Financial bills and receipts, 1787-1793

This folder contains four receipts.

Harvard College quarter bills, 1812-1818

This folder contains sixteen printed Harvard College quarter bills filled out in manuscript primarily for William Croswell's use of wood.

Financial bills and receipts, 1818-1819

This folder contains three bills and receipts.

Proposal for a translation of La Lande's Abridgement, 1812; [1818]

This folder contains two copies of a printed proposal for a translation of Jérôme Lalande's abridgement of his treatise on astronomy, as well as the 1818 Harvard Commencement Theses annotated with a handwritten note "Proposals for La Lande."

Payment order for Benjamin Webb on behalf of his son, 1725 December 27

Handwritten order to Penn Townsend to pay scholarship funds to Benjamin Webb on behalf of his son Nathan Webb (Harvard AB 1725), signed by Thomas Foxcroft, John Marion, Samuel Marshall, and Jonathan Williams.

Payment order for Nathan Stone, 1793 July 1

Handwritten order to John Sale to pay scholarship funds to Nathan Stone for use by his son, signed by John Clarke, David Tilden, and James Morrill. A receipt dated February 6, 1794 is attached to the document.

Letter from Daniel White to his preceptor at Atkinson Academy, July 13, 1793

The name of Jabez Kimball is written on the verso, though it seems unlikely that he was White's preceptor, as they graduated in the same class from Harvard College.

IV. Reminiscences of life as an undergraduate at Harvard College from 1793 to 1797, 1837

This memoir, written by White in 1837, describes his undergraduate years at Harvard from 1793 to 1797. It contains lengthy passages about a wide variety of experiences White had as a student. He wrote about his classes and professors, student life, American politics, politics in the world at large, food, his classmates, and many other topics. The memoir includes passages from a diary that White seems to have kept as a student, as well as reflections clearly written later in life. White wrote this memoir in 15 separate notebooks, each embossed with "Platner & Porter, Congress" in the upper left-hand corner. Platner & Porter was the manufacturer of the notebooks.

Quarter bills for Samuel Stearns signed by Steward Caleb Gannett, 1793-1794

Six printed quarter bills for Samuel Stearns (Harvard AB 1794) with Steward and Commons, Sizings, Study and Cellar Rent, Instruction, Library, French Instruction, Medical Instruction, Books, Sweepers, Catalogues and Commencement Dinner, Repairs, Wood, and Punishment totals. Bills signed by Steward Caleb Gannett.

IV. Promissory Notes, 1790-1793

This series consists of handwritten slips written by the borrower with the promise of repayment with interest to a specified lender. Some of the notes reflect loans made to the Butler by members of the community, and others are promissory notes to Adams signed by Harvard students.

Junior Classology, 1793 June 29

Newspaper clipping of "The Fount" section of the Columbian Centinel of June 29, 1793 with the text of Junior Classology.

Clippings, 1793

Three clippings from the Columbian Centinel titled "'Squire Laureat Tobey to Sawney Laureat 'Squire, Inscribes this second edition of that delicate canticle 'Assology' being a parody on the first edition" written July 5, 1793; "Assology: Inscribed to well-beloved 'Squire Laureat Tobey" written July 18, 1793; "'Squire Tobey, to 'Squire Sawney" written July 18, 1793, and an undated "'Squire Tobey, to 'Squire Sawney."

Clippings, [1793]

One undated clipping from the Columbian Centinel titled "Squire Tobey, to 'Squire Sawney."