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Houghton Library printed book provenance file, R-Z and unidentified

Title: Houghton Library printed book provenance file, R-Z and unidentified

Index to ownership/provenance information primarily from printed books at Houghton Library.

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http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01543/catalog View

Lear, Tobias, 1762-1816. An oration upon ancient history / spoken by T. Lear at Cambridge : manuscript, 1782.

Title: An oration upon ancient history / spoken by T. Lear at Cambridge : manuscript, 1782.

Address delivered before the Governor and Council concerning the comparative rise and progress of America to that of ancient empires. He pays tribute to Harvard College and its president Joseph Willard.

ArchivalResource: 6 leaves ; 23 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/612883000 View

Harvard University. Treasurer. Records of the Treasurer, John Hancock, 1754-1926 (inclusive).

Title: Records of the Treasurer, John Hancock, 1754-1926 (inclusive).

Includes correspondence and financial records of John Hancock from his tenure as Treasurer (1773-1777), and memoranda from his sucessor, E. Storer, and other letters pertaining to the settlement of Hancock's accounts as Treasurer and the Dummer Fund, dated 1778-1779. Also Hancock papers of a later date, including various addresses, such as mss. of Hancock's speech given at President Willard's inauguration and an address of the Corporation at Hancock's inauguration; and documents relating to Hancock, including a letter from Mrs. Charles P. Greenough to President Lowell about the Greenough bequest, and an account by E.N. Vose about Hancock's treasurership. Major correspondents include Harvard presidents Samuel Langdon and Joseph Willard, and Lt. Governor Thomas Cushing and Governor James Bowdoin.

ArchivalResource: 5 containers

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/76976000 View

Willard family papers, 1797-1828.

Title: Willard family papers, 1797-1828.

Papers of Congregationalist minister and Harvard College president Joseph Willard and of his sons Augustus and Sidney.

ArchivalResource: 1 envelope (.1 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou02216/catalog View

Pike, Nicolas, 1743-1819. Papers, 1783-1798.

Title: Papers, 1783-1798.

Papers of Nicolas Pike, mathematician, educator, and author of the treatise "A New and Complete System of Arithmetick ..." (1788). Papers consist of correspondence about the publication and sale of his book, about mathematical questions, and about his membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Includes letters from Jeremy Belknap, Nathaniel Bowditch, James Bowdoin, Jedediah Morse, Benjamin West, John Wheelock, Joseph Willard, and other mathematicians, astronomers, and educators.

ArchivalResource: 1 box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/16727711 View

Price, Richard, 1723-1791. Papers, 1767-1790.

Title: Papers, 1767-1790.

These letters are from and to Price on British politics, the American Revolution, the peace of 1783, the future of the United States, prisons, slavery, etc.

ArchivalResource: 90 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122488751 View

Harvard University. Mathematical theses, 1782-1839

Title: Mathematical theses, 1782-1839.

The mathematical theses consist of equations and drawings which illustrate the equations. At the time of their creation, the purpose of these finely executed documents on large sheets of paper was to demonstrate a student's mastery of one or more mathematical concepts, yet the enduring value of many of the them lies in the fact that they are works of art.

ArchivalResource: 16 cubic feet; (406 broadsides)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hua17004/catalog View

Willard, Joseph, 1738-1804. Joseph Willard sermons, 1775-1777.

Title: Joseph Willard sermons, 1775-1777.

