Letter from Samuel Willard, Exeter, New Hampshire, to William Willard and Katherine Willard, Petersham, Massachusetts, November 25, 1805

Willard describes his usual daily routines relating to teaching at Philips Academy and his plans to leave Exeter.

Letter from Francis Sales, 1848 March 30

Handwritten copy of a brief letter in French presumably to Francois Arago congratulating him on his appointment in the French Provisional Government following the 1848 Revolution and the formation of the French Second Republic. Both Arago and Sales were from the Pyrénées-Orientales region of France.

Letter from Fisher Ames to Deborah Ames Shuttleworth, 1805 August 27

One folded sheet containing a two-page letter from Fisher Ames in Dedham, Mass. to his sister "Debby" in Windsor, Vermont. Ames provides updates on the health of his children and individuals in the community, and discusses the summer heat, including mention of the likelihood of dysentery, and his attendance at "Mr. Montagu's Church," referring to the Dedham Episcopal Church presided over by Reverend William Montague.

William Blair Townsend letter and receipt books, 1743-1805, bulk 1744-1777

The collection consists of two volumes, which date from 1743 to 1805, spanning his whole career as a merchant. Volume one is a letter book containing Townsend's business correspondence from November 23, 1743 to December 12, 1774. Most of the letters were written to American (many in North Carolina) and British (predominately in London) merchants. His earliest letters document his efforts to establish himself as a trader. Over time his letters turn to illustrate the common problems faced by many merchants: damaged goods, overpriced goods, embargos, and high freight costs. Particularly enlightening are his comments on the challenges of doing business throughout the French and Indian War and the years leading up to the American Revolution. He most frequently corresponded with London merchants Champion & Hayley, Lane & Booth, Lane Son & Fraser, Harrison & Ansley, and Leeds merchant Samuel Elam. In addition he frequently corresponded with Eliakim Palmer, colonial agent and merchant in London, as well as Dr. Walley Chauncy of North Carolina. He dealt in a wide variety of goods including molasses, rum, tar, medicines, pitch, saddles, tallow, hides, skins, pickled beef and pork, and wine. The letters also document Townsend's involvement in the slave trade through his occasional purchases of slaves.

Balkan Peninsula Region, ca. 1805 (Raster Image)

This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Carte de la Turquie d'Europe, en 15 feuilles : comprenant toute la côte orientale de la Mer Adriatique, l'archipel, la Morée, l'île de Candie, la Crimée et la partie occidentale de la mer Noire, par P.G. Chanlaire, directeur de l'Atlas national de France. It was published by Chez l'Auteur, Rue Geoffroy-Langevin No. 7, près celle St. Avoye, ca. 1805. Scale [ca. 1:830,000]. Covers the Balkan Peninsula region. Map in French.The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Europe Lambert Conformal Conic coordinate system. All map collar and inset information is also available as part of the raster image, including any inset maps, profiles, statistical tables, directories, text, illustrations, index maps, legends, or other information associated with the principal map. This map shows features such as drainage, cities and other human settlements, roads, territorial boundaries, shoreline features, and more. Relief shown by hachures. This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps from the Harvard Map Collection. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features. The selection represents a range of originators, ground condition dates, scales, and map purposes.

Battles of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico, 1848 (Raster Image)

This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Battles of Mexico : survey of the line of operations of the U.S. Army, under command of Major General Winfield Scott, on the 19th & 20th August & on the 8th, 12th & 13th September, 1847, made by Maj. Turnbull, Capt. McClellan & Lieut. Hardcastle, Topl. Engs. ; drawn by Capt. McClellan. It was published by C.B. Graham in 1848. Scale [ca. 1:31,680]. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM Zone 14N, meters, WGS 1984) projected coordinate system. All map collar and inset information is also available as part of the raster image, including any inset maps, profiles, statistical tables, directories, text, illustrations, index maps, legends, or other information associated with the principal map. This map shows features such as roads, built-up areas, selected buildings with names of landowners, drainage, canals, troop disposition, movements, and lines of defenses, fortifications, ground cover, and more. Relief shown by hachures and pictorially. Includes positions and numbers of troops, and casualty statistics for the battles of Contreras, Churubusco, Molino del Rey, and Chapultepec, and inset: Part of the Valley of Mexico. This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps from the Harvard Map Collection. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features. The selection represents a range of originators, ground condition dates, scales, and map purposes.

Charlestown, Boston, Massachusetts, 1848 (Raster Image)

This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Plan of the city of Charlestown, by Felton & Parker [and] Ebenr. Barker. It was published by J.H. Bufford's Lithogy. in 1848. Scale [1:4,800]. Covers the populated place Charlestown (Boston, Massachusetts) and also parts of Somerville, Cambridge, Boston, and East Boston. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Massachusetts State Plane Coordinate System, Mainland Zone (in Feet) (Fipszone 2001). All map collar and inset information is also available as part of the raster image, including any inset maps, profiles, statistical tables, directories, text, illustrations, or other information associated with the principal map. This map shows features such as roads, railroads, drainage, wharves, public buildings, schools, churches, cemeteries, city ward boundaries and more. It also includes an index to points of interest. This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps of Massachusetts from the Harvard Map Collection. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features. The selection represents a range of regions, originators, ground condition dates (1755-1922), scales, and purposes. The digitized selection includes maps of: the state, Massachusetts counties, town surveys, coastal features, real property, parks, cemeteries, railroads, roads, public works projects, etc.

