Whitfield Harrington Manuscript Z/0451
The Whitfield Harrington Manuscript consists of three handwritten pages titled "Prayer for the New-Born Republic" and an envelope. The manuscript is possibly a draft of the prayer Harrington offered on January 9, 1861, after the Mississippi State Convention voted to pass the Ordinance of Secession. While the text of the prayer is not identical to the transcribed version included in the "Proceedings of the Mississippi State Convention Held January 7th to 26th, A.D. 1861," it is similar. The accompanying envelope is annotated.
Digitization of this collection was made possible by a grant through Lilly Endowment’s Religion and Cultural Institutions Initiative.
Read MoreThe Whitfield Harrington Manuscript consists of three handwritten pages titled "Prayer for the New-Born Republic" and an envelope. The manuscript is possibly a draft of the prayer Harrington offered on January 9, 1861, after the Mississippi State Convention voted to pass the Ordinance of Secession. While the text of the prayer is not identical to the transcribed version included in the "Proceedings of the Mississippi State Convention Held January 7th to 26th, A.D. 1861," it is similar. The accompanying envelope is annotated.
Digitization of this collection was made possible by a grant through Lilly Endowment’s Religion and Cultural Institutions Initiative.
Image Arrangement and Numbering
The pages were numbered by the curator in brackets at the bottom of each page.
Technical Details
Original Scans: The Whitfield Harrington Manuscript was scanned by Lilly Endowment grant-funded staff under the supervision of MDAH staff in 2024-2025, according to the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Board of Trustees' approved imaging procedures, following ANSI/AIIM recommended practice. The manuscript was saved as uncompressed, 24-bit RGB TIFF files at 300 pixels per inch.
Conversion: TIFF files were converted to JPEG tile sets for Internet access in 2025.
Rights Management
The Whitfield Harrington Manuscript is in the public domain and therefore free of copyright or other use restrictions. MDAH asks that each image used in a presentation, display, or publication be accompanied by the following preferred citation:
Whitfield Harrington Manuscript (Z/0451), Mississippi Department of Archives & History.
Copy Availability
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