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Box 3

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Contains 2 Results:

Letter from Benjamin Dearborn to Edward Holyoke, 1746 September 2 Digital

Item — Box: 3, Object: 1Identifier: HUM 312
Scope and Contents:

Framed letter dated September 2, 1746, from physician Benjamin Dearborn (1725-1755; Harvard AB 1746), in Northampton, Massachusetts, to Edward Holyoke, then a school master in Lexington, regarding their friendship and “epistolary correspondence.” He also asks Holyoke to send him a copy of John Winthrop’s Solutions of the Aurora Borealis.

Letter from William Dudley to John Palmer, 1737 July 6 Digital

Item — Box: 3, Object: 2Identifier: HUM 312
Scope and Contents:

Framed letter dated July 6, 1737, from William Dudley to John Palmer, a member of the Society of the Second Precinct in Marblehead, Massachusetts, requesting the proprietors of the Second Church reconsider releasing Holyoke as pastor, following a vote of the Harvard College Board of Overseers that established a committee to pursue the appointment of Holyoke as College president.