Wheelock's Chronicle

As a gift to the library of the President's House, a complete set of the rare Eleazar Wheelock Narratives has been presented to the College by Victor Reynolds '37, university publisher at Cornell University and chairman of The Friends of the Dartmouth Library. The gift of fifteen volumes, made through The Friends, includes all nine of the narratives and six bibliographical variants. Mr. Reynolds made the presentation on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the presidency of John Sloan Dickey.

Wheelock wrote his Narratives to inform the public of his purposes and activities in educating the Indians. He began them in 1762, seven years before the founding of Dartmouth College, and wrote the last one in 1775, five years after he had moved his Indian charity school from Lebanon, Conn., to Hanover.

The set of Narratives presented by Mr. Reynolds is handsomely bound, many of the volumes having been done by the distinguished London firm of Sangorski and Sutcliffe. Each volume contains a special bookplate recording the donor's gift.