354 SPENCER FULLERTON BAIRD 
To Spencer F. Baird from the Class of 1848 in Dickinson College. 
Dickinson Co.LtecE, April 26, ’6r1. 
DEAR Sir:— 
According to the agreement at the time of graduation, the class 
of 1848 had a re-union here last summer. The following were present, 
—Messrs. W. L. Boswell, J. A. Creswell, I. S. Deale, J. W. Marshall, 
E. B. Prettyman, B. F. Snow, T. S. Thomas, H. M. Wilson, and 
J. Wilson. 
It was natural that among our foremost recollections would be 
those of yourself and colleagues in the Faculty at the time we were 
here as students, and we found that the twelve years that had elapsed 
since we left the walls of College and with them your instructions 
and guidance, save as they lived in the remembrance of the past 
or the fruitful development of principles and ideas due to you, had 
not in any degree lessened the personal regard with which you 
had inspired us, or the sense of obligation for the direction given 
to our minds. 
It was a source of regret that only one member of that Faculty 
was in Carlisle at that time; and the secretary was instructed to write 
to you, sending our greetings and the assurance of our undiminished 
affection for you. A riper manhood has in this respect only confirmed 
and deepened the feelings of youth. 
It gives me pleasure in obedience to these instructions to acknowl- 
edge in behalf of the Class our obligations for the past; to thank you 
for whatever success in life we have met with, as well as that course 
of life on your part which has made us always proud of being your 
pupils; to assure you of our personal regard unaltered except with 
greater fervor, and to wish you that happiness here and hereafter 
which belongs especially to those whose efforts are directed to the 
happiness and good of others. 
Please advise me of the receipt of this, that I may assure the class 
at its next meeting that its message has reached you. 
I remain yours truly, 
W. L. Boswe 1, 
Sec’y. of Class of 1848. 
