A Poetical essay (manuscript copy owned by John Simpkins), 1782

Paper-covered notebook with a handwritten copy of John Davis's 1781 Commencement poem. Cover inscription: “John Simpkin[s's] Property.” Inside front cover inscription: “A poem delivered Mr. Davis 1782."

An Oration Delivered on the eighth day of May one thousand seven hundred and seventy nine. At the Funeral of the Hon'ble John Winthrop..., 1779-1780

Small pamphlet bound in brown paper containing a handwritten nine-page copy of Stephen Sewall's funeral oration for Hollis Professor Mathematics and Natural Philosophy John Winthrop delivered May 8, 1779. The title page includes the inscription: "The lips of the wise disperse knowledge,/ A Man shall be comended [sic] according to his Wisdom -- Solomon."

Guarantee of financial support for student James Savage, signed by William Tudor and John Cooper, 1799 July 25

This legal agreement, a guarantee of financial support for entering student James Savage (A.B. 1803), was signed on July 25, 1799 by his two guarantors, William Tudor and John Cooper. The document was also signed by two witnesses, William Tudor's sons John Henry Tudor and Frederic Tudor. The agreement specifies that, in the event of Savage's failure to settle all financial obligations to the President and Fellows of Harvard College during the course of his studies, the two guarantors would be responsible for a payment of two hundred ounces of silver. It seems that the Tudors and Cooper were relatives of Savage, thus explaining their desire to assure his entry to Harvard by entering into this financial obligation.

John Warren's copy of votes from a meeting of the Boston Medical Society, 1784 May 3

This document lists the eleven votes cast at a meeting of the Boston Medical Society on May 3, 1784. It was authorized as a "true coppy" by Thomas Kast, the Secretary of the Society. The following members of the Society were present at the meeting, all of them doctors: James Pecker, James Lloyd, Joseph Gardner, Samuel Danforth, Isaac Rand, Jr., Charles Jarvis, Thomas Kast, Benjamin Curtis, Thomas Welsh, Nathaniel Walker Appleton, and doctors whose last names were Adams, Townsend, Eustis, Homans, and Whitwell. The document indicates that a meeting had been held the previous evening, as well (May 2, 1784), at which the topics on which votes were taken had been discussed. The votes, eleven in total, were all related to the doctors' concerns about John Warren and his involvement with the emerging medical school (now Harvard Medical School), that school's relation to almshouses, the medical care of the poor, and other related matters. The tone and content of these votes reveals anger on the part of the members of the Boston Medical Society towards Warren. This anger appears to have stemmed from the perceived threat of Warren to their own practices, exacerbated by a vote of the Harvard Corporation on April 19, 1784. This vote authorized Warren to apply to the Overseers of the Poor for the town of Boston, requesting that students in the newly-established Harvard medical program, where Warren was Professor of Anatomy and Surgery, be allowed to visit the hospital of the almshouse with their professors for the purpose of clinical instruction. Although Warren believed that the students would learn far more from these visits, in regards to surgical experience, than they could possibly learn in Cambridge, the proposal provoked great distrust from the members of the Boston Medical Society, who accused Warren of an "attempt to direct the public medical business from its usual channels" for his own financial and professional gain.

A catalogue of rare & curious books, illustrative of the English drama and early English literature ... : which will be sold by auction ... on Monday, 13th June, 1859.

Consignor's name from BM English book sales, p. 286.

Life and correspondence of Field Marshal Sir John Burgoyne, bart.

Mode of access: Internet.

Oxford during the last century : being two series of papers published in the Oxford chronicle & Berks & Bucks gazette during the year 1859.

Written by John Richard Green. Cf. NUC.

Reports of cases heard and determined by the lord chancellor, and the Court of appeal in chancery. [1857-1859]

Mode of access: Internet.

Prussia and the Franco-Prussian war. Containing a brief narrative of the origin of the kingdom, its past history, and a detailed account of the causes and results of the late war with Austria; with an account of the origin of the present war with France, and of the extraordinary campaign into the heart of the empire. Including biographical sketches of King William and Count von Bismarck /

Mode of access: Internet.

An answer to Sir John Dalrymple's pamphlet upon the exportation of wool.

Mode of access: Internet.

Plain reasons addressed to the people of Great-Britain, against the (intended) petition to Parliament from the owners and occupiers of land in the county of Lincoln, for leave to export wool. With some remarks on Sir John Dalrymple's treatise, lately published, in favour of a general exportation of wool.

In manuscript, p. iv : [the author] "The Revd. Sheepshanks, rector of St. Johns in Leeds".

The works of John C. Calhoun.

Published under the direction of the General Assembly of South Carolina.

The works of John Milton, in verse and prose, printed from the original editions with a life of the author

Poetical works, v. 1-2; Prose works, v. 3-8.

The plagiary "warned"; a vindication of the drama, the stage and public morals from the plagiarisms and compilations of the Rev. John Angell James in a letter to the author.

Also published in 1826 under title: Vindicaiton of the drama, the stage and public morals.

John Elliott, the story of an artist,

This life of John Elliott is told by his wife, for the most part through his letters.