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PARSONS, EDWARD SMITH (1863-1943); [MARIETTA COLLEGE; YALE UNIVERSITY].

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PARSONS, EDWARD SMITH (1863-1943); [MARIETTA COLLEGE; YALE UNIVERSITY].
A single-sheet ALS on Marietta College Office of the President, Marietta, Ohio letterhead, July 9, 1931, to Edward M. Chapman. Parsons is responding to Chapman sending his book and writes that he is in the hospital awaiting an operation, describing his experiences there. He writes of their shared academic life, classmates, and "Yale insight & spirit." 7 1/4in. x 8 1/2in. Condition: Two vertical and one horizontal folds, other light corner creases, hole punches. PLEASE NOTE: 20TH CENTURY DOCUMENTS CAN HAVE VARIED TONING FROM AGE; IMAGES MAY APPEAR LIGHTER ON DIFFERENT SCREENS. EDWARD MORTIMER CHAPMAN (1862-1952) was a Connecticut pastor, academic, and author. He graduated from Yale Divinity School in 1890. Chapman was a descendant of Robert Chapman, one of the first settlers of Saybrook, Connecticut (c. 1635). He served as pastor of Old Lyme Church from 1906 to 1915. Chapman€™s works integrated his wide-ranging theological, literary, and historical interests. This lot and the other Chapman-related documents offered in this sale were part of a collection of his family papers.