Weymouth, Massachusetts, 1848 (Raster Image)

This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper manuscript map entitled: Map of the town of Weymouth, Mass., [by] P.S. Lincoln, Mar. 3rd, 1848. Scale [1:19,800]. Manuscript: pen-and-ink on paper. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Massachusetts State Plane Coordinate System, Mainland Zone (in Feet) (Fipszone 2001). All map collar and inset information is also available as part of the raster image, including any inset maps, profiles, statistical tables, directories, text, illustrations, or other information associated with the principal map. This map shows features such as roads, drainage, public buildings, schools, churches, private residences, town boundaries and more. Relief is shown by hachures. This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps of Massachusetts from the Harvard Map Collection. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features. The selection represents a range of regions, originators, ground condition dates (1755-1922), scales, and purposes. The digitized selection includes maps of: the state, Massachusetts counties, town surveys, coastal features, real property, parks, cemeteries, railroads, roads, public works projects, etc.

East Bridgewater, Massachusetts, 1848 (Raster Image)

This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Map of East Bridgewater, Mass., surveyed by M. Bates, Jr., 1848. It was published by J.H. Bufford's Lithography in 1848. Scale [1:19,800]. Covers also portions of Whitman and Brockton, Massachusetts. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Massachusetts State Plane Coordinate System, Mainland Zone (in Feet) (Fipszone 2001). All map collar and inset information is also available as part of the raster image, including any inset maps, profiles, statistical tables, directories, text, illustrations, index maps, legends, or other information associated with the principal map. This map shows features such as roads, railroads, drainage, public buildings, schools, churches, cemeteries, industry locations (e.g. mills, factories, mines, etc.), private buildings with names of property owners, town and district boundaries and more. Relief is shown by hachures.This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps from the Harvard Map Collection. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features. The selection represents a range of originators, ground condition dates, scales, and map purposes.

Africa, 1805 (Raster Image)

This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: A new map of Africa : from the latest authorities, by John Cary, engraver. It was published by J. Cary, Engraver and Map-Seller, 181 Strand in June 1st., 1805. Scale [ca. 1:17,500,000]. Covers also a small portion of Europe and the Middle East. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Africa Sinusoidal projected coordinate system. All map collar and inset information is also available as part of the raster image, including any inset maps, profiles, statistical tables, directories, text, illustrations, index maps, legends, or other information associated with the principal map. This map shows features such as drainage, cities and other human settlements, territorial boundaries, roads, shoreline features, and more. Relief shown pictorially and with shading. Includes alsoThis layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps from the Harvard Map Collection. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features. The selection represents a range of originators, ground condition dates, scales, and map purposes.

ʻIqd al-jumān fī faḍāyil laylat niṣf Shaʻbān / li-nāẓim al-madīḥ al-nabawī ʻAbd al-Raḥmān [ibn] Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Misk al-Sakhāwī al-Anṣārī al-Shāfiʻī al-Burhānī : manuscript, 1848

Title from f. 1r.

Majmūʻah : manuscript, 1848-1857

1. Kitāb Maqṣad al-asná fī dhikr mā yataʻallaq bi-al-asmāʼ al-ḥusná / Aḥmad Zarrūq, 1267 AH [1850 or 51 AD] (ff. 1r-21v) -- 2. Sharḥ sayyid al-istighfār / ʻAlī Mahāyimī, 1265 AH [1848 or 49 AD] (ff. 25r-32v) -- 3. Hādhā al-suʼāl nuqila min asʼilah suʼila ʻanhā ... Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān al-Kurdī al-Shāmī al-Madanī (ff. 33r-39r) -- 4. Hādhā fawāyid nafīsah ... wa-mimmā suʼila ʻanhu ... al-Shaykh Saʻīd Sunbul al-Makkī, 1273 AH [1856 or 57 AD] (ff. 39r-51r) -- 5. Mā qawl al-sādah al-Ḥanafīyah fī ʻaṣīr qaṣab al-sukkar / ʻAbd al-Wahhāb al-Suyūṭī al-Ḥanafī, ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Rāfiʻī al-Ḥanafī, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Baḥrāwī al-Ḥanafī, Muḥammad al-Rāfiʻī al-Ḥanafī (ff. 51v-55r).

Sharḥ Kitāb al-Durr al-aʻlá : manuscript, 1805

Written in one column, 21 lines per page, in black and red ink.

Kitāb Basṭ al-yadayn li-ikrām al-abawayn / min taṣnīf al-Fāḍil al-Naḥrīr Mawlawī Muḥammad Ghawth ibn Nāṣir al-Dīn ibn Muḥammad : manuscript, 1848 or 9

Title from f. 25r.