Letter from James Winthrop to William Bentley, 1795 October 12

Two octavo-sized leaves containing a one-page handwritten letter from Winthrop to Bentley that briefly discusses coins.

Letter from James Winthrop to William Bentley, 1795 November 5

Two octavo-sized leaves containing a one-and-a-half-page handwritten letter from Winthrop to Bentley that discusses medals.

French and English questions on every particular of the French grammar, and more especially adapted to The French accidence of W. B. Fowle.

Mode of access: Internet.

Manual of mutual instruction; consisting of Mr. Fowle's directions for introducing in common schools the improved system adopted in the Monitorial school, Boston. With an appendix, containing some considerations in favor of the monitorial method, and a sketch of its progress.

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The common school grammar ... being a practical introduction to English grammar, with illustrative engravings; designed for preparatory schools,

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The French first class book : being a new selection of reading lessons ... : the whole calculated to interest as well as improve the learner /

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The improved guide to English spelling; in which, by the aid of a simple, yet particular, classification, the use of all figures and marks to indicate to pronunciation is rendered unnecessary ...

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The child's arithmetick; or, The elements of calculation, in the spirit of Pestalozzi's method ...

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Boyer's French dictionary; comprising all the additions and improvements of the latest Paris and London editions, with a very large number of useful words and phrases, now first selected from the modern dictionaries of Boiste, Wailly, Catineau, and others; with the pronunciation of each word, according to the dictionary of the Abbé Tardy: to which are prefixed, rules for the pronunciation of French vowels, diphthongs, and final consonants, chiefly collected from the prosody of the Abbé D'Olivet, with a table of French verbs, &c.

Edited by William Bentley Fowle.

Scripture lessons ; being a new selection from the Old and New Testament, for the use of schools. In three parts.

Pref. signed: W.B.F. [i.e. William B. Fowle]

Practical geography : as taught in the Monitorial School, Boston : part first, comprising modern topography /

Shoemaker

Book receipt of John Mellen and William Bentley, 1780 June 16

This half-page slip contains receipts for two Harvard College Library books received by Harvard College Tutors John Mellen (1752-1828; Harvard AB 1770) and William Bentley (1759-1819; Harvard AB 1777).

Letter from William Bentley to Edward Wigglesworth, [1780-1781]

This brief undated note from William Bentley (1759-1819; Harvard AB 1777) to Edward Wigglesworth concerns the need for paper book covers.

Student mathematical notebook of William Tudor, 1795

Notebook containing the handwritten mathematical exercises of William Tudor, kept in 1795 while he was an undergraduate at Harvard College. The volume contains rules, definitions, problems, drawings, and tables on geometry, trigonometry, surveying, calculating distances, sailing, and dialing. Some of the exercises are illustrated with hand-drawn diagrams. The Menusration of Heights and Distances section contains color drawings of buildings and trees, and some have been altered with notes in different hands and with humorous additions. For instance, a drawing of a tower was drawn into a figure titled “Egyptian Mummy.” Some of the images are identified: “A rude sketch of the Middlesex canal,” Genl Warren’s monument on Bunker Hill,” “Noddles Island,” “the fields of Elysium,” and the “Roxbury Canal.” The annotations and additional drawings are unattributed.

Letter from William Bentley to William Tudor,

One letter from Bentley, a Unitarian minister in Salem, praising Tudor’s work on James Otis and offering his recollections of Otis from the late 18th century.