Diary entries, 1808

This folder contains five documents with diary entries written by Croswell in London and Liverpool.

Cambridge Diary No. I, 1812-1826

Hand-sewn paper notebook containing brief entries dating from August 4, 1812, to April, 6, 1821.

Selective Journal narrative, 1812-1821

Paper notebook containing select entries copied from "Cambridge Diary No. 1."

Diary entries, 1812-1822

Paper notebook containing descriptions of events in Croswell's life arranged by year, and primarily related to his health and employment in the Harvard College Library.

Diary entries (fragment), 1815 September

One leaf containing a fragment of a description of an incident between Croswell and neighborhood boys.

Diary entries related to Library employment, 1816-1817

Four pages containing brief entries related to Croswell's employment in the Harvard College Library.

Description of near attack, [1819 August]

One leaf containing a description by Croswell of nearly being run over by a carriage. The document is undated, but the date can be inferred from other diary entries in the collection.

Miscellaneous reading and book notes, 1806-1823, undated

This folder contains nine slips of paper with various notes about books and reading materials. For some documents it is unclear if the notes were created in Croswell's work on the Harvard College Library catalog or in his personal research.

Attempts in penmanship, 1826-1827

This folder contains two drafts of a document describing Croswell's experiments with penmanship.

Rule, 1830 March 31

One-leaf containing handwritten instructions about drafting a paper.

Conditionals, undated

Two pages of handwritten notes on conditional sentences in English grammar.

Harvard College, undated

Two-page handwritten chronology of Harvard College's establishment and history from 1636 to 1657.

Mathematical documents, undated

This folder contains three mathematical documents.

Notes and drafts of astronomy texts and tables, undated

This folder contains handwritten astronomy tables, problems, diagrams and texts.

A prayer to Christ, undated

Short handwritten poem beginning, "Suffer me not Oh Christ to be..."