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the end of the earth." There my son and his poster- 

 ity have dwelt and multiplied, and the love and serv- 

 ice of the College which I should approve have not 

 been wholly wanting among them. In so remote a 

 place there must be urgent need of instruction, 

 though the report seems to be well founded that set- 

 tlements farther westward have since been made, and 

 that some even of my own posterity have penetrated 

 the continent to the shores of the Pacific Sea. Among 

 the descendants of John Hoar have been that worthy 

 Professor John Farrar, whose beautiful face in marble 

 is among the precious possessions of the College; that 

 dear and faithful woman who gave the whole of her 

 humble fortune to establish a scholarship therein, 

 Levina Hoar; and others who as Fellows or Overseers 

 have done what they could for its prosperity and 

 growth. 



Pardon my prolixity, but the story I have told is 

 but a prelude to my request of your kindness. There 

 is no authentic mode in which departed souls can im- 

 part their wishes to those who succeed them in this 

 world but these, the record or memory of their 

 thoughts and deeds, while on earth; or the reappear- 

 ance of their qualities of mind and character in their 

 lineal descendants. 



In this first year of Radcliffe College, when so 

 far as seems practicable and wise, the advantages 

 which our dear Harvard College, "the defiance of 

 the Puritan to the savage and the wilderness," has so 

 long bestowed upon her sons, are through your means 

 to be shared by the sisters and daughters of our peo- 



