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 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 3

Richard Holloway Steele to Mary Frances Steele,, 1840, August 22

Dates

  • 1840, August 22

Scope and Contents

Has been in New Brunswick for two and a half weeks. "I like it very well, it is a very healthy place and considerable life in it. The grammar school which I attend is a fine institution there are 100 students and three teachers. The principle [sic] Mr. James Furgeson is a man of splendid talents and he keeps the students in his department in very strict order." More about studies, his fellow lodgers. Mr. Hasbrouck, a lawyer of Kingston, chosen for president of Rutgers by the trustees.

Language of Materials

From the Collection:

English.

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