[Certificate from M. Everett to the Governors of Harvard College], June 1780

Handwritten certification from [Moses] Everett that Philip Draper lived in Dorchester and kept the town grammar school.

[Letter from Jason Haven to the Corporation of Harvard College], 1780 July 15

Handwritten letter from Jason Haven requesting the Corporation to grant Draper a degree.

[Letter from Hannah Draper to the Harvard Corporation], 1780 July 17

Letter from Hannah Draper, Philip Draper's mother, requesting her son's readmission to the College.

[Petition from Philip Draper to the Harvard Corporation, 1780]

Handwritten petition by Philip Draper requesting readmission to the College.

[Petition from Philip Draper to the Harvard Faculty, 1780]

Petition from Philip Draper explaining his reasons for returning to Cambridge during his rustication and requesting the pardon of the Faculty.

[Petition from Philip Draper to the Harvard Faculty], 1780 June

Petition from Philip Draper requesting he be readmitted.

[Petition from Philip Draper to the Harvard Faculty, 1780]

Petition from Philip Draper requesting he be allowed to graduate that year.

[Letter from Nathaniel Robbins to the Corporation of Harvard College], 1780 July 15

Handwritten letter from Nathaniel Robbins regarding Philip Draper.

[Draft of the vote of the Harvard Corporation], 1780 June 30

Draft of the vote by the Harvard Corporation that Philip Draper's application of readmission be rejected.

[Vote of the Harvard Corporation], 1780 June 30

Vote by the Harvard Corporation that Philip Draper's application of readmission be rejected.

[Petition from Philip Draper to the Harvard Faculty, 1780]

Petition from Philip Draper requesting that he be allowed to graduate that year.

Vote of the government on Disorders, 1803 May 17

Vote to suspend students Barber, Tower, and Whitman for disorders in chapel.

[Letter from William Allen to the Corporation of Harvard College], 1806 April 29

Letter requesting a proctor for the west end of Massachusetts Hall.

Address, 1789 May 21

Handwritten four-page draft of an address by Eliphalet Pearson. The address, made on behalf of the Harvard Corporation, relays the resolution of the Board of Overseers regarding the hours during which students should be in their chambers, restrictions on their ability to go into town, and emphasizing the College government's "fervent wish to see virtue & order prevalent among the students of this society." The introduction discusses the expectations of parents for their children to receive "a polite, virtuous, & religious education" instead of "sending him to a place, which is said to be noted for rudeness, vice, & irreligion."

[Address made to the class of Freshman], 1805 March 8

4-page handwritten copy of an address by Eliphalet Pearson to "my young Friends & Pupils," made to the Freshmen class on March 8, 1805 "the day, oh which Adams 2, a Senior Sophister, was interred at Londonderry." The address focuses on the "unbecoming noise" made by students going to class and mentions "this mark of inconsideration" in the context of "this day of sorrow, which commits to the tomb another of your number."