Salutatory address of Jonathan Trumbull, 1759

Three-page manuscript copy of the salutatory address composed in Latin by graduate Jonathan Trumbull for the 1759 Harvard Commencement. The item is dated June 29, 1759.

Calor est de essentia lucis. Probatur, 1759

Two-page handwritten copy of a thesis composed in Latin by graduate Paine Wingate for the 1759 Harvard Commencement.

Student lecture notes of Benjamin Peirce, 1797-1798

This collection contains approximately twenty-three handwritten lecture summaries on six leaves made by Harvard undergraduate Benjamin Peirce between September 1797 and November 22, 1798. The summaries generally provide a few sentences describing the topic covered and primarily pertain to lectures on English grammar delivered by Eliphalet Pearson, the Hollis Professor of Hebrew and other Oriental Languages. There are also summaries for single lectures by David Tappan, the Hollis Professor Divinity; Samuel Webber, the Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy; and John Snelling Popkin, the Greek Tutor from 1795 to 1798, and later the Eliot Professor of Greek Literature. There is also an undated summary of a lecture by Benjamin Waterhouse, the Hersey Professor of Theory and Practice of Physic.

Shakers : a correspondence between Mary F.C., of Mount Holly City, and a Shaker sister, Sarah L., of Union Village /

Cf. MacLean, J.P. Shaker literature, 405-408.

Rambles in Germany and Italy in 1840, 1842, and 1843.

First edition.

The charter granted by their Majesties King William and Queen Mary, to the inhabitants of the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England

Contiene con port. propia: Acts and laws, of his Majesty's Province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England (414 p.)

Papers relating to Mary Queen of Scots.

Mode of access: Internet.

Fashion in Paris : the various phases of feminine taste and aesthetics from 1797 to 1897 /

Mode of access: Internet.

The romantic life of Shelley and the sequel,

Printed in Great Britain.

Mary Anne Wellington : the soldier's daughter, wife and widow /

Mode of access: Internet.

The poetical works of Percy Bysshe Shelley /

Mode of access: Internet.

Essays, letters from abroad, translations and fragments,

v. 1. A defence of poetry. Essay on the literature, arts, and manners of the Athenians. Preface to the Banquet of Plato. The banquet--translated from Plato. On love. The coliseum. The assassins. On the punishment of death. On life. On a future state. Speculations on metaphysics. Speculations on morals. Ion; or, Of the Iliad--translated from Plato. Menexenus,--or, The funeral oration. Fragments from the Republic of Plato. On a passage in Crito.--v. 2. Journal of a six weeks' tour. Letters from Geneva. Journal at Geneva: ghost stories. Journal: return to England. Letters from Italy.

The history of Scotland, during the life of Queen Mary, and until the accession of her son James to the crown of England /

Mode of access: Internet.

The friendly call of truth and reason to a new species of dissenters : to which are prefixed a few observations on the expediency of parliamentary interposition, duly to explain, and if necessary to amend the act of William and Mary commonly called The Toleration Act."

Mode of access: Internet.