Edward Carrington Marshall, Cambridge, Massachusetts, to Mary Willis (Ambler) Marshall, Richmond, Virginia, 1825
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Mentions changes made in the college government at Harvard College; complains of college life - "probably no life is so uninteresting to others as that of a merely literary man. An indolent collegian especially has nothing to say for himself..."; mentions his classes: Electricity, Astronomy, and Moral Philosophy; describes his "chums," Turner, Bonaparte, a nephew of the Emperor, Cheves, son of Langdon Cheves, Bruce, of Halifax County, and his cousin Birchett; discusses dining arrangements at Harvard: "We have a large table, confined to southerners, and what are called gentlemen Yankees"; looks forward with great anxiety to graduating in ten months.
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