Box 1
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Collected documents from 1778, 1778 Digital
The folder contains two documents: a catalogue of books selected from sequestered libraries for the use of the students in Harvard College, in virtue of a grant from the General Court, and a copy of a letter from Colonel Chace to Captain Campbell, dated November 14, 1778, requesting him to vacate his house which is to be improved by the Corporation of Harvard College.
Report of a Committee appointed by the Corporation to select books from sequestered libraries, 1778 Digital
Signed by Andrew Eliot, Chairman. The books were granted from sequestered libraries of Royalists, including the collection of British booksellers Cox and Berry and books from the Province House, former home to the royal governors of the Province of Massachusetts Bay.
Resolve passed by the House of Representatives appropriating certain books from the squestered libraries to the use of Harvard College, April 16 and 17, 1778 Digital
An inventory of the apparatus of Harvard College, as found therein by the Committee appointed 11th May 1779 for carrying on mathematical and philosophical instruction, at the time they took possession of the key by order of the Corporation, May 20, 1779 Digital
Title transcribed from document.
Reports on broken glass in College buildings, 1779-1780 and undated Digital
Lists number of broken panes of glass in Massachusetts, Stoughton, and Harvard Halls before and after vacations.
Letter from Samuel Williams to the Corporation of Harvard College, 1780 Digital
Proposal to petition for a house.
Letter from James Hunter, Jr., Fredericksburg, to James Swan, April 15, 1780 Digital
Regarding John Dawson (Harvard College Class of 1782).
Letter from Elijah Fletcher, Hopkinton, to the President and tutors of Harvard College, July 9, 1780 Digital
Introducing an unnamed pupil for possible admission to the College.
Application for a degree in favor of James Hughes, July 16, 1780 Digital
Title transcribed from verso of document. Petition signed by Benjamin Hickborn, Samuel Parker, and John Clarke. The petition is accompanied by notes from a meeting of the faculty, dated July 18, 1780.
Authorization for Edward Wigglesworth to examine students for admission in the absence of the president, August 6, 1780 Digital
Vote from a meeting of the professors and tutors, signed by Stephen Sewall. The document includes a list of the students admitted, signed by Wigglesworth and dated August 18, 1780.
Memorial from Samuel Williams to the Corporation of Harvard College, August 28, 1780 Digital
Expenses of moving from Bradford, Massachusetts to Cambridge.
Petition of James Anderson, September 19, 1780 Digital
Request for exemption for secular studies in Greek and Latin to spend more time on the study of divinity.
Corporation vote, December 18, 1780 Digital
Notes and votes from Corporation meeting.
Letter from Samuel Haven, Cambridge, to Edward Wigglesworth, November 5, 1781 Digital
Recommending John Hale as tutor.
Vote of the Medical Society, November 28, 1781 Digital
Title transcribed from verso of document. Vote of the Massachusetts Medical Society establishing a committee to form a code of laws for the Society. The committee, which included Harvard professor John Warren, requested the use of the Harvard library.
Remarks upon the view of the livings of College officers, [circa 1782] Digital
Title transcribed from document. These remarks appear to have been written by Joseph Willard.
Letter from Edward Wigglesworth, Cambridge, to Joseph Willard, March 7, 1782 Digital
Examination of his "father's accounts to determine the nature of money at the time Mr. Hollis founded the professorship," as far back as 1727. Includes a list of the price of butter, veal, lamb, and beef.
Petition from the President and the Hollis and Hancock Professors to the Justices of the Supreme Court of Judicature of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, January 3, 1783 Digital
Question whether they are exemption from taxation by the state constitution.
Draft of memorial from the President and Fellows of Harvard College to the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, February 5, 1784 Digital
Proposal to create a public infirmary for the poor to be open to the medical professors and their students.
Letter from Rufus King, Boston, to Daniel Kilham, February 18, 1784 (20th-century typewritten copy) Digital
Discussion of politics, including the ratification of the Treaty of Paris, the offer of King Louis XVI of France to send seeds from his garden for a botantical garden in Cambridge, and a congratulatory letter by Pope Pius VI to Congress. Includes a mention of the King's wish to establish a general infirmary at Cambridge.
A letter of donation from Charles Moon to Harvard librarian William Coolidge Lane, dated August 7, 1915, is attached to the document.
Letter from Timothy Pickering, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to John Lowell, Boston, July 16, 1785 Digital
Dr. Abraham Chovet's anatomical waxworks available for purchase.
Letter from Samuel Moody, Newbury, to [Joseph Willard], April 23, 1787 Digital
Letter of recommendation for an unnamed individual.
Copy of memorial of the President and Fellows of Harvard College to Benning Wentworth, June 1764 Digital
Letter from Edward Holyoke, Cambridge, to Thomas Hubbard, Boston, March 22, 1766 Digital
Contains text of a vote from Corporation meeting of March 21, 1766, regarding letting the College lot to Deacon Henry Prentiss.
Letter from the President and Fellows of Harvard College, Cambridge, to Lord Clive, December 16, 1768 (20th-century photostat) Digital
Request for assistance in rebuilding the library and philosophic apparatus after the Harvard Hall fire in 1764.