Letter from William Croswell to [John Quincy Adams], 1833 July

Four pages of notes and copies of letters including two rough drafts of a July 1833 letter presumably written to the former United States President John Quincy Adams.

Letter from William Croswell to John Quincy Adams, 1833 July 9

Two drafts on one leaf of a letter regarding the depreciation of currency.

Boston and vicinity, Massachusetts, 1833 (Raster Image)

This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Map of Boston and its vicinity, with corrections in 1833, by John G. Hales ; Edwin Gillingham, sc. It was published in 1833. Scale [ca. 1:63,360]. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Massachusetts State Plane Coordinate System, Mainland Zone (in Feet) (Fipszone 2001). 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, or other information associated with the principal map. This map shows features such as roads, railroads, drainage, selected public buildings, residences with selected names of property owners, industry locations (e.g. mills, factories, mines, etc.), town boundaries and more. Relief is shown by hachures and spot heights. This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps of Massachusetts from the Harvard Map Collection. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features. The selection represents a range of regions, originators, ground condition dates (1755-1922), scales, and purposes. The digitized selection includes maps of: the state, Massachusetts counties, town surveys, coastal features, real property, parks, cemeteries, railroads, roads, public works projects, etc.

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 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 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.

[Admittatur of John Capen], 1836

Printed copy of the 1833 abstract of laws and regulations with the admittatur of undergraduate John Capen signed by President Josiah Quincy on August 30, 1836. The admittatur also includes a certificate of removal from probation signed December 20, 1836.