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Title
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David McDonogh to Daniel Wells
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Description
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"Dr. Junkin departed this morning...[He] was followed by a great multitude of people of all ranks and sizes, and of all sexes. And when he got into the boat, and he, and his family and those that were to accompany him, were rightly fixed in the boat, he arose, and addressed them (for at the Banks of the Lehigh were crowded) and standing in the boat, he delivered his farewell address to the multitude on the shores...[it] was a most affecting and interesting one, as also were his two farewell sermons."
"We came to Easton strangers, and are left strangers. We are not only left by Dr. Junkin and his family, but all the students whom we found here when we came are all gone from this college..."
Lafayette does not yet have a new president, but Professor McCartney told David and Washington that they will still be treated well.
"...I am now really homesick. But as I have only three years and half longer to study in this college, I think if I am shown fair play that I can get a long very well...there is prejudice in the college, and prejudice in the town, nay there is even prejudice in the churches...as my father and Mr. Lowrie often remarked to us that we would have to put up with many unpleasant thing for the sake of an education..."
David asks for a "cheap copy of Shakespeare" and also to send some of the colonization papers so that he may see how they are "proceeding with the colony in western Africa."
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Original letter at the PRESBYTERIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY (Philadelphia)
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Identifier
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10
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Date
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1841-03-30 00:00:00
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Subject
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Dr. Junkin departs from Lafayette College.
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Creator
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David
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Format
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auto
