Salutatory address of Abiel Abbot, 1792

Six-unlined pages containing a handwritten copy of the salutatory address composed by Abiel Abbot in Latin for the 1792 Harvard College Commencement. The text includes edits and struck-through words. The first page includes the title "Autore Abiele Abbot" and has a penciled note: "This must be gr. grandfather's Latin oration when he graduated from Harvard, with honors, in 1792."

Commonplace book of John Holyoke, 1662 - May 1663

This unbound commonplace book was kept by John Holyoke during 1662 and 1663. The volume contains chiefly religious quotations and sermon notes (possibly of sermons preached by Holyoke himself), in English, Latin and Greek. Both ends of the volume were used to begin writing: the front page reads “Johannes Holyoke, adjunctu occupatu, May-1663” and the rear page reads “Johannes Holyoke [illegible] 1662.” The texts do not follow a straight tête-bêche model, where one text is upside down in relation to the other; rather, the texts change direction several times within the volume. The volume also includes part of letter sent to Holyoke’s grandfather Pynchon, September 16, 16?? [date illegible], as well as a series of alphabetically arranged quotations.

Plat and note, undated

Handwritten plat and note in unknown hand regarding the inheritance of land by William Phips, Sarah Bordman, and Elizabeth Phips from their grandfather's estate. The note offers evidence for the location of the land, and the plat draws it out.

VI. Genealogy, ca. 1900s

This six-page handwritten genealogy of the Bailey family beginning with John Bayley (dued 1659) of Chippingham, England traces approximately four generations of family members born into the late-18th century. John Bailey (born 1765) is identified as "our grandfather." The genealogy does not include dates.

Arithmetic copybook : manuscript, [17--]

Arithmetic copybook containing mathematical rules, problems, proofs, and charts of weights and measures.

" Lines upon the late proceedings of the College Government" collection, 1787-1917

This collection contains various manifestations of a humorous poem, most often called "Lines upon the late proceedings of the College Government," written by classmates John Quincy Adams and John Murray Forbes in 1787. Both Adams and Forbes were members of the class of 1787, and the poem recounts events surrounding the pranks and ensuing punishment of two members of the class behind them, Robert Wier and James Prescott. Wier and Prescott had been caught drinking wine and making "riotous noise," and they were publicly reprimanded by Harvard President Joseph Willard and several professors and tutors, including Eliphalet Pearson, Eleazar James, Jonathan Burr, Nathan Read, and Timothy Lindall Jennison. The poem mocks these authority figures, but it spares Samuel Williams, whom it suggests was the only professor to find their antics humorous.

Letter from Benjamin Colman to Edward Wigglesworth about John Leverett, 1728 March 4

Benjamin Colman wrote this letter to Edward Wigglesworth on March 4, 1728; it was sent from Colman, in Boston, to Wigglesworth, in Cambridge. The letter concerns their mutual friend, John Leverett, who had died several years before. It appears that Wigglesworth was charged with writing an epitaph for Leverett and had solicited input from Colman. Colman writes of his great admiration for Leverett, praising his "virtue & piety, wisdom & gravity [...] majesty & authority [...] eye & voice, goodness & courtesie."

The daughter of the storage [electronic resource] : and other things in prose and verse /

The daughter of the storage.--A presentiment.--Captain Dunlevy's last trip.--The return to favor.--Somebody's mother.--The face at the window.--An experience.--The boarders.--Breakfast is my best meal.--The mother-bird.--The amigo.--Black Cross farm.--The critical bookstore.--A feast of reason.--City and country in the fall.--Table talk.--The escapade of a grandfather.--Self-sacrifice: a farce-tragedy.--The night before Christmas.

Complete writings.

v. 1-2. Twice-told tales. -- v. 3. The snow-image and other twice-told tales. -- v. 4. Mosses from an old manse. -- v. 6. The scarlet letter. -- v. 7. The house of the seven gables. -- v. 8. The Blithedale romance. -- v. 9-10. The marble faun; or, The romance of Monte Beni. -- v. 11. Our old home. -- v. 12. The whole history of grandfather's chair, and Biographical stories. -- v. 13. A wonder book for girls and boys, and Tanglewood tales. -- v. 14. The Dolliver romance and kindred tales. -- v. 15. Doctor Grimshaw's secret, ed. with preface and notes by Julian Hawthorne. -- v. 16. Tales and sketches. -- v. 17. Miscellanies; biographical and other sketches and letters. -- v. 18. Passages from the American note-books. -- v. 19-22. Notes of travel.

The correspondence of Sir Thomas Hanmer, Bart., speaker of the House of Commons. With a memoir of his life. To which are added, other relicks of a gentleman's family.

Memoir.--Correspondence.--Extracts from the private account-book of Isabella, Duchess of Grafton.--Sir Thomas Hanmer, grandfather of the speaker, his account of France in 1648.--Extracts from Sir Henry North's Eroclea.--Miscellaneous letters.--Memoir of Charles Lee.--Poetry of the late H.F.R. Soame.

Hawthorne's works.

(v. 1-2) Fanshawe. Grandfather's chair. Biographical stories.--(v. 3-4) The marble faun.--(v. 5-6) Mosses from an old manse.--(v. 7-8) The scarlet letter. The house of seven gables.--(v. 9-10) The snow image. The Blithedale romance.--(v. 11-12) Twice told tales.--(v. 13-14) A wonder book. Tanglewood tales.--(v. 15) Our old home.

The works of James Branch Cabell.

Binder's title: each volume has special t.p.

In the morning glow; short stories

Grandfather.--Grandmother.--While Aunt Jane played.--Little sister.--Our yard.--The toy grenadier.--Father.--Mother.

'Sylhet' Thackeray,

Sylhet, William Makepeace Thackeray, is the grandfather of the novelist.

[Selected works].

[v. 1]. The quiet husband. The secret foe (1845). The squire (1845). Who shall be heir?. -- [v. 2]. The merchant's daughter. The grandfather (1844). Nan Darrell. Kate Walsingham. The heiress (1845). -- [v. 3]. the prince and the pedler (1845). The fright. The expectant (1845). Ellen Wareham.