"Your correspondence shows that you entered Yale College a third-term Freshman in the year 1834, and left at the close of that term never to return, for in December you were settled in New York. I find no evidence of your having returned to college in the fall. "But there is nothing in your correspondence to show what _room_ you occupied. As you ate at Commons, I infer that you had a room in the college. "If you will have the goodness to supply the information about the number of your room and the name of the college building that you occupied, I will be prepared to answer Mr. Hobart. "If I am not right in assuming that you were a Yale third-term Freshman in 1834, and no longer, please correct me. "Yours faithfully, "JOHN BIGELOW. "P. S.--If you did not room in the college, please tell me where or with whom you had lodgings." TILDEN TO BIGELOW "GREYSTONE, _April 20, 1883_. "DEAR MR. BIGELOW,--I entered Yale College in the third term of the Freshman class, in June, 1834. I had no room in the college building, but I had a room in the house of a Mr. Goodman, which was situated below the Tontine, in a street at right angles with the front of the college buildings. At first I took my meals at Commons, but soon found that the diet would not answer for my delicate stomach. I left the college at the end of the Freshman year, expecting to return after the long vacation, but found myself unable. "As Mr. Hobart seems to desire more particulars, I enclose herewith two copies of the _Courier Journal_ Biography. Would it not be well for you to open communication with Mr. Hobart, saying that his letter had been referred to you?[28] "Very truly yours, "S. J. TILDEN." [28] Mr. Tilden was aware that I wrote the biography of him which is here referred to, and which first appeared in the Louisville _Courier-Journal_ during the campaign of 1876. TILDEN TO MRS. MARY TILDEN "GREYSTONE, _June 19, 1883_. "DEAR MRS. TILDEN,--Your kind and interesting letter of October 12, 1882, has ever since awaited an opportunity for me to answer it, which, with the best intentions, has not been accomplished until now. I regret that I did not have the pleasure of making your acquaintance when I was last in England in 1877. "My grandfather's name was John, which seems to have been a favorite name in that branch of the family. The ancestor who migrated to this country was Nathaniel; he came from Tenterden, of which he and several of his kinsmen had been Mayor. "I am interested in the particulars which your letter contains in respect to your family. "I send a photograph of myself. Please present to your daughter and accept for yourself my best regards. "Very truly yours, "(Signed) S. J. TILDEN." MARY E. BLAIR TO TILDEN "FALKLAND, MONTGOMERY COUNTY, MD., _June 26th_. "MR. TILDEN.