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Welling S. Katzenbach, who seems to have recently graduated from the Model School, congratulates the Thencanic Society on the election of new officers. He offers his opinions on the selected students, and offers some reflections on the debating society at the post-secondary institution he was attending at this time. Transcription included.

William Bamford, Model School Class of 1896, included this letter with his book of Thencanic Society officers from 1882 to 1896. In it he explains his process of creating the work and why he assembled it. It provides important contextual information on this essential document. Transcription included.

Thencanic alumnus William Bellerjeau ("lazy Bill") thanks the Society for making him an honorary member alongside various other notables from the Spanish-American War and U.S. government. This letter reveals that the Thencanic also inducted Admiral George Dewey's dog, "Bob," as an honorary member. Transcription included.

Trenton journalist/historian and former Thencanic President Francis B. Lee writes three letters to the Society, one for each of its anniversaries from 1897 to 1899. While Lee was unable to make the first two events, he states his intentions to be present at the third. Transcriptions included.

These four letter all came to the Thencanic Society by its supervisor, Professor Oliver Mordorf. The first (1893) thanks the Society for electing Mordorf honorary member. In the last three letters (1897-1899), Mordorf apologizes each year for being unable to attend the Society's anniversary celebrations. Transcriptions included.

Through this scrap of paper, Thencanic Secretary Francis "Frank" B. Lee resigned from the position of Thencanic Secretary. According to the book of officers, Lee served as Secretary starting in February 1886. No transcription due to the item's brevity.

This booklet came from the third annual debate between the Thencanic Society and Mu Alpha, the debate society at the Peddie Institute (today the Peddie School) of Hightstown, New Jersey. Though it does not include the year, it is most likely dated to around 1900-1904 given the presence of Kenneth H. Lanning (Model Class of 1904). In addition to several musical pieces by the State Schools Orchestra, the event featured a debate on restricting immigration into the United States. No transcription, as the booklet is typed.

Transcription of Lists of Thencanic Society Officers, 1882-1899

Shortly after the victory of William McKinley in the U.S. Presidential election of 1900, Thencanic member Russell Throp gave this messy, partisan, and occasionally off-base account of McKinley's life and political career. Less than a year later, Leon Czolgosz would assassinate McKinley in Buffalo, NY. Transcription included.

Another resolution regarding a portrait of Thencanic Society supervisor Dr. Oliver P. Steves, this one dated. While it is possible that the two are connected, no decisive evidence links the two. This portrait has since been lost. Transcription included.