The corporation, by vote, presented the thanks of the board in the following letter:—
YALE COLLEGE,
December 4th, 1822.
DEAR SIR,—I am directed by the corporation of this college to present to you the thanks of the board for your subscription of five hundred dollars for the enlargement of the library. Should this example of liberality be generally imitated by the friends of the institution, we should soon have a library creditable to the college and invaluable to men of literary and philosophic research.
With respectful and grateful acknowledgment,
Your obedient servant,
JEREMAIAH DAY.
While he was at home in New Haven in the early part of 1823 he sought orders for portraits, and that he was successful in at least one instance is evidenced by the following letter:—
Mr. D.C. DeForest's compliments to Mr. Morse. Mr. DeForest desires to have his portrait taken such as it would have been six or eight years ago, making the necessary calculation for it, and at the same time making it a good likeness in all other respects.
This reason is not to make himself younger, but to appear to children and grandchildren more suitably matched as to age with their mother and grandmother.
If Mr. Morse is at leisure and disposed to undertake this work, he will please prepare his canvas and let me know when he is ready for my attendance.
NEW HAVEN, 30th March, 1823.