Diary : manuscript, 1666-1679, 1723, and 1726

Diary concerning chiefly religious matters, mostly Puritanical confessions of Tompson's piety not living up to the expectation of the Lord. There is also mention of the many afflictions God is "pleased" to bestow upon Tompson's wife.

Relation de ce qui s'est passé en Canada depuis le départ des vaissaux de l'année 1694 jusq'au départ des vaisseaux 1695 : manuscript, [not before 1695]

Mentions Governor-General Louis de Frontenac, Antoine de Lamothe Cadillac, commandant of the Michilimackinac station, and the Iroquois Indian tribe.

Relation de ce qui s'est passé de plus considerables en canadas depuis le mois de 9bre 1693 jusqu'au depard des vessaux 1694 : manuscript, 1694

Mentions Louis de Frontenac and the Five Nations.

Account book : manuscript, 1793-1869

Account of cash paid out to various people.

Deed of feoffment for property in Cambridge, Massachusetts: from Thomas Sweetman to Michael Spencer, 1677 December 10

In this deed of feoffment, written on Dec. 10, 1677, Thomas Sweetman agreed to sell his dwelling house, barn, and orchard to his son-in-law, Michael Spencer, for the cost of eighty pounds sterling. The property was located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on what was then the northwest corner of the grounds of Harvard College, and was sold "together with the wood lot upon the rocks and cow commons belonging to it." The deed specifies that both Sweetman and his wife Isabel were to be allowed to occupy the property until their deaths, and further explains that Spencer and his family were already living in the dwelling house, occupying three rooms. The document was signed, sealed, and delivered in the presence of Daniel Gookin, Jr. and John Bridgham. It was also signed by Thomas Sweetman.

Deeds for properties in Boston [and Cambridge?], 1798-approximately 1945 (inclusive); approximately 1880-1920 (bulk)

This group of records contains deeds and related documents for a selection of properties owned by Harvard University in Boston and possibly Cambridge and other nearby communities through the mid 1940s. Documents include deeds, assignments of mortgages, receipts, correspondence, and other legal documents. Many of the documents record property transfers prior to Harvard's acquisition of the property, and often the documents do not fully identify Harvard's involvement with the property. The bulk of the documents date from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Account book of Benjamin Gale, 1740-1748 (inclusive)

Ledger containing lists of patient names and payments to Dr. Benjamin Gale (1715-1790) of Killingworth (now Clinton), Connecticut, primarily in 1743. Entries mostly included charges for "sundry" items and visits to patients by Gale, who accepted both cash and payment-in-kind.

Letter from Lemuel Shaw to Susanna Shaw, January 3, 1797

This single page handwritten letter was sent from Lemuel Shaw to his mother, Susanna, during his freshman year at Harvard. In the letter, he requested that his mother wash and return his dirty laundry and send him clothes, including a pair of overalls, some neck-handkerchiefs, and a new hat. Shaw also asked for money to be sent to pay off his debt of $21.25 to Mr. Richard Hunnewell for board and rent, $18.93 for the previous quarter’s bill, and $1.15 for Mr. Timothy Alden, the College Butler.

Roolle de la monstre et reveue faicte en armes en la basse court du chasteau de Calumet : manuscript, 1605 Oct. 20

Manuscript document, in an unidentified hand, concerning the staffing of the garrison of Calumet, western Quebec, with 20 armed men, ordered and signed by the Governor Henry de Giou, lord of Caylus. Also signed by Cesar de Bonnefont and Amable de Basmaison.

Sermon : manuscript, 1768

Sermon on John 15:1-2.

Miss Rebecca Story's book : manuscript, 1796-[ca. 1803]

Commonplace book of poetry some by Porter; with a list of names of female students at Mr. Woodbridge Academy, 1796. Also includes a poem by Porter concerning the death of her brother, Isaac Story (A. B. 1793).

Kitāb-i Khulāṣat al-ḥikmat

az taʼlīfāt-i Muḥammad Ḥusayn Khān.

Memalik-i Osmaniye-ye mahsus coǧrafya-yi askeri

eser-i Ahmet Cemal.

Hādhā Rūznāmah-ʼī maʻahu mīqāt layl wa-nahār wa-sāʼir al-awqāt al-maʻlūmah / naqalahu Shaykh Wafā : manuscript, undated

Calendar with times for the five daily prayers of Islam for each month of the year.

Majmūʻah : manuscript, 1443-1473

1. Kitāb Luqṭat al-ʻajlān fī al-uṣūl / al-Zarkashī, 878 [1473] (ff. 1r-10v) -- 2. Sharḥ Qaṣīdat Gharāmī ṣaḥīḥ (ff. 11r-20v) -- 3. Manẓūmah fī al-kitābah wa-al-tajwīd ṭarīqahu / li-Muḥammad ibn Ḥasan al-Sinjārī (ff. 21r-25v) -- 4. Hādūr / Ibn Zuqqāʻah, 877 [1472-3] (ff. 26r-30v) -- 5. al-Waraqāt / Imām al-Ḥaramayn (ff. 31r-34r) -- 6. Sharḥ Yaqūlu al-ʻabd / lil-Shaykh Shihāb al-Dīn, 846 [1443] (ff. 37r-61r) -- 7. Kitāb Sharḥ al-Waraqāt / Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī (ff. 62r-75v) -- 8. An untitled incomplete work on logic (ff. 76r-127v).