1889

Last summer, on a visit to Maine, this secretary finally found carefully put away in what previously had been an unlooked-for place all the correspondence that had taken place between himself and his family in Eliot, Me., during his four years of college life at Dartmouth. These letters, each in its envelope bearing the two-cent postage stamp of its time, were in neatly tied bundles arranged in accordance with the term of the year in which they were written. Due to lack of spare time only a few of the earliest letters have thus far been read. The first letter from home to reach the Hanover post office (it was dated Sept. 3, 1885) went into the private box of the then College president and its envelope bears the endorsement "Put in my box and opened by me without observing. S.C. Bartlett." In one of my early letters home (dated Sept. 9) it refers'to the death of Edward Ashton Rollins, Class of 1851, who donated the money for building the Rollins Chapel. It says "last Thursday morning he (Mr. Rollins) was in chapel with us, the first time exercises were ever held in it, and Monday morning he died. The chapel is now draped. All exercises were suspended Tuesday forenoon, and services were held in the chapel at 9.30. The remains and family were then conveyed to Norwich, where they took the train for Great Falls (now Somersworth, N.H.). The faculty and all the students marched in procession from the chapel to Norwich."

Two items relating to two members of our Class Family Group are: Sally Redfield was at her camp in the Passaconaway Valley, Conway, N.H., during the past summer and autumn. In early November she returned for the winter to where she was last winter, her address being Dover, N.H., R.F.D. 2. Mabel Frost has returned to her home in Swampscott, Mass., after spending most of the past summer in Rutland, Vt., where she formerly lived.

This secretary, who has attended all football games in the stadium between Harvard and Dartmouth since the stadium was built, was present at the recent game in which Dartmouth won over Harvard 26 to o.

1889 Fund Contributors

9 Gifts (Participation Index 450) Total Gifts: $140.00

Bard, George P.1 Bartlett, Ralph S. Blair, Henry P.2, 3 Blakely, David N.4 Chase, Arthur11 Dartt, Francis P.5 Ferguson, Hardy S.6 Frost, Harry M.7 Noyes, Nathaniel K.8 Redfield, Burt H.9 Wellman, James A.10

MEMORIAL GIFTS FROM:

1 Son, Robert Bard '19.

2 Mrs. Nichol M. Sandoe.

3 Anonymous.

4 Daughter, Mrs. RobertB. Taylor.

5 Sister, Mary A. Dartt.

6 Soil, Hardy S.Ferguson, Jr. '22.

7 Mrs: Frost.

8 Son, Edwin M. Noyes'15.

9 Mrs. Red field.

10 Son-in-law, Robert P.Burroughs '21.

11 Mr. & Mrs. Preston C.Northrop.

Secretary, Treasurer and BequestChairman, 108 Mt. Vernon St., Boston 8, Mass.