Letters from William Croswell to the Harrison Gray Otis, 1824-1825

Two leaves containing drafts of brief notes that accompanied letters for Harvard Corporation between April 1824 and April 1825.

Letter from William Croswell to Harrison G. Otis, 1833 November 4

Two drafts of a letter requesting financial assistance.

Capt. Weeks his answers to interogatorys on oath ... ca. 1738

Weeks (of Greenland, N.H.) was accused of concealing and embezzling items from his late son's estate. Document is signed: William Parker reg.

Commonplace book of Clement Weeks

Commonplace book containing a transcription of the "The Book of Harvard," a satirical account of the Butter Rebellion of 1766 followed with supplementary text of "The Arguments in Defence of the Proceedings of the Scholars" and "The Confession that was made after all was done." The above occupies pp. 1-14; pp. 15-18 missing. Pages 19-23 hold excerpts from Edward Young's Conjectures on Original Composition. Pages 24-62 hold excerpts from Saint Augustine's Heresies. Finally pages 62-64 hold an excerpt of Druidical maxims from the introduction of the first volume of Paul Rapin de Thoyras' The History of England (1724).

Letters from Harrison Gray Otis to William Tudor,

Four letters in which Otis relays his thoughts on the Boston judicial system and losing his Senate seat in 1822. Also included is correspondence responding to Tudor’s request for information on his uncle, James Otis.