Bill for installing stoves and materials. Endorsed as paid, January 8, 1818.

Tuition receipt for Swift's son Charles, pupil in the Philadelphia Academy.

Character reference for George Green (sic).

Visits with mutual friends, including "Dr. Franklyn," who plans to leave England in summer.

Bond for 266 Spanish milled dollars and two-thirds of a dollar of fine silver. Witnessed by John Elliott and William White.

Indenture for three Mulberry Street lots west of Fourth between High and Chestnut Streets £37 annual ground rent to Jonathan and Mary Price. Witnessed by Robert McKean and Charles Brockden.

Wishes dissertation to remain on file during his leave of absence.

Replacement of necessaries in the yard of his house and in the alley for the use of Charity scholars.

Bills he is submitting for altering a cellar window and paper hanging.

His resignation from the University, due to inadequate salary and an unpleasant situation.

Bills enclosed for repairs to his house.

Reasons for the postponement of Commencement.

Conduct of his Greek and Latin classes.

Announcing for the Faculty the temporary appointment of Rev. Mr. Reid as master of the Charity School.

The need for a tutor to teach writing and arithmetic in the Latin School; measures to counteract the irregular attendance of some students.

Commencement date; list of candidates.

Proposed scheduling of examinations.

Possible remedies for the irregular attendance of scholars; the employment of a writing master for the Latin School.

Testimonial for Messrs. Engles and Howe, applicants for positions as masters of the Grammar School.

Suggesting the regular scheduling of half-yearly examinations.

Thanking them for their generosity in his retirement.

Testimonial recommending Messrs. Engles and Howe as joint masters in the Grammar School.

Partition indenture for land at the northwest corner of Market and Fourth Streets.

Memorandum of the receipt of $261 paid by Seth Chapman for two University lots in Norristown. Endorsed "the above paid to me by W[illiam] Rawle."

Memorandum of the receipt of $15 from Dr. Isaac Huddleston for partial payment toward the purchase of a Norristown lot for the Trustees.

Memorandum of receipt from John Markley of the first payment toward purchase of a Norristown lot from the Trustees. Back endorsed "Recpt. for my Norristown lot for $106-25cent." For the Trustees.

Memorandum of receipt of $129.69 from Henry Friedley (Friedlig) for payment toward the purchase of a Norristown lot for the Trustees.

Memorandum of receipt for $49.49 from John Miller, payment toward the purchase of a Norristown lot for the Trustees.

Receipt of $46.25 from Dr. I[saac] Huddleston in full payment for a Norristown lot for the Trustees.

Recommending entrance for two prospective students despite their insufficient preparation.

Enclosing a petition from Universalist dissenters.

Requesting a sounding board at the Academy be given to the Universalist Church.

Indenture for land in Norristown. Signed by Adam Bard and George Bryan. Witnessed by Kitty Matlack and Martha Matlack. Montgomery County Recorder, Frederick Augustus Muhlenburg.

Claim of Dennis Denny against George Irwin, keeper of the Black Hound Tavern in Middletown.

Request for credit on his mortgage and bond for securities listed [concerning his purchase of the Perkasie property]; terms of the allotment due him following a deficient survey.

Offer to purchase Perkasie Manor for $60,500.

Details of the deception of Henry Rosenberger, a Perkasie tenant, by Mr. Newton and John H. Keyes, who pretended to be a deputy sheriff supporting Rosenberger's claim against the Trustees.

Disputed boundary lines in the Perkasie sale.

Memorandum of agreement of sale for Branchland in Perkasie Manor.

Adjustment of bonds and mortgages on the Perkasie property to Conrad Carpenter and Caspar Heft.

Farm lately occupied by Henry Rosenberger exchanged for a lot on Seventh between Market and Chestnut Streets. Addenda by William Rawle noting purchase of farm by Robert Erwin, instructions for release.

Mortgage of 530 acres, formerly in University's Perkasie Manor.

Value of stock used in paying for Perkasie Manor.

Requests release on his bond and mortgage certificates.

Recipient asked to forward to Mr. Weston, manager of Canal on the "Mohock" River important letters destined for towns of Oneida and Stockbridge. Asks dates of settlement of the "German Flats" and of burning of recipient's town.

Request to postpone examinations for Medical students and to set a date for the Medical Commencement for the Medical Faculty.

Date of the Medical Commencement.

His desire to continue medical and botany lectures following a forthcoming trip to Europe (planned for health reasons).

Suggestion that Dr. [John Syng] Dorsey act as his replacement not well received; instead hopes faculty members will share the lectures.

Application for the professorship of Natural History and Botany.

Acceptance of professorship of Botany.

Comparison of two possible sites for the Botanic Garden.

The illness of Mrs. Barton has prevented attention to the neatness of the enclosed letter.

The advantages of a piece of land previously mentioned as a site for the Botanic Garden.

