The importance of the last promise of Jesus Christ to Christian missionaries. A sermon, delivered at Springfield, May 10, 1826, at the ordination of the Rev. Rufus Anderson, as an evangelist, and of the Rev. Messrs. Josiah Brewer, Eli Smith, Cyrus Stone, and Jeremiah Stow, to the high and sacred office of Christian missionaries. ...

Printed buff paper covers.

Bill of sale of sloop Cyrus, 1793 February 2

Bill of sale between Thomas Sawyer, Jacob Adams, and Isaac Sawyer, all of Falmouth, Massachusetts, and Ebenezer Storer and William Winthrop for the sloop Cyrus.

Sloop Cyrus account for Charter to West Indies, 1793 July 27

One folded folio-sized leaf containing handwritten financial entries compiled by William Winthrop from February 1793 to July 1793. The entry notes that the sloop made a "voyage to the West Indies" between February and May 1793.

Sloop Cyrus accounts, 1793

One-folio page containing handwritten financial entries compiled by Treasurer Ebenezer Storer from February 1793 to December 1793.

Certificate of the sale of Cyrus' freight of wood, 1793 September 9

Accounting records related to the wood brought by the sloop between May and September 1793 on three slips of paper bound with thread. The last page contains a certification signed by William Winthrop on September 9, 1793 of the sale of wood in Charlestown.

Copy of an enrolment of Sloop Cyrus No. 56, 1795 May 14

Copy of the vessel enrollment certificate for the sloop Cyrus on one folio-sized leaf. All ships owned by United States citizens were required by federal law to be registered.

Bill of sale of sloop Cyrus, 1795 March 4

Bill of sale transferring William Winthrop's share of the sloop Cyrus to Treasurer Ebenezer Storer. This bill of the sale has a wax seal but is unsigned.

S. P. Russell's order for Sloop Cyrus Sails, 1798 March 26

Brief note from Samuel Russell to Treasurer Ebenezer Storer requesting delivery of the sloop's mainsail and jibb to the new owner.

Bill of sale of sloop Cyrus, [1798 March 7 ]

Uncompleted bill of sale for the sloop Cyrus between Ebenezer Storer and buyers Samuel Drinkwater and Abel Sawyer. The document is undated.

Bill of sale of sloop Cyrus, 1795 March 4

Bill of sale transferring William Winthrop's share of the sloop Cyrus to Treasurer Ebenezer Storer. This copy of the sale has William Winthrop's signature.

Jean-Martin Charcot - Neurologist by Avocation, Nephrologist by Yearning

In an age of medical advances and specialization, Jean-Martin Charcot (1825-1893) helped found the discipline of neurology and in 1882 was appointed the first professor of Diseases of the Nervous System in France. As an investigator with broad interests and vast knowledge Charcot contributed to several other disciplines. An early mentor and dominant figure in Charcot's formative years was Pierre Rayer (1793-1867), famous for his seminal contributions to the study of the kidney, who gifted Charcot with his passion for clinical pathological correlations and likely a yearning for the study of kidney diseases. Famous for the clarity and incisiveness of his formal teaching presentations, Charcot lectured on the kidney at the Faculty of Medicine in Paris in 1877. Translated into English and published as a book titled Lectures on Bright's Disease, they became widely accessible and quoted in the literature through the present. In addition, at a time that he was already concentrating on the study of neurological disorders, Charcot maintained his life-long interest in the kidney and published original studies on the pathological changes of the kidney in gout and experimental lead poisoning, as well as supporting a study of hysterical ischuria by his students.

Statement of trips, 1795

Thirteen statements of trips of the Cyrus between April 23, 1795 and December 9, 1795 signed by Steward Caleb Gannett. The statements list the cords of wood added to the College's supply and the cords sold. The statements are on thirteen slips of paper of various sizes bound with thread.

Letter from Samuel P. Russell to Ebenezer Storer, 1798 March 7

Half-page letter from Samuel Russell to Treasurer Ebenezer Storer informing him that the sloop Cyrus has been sold and requesting a bill of sale.