The Newtown bee., 1880-02-25
Ran.S.inE Sketches of Newtown
 Academy.

I am greatly obliged to Walter s. Booth, Esq, of Rochester Minn., for his correction in late issue of your paper, as to the name and present address of the Rev. Levi B. Corson, who taught as Prin- ciple of the Newtown Academy in 1840 and 1841. By some mistake in names and residences of different Rectors of Trinity Parish, I had gone wrong I must say here that this same Mr. Booth was d schoolmate of the winter during most of the time over which these sketches @ intended to spread; and not only a s.hoolmato, but an intimate school friend It was a friendship which has not broken and trust will last as long as life. GAS he reads your paper, doubtless every week, he may rest assured by this token of mine that the three volumes of Cow pers Poems, which he presented to me more than thirty-fve years ago, are still | in my possession, and are cherished as 1 precious gifts from q very dear friend ] It was in May 1841 on the 17th of the month I think, that Mir. Thomas T. Guion, opened the Academy for his first term. The school WEES quite large; there m st have been nearly, or quite, eighty pupils, Miss Mary Foote was retained as assistant teacher, she occupied the upper floor, or young ladies room, but there were several mixed classes, in which some of the boys from the lower room figured. Among the lads under hel charge, during a part of the day, was "yours truly" Indeed my first lessor in latin were given by Miss Foote, anc the same is the fact as to my earliest at tempt to master the mysteries of chem
 istry.
 MT. Guion was such kind man that i
 seemed as if every one must love him
 If the dark, quick eye, and d rapidly her
 vous motion, indicated an irritable tenn
 per, he had subdued it. until he was, a.
 rule, wonderfully under control.
 have often thought of him in later years and compared, as we'll as I could, hi sdng,tineo-nervous temperament with tha similar one of ex-President Theodor , Dwight Woolsey, of Yale College. It ha 5 always seemed to me as if they mus both have experienced hard struggle t . keep the old, natural man down to b, : such perfectly lovely characters in thei daily life and conversation.
 @ The summer of 1841, as I recall it $ events to mind, was one of the most de r lightful seasons in my whole life's his s tory. The situation of my home (for 
 h boarded III a family where felt at home Q was called the Valley of Peace,' and | latinized in my diary, with freshman s greenness, as Valtis Pacts." It was l- pleasure to study, and my most excellel ,. instructress encouraged and aided me e every honest means in her power. M T chum, Joseph B. Starr, h..d been a mat j. in the district school, before either of | s had thought of attaining higher grao k of knowledge than was then afforded 1T the sons of mechanics and farmer l,1 There was school mate by the nama @ Fuller, from Kent; and one, Gregory l d name, of Brookfeld and they were mes la mates with myself. I cannot tell u t. names of all the pupils from out of tow C. but know that there were still at tn y time a number from Virginia. I thin B. our teacher had the respect, If not u e. love. of every student in the Academy,
 c. B.