"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."