Letter from Samuel Willard, Harvard College, Cambridge, Massachusetts, to William Willard, Petersham, Massachusetts, November 30, 1802

Willard discusses President Willard’s son Sheafe, who he has been tutoring, explains his education and argues for well-rounded studies. He also mentions that Doctor Aaron Dexter, a lecturer on chemistry, gave him a recipe for paint “which I enclose [separately] in this letter,” as well as a recipe for mortar. He explains that his vacation plans are to teach at a school in Groton for eighteen dollars a month, and asks for a loan from his parents to pay a bill.

Papers of William Merchant Richardson, 1797-1806

The collection contains a four-page handwritten poem titled "Invention" composed by graduate William Richardson for the 1797 Harvard College Commencement, and an 1806 letter of introduction written by Richardson. The rhyming poem begins, “Long had creations anthem peal been rung…” and contains classical references, and mentions scientists and philosophers including Voltaire, Franklin and Newton. The poem is accompanied by a one-page handwritten letter of introduction for lawyer Benjamin Ames (Harvard AB 1803) written by William M. Richardson to Reverend William Jenks (Harvard AB 1797). The letter is dated November 10, 1806.

1884 University of Michigan Football Team

Music and official program, National Baptist Convention, Philadelphia, September 1803 [sic] /

Mode of access: Internet.

Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli

Mode of access: Internet.

On mammalian descent : being nine lectures delivered in the theatre of the Royal College of Surgeons during February, 1884 /

Mode of access: Internet.

Old-time primitive Methodism in Canada, 1829-1884

Mode of access: Internet.

Domesday book, or the great survey of England of William the Conqueror A. D. MLXXXVI.

Volumes for Essex, Norfolk, and Suffolk, 31 x 24 cm.

The diary of William Bentley, D.D., pastor of the East Church, Salem, Massachusetts.

"Bibliography, compiled b Alice G. Waters": v. 1, p. xxxvii-x1.

Ancient English metrical romances.

Pub. in 14 parts, 1884-86; 1st edition pub. in 1802.

The poetical works of William Wordsworth,: with a memoir.

Index to poems in v. 5.

The plays of William Shakspeare : in miniature.

v. l. The tempest. The two gentlemen of Verona. The merry wives of Windsor. Twelfth night.--v. 2. Measure for measure. Much ado about nothing. Midsummer night's dream. Love's labour's lost.--v. 3. The merchant of Venice. As you like it. All's well that ends well. The taming of the shrew.--v. 4. Winter's tale. Comedy of errors. Macbeth. Timon of Athens. King John.--v. 5. King Richard II. King Henry IV, parts 1-2. King Henry V.--v. 6. King Henry VI, parts 1-3. King Richard III.--v. 7. King Henry VIII. Troilus and Cressida. Coriolanus. Hamlet.--v. 8. Julius Cæsar. Antony and Cleopatra. Cymbeline. Romeo and Juliet.--v. 9. Titus Andronicus. Pericles. King Lear. Othello. Glossary.

Memorials of Coleorton; being letters from Coleridge, Wordsworth and his sister, Southey, and Sir Walter Scott to Sir George and Lady Beaumont of Coleorton, Leicestershire, 1803-1834.

Mode of access: Internet.

The works of William H. Seward,

Vol. 5 has special t.-p.: The diplomatic history of the war for the union.

Memoir of William Ellery Channing : with extracts from his correspondence and manuscripts /

Mode of access: Internet.