Construction of a greenhouse and garden in front of the medical apartments according to [William] Strickland's plan, for the use of the Professor of Botany; detailed reasons for the garden and greenhouse.

Requesting the use of a plot of ground in front of the Medical Building to grow plants for use in his lectures on Botany.

Statements from European journals on standing of botany as a subject in the Medical faculty of Irish and English universities.

Order from Bayard to Rittenhouse to pay to George Bryan, treasurer of the University of Pennsylvania, £15,000; includes on the same sheet of paper five receipts of Bryan for money received for the University.

Proposals for the improvement of the Univ. including raising academic standards, establishing a literary society and merit awards, and furnishing a chapel for worship and oratory. 30 pp.

Candidates for degrees, the awarding of medals, receiving of new freshman class, M.A. degrees for Thomas King Carroll and Reverend Alfred Dashiell both of Maryland, and arrangement for Commencement.

Reasons for accelerated examinations, Commencement dates, reasons for low enrollment, the demeanor of students, public lectures, meeting space for Trustees.

List of applicants for Master of Arts degree.

Examination dates, the distribution of medals, tuition payments, the scheduling of vacations, improved student demeanor, and a request for travel funds.

Endorses the appointment of a Master for the Grammar School, relinquishing all hope of a reconciliation between teachers.

Controversy over improvements made by Mr. Hill to Beasley's, [James] Wiltbank's, and [James G.] Thomson's yards; repossession of the so-called Provost's chair by Mr. Meredith, the necessity of procuring proper chairs for the Faculty; the irregularity of t

Recommending accelerated dates for senior class examinations due to their students' "more complete course of study."

Report on the state of the College. Rising enrollment; optimism about improving status. Proposes James Milnor for an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree and William Gaston for an honorary Doctorate of Laws.

Plan for classes in the Latin school. Endorsed W. R. [William Rawle] November 26, 1819.

Request for a Medical Commencement date; request from Bishop [James] Kemp of Baltimore that Rev. Mr. Stephens of Staunton, Virginia, be granted an honorary degree; proposal to add a fourth professor and fourth year to the College curriculum.

Accusation that Commencement honors were distributed unfairly by Provost Frederic Beasley and that Beck's son, Henry Paul Beck, was slighted.

Character reference for Andrew Montgomery, now planning to go to America.

Receipt of payment for posts and rails for the Botanic Garden.

Resignation as Secretary to the Charity School Society.

Endorses Patterson for the Chair of Chemistry.

Bill for advertising medical lectures, medical commencement, introductory lectures, and a list of gentlemen.

Two bills for wood endorsed as receipts.

Resignation from the Board of Trustees.

Betsy, at Tulip Hill, has enjoyed Maryland journey and her health should improve.

Prospectus for boarding students of the University in house where French, architectural drawings, etc. will be taught.

Subsequently dated copy of his prospectus of February 3, 1810.

Property at Fifth and Walnut Streets rented by William McDonnough (sic) from Joseph Ball, leased to John King and Stephen Bourne. Invalidation of deeds due to a resurvey showing the Anatomical Hall as built partially on the large lot.

Bond and judgment for $265.25. Witnessed by James Riegi and A. Musgrave, Jr.

Request for further committee action concerning the boundary dispute over lots at Fifth and Walnut Streets.

Various students' accounts of the quarrel between Ellis Lewis, James Dixon and James Ramsay.

Bills for hauling and sawing wood. Both endorsed as payment received in full, June 24 and 29, 1820.

Character reference for John Kerr.

Surveyor of the lands of the United States South of Tennessee. Offers to purchase the transit instrument of the late John Ewing.

Bill for iron work. Endorsed over to Edward Fox for payment by George Fox and James Gibson.

Bill for stove parts. Examined and signed as correct by William Dick. Endorsed as receipt, June 8, 1821.

Bills for glazing at the Academy in Fourth Street endorsed as pay order by John McKinney and Mrs. Jane Knowles.

Lease of 42 acres of land in Penn Township. Includes property improvements agreed upon. Witnessed by Thomas M. Hall, John J. Downing.

Unable to comply with new regulations; requests waiver of chemistry course, having previously studied chemistry and pharmacy.

"The Trustees of the University in account current with the State," probably enclosed with last.

Request for payment of the installment due on the house formerly for the President of the United States (the Ninth Street building) forwarded to George Bryan by Fox suggesting the use of state bonds for the payment.

Account current between the Univ. and the State.

Brick stove to be erected in Mr. Peale's school, "by way of experiment."

Plan for classes.

Requesting to be excused from a meeting of the Botanic Garden committee because of bad health.

Directs sale of plantation of one Glen in Cumberland County, a debtor to writer.

Ross's Fabulo Aesopi and his Greek Grammar are already being used by the beginning and advanced classes.

