Item — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Richard Holloway Steele to Mary Frances Steele,, 1840, March 6
Dates
- 1840, March 6
Scope and Contents
On the evening of March 4, two expresses travelling from Washington, D.C. to New York City, came through New Brunswick to carry the news of Benjamin Harrison's inauguration. Holloway expects to enter college in April with three or four schoolmates. Long discussion of the comings and goings back home. His roommate is named David Cole, Class of 1842, the son of a minister in the D.C., Dutch Reformed Church. He writes, "They are repairing Rutgers College and have now got a splendid chapel."
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