Payment order for Ebenezer Thayer, 1789 July 9

Handwritten order to John Sale to pay scholarship funds to Ebenezer Thayer for use by his son, signed by John Clarke and James Thwing .

Commonplace book of Hector Orr, 1789-1804

Hector Orr began recording entries in this commonplace book during his first year as a student at Harvard and continued writing in the volume sporadically until 1804. The entries written while he was a student, from 1789 to 1792, include themes written on the following topics: Time, Discontent, Patriotism, Virtue, Conscience, Patience, Avarice, Compassion, Mortality, Self-knowledge, Benevolence, Morning, Anger, Profanity, Bribery, Autumn and Winter, Hermitage, Conscience and Anticipation. He also wrote detailed entries about the forensic disputations in which he and his classmates participated, explaining both the affirmative and negative positions. One of these disputations involved discussion of the Stamp Act, which was then quite recent history. Orr's entries about the disputations list the names of students involved and specify their position in the argument.

Letter from Daniel Upton to James Savage, 1799 September 29

Daniel Upton wrote this letter from Machias, Maine on September 29, 1799; it is addressed to James Savage, who was then a freshman at Harvard College. In the letter, Upton advises Savage to study ardently, avoiding the temptation to procrastinate. He thanks Savage for having sent him a copy of "Mr. Lowell's oration" and sends greetings to a Mr. Holbrook and Mr. Jones. He also passes along the fond wishes of those in Machias who know Savage, including John Cooper and his wife, Phineas Bruce and his wife, and Hannah Bruce (Upton's future wife). Upton explains that he is writing the letter in a hurry because he is sending it on board with Captain Merryman, who is about to set sail, presumably for Boston.

Notebook of James Lovell, 1757-1760

Marbled paper-covered handwritten notebook of James Lovell. The volume contains three texts written in Latin, “Praecellentissime Domine,” dated 1757, an untitled text beginning, “Cogitanti mihi et superiorum revolti…” dated 1759, and Lovell’s funeral oration for Tutor Henry Flynt titled “Oratio funebris” dated 1760. The Latin texts are followed by blank pages and the volume ends with an untitled English text about orators that begins, “Ridiculous certainly is that Practice of some...” The last page of the text includes the marginal notes: “John Winthrop Esqr. Hollisian Professor” and, “For T.H. of Carolina.” There are verses attributed to the London Magazine written on the inside front cover.

Letter from James Winthrop to William Bentley, 1784 February 16

Two folio-sized leaves containing a three-page handwritten letter from Winthrop to Bentley regarding comet calculations and a short criticism of the sermons of Samuel Cooper (1725-1783).

Letter from James Winthrop to William Bentley, 1811 November 18

Two octavo-sized leaves containing a brief one-page handwritten letter from Winthrop to Bentley noting the transmission of a French book for Hannah Crowninshield (1789-1834), an artist and daughter of Bentley's neighbor.

A compilation of the messages and papers of the presidents, 1789-1902 /

v. 1. 1789-1817 -- v. 2. 1817-1833 -- v. 3. 1833-1841 -- v. 4. 1841-1849 -- v. 5. 1849-1861 -- v. 6. 1861-1869 -- v. 7. 1869-1881 -- v. 8. 1881-1889 -- v. 9. 1889-1897 -- v. 10. 1897-1902 -- Index / revised and enlarged by George Raywood Devitt.

The applications of chemistry to the arts, taken from the lectures of Professor Renwick. Printed...fro the use of the Junior class of Columbia college, New-York, 1851 and 1852.

Mode of access: Internet.

Biographical directory of the American Congress, 1774-1961 : the Continental Congress, September 5, 1774, to October 21, 1788 and the Congress of the United States, from the First to the Eighty-sixth Congress, March 4, 1789, to January 3, 1961, inclusive.

"This volume, compiled by Clifford P. Reynolds, publications technician of the [Joint] Committee [on Printing], is a revision of the Dictionary of the United States Congress and the general government, published in 1859 and again revised in 1869, by Charles Lanman; the Biographical annals of the civil government of the United States in 1876, by Joseph Lanman and James Anglin, and the Lanman edition of 1876 as corrected by Joseph M. Morrison in 1887; the Political register and congressional directory of 1878; by Ben: Perley Poore; the Biographical congressional directory of 1903, by O. M. Enyart; the Biographical congressional directory in 1911, the Biographical directory of the American Congress of 1927, by Ansel Wold, and the 1949 edition by James L. Harrison."

A compilation of the messages and papers of the presidents, 1789-1897.

Vols. 1-10 issued also as House misc. doc. no. 210, 53d Cong., 2d sess.

A compilation of the messages and papers of the presidents, 1789-1905 /

Mode of access: Internet.

Journal of John James Audubon made while obtaining subscriptions to his "Birds of America" 1840-1843,

An exact copy, except for a few corrections, of the original manuscript which is in the Museum of Comparative Zoology of Harvard University; now published for the first time.

The life of James, Duke of Ormond : containing an account of the most remarkable affairs of his time, and particularly of Ireland under his government ; with appendix and a collection of letters, serving to verify the most material facts in the said history /

Previous ed. publ. under title: An history of the life of James, Duke of Ormond.

Correspondance entre le comte de Mirabeau et le comte de La Marck pendant les années 1789, 1790 et 1791.

Mode of access: Internet.

Journal of John James Audubon made while obtaining subscriptions to his "Birds of America" 1840-1843,

An exact copy, except for a few corrections, of the original manuscript which is in the Museum of comparative zoology of Harvard university; now published for the first time.