Draft of a letter to the Harvard Corporation, 1806 March 28

One leaf containing a draft of a letter by Pearson to the Harvard Corporation declining the invitation to dinner.

Letter from Samuel Webber to Eliphalet Pearson, 1806 June 2

One leaf containing a letter from Samuel Webber to Pearson that accompanied a copy of the vote of the Corporation relative to compensation for Pearson's service to Harvard.

[Letter from William Allen to the Corporation of Harvard College], 1806 April 29

Letter requesting a proctor for the west end of Massachusetts Hall.

Docket books and fee book, 1791-1806

Consists of 7 notebooks and 1 account book. Notebooks list cases heard before the Massachusetts Court of Common Pleas for Middlesex and Worcester counties and the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (March 1794-Sept. 1797; Sept. 1800-March 1802; June 1805-September 1806) and before the New Hampshire Court of Common Pleas for Hillsborough and Merrimack counties (March 1798-March 1805). The account book includes cases from Sept. 1791-July 1797.

Letters to George Simpson, 1796, 1806

Two letters to the cashier of the Bank of the United States requesting that funds be transferred to Andrew Bayard in Philadelphia, so that Paterson could receive his salary as associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.

Un receuil: containing painting, penmanship, algebra and pieces selected from various authors in prose and verse, with a few pieces in French with their translation / by Phebe Folger of Nantucket : manuscript, 1797-1806

Written mostly in a copperplate hand in black ink, and illustrated with watercolor drawings.