This chronological list includes students’ diaries. Several collections of student letters have been scanned. Please help transcribe them here.
| Date | Correspondent | Topic |
| 1778 | Hutchins, Levi | A letter from one of the first students |
| Class of 1786, 1791 | Williams, Josiah | Letter to father dated November 1791, discusses travel around Massachusetts, need for new clothes, etc. |
| 1793 | Gardiner, Robert Hallowell | Short bio
Academic experience, religious prejudice and the role of religion at the Academy |
| 1797 | Briggs, Timothy | Letter to his father in Norton from New York |
| 1799 | Barrell, George | Letter to Sarah Barrell (his mother) |
| 1775, 1810 | Hubbard, Samuel | Letter to friends |
| 1804-1810 | Hubbard, Samuel | Bound volume of outgoing correspondence: 371 hand-written letters |
| 1812 | Woods, Samuel | Manuscript of Recollections—recalls times at PA (original and typewritten copies), concerns arrival at PA, description of Church |
| 1817-1889 | Humphrey, John Pinkerton | Correspondence with brother and teacher at Andover Theological Seminary; letter by Wells, teacher at the Seminary, 1836-1847 |
| 1819 | Billings, Ebenezer B. | Letter to Isaac Child |
| 1819-1820 (age 10) | Burrill, James J. | 15 1-2page letters to his father; original handwritten; all scanned; some already transcribed |
| 1820 | Smith, Nathan | Letter to John Olcott; contains brief bio; letter discusses a few negative views on PA |
| 1822-1824 | Baker, Oliver | 29 1-2page letters (original handwritten) |
| 1823; 1896 | Dodge, Nathaniel Shatshell | Oliver W. Holmes, Family |
| 1823 | Dix Sherman, Roger | Letter to his brother. Opinions of the school
Violent conflict between scholars and locals |
| 1829 | Coolidge, Thomas Brewster | Letter to his mother |
| circa 1830 | Howe, W. Gordon | Letter about PA to James Henry Duncan Jr. |
| May 1833 | Simpson, John | Letter to father about arrival at PA; Supposedly Simpson attended PA but name is not in catalogue |
| 1834 | Bacon, Joseph | Life at the Academy under Osgood Johnson |
| 1834 | Bullard, Otis B. 1834 | Letter to his father |
| 1834 | Thomas, W.R. | Letter to brother (typewritten copy) about time at PA, includes tuition costs and description of campus |
| 1835 | James, Horace | Letter to father on temperance lecture he attended. Account book for 1834 (both original handwritten) |
| April 1835 | Smith, Ephraim | Copy of letter to brother; description of PA |
| 1836 | Fisk, Franklin | Short biography: Letter to mother about impressions of Andover |
| 1836 | Gulliver, John (PA 1836, Andover Theological Seminary 1845) | Newly arrived student
8 items: orations, composition, report on library of Social Fraternity, 1836 |
| Class of 1837 | Spaulding, Ernest Ripley | Manuscript recording the creation of the Rev. Sampson Spaulding Homestead; description of Spaulding family tree, dates back seven generations from 1619 |
| 1838 | Laws, Edward | Letter to his parents |
| 1841 | Farrar, James | Letter to his parents inquiring about farm back home in Lincoln, Mass |
| 1841 | Noyes, Samuel B. | Short biography and letter |
| 1843-1867 | French, George Decker; Davis, Geo M.; Joseph P. Batter; French, George Henry | French family correspondence (original handwritten) |
| 1844 | Mitchell, David Meaubec | One 4-page letter to brother (original handwritten) |
| 1845 | Hutchins, Abel | 2 Letters to sister in Bradford (Haverhill), Mass., 1843 (original handwritten; scanned) |
| 1846-1847 | Floyd, Fredric | 15 letters chronicling his time at Andover. |
| 1846 | Stevens, William Oliver | Short bio written by Henry S. Chase of Harvard Memorial Biographies; Letters to home concerning time at PA, stolen books, etc. |
| 1847-1849 | Plunkett, William (class of 1850) | 8 4-page letters to his mother (original handwritten, already scanned) |
| 1848 | Plunkett, William (class of 1850) | Letters to his mother |
