Letters from William Tudor to his family,

Four letters written from St. Pierre, Martinique, Basseterre, Guadalupe, and St. Barts. In one letter written over a number of days, he describes extensively his travels in Antigua, and the various people he met, including Captain William Jarvis. He also details his meeting with Ralph Payne, 1st Baron Lavington, the governor of the Leeward Islands, regarding the prospects of importing ice.

Bond of Samuel Shapleigh and Thomas Adams to the Harvard Corporation, Aug. 15, 1789

Shapleigh and Adams' signatures have been cut out from the bottom of this document. It was "signed, sealed and delivered" in the presence of Thomas Gray and Darius Shaw.

Power of Attorney, [?] Wellington for Thomas Durant, Sept. 22, 1787

Signed by Thomas Durant and witnessed by Ebenezer Bradish. It is possible that Shapleigh used this document as a guide when drafting his own power of attorney documents.

Power of Attorney, Samuel Shapleigh for Thomas Adams, Jan. 12, 1791

Signed by Thomas Adams and witnessed by Abraham Biglow and Daniel Clarke Sanders.

Power of Attorney, Samuel Shapleigh for Thomas Thompson, May 18, 1791

Signed by Thomas Thompson and witnessed by Thaddeus Mason Harris and Otis(?) Clarke.

II. Harvard College Papers, 1st series, Volume 2, 1764-1785, 1793

The second volume of the College Papers contains original documents dating from 1764 to 1785, spanning the tenures of presidents Edward Holyoke, Samuel Locke, Samuel Langdon, acting president Edward Wigglesworth, and Joseph Willard, as well as treasurers Thomas Hubbard, John Hancock, and Ebenezer Storer. It also contains a document from 1793.

II. Harvard College Papers, 1st series, Volume 2, 1764-1785, 1793

The second volume of the College Papers contains original documents dating from 1764 to 1785, spanning the tenures of presidents Edward Holyoke, Samuel Locke, Samuel Langdon, acting president Edward Wigglesworth, and Joseph Willard, as well as treasurers Thomas Hubbard, John Hancock, and Ebenezer Storer. It also contains a document from 1793.

Samuel Hazlet puts in his place James Duane his attorney against Thomas Dignel in a plea of trespass against the case, 1757

Title from verso.

Student essay composed by Thomas Mason, 1796

Three-page folio-sized handwritten student essay composed by Thomas Mason as a Harvard undergraduate. The verso of the last page is inscribed "Mason February 1796." A quotation from Edward Young appears at the top of the first page: "Heaven gives us friends to bless the present science; / Resumes them, to prepare us for the rest." The essay discusses friendship and the death of friends, and begins, "The author of our nature has so constituted it, that pleasure is unknown without the intervention of pain."

The first account of Thomas B. Gannett Executor of the last will & testament of Caleb Gannett late of Cambridge Esq. deceased, [1820]

One-page handwritten accounting document with the note on the verso: "changes of from which items in 1st account of administration are formed." The document is undated.

Mr. Cline's lectures on anatomy & surgery, 1799-1800 (inclusive)

Volume containing notes on the lectures of Henry Cline (1750-1827), a surgeon at St. Thomas's Hospital, London, England, that were kept by American medical student John Collins Warren in 1799 and 1800. The lectures were on topics including blood, blood vessels, absorbents, cellular membranes, and the nerves. There are annotations in pencil in an unknown hand throughout the volume.

Coasts, West Scotland, United Kingdom, 1800 (Raster Image)

This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: The Lewis and west coast of Scotland : from the best authorities, by Stuart Amos Arnold, and other experienced navigators. It was published by D. & E. Steele, at the Navigation Warehouse, Little Tower Hill in Jany. 1st, 1800. Scale [1:275,000]. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Europe Lambert Conformal Conic coordinate system. All map collar and inset information is also available as part of the raster image, including any inset maps, profiles, statistical tables, directories, text, illustrations, index maps, legends, or other information associated with the principal map. This map shows features such as drainage, cities and other human settlements, shoreline features (rocks, shoals, anchorage points, ports, inlets, etc.), and more. Relief shown by hachures and pictorially; depths shown by soundings. Includes index.This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps from the Harvard Map Collection. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features. The selection represents a range of originators, ground condition dates, scales, and map purposes.