Trenton, and the other from Hon. Theodore Frelinghuysen, of New Brunswick :

TRENTON, N. J., September 2, 1860.

DEAR SIR:-In regard to Dr. Lindsley's youth and early education, I may say, that he and I were members of Dr. Finley's Academy in Baskingridge, New Jersey, at its origin-both boarders in his family for some time and room mates. He was always quite sensitive, but we harmonized very well. I was fond of him. He was studious, orderly and peaceful. Being rather slender, young and feeble, he did not enter very warmly into the athletic exercises and competitions of the boys in general, but passed the interim of school hours in reading some amusing book or in study. This will account, in some measure, for his being pre-eminent as a scholar, in all classes and in all studies. In college he shone quite conspicuously, particularly in the Ancient Classics and in Belles-Lettres studies. Hence he was a classical writer of the highest order in our own native tongue. I had ample opportunities to know that he could write Latin with great facility. In the Greek also he was very accomplished at that early period. When Xenophon's Anabasis was first introduced pretty generally among the students at Princeton, as a novel, more than a class-book, he observed to me, that "he had read it through for amusement in one day."

Dr. Lindsley had the respect and confidence of the Trustees and literary gentlemen sympathizing with Princeton College very generally; and in this spirit, I think with unanimity, we offered to him the presidency of that institution. But some peculiar views and difficulties in his own mind on this subject, inclined him to prefer his most important and valuable adventure to the West-a decision which resulted in conferring upon the growing population of the great Western Valley inestimable and countless literary, moral and religious benefits. During the last year of his life he and I had extensive correspondence, reviewing the scenes and events of our early days. These letters contain nothing that would be valuable to you. The correspondence closed with a promise on my part to spend a week with him at New Albany, just preceding the Assembly's meeting at

Nashville. Indisposition prevented my undertaking so long a journey, and his death soon after, interrupted forever our subsequent intercourse in this world.

With great respect, dear sir, yours, etc.

ISAAC V. BROWN.

NEW BRUNSWICK, August 27, 1860.

DEAR SIR:-I am glad to learn, from your favour received to-day, that you are preparing a memorial of the life of my early friend and classmate, Dr. Philip Lindsley, formerly of this State, and I cheerfully comply with your request, and send a few lines in respect to my recollections of him at Princeton College.

My acquaintance with Dr. L. commenced at Baskingridge, New Jersey, as a classmate with him at Mr. Finley's Academy, in 1800. From that institution we entered Princeton College in 1802, and graduated in 1804. Our class with Mr. Finley was composed of Dr. Lindsley, Dr. Kirkpatrick, Samuel L. Southard, Mr. Albanus Logan, of Germantown, Pennsylvania, and myself. Dr. Kirkpatrick and myself survive. Of my friend Dr. Lindsley it is pleasant to remember his uniform diligence, propriety and excellent scholarship. He loved his booksoften when we, his fellows, were pursuing the sports of the bat and ball, he would be exploring the roots of the classics. And yet he was genial, and had a ready sympathy with our youthful pleasures.

After our graduation, I renewed a happy companionship with him at Princeton-he as Tutor in the College and I as a student at law. In all the relations of life he was an exemplary Christian gentleman -an honour to his native State of New Jersey and to the cause of sound science and religion. He left to his children the richest of all legacies a good name.

Very respectfully and truly yours,

THEO. FRELINGHUYSEN.

In addition to these, we subjoin the following letter from Dr. Robert Baird, author of "Religion in America," and other works, addressed to the Editor, under date of Yonkers, New York, October 8, 1860, giving his personal recollections of the same, as well as of a later period:

MY DEAR SIR-I entered the Theological Seminary at Princeton

in the autumn of 1819, and went through the course of three years' studies in that highly-favoured institution. As I had not pursued my academical studies at the College of New Jersey, I did not become acquainted with the Rev. Dr. Lindsley (or Professor Lindsley, as he was then called) until I had been there a year, if not longer. From the autumn of 1821 to that of 1822-my third and last year in the Theological Seminary-I was a Tutor in the College, having succeeded the late Rev. Dr. John Breckinridge in that office, and of course was thrown much into the company of Dr. Lindsley--who was Professor of Languages in the institution as well as Vice-President of it-by reason of the official intercourse which the duties of the several members of the Faculty required. During that year, my acquaintance with that distinguished scholar, teacher, writer and preacher, which had commenced the year before, became quite intimate; and during the following year I saw much of him, for I took charge of an Academy or Grammar School in Princeton, upon leaving the Theological Seminary, and held it during five years and a half. Dr. Lindsley only remained one year after I left the College. During that year, however, my intercourse with him was even more frequent and intimate than during my tutorship. Nine or ten years afterwards I spent a fortnight with him at Nashville, Tennessee. A year or two later still, I had the pleasure of seeing him at the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia, where I then resided. After that I never met him again until I spent a night with him at New Albany, in the early spring of 1855, only a few months before he died.

