[Scrapbook kept by John Murray Brown (1842-1908) while a student at Harvard and member of the Hasty Pudding Club]

[Cambridge, Mass.], 1918. 4to. Half crimson morocco and crimson cloth binding. Very Worn and front cover off. 4to. Brown, the son of James Brown – the founder of Little, Brown & Company, enrolled in Harvard in July 1859. He was named after his father's friend and fellow publisher John Murray of London.The scrapbook includes his enrollment papers, numerous recitations and examinations, and commencement programs. Also included are several supper club menus, a program for an 1860 regatta that featured Harvard and Yale boats, newspaper clippings related to an 1860 hazing incident between the Harvard sophmores and freshman (Brown seems to have been involved (truncated) as there is a related letter to his father). Much of the scrapbook relates to the Hasty Pudding Club, including menus, playbills and more. Brown served as the librarian of the club and included is his manuscript sign admonishing members to return books. He was a book collector. Also included is later material from reunions.

1. Harvard Certificate of Admission to J.M. Brown. July 19, 1859. Signed by President James Walker.
2. Certificate of Matriculation 3 Jan., 1860 to Harvard College. Signed James Walker, President
3. Greek Grammar and Greek Composition, Bifolium.
4. Fresh. Esc. Paper. Bifolium Arithmetic & Algebra.
5. Fresh. Esc. Paper. Bifolium Geometry
6. Chauvenet Trigonometry may, 1860. 1 page.
7. Fresh Cambridge July 10th, 1860. 10:30-12:30 Asn.
8.Card Electing ---to the Society of the "Anonyma"
9. Small Broadside: Worcester City Regatta o Lake Quinsigamond Wednesday July 25, 1860. Franklin Printing Office, Porter St. Edwrad R. Fiske, Printer

"Notice. To Canidates for Admission. All persons applying for admission are hereby notified to enter their names immediatley at the REGENTS office No. 7 HOLLIS. Otherwise no notice will be taken by the Faculty of any insults offered to them. Cambridge JULY 16, 1860.
Annual Scale Soph Class stand 68 on the Annual Scale of that Class.
Sophomore Supper Class of '63
ALS from C.C. Felton to Eben Hobbs, threating expulsion of Brown from Harvard College. Nov. 27, 1860. "Your ward , J.M. Brown, Sophomore, has had some part in the eccitements and disorderly acts, which have diaturbed the peace of the college the last week...." With pencil return on verso

Invitation with chromo surround. Hasty-Pudding Club Supper at Young's Hotel on Friday Evening, January 10th, 1862. Printed by Damell & Welch, Book and Job Printers, 22 Court St., Boston.

Broadside": Ode Air-"In the Good Old Colony Times" By N.A. Printip on H.P.C.
NOTICE. All persons who take books from the Library are requested to record them in the book upon the Desk. J.M. Brown, Librarian, in pen manuscript Signed E.D.B. pint. imn pencil., lower left.
below J.M. Brown. L.H.P.C.
H.P.C.Theatre Grand Dramatic Entertainment! Farewell Performance of the Class of Sixty-Two... Our Wife; or, The Rose of Amiens...A Thumping Legacy.Broadside and 7 other broadside advertisement for plays following: Grand Combination; Strawberry Night; The Phantom +Breakfast; The Serious Family; Strawberry Night! June 12, 1863; All the Talents". Friday May 14=5 All '62, '63 or '64 Class performances.
H.P.C. Supper Ode

H.P.C. Annual Supper '63 January 2, 1863. Cattle-Fair Hotel Brighton
Card Notified to attend meeting of the Thetis Boat Club held at the room of Mr/ [Shattuck]

Harvard College Class of 1863 June 25, 1872 4pp


Dinner Club including Brown

Invitation from Alpha Delta Phi Club requesting the honor of [ John M. Brown's] company at the presentation of a Club Medal to Dr. Edward Everett Hale '39 by Theoore Roosevelt,'80 President of the United States at the Club House immediately after the Commencement Dinner June 25th, 1902.

Students of Harvard College who dies in the Service from the Beginning of the Rebellion to JUly 15, 1863. Broadside.

Home School Belmont Mass. Run by Mrs. James Brown looking for 8 to 10 girls to educate. 4pp. Belmont July 1st, 1867
Laid in Reminiscences of John Bartlett By Joseph Willard. Signed by J. Murray Brown Esq. pp. [68]-77. (Inventory #: 369837)