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Willard, Joseph, 1738-1804

 Person

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Benjamin Waterhouse papers

Collection Identifier: H MS c16
Overview: The Benjamin Waterhouse papers, 1738-1955 (inclusive), 1778-1837 (bulk), contain correspondence to Waterhouse from Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, John Quincy Adams, Edward Jenner, Sylvanus Fansher, Peter Oliver, and others, frequently about smallpox vaccination; copies of Waterhouse's outgoing correspondence; manuscripts containing notes for lectures he delivered at Harvard Medical School and other places; his writings on medicine and botany; and some correspondence and manuscripts...

Records of the Harvard College Library: Borrowing privileges correspondence

Collection Identifier: UAIII 50.6.1
Overview:

This collection contains correspondence to the Harvard College librarian asking for book borrowing privileges, primarily from faculty and other individuals with a connection to the college, dated 1775 to circa 1826, and a 20th century dealer catalog entry for a 1764 letter related to donated volumes. The records include the borrower's name, the titles of the books borrowed, the date of loans, and in some cases, the return of books.

Corporation papers, 1st series, supplements to the Harvard College Papers, Volumes 1 and 2

Collection Identifier: UAI 5.110
Overview: At a special meeting of the Harvard Corporation on February 6, 1850, the President and Fellows voted to have all manuscript papers related to the history of the College and College affairs identified, arranged, and bound. The first series of the Harvard College Papers comprises eleven volumes of historical and administrative records dating back as early as the mid-1600s arranged in chronological order. Papers that were accidentally overlooked, or newly discovered or received, were added...

Papers of Joseph Willard

Collection Identifier: UAI 15.876
Overview: Joseph Willard (1738-1804) was a Congregational minister, a scholar of ancient Greek, astronomy, and mathematics, and the twelfth president of Harvard College, serving from 1781 to 1804. This collection primarily documents Willard’s religious work, as it contains over two hundred of his sermons. It also contains two pieces of Willard’s student work as a Harvard undergraduate, correspondence regarding his clerical responsibilities, a few letters to family members, administrative...

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Cambridge (Mass.) 2
Petitions. 2
Accounts 1
Agriculture -- United States. 1
Anatomy -- education. 1
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Andover (Mass.). 1
Bills. 1
Bloodletting -- history. 1
Boston (Mass.) 1
Botany -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Massachusetts -- 19th century. 1
Botany -- education. 1
Cambridge (Mass.) -- History -- Colonial period, 1600-1775 1
Certificates. 1
Charging systems (Libraries) 1
College students -- Massachusetts -- Cambridge -- Books and reading 1
Correspondence. 1
Deeds -- Massachusetts -- Early works to 1800. 1
Diseases -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Massachusetts -- 19th century. 1
Diseases -- etiology. 1
Dissertations. 1
Education, Medical -- history -- Massachusetts. 1
Electricity -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Massachusetts -- 19th century. 1
Emetics -- history. 1
Entomology -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Massachusetts -- 19th century. 1
Essays. 1
Families -- New England -- History -- 19th century. 1
Family life. 1
Geology -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Massachusetts -- 19th century. 1
History of Medicine. 1
History, 18th century. 1
History, 19th century. 1
Hospitals, Military -- history. 1
Human anatomy -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Massachusetts -- 19th century. 1
Intellectuals -- Books and reading 1
Lectures. 1
Legal instruments. 1
Libraries--Massachusetts--Cambridge 1
Library charging lists -- 18th century 1
Library charging lists -- 19th century 1
Library circulation and loans -- 18th century 1
Library circulation and loans -- 19th century 1
Lunenburg (Mass. : Town) -- History 1
Manuscripts (documents) 1
Materia medica. 1
Medical records. 1
Medicine -- 18th century. 1
Medicine -- 19th century. 1
Medicine -- History -- 18th century. 1
Medicine -- History -- 19th century. 1
Medicine -- Philosophy -- History. 1
Medicine -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Massachusetts -- 19th century. 1
Medicine, Botanic. 1
Medicine, Greek and Roman -- History. 1
Mineralogy -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Massachusetts -- 19th century. 1
Minerals -- Collectors and collecting. 1
Natural History -- education. 1
Natural history -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Massachusetts -- 19th century. 1
Parent and child -- United States -- 19th century. 1
Pathology -- education. 1
Philadelphia (Penn.). 1
Philosophy, Medical -- history. 1
Physicians' writings. 1
Physicians. 1
Plants -- Classification. 1
Professors. 1
Receipts (financial records). 1
Schools, Medical. 1
Smallpox -- New England. 1
Smallpox -- Vaccination -- History -- 18th century. 1
Smallpox -- Vaccination -- History -- 19th century. 1
Smallpox -- history. 1
Smallpox -- prevention & control. 1
Smallpox Vaccine -- history. 1
Townsend (Mass.) -- History 1
Tuberculosis -- Diagnosis. 1
United States -- History -- War of 1812. 1
Universities and colleges -- Libraries -- 19th century 1
Vaccination. 1
Wills 1
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