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.

Amazon Basin, South America, 1853 (Raster Image)

This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Map of the valley of the Amazon : to accompany Lt. Herndon's report, drawn by H.C. Elliot. It was published by A. Hoen in 1853. Scale [ca. 1:6,750,000]. Covers the Amazon River Basin, South America. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the 'World Mercator' projection. All map collar and inset information is also available as part of the raster image, including any inset maps, profiles, statistical tables, directories, text, illustrations, index maps, legends, or other information associated with the principal map. This map shows features such as drainage, cities and other human settlements, territorial boundaries, exploration routes of William Lewis Herndon and Lardner Gibbon, shoreline features, and more. Relief shown by hachures. Includes vertical section of route from Callo to Pará. This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps from the Harvard Map Collection and the Harvard University Library as part of the Open Collections Program at Harvard University project: Organizing Our World: Sponsored Exploration and Scientific Discovery in the Modern Age. Maps selected for the project correspond to various expeditions and represent a range of regions, originators, ground condition dates, scales, and purposes.

Personal remembrances of Sir Frederick Pollock, second baronet, sometime queen's remembrancer.

Mode of access: Internet.

Catalogue of the very select and valuable library of William Roscoe, Esq. : which will be sold by auction by Mr. Winstanley at his rooms in Marble Street, Liverpool, on Monday the 19th of August, and thirteen following days (Sundays excepted) : the sale to begin at eleven o'clock precisely.

Includes index of 15th century printers.

Exhibition of the art of ancient Egypt. 1895.

The various introductory notices signed: Henry Wallis, W.M. Flinders Petrie, F.G. Hilton Price.

Fair Em, the miller's daughter of Manchester : with the love of William the Conqueror /

Imprint fictitious. Printed by the editor for private circulation. Cf. Jaggard, William. Shakespeare bibliography, 1911, page 552.

The word of life; a living ministry; and a living church : a sermon preached in Meadville, Pa., before the graduating class of the Meadville theological school, June 30, 1853 /

Mode of access: Internet.

William Nast, patriarch of German Methodism.

Includes bibliography.

Senators from Pennsylvania. Memorial addresses delivered in the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States in memory of Philander C. Knox, Boies Penrose, William E. Crow, late senators from Pennsylvania. Sixty-seventh Congress. Proceedings in the Senate, January 28, 1923. Proceedings in the House, February 18, 1923.

Running title: Memorial addresses.

Prices of corn in Oxford in the beginning of the fourteenth century, also from the year 1853 to the present time; to which are added some miscellaneous notices of prices in other places /

Includes tables.

Recherches historiques sur la connaissance que les anciens avoient de L'Inde ... ; traduit de l'Anglois de W. Robertson ... ; Tome second.

Mode of access: Internet.

The life of Miranda,

Bibliography: v. 2, p. [257]-276.

The Quarterly review.

Editors: 1809-24, William Gifford.--1824-26, J.T. Coleridge.--1826-53, J.G. Lockhart.--1853-60, Whitwell Elwin.--1860-67, William Macpherson.--1867-93, William Smith.--1894, John Murray, 1894-99, R.E. Prothero.--1899- G.W. Prothero.

The works of William Shakspeare : with life and glossary, carefully edited from the best texts.

Includes glossary: v. 12, p. 355-408.

Journal // of // the Senate // of // the United States of America, // being the // second session // of // the Fourteenth Congress, // begun and held in the city of Washington, // December 2d, 1816. // And // in the forty-first year of the sovereignty of // the said United States. //

Appendix (33 p.) contains: Acts passed at the second session of the Fourteenth Congress.--Senators ... whose seats will become vacant 1819, 1821, 1823.--The proceedings of a session specially called on Tuesday, March 4th, 1817, including also the inaugural addresses of President James Monroe and Vice-President Daniel D. Thompkins.