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For the publication of Percival's revisions of Vicesimus Knox's Elegant Extracts and Conrad Malte-Brun's A System of Universal Geography.

Agreement that Percival will prepare an abridged biographical dictionary with Ezra Sargeant's edition of John Lemprière's Universal Biography (1810) as the basis, dated December 17, with letter (formerly 627.7) of December 29 declining the job.

Material collected by Ward, author of The Life and Letter of James Gates Percival (1866), supplemented with later purchases by the library.

Correspondence and research notes regarding Percival.

Autograph manuscript of preface and first canto. 85[5] pages. Page 74-[89] miscellaneous poems and verses unpublished. Last leaf has list of militia personnel by towns with distance from Boston.

Three letters, one containing a report on the Acadian coal mines, Londonderry, with diagrams.