Box 01
Container
Contains 1 Result:
Waterhouse, Benjamin, 1754-1846, A.L.s. to John Adams; Cambridge, 1 side (4 pages), 1806 March 30, 1806 March 30 Digital
FOUND IN:
Center for the History of Medicine (Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine)
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Collection:
Benjamin Waterhouse papers
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Series:
Series I. Benjamin Waterhouse, 1778-1942.
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Sub-Series:
A. Correspondence, 1782-1837.
File — Box: 01, Folder: 4Identifier: H MS c16
Scope and Contents:
Correspondence in which Waterhouse laments Harvard Corporation's choice of Fisher Ames as university president, describing him as "a man no one ever thought of; a sort of negative character; a man without friends or enemies; a man as ignorant of the world as if he had never been born into it; a mere mathematician, to which brand of science he is a bigot; a man who thinks that all the rest of the world are busy about trifles, mathematicians excepted!" Ames declined the presidency due to his...