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what may befall those who come after them, — “‘nec, 
haec coelestia spectantes, ista terrestria contemnunt.” It 
is a comforting faith that those who have “gone forth 
weeping, bearing precious seed,” shall be permitted 
to see and share the joys of the harvest with their suc- 
cessors who gather it. 
I was a contemporary of the pious and bountiful 
Lady Radcliffe, for whom your college is named. My 
honored husband, Charles Hoar, Sheriff of Glouces- 
ter in England, by his death in 1638, left me a widow 
with six children. We were of the people called by 
their revilers Puritans, to whom civil liberty, sound 
learning, and religion were very dear. The times were 
troublous in England, and the hands of princes and 
prelates were heavy upon God’s people. My thoughts 
were turned to the new England where precious Mr. 
John Harvard had just lighted that little candle 
which has since thrown its beams so far, where there 
seemed a providential refuge for those who desired a 
church without a Bishop, and a state without a King. 
I did not, therefore, like the worshipful Lady Rad- 
cliffe, send a contribution in money; but I came 
hither myself, bringing the five youngest of my chil- 
dren with me, and arrived at Braintree in the year 
1640. 
From that day Harvard College has been much in 
my mind; and I humbly trust that my coming has 
not been without some furtherance to its well being. 
My lamented husband in his will directed that our 
youngest son, Leonard, should be “carefullie kept at 
Schoole, and when hee is fitt for itt to be carefullie 