Declining to be considered for the Chair of Materia Medica.

Resigning his position as Professor of Natural History and suggesting Dr. Thomas Say, now with the Missouri expedition, as his replacement.

Requesting information on prerequisites to the study of medicine.

Five of the Trustees under Royal Patent dated 19 August 2 George III for a "publick Collection from House to House throughout the Kingdom" for the Benefit of the College, Academy and Charitable School of Philadelphia and the College of the Province of New York, to William Smith, Doctor in Divinity, and Sir James Jay, Knight, Doctor of Physick, the original petitioners. To settle the accounts of the collection, notably to receive proceeds from John Byrd, John Hall and John Stevenson, of Stafford, Gentlemen. [signed] Tho. Cant. (seal, mutilated), Ric. London (seal, mutilated), S. St. Davids (seal, mutilated), Tho. Penn (seal, mutilated), Barlow Trecothick (seal, mutilated); and by witnesses Chris: Hargrave, Tho. Parry, Wm. Dickes, Richd. Nelson, Richard Beadon, Thos. Allen, David Chevaux, William Salmon, John Thomlinson, Jnr., T. Apthorp. 13 May 1763. Verso: Receipts of 23 June 1763 by William Smith and James Jay and 4 August 1763, 10 February 1764 and 4 April 1764 by Smith.

Asks for recommendation of master for Centreville school.

Indenture and mortgage for sale of 502 acres in Rockhill Township, Bucks County. Witnessed by Abraham Shoemaker, John Conrad, John B. Richardson; recorded by John Pugh.

Reference for Andrew Montgomery.

Applying for a post teaching Penmanship.

Terms of his appointment as writing master; reservations about teaching arithmetic.

Resignation as writing master.

Report of damage to Perkioming (sic) farms; amounts of coal burned by individual tenants. [Refers to Perkasie Manor.]

Application for the Professorship of Midwifery.

Resignation of the Chair of Materia Medica.

Wish of the Medical Society of Philadelphia to procure a lease from the University for the building in Fifth Street.

Notification that the Medical Faculty will receive the appropriation of $8,000 for the improvement of the Medical Hall on the conditions prescribed.

The place of Chemistry in the Medical Faculty, including a transcript of a letter from Rawle to the Dean of the Medical Faculty in 1809.

Enclosing the insulting letter of Mr. Nicholson, a medical student now suspended until reconsidered by the Trustees.

Reply that the Medical Faculty would consider it inexpedient to admit the Chair of Botany into the Medical Department. Suggest a meeting to outline reasons.

Bill for paper hanging. Signed as receipt for payment in full by Isaiah Yard, for Anthony Chardon and Company, August 7, 1794.

Requesting use of Academy hall in Fourth Street for lectures on the French language, and religious lectures in French for Protestants.

Offering to purchase the University's vacant lot at Ninth and Chestnut, and providing a plot suggesting how a division might be made.

Application for the Chair of Botany.

Rejection of terms proposed to the "Cabinet of Science" for establishing a Botanic Garden.

Thomas Cooper's proficiency in chemical experiments and in teaching chemistry.

Request by the Society of Artists for use of the hall for an address to be delivered by Benjamin Latrobe.

Bill endorsed as receipt for ten gilt frames for cards.

Resignation from the Board of Trustees.

Necessity of requiring chemistry courses, otherwise he must resign his post and accept a post at the University of Virginia.

Application for the chemical chair soon to be vacated by Dr. John Syng Dorsey.

Application outlining his qualifications, including training in Great Britain and a listing of honors for the chemical chair in the Medical Faculty. With envelope.

Receipt of payment for wood.

Receipts for payment for wood.

Receipt for $35 for philosophical apparatus made and repaired. Originally enclosed in letter from Patterson to the Trustees, see No. 741.

Inquiry requesting payment of $2,250 in the present week.

Application for the Professorship of Chemistry.

Acceptance of the Professorship of Chemistry; his plans for courses.

An account of the beating and expulsion of his son by Dr. Allen. Complaint of unfairness.

For the Medical Faculty Building Committee, order to pay William Strickland $200 on account of the improvements at the Medical Hall.

For the Medical Faculty Building Committee, order to pay William Strickland, architect, $1,000 for improvements at the Medical Hall. Countersigned by Edward Burd and George Fox.

For the Medical Faculty Building Committee, order to pay William Strickland $1,000 for improvements in the Medical Hall in Ninth Street. Endorsed by James Gibson.

For the Medical Faculty Building Committee, order to pay William Strickland, architect, $3,000 for improvements at the Medical Hall in Ninth Street. Cosigned by George Fox and James Gibson.

Receipt of payment for his expenditures for contract drawn up with Mr. [William] Strickland, for wood, and laboratory stoves.

Resigning the Professorship of Chemistry in order to take up his new responsibility.