| 1847-1848 | Smith, John B. | Excerpts from diary concerning time at PA; photocopy of July 1926 Bulletin |
| 1848 | Bigelow, David S. | Letter to Jonathon G. Bigelow, Esq.(his father) |
| 1848 | Washburn, George | Letter to father during time at PA; Washburn was in English Dept. |
| 1849 | Crapo, William Wallace | Letter to Mother; Burning of the “third house Latin Commons”; Samuel H. Taylor (Uncle Sam); Philomathian; Peter Smith Byers |
| 1849 | Read, James M. | One 2-page letter to his mother about his time at PA (bad food) already scanned |
| 1850 | Heard, George | Letter to his brother |
| December 16, 1851-March 25, 1852 | Burnham, Everett | Journal (newspaper clippings in back) |
| 1851-1854 | Williams, John Howard | Large collection of letters to parents and sisters; Letters describe arrival at PA, homesickness, description of classes and teachers; Theological Seminary |
| 1852 | Bishop, Robert R. | Letter to Jonathan Harding Bishop (his father) (Father of Judge Elias Bishop) |
| 1852-1853 | Richardson, Leonard | 28 4-page letters home during time at PA |
| 1854 | Sarill, Henry M. | Letters to home during time at PA; discusses homesickness; from January 1930 Bulletin |
| 1855-1857 | Fullerton, Bradford Morton | Philomathean pamphlets, about 50 letters to father (original handwritten) |
| 1856 | Snow, Barna | Letters home (original handwritten) |
| 1857 | Gilman, Charles M. | Newly arrived student
Letter to his uncle |
| Abbot Academy Class of 1863 | Mathews, Eunice | Transcriptions of letters to aunt, 1858, 1861 |
| 1859 | Lamprey, Morris | Letter from Morris to brother who attends PA |
| 1860 | Stearns, Seargeant Prentiss | Letter to Lewis Stearns about arrival at PA. |
| 1860 | Taft, Charles P. (brother of President William Howard Taft) | Large collection of class work, including essays (classics and U.S. history, among others), discusses social issues of classic times with 19th-century voice |
| 1861-1862 | Collier, Dwight (Class of 1862) | Letter to “poor little freshman” and Freely (same person, maybe?) |
| 1862 | Case, J. Wickham | Letter to his father |
| 1863 | Houghton, Eugene Coolidge | Biography; Letters to friends about his running away; Civil War |
| 1863-1887 | Manning, Elbridge Gerry (class of 1861) | 12 letters (original handwritten, each 1-4 pages) about his time in army (Civil War); Mostly personal letters; a couple letters to Manning from various governmental officials |
| 1864 | Colgate, H. W. | Letter to his mother |
| 1864-1865 | Deming, Horace E. | Letters to Family; Short Biography; “Knowledge is Power” essay; accounts |
| 1864 | Heaton, William Weaver (class of 1864) | Describes his time at PA especially impact of the Civil War |
| 1864 | Stonewell, C.A.W. | Letter to mother from Abbot Academy; taught at Abbot 1863-1865 |
| PA Class of 1864 | Waterman, Arthur Osceola | Compositions/summaries of events, including descriptions of Battle at Carsville and Fall of Pemberton Mill; Civil War |
| 1865-1866 | Cary, Norman White (Class of 1866) | Letters to his family (mother, sister)
Accounting |
| 1871 | Hall, Isacc Freenman | Letter to headmaster
Account of interview |
| 1872 | Dodge, Henry Francis | Accounting; Arthur Dana Story |
| 1878 | Eaton, Horace (class of 1835); Chase, Barbara Landis (in letter about Horace) | Basic biography; sermon written by Horace and manuscript for the Andover centennial |
| 1878 – 1954 (Published 1968) |
Smith, Keith | Lengthy bio; recollection of times at PA, Yale, and later to daughter Susan |
| 1879 | Ripley, Sarah Franklin | Letter about life at Abbot Academy and Phillips Academy |
| 1880s | Abbott, Hattie (class of 1886) | Letters to and from her family in East Douglas, Mass. |
| 1880-1881 | Parkhurst, Frank E. | Diary-like entries |
| Class of 1881 | Smith, William Wharton | Short bio; transcript of academic career at PA, Harvard, and up to his death (extensive handwritten) |
