Primary Sources

"Address at the Laying of the Corner Stone of Memorial Hall, at Harvard College, October 6, 1870" (Find It @ Harvard) by E.R. Hoar.

 An Appeal to the Alumni and Friends of Harvard College (Find It @ Harvard) Harvard Alumni Association.

Final reports of the Building committee and of the treasurer of the Harvard Memorial Fund to the Committee of Fifty, 26 June, 1878.  Harvard Memorial Fund.

General information by and about Memorial Hall (Find It @ Archives).

General information about the windows and portraits in Memorial Hall (Find It @ Archives).

Harvard University. Records of the Corporation. Architectural drawings of decorative copper work and roof, 1948. Buildings records for Memorial Hall. Call number UAI 15.80.11.

Harvard University. Records of the Corporation. Proceedings of the Committee of Fifty, 1865-1878. Buildings records for Memorial Hall. Call number UAI 15.80.

Harvard University. Records of the Corporation. Records of the Committee of Fifty, 1865-1878. Buildings records for Memorial Hall. Call number UAI 15.80.5.

Harvard University. Records of the Corporation. Records of Henry Lee, Jr., 1865-1878. Buildings records for Memorial Hall.Call number UAI 15.80.7.

Harvard University. Records of the President, Charles W. Eliot (Find It @ Archives). Call number UAI 5.150. See especially the following folders:

  • Memorial Hall, 1869. Call number UAI 5.150, Box 5.
  • Memorial Hall, 1906-1907. Call number UAI 5.150, Box 104.
  • Memorial Hall, 1875. Call number UAI 5.150, Box 191.
  • Memorial Hall Window, 1897. Call number UAI 5.150, Box 236.
  • Memorial Hall, tablet in transept, 1897. Call number UAI 5.150, Box 236.
  • Pitkin, Horace T., Memorial Hall, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 1903. Call number UAI 5.150, Box 236.

Harvard University. Records of Secretary of the Building Committee, 1868-1878. Records of the Corporation. Buildings records for Memorial Hall. Call number UAI 15.80.10.

 Letter to William B. Dorr : July 12, 1866. Emerson, Ralph (Find it @ Archives).

 Memorial Hall/Lowell Hall Complex website.

Poster issued to commemorate the gift of Mrs. Katherine B. Loker to establish Loker Commons in Memorial Hall, September 24, 1992 (Find it @ Archives).