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Tolman Index of Early University Records

This index, compiled by Bertha Illsley Tolman, provides exhaustive name and subject entries for most University records from 1636 through the 1870s. (Records of the Treasurer are not included.) Each entry cites the precise location of a name or subject in the records (year/volume/page).

The table below identifies the records cited in the Tolman index and provides the corresponding call numbers.

TOLMAN CARD VIEW NOTE: Tolman number 5 (five) looks like the letter V (vee)	TOLMAN ABBREVIATIONS	TITLE/DESCRIPTION	CALL NUMBER
	UAI 5.30 Corp. Rec. OR Corp. Rec.	Corporation Records: Minutes of the Harvard Corporation , 1643–1870+	UAI 5.30.2
	UAI 5.120 Corporation Papers	Corporation Papers, First Series, 1636–1825	UAI 5.120 VT for 1636–1799 UAI 5.120 for 1800–1825
	UAI 5.130 Corporation Papers	Corporation Papers, Second Series, 1826–1870+	UAI 5.130
	Coll.P.I. OR Col. Papers OR College Papers	College Papers, First Series, 1650–1825	UAI 5.131 mf
	Sup. to Col. Papers	College Papers, First Series, Supplements to Vols. 1–7, 1626–1815	UAI 5.131.5
	2nd Series College Papers	College Papers, Second Series, 1826–1870+	UAI 5.131.10 mf for Vols. 1–25, 1826–1858 UAI 5.125 for Vols. 26–30, 1859–1863
	Overseers Records OR Ov. Rec.	Overseers Records: Minutes of the Board of Overseers, 1707–1870+	UAII 5.5.2
	UAII 10… Ov. Reports	Reports of the committees of the Board of Overseers, 1650–1870+	Use call number as marked on Tolman card (for example, UAII 10.5)
	Faculty Records OR Fac. Rec. OR UAIII.5.15	Minutes of the faculty, 1725–1870+	UAIII 5.5.2
	UAI 15.8…	Papers of Harvard presidents	Use call number on Tolman card (for example, UAI 15.884)
	Sibley’s Private Journal	Diary, 1846–1882, kept by Harvard Librarian John Langdon Sibley	HUG 1791.72
	Lev. D.	Diary, 1707–1723, kept by Harvard College President John Leverett	UAI 15.866, Box 8 (transcript) UAI 15.866, Box 4 (photocopy)