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.

" Lines upon the late proceedings of the College Government" collection, 1787-1917

This collection contains various manifestations of a humorous poem, most often called "Lines upon the late proceedings of the College Government," written by classmates John Quincy Adams and John Murray Forbes in 1787. Both Adams and Forbes were members of the class of 1787, and the poem recounts events surrounding the pranks and ensuing punishment of two members of the class behind them, Robert Wier and James Prescott. Wier and Prescott had been caught drinking wine and making "riotous noise," and they were publicly reprimanded by Harvard President Joseph Willard and several professors and tutors, including Eliphalet Pearson, Eleazar James, Jonathan Burr, Nathan Read, and Timothy Lindall Jennison. The poem mocks these authority figures, but it spares Samuel Williams, whom it suggests was the only professor to find their antics humorous.

The three Jameses : a family of minds : Henry James Sr., William James, Henry James /

Includes index.

Henry James, representative selections,

Mode of access: Internet.

The debates in the several state conventions on the adoption of the federal Constitution as recommended by the general convention at Philadelphia, in 1787. Together with the Journal of the federal convention, Luther Martin's letter, Yates's minutes, Congressional opinions, Virginia and Kentucky resolutions of '98-'99, and other illustrations of the Constitution.

Mode of access: Internet.

The story of John G. Paton, told for young folks : or, Thirty years among South Sea cannibals. Rearranged and edited by James Paton

Mode of access: Internet.

An embassy to the Court of St. James's in 1840.

"Historic documents": p. [387]-463.

The debates, resolutions, and other proceedings, in convention [of the states] on the adoption of the federal Constitution, as recommended by the general convention at Philadelphia, on the 17th of September, 1787: with the yeas and nays on the decision of the main question.

Mode of access: Internet.

New letters and memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle; annotated by Thomas Carlyle and ed. by Alexander Carlyle, with an introduction by Sir James Crichton-Browne ... with sixteen illustrations.

Mode of access: Internet.

Guillielmi Harvey ... De motu cordis & sanguinis in animalibus : anatomica exercitatio /

Mode of access: Internet.

The bibliography and extant portraits of Arthur Johnston, M.D., physician to James VI. and Charles I.

Mode of access: Internet.

The letters of Henry James.

Mode of access: Internet.

The novels and tales of Henry James.

Half-title: each volume has special t.-p.

Reports of cases determined in the Appeal and Chancery divisions and selected cases in the King's Bench and at Chambers of the Supreme Court of New Brunswick,

Vol. 1, p. 1-158, was first published from Chipman's manuscript by John C. Allen in 1849. Vol. 2 issued originally in parts.

The poetical works of Henry Kirke White and James Grahame.

Mode of access: Internet.