272 ELIZABETH CARY AGASSIZ 



pie, — if it should so befall that funds for a scholar- 

 ship to assist in the education of girls at Radcliffe Col- 

 lege, who need assistance, with preference always to 

 be given to natives, or daughters of citizens of Con- 

 cord, Massachusetts, should be placed in the hands of 

 your Treasurer, you might well suppose that memory 

 of me had induced some of my descendants to spare 

 so much from their necessities for such a modest me- 

 morial: and I would humbly ask that the scholarship 

 may bear the name of 



The Widow Joanna Hoar 



And may God establish the good work you have in 

 charge! 



At the same time that Mrs. Agassiz received this letter 

 the treasurer of Radcliffe College received an anonymous 

 gift of two thousand dollars, afterward increased to five 

 thousand dollars. 



In reply, Mrs. Agassiz addressed the following letter to 

 Judge Hoar as one of the descendants of Joanna Hoar. 



Quincy Street, Cambridge, October 11, 1894 

 Dear Sir: Very recently I received the most gra- 

 cious communication from the far past, written with 

 the mingled dignity and grace which we are wont to 

 associate with our ladies of the olden time, yet not 

 without a certain modernness which showed that she 

 still keeps in touch with what is valuable in our day 

 and generation. Through me she sends greeting to the 

 young Radcliffe College, and a most generous gift to 



