Materials for a catalogue of the masters and scholars who belonged to the Public Latin School, Boston, Massachusetts, from 1635 to 1846.

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The Boston public Latin school.

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The Prize book. of the Publick Latin School in Boston.

No.I: 1820; no.II: 1821; no.III: 1822; no.IV: 1823; no.V: 1824; no.VI: 1826.

The Boston Cooking School magazine of culinary science and domestic economics.

Description based on: v. 3, no. 3 (Oct./Nov. 1898)

The Boston Sunday school hymn book : with devotional exercises /

1st. ed.: 1833.

An address delivered before the Boston Sunday School Society : on the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the Sunday school institution, at the Federal Street Church, September 14, 1831 /

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Myer Starr, memoirs undated

Myer Starr was born in Dmitrovka in the Ukraine, which was then part of Russia. As a child he was apprenticed to a tailor and later a bakery before he began work at a dry goods store at the age of 11. After his mother died, Starr and his younger brother crossed the border into Germany and then immigrated to the United States. Starr and his brother sailed on the "Kleist" into New York in February 1913. From there, they traveled to a sister's house in Malden, Massachusetts. Myer later married and had two sons, graduates of Harvard College and Tufts University.

The Boston Cooking-School cook book : with additional chapters on the cold pack method of canning, on the drying of fruits and vegetables, and on food values /

Includes household hints; samples of menus; some recipes include wine or liquor as an ingredient. Sample recipes: Stuffed artichokes, Macaroni à la Milanaise, Apricot and wine jelly, Cream sponge cake.

365 breakfast dishes : a breakfast dish for every day in the year : selected from Mrs. Lincoln, Mrs. Lemcke, Table talk, Boston Cooking School magazine, and others.

Mode of access: Internet.

The Boston Sunday School hymn book.

Without music.

Student notebook of Samuel Dunbar, 1721-1722

This leather-bound volume contains substantial transcriptions copied by Samuel Dunbar from textbooks while he was a student at Harvard in 1721 and 1722. There is a general index to texts at the end of the volume. Dunbar's notebook provides a window into the state of higher education in the eighteenth century and offers a firsthand account of academic life at Harvard College. Notably, he often indicated the number of days spent copying texts into his book.

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 Catalogue of the Alpha Chapter Boston University Graduates of the School of Theology 1850-1905

A listing of graduate of Boston University School of Theology and predecessor school. Arranged by class year, alphabetical by last name and geographically by region.

Student mathematical textbook of James Freeman, 1774

Manuscript volume containing portions of text copied from Nicholas Saunderson’s Elements of algebra, Nicholas Hammond’s The elements of algebra, and John Ward’s The young mathematician’s guide. The volume is divided into two main parts: the first is titled Concerning the parts of Arithmetick (p. 1-98) and the second, The elements of Algebra, extracted from Hammond, Ward & Saunderson (p. 99-259).