Harvard College Lottery Book, 1794-1797

The long hardcover account book contains handwritten records of the Harvard College Lottery in the hand of College Treasurer Ebenezer Storer. The volume begins with a transcription of the Massachusetts General Court June 13, 1794 legislation sanctioning the lottery, and a note that the managers of the lottery gave security bonds to the Corporation. The bulk of the volume records the activities of the four classes of the lottery including lists of the individual tickets returned by the managers Benjamin Austin Jr., George R. Minot, Henry Warren, and John Kneeland, and the accounts of prizes drawn and tickets returned. The volume has a table of contents and there is a note pasted onto the third page calculating the sum raised if all tickets had been sold.

Letters from Benjamin Vaughan,

Six letters in which Vaughan writes about prominent scientists, artists, and musicians, such as violinist Louis Ostinelli and engraver Jacob Perkins. Other topics include social interactions with Tudor’s sisters Delia Tudor Stewart and Emma Tudor Gardiner, and Emma’s husband, Robert Hallowell Gardiner.

Letter from Benjamin Welles to William Tudor,

One letter offering information and sources on the judge and poet Benjamin Pratt, including an article in the May 1810 Monthly Anthology and Boston Review.

Papers of William Merchant Richardson, 1797-1806

The collection contains a four-page handwritten poem titled "Invention" composed by graduate William Richardson for the 1797 Harvard College Commencement, and an 1806 letter of introduction written by Richardson. The rhyming poem begins, “Long had creations anthem peal been rung…” and contains classical references, and mentions scientists and philosophers including Voltaire, Franklin and Newton. The poem is accompanied by a one-page handwritten letter of introduction for lawyer Benjamin Ames (Harvard AB 1803) written by William M. Richardson to Reverend William Jenks (Harvard AB 1797). The letter is dated November 10, 1806.

Student notes from medical lectures by Benjamin Rush, undated

The volumes contain student notes on a course of medical lectures given by Dr. Benjamin Rush (1746-1813) while he was Professor of the Institutes of Medicine and Clinical Practice at the University of Pennsylvania Medical School, likely in circa 1800-1813. The notes indicate Rush often referenced the works or teachings of contemporaries such as Scottish physicians William Cullen, John Brown, John Gregory, and Robert Whytt, and Dutch physician Herman Boerhaave. He frequently included anecdotes and case histories of his own patients, as well as those of other doctors, to illustrate his lecture topics. He also advised students to take notes on the lectures after they ended to allow them to focus on what they were hearing. Volume 1 includes notes on: physician conduct during visits to patients; human and animal physiology; voice and speech; the nervous system; the five senses; and faculties of the mind. Volume 2 includes notes on: food, the sources of appetite and thirst, and digestion; the lymphatic system; secretions; excretions; theories of nutrition; differences in the minds and bodies of women and men; reproduction; pathology; a table outlining the stages of disease production; “disease and the origin of moral and natural evil”; contagions; the role of food, drink, and clothing in producing disease; worms; hereditary diseases; predisposition to diseases; proximate causes of diseases; and pulmonary conditions. Volume 3 includes notes on: the pulse; therapeutics, such as emetics, sedatives, and digitalis, and treatment of various illnesses like pulmonary consumption, kidney disease, palsy, and rheumatism; diagnosis and prognosis of fever; treatment of intermitting fever; and epidemics including plague, smallpox, and yellow fever, with an emphasis on the yellow fever outbreaks in Philadelphia in 1793 and 1797.

University Hall, old dome, 1873-1898

Jenison, Edward S., architect. View is from the northwest. Statue of Benjamin Franklin (gift of class of 1870) is in right foreground.

English political portraits of the nineteenth century,

The first Duke of Wellington.--George Canning.--The second Viscount Melbourne.--Sir Robert Peel.--Benjamin Disraeli, earl of Beaconsfield.--William Ewart Gladstone.--Queen Victoria.

Memoirs of M. Thiers, 1870-1873,

Mode of access: Internet.

Etudes sur les hommes et les moeurs au XIXe siècle : portraits contemporains, scènes de voyage, souvenirs de jeunesse /

Fecha tomada del prólogo.

Notices et portraits historiques et litteraires,

v. 1. Discours: Discours de réception à l'Académie française. Réponse à m. Flourens. Réponse à m. le baron Pasquier.--Notices et portraits: Le comte Sieyès. Le comte Roederer. Livingston. Talleyrand. Broussais. Le comte Merlin. Le comte Destutt de Tracy. Daunou.--v. 2. Notices historiques: Le comte Siméon. De Sismondi. Charles Comte. Ancillon. Bignon. Rossi. Cabanis. Droz.--Vie de Franklin.

Judah P. Benjamin,

Series title also at head of t.-p.

Portraits et souvenirs littéraires /

Gérard de Nerval.-- Madame Émile de Girardin.-- Henri Heine.-- Charles Baudelaire.-- Achim d'Arnim.

Wax portraits and silhouettes;

"A record of wax portraits": p. 72-88.

Le gouvernement de M. Thiers, 8 février 1871- 24 mai 1873-- par Jules Simon.

Mode of access: Internet.

Fanaticism; its source and influence, illustrated by the simple narrative of Isabella, in the case of Matthias, Mr. and Mrs. B. Folger, Mr. Pierson, Mr. Mills, Catherine, Isabella, &c. &c. A reply to W. L. Stone, with descriptive portraits of all the parties, while at Sing-Sing and at Third street ...

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