Mead , John Noyes

Overview: The collection documents the daily life of John Noyes Mead, a student at Harvard College from 1846 to 1850. Comprising six handwritten journals and one handwritten volume of compositions and journal entry copies, this collection begins when Mead was a high school student in Brattleboro, Vermont, and concludes with his death in 1850. The journals focus on Mead’s studies, with attention given to his extracurricular activities, his social life, and his movements around New England as a...