Warrant, 1752 April 7

Photostat of a royal warrant for Andrew Bordman III's appointment as "Justice of our Inferior Court of Common Pleas" in Middlesex county, witnessed by Spencer Phips, Massachusetts Lieutenant Governor. A note added May 19, 1752 confirms Bordman's test of declaration and oath of office before Francis Foxcroft and Samuel Danforth.

Letter from Francis Dana to Samuel Langdon, 1780 January 19

This one-page letter from Harvard alumnus Francis Dana (1743-1811; Harvard AB 1762), in Bilbao, Spain, to Harvard President Samuel Langdon concerns the donation of a Spanish book by Dana to the College Library.

[Form of Admission of Francis Oliver (Harvard AB 1795)], 1791 August 19-20

Printed certificate of admission for undergraduate Francis J. Oliver certified by Steward Caleb Gannett on August 19, 1791 and signed by President Joseph Willard on August 20, 1791.

Catalogue of freshmen, 1752

List of the matriculating members of the Harvard Class of 1756.

A Coppe of the Plan of Cambridge New Meeting House which was excepted by the people, 1752

The floor plan details the proposed interior of the New Meeting House of the First Parish in Cambridge to be built near the College, in the present area of Lehman Hall. This land became Harvard property in 1833. The drawing includes space allotted for the pulpit, pews, and center aisle. The document is fragile.