An oration upon genius : Commencement address, 1797

Sixteen-page paper notebook containing a handwritten copy of an essay titled "An Oration upon Genius" composed by AM candidate Joseph Perkins for the 1797 Harvard Commencement. The verso of the last page contains the handwritten title: "Oration on Genius first Copy. July 17th Commencement 1797." The essay discusses themes of republicanism and education and begins, "To mark the peculiar operation of liberty on mental exertion and improvement..."

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.