[New Mexico]. Ladd, Horatio O.

A Vindication of President H.O. Ladd [cover title]

Santa Fe: 1889. 17pp. Printed in two columns. Original beige printed wrappers. Light wear and soiling; top half of spine reinforced with tape. Minor creasing and wear. Very good. Item #792

A rare pamphlet published to defend the reputation of the first University of New Mexico president, Horatio O. Ladd, who had been accused by E. Lyman Hood of defrauding a university benefactor and misappropriating funds to purchase land around Santa Fe. Hood was the superintendent of Congregational missionary work in New Mexico and Arizona, but Ladd also had an abiding interest in Indian education, having helped to found the Ramona Industrial School for Indian Girls, and the two apparently clashed. The University Board of Trustees found in favor of Ladd, and the present pamphlet prints a copy of their report, along with a foreword by Ladd and an editorial from the Santa Fe New Mexican, both touting his “vindication.” We locate just one copy of this work in OCLC, at Princeton. Rare.

Price: $650.00