The Summary of a Course of Experimental Philosophical Lectures, 1746-1747

Leather hardcover notebook containing a handwritten copy of John Winthrop's course of experimental and philosophical lectures presented between March 10, 1746 and June 16, 1746. The first one-hundred pages of the volume are divided into twenty chapters which were presented in thirty-three lectures. The chapters contain text and diagrams on mechanical powers, the lever, the pulley, the axis in peritrochio, the inclined plane, the wedge, the screw, compound engines, the laws of motion, gravity, attraction of cohesion, the power of repulsion, magnetism, fluids, electricity, opticks, and astronomy. There is a five-page addenda to the course summary added in 1747, and a sixty-page text titled "The Method of Astronomical calculations" containing thirteen problems related to calculating distances with a list of astronomical characters, and followed with charts related to the eclipse of Jupiter's satellites.

The summary of a course of experimental lectures in natural philosophy by Dr. John Winthrop (manuscript copy), 1772-1774

Notebook with a handwritten copy of lecture summaries for a physics course given by Harvard Professor John Winthrop. The notes were made by Timothy Foster in 1772 and 1773. The volume contains twenty-five lectures with some diagrams.

Letter from John Lowell to William Tudor,

One letter regarding a report from Tudor’s brother, Frederic, on piracy, and Lowell’s thoughts on the North American Review and domestic politics.

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."

Papers of Helen Lawrence Appleton Brooks, 1822-1985

Mostly correspondence between family members, beginning with Catherine Lawrence and Charles Appleton, the parents of Helen Brooks. Also records of Brooks' voluntary activities, her diaries and personal writings, and material collected by Grace Norton about Henry James.

John Paul Jones: man of action,

Bibliography: p. 292-293.

John Paul Jones: man of action,

Bibliography: p. 292-293.

De D. João VI á Independencia; estudo sobre os fatos que mais contribuiram para ser proclamada em S. Paulo, no dia 7 de setembro de 1822, nas margens do Ypiranga, a emancipação politica da Patria.

Mode of access: Internet.

Memoirs of John, duke of Marlborough, with his original correspondence: collected from the family records at Blenheim, and other authentic sources; illustrated with portraits, maps and military plans.

Mode of access: Internet.

Reports of cases argued and determined in the Court of the vice chancellor of England ... [1815-1822]

"Parts 1 and 2 of vol. 6 were reported by Maddock : part 3 (pp. 287-402), by T. C. Geldart ... It is now usually bound and cited as 6 Maddock."--Soule, Lawyer's ref. manual, 1884.

The poetical works of John Milton /

v.I. Minor poems. -- v.II. Paradise lost, Paradise regained, Samson Agonistes. -- v.III. General essay on Milton's English and versification and notes to the poems.

The life and letters of John Paul Jones,

"Sources of information": v. 2, p. 485-490.

Unveiling of the statue of John Paul Jones, Washington, April 17, 1912.

Mode of access: Internet.

The remains of Henry Kirke White, of Nottingham : late of St. John's College, Cambridge /

Portrait of White in vol. 1 and 3.