Abstract

The Trinity College Board of Trustees was created in 1823 in conjunction with the founding of the college. The collection contains all records concerning the board including meeting minutes, committee reports, and correspondences.

Scope and Contents This collection contains notebooks, journals, correspondence, account books, records of expenditures, and invoices for books purchased for Trinity College while Nathaniel S. Wheaton (1792-1862) was in Europe. Wheaton's journals cover his life in Europe and his tours of England, Scotland, and France during the 1820s, as well as a trip to continental Europe (including Italy) between 1845 and 1847. The student notebooks contain school materials from 1814-1816, when Wheaton was a student at Yale...