Notes on cases in Boston, 1784-1790

Notes on various cases, including cases of burglary, debt, fraud, libel, receiving stolen goods, and one case of attempted murder of an infant by his mother.

Notebook of James Lovell, 1757-1760

Marbled paper-covered handwritten notebook of James Lovell. The volume contains three texts written in Latin, “Praecellentissime Domine,” dated 1757, an untitled text beginning, “Cogitanti mihi et superiorum revolti…” dated 1759, and Lovell’s funeral oration for Tutor Henry Flynt titled “Oratio funebris” dated 1760. The Latin texts are followed by blank pages and the volume ends with an untitled English text about orators that begins, “Ridiculous certainly is that Practice of some...” The last page of the text includes the marginal notes: “John Winthrop Esqr. Hollisian Professor” and, “For T.H. of Carolina.” There are verses attributed to the London Magazine written on the inside front cover.

John Warren's copy of votes from a meeting of the Boston Medical Society, 1784 May 3

This document lists the eleven votes cast at a meeting of the Boston Medical Society on May 3, 1784. It was authorized as a "true coppy" by Thomas Kast, the Secretary of the Society. The following members of the Society were present at the meeting, all of them doctors: James Pecker, James Lloyd, Joseph Gardner, Samuel Danforth, Isaac Rand, Jr., Charles Jarvis, Thomas Kast, Benjamin Curtis, Thomas Welsh, Nathaniel Walker Appleton, and doctors whose last names were Adams, Townsend, Eustis, Homans, and Whitwell. The document indicates that a meeting had been held the previous evening, as well (May 2, 1784), at which the topics on which votes were taken had been discussed. The votes, eleven in total, were all related to the doctors' concerns about John Warren and his involvement with the emerging medical school (now Harvard Medical School), that school's relation to almshouses, the medical care of the poor, and other related matters. The tone and content of these votes reveals anger on the part of the members of the Boston Medical Society towards Warren. This anger appears to have stemmed from the perceived threat of Warren to their own practices, exacerbated by a vote of the Harvard Corporation on April 19, 1784. This vote authorized Warren to apply to the Overseers of the Poor for the town of Boston, requesting that students in the newly-established Harvard medical program, where Warren was Professor of Anatomy and Surgery, be allowed to visit the hospital of the almshouse with their professors for the purpose of clinical instruction. Although Warren believed that the students would learn far more from these visits, in regards to surgical experience, than they could possibly learn in Cambridge, the proposal provoked great distrust from the members of the Boston Medical Society, who accused Warren of an "attempt to direct the public medical business from its usual channels" for his own financial and professional gain.

Part I. A closing roll from Holy and Eternal Wisdom, Mother Ann, Father William and Father James, to the children of Zion : Part II. A sacred covenant of our heavenly parents, sent forth upon earth to their children, at the close of their late manifestation, (on the holy mount of God,) for the purification of Zion and the inhabitants thereof /

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The dramatic works of James Sheridan Knowles ...

v. 1. Caius Gracchus. Virginius. William Tell. Alfred the Great. The hunchback.--v. 2. The wife. The beggar of Bethnal Green. The daughter. The love-chase. Woman's wit.--v. 3. The maid of Mariendorpt. Love. John of Procida. Old maids. The rose of Arragon.

Shakespearean extracts from "Edward Pudsey's booke", temp. Q. Elizabeth & K. James I. which include some from an unknown play by William Shakespeare [or rather from Chapman's "Blind beggar of Alexander"] Also a few unpublished records of the Shakespeare of Snitterfield and Wroxall preserved in the Public Record Office.

Mode of access: Internet.

The history of Paraguay : containing ... a full and authentic account of the establishments formed there by the Jesuits, from among the savage natives ... establishments allowed to have realized the sublime ideas of Fenelon, Sir Thomas Moore, and Plato /

Mode of access: Internet.

The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D. Together with the journal of a tour to the Hebrides, James Boswell.

Vols. 1-4 contain the Life; v. 5: The Journal of a tour to the Hebrides, and A diary of a journey into North Wales in the year 1774, by Samuel Johnson ... edited ... by R. Duppa ... 1816.

A genealogy of the Kidder family comprising the descendants in the male line of Ensign James Kidder, 1626-1676, of Cambridge and Billerica in the colony of Massachusetts Bay,

Six pages at end for "Birth," "Marriages," and "Deaths."

University sermons : preached before the University of Glasgow, 1873-1898 /

Mode of access: Internet.

Life of James Henderson, M.D. : ... medical missionary to China.

Mode of access: Internet.

The dramatic works of James Sheridan Knowles /

On spine: Sheridan Knowles' Dramatic Works.

The history of England from the accession of James II

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Moneys received and paid for secret services of Charles II. and James II. from 30th March, 1679, to 25th December, 1688.

Mode of access: Internet.

Reports upon the botanical collections made in portions of Nevada, Utah, California, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona, during the years, 1871, 1872, 1873, 1874, and 1875.

Mode of access: Internet.