Note from William Croswell to President Kirkland and the Corporation of Harvard College, 1817-1821

This folder contains six documents: three drafts of a brief March 10, 1817, note to Harvard President John Kirkland, with two of the drafts followed by an October 25, 1819, note to the Harvard College Corporation concerning Croswell's work on Harvard's Library Catalogue.

Letter from William Croswell to Hannah Colesworthy, 1817 June 21

Draft of a one-page letter regarding the death of Colesworthy's mother.

Letter from William Croswell to Daniel P. Colesworthy, 1817 October 4

Copy of a one-page letter concerning the payment of a bill.

Housing advertisements, 1817; 1822

This folder contains an 1817 handwritten newspaper wanted advertisement for lodging and an 1822 newspaper advertisement paid for by Croswell for lodging and work as a copyist.

Plan for the arrangement of the catalogue of the University Library, [1817 January]

Six-page handwritten draft of an organization plan for the catalogue of the Harvard University Library.

Plan for the arrangement of the catalogue of the University Library (printed), 1817 January

Printed broadside containing an organization plan for the catalogue of the Harvard University Library.

Diary entries related to Library employment, 1816-1817

Four pages containing brief entries related to Croswell's employment in the Harvard College Library.

[Admittatur of Charles Jarvis], 1817 October 11

Published copy of the 1816 College Laws with the admittatur of undergraduate Charles Jarvis.

Conferences, 1811-1817

A handwritten list of the conference subjects delivered on Commencement and Exhibition Days between 1811 and 1817.

Conferences, 1817-1821

A handwritten list of the conference subjects of delivered on Commencement and Exhibition Days between 1817 and 1821.

Letter from Stephen Longfellow to Daniel Appleton White, 1799 May 29

Stephen Longfellow wrote this letter in Portland, Maine on May 29, 1799; it was sent to his friend, Daniel Appleton White, in Medford, Massachusetts. In the letter, Longfellow describes the Election Day festivities among the "plebeans" in Portland, which he apparently found both amusing and upsetting. He compares the horses pulling their sleds to Don Quixote's horse, Rocinante. He also writes about mutual friends, including John Henry Tudor and Jabez Kimball, and bemoans the behavior of the current members of Phi Beta Kappa among the Harvard College undergraduates, whom he insists have sunk the society below its former "exalted station."