Word: letters
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...following is a letter from a Harvard Sophomore to a friend in a Western College...
...give even an incomplete list of autographs; here are a few: John Locke, Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, William Wordsworth, Robt. Burns, Emanuel Kant, John Dryden, Walter Scott, Edmund Burke. The manuscripts are of still greater interest. A Latin poem by John Milton; a musical composition of Haydn's; a letter from George Washington to Gen. Schuyler; an official document of the Confederate States signed by Jeff. Davis and Alex. H. Stevens; an invitation to Charles Sumner from President Lincoln to attend the inaugural ball. But that which will probably interest you most of all is Longfellow's first draft...
...poor man is "grinding" in his room, suddenly he hears the step of "Billy" in the hall. The letter-slide clicks and in come two or three letters, one in particular, with a nice envelope, sealed, and addressed in a fine feminine hand. It naturally is opened first. Fine tinted cards drop out, and a note is enclosed, engraved on a superior quality of paper...
...passes that we are not in some way reminded of some branch or other, small and great, of Cambridge or Boston business. Our mails are, perhaps, nearly doubled. The man with few correspondents or perhaps almost none at all is grateful for even this poor substitute. At least, his letter-slide is kept from resting...
...students were forbidden to march as representatives of the college. Accordingly, with that peculiar deference for Faculty decrees which has always prevailed at Harvard, they proceeded to carry out the order in spirit as well as in letter. "Whoever says we are Harvard Seniors is a Liar and a Villian," said the transparency borne by the class of '73; and equally convincing methods were employed by the others to remove all impression from the bystanders that college men had any connection with the parade. The value of obedience is shown by the result, for henceforth the Faculty ceased to interfere...