Letters to John Lowell relating to Harvard College faculty salaries, 1781-1782

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Letters to John Lowell relating to Harvard College faculty salaries, 1781-1782

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This collection contains three pieces of correspondence sent to John Lowell (Harvard AB 1760) by Harvard Professors Edward Wigglesworth and Samuel Williams, and College Treasurer Ebenezer Storer regarding the state of Harvard faculty salaries in 1781 and 1782. During the Revolutionary War, the depreciating value of money in Massachusetts made it difficult for the Harvard Corporation to provide College officers with adequate salaries. In the colonial era, the General Court had provided regular grants to partially fund the salaries of Harvard officers, but in the 1780s, the Legislature grew increasingly unresponsive to the faculty and Corporation's petitions for funds. These letters provide quantitative information about Harvard's financial difficulties, and were presumably sent to Lowell because he was an ally of the College serving in the Massachusetts House of Representatives.

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Lowell, John, 1743-1802

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John Lowell (June 17, 1743 – May 6, 1802) was a delegate to the Congress of the Confederation, a Judge of the Court of Appeals in Cases of Capture under the Articles of Confederation, a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts and a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Circuit Court for the First Circuit. Born on June 17, 1743, in Newburyport, Province of Massachusetts Bay, Lowell graduated from Harvard University before re...