| 1882 | Bancroft, Antoinette (Class of 1883) | Letter to Frederick Bancroft (her brother) |
| 1882-1883 | Strong, John Henry | Large collection of letters to father, mother, etc. during time at PA; receipts from 1883 (original handwritten and transcribed) |
| 1885-1889 | Hutchins, S. Cady | Typed excerpts and Handwritten originals. Twenty (20) letters to family about the school in general |
| 1887-1888 | Russell, Herbert D. | Letters to father; description of schoolwork at PA |
| 1891 | Christian, George H. | Letter to father and others |
| 1893 | Harding, Warren (class of 53) | General account of his time at PA in the Phillips Andover Mirror |
| 1896-1924 | Merriam, Alexander Ross, class of 1868 | Letters of advice written by Merriam to fatherless teenage boy |
| 1899 | Keith, J. | 4-page letter to aunt |
| 1902 | Nickerson, Philips Thomas | Andover/Exeter football |
| 1903 | Kinney, Gilmore | one six-page letter (original handwritten) |
| 1907 | Barrows, W. W. (Class of 1909) | Andover-Exeter football game |
| 1908 | Patton, Francis F., Class of 1908 | Letter to Patton from distinguished general. Documents listing Revolutionary War soldiers. Patton’s scrapbook of his time at PA is also in the Archives. |
| February 1923, 1973, 1915 | Adams, William H. (Class of 1915); Allis, Frederick S. Jr.; Kirkland, William A. (Class of 1915 | Recalls a fraternity (Alpha Gamma Chi), its members and incidents |
| 1917 | Knowles, Robert Treat | Time at Andover as well as time serving in World War I. Mostly to his father |
| 1918 | Chittick, Yardley | Journals during his time at PA and after graduation (in Alumni Personal Papers) |
| Class of 1918 | Woolley, Roger M. | Document box of correspondence |
| 1919 | Serven, James E. | Reminisces on time at PA; 1916 Prom |
| 1920 | Sircom, Arthur | Letter to Diana Chira (PA 1978) for her History 46 paper on History of Music in PA |
| 1927 | Hines, John E. | Experience being expelled
Opinion of Headmaster Stearns |
| 1930 | Morrison, Barcley | Thorough description of time at Andover |
| 1932 | Robertson, Florence Dunbar | Letters home about Abbot Academy, 1931-1932 |
| 1932-1934 | Keeney, Rockwell Jr. | About 50 letters (1-2 pages) written to parents while at Andover (original handwritten, already scanned) |
| 1935-1936 | McMillan, Daniel Walton | Letter to friend about general experience at Andover |
| 1936 | McLaughry, John | Letters to his parents |
| 1939 | Donovan, Charles (Class of 1939); Chase, Barbara Landis | 1937 World premiere of Lost Horizon; George Washington Hall; Jane Wyatt |
| 1942 | Reynolds, Robert | Short Bio; Description of time at PA; organ competition program; letters concerning registration; photographs |
| 1942 | Seaver, Robert | Letter written in 1942 for 50th reunion (in 1992); letters to friend |
| 1942-1943 | Weis, Robert class of 1946 | Letters home |
| PA Class of 1944 | Wensinger, A.S. | Copy of emails concerning Dirk Hugo; Short bio of Hugo; D-Day and Normandy |
| 1951-1952 | Carnicelli, Thomas (class of 1954) | Letters to his family in Framingham, Mass. |
| 1951 | Rider, George | Description of time at PA (chapters from an unpublished book of essays) |
| 1953-1954 | Pearson, Frederick | Six hand-bound volumes of diaries including typed day-by-day entries, photographs of campus life, and some ephemera |
| 1957-1959 | Reiff, Daniel | Letters home |
| 1959-1962 | Mason (Denzel), Martha, Abbot Academy class of 1962 | Approximately 100 letters home and envelope of photographs of student life at Abbot Academy |
| 1966 | Basile, Al (Class of 1966) | Narrative poem for class reunion |
| 1970 | Sterling, Tom Jr. (class of 1959) | Copy of book, Disengagements: The American Experience of Vietnam in Country and Out, a personal account of the Vietnam War |
| April 1974 | PA Student | Diary 1974 |
| 1987, 1988 | Williams, Matthew | The Journal of Matthew T. Williams, copies of lengthy handwritten journal, discusses time at PA |