Preserved in the Drew University Library archives is a small, bound unlined book -- apparently purchased on Wall Street in New York, according to a label inside the front cover – in which William Gibbons records in his own handwriting notes on his horse purchases, breeding, and racing.
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The pencil scribbles and florid script of “Miss Elizabeth Rogers” (pp.24-25) is the young daughter of one of Drew Seminary’s most well-known professors, Robert W. Rogers . The journal which was probably among the Gibbons papers found in the attic after Mead Hall was purchased for the seminary in 1867, found it way somehow into the hands of little Miss Rogers after 1893 when her father arrived and occupied one of four faculty homes on campus that had been built by Daniel Drew .
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