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This account book, probably kept by a physician in Wilbraham, Massachusetts, contains entries relating to medical and physical care, and others relating to clothing, foodstuffs, fabric, and services rendered. The entries were dated between 1807 and 1849 (bulk 1807-1814) and many refer to members of the Chaffee family. The accounts include dressing wounds, making visits to patients, and dispensing medicine, with the names of patrons, medicines, and costs.

This account book, probably kept by a physician in Wilbraham, Massachusetts, contains entries relating to medical and physical care, and others relating to clothing, foodstuffs, fabric, and services rendered. The entries were dated between 1807 and 1849 (bulk 1807-1814) and many refer to members of the Chaffee family. The accounts include dressing wounds, making visits to patients, and dispensing medicine, with the names of patrons, medicines, and costs. One entry appears to have been added later, dated 1849.

Laid into the volume are a recipe for syrup and copies of various documents, including one settling the estate of Jonathan Chaffee in 1819.

The Wilbur Fisk collection mostly contains letters that Fisk received from parents of current and prospective students while serving as president of the Wesleyan Academy in Wilbraham, Massachusetts.

This collection (24 items) contains 22 letters that Wilbur Fisk received while serving as president of the Wesleyan Academy in Wilbraham, Massachusetts, in the early 19th century. Most writers were parents of current and prospective students.

Many writers requested that Fisk personally oversee their child's academic, moral, and religious education; others mentioned boarding arrangements and textbooks; and some referred to tuition payments. Two letters pertain to donations to the school's collection of mineral samples, including a letter from William Prescott concerning his efforts to acquire minerals and offering his advice that the school should prioritize scientific education over the study of dead languages (June 8, 1829). Amos Binney, Jr., wrote that he intended to send a case of samples acquired from the area around Mount Vesuvius (June 16, 1823). The final item is an unsigned letter addressed to D. P. Robinson regarding a man who refused to pay a note owed to a Board of Trustees in Wilbraham, Massachusetts (August 20, 1849).