Letter from William Croswell regarding Mrs. Collins, 1818 February 19

Draft of a one-page letter to an unidentified recipient regarding payment to Mrs. Collins for washing.

Letter from William Croswell to an unidentified recipient, 1819 December 19

Draft of a one-page letter to an unidentified recipient in Liverpool regarding an unpaid debt.

Letter from William Croswell to [Dr. Channing], 1832 October 19

Draft of a letter concerning housing problems.

Letter from William Prescott to Oliver Prescott, 1782 October 19

Two-page handwritten letter from Harvard undergraduate William Prescott to his classmate, Oliver Prescott, that chiefly describes, in florid language, the discipline received by John Rowe (Harvard AB 1783) and others from College officers for disorderly behavior.

Letter from James Winthrop to William Bentley, 1788 July 19

Two folio-sized leaves containing a two-and-a-half-page handwritten letter from Winthrop to Bentley containing a "memorandum of the principles on which the pentagraph is constructed." The text includes two geometric diagrams.

Letter from James Winthrop to William Bentley, 1811 November 19

Two octavo-sized leaves containing a brief one-page handwritten letter from Winthrop to Bentley updating Bentley on the progress of Andrew Dunlap.

Letter from Levi Hedge to William Bentley, 1811 February 19

Two leaves containing a one-page handwritten letter from Hedge to Bentley discussing the examination of Andrew Dunlap for readmission to Harvard.

Letter from Levi Hedge to William Bentley, 1811 March 19

Two leaves containing a one-page handwritten letter from Hedge to Bentley discussing the examination of Andrew Dunlap for readmission to Harvard and a brief description of certain volumes used by undergraduates in their academic studies.

Letter from Samuel Willard, Groton, Massachusetts, to William Willard and Katherine Willard, Petersham, Massachusetts, January 19, 1803

Willard discusses his potential future professional plans in either divinity or law. He asks his parents for their advice, compares and contrasts the benefits and disadvantages of each potential profession, and seems to be leaning towards law: “On the other hand my nearsightedness pleads against the profession of divinity. That a clergyman may be useful, he should possess a high degree of sociability, the most winning manners, and an accommodating disposition. In these every one knows me deficient.”