272 ELIZABETH CARY AGASSIZ 
ple, — if it should so befall that funds for a scholar- 
ship to assist in the education of girls at Radcliffe Col- 
lege, who need assistance, with preference always to 
be given to natives, or daughters of citizens of Con- 
cord, Massachusetts, should be placed in the hands of 
your Treasurer, you might well suppose that memory 
of me had induced some of my descendants to spare 
so much from their necessities for such a modest me- 
morial: and I would humbly ask that the scholarship 
may bear the name of 
Tue Wipow Joanna Hosr 
And may God establish the good work you have in 
charge! 
At the same time that Mrs. Agassiz received this letter 
the treasurer of Radcliffe College received an anonymous 
gift of two thousand dollars, afterward increased. to five 
thousand dollars. 
In reply, Mrs. Agassiz addressed the following letter to 
Judge Hoar as one of the descendants of Joanna Hoar. 
Quincy Street, Cambridge, October 11, 1894 
Dear Sir: Very recently I received the most gra- 
cious communication from the far past, written with 
the mingled dignity and grace which we are wont to 
associate with our ladies of the olden time, yet not 
without a certain modernness which showed that she 
still keeps in touch with what is valuable in our day 
and generation. Through me she sends greeting to the 
young Radcliffe College, and a most generous gift to 
