HARVARD COLLEGE—GLASS OF 1870 
May 6 , 1926 . 
Until today I had not supposed that anybody expected or wanted a Class 
Dinner this year; but this morning I was told that several of the class would like to 
have one. I have plenty of money to pay for a dinner if enough of you will come to 
make it worth while. It is easy to imagine a gathering so small as to be a little 
sombre. Commencement will be Thursday, June 24 , and I shall provide a lunch at 
Holworthy 11 , at noon. The customary time for a dinner would be the evening of 
Wednesday but it may now be too late to get desirable accommodations. We could 
probably get anything we want Thursday evening. 
Will you, on receipt of this, write me whether you would come to a Class 
Dinner, Wednesday evening, June 23 , if one can be satisfactorily arranged ? 
Would you come Thursday evening, June 24 , if it must be had then ? 
Will you, when you write, say (if such be the fact) that you vote for Swan for 
Class Secretary. Since Ticknor’s death I have called myself “Acting Secretary” but 
I find the authorities at Cambridge prefer to deal with a regular secretary. 
If you do not hear from me again in this matter, you may understand that 
the Class Committee decided that your responses did not make a dinner seem worth 
while. 
Yours very truly, 
CHARLES H. SWAN. 
3 Storey Place 
Jamaica Plain, Mass. 
