Contract for finding all materials and finishing interior of University Hall, signed copy, 1 February 1814

This is a contract signed between Loammi Baldwin, acting on behalf of the President and Fellows of Harvard College, and Josiah Moore, John Walton, Thomas Mason, Samuel Mason, and Joseph Holmes for completing the dining rooms and chapel of University Hall. The agreement was witnessed by Abraham Edwards and Thomas Edwards.

Report of the New Jersey State Commission appointed to devise a plan for the encouragement of manufactures of ornamental and textile fabrics. 1878

Samuel C. Brown, Thomas N. Dale, Robert H. Thurston, commission.

Payment order for Josiah Cotton, 1722 September 10

Handwritten order to Penn Townsend to pay scholarship funds to student Josiah Cotton (Harvard AB 1722), signed by Benjamin Wadsworth, Thomas Foxcroft, Samuel Marshall, and Jonathan Williams.

[Admittatur of William Clark (Harvard AB 1759)], 1756

Notebook with a handwritten copy of the 1734 College laws in English prepared by Harvard undergraduate William Clark and signed by President Edward Holyoke, Tutors Belcher Hancock and Thomas Marsh, and William Symmes and William Kneeland on January 3, 1756.

Estimate of expense of repairs of Massachusetts by [John] Walton and [Josiah] Moore, 13 January 1806

Includes estimate from Walton & Moore for adding another storey to Massachusetts Hall, replacing the roof, replacing glass, and painting the interior.

Orders for expenditures for University Hall, 15 May 1813-13 May 1814

Contains one sewn volume of work orders for the construction of University Hall in the hand of Loammi Baldwin between May 1813 and May 1814. The volume contains 46 completed work orders for supplies and services for "building the new Dining Halls and Chapel in Cambridge" payable to Hon. John Davis, Harvard treasurer. Completed work orders are noted with the name of the payee, amount paid, and the supplies or services fulfilled. Work orders 47 through 60 in the volume are unused.

Estimate from Josiah Bemis to John Lowell and Loammi Baldwin for Chelmsford granite, [ca. 1813]

Bemis, responding to an advertisement from Lowell and Baldwin requesting bids for building materials, outlines his proposal for using Chelmsford granite for the construction of University Hall. Bemis lists 12 stipulations in his proposal including costs per bricks, techniques for constructing the upper storeys, and labor costs.

Misr. [Josiah] Moore, [John] Walton's & al's estimate, [ca. 1813]

Moore and Walton's projected cost for finishing University Hall is $5,386.61. This includes finishing the roof, laying the floors, and installing the gutters and windows.

Letter from George Gardner Lee to Loammi Baldwin, 10 January 1814

Lee, a Boston merchant who often represented the city as deputy in the Massachusetts General Court, asks Baldwin if the laborers laying the bricks and stone for University Hall could be loaned for a few days to work on the construction of the South meeting house [New South Church].

Contract for finding all materials and finishing interior of University Hall, 1 February 1814

Draft of the official signed copy of the contract in Box 1, Folder 42. This copy is written in a different hand and contains several struck through phrases.

Letter from John Lowell to Loammi Baldwin, 19 March 1814

Lowell discusses the selection of a painter for the interior of University Hall with Baldwin.

Letter from Alpheus Cary to Loammi Baldwin, 23 March 1814

Cary writes Baldwin with questions about the size of marble window stools to be installed in University Hall.

Vote of Harvard College, 9 May 1814

Signed by President John Kirkland, this Corporation vote acknowledges that Loammi Baldwin has given his notice that he can no longer oversee the construction of University Hall. The Corporation votes to pay him seven hundred dollars for his services.

Agreement between John Lowell and John Walton, Thomas Mason, Joseph Holmes, and Samuel Mason to finish the basement of University Hall, 7 June 1814

This contract includes stipulations for finishing the two kitchens, windows, and floors in University Hall by the first of August 1815.