GIFT FROM LORD DARTMOUTH IN PRESIDENT'S HOUSE

In response to a letter from Mr. Lewis Parkhurst, senior member of the Board of Trustees, expressing the hope that in the new President's House in Hanover there might be some object that had come from the home of Lord Dartmouth, direct descendant of the man for whom the College was named, a valuable Wedgwood vase has been received by the College from Lord Dartmouth.

Lord Dartmouth at first proposed to send a pair of vases, products of the famous Staffordshire Firm, and made to order for his grandfather who suggested the shape of them from some Etruscan vases which he had admired. In a later letter to Mr. Parkhurst he wrote: "On looking through my Wedgwood collection I found a vase that we thought more suitable than the . pair already selected, so I have had it dispatched addressed to you at the President's House, Dartmouth. There is nothing to add to what I told you about the two vases I originally intended to send. This one I did send is one of the same set, produced by Wedgwood on the order of my Grandfather who died in 1853. The designs were given to Wedgwood by my Grandfather, these he himself had chosen from old Etruscan vases when travelling in Italy—roughly 20 years before his death."

The vase which Lord Dartmouth sent to Hanover is considerably larger than the pair he originally selected and is now in the President's House, a visible and tangible link between the College and the family whose name the College bears.

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