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.

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 Boston School Committee, 1827 January

One draft of a letter.

Petition to the City of Boston, 1827 June 18

Two drafts of a letter.

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.

Letter from William Prescott to Oliver Prescott, 1782 October 19

Two-page handwritten letter from Harvard undergraduate William Prescott to his classmate, Oliver Prescott, that chiefly describes, in florid language, the discipline received by John Rowe (Harvard AB 1783) and others from College officers for disorderly behavior.

Student mathematical notebook of William Tudor, 1795

Notebook containing the handwritten mathematical exercises of William Tudor, kept in 1795 while he was an undergraduate at Harvard College. The volume contains rules, definitions, problems, drawings, and tables on geometry, trigonometry, surveying, calculating distances, sailing, and dialing. Some of the exercises are illustrated with hand-drawn diagrams. The Menusration of Heights and Distances section contains color drawings of buildings and trees, and some have been altered with notes in different hands and with humorous additions. For instance, a drawing of a tower was drawn into a figure titled “Egyptian Mummy.” Some of the images are identified: “A rude sketch of the Middlesex canal,” Genl Warren’s monument on Bunker Hill,” “Noddles Island,” “the fields of Elysium,” and the “Roxbury Canal.” The annotations and additional drawings are unattributed.

Student essay attributed to William Ellery Channing, 1797 June 5

Three-page handwritten essay composed in English and attributed to Harvard undergraduate William Ellery Channing. The verso of the last page is inscribed "Channing 5 June 97." A quotation from Edward Young appears at the top of the first page: "A Competence is vital to content / Much wealth is corpulence, if not disease" and discusses the topic of affluence. The document includes edits and struck-through words.

Letters from William Tudor to Thomas Handasyd Perkins,

Four letters regarding business and trade in South America and progress in Tudor’s mining enterprise. Tudor also comments on the political turmoil in Colombia and Peru and offers opinions on Generals José de la Mar and Simón Bolívar.

Letters from William Tudor to Thomas Handasyd Perkins,

Four letters, with topics including the improving conditions of trade in South America, Tudor’s mining enterprise, and the activities of Simón Bolívar.

Letters from William Tudor to Thomas Handasyd Perkins,

Four letters on topics including politics in the United States, José de la Mar’s installation as president of Peru, and Tudor’s impressions of de la Mar after meeting him several times. Tudor also writes of the movements of the "atrocious conspirator & usurper" Bolívar.

Letters from Thomas ap Catesby Jones to William Tudor,

Two letters in which Jones requests that Tudor relay his regrets to José de la Mar for missing the general’s installation as president of Peru, and mentions he is sending Tudor an ensign to be used "at the Palace."