Letter from George Richards Minot to Daniel Kilham, 1777 December 1

Three-page handwritten letter from Harvard undergraduate George Richards Minot to his friend and Harvard graduate Daniel Kilham, dated December 1, 1777. The letter describes the discipline inflicted upon Minot and seven of his classmates by the Harvard government following a “Thanksgiving frolic,” and the retributions carried out by the students against a Tutor who recommended harsh measures for the accused students. The Early Faculty minutes for 1777 (UAIII 5.5, Volume 4, pages 75-76) describes the students’ crime as “making riotous & tumultuous noises in the Hall…committed in Presence of a number foreigners, & and on a day appointed by Authority for public Thanksgiving.”

Account book of Daniel Brigham, 1781-1798 (inclusive)

Account book maintained by Dr. Daniel Brigham (1760-1830) for services provided to approximately 180 patients, treated primarily in Northborough, Westborough, and Marlborough, Massachusetts, and surrounding towns between 1781 and 1798. The ledger details the charges for his visits to patients and medicines he prescribed. Common charges included one shilling, four pence for Brigham to visit and administer an emetic or cathartic to a patient. A visit and bloodletting by Brigham cost one patient two shillings, eight pence. He charged six shillings to amputate a toe, and eight pence to extract a tooth. Includes an index to patient names. The ledger also records household and miscellaneous expenses of Brigham.

Doctor Daniel Brigham's Book, 1789-1810 (inclusive)

Ledger maintained by Dr. Daniel Brigham (1760-1837) containing financial accounts for medical patients treated primarily in Northborough, Westborough, and Marlborough, Massachusetts from 1789 to 1837. The ledger details the charges for medical services and the corresponding payments, often made by payment-in-kind. Common charges included a shilling for a visit and administration of cathartics, emetics, or anodynes. Extraction of a tooth cost eight pence, and Brigham charged one woman nine shillings for delivering her son. A number of entries are obscured by pasted-in newspaper articles.

Osservazioni del signor abate Giambattista Passeri ... sopra l'avorio fossile, e sopra alcuni monumenti greci e latini, conservati in Venezia nel museo dell' eccellentissima patrizia famiglia Nani de' SS. Gervasio e Protasio.

Tailpieces at pt. 2, p. XXI and pt. 4, p. LIII are signed : AP. Novelli inv., MP. inc.

Ragionamenti di Cleandro e di Eudoso soura le lettere al provinciale : recati nell'italiana fauela dall'original francese stampato in Colonia l'anno 1694.

Tit. original: Entretiens de Cleandre et d'Eudoxe.

Cleander et Eudoxus seu De provincialibus, quas vocant, litteris, dialogi : é Gallico exemplari, edito Coloniae Agrippinae, typis Petri Marteau 1694.

Mode of access: Internet.

Genealogy of the Allen family /

History of Quidnessett -- Allens of Prudence Island, R.I. -- Spinks -- The Goulds of Quidnessett -- Genealogy of the Hills.

Byberry Waltons : an account of four English brothers, Nathaniel & Thomas & Daniel & William Walton, who settled about 1683 in Byberry Township, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania: with accounts of more than 4000 Waltons and many more by other surnames descended from these four brothers.

Mode of access: Internet.

History of the Redfearn family /

Mode of access: Internet.

Revision of the North American Empidæ--a family of two-winged insects.

From the Proceedings of the United States National Museum, vol. XVIII, p. 387-440.

Graphical and literary illustrations of Fonthill abbey, Wiltshire : with heraldical and genealogical notices of the Beckford family /

Two of the plates are colored.

Family prayers and prayers on the Ten Commandments &c. &c. : to which is added, a family commentary upon the Sermon on the Mount /

Mode of access: Internet.

The house-keeper's pocket-book, and compleat family cook : containing above twelve hundred curious and uncommon receipts in cookery, pastry, preserving, pickling, candying, collaring, &c., with plain and easy instructions for preparing and dressing every thing suitable for an elegant entertainment, from two dishes to five or ten, &c., and directions for ranging them in their proper order . . . /

Mode of access: Internet.

Family prayers, and prayers on the ten commandments, &. to which is added, a family commentary upon the Sermon on the Mount /

Mode of access: Internet.

Family prayers, and prayers on the Ten commandments, etc. /

Mode of access: Internet.