Student notes on lectures by John Palfrey, Henry Ware, and George Ticknor

Bound volume of notes on lectures given by John Gorham Palfrey, Professor of Biblical Literature, Henry Ware, Hollis Professor of Divinity, and George Ticknor, Smith Professor of the French and Spanish Languages and Literatures. The unidentified author was likely a student in Harvard College or the Harvard Divinity School.

The volume is organized in three sections. The first section (160 pages) begins with an inscription reading “Notes from Dr. Palfrey’s Lectures on The Four Gospels. 1835” and details Palfrey’s comments on the biblical writings of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. The second section (61 pages) begins with the inscription “Notes of Exercises with Dr. Ware, Sen. on Natural and Recorded Religion. 1835” and details Ware’s lectures on the being and providence of God. The third section begins with the inscription “Notes on Prof. Ticknor’s Lectures.” An inscription on the back of the page states “Notes on Professor Ticknor’s Lectures on the History & Criticism of the French Language & Literature from the earliest times to the present / Harvard University / Fall Sem. 1833.”