Letter from John Quincy Adams to his brother, Thomas Boylston Adams, 1786 July 2

This letter was written by John Quincy Adams on July 2, 1786 to his younger brother, Thomas Boylston Adams, who was then staying with their uncle, the Reverend John Shaw, in Haverhill, Massachusetts. In the letter, John gives Thomas advice on life as a student at Harvard, instructing him to choose his friends carefully, to favor those who are virtuous and studious over those who are idle and prone to vice, to maintain an "unblemished moral reputation," and to spend as much as six hours each day studying in order to excel as a scholar.

Quaedam Theses extractae potissimii ex Enchiridio Metaphisico ca. 1718

Small paper notebook with a handwritten copy of a Latin text titled “Quaedam Theses extractae potissimii ex Enchiridio Metaphisico” attributed to John Clark and J. Remington and copied by a Harvard student, likely Richard Dana (Harvard AB 1718). The text is a précis of sections of Jean Le Clerc's "Ontologia et Pneumatologia" prepared by Harvard Tutor Jonathan Remington (Harvard AB 1696). The paper cover is inscribed “Carpenter” and the first page includes the inscriptions “Rosewell Saltonstall,” “Ezra Carpenter,” and "R. Dana” indicating the book was once owned by Harvard students Richard Dana (Harvard AB 1718), Roswell Saltonstall (Harvard AB 1720), and Ezra Carpenter (Harvard AB 1720).

Student notebook of Marston Cabot, ca. 1720-1735

This leather-bound volume contains excerpts copied by Marston Cabot from books he read while he was a student at Harvard in 1723. The volume includes extracts from Charles Morton's 1687 Compendium Physicae (titled "of Phisicks" by Cabot), Dr. Adriani Heereboord (Adrianus Heereboord), Philosophia Naturalis and Johanne-Henrico Alstedio’s (John Henry Alsted) geometry text Compendium Geometria. The excerpts from Compendium Geometria include both figures and text, primarily in Latin with some Greek. The volume also includes “Theses quaedam extractae potissimum ex Enchiridio Metaphysico Domini Johannis Clerici" a précis of Jean Le Clerc's Ontologia et Pneumatologia made by Jonathan Remington, a Harvard Tutor from 1703 to 1711, to serve in place of printed textbooks. The names Jonathan Jackson and Edward Jackson are written on the inside cover, suggesting the book may have been handed down to Edward Jackson (Class of 1726) and his son Jonathan Jackson (Class of 1761). The text of the volume is in Marston Cabot's hand.

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."

A Discourse on the lives and characters of Thomas Jefferson and John Adams : who both died on the Fourth of July, 1826 /

Mode of access: Internet.

Acis and Galatea : a serenata in vocal score ; composed in the year 1720 /

Libretto by John Gay. Cf. Grove, 5th ed.

The letters of the Rev. John Wesley ...

First edition.

Journals of the House of Burgesses of Virginia, 1619-1776 [microform].

"The volumes are arranged chronologically, although originally published in reverse chronological order. Each volume is indexed separately, and a general index is provided both in the bound guide and at the end of the microfilm."--Publisher's note.

Bogue genealogy; descendants of John Bogue of East Haddam, Conn., and wife, Rebecca Walkley; also the North Carolina Bogues and miscellaneous Bogue records; ancestors of James Hubbard Bogue and wife, Polly Adelaide Phillips their royal lines,

Includes index.

Two centuries of typefounding; annals of the letter foundry established by William Caslon in Chiswell street, London, in the year 1720.

"The text has been written by John Findlay McRae, mainly from authentic documents supplied by H. W. Caslon & co. ltd., A.D.1920."

The letters and dispatches of John Churchill, First Duke of Marlborough, from 1702-1712. /

Mode of access: Internet.

An enquiry into the cause and origin of moral evil : in which the present state and condition of mankind is considered and explained upon the true principles of morality and revelation, and the objections of the ancient and modern defenders of the Manichean scheme, particularly Mr. Bayle, fully answered, being the substance of eight sermons preached at the parish church of St. Mary le Bow in the year 1720 at the lecture founded by the honourable Robert Boyle /

Mode of access: Internet.

Illustrations of the site and neighbourhood of the new post office, comprehending antiquarian notices of St. Martin's-le-Grand, and its liberty, and the adjoining parishes of St. Anne, St. Agnes, and St. John, Zachary, with an appendix, containing an account of the antient Mourning Bush Tavern, & c. Aldersgate. And various London taverns, its contemporaries.

Mode of access: Internet.

The life of John Knox : containing illustrations of the history of the Reformation in Scotland; with biographical notices of the principal reformers, and sketches of the progress of literature in Scotland, during a great part of the sixteenth century /

Mode of access: Internet.