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agreement with the Corporation of Harvard University, 

 and in less than a fortnight later Mrs. Agassiz is found in 

 correspondence with President Eliot, consulting him in 

 regard to a name for "X College." 



TO MRS. LOUIS AGASSIZ 



Cambridge, June 19, 1893 



DEAR MRS. AGASSIZ: I send you herewith some 

 information about the first woman who ever gave 

 anything to Harvard College, namely Lady Mowlson, 

 who founded a scholarship here which has just been 

 revived by the Corporation on evidence procured by 

 Mr. A. McF. Davis. She seems to have been a pa- 

 triotic person, and she has left no children. To revive 

 her memory would be analogous to the act of the Cor- 

 poration in naming Holworthy Hall after Sir Mat- 

 thew Holworthy, who gave the College a thousand 

 pounds in the seventeenth century. 



Very truly yours, 



CHARLES W. ELIOT 



Mr. Davis embodied the results of the researches which 

 President Eliot mentions here in an article, "Anne Rad- 

 cliffe Lady Mowlson," in the New England Magazine for 

 February, 1894. Briefly the story is that in 1641 Thomas 

 Weld, pastor of the church in Roxbury, was sent to Eng- 

 land by the colony in Massachusetts to arrange certain 

 matters of importance to the country. While in England 

 he received for Harvard College the gift of 100 from the 

 Lady Mowlson "for a scholarship, the revenue of it to 

 be employed that way forever." According to arrangement 



