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Justin Smith Morrill to Matthew H. Buckham, June 14, 1873

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Creator: Morrill, Justin S. (Justin Smith), 1810-1898.
Date Created: 1873-06-14
Description: Morrill writes with interest about Buckham's recent discourse on history and with a few thoughts on Milton's work on Latin history.
Parent Collections: Justin Morrill Letters to UVM President Buckham

Justin Smith Morrill to Matthew H. Buckham, October 7, 1873

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Creator: Morrill, Justin S. (Justin Smith), 1810-1898.
Date Created: 1873-10-07
Description: Morrill writes about a former supporter of the University named Harry and Senator George Boutwell's changed opinion on agricultural colleges.
Parent Collections: Justin Morrill Letters to UVM President Buckham

Justin Smith Morrill to Albert L. Cummins, May 30, 1877

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Creator: Morrill, Justin S. (Justin Smith), 1810-1898.
Date Created: 1877-05-30
Description: Morrill writes to Lt. Albert L. Cummins with an offer to teach military instruction at the University of Vermont.
Parent Collections: Justin Morrill Letters to UVM President Buckham

Justin Smith Morrill to Matthew H. Buckham, July 21, 1876

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Creator: Morrill, Justin S. (Justin Smith), 1810-1898.
Date Created: 1876-07-21
Description: Morrill writes with praise from Senator Theodore Randolph about President Buckham's work on the examining board at West Point.
Parent Collections: Justin Morrill Letters to UVM President Buckham

Justin Smith Morrill to Matthew H. Buckham, September 10, 1890

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Creator: Morrill, Justin S. (Justin Smith), 1810-1898.
Date Created: 1890-09-10
Description: Morrill writes about the second Morrill Act and the process for UVM obtaining appropriations from the Act via the State legislature.
Parent Collections: Justin Morrill Letters to UVM President Buckham

Justin Smith Morrill to Matthew H. Buckham, January 30, 1874

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Creator: Morrill, Justin S. (Justin Smith), 1810-1898.
Date Created: 1874-01-30
Description: Morrill writes about his surprise at the actions of Henry Clark, the postponement of a bill from Senator George Hoar, and an address from President Andrew White of Cornell in support of aid to colleges and against sentiments previously expressed by President Charles Eliot of Harvard and President James McCosh of Princeton.
Parent Collections: Justin Morrill Letters to UVM President Buckham

Justin Morrill Letters to UVM President Matthew Buckham

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Creator: Morrill, Justin S. (Justin Smith), 1810-1898
Date Created: 1872-1898
Description:
Justin Morrill (1810-1898) served as a US Representative (1855-1867) and Senator (1867-1898) from Vermont, following a successful business career. His signature legislative accomplishments were the Land Grant Acts of 1862 and 1890, which used the proceeds from the sale of federal lands expropriated from tribal nations, to create land-grant colleges. The purpose of these land-grant colleges was to teach agriculture, military instruction, and mechanical arts such as engineering in addition to the traditional science and classical education that was generally taught in colleges at that time. The second Land Grant Act, passed in 1890, funded colleges in the former Confederate states and required each state to offer race blind admissions or set up a separate land-grant college for persons of color, which led to the creation of several of the historically Black colleges and universities. An additional act passed by Congress in 1887 funded agricultural experiment stations under the direction of the land grant colleges.

In 1865, the University of Vermont and State Agricultural College was incorporated, after a great deal of debate about whether a land-grant college in Vermont should be a separate institution, or attached to the University of Vermont, Norwich University, Middlebury College or even possibly a merger of those three institutions. Despite the 1865 incorporation, these debates would continue in Vermont for many years to come. With the establishment of the University of Vermont and State Agricultural College, Morrill became a trustee of the University, a position he continued to hold until his death in 1898.

Matthew Buckham (1832-1910) became President of the University in 1871 and continued in this role until his death in 1910. He had previously graduated from the University in 1851 and served as a faculty member from 1856-1871. His time as president saw the admission of women to the University, the addition of several notable buildings to campus such as Williams Hall and the Billings Library, and the development of the State Agricultural College which had admitted no students to the agricultural course in the six years before he became President.

Morrill and Buckham were frequent correspondents and eighty-two of Morrill’s letters to Buckham, along with three to George Benedict and one to Albert Cummins, are preserved in Buckham’s papers at the University of Vermont and are digitized and transcribed in this collection. The letters included here discuss a wide variety of topics, mostly related to the agricultural college and include: federal support for the University, possible donors, military instruction, Morrill’s views on the development of agricultural colleges around the country, competition with Middlebury and Norwich, Vermont legislation such as the 1890 “divorce bill” which would have separated the State Agricultural College from the University, the experimental farm, the academic progress of Morrill’s son James at the University, and the construction of Billings Library along with the potential acquisition of the library of George Perkins Marsh.

Justin Smith Morrill to Matthew H. Buckham, March 27, 1876

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Creator: Morrill, Justin S. (Justin Smith), 1810-1898.
Date Created: 1876-03-27
Description: Morrill writes about the need to acquire forty to fifty acres of farm land for the University as a means of appeasing those opposed to the University as the home for the state's agricultural college, such as the Grangers and competing institutions like Middlebury .
Parent Collections: Justin Morrill Letters to UVM President Buckham

Maple sausage stuffed squash

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Date Created: 1984
Parent Collections: Maple Recipe Collection, Green Mountain Folklore cookbook

Vermont maple syrup eggnog

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Date Created: c1984
Parent Collections: Maple Recipe Collection, Wild game cookery

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