Letter from William Croswell to an unidentified recipient, 1819 December 19

Draft of a one-page letter to an unidentified recipient in Liverpool regarding an unpaid debt.

Letter from William Croswell to [Ephraim] Eliot, 1819 December 22

Draft of a one-page letter thanking Eliot for money.

Letters to the Corporation of Harvard College, 1819-1829

Paper notebook containing copies of letters sent by Croswell to the Harvard Corporation in relation to his work on the Harvard Library Catalogue.

Memorials to the Harvard Corporation, 1819 October-1821 June

Six documents containing drafts and copies of eleven letters.

Financial bills and receipts, 1818-1819

This folder contains three bills and receipts.

B. Miscellaneous accounting statements, 1781-1819

This subseries contains five one-page account statements consisting of "Col. Marshall's Account" for 1781 to 1790; washing charges in 1800; payments in 1807 and 1808 to "Mrs. C."; credits and debits for 1812-1813; and a statement of money received from the Pemberton Fund between 1812 and 1819.

Harvard Corporation votes, 1819; 1821

One page containing handwritten copies of two Harvard Corporation votes related to Croswell's employment at Harvard.

Description of near attack, [1819 August]

One leaf containing a description by Croswell of nearly being run over by a carriage. The document is undated, but the date can be inferred from other diary entries in the collection.

[Letter from William Emerson to John Sale], 1819 December 3

Letter signed by William Emerson requesting John Sale pay the scholarship funds. The author of the letter is likely the son of the Reverend William Emerson, who died in 1811. William Emerson (1801-1868) received an AB from Harvard in 1818; his brother Ralph Waldo Emerson (Harvard AB 1821) received the Penn Scholarship from 1817 to 1820.

Book receipt of John Mellen and William Bentley, 1780 June 16

This half-page slip contains receipts for two Harvard College Library books received by Harvard College Tutors John Mellen (1752-1828; Harvard AB 1770) and William Bentley (1759-1819; Harvard AB 1777).

[Admittatur of Pickering Dodge], 1819 September 24

Published copy of the 1816 College Laws with the admittatur of undergraduate Pickering Dodge signed by President John Kirkland on September 24, 1819.

Catalogue of freshmen, 1752

List of the matriculating members of the Harvard Class of 1756.

A Coppe of the Plan of Cambridge New Meeting House which was excepted by the people, 1752

The floor plan details the proposed interior of the New Meeting House of the First Parish in Cambridge to be built near the College, in the present area of Lehman Hall. This land became Harvard property in 1833. The drawing includes space allotted for the pulpit, pews, and center aisle. The document is fragile.

Suggested subjects, [1819]

One slip of paper containing handwritten subjects in an unidentified hand. The verso contains a June 16, 1819 note from President Kirkland to the Harvard Librarian.