For the Online Record, Against the Day

[Dave Monroe]

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From: Michael Paulus
Date: Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 12:00 PM
Subject: RE: For the Online Record, Against the Day
To: Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>


Hello,

This information comes from the journal of Myron Eells and the catalog
of his mineral cabinet.

Here is part of a journal entry, dated October 25, 1869, in which
Eells describes his room at Hartford Theological Seminary:

"On the South side sets a little cupboard which answers for a bureau
very well & on it are four 10x12 paper boxes, covered with glass &
containing reminiscences of travel & some mineral specimens.  The
reminiscences I obtained where I have been, & some of the minerals I
picked up, & some were given by Batterson & Co. & Dr. Pynchon of
Trinity (Episcopal) college of this city for Whitman Seminary for
which they have my warmest thanks."

The minerals that Pynchon gave are listed in Eells's inventory of his
collection.  There is a marginal note by the entry for Iceland Spar
that reads: "From Trinity College Dr. Pynchon."

Best regards,
Michael

Michael J. Paulus, Jr.
Archivist and Special Collections Librarian
Whitman College and Northwest Archives
Penrose Library
345 Boyer Avenue
Walla Walla, WA 99362
www.whitman.edu/archives

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 8:32 AM
Subject: For the Online Record, Against the Day
To: Pynchon-L <pynchon-l at waste.org>

Monday, November 24, 2008
For the Online Record, Against the Day

This must be recorded online: In 1869, Thomas Pynchon gave Myron Eells
a specimen of Iceland Spar for Whitman Seminary.

http://forkeepingtime.blogspot.com/2008/11/for-online-record-against-day.htm