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agreement with the Corporation of Harvard University, 

 and in less than a fortnight later Mrs. Agassiz is found in 

 correspondence with President Ehot, consulting him in 

 regard to a name for "X College." 



TO MRS. LOUIS AGASSIZ 



Cambridge, June 19, 1893 

 Dear Mrs. Agassiz: I send you herewith some 

 information about the first woman who ever gave 

 anything to Harvard College, namely Lady Mowlson, 

 who founded a scholarship here which has just been 

 revived by the Corporation on evidence procured by 

 Mr. A. McF. Davis. She seems to have been a pa- 

 triotic person, and she has left no children. To revive 

 her memory would be analogous to the act of the Cor- 

 poration in naming Holworthy Hall after Sir Mat- 

 thew Holworthy, who gave the College a thousand 

 pounds in the seventeenth century. 



Very truly yours, 



Charles W. Eliot 



Mr. Davis embodied the results of the researches which 

 President EHot mentions here in an article, "Anne Rad- 

 cliffe — Lady Mowlson," in the New England Magazine for 

 February, 1894. Briefly the story is that in 1641 Thomas 

 Weld, pastor of the church in Roxbury, was sent to Eng- 

 land by the colony in Massachusetts to arrange certain 

 matters of importance to the country. While in England 

 he received for Harvard College the gift of £100 from the 

 Lady Mowlson "for a scholarship, the revenue of it to 

 be employed that way forever.'* According to arrangement 