Loans to the Medical Faculty to repair the caved-in ceiling in the Medical Hall and to construct a new sink for the anatomical department, both according to the instructions of William Strickland.

Tables enumerating Medical graduates, 1802-1819, by state; matriculations, 1816-1819, by state; and enrollment by lecture subject, 1815-1819.

List of medical degree candidates. [91 names].

Advises waiving the right of voting on examinations.

Proposal to establish a degree program in Pharmacy and to grant honorary degrees to apothecaries of standing in Phila. [16 signatures].

Account of the Medical Faculty, examined and approved by Thomas Chalkley James.

Coxe's attempts to cover debts to the Bank of Pa.

Receipt of payment for making a better window frame and other materials.

Application for the vacancy [in Chemistry] caused by the death of Benjamin Smith Barton.

Application for the Chemical chair.

Sends a rough sketch of a Memorial to be put into proper form. With figures in the hand of Edward Fox.

Tuition receipts.

A criticism of the plan submitted for the Latin School.

Two tutors insufficient in the Latin School; morning roll discontinued.

The advancement of students in the Latin School. Unequal distribution of Faculty salaries.

Requesting approval for an English translation of the Greek grammar, heretofore only available in a Latin text.

Complaint about new regulations for the College and the state of the Latin School.

State of the Latin School. Unable to employ a tutor or to teach writing. Need to procure a house nearer the new building.

Request for the removal of his residence nearer the Seminary; payment of his tutor for the past two months.

Requesting financial compensation for payment of his tutor, losses in enrollment due to yellow fever and loss of two classes to Dr. John Andrews and Mr. Robert Patterson. With a note [by Edward Fox] of the allotment recommended.

Announcement of his retirement and inquiry about a pension.

Recommendation to reduce the firewood fee from $2 to $1.50 in order not to lose pupils to other schools, which would particularly hurt the professor whose salary depends only on tuition [Robert Patterson].

Request for a description of the former Botanic Garden ground.

Gratitude for honors given him. Mentions "your brother Hopkinson," and Morgan's graduation from Edinburgh.

Commission of John Lightle (Lytle?), gentleman, as Ensign of a Company in Second Battalion, Pa. Regiment of Foot. Embossed paper seal of Denny's arms. Richard Peters, witness. "Governors of Pennsylvania Autograph Collection."

Application for the adjunct professorship of Midwifery.

Application for the Professorship of Midwifery.

Bill for salary as janitor, candles, mending commencement gowns, and chimney sweepers.

Bill endorsed as receipt for janitorial services, including scrubbing Dr. [Nathaniel] Chapman's room for Commencement.

Janitor; about garden west of the main College building.

Notes of introduction for John Burgess, who delivered wood. Endorsed as receipts, paid in full, by Burgess.

Janitor; wishes to keep plants in Dr. Thomas Cooper's room for the winter.

Requesting use of the "great hall" for monthly performances of a proposed sacred music society.

Requests Attorney General to press settlement in Supreme Court of suit of Commonwealth against Mr. [Timothy] Matlack. "Governors of Pennsylvania Autograph Collection."

Requesting permission to take examinations without complete set of attendance tickets. Plea of financial hardship. [Rejected].

Second installment of payment for the President's House is due.

Recommendation of Robert Hare, Jr., for the Professorship of Chemistry.

Requesting Fox to present the enclosed "Rules and Regulations for the conferring of Medical degrees" to the Trustees for consideration.

Request to schedule special commencement for Daniel Drake, M.D.

Requests use of a third lecture room in Medical Hall.

William Strickland's offer to erect a museum for $900.

Indenture for land west of Fourth Street in Phila. Witnessed by Paul Isaac Voto and John Price.

Bill for advertising medical lectures and Commencement. Endorsed as paid by Duane.

Bill for advertising medical and introductory lectures. Endorsed as paid by A. Wall for William Duane.

Account of the Univ. with the Commonwealth; principal and interest due on the purchase of the President's House.

Bill for wood, hauling, and sawing. Endorsed as paid by Robert Longstreth, his mark.

Bill endorsed as receipt for supporting the floor above Dr. Robert Hare's laboratory.

Requesting the delay of payment of fees for J[ohn] M. Happoldt, [William M. Joseph] Jenkins, and himself until the ship Pennsylvania arrives from Charleston, South Carolina.

Request for extension of credit until the ship Pennsylvania arrives from Charleston.

Recommendation concerning the knowledge of Robert Hare, Jr., of subjects in which Chemistry and Physic are allied.

Bill endorsed as receipt for cleaning the anatomical rooms. Endorsed as correct by W[illiam] E[dmonds] Horner.

Mortgage for land in Passyunk. Witnessed by Will. Parr and Isaac Stroud.

Response to a resolution by the Trustees to replace Engles as Master of the Grammar School following complaints concerning his conduct and disciplinary methods.