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- catalog abstract "This collection contains two letters from Harvard undergraduate D. W. Gorham to his former classmate, Charles Prescott, in Newburyport, Mass. The first letter is a three-page handwritten letter, dated June 1, 1819, from Gorham describing his participation in the November 1818 Harvard student rebellion. The second letter, dated June 1, 1821, is a brief, half-page handwritten message requesting Prescott come to the Harvard Commencement.".
- catalog alternative "These letters form part of George Goodspeed's collection of Harvardiana".
- catalog contributor b11359331.
- catalog contributor b11359332.
- catalog date "1819".
- catalog description "A letter to Charles Prescott from his sister Mary describing the Harvard student rebellion of 1818 (HUA 734.12) is also held in the Harvard University Archives.".
- catalog description "Charles Prescott (aged 16 in 1817), a son of Dr. Oliver Prescott (1762-1827; Harvard AB 1783), entered Harvard with the class of 1821 but left after his sophomore year. Prescott died in Empire City, California in 1851.".
- catalog description "David Wood Gorham (1800-1873) received an AB from Harvard in 1821 and an MD in 1824. Gorham practiced medicine in Exeter, New Hampshire and served as a member of the board of Trustees for the Phillips Exeter academy from 1844 until his death in 1873.".
- catalog description "In 1818, following a food fight between Harvard freshmen and sophomores that broke much of the College's crockery, the sophomores (Harvard Class of 1821) protested the faculty's disciplinary efforts by gathering around the "Rebellion Tree" in the College Yard. The Harvard Corporation and Faculty responded by suspending the students. The poem "The Rebelliad," was written in response to the incident by Augustus Peirce (Harvard Class of 1820) in 1819 and published by B. B. Mussey in 1842.".
- catalog description "This collection contains two letters from Harvard undergraduate D. W. Gorham to his former classmate, Charles Prescott, in Newburyport, Mass. The first letter is a three-page handwritten letter, dated June 1, 1819, from Gorham describing his participation in the November 1818 Harvard student rebellion. The second letter, dated June 1, 1821, is a brief, half-page handwritten message requesting Prescott come to the Harvard Commencement.".
- catalog extent ".01 cubic feet (1 folder)".
- catalog isPartOf "Collections of the Harvard University Archives. Personal archives. hua".
- catalog issued "1819".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog subject "Gorham, D. W. (David Wood), approximately 1800-1873.".
- catalog subject "Harvard College (1780- ). Class of 1821.".
- catalog subject "Harvard University Discipline.".
- catalog subject "Harvard University Riot, 1818.".
- catalog subject "Harvard University Students.".
- catalog subject "Prescott, Charles, b. ca. 1801.".
- catalog title "Letters from D. W. Gorham to Charles Prescott, 1819 and 1821.".
- catalog title "These letters form part of George Goodspeed's collection of Harvardiana".
- catalog type "collection".