Lot 416
University Presidents: Columbia, Harvard, and M.I.T. Four items: (1&2) Seth Low, as president of Columbia University, typed letter signed, February 21, 1896, 1 pg. quarto, asking Professor Peck to "write a Latin ode that could be sung at the dedication of the new grounds…to the tune of Gaudeamus…." A second letter to Peck in 1894 accepts Peck's resignation from the Board of Editors of the University Bulletin and asks for the proper precedure. (3) A.L. Lowell, as president of Harvard College, May 22, 1923, a literature award to Henry Jacob Friendly, 9 x 11 in. (4) Karl T. Compton, as president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, March 6, 1935, 1 pg, quarto, to Professor McKeehan in the Sloane Physics Laboratory at Yale University, accepting an invitation to Yale and hoping that "there may be some opportunity…to see something of the work going on in your laboratory." All Fine or better. (4 items).
Estimated Value $200 - 300.
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