Gift to Union Library.

At the meeting of the Trustees of the Union held Thursday the following letter was read: 706 Sears Building,   Boston, Feb. 25, 1902.

To the Trustees of the Harvard Union:

Gentlemen:--Enclosed please find draft for four thousand and seventy dollars and fifty cents ($4070.50), which is hereby given to your Board by a few of the friends of Robert Fields Simes, to establish a fund, the principal of which shall be held by your Board with all the powers contained in the deed of trust dated October 1, 1901, and the income of which shall be used by your Board for the purchase of recently published books for the library of the Harvard Union. It is understood that this fund may receive additions later.

Also enclosed please find draft for twenty-five dollars and ninety-seven cents ($25.97), which is the income which has accrued on the above mentioned fund to date, and which is now available for use as above indicated.

A book plate containing an appropriate inscription is now in the hands of the chairman of your Library Committee.

It is hoped that this perpetual purchase of books for the use of members of the Harvard Union will encourage in them the love of good reading for which Robert Simes was distinguished, and it seems that this will be a fitting memorial of him.   Very truly yours,   JOHN T. WHEELWRIGHT,   OWEN WISTER,   F. M. STONE.

Robert Fields Simes was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., in 1864, and died in Boston, August 7, 1901. He graduated from the College in 1885 and from the Law School in 1888.