GIFT OF ANOTHER PORTRAIT

At the time of the last commencement Miss Mary E. Brackett of New York presented to the College a portrait of her grandfather, Joseph Warren Brackett, of the class of 1800. Brackett was in the class immediately preceding that of Daniel Webster, and was a close friend of Webster. Miss Brackett, the donor of the picture, at one time had in her possession some of Webster's original notebooks which he used in college, but these valuable documents were unfortunately destroyed by fire. Brackett, after graduation from Dartmouth, became a lawyer of prominence in New York. It is said that when Webster visited New York during Brackett's lifetime, the two used to hold quiet little Dartmouth reunions "with refreshments".

The College is grateful to Miss Brackett for her thoughtful kindness in presenting this picture to the alma mater of her grandfather. For some years it has been hanging in the Jumel Mansion, maintained by the Daughters of the Revolution of New York City, an organization of which Miss Brackett is a member, but it has seemed to her that the halls of Dartmouth are a more fitting repository for it.