Box 243 1

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Asking SR for a recommendation for a teaching position.

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Wickham requests a list of the names and addresses of the teachers in the area so that he may send them ". . .some valuable information which will be to their advantage and advance the cause of education."

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Asks for donations for a fund to be given to Mr. Wollworth, by his former pupils upon his resignation.

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Concerns an Institute not being held. There is also mention made of an attack upon the present school system being made at a teachers' convention.

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Dwight is asking SR for information of the upcoming Tompkins County Institute.

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The author of the letter had been promised a letter he did not receive. He is now appealing to SR for a certificate and/or a letter of recommendation.

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION From the Collection: Correspondence and other papers of the Robertson family of Washington County, New York, and several other related families, dealing mostly with family matters and the migration westward of family members to Ohio, Missouri, Minnesota, and California. The papers of Smith Robertson consist of his letters written while a student at Union College (Schenectady, New York) and as superintendent of Common Schools in Tompkins County; also as a medical student at Geneva Medical College, at Yale...

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION From the Collection: Correspondence and other papers of the Robertson family of Washington County, New York, and several other related families, dealing mostly with family matters and the migration westward of family members to Ohio, Missouri, Minnesota, and California. The papers of Smith Robertson consist of his letters written while a student at Union College (Schenectady, New York) and as superintendent of Common Schools in Tompkins County; also as a medical student at Geneva Medical College, at Yale...

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General Marcy has been asked to give an opinion about whether or not officers who did not parade their companies on a certain required date should be punished. If they did not know that they were required to perform a duty, then they can not be punished for failing to fulfill the obligation. Note: Xerox copy placed in Hatheway Family Papers, Ace. #2281.