University of the City of New York

Letter from George W. Strong, New York, to George Templeton Strong, Catskill, mentioning the appointment of George Templeton Strong's friend, George C. Anthon, as professor of Greek and Rev. George W. Bethune as chancellor of the University of the City of New York, assuring him that his house is safe while he is away, updating him on the affairs of their law office, and sending greetings from his mother and sister.

Letter from George W. Strong, New York, to John Nelson Lloyd, Lloyd Neck, acknowledging receipt of $1053.52 for wood cut from his daughter's property at Lloyd Neck, and discussing the terms of a loan from Lloyd to William Beach Lawrence, the birth of a grandson, George, by his daughter Eloise, a lawsuit between the Coles, the family of Lloyd's late wife, and Westchester County about a toll bridge over the Harlem River, conflict at the University of the City of New York (later New York University), a poem by James Hillhouse, and the prospects for Van Buren's Democrats.

Letter from George W. Strong, New York, to John Nelson Lloyd, Lloyd Neck, apologizing for not writing as he has been and continues to be very busy with work especially relating to the December 16, 1835 Great Fire, and discussing the great increase in property values and rents following the fire, declining his nomination to be a professor of law at the University of the City of New York, and Eloise's failure to reply to a letter from Lloyd.

Letter from George W. Strong, New York, to John Nelson Lloyd, Lloyd Neck, regarding a letter from his daughter Eloise, the source of the December 16, 1835 Great Fire, the effect of the fire on property values and rents, Lloyd's children, his son George's injury which kept him from attending college, and his having been nominated to be a professor of law at the University of the City of New York which he declines; with a postscript stating that he was also nominated to be a member of the governing council of the University, but doesn't know the outcome of the nomination.

Letter from George W. Strong, New York, to John Nelson Lloyd, Lloyd Neck, discussing his negative opinion of Henry Davis, former president of Hamilton College, the conflict between J.M. Mathews, chancellor of the University of the City of New York (now New York University), and the university's faculty, his and Lloyd's concerns for the health of their children, seeing James A. Hillhouse who had been suffering from rheumatism, and legal the ownership of seaweed that has washed up on the beach.