Collections : [University of Michigan William L. Clements Library]

"Syracuse School" Senior Class annual exams for History and Arithmetic.

Receipts for hardware and other goods, including paper. Receipt dated August 3, 1822, Boston, signed by John Bradford. Receipt ca. February [1828?] signed by David Cobb. Receipt for August 19, 1844, signed by Edward Southworth.

Receipts for magazine subscriptions purchased by Samuel Tribou: Youth's Companion, Boston Recorder, Illustrated Family Magazine. The receipt for the Boston Recorder has the printed date 1842 changed to 1852.

Tuition receipts. Includes receipts for male and female students from Louis Agassiz (1807-1873), public schools, boarding schools, music lessons, etc.

Four flyers for Dramatic Readings, put on by the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, Department of Philology. Henry Lawrence Southwick: "I, Hamlet, the Man of Will." Leland Powers: "Borrowed Spectacles." Garrett P. Serviss: "Spain and Her Hundred Years of Glory." F. Hopkinson Smith: "The Story of Colonel Carter of Cartersville." Garrett P. Serviss: "Old Holland and the Romance of the French Republic." George Riddle: "King Henry V." Burton Holmes (lectures): "Grecian Journeys" and "Grand Cañon of Arizona."

Regarding the court case of E. C. and P. H. Warren vs. James Hunter and Bros, concerning the Hunter's pollution of Mill Creek (Pennsylvania) with chemical wastes, infringing on the water rights of the Warren's paper mill. Includes a letter from attorney Thomas Wharton to James Hunter & brothers warning them to desist from depositing dyes and chemicals into the river; two copies of testimony given by Frederick A. Genth on September 16, 1854, concerning his chemical analysis of the river water; short statements from various witnesses; and a record of filing Genth's deposition. Case tried by Thomas I. and Henry Wharton.

Two envelopes from Lieutenant V. R. Modruff (21st Field Artillery, 5th Division Regiment, A.E.F.). Two envelopes to N. E. Dutro at Camp Bowie, Texas. One envelope from Private Leslie Henderson (Engineers, A.E.F.).

Discussing the cost of insuring he and his wife. Ages and insurance rates. Queries about deductions. "I think I shall get my wife insured some time this summer, if I can get the cash to spare . . . Does such an operation imply any distrust in the God of Providence? I presume the question is often asked you? I want to be right & mean to be." Written on illustrated letterhead of a bearded man, by Putnam Brothers, publishers

Read of the death of Hart's wife in the newspaper and sends condolences. Comments on grief, sympathy, and religion.

Regarding the combination of the Boston College of Oratory with the School of Expression. Written on embossed School of Expression stationery. Enclosed: 2-page printed circular announcement to the students, graduates, and friends of the Boston College of oratory respecting plans for the new school.