FREDERICK A. ELDREDGE, DUNSTABLE, N. H. 1 79 



by the way, had no more to brag of as to looks, than Eldredge). 

 All I know of the feeling of the Faculty on the subject, is what I 

 gathered from a conversation with Prof. Goodrich on the subject, 

 when Eldredge took his dismission : the amount of which was that 

 the Faculty thought Eldredge had been badly treated, — that they 

 had done what they could, without making it worse, to remedy the 

 evil, and that he (Goodrich) thought Eldredge had sufificient reason 

 for leaving the College. 



On the part of the students, there was a good deal of feeling, 

 both for and against Eldredge. Most of the Southerners joined with 

 Grimke, while most of the rest of the class were indignant both at 

 Grimke', and that Jones should take any notice of such a message, 

 otherwise than to spurn it and reprimand the bearer. Eldredge 

 was most shamefully treated after the affair broke out, which was 

 the first or second term Freshman year, and was kept up till the 

 end of Sophomore year, when Eldredge took a dismission. I 

 never would have borne half that he did ; and it would have been 

 much better for him to have left at the beginning, for it had so 

 much effect upon him, that his last year there was little better than 

 lost, as it regarded his studies. It got into the next class, as it was 

 in ours, so that after Grimke and his gang were expelled in our 

 rebellion, Eldredge had no more peace than before. Not unfre- 

 quently while about the college yard, he would be insulted by these 

 gentlemen, so sensitive at the idea of negro blood, though I shrewdly 

 suspect but few of them could be found without a spice of the 

 Darkee in their veins. Nor was this all, his windows were broken 

 two or three times Sophomore year, to say nothing of Freshman 

 year. Finally, he left on account of the negro aftair, started by 

 Grimke'. It would be no more than fair to state that probably, Jones 

 would not have noticed the complaint, had it come from almost any- 

 one besides Grimke. G. was a haughty, overbearing fellow, and 

 despised by a great part of the class, though he had Jones completely 

 by the nose, as was manifest even in the recitation room. 



Eldredge went to Dartmouth College, where he was doing well 

 the last time that I heard from him. I have not been in Groton since 

 last fall. Brother Walter has left Groton. Mr. Todd has had a call 

 to go to Salem, Mass. Whether he will go or not, I am unable to 

 say. I made out to stick by old Yale, til I had my name read off in 

 Latin. I shall make them one more visit to get my A. B. ; and, if I 

 do not have too much to do, between this time and that, perhaps I 



