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Helen Pumphrey's sketchbook contains fourteen pages of calligraphy, illuminated writing, and drawings. Included are poems, hymns, and botanical lists in English, German, and French. Also two pencil sketches of outdoor scenes, and sketches of parts of plants. One drawing is of five styles of architectural columns. The sketchbook contains a bookbinder’s ticket on the front paste-down.

Helen Pumphrey's sketchbook (28 x 44 cm) contains fourteen pages of calligraphy, illuminated writing, and drawings. Included are poems, hymns, and botanical lists in English, German, and French. Also two pencil sketches of outdoor scenes, and sketches of parts of plants. One drawing is of five styles of architectural columns. The sketchbook contains a bookbinder’s ticket on front paste-down.

This 206-page volume contains essays and poetry composed by Henry Hulton, an American Loyalist living in Boston in the mid-1770s. Essay topics include conflicts between Great Britain and the North American colonies in 1773 and 1775, philosophical and moral subjects, and the effect of climate on the development of governments.

This 206-page volume contains essays and poetry composed by Henry Hulton, an American Loyalist living in Boston in the mid-1770s. Essay topics include conflicts between Great Britain and the North American colonies in 1773 and 1775, philosophical and moral subjects, and the effect of climate on the development of governments.

The first 149 pages contain essays on a variety of topics, including greed, life advice for a young army officer, and philosophical and moral issues. One essay, titled "On Climates," discusses the effects that weather might have on civilizations' development and success, and provides specific examples from human history (pages 61-92). Two essays written in North America in 1773 and 1775 concern the conflict and eventual rift between Great Britain and the American colonists. The first (pages 97-110) explores the British government's protective role in North America, and concludes that the colonies' most productive course of action would be to maintain a formal relationship with Great Britain. The second essay (pages 111-117) contains the author's thoughts on war's collateral damage, accompanied by examples from European campaigns of the Seven Years' War. Two additional essays reflect the author's travels in Canada, including a side-by-side comparison between life in London, England, and in Canada (pages 123-126). The final essay is a "critique on a poem," with brief interspersed examples (pages 131-149).

The remaining 55 pages consist of odes and other poems, including one dedicated to "Earl Percy at Boston On St. George's Day" in 1775 (pages 151-159). Other poetry includes 2 translations of Latin poems as well as poems about masonry, John Milton, and the "Chester Walls." Some essays and poems are preceded by 1 or 2 quotations, often taken from the Bible or from Latin authors such as Cicero, Horace, Lucan, Marcus Manilius, Petronius, Tibullus, and Virgil. The volume has the bookplate of Sir Thomas Preston, Henry Hulton's son.

Richard Tomson of Charleston, South Carolina, copied poems, religious and moral advice, prayers, and other writings in this "Book of Extracts and Memorandums" between 1759 and 1765.

Richard Tomson of Charleston, South Carolina, copied poems, religious and moral advice, prayers, and other writings in this "Book of Extracts and Memorandums" (30 pages) between 1759 and 1765. Many entries pertain to aspects of Christianity, such as faith, salvation, prayer, and moral living; one cautions against drinking alcohol and others concern topics such as love and marriage. The book contains quotations from the Bible, John Milton, and Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. One short poem was written on the Diana, a French privateer, after its capture en route from Maryland in 1761. Tomson also copied several collects from the Book of Common Prayer in 1765.