VALUABLE HISTORICAL PAPERS PRESENTED BY MATT B. JONES '94

Through the generosity of Matt. B. Jones '94 the College Library has received a number of old documents of particular value and historical interest to the College.

Chief among these gifts is the journal of Jonathan Tenney, Jr., of Newbury, Vermont, of the Class of 1843. This covers more than three years of his college course and, though he wrote more during vacation periods than while he was in Hanover, it contains several interesting stories of college life. One account records a visit to Hanover by U. S. troops on their way from the barracks at Plattsburg to Northern Maine at the time of the treaty controversy over the international line. These troops were in command of Colonel Pierce, a brother of Franklin Pierce, and of him Tenney says that he was formerly a student at Dartmouth but was expelled during his sophomore year because he blew down some of the partitions of some of the College buildings with a cannon.

Other documents given by Mr. Jones include a letter of John Wheelock to Dr. John Phillips of Exeter under date of January 29, 1782, and another to the same under date of March 1, 1784, reporting relative to affairs of the College; a letter from John Smith, first Professor of Latin and Greek at Dartmouth, to Dr. Phillips under date of April 2, 1782, and touching upon the question of secondary schools; a copy of a note given by John Phillips to Dartmouth College in 1774; a letter from Rev. Jonathan Murray to Dr. John Phillips dated December 1, 1790, and regarding a candidate for the chair of the Professorship of Divinity which Dr. Phillips had established, and a letter from Dr. John Phillips to Mr. Samuel Phillips at Andover quoting from letters of Professor Woodward and Dr. Wheelock relative to a diploma, and indicating something of the practical difficulties which then existed in the details of running the College.

In addition to these documents, Mr. Jones has sent an account book containing the records of some early editors of "The Dartmouth." The accounts showed the struggles the editors had with the paper. There are also, in the book, a few accounts and records of several reunions of the Class of 1843.