Of Dr. Lindsley's appearance, manner, tones of voice and mode of speaking, I have a most vivid recollection. He was one of the ripest scholars in all that constitutes classic and general literature, including history, I have ever known. His style of writing possessed the two great qualities of clearness and strength, rather than smoothness and refinement. It was a fair type of his style of speaking, which was dignified, emphatic and forcible. He preached very seldom whilst he was a Professor in the College of New Jersey. I think I heard only three or four of these sermons, nearly all of which, I believe, were published. A few of the sermons which he preached during his stay at

Princeton, after I came to the place, I did not have the privilege to hear. So great was his reputation for scholarship, for the originality of his conceptions, boldness in the expression of them, and a certain indescribable intonation, look and manner, that the College Chapel was sure to be crowded when he preached, by the students of the two institutions (College and Theological Seminary) and such of the citizens as may have been so fortunate as to hear that he was going to occupy the pulpit. He usually read his sermons, but not very closely, if I remember rightly. But whether closely or not, his manner and tones of voice were so striking that it was impossible for an audience not to hear him with intensest interest.

Dr. Lindsley's influence over the minds of the students was extraordinary. He was an excellent teacher; but his manner was so decided and dignified, that it diffused over every class that came before him a certain awe that rendered all trifling to be impossible. A good deal of this same feeling pervaded the congregation when he preached. I can hardly conceive of a man who could have more influence over young men in the lecture-room, or over a congregation composed of intelligent hearers. He was, in every sense, no ordinary man, whether natural endowments, mental culture and acquisitions, manner or voice be considered. I can never think of him without the deepest pensiveness; for he was a friend to whom I feel that I owe much, and whose influence I enjoyed at the period of life when I most needed it. With great respect, I am yours, most truly,

III. HIS REMOVAL TO THE WEST.

R. BAIRD.

Situated as Dr Lindsley was at Princeton, with everything around him. congenial to his tastes and studies, having already an ample salary and the professorship of his choice, and with the presidency of his Alma Mater urgently pressed upon him, it seemed surprising, and to some unaccountable, that he should have resigned all the bright prospects of usefulness and honour which awaited him there, to go to what was then a comparatively new country, and take charge of an institution, at the time almost unknown, and even struggling for existence. At the

first, and indeed for several years, he utterly declined all overtures for a removal. As early as 1817, he had twice declined the presidency of Transylvania University in Kentucky: subsequently he declined that of the Ohio University at Athens. It was not until Cumberland College had waited on him a year, refusing to take any denial, that he consented to accept that position: and, as he states, not without a very great struggle at last. We are not left, however, to conjecture, as to the motives which governed him in this important step. He has placed on record the reasons for his choice. And they are alike satisfactory and creditable to him as a Christian minister and a lover of his country. The prevailing motive seems to have been that he might accomplish a greater and more needful work than he could have done where he was. The following extracts from his journal and letters will show at once, why he refused the presidency at Princeton, and why at last he was constrained to take a presidency in the Southwest.

Speaking of the offer from the Ohio University, in 1823, he says: "It was then my fixed purpose never to accept of a college presidency anywhere. I infinitely preferred my peaceful classical chair at Princeton." He had then already declined the first invitation to Nashville, and the year before, 1822, on the resignation of Dr. Ashbel Green, had absolutely refused to be elected his successor in the presidency of Nassau Hall. But still, in April, 1823, after serving one year as the actual president of the institution, and after Dr. John H. Rice, of Virginia, whom he had nominated, had also declined, he was again proposed, and, without his knowledge, unanimously elected, "notwithstanding," says he, "my well-known disinclination to the office." He again declined; whereupon Dr. James Carnahan was chosen. All the proceedings in the case (of which he has preserved a careful record) show that his highest wish at this time, was to remain at Princeton and retain his loved Greek professorship. As to the presidency, he says, "I did not think myself qualified for so arduous and responsible a trust." Long afterwards, when the invitations and overtures mentioned in a former notice were crowding upon him from all quarters, he makes the following entry: "I here state, once for all, that I never, directly or indirectly, sought a college office or appointment. I was