Archive Record
Metadata
Catalog Number |
023.004.10 |
Collection |
Robert Bowne Suckley (1856 - 1921) |
Title |
Correspondence: Robert Bowne Suckley, Jr., 1908 |
Date |
1908 |
Object Name |
Correspondence |
Scope & Content |
Twenty items: letters, postcards, a report from Phillips Exeter and a report from Harvard Written from Phillips Exeter: Surprised at his low grades (school report included); made the tennis team; sends Papa catalog for possible boat purchase. Letters in Aug from "The Antlers" hotel on Raquette Lake in the Adirondacks. Letters from Harvard: [letter #17] Nov 16 The dean has inquired about his poor work in the hour exams. "...the office at Exeter from which you used to receive so many disagreeable communications about Arthur & me is modeled on the same plan as the office here.." Robin invites his father to the Yale game at New Haven and adds "Why don't you come down in the Packard or Ford, and after that, drive Nummie & me up to Rhinebeck again?...Let me know beforehand, so that I can buy a fur coat." Frequent requests for money. |
People |
Suckley, Robert "Robin" Bowne, Jr.(1888-1974) Suckley, Robert Bowne, Sr. (1856-1921) |
Subjects |
Adirondack Mountains Examinations Harvard University Phillips Exeter Academy Tennis |
Legal Status |
Property of Wilderstein Historic Site |