Letter from Henry Higginson to William Tudor,

One letter from the Boston merchant in England regarding experiments in ship construction and Frederic Tudor’s ideas on designing sailing vessels to transport ice.

Letter from Henry Pierpont to William Tudor,

One letter regarding an inquiry from Tudor.

Letters from Thomas & Henry Lynch & Co. to William Tudor,

Four letters regarding a shipment of fish, and market for flour and wheat. Includes one duplicate letter, and two bills of lading.

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

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

Hovey, Daniel, 1642-1695, autographed letter signed to John Winthrop; Ipswich, Mass., 1 side (2 pages), 1656 August 13

Correspondence relaying the progress of Hovey's stomach ailment after he took medicine prescribed by Winthrop, and further symptoms he was suffering, including chest pains. Hovey asks Winthrop for advice on additional action he should take to ease his symptoms.

Letters from Benjamin Welles to John Henry Tudor, 1799-1801

Benjamin Welles wrote these six letters to his friend and classmate, John Henry Tudor, between 1799 and 1801. Four of the letters are dated, and the dates of the other two can be deduced from their contents. Welles wrote Tudor four times in September 1799, at the onset of their senior year at Harvard, in an attempt to clear up hurt feelings and false rumors that he believed had caused a chill in their friendship. The cause of the rift is never fully explained, though Welles alludes to "a viper" and "villainous hypocrite" who apparently spread rumors and fueled discord between the two friends. In one letter, Welles asserts that "College is a rascal's Elysium - or the feeling man's hell." In another he writes: "College, Tudor, is a furnace to the phlegmatic, & a Greenland to thee feeling man; it has an atmosphere which breathes contagion to the soul [...] Villains fatten here. College is the embryo of hell." Whatever their discord, the wounds were apparently eventually healed; in a letter written June 26, 1800, Welles writes to ask Tudor about his impending speech at Commencement exercises. In an October 29, 1801 letter, Welles writes to Tudor in Philadelphia (where he appears to have traveled in attempts to recover his failing health) and expresses strong wishes for his friend's recovery and return to Boston. This letter also contains news of their classmate Washington Allston's meeting with painters Henry Fuseli and Benjamin West.

[ Portolan chart of eastern North and Central America and northern South America] : manuscript, 1659

Autograph (signed) map. Includes inscription: Made by Nicholas Comberford dwelling neare to the west end of the school house at the Sign of the Platt in Redcliffe. Anno 1659.

Account book of the executors of the Henry Flynt estate, 1760-1767

The volume contains acknowledgements of the disbursements of Harvard Tutor Henry Flynt's estate written in the hands of the respective beneficiaries. The entries begin on February 27, 1760 following Flynt's death on February 13, 1760, and continue through May 9, 1767. Each receipt includes the date, name of the executors, description of the property, beneficiary's name, and signature. The beneficiaries include the wife of Sol. Davy, Dorothy Jackson, Edmund Quincy, J. Henry Quincy, Esther and Stephen Richard (received by attorney Nicholas Boylston), Dorothy Skinner (also received for her by her husband Richard Skinner), John Wendell, Edmund Wendell, Katherine Wendell, and Oliver Wendell, as well as Harvard College (received by Harvard Treasurer Thomas Hubbard), and the Deacons of the First Church of Cambridge. The volume also includes a loose document titled "Account from Messrs Edmund & Josiah Quincy Settled & Ballanced March 31, 1749."

Relation de ce qui s'est passé en Canada depuis le départ des vaissaux de l'année 1694 jusq'au départ des vaisseaux 1695 : manuscript, [not before 1695]

Mentions Governor-General Louis de Frontenac, Antoine de Lamothe Cadillac, commandant of the Michilimackinac station, and the Iroquois Indian tribe.

Dunkerque, France, 1695 (Raster Image)

This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Plan en profil van Duynkerken : met sijn sterktens en zee-kasteelen, belegert te water, engebombardeert door de Engelse en Hollantse zee-magten, onder de Engelse admiraal Berkly en Hollantse admiraal Alemonde, op den Augustus, 1695, doen maken en uytgeven na de autentijke tekeninge van Monsieur Pamer, Ingenieur van Sijn Kon. Majest. van Groot Brittannien. It was published by Pieter Persoy, op den Dam in 1695. Scale [ca. 1:13,000]. Covers a portion of Dunkerque, France. Map in Dutch. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the European Datum 1950, Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) Zone 31N projected coordinate system. All map collar and inset information is also available as part of the raster image, including any inset maps, profiles, statistical tables, directories, text, illustrations, index maps, legends, or other information associated with the principal map. This map shows features such as roads, drainage, built-up areas and selected buildings, fortifications and defenses, canals, docks, ground cover, and more. Includes also index and panorama view.This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps from the Harvard Map Collection. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features. The selection represents a range of originators, ground condition dates, scales, and map purposes.

