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."

A system of ethicks: Of morall phylosophy in generall & in speciall

This hardcover volume contains manuscript copies of Charles Morton's "A System of Ethicks," "Pneumatics. Or a treatise of the Rev'd Mr. Charles Morton about ye Nature of Spirit," "Appendix of the Souls of Brutes," "Some Theological Questions Answd," and a one-page list "Texts of Scripture to prove if ye head of Christ &c." copied by Harvard student Ebenezer Williams in February 1707/8.

Commonplace book of Benjamin Penhallow, 1721-1724

This leather-bound volume contains excerpts copied by Benjamin Penhallow from books he read while he was a student at Harvard in the 1720s. The volume contains extracts from two texts: Johanis Henrici Alstedii's (John Henry Alsted / Johann Heinrich Alsted) Geometria Domini, and the anonymous text "The Legacy of a dying Father; bequeath'd to his Beloved Children, or Sundry Directions in Order unto a well Regulated Conversation," from 1724 (originally published in 1693-4). The last page of text in the volume contains the hymn "The Sacred Content of Praise" first published in 1734, and added after Penhallow's death.