Letter from William Cullen Bryant to Teresa Arnold
Entry/Object ID
HHV 012.90
Description
Letter from William Cullen Bryant to Teresa Arnold
Subject
Bryant's education
Subject Person/Organization
Williams College
Subject Place
City
Roslyn, Long Island
* Untyped Subject Place
New York
Context
Letter from Bryant to a correspondent asking about the story of his departure from Williams College
Collection
Miscellaneous Manuscript Collection
Transcription
Transcription
Roslyn, Long Island N.Y.
November 3, 1877
Dear Miss Arnold,
The story which you have heard/about my leaving college is altogether/untrue. I had been maltreated at/Williams College and left [it] intending to go/ to Yale -- for which in the meantime I /had prepared myself by study, without an/ instructor, except my elementary books./ My father told me that some reverses/ in his circumstances rendered it impossible/ for him to defray the expense of my plan,/ and it was accordingly abandoned. The/poem of which you speak was not then/published or spoken of. Yours respectfully,
WC Bryant.
Miss Teresa Arnold.
