Title: Records of the Harvard College Library : Borrowing privileges correspondence,
Authors: Harvard College Library.
Year: 1764
Subjects: Gardiner, John,; Harris, Thaddeus Mason,; Shapleigh, Samuel,; Waterhouse, Benjamin,; Wigglesworth, Edward,; Willard, Joseph,; Harvard College Library.; Harvard University Libraries Employees.; Harvard University Libraries Benefactors.; Universities and colleges Libraries; Libraries Massachusetts Cambridge.; Library charging lists; Library charging lists; Charging systems (Libraries); Library circulation and loans; Library circulation and loans; Intellectuals Books and reading.; College students Massachusetts Cambridge Books and reading.; Cambridge (Mass.)
Abstract: This collection contains correspondence to the Harvard College librarian asking for book borrowing privileges, primarily from faculty and other individuals with a connection to the college, dated 1775 to circa 1826, and a 20th century dealer catalog entry for a 1764 letter related to donated volumes. The records include the borrower's name, the titles of the books borrowed, the date of loans, and in some cases, the return of books. There are requests for books by Professor Edward Wigglesworth (1732-1794), as well as a letter about a law library donation from Massachusetts attorney John Gardiner (1737-1793) and a note from President Joseph Willard (1738-1804) to the librarian regarding the Harvard mineral cabinet. The documents span the tenures of librarians Andrew Eliot (1763-1767), James Winthrop (1772-1787), Thaddeus Mason Harris (1791-1793), Samuel Shapleigh (1793-1800), Sidney Willard (1801-1805), Peter Nourse (1805-1808), and Charles Folsom (1823-1826).