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- catalog abstract "This collection contains three pieces of correspondence sent to John Lowell by Harvard Professors Edward Wigglesworth and Samuel Williams, and College Treasurer Ebenezer Storer regarding the state of Harvard faculty salaries in 1781 and 1782. The letters provide information about the financial instability faced by the College in the early 1780s, and its effect on Harvard's professors. This correspondence provides quantitative information about Harvard's financial difficulties, and was presumably sent to Lowell because he was an ally of the College serving in the Massachusetts House of Representatives.".
- catalog contributor b2359366.
- catalog contributor b2359367.
- catalog contributor b2359368.
- catalog contributor b2359369.
- catalog coverage "United States History Revolution, 1775-1783.".
- catalog date "1781".
- catalog description "Detailed inventory available electronically: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.ARCH:hua22011".
- catalog description "In the 17th and 18th centuries, Harvard College received annual grants from the Massachusetts General Court to partially fund faculty salaries. 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. The Corporation struggled to support the College faculty and the new state government grew increasingly unresponsive to the faculty and Corporation's petitions for additional grants. While it did pay the President's salary from 1784 to 1786 and provided some additional grants for the professors in the early 1780s, the General Court did not provide regular grants as it had previously in the colonial era, and the last grant issued to any of the College officers by the General Court was made on May 31, 1786.".
- catalog description "John Lowell (1743-1802), a Massachusetts lawyer and judge, received an AB from Harvard in 1760, an AM in 1763, and an LLD in 1792. Lowell began practicing law in 1763. In 1778, he was elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives and between May and August 1782 represented Massachusetts in the Continental Congress in Philadelphia. Lowell was appointed first Judge of the Court of the District of Massachusetts in 1792, and in 1801, the Chief Justice of the First United States Circuit Court. In 1784, Lowell was elected as a Fellow of the Harvard Corporation and served until his death on May 6, 1802.".
- catalog description "Lowell, John, 1743-1802. Letters to John Lowell relating to Harvard College faculty salaries, 1781-1782. HUM 86, Harvard University Archives.".
- catalog description "This collection contains three pieces of correspondence sent to John Lowell by Harvard Professors Edward Wigglesworth and Samuel Williams, and College Treasurer Ebenezer Storer regarding the state of Harvard faculty salaries in 1781 and 1782. The letters provide information about the financial instability faced by the College in the early 1780s, and its effect on Harvard's professors. This correspondence provides quantitative information about Harvard's financial difficulties, and was presumably sent to Lowell because he was an ally of the College serving in the Massachusetts House of Representatives.".
- catalog extent ".04 cubic feet (4 folders)".
- catalog isPartOf "Collections of the Harvard University Archives. Personal archives. hua".
- catalog isPartOf "Harvard in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. hua".
- catalog issued "1781".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog spatial "Massachusetts".
- catalog spatial "Massachusetts.".
- catalog spatial "United States History Revolution, 1775-1783.".
- catalog subject "Cost and standard of living Massachusetts 18th century.".
- catalog subject "Harvard College (1636-1780) Finance 18th century Sources.".
- catalog subject "Harvard University Administration.".
- catalog subject "Harvard University Faculty Salaries, etc.".
- catalog subject "Harvard University. Corporation.".
- catalog subject "Inflation (Finance) Massachusetts 18th century.".
- catalog subject "Lowell, John, 1743-1802.".
- catalog subject "Massachusetts. General Court.".
- catalog subject "Universities and colleges Law and legislation Massachusetts.".
- catalog title "Letters to John Lowell relating to Harvard College faculty salaries, 1781-1782.".
- catalog type "Financial records. aat".
- catalog type "collection".