Contains thrity-nine sermons written by Willard while minister of the First Church in Beverly, Mass. The earliest, no. 156, is dated 2 Apr. 1775, but the remainder were all originally preached between 28 Jan. 1776 and 27 Apr. 1777. Many were subsequently repeated until the last year of his life. At some point the sermons were dated, arranged in chronological order, and numbered. This collection represents the sermons numbered from 150 to 200, twelve of which are missing. Some bear later annotations, possibly by another hand. Sermon no. 156 is dated 2 Apr. 1775, but was numbered and sequenced with the 1776 sermons. The sermons are all roughly 5,000 words long, and likely took about an hour to deliver. Occasionally two were give on the same day. The majority are theologically mild, agreeably phrased, and generally devoid of contemporary references to people, events, social conditions, or even the daily life of his parishoners. There are occasional exceptions, as when he condemns the widespread usage of profanity in Beverly (no. 164); the moderate tone and otherworldly subject matter of the vast majority of the sermons make the two fast day sermons (no. 167 and 168) preached on Revolutionary events all the more remarkable. Sermon no. 167, occasioned by the Declaration of Independence, takes as its text: "Great have been the revolutions among the states and kingdoms of this world." This is not a sermon, but a political diatribe, which strongly echoes the Declaration, with a revolutionary rhetoric that rivals, and sometimes exceeds it. There is some ambiguity about the date of this important sermon. At the end of each sermon was appended a list of the dates and places where it was subsequently repeated. These suggest the extent of Willard's travels, his favorite theological themes, and the ministerial circles in which he moved. The most frequently delivered sermon in this collection was no. 199, which was preached twenty-six times, on a text from the Gospel of Matthew. On the evidence of these sermons, Willard supplied the pulpit in many churches around Beverly, Mass., and in places as far as Concord and Durham, N.H., Scarborough and Wiscasset, Me., and most distantly, in Philadelphia in 1784 (after he became president of Harvard).

ArchivalResource: .75 cubic ft. (1.5 document boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/71128375 View

Joseph Dennie papers, 1783-1815 (inclusive), 1790-1803 (bulk).

Title: Joseph Dennie papers, 1783-1815 (inclusive), 1790-1803 (bulk).

Correspondence and compositions of American essayist and editor, JosephDennie. Also includes some family correspondence.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes (1 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00108/catalog View

Richard Price Papers, 1767-1790

Title: Richard Price Papers 1767-1790

The Welsh non-conformist minister Richard Price (1723-1791) was a moral philosopher and political and economic theorist whose ideas leant support to the American cause during the Revolution. Of broad and liberal mind, he was an integral member of the intellectual coterie surrounding William Petty, the Earl of Shelburne, and was a founding member of the Unitarian Church. Befitting a latitudinarian thinker, the range of Richard Price's correspondence is extremely broad, touching upon his rationalistic philosophy and dissenting theology, his political views on British politics, America and the American Revolution, the Constitutional settlement, the future of the United States, social reform, demography, prisons, and slavery. The ninety letters in the collection are arranged chronologically, with correspondents including Charles Chauncy (8 letters, 1772-1779), Benjamin Franklin (7 letters, 1775-1789), John Howard (11 letters and a biographical manuscript, 1770-1789), Thomas Jefferson (3 letters, 1785-1789), Benjamin Rush (8 letters, 1786-1790), and Edward Wigglesworth (3 letters, 1775-1786), as well as lesser known figures such as the reformer John Howard.

ArchivalResource: 90.0 items

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.P93-ead.xml View

John Jeffries papers, 1768-1819.

Title: John Jeffries papers, 1768-1819.

Papers of Boston physician and balloonist John Jeffries concerning his medical practice and balloon ascensions.

ArchivalResource: 4 boxes, 3 portfolio volumes (3.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01518/catalog View

Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874. Correspondence, 1829-1874

Title: Charles Sumner correspondence, 1829-1874

Letters to Charles Sumner, lawyer, Republican senator from Massachusetts, and anti-slavery campaigner; with a smaller number of letters from Sumner to others.

ArchivalResource: 33 cartons (43.1 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00232/catalog View

Willard, Joseph, 1738-1804. Papers of Joseph Willard, 1768-1804, 1838.

Title: Papers of Joseph Willard, 1768-1804, 1838.

