Letters from Ann Spear to William Tudor, undated

Three letters relaying news of Spear’s travels and friends. She also offers frank romantic advice to Tudor, particularly regarding a young lady he met in Baltimore, Miss Patterson.

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.

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.

Risālah fī taqrīr al-adillah wa-al-shawāhid ʻalá wujūb al-ḥufwah fī al-masājid / taʼlīf Sayyidinā wa-Mawlānā Shaykh mashāyikh al-Islām ... al-Shaykh Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Luṭf : manuscript, 1584

Foliated 184-188; paginated 1-9, both in Arabic numerals.