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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, 
Caries W. Eviot 
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 
