Massachusetts Historical Society

MHS Collections

The first seventy-nine volumes of the Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society (1792-1939) have been digitized and made available full text at the Internet Archive. Below are links to each volume. Each volume has a table of contents and every tenth volume contains a cumulative index. The volumes containing an index are marked in the list below.

If you would prefer to browse a PDF document containing the tables of contents for each volume in Series One through Series Seven, click on the link provided below each series heading below.

Series One

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Volume 1 (1792)
Volume 2 (1793)
Volume 3 (1794)
Volume 4 (1795)
Volume 5 (1798)
Volume 6 (1799)
Volume 7 (1800)
Volume 8 (1802)
Volume 9 (1804)
Volume 10 (1809) - index to Ser. I, vols. 1-10

Series Two

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Volume 1 (1814)
Volume 2 (1814)
Volume 3 (1815)
Volume 4 (1816)
Volume 5 (1815)
Volume 6 (1815)
Volume 7 (1818)
Volume 8 (1819)
Volume 9 (1822)
Volume 10 (1823) - index to Ser. II, vols. 1-10

Series Three

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Volume 1 (1825)
Volume 2 (1830)
Volume 3 (1833)
Volume 4 (1834)
Volume 5 (1836)
Volume 6 (1837)
Volume 7 (1838)
Volume 8 (1843)
Volume 9 (1846)
Volume 10 (1849) - index to Ser. III, vols. 1-10

Series Four

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Volume 1 (1852)
Volume 2 (1854)
Volume 3 (1856)
Volume 4 (1858)
Volume 5 (1861)
Volume 6 (1863)
Volume 7 (1865)
Volume 8 (1868)
Volume 9 (1871)
Volume 10 (1871) - index to Ser. IV, vols. 1-10

Series Five

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Volume 1 (1871)
Volume 2 - Belknap Papers Part I (1877)
Volume 3 - Belknap Papers Part II (1877)
Volume 4 - Heath Papers, Winthrop Papers, Warren Papers (1878)
Volume 5 - Sewall Papers Vol. I - 1674, 1700 (1878)
Volume 6 - Sewall Papers Vol. II, 1699-1700-1714 (1879)
Volume 7 - Sewall Papers Vol. III (1882)
Volume 8 - Winthrop Papers Part IV (1882)
Volume 9 - Trumbull Papers (1885)
Volume 10 - Trumbull Papers Vol. II (1888) - index to Ser. V, vols. 1-10

Series Six

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Volume 1 - Sewall's Letter-Book, Volume I (1886)
Volume 2 - Sewall's Letter-Book, Volume II (1886)
Volume 3 - Winthrop Papers, Part V (1889)
Volume 4 (1891)
Volume 5 - Winthrop Papers, Part VI (1892)
Volume 6 - Belcher Papers, Part I (1893)
Volume 7 - Belcher Papers, Part II (1894)
Volume 8 - Calendar of Pickering Papers (1896)
Volume 9 - Bowdoin Papers, Temple Papers (1897)
Volume 10 - Pepperrell Papers (1899) - index to Ser. VI, vols. 1-10

Series Seven

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Volume 1 - Jefferson Papers (1900)
Volume 2 - Trumbull Papers Part III (1902)
Volume 3 - Trumbull Papers Part IV (1902)
Volume 4 - Heath Papers Part II (1904)
Volume 5 - Heath Papers Part III (1905)
Volume 6 - Bowdoin Papers, Temple Papers Part II (1907)
Volume 7 - Cotton Mather Diary Part I (1911)
Volume 8 - Cotton Mather Diary Part II (1912)
Volume 9 (1914)
Volume 10 (1915) - index to Ser. VII, vols. 1-10

Numbered Volumes

After the Seventh series the MHS began numbering volumes sequentially (abandoning the "series" concept). Below are the numbered volumes currently available after Series Seven.

Volume 71 (1914) - Letters & Papers of John Singleton Copley and Henry Pelham, 1739-1776
Volume 72 (1917) - Warren-Adams Letters, Vol 1 (1743-1777)
Volume 73 (1925) - Warren-Adams Letters, Vol 2 (1778-1814)
Volume 74 (1918) - Jasper Mauduit, Agent in London for the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay, 1762-1765
Volume 75 (1922) - Broadsides, Ballads, etc., 1639-1800
Volume 76 (1923)- Numismatics of Massachusetts, by Malcolm Storer, M.D.
Volume 77 (1927) - Massachusetts Privateers of the Revolution by Gardner Weld Allen
Volume 78 (1939) - Papers of John Davis Long, 1897-1904

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