I have just received your favor of June 13th

My firm has been employed in consultation by the faculties of Yale, Amherst, Harvard and Cornell but at none of them have we furnished “plans for College Lodging Houses.” We prepared plans for a dormitory at Yale, under instructions but though it provided for some common rooms and a club system it was adapted essentially to the old and common theory of College discipline & management.

We have published nothing bearing upon the subject except a report made to the Agricultural College of Massachusetts. We also made a report to the Trustees of the Maine Agricl College. The views expressed in these reports were favorably entertained by the gentlemen to whom they were addressed in each case, but as they were soon after supplanted and their successors preferred the old plan of large and imposing buildings, they have not been practically adopted. I send you both these documents, the Maine report having been printed by the legislature. I do not know whether your plan will be found to harmonize at all with the suggestions of these reports but should be very glad to hear that such is the case and that there is a prospect of their being efficiently tested.

I send you also a report to the College of California in which the question of lodging is incidentally discussed, and a few other papers & plans. I shall be obliged if you will send me anything you may print on the subject of college buildings.