Volume I, original,

This volume is a tête-bêche, with texts beginning at both the front and back covers rotated 180⁰ from one another. The portion at the back, which is much shorter in length, contains transcriptions of acts and orders of the General Court from 1642, 1650, and 1657. It also contains the "Rules and Statutes Relating to the Hollis Professorship of Divinity" and those relating to the Hollis Professorship of Mathematics and Natural and Experimental Philosophy, as well as a transcription of a portion of Mary Saltonstall's will.

Commonplace book of Nathaniel Freeman, 1786-1787

Nathaniel Freeman made entries in this commonplace book between 1786 and 1787, while he was an undergraduate at Harvard College. The book includes the notes Freeman took during three of Hollis Professor Samuel Williams' "Course of Experimental Lectures," and cover Williams' lectures on "The Nature & Properties of Matter," "Attraction & Repulsion," and "The Nature, Kind, & Affections [?] of Motion." These notes also include one diagram. The book also includes forensic compositions on the subjects of capital punishment, the probability of "the immortality of the soul," and "whether there be any disinterested benevolence." It also includes a poem Freeman composed for his uncle, Edmund Freeman; an anecdote about Philojocus and Gripus; an essay called "Character"; a draft of a letter to the Harvard Corporation requesting that, in light of the public debt, the Commencement ceremonies be held privately to lower expenses and exhibit the merits of economy; and an "epistle" to his father, requesting money. This epistle begins: "Most honored sire, / Thy son, poor Nat, in humble strains, / Impell'd by want, thy generous bounty claims."

Diary,

This diary is written in tête-bêche, with texts beginning at both the front and back covers rotated 180⁰ from one another.

Commonplace book,

This commonplace book is written in tête-bêche, with texts beginning at both the front and back covers rotated 180⁰ from one another.

Harvard University Notebook,

This notebook is written in tête-bêche, with texts beginning at both the front and back covers rotated 180⁰ from one another.

Harvard University Notebook,

This notebook is written in tête-bêche, with texts beginning at both the front and back covers rotated 180⁰ from one another.

Harvard University Notebook,

This notebook is written in tête-bêche, with texts beginning at both the front and back covers rotated 180⁰ from one another.

Memorandum book,

This book is written in tête-bêche, with texts beginning at both the front and back covers rotated 180⁰ from one another.

Memorandum book,

This book is written in tête-bêche, with texts beginning at both the front and back covers rotated 180⁰ from one another.