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Colonial North America at Harvard Library provides access to remarkable and wide-ranging materials digitized as part of an ongoing, multi-year project. When complete, the project will make available to the world approximately 650,000 digitized pages of all known archival and manuscript materials in the Harvard Library that relate to 17th- and 18th-century North America. Each item is connected to countless stories—of lives lived quietly and extravagantly, of encounters peaceful and volatile, and of places near and far – providing an opportunity to travel back in time, to rethink familiar stories, and to discover new ones.
Discover 400 years of intellectual pursuits, discoveries, culture, social life, and work of the Harvard community, on campus and beyond. A national treasure, the Harvard University Archives welcomes students, faculty, and staff and researchers from across the globe.
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Longfellow, Stephen, 1776-1849. Letter from Stephen Longfellow to Jabez Kimball, 1797 December 10. HUD 797.51, Harvard University Archives.
Stephen Longfellow wrote this letter to his friend Jabez Kimball on December 10, 1797. The letter was addressed to Kimball in London-Derry, where he was studying law. The letter is lighthearted, and Longfellow recounts various happenings at Harvard since Kimball's graduation the year before....
Lowell, John, 1743-1802. Letters to John Lowell relating to Harvard College faculty salaries, 1781-1782. Copy of letters from Edward Wigglesworth and Samuel Williams to John Lowell, 1781-1782. HUM 86 Box 1, Folder 3, Harvard University Archives.
Two leaves containing a two-page handwritten copy of the letter from Professor Edward Wigglesworth to John Lowell dated January 3, 1781 (HUM 86 Box 1, Folder 1), and a one-page handwritten copy of the letter from Professor Samuel William to John Lowell dated October [14], 1782 (HUM 86 Box 1,...
Lowell, John, 1743-1802. A collection of poems by a young gentleman of Harvard Colledge & a young lady of Newbury, 1759-1760. HUD 2759, Harvard University Archives.
This collection of five manuscript poems contains three poems written by an unidentified "young lady of Newbury" and two poems believed to have been written by John Lowell during his junior and senior years at Harvard College, from 1759 to 1760. One of the poems was written following the death...
Lowell, John, 1743-1802. A collection of poems by a young gentleman of Harvard Colledge & a young lady of Newbury, 1759-1760. HUD 2759, Harvard University Archives.
This collection of five manuscript poems contains three poems written by an unidentified "young lady of Newbury" and two poems believed to have been written by John Lowell during his junior and senior years at Harvard College, from 1759 to 1760. One of the poems was written following the death...
Mann, Elias, 1778-1807. Diary of Elias Mann, 1796-1800. HUD 800.5, Harvard University Archives.
Elias Mann kept this diary during his undergraduate years at Harvard College. The diary begins August 17, 1796 and ends in August of 1800 and also includes several undated sheets filled with excerpts of poems. The daily entries describe many aspects of Mann's life, including not only his...
Mascarene, Margaret Holyoke, 1726-1792. Diary of Margaret Appleton Holyoke Mascarene, 1759. HUM 92, Harvard University Archives.
The diary is written on interleaved blank pages in a 1759 almanac. The regular, brief diary entries are attributed to Margaret Appleton Holyoke Mascarene. Some entries, beginning in April, appear to be written in a different hand. The second author may have been Mascarene's sister Priscilla...
Merrill, Benjamin (Harvard College Class of 1804). Mathematical theses. A Survey of Part of Cambridge situated easterly of the Mall. HUC 8782.514 (113), Harvard University Archives.
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Monis, Judah, 1683-1764. Biblical texts in Hebrew, circa 1740s? HUG 1580.7, Harvard University Archives.
One paper sheet containing a decorative red-and-black ink Hebrew manuscript of the Exodus version of the Ten Commandments bordered within two tablets, followed by the Lord's Prayer and the Apostles' Creed. The bottom margin contains a fragment of a handwritten note: "Recd of Mr. Judah...
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Page, John, 1738-1783. Diary of John Page, 1757-1781. HUD 757.68, Harvard University Archives.
Manuscript volume. The first thirty-nine pages include diary entries from Page's years as an undergraduate student at Harvard College. Dated July 1757 through March 1761, entries includes short notes about daily activities. Topics covered include expenses, academics, clothing, and travel to and...
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Peck, William Dandridge, 1763-1822. Papers of William Dandridge Peck, 1775-1937 (inclusive). Correspondence, 1818-1822, undated. HUG 1677 Box 2, Folder 16, Harvard University Archives.
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