Colman, Benjamin, 1673-1747. Letter : to Edward Holyoke, 1744 July 10. MS Am 602. Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.

To the very Revd. & Hond. Edward Holyoke President of Harvard College in Cambridge of New England.

Sir,

I know not how to do Justice to the Memory of my worthy Friend, Capt[ain] Thomas Coram of London, who communicated to me, some years past, the Inclosed Memorial of his long Travel & Labour for the Good of Mankind, but by depositing them in your public Library at Cambridge.

Mr. Coram married here at Boston about [th]e Year 1695. & soon after setled at London: where after the Fatigue & Patience of more than 30. years together, he has at last accomplished [th]e Foundation of a Hospital for [th]e receiving Foundlings; to prevent [th]e Murder of poor bastard Children:

A Labour of Piety & Charity so singular, persisted in & prosecuted with a Constancy so unwearied, should endear his Name to all Posterity, for whose Good he singly laboured. -- Let the Sons of Harvard therefore honour his Memory, & let it not ly buried in [th]e private & obscure Wall of [th]e [illegible] of his Friend & long Correspondent, Your Brother Sir & very humble Servant

Benjamin Colman

Boston July. 10. 1744

Dr. 71 A Rg 1.26 MS Am 602*

see also MS Eng 549 = Memorial and Petition of Thomas Coram