Letter from William Croswell to an unidentified recipient, 1819 December 19

Draft of a one-page letter to an unidentified recipient in Liverpool regarding an unpaid debt.

Letter from William Croswell to [Ephraim] Eliot, 1819 December 22

Draft of a one-page letter thanking Eliot for money.

Letters to the Corporation of Harvard College, 1819-1829

Paper notebook containing copies of letters sent by Croswell to the Harvard Corporation in relation to his work on the Harvard Library Catalogue.

Memorials to the Harvard Corporation, 1819 October-1821 June

Six documents containing drafts and copies of eleven letters.

Financial bills and receipts, 1818-1819

This folder contains three bills and receipts.

B. Miscellaneous accounting statements, 1781-1819

This subseries contains five one-page account statements consisting of "Col. Marshall's Account" for 1781 to 1790; washing charges in 1800; payments in 1807 and 1808 to "Mrs. C."; credits and debits for 1812-1813; and a statement of money received from the Pemberton Fund between 1812 and 1819.

Harvard Corporation votes, 1819; 1821

One page containing handwritten copies of two Harvard Corporation votes related to Croswell's employment at Harvard.

Description of near attack, [1819 August]

One leaf containing a description by Croswell of nearly being run over by a carriage. The document is undated, but the date can be inferred from other diary entries in the collection.

[Letter from William Emerson to John Sale], 1819 December 3

Letter signed by William Emerson requesting John Sale pay the scholarship funds. The author of the letter is likely the son of the Reverend William Emerson, who died in 1811. William Emerson (1801-1868) received an AB from Harvard in 1818; his brother Ralph Waldo Emerson (Harvard AB 1821) received the Penn Scholarship from 1817 to 1820.

[Admittatur of Pickering Dodge], 1819 September 24

Published copy of the 1816 College Laws with the admittatur of undergraduate Pickering Dodge signed by President John Kirkland on September 24, 1819.

Suggested subjects, [1819]

One slip of paper containing handwritten subjects in an unidentified hand. The verso contains a June 16, 1819 note from President Kirkland to the Harvard Librarian.

Massachusetts register and United States calendar; for the year of our Lord, 1819

Interleaved almanac with hardbound marbled-paper covers. The interleaved page for June 1819 has entries noting travel and a special meeting of the Trustees in Andover.

VII. Harvard College Papers, 1st series, Volume 7, 1811-1815, 1819

The seventh volume of the College Papers contains original documents dating from 1811 to 1815, spanning the tenures of president John Thornton Kirkland and treasurer John Davis. Much of the volume consists of general administrative correspondence exchanged between Kirkland and Davis. It also contains one document from 1819.

VIII. Harvard College Papers, 1st series, Volume 8, 1815-1820 (bulk 1815-1819)

The eighth volume of College Papers contains original documents dating from 1815 to 1819, spanning the tenures of president John Thornton Kirkland and treasurer John Davis. Much of the volume consists of general administrative correspondence exchanged between Kirkland and Davis. It also contains a document from 1820.

IX. Harvard College Papers, 1st series, Volume 9, 1819-1821

The ninth volume of College Papers contains original documents dating from 1819 to 1821, spanning the tenures of president John Thornton Kirkland and treasurer John Davis, as well as correspondence between Davis and Steward Stephen Higginson. Much of the volume consists of general administrative correspondence exchanged between Kirkland and Davis. It also contains an early 20th century typewritten document.