Delft, Netherlands, ca. 1695 (Raster Image)

This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Delfi Batavorum vernacule Delft, F. de Wit excudit. It was published ca. 1695. Scale [ca. 1:3,800]. Covers a portion of Delft, Netherlands. Map in Latin and Dutch. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Dutch National Grid: RD (Rijksdriehoekstelsel) GCS Amersfoort (Bessel 1841) coordinate system. All map collar and inset information is also available as part of the raster image, including any inset maps, profiles, statistical tables, directories, text, illustrations, index maps, legends, or other information associated with the principal map. This map shows features such as roads, drainage, built-up areas and selected buildings, fortifications, ground cover, and more. Includes also index.This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps from the Harvard Map Collection. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features. The selection represents a range of originators, ground condition dates, scales, and map purposes.

Dordrecht, Netherlands, ca. 1695 (Raster Image)

This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Dordracum vulgo Dortt, F. de Wit excudit. It was published ca. 1695. Scale [ca. 1:4,830]. Covers a portion of Dordrecht, Netherlands. Map in Latin and Dutch.The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Dutch National Grid: RD (Rijksdriehoekstelsel) GCS Amersfoort (Bessel 1841) coordinate system. All map collar and inset information is also available as part of the raster image, including any inset maps, profiles, statistical tables, directories, text, illustrations, index maps, legends, or other information associated with the principal map. This map shows features such as roads, drainage, built-up areas and selected buildings, fortifications, ground cover, and more. Includes also index.This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps from the Harvard Map Collection. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features. The selection represents a range of originators, ground condition dates, scales, and map purposes.

Haarlem, Netherlands, ca. 1695 (Raster Image)

This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Harlemum vulgo Haerlem, F. de Wit excudit. It was published ca. 1695. Scale [ca. 1:3,862]. Covers a portion of Haarlem, Netherlands. Map in Latin and Dutch. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Dutch National Grid: RD (Rijksdriehoekstelsel) GCS Amersfoort (Bessel 1841) coordinate system. All map collar and inset information is also available as part of the raster image, including any inset maps, profiles, statistical tables, directories, text, illustrations, index maps, legends, or other information associated with the principal map. This map shows features such as roads, drainage, built-up areas and selected buildings, fortifications, canals, ground cover, and more. Includes also index.This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps from the Harvard Map Collection. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features. The selection represents a range of originators, ground condition dates, scales, and map purposes.

Leiden, Netherlands, ca. 1695 (Raster Image)

This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Lugduni Batavorum vulgo Leyden sic ultimo amplificati delineatio, F. de Wit excudit. It was published ca. 1695. Scale [ca. 1:3,490]. Covers a portion of Leiden, Netherlands. Map in Latin and Dutch.The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Dutch National Grid: RD (Rijksdriehoekstelsel) GCS Amersfoort (Bessel 1841) coordinate system. All map collar and inset information is also available as part of the raster image, including any inset maps, profiles, statistical tables, directories, text, illustrations, index maps, legends, or other information associated with the principal map. This map shows features such as roads, drainage, built-up areas and selected buildings, fortifications, canals, ground cover, and more. Includes also index.This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps from the Harvard Map Collection. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features. The selection represents a range of originators, ground condition dates, scales, and map purposes.

Central Europe Region, 1695 (Raster Image)

This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: L'Empire d'Allemagne, divisé en tous ses estats : a l'usage de Monseigneur Le Duc De Bourgogne = Nova Imperii Germanici descriptio, in omnes suos circulos, electoratus, &c divisi : ad usum serenissimi Burgundiae Ducis, par ... H. Iaillot. It was published by H. Jaillot in 1695. Scale [ca. 1:2,400,000]. Covers the Central Europe region. Map in French and Latin. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Europe Lambert Conformal Conic coordinate system. All map collar and inset information is also available as part of the raster image, including any inset maps, profiles, statistical tables, directories, text, illustrations, index maps, legends, or other information associated with the principal map. This map shows features such as drainage, cities and other human settlements, roads, territorial and administrative boundaries, shoreline features, and more. Relief shown pictorially.This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps from the Harvard Map Collection. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features. The selection represents a range of originators, ground condition dates, scales, and map purposes.