354 SPENCER FULLERTON BAIRD 



To Spencer F. Baird from the Class of 184.8 in Dickinson College. 



DICKINSON COLLEGE, April 26, '61. 

 DEAR SIR: 



According to- the agreement at the time of graduation, the class 



of 1848 had a re-union here last summer. The following were present, 



-Messrs. W. L. Boswell, J. A. Creswell, I. S. Deale, J. W. Marshall, 



E. B. Prettyman, B. F. Snow, T. S. Thomas, H. M. Wilson, and 



J. Wilson. 



It was natural that among our foremost recollections would be 

 those of yourself and colleagues in the Faculty at the time we were 

 here as students, and we found that the twelve years that had elapsed 

 since we left the walls of College and with them your instructions 

 and guidance, save as they lived in the remembrance of the past 

 or the fruitful development of principles and ideas due to you, had 

 not in any degree lessened the personal regard with which you 

 had inspired us, or the sense of obligation for the direction given 

 to our minds. 



It was a source of regret that only one member of that Faculty 

 was in Carlisle at that time; and the secretary was instructed to write 

 to you, sending our greetings and the assurance of our undiminished 

 affection for you. A riper manhood has in this respect only confirmed 

 and deepened the feelings of youth. 



It gives me pleasure in obedience to these instructions to acknowl- 

 edge in behalf of the Class our obligations for the past; to thank you 

 for whatever success in life we have met with, as well as that course 

 of life on your part which has made us always proud of being your 

 pupils; to assure you of our personal regard unaltered except with 

 greater fervor, and to wish you that happiness here and hereafter 

 which belongs especially to those whose efforts are directed to the 

 happiness and good of others. 



Please advise me of the receipt of this, that I may assure the class 

 at its next meeting that its message has reached you. 



I remain yours truly, 



W. L. BOSWELL, 

 Sec'y. of Class of 1848. 



