APPENDIX, Edward Rand, Newburyport, Seth Storer, Jr., Saco, Maine, No. XXXV. Thomas Redman, Founders and Benefactors of the Theological School. The amount subscribed by each of the above-named individuals, and also the names of other subscribers to the fund raised in the year 1815, cannot be obtained; some of the Society's books and papers, then in the possession of the Vice-Treasurer, having been destroyed at the fire in Court Street, Boston, in 1825. On the new formation of the Society for the Promotion of Theological Education in Harvard University, in 1826, a new subscription was raised, "for the purchase of land, and the erection of a building for the use of the students in the Theological School, at Cambridge." The names of the subscribers are as follows. Of which amount, there was paid by the Treasurer of Harvard College, out of the Theological trust fund, And by the Directors of the Society for promoting Theological Education in Harvard University, from funds subscribed for the purpose, as above stated, 19,600.00 17,383-65 $36,988-65 APPENDIX, No. XXXV. LETTER FROM SAMUEL A. ELIOT, PRESENTING A COLLEC- "June 2d, 1822. "Dear Sir, "I have just received information from my friend, Mr. Storrow, of Paris, that he has completed for me a purchase, which I begged him, a short time since, to make. "It is the collection of books on American History, Geography, &c., which belonged to Mr. Warden, late American Consul, which were on sale, and seemed to me sufficiently valuable to make it an object, that they should be preserved in the country to which they relate. For the same reason that it is desirable they should be in America, it seemed to me important that they should be placed in a public institution, accessible to all who might desire to consult them; and my object in troubling you at present is to request you to have the goodness to beg the Corporation of the University to accept this collection, and give it a place in their library, where I feel perfectly confident it will be as useful to the public as its intrinsic value can render it. "There are, probably, among them some works of which there are already copies in the library; and I hope, that any unnecessary duplicates may be disposed of to the best advantage, as the benefit of the library is of much more consequence than the preservation of the completeness of this collection. "The books are to be shipped on board the Oak, which will sail from Havre to Boston on the 10th of June, and will, I hope, arrive in safety. "I beg leave to add the assurance of my respect to the members Letter from Samuel A. |