Bryan, W.J. Letter

An ALS to Dr. [D. B.] Purinton, President of West Virginia University, in which William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925) gives the President $250 to be invested by the university, the income there from to be given as an annual prize "for the best essay in the science of government." It was hoped that the prize would "stimulate the students to more earnest and diligent study of the principles which underlie free Institutions."