[Admittatur of Timothy Prout (Harvard AB 1741)], 1737

Notebook with a handwritten copy of the 1734 College laws copied in English by Harvard undergraduate Timothy Prout and signed by President Edward Holyoke, Fellows Henry Flynt and Nathan Prince, and Tutors Stephen Sewall and Daniel Rogers on October 5, 1737. The flyleaf includes the note, "This Body of Colledge Laws was transcribed by Timo. Prout July ye 10th anno Domini 1737.

[Admittatur of Jonathan Townsend (Harvard AB 1741)], 1737

Notebook, in modern hardcover binding, with a handwritten copy of the 1734 College laws in English prepared by Harvard undergraduate Jonathan Townsend and signed by President Edward Holyoke and Fellow Nathan Prince on October 6, 1737.

[Yearly salaries for 1737 to 1795 of the Presidents, 1796]

One leaf containing a handwritten list of the salaries of Harvard presidents for the years 1737 to 1795.

[Grants of the General Court for 1737 and 1750 to President Holyoke], undated

One folio-sized leaf containing a handwritten list of grants received by President Holyoke from the Massachusetts General Court between 1737 and 1750, presumably copied from a record book cited as "M.S. No. II," pages 26-56.

Student mathematical proofs by Edward Stephen (?) Wigglesworth, 1788

Sheet with two handwritten mathematical proofs signed "Wigglesworth, 1788," likely referring Harvard student Edward Stephen Wigglesworth. The first proof, titled "Problem 1st," examines a prompt beginning, "Given the distance between the Centers of the Sun and Planet, and their quantities of matter; to find a place where a body will be attracted to neither of them." The second proof, titled "Problem 2d," begins "A & B having returned from a journey, had riden [sic] so far that if the square of the number of miles..." and asks "how many miles did each of them travel?"