SUNY Brockport staff, Gary Musante, discovers letter from faculty member of the Brockport Collegiate Institute dated 1842

Mr. Charles Cowling a librarian at the SUNY Brockport Drake Library submitted a brief article to the SUNY Brockport Daily Eagle announcing that a letter has been discovered from a faculty member of the newly formed Brockport Collegiate Institute dated 1842. Here is part of that article:

 

Thanks to Gary Musante in the Department of Theatre and Music Studies for sharing this discovery with the archives! In doing some research of his own, Gary ran across a letter that is from a young faculty member, David Black, to a friend describing his new position. It is a fascinating and very rare glimpse of the life of a beginning professor of that time. The letter is scanned and available via the link included. 

contact: Charlie Cowling, ccowling@brockport.edu.

David Black letter of 1842