Letter from William Croswell to an unidentified recipient, 1827 July 9

Draft of a letter discussing Croswell's claims for compensation from the Harvard Corporation.

Memorial to the Boston School Committee, 1827 January

One draft of a letter.

Petition to the City of Boston, 1827 June 18

Two drafts of a letter.

Letter from William Croswell to the City Council of Boston, 1827 September 4

Drafts of a letter concerning Croswell's June 1827 petition to the City Council.

Memorial to the Harvard Corporation, 1827 September 17

Two drafts of a letter.

Memorial to the Harvard Corporation, 1827 December 19

Four drafts of a letter.

Financial bills and receipts, 1827-1832

This folder contains five bills and receipts.

Attempts in penmanship, 1826-1827

This folder contains two drafts of a document describing Croswell's experiments with penmanship.

Stoughton Hall..N.W. [Northwest] View, 1827

Pen and ink drawing of a northwest view of Stoughton Hall, watermarked 1827

Stoughton Hall..S.E. [Southeast] View, 1827

Pen and ink drawing of a southeast view of Stoughton Hall, watermarked 1827

College Book 10, 1810-1827

College Book 10 consists of multiple paper-bound waste books bound together in one leather hard binding. It begins with an alphabetical index and contains minutes of Corporation meetings held from November 14, 1810 through March 31, 1827. The last page of the volume lists the number of each page on which donations to the College Library are mentioned. Bound with this volume is a printed pamphlet, To the Reverend and Honorable The Corporation of Harvard University, signed by eleven professors and tutors in 1824, along with a manuscript response from the Corporation, entitled Report of a Committee of the President and Fellows of Harvard College on the Memorial of the Resident Instructors Asserting their Chartered Right to be Elected to Vacancies in the Corporation. January 11, 1825.