Nathaniel Sheldon Wheaton (President of Trinity College), 1831-1834

The Trinity College (Hartford, Connecticut), Early Presidents' Files consist of correspondence (personal and official), publications, lectures, newspapers, ephemera, and realia, related to twelve of the first 13 Presidents of Trinity College (Hartford, Connecticut), nearly inclusive of the first 100 years of Trinity College's existence (1823-1920). Highlights include a mounted and bound volume (82 pages; 44 cm.) of first President Thomas C. Brownell's correspondence; the Phi Beta Kappa key of acting President John Brocklesby (1866-1867); and extensive lecture notes and correspondence of President Flavel S. Luther. Materials for acting President Henry Augustus Perkins (1915-1916) have not yet been located.