The Papers of Joseph Willard document his activities as a minister, President of Harvard University, and scholar. These papers are comprised of correspondence, sermons, papers related to the writing of a Greek grammar, manuscript materials, catalogs, memorandums, resolutions, certificates, and a personal seal used by Joseph Willard as President. There are also a number of documents, essentially drafts and notes, that entered the collection due to Willard's economy in re-using any paper with blank space for secondary purposes. These contain minutia on a wide variety of topics such as student life, student discipline, and Willard's personal affairs.

ArchivalResource: 4 cubic feet (9 document boxes, 1 flat file box, 1 artifact box, 1 volume, 18 folders).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/77072186 View

American Philosophical Society Archives, 1743-1984

Title: American Philosophical Society Archives 1743-1984

Founded in 1743 by Benjamin Franklin, the American Philosophical Society was the first learned society in the United States. For over 250 years, the Society has played an important role in American cultural and intellectual life. Until the mid-nineteenth century, the Society fulfilled the role of a national academy of science, national library and museum, and even patent office. Early members of the Society included Thomas Jefferson, David Rittenhouse, Benjamin Rush, Stephen Peter Du Ponceau, George Washington, and many other figures prominent in American history. The Archives of the American Philosophical Society consists of 192.25 linear feet of material, organized into thirteen record groups dating back to 1743. The Society's archives extensively documents not only the organization's historical development but also its role in American history and the history of science and technology.

ArchivalResource: 192.25 Linear feet

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Harvard University. Relative to the change of Commencement, [1802].

Title: Relative to the change of Commencement, [1802].

Four folio-sized leaves containing undated drafts of two alternate schedules for the Harvard academic calendar in President Joseph Willard's hand. The schedules were presumably used in the creation of a report by the joint Committee of the Overseers and the Corporation titled "Alteration of the time of Commencement and consequent regulations" that was presented on March 2, 1802. The first plan is comprised of a three-page handwritten draft of a schedule for an academic calendar with a Commencement held "annually on the last Wednesday of August." The document lists eight rules and eight "advantages of the foregoing new arrangements." The second plan is comprised of a one-and-a-half page handwritten draft of a schedule with a Commencement on "the third Wednesday in September," and lists six rules providing information about the academic schedule and a note about scheduling Commencement. The plans also document the influence of the seasons and community events (such as Election week) on student attendance.

ArchivalResource: .01 cubic feet (1 folder)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/733094045 View

Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge. Records, 1828

Title: Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge.Records, 1828

Recordsof the trial between the proprietors of the Charles River Bridge andthe proprietors of the Warren Bridge, heard before the MassachusettsSupreme Judicial Court, 1828. In this famous case, the plaintiffclaimed that the Warren Bridge charter impaired the obligation of thestate’s earlier contract, and was therefore unconstitutional.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes,; .6linear feet

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/law00252/catalog View

Harvard University Archives Photograph Collection: Portraits, ca. 1852-ca. 2004

Title: Harvard University Archives Photograph Collection: Portraits. ca.1852-ca.2004.

Photographs of individuals associated with Harvard University: faculty, students, administrators, staff, honorees, and habitués of Harvard Square. For those whose lives pre-date the era of photography, the contents of the folders are often photographic reproductions of other image types, such as etchings, paintings, or drawings. In a few cases, the images themselves may be original etchings or sketches.

ArchivalResource: 50 cubic ft.; 20,000 photographs; 10,000 folders.

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hua04006/catalog View

Willard, Joseph, 1738-1804. Joseph Willard sermons, 1774-1780.

Title: Joseph Willard sermons, 1774-1780.

