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the proof-sheets of a work of four hundred pages, which I 

 wrote a year or two ago, entitled " Reminiscences of Am- 

 herst College," but which I expected to leave unpublished. 

 The work is a good deal biographical and autobiographical, 

 but is intended mainly to give a history of Amherst Col- 

 lege up to the present time. I have given a geological 

 map of the region around the College, and three views of 

 the College at different periods. I was greatly indebted to 

 you for your last kind letter of sympathy and condolence, 

 and intended to answer it, but my strength would not 

 allow. Many debts of this kind must remain unpaid till I 

 enter, if I ever do, the house not made with hands, eternal 

 in the heavens. God grant that in such spiritual bodies, 

 without sin, we may hold everlasting communion. 

 Sincerely and affectionately yours, 



EDWARD HITCHCOCK. 



Among the many marks of reverence and grati- 

 tude which he was daily receiving, the following from 

 a pupil who has acquired a world-wide distinction, 

 deserves to be placed on record. 



FROM S. F. B. MORSE, ESQ 



NEW YORK, February 15, 1864. 



MY DEAR SIR, A letter was handed me this morning, 

 directed in the well-known hand of my respected and ven- 

 erated instructor, to whom the American world, at least, is 

 so deeply indebted for the first and most efficient impulse 

 given to science in our country. 



I thank you sincerely for the photograph which was 

 within the envelope, and which shows you yet erect and 

 fresh, with more of youth marked in your figure and face 

 than in the enclosed reciprocated photograph, of the boy 

 whom I cannot but think you remember as somewhat way- 

 ward and unpromising when your pupil in years long gone 

 by. Yet you see some indications on his breast of foreign 



