LETTER TO PROFESSOR KINGSLEY. 403 



TO PROFESSOR KINGSLEY. 



BOSTON, March 20, 1842. 



I HAVE been particularly gratified to learn from 



Mr. Larned, that you had a half hour Faculty meeting, and 

 that everything is quiet at College : I trust it will continue 

 so, as examination is impending. Mrs. Silliman, I suppose, 

 informed you that President Quincy was almost the first 

 gentleman to salute me, and with much cordiality of courtesy, 

 on the stage, at the conclusion of Dr. Walker's lecture, the 

 evening of our arrival. He called at our lodgings the next 

 day, and left his card, as we were not in. Yesterday week 

 I dined at his son's, Mr. Josiah Quincy, with a considerable 

 party of the aristoi and the plousioi, where he and the 

 President were very polite, and yesterday we made our 

 calls in Cambridge, at Dr. Beck's ; at the new library, 

 and on Dr. Harris, the Librarian ; and last, at the President's. 

 There was no abatement of kindness on the part of the 

 family, and ladies are more sensitive, and not always as 

 well disciplined in suppressing riled feelings as men. I 

 have not heard a word from any Unitarian or college man 

 or college friend, which would enable me to infer that they 

 had or had not read certain criticisms.* .... Dr. Taylor 

 regretted that the articles had not been struck off separately 

 for extensive distribution, and we concluded that the author 

 ought to pursue his investigations, and publish a complete 

 history of Yale College, to which these criticisms and all 

 others that are, or may be, digested may be appended. I 

 hope you will not neglect this subject, for there neither 

 is, nor ever will be, any one who can do the work well but 

 yourself. 



While Professor Silliman was gaining his great 

 success in Boston, he had the satisfaction of know- 



* Professor Kingsley's articles on President Quincy's History of Harvard 

 College. F. 



