Diary of Thomas Marsh, 1751

Diary kept in an interleaved almanac from 1751. Entries in the diary are brief and sporadic, recording events including travel, visitors, weather, sermons heard, holidays, illnesses and deaths. Occasional expenses are noted, including ones for hay, cider, bottles, shoes, and doctoring. A few dates of college events are noted, including the semi-annual Corporation meeting and Commencement. On the last page is a list of student names, presumably those tutored by Marsh.

An abridgment of what I extracted while an undergraduate at Harvard College, 1766-1769

The bound volume contains excerpts copied by Benjamin Wadsworth from books he read as a student at Harvard in the late 1760s. The volume includes almost no personal commentary on the readings. The excerpts are arranged by year of study for the academic years 1766-1769, beginning when Wadsworth was a sophomore. Each entry begins with a title indicating the book title and author for the passage, and there is an alphabetical index at the end of the volume. Wadsworth selected “extracts” from both religious and secular texts including several histories of England, American histories (with a focus on Puritans), the Bible, and in his senior year, “the Koran of Mohammed.” He also read several books on the art of speech and the art of preaching. There are few science texts included, though the final five-page entry is titled, “What I thought fit to note down from Mr. Winthrop’s experimental Lectures” and contains notes both on the content of Professor John Winthrop’s lectures as well as the types of experiments being performed in class. Wadsworth’s commonplace book offers a window on the state of higher education in the eighteenth century and offers a firsthand account of academic life at Harvard College.

Student notebook of Thomas Prince, ca. 1707

Paper notebook in Latin on classical Greek grammar. The name "Thomas Prince" appears on the first page. The manuscript is undated. Based on the signature, this volume is assumed to have belonged to Thomas Prince, Sr., although it is undated and may have indeed belonged to Thomas Prince, Jr.

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.

Letter from Samuel Willard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, to Catherine Willard, Petersham, Massachusetts, May 14, 1806

Willard asks his family to write to him more often, and discusses his plans to begin preaching at Hingham.

Letter from Samuel Willard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, to Abigail Willard, Petersham, Massachusetts, September 29, 1806

Willard discusses family issues then explains that he was preaching in Lexington for three weeks and turned down an offer to stay longer. He says that instead, he will “make Cambridge my headquarters.” Willard asks his sister to pick up his clothes for him.

Letters to Ebenezer Hancock from his mother, Mary Perkins, and his stepfather, Daniel Perkins, 1758 June 27 and 1758 November 16

These two letters were written to Ebenezer Hancock while he was an undergraduate at Harvard College. His stepfather, Daniel Perkins, wrote on June 27, 1758 and his mother, Mary Perkins, wrote on November 16, 1758. Both letters were sent from Bridgewater, Massachusetts, where the Perkins lived. The letters contain general greetings and wishes for Hancock's well being, as well as parental advice regarding his behavior and comportment.

Notes: on sermons : manuscript, 1689-1692

Contains a list of ministers and the dates and topics of their sermons. The ministers are from in and around Boston.

Kitāb Shams al-taḥqīq wa-ʻurwat ahl al-tawfīq

lil-Imām Aḥmad ibn Sharqāwī. Wa-yalīhā kitāb Naṣīḥat al-dhākirīn wa-irghām al-mukābirīn / lil-Ustādh al-madhkūr. Muṭarrizan hāmishahā bi-al-risālah al-musammāh bi-al-Asinnah al-faʻʻālah fī akbād man ankara ʻalá al-ustādh marartu ʻalá al-jalālah / lil-ʻAllāmah al-Muḥaqqiq Mawlānā al-Shaykh Muḥammad al-Miṣrī al-Jirjāwī.

Foreign missions their relations and claims /

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The art of illustration : being addresses delivered to the students of the Pastor's College, Metropolitan Tabernacle.

Mode of access: Internet.

Henry Ward Beecher's speaking art,

Mode of access: Internet.

Analysis of certain cartoons of Raffaele.

Consists of articles issued separately, bound with handwritten table of contents.

The Homiletic review; an international monthly magazine of current religious thought, sermonic literature and discussion of practical issues.

Editors: Oct. 1876-Dec. 1903, I.K. Funk (with J.M. Sherwood, Jan. 1886-Oct. 1890); N.W. Wells, Aug. 1891-July 1895; D.S. Gregory, Aug. 1895-Dec. 1903)

Nodaʻ ba-sheʻarim ...

v. 1. Sheelot u-teshuvot, hidushim ʻal masekhet Gitin, hidushim ʻal Shulhan ʻarukh, Derushim.--v. 2. Sheelot u-teshuvot, hidushim ʻal masekhet Yebamot, derushim.