[Admittatur of John Walsh], 1811 February 25

Published copy of the 1807 College Laws with the admittatur of undergraduate John Walsh signed by President John Kirkland on February 25, 1811.

Papers of Helen Lawrence Appleton Brooks, 1822-1985

Mostly correspondence between family members, beginning with Catherine Lawrence and Charles Appleton, the parents of Helen Brooks. Also records of Brooks' voluntary activities, her diaries and personal writings, and material collected by Grace Norton about Henry James.

Records of the Geographical Society, ca. 1796

This small blue-covered paper notebook contains four leaves with the handwritten records of the Geographical Society, an undergraduate organization at Harvard in the late 1790s. The records consist of ten handwritten "Laws of the Geographical Society" and a short list of fines dispensed on October 7th. A list of six student surnames is written on a scrap of paper and attached with pins to the notebook's inside front cover. The surnames likely correspond to six members of the Harvard Class of 1798: John Abbot (1777-1854), Isaac Adams (d. 1807), Francis Brigham (d. November 14, 1796), Humphrey Devereux (1779-1867), Joseph Emerson (1777-1833), and Artemas Sawyer (d. 1826). The notebook is undated but was presumably kept in 1795 or 1796 around the time of Brigham's death on November 14, 1796. While Brigham's surname appears in the list of fines, it is crossed out on the inside front cover.

Letter from William Croswell to John C. Page, 1811 December 24

Draft of a one-page letter regarding Page's financial assistance to Croswell in Liverpool, with a laid-in leaf containing an accounting statement.

[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 William A. Warner], 1811 September 24

Published copy of the 1814 College Laws with the admittatur of undergraduate William A. Warner signed by President John Kirkland on September 24, 1811.

Letter from William Croswell to John Jones, [1808]

Draft of a letter concerning Croswell's Mercator map.

Letter from William Croswell to [John] Bonnycastle, 1808 May 6

Draft of a letter to John Bonnycastle of the Royal Military Academy in Woolrich, England, requesting a recommendation.

Letter from William Croswell to John Bonnycastle, [1808 May]

Draft of a letter requesting help in publishing a map.

Letter to William Croswell, 1811 May 23

Two-page letter from an individual with advice about Croswell's future publishing activities. The correspondent's signature is illegible.

Letter from William Croswell to John Davis, 1818 December 5

Draft of a one-page letter to Judge John Davis regarding a mathematical problem.

Letters from William Croswell to John Thornton Kirkland, 1820 April-August

This folder contains copies of three brief letters from Croswell to Harvard President Kirkland, dated April 5, 1820, July 6, 1820, and August 28, 1820, requesting payment.