fact, so old and delicate that our associates at the Northeast Document Conservation Center warned us that they could not go ahead with microfilming until it had been "stabilized" and restored, a very detailed, expensive, and time-consuming prospect.
Just this past month we received excited word from David Irving, the local church historian, that the Rowley Community Preservation Committee approved an application from the church for $12,000 for restoration/preservation of the Phillips Journal. The citizens of the Town of Rowley voted unanimously to appropriate this sum, and work on the volume will begin immediately. After it's completed, the microfilming and digitizing can begin, and the town and the church will both receive copies."
The Phillips diary is thick and fragile, with hundreds of pages of tiny script — it's an absolute wealth of information not just about the church but about daily life in the 1680s. It is, in fact, so old and delicate that our associates at the Northeast Document Conservation Center warned us that they could not go ahead with microfilming until it had been "stabilized" and restored, a very detailed, expensive, and time-consuming prospect.
Just this past month we received excited word from David Irving, the local church historian, that the Rowley Community Preservation Committee approved an application from the church for $12,000 for restoration/preservation of the Phillips Journal. The citizens of the Town of Rowley voted unanimously to appropriate this sum, and work on the volume will begin immediately. After it's completed, the microfilming and digitizing can begin, and the town and the church will both receive copies."
| Owner/Source | Beacon Street Diary |
| Linked to | Samuel Phillips |
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