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.

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.

A prayer to Christ, undated

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

Annotated almanac, 1775

Almanac containing one laid-in leaf and interleaved pages with entries in John Winthrop's hand. The interleaved pages include entries include brief, nearly daily notes of social engagements and travel by Winthrop during the year the Winthrops were forced to evacuate Cambridge because of the Revolutionary War. The short entries include notes of the Battle of Concord (April 19), a fire in Boston (May 17), the Battle of Bunker Hill (June 17), the choosing of councillors at Concord (June 21), and the notable entries "wth Genl Washington (August 12)" and "All day packg up Apparatus & Library" (June 16). The laid-in leaf contains an account of household purchases made while the Winthrops were living with Nehemiah Abbot Andover from May to June and later in Concord. The laid-in leaf is written on a note beginning "Mr. Winthrop presents his most respectful compliments to the Hon'ble Col. Hancock and to the rest of the Gentlemen Select-men..."

Syriac grammar notebook, completed March 24, 1778

This volume, in Parmele's hand, is written in Syriac and English. It, too, appears to have been passed to Polly Parmele upon his death.