Five sermons written by Rev. Joseph Willard of the First Church of Beverly, Mass. (later president of Harvard College), delivered between 1774-80. Includes two Thanksgiving sermons, 1774, 1776; New Years day sermon, 1775; a sermon on the education of children, 1776; and a fast-day sermon, 29 Jan. 1777.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. in a case.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/45409709 View

Willard, Joseph, 1738-1804. Letter from Joseph Willard to Mrs. Mary Willard, "My dear wife..." Sept. 12, 1802

Title: Letter from Joseph Willard to Mrs. Mary Willard, "My dear wife..." Sept. 12, 1802

Letter briefly recounts itinerary for travel to New Haven, New York, Greenwich, Newark, Princeton, and Bethlehem. Includes paragraph about religious worship at a New York prison and voices concern about his son Sidney's health.

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http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/77067919 View

Sparks, Jared, 1789-1866. Jared Sparks collection of American manuscripts, 1582-1843

Title: Jared Sparks collection of American manuscripts, 1582-1843.

The Sparks collection consists of original and transcribed historical documents and correspondence, chiefly concerning the American colonies and the original thirteen states, collected or transcribed beginning in 1819 by Jared Sparks. The collection includes the papers of Sir Francis Bernard and George Chalmers, letters of Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, the Marquis de Lafayette, and George Washington, the journals of Thomas Ainslie, the Board of Trade, the New York Provincial Congress and Conventions, as well as the papers and records from state public offices, among many others. The Sparks collection also contains his own historical essays and compositions, published articles, letter books, diaries, account books related to his college days, professional research, and material documenting his tenure as College president.

ArchivalResource: 252 volumes, 10 env., 2 folders, 3 cases, 57 boxes (31.6 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01965/catalog View

Papers of Professor Henry William Wilder Foote and Family, 1714-1959

Title: Papers of Professor Henry William Wilder Foote and Family, 1714-1959

Papers of Daniel Appleton White (1776-1861); wives; children including of daughter Mary Wilder Foote (1810-1857) and son William Orne White (1821-1911), William's wife, Margaret Harding White, and their children. Papers of Caleb Foote (1803-1894), his children including sons, Arthur William Foote (1853-1937) and Henry Wilder Foote (1838-1889), Henry's wife, Frances Ann Eliot Foote (1838-1896), and children. Papers of Henry Wilder Foote II (1875-1964), son of Henry Wilder Foote, of his wife Eleanor Tyson Cope Foote (b. 1879), and son Arthur Foote (II). Miscellaneous papers of ancestral families of Henry Wilder Foote II and William Orne White, including the Deadmans, the Eliots, the Flaggs, the Footes, the Haynes, the Lymans, the Ornes, the Wests, the Whites, and the Wilders.

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http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/div00575/catalog View

Benjamin Franklin Papers Part 6 -- Letters to Franklin, 1781-1782

Title: Benjamin Franklin Papers Part 6 -- Letters to Franklin 1781-1782

This is part of the large inventory for the Benjamin Franklin Papers (Mss B F85). For complete information concerning this collection, please view the . Collection Description

ArchivalResource: 1.0 section

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.F85inventory06-ead.xml View

Samuel, Williams family, papers, 1723-1995.

Title: Samuel papers, Williams family 1723-1995.

Family papers of American Samuel Williams (1743-1817), clergyman, naturalist, and for a time, the Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy at Harvard College. Includes manuscripts of Williams's friend, Count Benjamin Thompson Rumford.

ArchivalResource: 3 boxes (3.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01990/catalog View

Mayer, Tobias, 1723-1762. Precepts for using Professor Mayer's new and correct tables of the motions of the sun and moon : manuscript, [not before 1770]

Title: Precepts for using Professor Mayer's new and correct tables of the motions of the sun and moon : manuscript, [not before 1770]

Transcription from Nevil Maskelyne's edition published in London, 1770.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (46, [8] p.) ; 28 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/463650332 View

American Philosophical Society Archives. Record Group IIa, 1743-1806

Title: American Philosophical Society Archives. Record Group IIa 1743-1806

This is part of the large inventory for the American Philosophical Society Archives. For complete information concerning this collection, please view the . Collection Description

ArchivalResource: 1.0 section

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/APS.Archives.IIa-ead.xml View

Burroughs, Charles,. Certification of marriage, 1818.

