Papers of Helen Lawrence Appleton Brooks, 1822-1985

Mostly correspondence between family members, beginning with Catherine Lawrence and Charles Appleton, the parents of Helen Brooks. Also records of Brooks' voluntary activities, her diaries and personal writings, and material collected by Grace Norton about Henry James.

Letter from William Croswell to John C. Page, 1811 December 24

Draft of a one-page letter regarding Page's financial assistance to Croswell in Liverpool, with a laid-in leaf containing an accounting statement.

[Admittatur of John Walsh], 1811 February 25

Published copy of the 1807 College Laws with the admittatur of undergraduate John Walsh signed by President John Kirkland on February 25, 1811.

[Letter from William Emerson to John Sale], 1819 December 3

Letter signed by William Emerson requesting John Sale pay the scholarship funds. The author of the letter is likely the son of the Reverend William Emerson, who died in 1811. William Emerson (1801-1868) received an AB from Harvard in 1818; his brother Ralph Waldo Emerson (Harvard AB 1821) received the Penn Scholarship from 1817 to 1820.

Letter from Francis Dana to Samuel Langdon, 1780 January 19

This one-page letter from Harvard alumnus Francis Dana (1743-1811; Harvard AB 1762), in Bilbao, Spain, to Harvard President Samuel Langdon concerns the donation of a Spanish book by Dana to the College Library.

[Admittatur of Thaddeus W. Harris], 1811 September 24

Published copy of the 1814 College Laws with the admittatur of undergraduate Thaddeus W. Harris signed by President John Kirkland on September 24, 1811.