BISHOP BERKELEY.

I have now before me 'A Catalogue of Books for Yale College, at New Haven, in Connecticut, New England, markt as in the margent, consign'd to Mr. Andrew Belcher at Boston, by Capt. Alden, master of the Dolphin,' for which I am indebted to Mr. Gilman.

They were 'shipp'd 30h of May, 1733, by order of the Rev. Mr. Dean Berkeley, at London,' and the invoice is signed 'Henry Newman.' The Catalogue is too long to be inserted here. It contains nearly five hundred books - with some duplicates, about a thousand volumes ...

Johnson mentions, in his *Autobiography*, that the trustees of Yale College, 'though they made an appearance of much thankfulness, were almost afraid to accept the noble donation.' They recollected the effect of Anglican divinity upon Johnson himself, and some of their tutors and graduates, in previous years, and suspected a proselytizing design. But in the end a more liberal spirit prevailed, and Berkeley kept up friendly correspondence with the College to the end of his life. There is, I believe, a 'Berkeley Association' in Yale College at the present day.

Harvard College, as well as Yale, shared in Berkeley's liberality ...

From Fraser's *Life and letters of Berkeley*. Oxford, 1871.

foot-note, p.194-5.