Harvard University Notebook,

This notebook is written in tête-bêche, with texts beginning at both the front and back covers rotated 180⁰ from one another.

Harvard University Notebook,

This notebook is written in tête-bêche, with texts beginning at both the front and back covers rotated 180⁰ from one another.

Letters from Benjamin Welles to John Henry Tudor, 1799-1801

Benjamin Welles wrote these six letters to his friend and classmate, John Henry Tudor, between 1799 and 1801. Four of the letters are dated, and the dates of the other two can be deduced from their contents. Welles wrote Tudor four times in September 1799, at the onset of their senior year at Harvard, in an attempt to clear up hurt feelings and false rumors that he believed had caused a chill in their friendship. The cause of the rift is never fully explained, though Welles alludes to "a viper" and "villainous hypocrite" who apparently spread rumors and fueled discord between the two friends. In one letter, Welles asserts that "College is a rascal's Elysium - or the feeling man's hell." In another he writes: "College, Tudor, is a furnace to the phlegmatic, & a Greenland to thee feeling man; it has an atmosphere which breathes contagion to the soul [...] Villains fatten here. College is the embryo of hell." Whatever their discord, the wounds were apparently eventually healed; in a letter written June 26, 1800, Welles writes to ask Tudor about his impending speech at Commencement exercises. In an October 29, 1801 letter, Welles writes to Tudor in Philadelphia (where he appears to have traveled in attempts to recover his failing health) and expresses strong wishes for his friend's recovery and return to Boston. This letter also contains news of their classmate Washington Allston's meeting with painters Henry Fuseli and Benjamin West.

Reports to the Harvard Board of Overseers, 1799-1917

This collection contains the reports of the committee appointed by the Harvard Board of Overseers to visit and inspect the Harvard College Library, dating from 1799 to 1917.

UM Law School class of 1866

On verso: Papa's graduating class - Ann Arbor - Michigan University

Four women, class of 1890

Detached notes: Louise Loving, Ann Arbor, UM 1890; Alice Damon, Concord, Massachusetts, UM, 1890; Franc [sic] Arnold, Allegan, UM 1890; Fanny Reed, Richland, UM, 1890. Taken January 1887

Prof's House - N. University East about 1877 (used as 1st U. Hospital)

When this image was taken this building was a hospital. Built 1840. Professors' Houses (East Residence) 1840-1868. University Hospital 1868-1891. Additions in 1877 and after in the form of two parallel wings built out from back of house and several additions onto them. Dental College 1891-1908. Building removed 1908. Replaced by new Chemistry Building 1910

Boulder at northwestern corner of campus placed by Class of 1862

On verso of second copy of same print: Memorial of the Class of 1862. Placed on n.w. corner of campus in 1860. Removed in summer of 1969.

Boulder, class of 1862

Old law building in background

Boulder with plaque beside elm tree planted by the class of 1869. In front of Angell Hall to the left of the steps. Gift of the Class of 1869.

On verso: M-10

Plaque on floor of Admission's office honoring tree planted by class of 1869

On verso: M-14

Granite block marking the former place of the Haven Elm, planted by the class of 1867 in honor of President Erastus O. Haven.

On verso: Class [sic] to the rear wall of Angell Hall and between Angell and Haven Halls. M-12

Boulder inscribed Class of 1862

On verso: Just inside the campus near the corner of South State Street and North University. Gift of Class of 1862. M-11

University Hall in 1877

Jenison, Edward S., architect. Typed and attached to verso: North Wing or Mason Hall, part of which is visible at the left, wasthe first university building, erected in 1841. South Wing or South College, at the right, was built in 1849. The central section was completed in 1873. University Hall contained offices of administration, a large auditorium, and classrooms. It was razed in 1951.