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.

Letter from Josiah Quincy to Loammi Baldwin, 1831 April 5

Three-page handwritten letter form Josiah Quincy to Loammi Baldwin explaining the reasons for the dismissal of Baldwin's nephew, Loammi Baldwin (who matriculated with the Class of 1833), from the College.

Letter from Josiah Quincy to Loammi Baldwin, 1836 May 28

One-page handwritten letter of introduction for Sarah King, widow of Edward King of Cincinnati.

Letter from John Quincy Adams to his brother, Thomas Boylston Adams, 1786 July 2

This letter was written by John Quincy Adams on July 2, 1786 to his younger brother, Thomas Boylston Adams, who was then staying with their uncle, the Reverend John Shaw, in Haverhill, Massachusetts. In the letter, John gives Thomas advice on life as a student at Harvard, instructing him to choose his friends carefully, to favor those who are virtuous and studious over those who are idle and prone to vice, to maintain an "unblemished moral reputation," and to spend as much as six hours each day studying in order to excel as a scholar.

Letters from Z.W. Nixon to William Tudor,

Four letters regarding the legal and financial aspects involving the Chanca silver mine and its stakeholders, Tudor, McCall, Maling, and Prevost, and a copy of a letter from Nixon to Prevost. Nixon additionally comments on domestic news, including the renaming of the U.S.S. Susquehanna as the U.S.S. Brandywine by John Quincy Adams in honor of the Marquis de Lafayette. The ship conveyed Lafayette back to France after his tour of the United States. Nixon also mentions Charles Stewart and his court martial.

Chanca silver mine financial document,

One list of costs related to the mine. In Spanish.

Letter from Josiah Quincy to Francis Sales, 1835 October 12

Brief one-page handwritten letter to Francis Sales from Harvard President Josiah Quincy that accompanied the diploma for Sales's honorary master's degree.

Letter from Frances Sales to Josiah Quincy, 1835 October 22

One-page handwritten letter thanking President Quincy for his October 12, 1835 message and accompanying diploma. The document is pasted on the verso of a sheet also holding Sales's 1854 letter of resignation (HUG 1763 Box 1, Folder 3, Item 2).

Quincy, Massachusetts, 1857 (Raster Image)

This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Map of the town of Quincy, Norfolk County, Mass., by H.F. Walling, supt. of the state map. It was published by H.F. Walling & Co. in 1857. Scale 1:15,000. 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, public buildings, schools, churches, cemeteries, industry locations (e.g. mills, factories, mines, etc.), private buildings with names of property owners, town and town district boundaries and more. Relief is shown by hachures. Includes insets: Quincy Village. Scale 1:5,000 -- West Quincy. Scale [ca. 1:7,920]. 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.

Older woman takes part in Mine-Marathon in Central Park

General note: Title and date provided by Bettye Lane.