Letter from J.W. Ellery to William Tudor,

One letter regarding the detention of the ship Panther by the Brazilian government.

Letter from George W. Lewis to William Tudor,

One letter inquiring if Tudor wished to send any letters to Boston with Lewis when he sailed.

Letter from Levi Lincoln, Jr., to William Tudor,

One letter of complaint against Commodore John Creighton by Lincoln, a midshipman.

Letters from Z.W. Nixon to William Tudor,

Four letters regarding the legal and financial aspects involving the Chanca silver mine and its stakeholders, Tudor, McCall, Maling, and Prevost, and a copy of a letter from Nixon to Prevost. Nixon additionally comments on domestic news, including the renaming of the U.S.S. Susquehanna as the U.S.S. Brandywine by John Quincy Adams in honor of the Marquis de Lafayette. The ship conveyed Lafayette back to France after his tour of the United States. Nixon also mentions Charles Stewart and his court martial.

Letter from O.P. Osterling to William Tudor,

One letter regarding payment of a balance by a Mendoza, possibly related to the Chanca silver mine.

Letter from J.M. Southgate to William Tudor,

One letter requesting Tudor’s assistance with a financial transaction.

Letter from Henry Waddington, Jr., to William Tudor,

One letter requesting assistance with sending a sick American citizen back to the United States.

Letter from John White Webster to William Tudor,

Two letters thanking Tudor for sending Peruvian mineral specimens to Harvard and requesting he send additional mineral and fossils, as well as reports on other "natural phenomena" for publication.

Letter from George Richards Minot to Daniel Kilham, 1777 December 1

Three-page handwritten letter from Harvard undergraduate George Richards Minot to his friend and Harvard graduate Daniel Kilham, dated December 1, 1777. The letter describes the discipline inflicted upon Minot and seven of his classmates by the Harvard government following a “Thanksgiving frolic,” and the retributions carried out by the students against a Tutor who recommended harsh measures for the accused students. The Early Faculty minutes for 1777 (UAIII 5.5, Volume 4, pages 75-76) describes the students’ crime as “making riotous & tumultuous noises in the Hall…committed in Presence of a number foreigners, & and on a day appointed by Authority for public Thanksgiving.”