Payment order for Ezra Ripley, 1801 July 13

Handwritten order to John Sale to pay scholarship funds to Ezra Ripley for use by his son Samuel Ripley (Harvard AB 1804), signed by William Emerson, David Tilden, and James Morrill.

Letter to Samuel Dexter, 13 November 1796

Letter regarding a bankruptcy case, later heard by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1797 (3 Dallas 369; Emory v. Greenough) and the upcoming national election.

Student notebook of Samuel Dunbar, 1721-1722

This leather-bound volume contains substantial transcriptions copied by Samuel Dunbar from textbooks while he was a student at Harvard in 1721 and 1722. There is a general index to texts at the end of the volume. Dunbar's notebook provides a window into the state of higher education in the eighteenth century and offers a firsthand account of academic life at Harvard College. Notably, he often indicated the number of days spent copying texts into his book.

An English oration : 1783

Paper notebook containing a handwritten copy of an essay titled "An English Oration" composed by Harrison Gray Otis for the 1783 Harvard Commencement. The essay discusses the American Revolution and begins, “An Omission of the usual appeals..."

Johann Samuel Traugott Gehler's Physikalisches Wörterbuch,

Vol. 11: Neu bearb. von Brandes, Gmelin, Horner, Littrow, Muncke, Pfaff ... Sach- und namen-register mit ergänzenden zusätzen von G. W. Muncke ... Nebst nachträgen zum Verzeichniss geographischer ortsbestimmungen von C. L. v. Littrow.

Memoirs of Samuel Pepys, esq., F. R. S., secretary to the Admiralty in the reigns of Charles II and James II, comprising his diary from 1659 to 1669, deciphered by the Rev. John Smith ... from the original short-hand ms. in the Pepysian library, and a selection from his private correspondence. Edited by Richard Lord Braybrooke.

Mode of access: Internet.

Discursos leidos en las recepciones públicas que ha celebrado desde 1847 la Real Academia Española.

Contiene: Discursos de ingreso de Alejandro Oliván, Nicomedes Pastor Díaz y Juan Eugenio Hartzenbusch, con contestación de Francisco Martínez de la Rosa. Discurso de Juan Donoso Cortés, con contestación de Francisco Martínez de la Rosa. Discurso de José Joaquín de Mora, con contestación de Antonio Gil y Zárate. Discurso de Javier de Quinto, con contestación del Duque de Frías. Discurso de Fermín de la Puente y Apecechea, con contestación de Joaquín Francisco Pacheco. Discurso de José Caveda, con contestación del Marqués de Pidal. Discurso de Antonio Ferrer del Río, con contestación de Juan Eugenio Hartzenbusch.

Diary of Samuel Pepys, F.R.S., secretary to the Admiralty in the reigns of Charles II & James II.

Introduction by Richard Garnett.

Strictures on Mr. Samuel Hutchinsons̓ apology for believing in universal reconciliation : to which is added a brief statement of the principal Scriptural argument by which the doctrine of everlasting punishment is established /

Mode of access: Internet.

Memoirs of the Rev. Samuel J. Mills : late missionary to the south western section of the United States and agent of the American Colonization Society deputed to explore the coast of Africa / by Gardiner Spring.

Filmed from original in the New York Public Library Schomburg Collection.

Observations on the first book of Samuel, Chapter VI, verse XIX.

Mode of access: Internet.

Discourses, by William Samuel Powell, D.D. and James Fawcett, B.D. ; with some account of their lives, summary of each discourse, notes, &c. /

Mode of access: Internet.

The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Frontispiece portrait in v. 1 engraved by Freeman after Bartolozzi.