Letters from Samuel Gilman to William Tudor,

Four letters on topics including Gilman’s literary work, his upcoming move to Charleston, South Carolina, to become pastor of a Unitarian church, and his impressions of the city once there, as well as subscriptions for Tudor’s work on James Otis.

Letter from Fisher Ames to Samuel Shuttleworth, 1792 July 21

Two folio-sized pages containing a three-page handwritten letter from Fisher Ames in Springfield, Mass. to his brother-in-law, Samuel Shuttleworth. The letter discusses Ames's marriage to Frances Worthington on July 15, 1792. The letter is torn.

Papers of David Sewall, 1753-1756

Three letters written to David Sewall (Harvard AB 1755). The first letter, written on September 21, 1753 by Samuel Sewall in York, to his brother at Harvard sends general news, asks after a hat sent to David, and requests he have a wig made for him. The second letter, written by Harvard student David Wyer on August 28, 1756, enthusiastically thanks Sewall for his past advice. The third letter, also sent from his brother Samuel in York on December 9, 1766, offers David advice on love. The two later letters were sent to Sewall while he was a schoolmaster in Wells, Maine.

Military commission : manuscript, 1756 Feb. 18

Commission appointing Moses Deshon as major of a foot regiment under Col. Joseph Thatcher.

Papers of Helen Lawrence Appleton Brooks, 1822-1985

Mostly correspondence between family members, beginning with Catherine Lawrence and Charles Appleton, the parents of Helen Brooks. Also records of Brooks' voluntary activities, her diaries and personal writings, and material collected by Grace Norton about Henry James.

Portraits of illustrious personages of Great Britain : engraved from authentic pictures in the galleries of His Majesty, the nobility, and the public collections : with biographical and historical memoirs of their lives and actions /

On cover: Portraits and memoirs of the most illustrious personage s of British history...Fourth edition. With an entirely new set of plates, and sixty additional subjects, completing the work to the present period.

Canadian singers and their songs : a collection of portraits and autograph poems /

Mode of access: Internet.

Lines written in memory of the late Hon. Samuel Ongley, and descriptive of his character as a sportsman /

Caption title.

Portraits of illustrious personages of Great Britain /

Mode of access: Internet.

Sir Henry Raeburn; a selection from his portraits,

Each plate preceded by descriptive overleaf.

Loan exhibition of portraits by Sir Henry Raeburn, for the benefit of the Artists' Fund and Artists' aid societies.

Cover title.

Travels and discoveries in Northern and Central Africa, in 1822, 1823, and 1824,

Illustrations include folding map of North Africa showing the routes of Major Denham and Capt. Clapperton, 2 portraits, and 10 plates engraved by E. Finden from sketches by Major Denham.

The life and character of Stephen Decatur; late commodore and post-captain in the navy of the United States, and navy-commissioner: interspersed with brief notices of the origin, progress, and achievements of the American navy.

"The miniature portraits' of Bainbridge, Porter, Lawrence, and Macdonald, were furnished by another hand." cf. Pref.

A sermon, delivered January 1, 1822, at the ordination of the Rev. Joseph Bennet [i.e. Bennett], to the pastoral care of the Congregational Church and Society in Woburn, Mass. ...

Pages [33]-39 contain: The charge to the people, by the Rev. Jacob Coggin, of Tewksbury. Coggin's charge to the people was also issued separately.

The life of Samuel Johnson : comprehending an account of his studies and numerous works in chronological order : a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons : and various original pieces of his composition, never before published /

Advertisement to the 9th ed. signed by the editor, Alexander Chalmers.