Letters from Benjamin Welles to John Henry Tudor, 1799-1801

Benjamin Welles wrote these six letters to his friend and classmate, John Henry Tudor, between 1799 and 1801. Four of the letters are dated, and the dates of the other two can be deduced from their contents. Welles wrote Tudor four times in September 1799, at the onset of their senior year at Harvard, in an attempt to clear up hurt feelings and false rumors that he believed had caused a chill in their friendship. The cause of the rift is never fully explained, though Welles alludes to "a viper" and "villainous hypocrite" who apparently spread rumors and fueled discord between the two friends. In one letter, Welles asserts that "College is a rascal's Elysium - or the feeling man's hell." In another he writes: "College, Tudor, is a furnace to the phlegmatic, & a Greenland to thee feeling man; it has an atmosphere which breathes contagion to the soul [...] Villains fatten here. College is the embryo of hell." Whatever their discord, the wounds were apparently eventually healed; in a letter written June 26, 1800, Welles writes to ask Tudor about his impending speech at Commencement exercises. In an October 29, 1801 letter, Welles writes to Tudor in Philadelphia (where he appears to have traveled in attempts to recover his failing health) and expresses strong wishes for his friend's recovery and return to Boston. This letter also contains news of their classmate Washington Allston's meeting with painters Henry Fuseli and Benjamin West.

University of Michigan Football Team 1903

Back Row: stud. mngr, Thomas Roberts, Tom Hammond, John Curtis, John Garrels, Cecil Gooding, "Germany" Schulz, David Dunlap, Frank Longman, coach Fielding Yost, Ray Barnett, trainer Keene Fitzpatrick

Middle Row: Rolla Bigelow, Herb Graver, Joe Maddock, Curtis Redden, George Gregory, Willie Heston

front Row: James DePree, Walter Eyke, John James, Duncan Thomson, Eugene Person, Fred Norcross, Hal Weeks

In memoriam. Josiah Clark, LL.D., principal of Williston Seminary 1849-1863. : Obiit [sic] May 30, 1878. /

"Published by the Trustees of Williston Seminary, for gratuitous distribution among the Alumni, and other friends of Williston Seminary"--T.p. verso.

The life and times of John Kelly, tribune of the people /

Kelly, a member of Congress, 1855-1858, was prominent in New York politics.

In Assembly, April 2, 1849 : report of the Select Committee on the Subject of the Shakers.

Last three pages blank.

The Canadian railway act 1903 : (annotated) /

90694DLA.

On the problem of nitroglycerine; [thesis submitted for the degree of M.S., University of California], May, 1903.

Typewritten manuscript.

Cowper memorials / Records of the Rev. John Cowper, M.A., and of other members of the family of Wm. Cowper, the poet.

Mode of access: Internet.

The literary remains of John Stockdale Hardy.

Mode of access: Internet.

A dream of John Ball : and A king's lesson /

"A dream of John Ball" first appeared in the "Commonweal", 1886-87; issued in book-form, 1888. "A king's lesson", a story based on the life of Matthias Corvinus, also appeared in the "Commonweal", Sept. 18, 1886.

Procès des trois Anglais, Robert-Thomas Wilson, John-Ely Hutchinson, Michel Bruce, et autres, accusés d'avoir facilité l'évation de Lavalette.

Mode of access: Internet.

Illustrations of a collection of ancient marbles, statues, tablets, etc. in the Firzwilliam museum, Cambridge : formerly in the possession of John Disney.

Mode of access: Internet.

Benjamin Harrison papers [microform]

Ca. 165 ft. (ca. 60,000 items)

The early history of the Guild of merchant taylors of fraternity of St. John the Baptist, London, with notices of the lives of some of its eminent members ...

Mode of access: Internet.

Miscellany. Lane collections pamphlets.

Binder's title.