Complaint to the Police Court of Boston, 1831 November 18

One draft of a complaint regarding noisy neighbors.

Memorial to the Selectmen of Charlestown, 1833 March-May

Five drafts of a letter.

Draft of a petition to an unidentified recipient, undated

Draft of a petition that mentions Croswell's infirmity and experience with Harvard College.

Printed proposal for a system of mensuration, 1790 January

This broadside contains a proposal for a "System of Mensuration" by William Croswell.

Agreements with Mr. Davies respecting Tables of Longitude, 1790 October 2

This folder contains two handwritten agreements concerning the exchange of mathematical calculations by Nathan Davies for copies of Croswell's published tables of longitude.

Printed proposal and recommendation for a system of mensuration, 1796

This folder contains two newspaper clippings with the proposal for Croswell's "System of Mensuration," dated October 1796, as well as a printed recommendation for the work by Professor John Kemp.

[Draft of an advertisement for subscriptions for a celestial map, 1807?]

One-page document containing a draft of a proposal for subscriptions for the printing of a celestial map.

Proposal and recommendations for a celestial planisphere, or, map of the heavens, 1807-1810

This folder contains a broadside with an 1807 printed proposal for a Mercator celestial map that is appended with a handwritten list of subscribers, dated December 1810, as well as two copies of printed recommendations for the map.

Publishing agreement for the celestial planisphere, 1808 June 18

Handwritten agreement between Croswell and geographer William Faden of Westminster, Massachusetts, for the engraving and printing of three maps.

Draft of an acknowledgment statement, [1810?]

One-page document containing notes presumably for an acknowledgment page of Croswell's Mercator map.

Subscription for the benefit of Mr. William Croswell, 1811

Two handwritten copies of a request to subscribers for monetary aid to Croswell on the credit of the future sales of his published map.

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."

Printed proposal for the works of Horace, 1821

This folder contains two copies of a proposal for publishing the works of Horace.

Printed proposal for a collection of systems of bibliography, 1822 October

Printed broadside and newspaper clipping containing a proposal for the publication of a collection of bibliographic systems.

Memorial to the Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1826 April

Four drafts of a letters requesting support to reprint Croswell's 1791 Tables for Computing the Longitude by the Lunar Observations, with two related documents.