Box 2
Contains 85 Results:
Copy of Chapter V, Section I of the constitution, November 13, 1779 Digital
Copy attested by James Bowdoin, president of the Convention, and addressed to President Samuel Langdon.
Rev. Dr. Gordon's letter relating to College privileges to be confirm'd in framing the constitution of the state, [1780?] Digital
Title transcribed from verso of document. Addressed to Major General Horatio Gates.
Copy of Corporation votes, April 11, 1780 Digital
Copy by Samuel Langdon of a Corporation vote on April 11, 1780, regarding the assignment of Tutor John Mellen (Harvard College Class of 1770) to the mathematics department. The document also includes a copy by Langdon of a Corporation vote of December 16, 1766, regarding the assignment of tutors to departments.
Copy of letter from Samuel Langdon to the Corporation and Overseers of Harvard College, August 30, 1780 Digital
Letter of resignation.
Petition from Samuel Williams to the Corporation of Harvard College, [September 1780] Digital
Respecting his expedition to view a solar eclipse at Penobscot Bay, the first such expedition in North America.
Letter from Samuel Williams, Cambridge, to Edward Wigglesworth, October 5, 1780 Digital
List of instruments and books he is taking on an expedition to view a solar eclipse at Penobscot Bay.
Letter from Samuel Williams, Cambridge, to the Corporation of Harvard College, June 26, 1781 Digital
Requests use of small silver tankard.
Letter from Edward Wigglesworth to Loammi Baldwin, July 26, 1781 Digital
The letter consists only of the text from a vote at the Corporation meeting of July 26, 1781, thanking Baldwin among others for their attendance at the College for Commencement. The letter is accompanied by a copy of a vote from the Corporation meeting of July 4, 1781, signed by Wigglesworth, requesting the services of Baldwin at Commencement.
Letter from Samuel Cooper, Boston, to Joseph Willard, September 30, 1781 Digital
Congratulations on Willard's election as president of Harvard College.
Resolve of the General Court of Massachusetts, October 10, 1781 Digital
Copy of resolve granting a salary to Joseph Willard if he accepts the presidency of Harvard College.
Letter from Simeon Howard, Boston, to Edward Wigglesworth, Cambridge, November 30, 1781 Digital
Arrangements for the inauguration of Joseph Willard as Harvard president.
Vote of the Committee for letting Hayward's pasture, March 14, 1763 Digital
Corporation votes, 1764 Digital
Notes and votes from Corporation meetings on October 3, 1764, and December 12, 1764.
Notice to students not to return due to smallpox in Boston, [circa 1764?] Digital
Undated notice.
The circa date given on the original folder is 1750; however, no mention of smallpox appears in the Corporation or Overseers minutes for this year. A more likely circa date of 1764, when Boston and surrounding areas battled smallpox between March and May, is therefore given.
Letter from Edward Holyoke, Cambridge, May 22, 1764 Digital
Unaddressed letter about the account of Ephraim Pierce.
Corporation votes, 1765 Digital
Notes and votes from Corporation meetings on March 13, 1765, April 16, 1765, and July 22, 1765. The last is signed by Edward Holyoke.
Copies of typescripts of invoices for apparatus, 1765-1769 Digital
The folder contains copies of typescripts of invoices for the philosophical apparatus dated August 17, 1765, September 28, 1765, September 27, 1766, April 24, 1767, and July 24, 1769.
Corporation vote, March 21, 1766 Digital
Contains handwritten notes and vote from Corporation meeting. Signed by Edward Holyoke and addressed to Thomas Hubbard.
Invoice of case shipped by Joseph Mico, April 24, 1767 Digital
Invoice for an orrery shipped on the Devonshire.
Corporation vote, March 26, 1771 Digital
Notes and votes from Corporation meeting; signed by Samuel Locke.
Letter from the President and Fellows of Harvard College to the selectmen of the town of Charlestown, with reply, 1771 Digital
Regarding prostitutes in Charlestown. The letter from the President and Fellows of Harvard College is signed by Samuel Locke, and includes the text of a Corporation vote of May 28, 1771. The reply from the selectmen is dated July 1, 1771; there is some text loss on the document due to a tear along the left side.
Address of congratulation to Governor Hutchinson, [1771] Digital
Title transcribed from verso of document. Congratulations from the President and Fellows of Harvard College upon Hutchinson's appointment to the "first chair of government in this Province."
Excerpts of Corporation votes relating to commencement, May 28, 1724-July 13, 1772, [circa 1772] Digital
Excerpts of votes relating to commencement at the Corporation meetings on May 28, 1724; June 23, 1737; June 9, 1769; and July 13, 1772.
Letter from John Wadsworth, Cambridge, to Edward Wigglesworth, Boxford, July 19, 1775 Digital
Letter discussing the difficulty of scheduling a meeting of the Corporation, outbreak of smallpox in Cambridge, and references to General Gage.