More Webster Letters

In the April issue of the AlumniMagazine we noted the acquisition of two sets of papers containing valuable Daniel Webster material. One of these was the Haskins papers, purchased by Dartmouth College. The other was the James Wilson papers, açeśioned by he New Hampshire. Historical Society.

We have now to report two new gifts of Webster papers to the Dr. Willian Bingham Cleveland of Cleveland Ohio, has presented four letters from Webster his closest college friend and the great-great-grandfather of the donor. The letters fall in the years 1801. 1802, 1803, and 1808. All of them were published in Private Correspondence of DanielWebster, published in 1856 by his son, but no case is the text accurately transcribed. In one of the letters, indeed, a name omitted from the published version gives the item the quality of a major discovery.

The other gift comes from New Hampshire Senator Thomas J. McIntyre '37. It comprises five letters from Webster John Taylor, the manager of his Franklin. N.H., farm, all falling in the last few years of Webster's life. One of them, of only two lines in length ("All well. Mr. Noyes money goes with this") is so far as we know next to the last letter he ever wrote in his own hand. It is dated October 14. 1852. only ten days before his death, The only later autograph is the following day, to President Millard Fillmore, where tbe writing begins to show his growing weakness.

Board Chairman F. William Andres '29,at left, presents retiring Trustee ThomasW. Braden '4O with a print by the late PaulSample. Ralph Hunter '31 also retired.