Mathematical notebook attributed to Thaddeus Mason Harris, ca. 1787

Hardcover notebook containing handwritten transcriptions of rules, cases, and examples from 18th century mathematical texts. The author and purpose of the volume is unclear, though it has been connected with Thaddeus Mason Harris (Harvard AB 1787). Most of the entries include questions and related answers, suggesting the notebook was used as a manuscript textbook and workbook. The extracts appear to be copied from John Dean's " Practical arithmetic" (published in 1756 and 1761), Daniel Fenning's "The young algebraist's companion" (published in multiple editions beginning in 1750), and Martin Clare's "Youth's introduction to trade and business" (extracts first included in 1748 edition).

" 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.

Relation de la conversion de Mr. Jean Thayer: autrefois ministre protestant à Boston, en l'Amérique Septentrionale, converti à la religion catholique à Rome, le 25 de mai 1783 et prêtre depuis la Trinité 1787 / manuscript, [after 1788]

écrite par lui-même en 1788 :

The picture gallery of Charles I.

Mode of access: Internet.

History of Richard Cromwell and the restoration of Charles II,

"Illustrative letters: Correspondence of M. de Bordeaux, French ambassador in London, with Cardinal Mazarin and the Count de Brienne": v. 1, p. [229]-498; v. 2, p. [265]-450.

Life of Lord Norton (Right Hon. Sir Charles Adderley, K. C. M. G., M. P.) 1814-1905, statesman & philanthropist.

Mode of access: Internet.

Memoranda of my life from 1798 to 1859 inclusive;

Errata slip inserted.

Reponse de M. de Calonne a l'escrit de M. Necker ... contenant l'examen des comptes de la situation des finances rendues en 1774, 1776, 1781, 1783 & 1787. Avec des observations sur les résultats de l'Assemblée des notables.

Mode of access: Internet.

Voyage à la Nouvelle Galles du Sud : a Botany-Bay, au Port Jackson en 1787, 1788, 1789 /

MTSD 0377.

Discurso pronunciado por el Excmo. Sr. D. Francisco Martínez de la Rosa, el día 12 de noviembre de 1859, con motivo de la apertura de las cátedras del Ateneo Científico y Literario de esta Corte.

Enc. con otras obras.

The letters of Sir Walter Scott and Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe to Robert Chambers, 1821-45 : with original memoranda of Sir Walter Scott /

Introduction signed: C.E.S. Chambers.

Life and times of Sir Joshua Reynolds : with notices of some of his contemporaries ; commenced by Charles Robert Leslie ; continued and concluded by Tom Taylor.

Mode of access: Internet.

Sir Charles Danvers /

Mode of access: Internet.

Jean Charles Cazin,

Edition of 50 deluxe numbered copies.

The poetical works of Edmund Spenser. With memoir and critical dissertations,

Mode of access: Internet.