Letter from William Croswell to the Masters of Mason Street Schools, 1832 March 8

Draft of a brief letter complaining about students.

Letter from William Croswell to Sarah C. Bumstead, 1832 September 10

Brief letter concerning the repayment of a loan.

Letter from William Croswell to Charles Stimpson, 1832 October 16

Two drafts of a brief letter regarding the sale of Croswell's map.

Letter from William Croswell to [Dr. Channing], 1832 October 19

Draft of a letter concerning housing problems.

Letter from William Croswell to the Friends of Literary Undertakings, 1832 November 2

Document containing a draft of a letter regarding Croswell's work on cubic equations and notes for some additional letters.

Letter from William Croswell to an unidentified recipient, [ca. 1832]

Draft of a letter regarding Croswell's work on cubic equations.

Financial bills and receipts, 1827-1832

This folder contains five bills and receipts.

Draft of lease agreement, 1832 May

Handwritten document with drafts of a lease agreement with William Croswell and Sarah Bumstead, as tenants, for lodging in Boston.

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.

Annotated almanac, 1752

Almanac containing calendar pages with sporadic annotations of unidentified measurements and interleaved pages with short handwritten entries about Winthrop's daily activities, and astronomical and meteorological observations. The entries include personal notes about travel, the weather, vegetable planting, and the birth of Winthrop's fourth son James (March 28) and taking him to wet nurses (March 31 and August 31). Throughout the volume there are entries about the smallpox epidemic including statistics about the disease's affect in Boston and family inoculations. At the end of the volume, there is a bill of mortality for Charlestown for 1752 with a chart of deaths according to age ranges.