Payment order for Hull Abbot, 1717 May 13

Handwritten order to Penn Townsend to pay scholarship funds to student Hull Abbot (Harvard AB 1720), signed by Benjamin Wadsworth, John Marion, and Thomas Hubbart.

Receipt signed by Hull Abbot, 1763 January 1

Handwritten receipt signed by Hull Abbot acknowledging payment by John Sale Jr. of scholarship funds for use by Abbot's son Thomas Abbot (Harvard AB 1764).

Payment order for Hull Abbot on behalf of his son, 1764 July 5

Handwritten order to John Sale to pay scholarship funds to Hull Abbot for use by his son Thomas Abbot (Harvard AB 1764) signed by Thomas Foxcroft, Charles Chauncey, Thomas Waite, and Jonathan Williams.

Quarter bill for Samuel Abbot signed by Steward Caleb Gannett, 1782 November 28

Printed quarter bill for Samuel Abbot (Harvard AB 1785) with sizing and punishment totals, and handwritten credits, signed by Steward Caleb Gannett.

[Admittatur of Samuel Abbot Kneeland (Harvard AB 1797)], 1793 August 15

Published copy of the 1790 College Laws, with the admittatur of undergraduate Samuel Abbot Kneeland signed by President Joseph Willard on August 15, 1793.

Salutatory address of Abiel Abbot, 1792

Six-unlined pages containing a handwritten copy of the salutatory address composed by Abiel Abbot in Latin for the 1792 Harvard College Commencement. The text includes edits and struck-through words. The first page includes the title "Autore Abiele Abbot" and has a penciled note: "This must be gr. grandfather's Latin oration when he graduated from Harvard, with honors, in 1792."

Student poem composed by Jacob Abbot Cummings, 1799 September 16

Handwritten poem composed by Jacob Abbot Cummings when he was an undergraduate at Harvard College. The rhyming poem celebrates morning (as a metaphor for life) and describes the farmer, industrious milk maid, and market man. It begins, “Loud speaks the clarion of approaching day..." The poem is labeled "16 September 1799 Cummings" and is headed with a quote from John Milton's Paradise Lost: "Sweet in the breath of morn, her rising sweet, with song of earliest bird."