Letter from Yale President Timothy Dwight to the widow of his classmate Littleton P. Franklin (Yale 1849), in which Dwight requestsfor biographical information for upcoming 40th reunion of the Yale Class of 1849.
Condolence letter from Yale President Timothy Dwight to the widow of his classmate Littleton P. Franklin (Yale 1849). Dwight writes of remembering his classmate from college days.
Woolsey discusses a book missing from his personal library (Edward Buck's "Massachusetts ecclesiastical law" (1866) and the inability of colonial ministers to unite a couple in marriage and the post-1700 law allowing ministers to unite, with magistrates present.
Contains a brief mention of classmate (Thomas Carolin Clay) who "left yesterday on account of the secession he was from Georgia"; rest of letter relates issues of daily life.