It is proposed that a meeting of the Class of 1837 be held at the Revere House, on Wednesday, at 5 P.M., on the 19th of March next.

  There are reasons for a deviation from the usual custom of the Class in assembling during the week of the annual Commencement.

  In Boston and its vicinity are now collected a larger number of the Class than at any time since we left the University. A general desire has been expressed to take advantage of this circumstance, and to endeavor to re-awaken the interest natural to those who have been pleasantly associated together at an early period of life. Nearly fourteen years have elapsed since we left Cambridge, and but few have been in situations to bring them much into contact with any considerable number of their Class.

  There is a manifest advantage in holding a meeting at this season of the year. Upon Commencement week, other engagements are liable to interfere, and the usual heat and fatigue of the days preclude any long duration of the meeting either in the afternoon or evening.

  On the present occasion a dinner is proposed of which the expense will not exceed one dollar to each person.

  It is desirable that a definite answer to this letter should be returned to the Committee previous to the 17th inst. If circumstances should compel the absence of any member, it is expected that he will contribute to the interest of the occasion by writing some account of himself since he left College.

  Very truly,

  Your friends and Classmates,

  William W[hitwell]. Greenough ⎫

  William J[ohnson]. Dale, ⎬ Class Committee

  David Greene Haskins, ⎪

  J[oseph]. H[enry]. Adams, Jr. ⎭

  Annexed is a list of the members of the Class supposed to be in this vicinity.

  [William] Allen, Greenough, [James] Richardson,

  [John] Bacon, Haskins, [Charles Theodore] Russell,

  [Clifford] Belcher, [William] Hawes, Thoreau,

  [Henry Jacob] Bigelow, [Christopher Columbus] Holmes, 2d. [John Francis] Tuckerman,

  [Harvey Erastus] Clap, [Henry] Hubbard, [Henry] Vose,

  [Manlius Stimson] Clarke, [Benjamin Gage] Kimball, [John] Weiss,

  Dale, [John F. W.] Lane, [Giles Henry] Whitney,

  [Charles Henry] Dall, [Charles Wainwright] March, [Daniel] Wight,

  [William] Davis, 1st. [August Goddard] Peabody, Williams, 1st.

  [William Augustus] Davis, 2d. [Amos] Perry, Williams, 3d.

  [Richard Henry] Dana, [Francis] Phelps