Phi Beta Kappa dissertation on the study of history at Harvard, by Daniel White and John Collins Warren, February 21, 1797

This dissertation, apparently delivered at a Phi Beta Kappa assembly on February 21, 1797 by Warren and White, concerns the study of history at Harvard College at the time they were students. In this manuscript version of their dissertation, Warren and White bemoan the insufficient attention paid to the discipline of history by the students and faculty at Harvard.

[Subscription of funds for John Konkapot,

This folder contains a handwritten contemporary copy of a subscription paper.

[Letter from John T. Kirkland to Theophilus Parsons,

This folder contains two documents: an original letter presumably in Kirkland's handwriting and a copy of the original in someone else's handwriting.

Letter from John T. Kirkland to Charles Sigourney,

This folder contains a typewritten copy of Kirkland's original letter. The location of the original is unknown.