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- Devan, Thomas T.
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- September 25, 1860
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Nyack Rockland Co N. Y. Sept. 25 1860 Mr. M. Vassar Poughkeepsie My Dear Sir After years ago I had some correspondence with you in relation to Rev. W Green when I was acting as a [counselor] for recommending pastor to the First Bapt[ist] Ch[urch] New York. With that interduction[introduction] I now beg leave offer you my [most] cordial sympathy. In a great work to which you have resolved to put your hands and well known energies: I mean the work of establishing a Female College which my...
Show moreNyack Rockland Co N. Y. Sept. 25 1860 Mr. M. Vassar Poughkeepsie My Dear Sir After years ago I had some correspondence with you in relation to Rev. W Green when I was acting as a [counselor] for recommending pastor to the First Bapt[ist] Ch[urch] New York. With that interduction[introduction] I now beg leave offer you my [most] cordial sympathy. In a great work to which you have resolved to put your hands and well known energies: I mean the work of establishing a Female College which my friends Sheldon & Dodge and others tell me you have undertaken. May God speed the enterprize[sic]. My object in now troubling you is to commend to your favorable regard in connection with the proposed institution the orphan children of Foreign missionaries. In the first place I do not suppose their number will ever exceed a score; and if youtake into consideration the fact that the TBMU allows $80 to each child under 15 yrs of age (for them abundantly sufficient to clothe them and furnish them with books & stationary) their expense to the institution for tuition & loan will not be very onerous. I think that if you would make provision for the gratuities education & [pertenance[sic]] of such, the institution will at once lay hold of the sympathies & prayers of the whole Baptist denomination and make it a prominent very prominent candidate for general attention & patronage. It is probable that the orphans will number a half dozen and in that case I would suggest the reception of half orphans of missionaries to the completion of the proposed number. Or should you deem it adviseable[sic] the full orphans of other missionary ladies aught be then received and so the proposed institution would have a more Catholic character. I throw out these suggestions simply to draw your hand to the subject. It is one in which I feel a deep interest not because I have any children that will ever need the aid proposed but because having been for many years a Foreign Missionary of the [*] B.F.M.U. I know the anxieties of missionary parents when about to resign their orphan children to the tender mercies of a cold world. There are other advantages which would accrue from the opening of such an asylum as I propose: advantages, which would then themselves in the missionary field itself. The Knowledge of such a refuge for his children in care of need would serve the [crew] and heart of the missionary himself and make him glad to work in his field with a sure encouraged spirit. But I have said enough to open the subject and to think also freind[sic] to when I have shown these lines. May I take the liberty of asking from your sure expression of your views upon this matter? I am sure the pastor of the Baptist Church in this College where a line at any time will find Your word respectfully Tho’s[Thomas] J Devan
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- Vassar, Matthew, 1792-1868
- Date
- September 26, 1860
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Poughkeepsie September 26. 1860 Rev.d Thomas T Devan Dear Sir Your note of yesterday date is before me, and shall give the subject to which you refer my earliest consideration.' There is some features in my proposed College regulations which have (I believe) never been adopted in any similar Institution, but which would be rather difficult for me to explain by letter, suffice to say, that the feature of a liberal and gratuitous Education to the indigent is one of its chief elements, but...
Show morePoughkeepsie September 26. 1860 Rev.d Thomas T Devan Dear Sir Your note of yesterday date is before me, and shall give the subject to which you refer my earliest consideration.' There is some features in my proposed College regulations which have (I believe) never been adopted in any similar Institution, but which would be rather difficult for me to explain by letter, suffice to say, that the feature of a liberal and gratuitous Education to the indigent is one of its chief elements, but in the selection of such we shall not be confined to creeds or classes but aim to bestow our benevolence as far as practi- of capacity cable upon those who give the greatest evidence^to receive moral and mental culture, and these we take mainly from our Primary Schools at home or abroad and when once initiated all distinction of social casts ceases, from the fact that only one Officer in this Institution will know the free from paying Pupils From the foregoing remarks you will perceive that I intend to avoid all sectarian prejudices, Altho1 every thing else being equal I feel it my priviledge and duty that my own. religious views and principles should for the special benifit of that class of orphans to which yr kind note refers. predominate in this Institution A With these foregoing hasty remarks I subscribe myself Yours very Respectfully M Vassar This is not an exact Copy, it was more extended MV 35Poughkeepsie September 26. 1860 Rev.d Thomas T Devan Dear Sir Your note of yesterday date is before me, and shall give the subject to which you refer my earliest consideration.' There is some features in my proposed College regulations which have (I believe) never been adopted in any similar Institution, but which would be rather difficult for me to explain by letter, suffice to say, that the feature of a liberal and gratuitous Education to the indigent is one of its chief elements, but in the selection of such we shall not be confined to creeds or classes but aim to bestow our benevolence as far as practi- of capacity cable upon those who give the greatest evidence^to receive moral and mental culture, and these we take mainly from our Primary Schools at home or abroad and when once initiated all distinction of social casts ceases, from the fact that only one Officer in this Institution will know the free from paying Pupils From the foregoing remarks you will perceive that I intend to avoid all sectarianprejudices, Altho1 every thing else being equal I feel it my priviledge and duty that my own. religious views and principles should for the special benifit of that class of orphans to which yr kind note refers. predominate in this Institution A With these foregoing hasty remarks I subscribe myself Yours very Respectfully M Vassar This is not an exact Copy, it was more extended MV
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