Title: Certification of marriage, 1818.

Certification by Burroughs that Rev. Simon Willard of St. John's Church performed (1802) a marriage between Sir John Wentworth and Martha Wentworth, daughter of Col. Michael and Martha Wentworth.

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http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70961171 View

Harvard University. Treasurer. Records of the Treasurer, John Hancock, 1754-1926 (inclusive).

Title: Records of the Treasurer, John Hancock, 1754-1926 (inclusive).

Includes correspondence and financial records of John Hancock from his tenure as Treasurer (1773-1777), and memoranda from his sucessor, E. Storer, and other letters pertaining to the settlement of Hancock's accounts as Treasurer and the Dummer Fund, dated 1778-1779. Also Hancock papers of a later date, including various addresses, such as mss. of Hancock's speech given at President Willard's inauguration and an address of the Corporation at Hancock's inauguration; and documents relating to Hancock, including a letter from Mrs. Charles P. Greenough to President Lowell about the Greenough bequest, and an account by E.N. Vose about Hancock's treasurership. Major correspondents include Harvard presidents Samuel Langdon and Joseph Willard, and Lt. Governor Thomas Cushing and Governor James Bowdoin.

ArchivalResource: 5 containers

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/236231810 View

Autograph File, H

Title: Autograph File, H

The Autograph File is an alphabetically arranged collection of single letters, manuscripts, and drawings received from various sources at various times. Additions continue to be made.

ArchivalResource: 11 linear feet (22 boxes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01431/catalog View

Mayer, Tobias, 1723-1762. Tabulae solares ex theoria gravitatis, et observationibus praecipue Gottingensibus deductae : Adjectis nonnullis aliis tabulis astronomicis / auctore Tobia Mayer : manuscript, [17--]

Title: Tabulae solares ex theoria gravitatis, et observationibus praecipue Gottingensibus deductae : Adjectis nonnullis aliis tabulis astronomicis / auctore Tobia Mayer : manuscript, [17--]

Astronomical tables concerning the sun and moon, longitude and latitude, with predictive calculations to the year 1807.

ArchivalResource: 100 p., bound ; 27 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/612834410 View

American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Papers, 1778-1789.

Title: Papers, 1778-1789.

Letter from Joseph Willard, 1778 Dec. 7, Beverly to Richard Cranch on the establishment of the Society -- Minutes of a meeting thanking Cranch for a donation of a folio volume and coins, 1784 April 1 -- Minutes establishing a committee to review patent applications consisting of Cranch, Loammi Baldwin, Joseph Willard and Caleb Gannett, 1784 April 1 -- Minutes relating to Joseph Pope's request for a patent review, 1787 Aug. 22 (2 copies) -- Three announcements of meetings of the Society addressed to Cranch.

ArchivalResource: 8 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/21007895 View

Willard, Joseph, 1738-1804. Circular signed by Joseph Willard, Harvard University president, undated.

Title: Circular signed by Joseph Willard, Harvard University president, undated.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/71067536 View

Willard family. Papers, 1797-1828.

Title: Papers, 1797-1828.

ArchivalResource: 1 envelope (.1 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/612800580 View

Ebenezer Hazard papers, 1766-1813, 1766-1813

Title: Ebenezer Hazard papers, 1766-1813 1766-1813

This is miscellaneous material relating to postal affairs, including Hazard's appointments in the service, and certificates of membership in various institutions. There are letters from Richard Bache, George Clinton, Benjamin Franklin, John Hancock, Samuel Huntington, Thomas Jefferson, Timothy Matlack, Samuel Miller, George Washington, and others. One manuscript is endorsed, "My Covenant with the most high God," which is Hazard's reaffirmation of the vows made for him by his parents at the time of his baptism.

ArchivalResource: 1.0 Volume(s), 1 volume; 33 items.

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.H338-ead.xml View