LIFE OF JAMES DWIGHT DANA 



worth while to extend the list of subscribers to this let- 

 ter, no doubt all the members of the teaching body in 

 the University would gladly have added their names. 

 But our communication is simply intended as an expres- 

 sion, from a few of your older associates, of interest in 

 this anniversary and of our earnest hope that the blessing 

 of a kind Providence may continue to be with you and 

 with the members of your family." 



The testimonial was signed by Timothy Dwight, George 

 E. Day, George P. Fisher, George J. Brush, William H. 

 Brewer, O. C. Marsh, Franklin B. Dexter, Edward E. 

 Salisbury, William D. Whitney, Hubert A. Newton, 

 Samuel W. Johnson, Daniel C. Eaton, A. E. Verrill, 

 Addison Van Name, Sidney I. Smith. 



Here are two letters of an earlier date, characteristic of 

 two lifelong friends : 



FROM DR. S. WELLS WILLIAMS AND A REPLY 



"SHANGHAI, CHINA, Oct. n, 1872. 



" MY DEAR OLD FRIEND JAMES: 



" I am going to make this piece of Chinese art, this 

 snuff-bottle of a kind of chalcedony called here ' lamp- 

 wick agate,' worth more than ever it was before by pre- 

 senting it to you as a birthday present on your sixtieth 

 birthday.* It won't contain half of my good wishes and 

 prayers for your happiness and usefulness here and here- 

 after, but you may look upon each of the pretty spiculae 

 fossilized in it as possessing an individual representation 

 of the pleasant remembrance I have of our lifelong 

 friendship. 



" May God's abiding presence and love go with you 

 all the days He has work for you to do here, and receive 

 you then, with your affectionate 



"S. W. W." 



*The bottle was placed in the Peabody Museum, 1881. The birth- 

 day was February 12, 1873. 



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