MEMOIR OP DANIEL TREAD WELL. 



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In 1856, Dr. William Johnson Walker, an eminent physician of Charlestown, 

 and Thomas Lee, Esq., of Boston, made a joint gift to the President and Fellows 

 of Harvard College of $10,000 each ; the income from it to be for the benefit of 

 Professor Jeffries Wyman, Hersey Professor of Anatomy, in acknowledgment of 

 his many important contributions to science, and to enable him to continue his 

 investigations. The following is Professor Treadwell's note of congratulation. 



To Dr. Jeffries Wyman. 



Cambridge, October 19, 1850. 



Dear Doctor Wyman, — I cannot forbear saying to you that I have heard, with the greatest 

 pleasure, of the late donations to the College, made in terms so honorable and beneficial to you 

 personally. You will permit me to say, here, what I have sometimes hinted to you, that 1 have 

 often feared that your determined course of leaving your success entirely upon the merits of your 

 purely scientific efforts, unaided by the arts which so many employ to obtain popularity, would 

 not bring you to the standing which I knew that you deserved. But I am truly gratified in 

 finding myself mistaken in my fears, and I think better of the discrimination of the public since 

 finding my mistake. I can only hope that your case will not prove a lucky accident, but that 

 many like you hereafter will find themselves encouraged and rewarded in following a like 

 course. Then indeed will the true men be spared many a degradation and many a disgust that 

 they would otherwise be obliged to endure in silence. 



Believe me ever most sincerely yours, 



Daniel Treadwell. 



To Dr. William Sweetser. 



Cambridge, January 8, ]8.">7. 



Dear Sweetser, — Although I have nothing to write, yet I cannot let go by the addition 

 of another unit to the year of our Lord without wishing that it may prove to you and Mrs. 

 Sweetser a happy one, 1857. I little thought fifty years ago that I should be alive to make this 

 a true date. But so it is, and I am not without hopes that I may yet add another ten to it. If 



so, I trust that you will be here to see. 



Nothing really has turned up with us. We are all quieted down since the election, and accept 

 Buchanan as we should if he had been made for it. Of deaths, we have had none that you will 

 think of a second time but that of Francis C. Gray. He left some sixty thousand dollars, and a 

 most splendid collection of engravings, to the College. Mr. Ebenezer Francis, the rich man, it 

 is said, will not live the year out, as he is breaking under the weight of eighty-one years. 



matter of health. I have been remar 



York seems 



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risit from Mrs. Sweetser and 



you that you engaged for when we were at your house. I shall leave the time altogether with 

 you, provided you put it within a reasonable time, and give us a good length of it when you come. 

 You will go to Brunswick in a few weeks, and I hope and trust that, even if Mrs. S. does not come 

 with you then, you will not fail to stop a day or two with us. But nothing would give Mrs. 

 Treadwell and myself more pleasure than to have Mrs. Sweetser come on then with you, and stay 



