Oration delivered at Harvard by William Tudor, undated

Untitled and undated manuscript of an oration delivered before a Harvard audience expanding on his views regarding world literature and its promulgation.

Oration delivered at Harvard by William Tudor, undated

Untitled and undated manuscript of an oration delivered before a Harvard audience expanding on his views regarding world literature and its promulgation.

Inventory of Silver Plate, Belonging to Harvard College, and in the Keeping of the President, 1886 December 8

Black and white composition book sent to the Harvard College Library containing a typed "copy of notes made in the spring of 1886" by John H. Buck. Includes historical information, and physical descriptions and valuations of the Great Salt, the Stoughton Cup, the Browne Cup, and the christening basin acquired with the donation of Oliver Wendell, as well as notes on other gifts of silver.

III. Research materials used in William C. Lane's article, "Early Silver Belonging to Harvard College," [1923]

This folder contains transcriptions of archival materials used in Lane's research for the article, published by the Colonial Society of Massachusetts in 1923. Included are two letters from the papers of Harvard President Jared Sparks (1849-1853) regarding the christening basin and the role of the College steward in the care of the silver collection; and a 1781 inventory (see also in folder 7) and 1829 Corporation vote excerpted from College records. There are also two notes containing citations.

Address of Middlesex County Harvard Alumni to John T. Kirkland upon his resignation,

This folder contains three copies of the same handwritten document which presumably were circulated in order to collect signatures.

Address of the resident officers and instructors of Harvard University,

This folder contains an original handwritten document and a nineteenth-century copy.