Letter to the Selectmen of Charlestown, 1785 January 13

Three-and-a-half-page handwritten letter from "FM Dana by order &c," to the Selectmen of Charlestown. Dana is presumably speaking on behalf of the Selectmen of Cambridge and provides an extensive response to the Charlestown Selectmen about increased ferry fares that is critical of the demands of the Harvard Corporation.

Subseries E. Admittatur to Harvard College, 1785

This document, dated Sept. 9, 1785 and signed by Harvard's President, Joseph Willard, and its Steward, Caleb Gannett, granted Shapleigh admission to Harvard College.

Stoughton Hall..N.W. [Northwest] View, 1827

Pen and ink drawing of a northwest view of Stoughton Hall, watermarked 1827

Stoughton Hall..S.E. [Southeast] View, 1827

Pen and ink drawing of a southeast view of Stoughton Hall, watermarked 1827

Annotated almanac, 1785

Almanac with no annotations accompanied by a gathering of unruled paper containing entries of baptisms and burials, accounting records and notes of household activities, including entries related to boarders.

[Yearly account statement from 1785 to 1799 January]

One folio-sized leaf containing a handwritten unidentified statement with calculations by year between June 1785 through January 1799. The entries include a yearly figure and "deduct" amounts, and amounts include cents suggesting the figures represent income or repair amounts, as opposed to rents.