The late Professor Sophocles was first "brought out," it is said, in 1836 by two Yale tutors, Messrs. N. P. Seymour and S. C. Brace, who had known him at Hartford, where he was living in obscurity with the manuscript of his Greek grammar packed away at the bottom of his trunk. They invited him to come to New Haven, and the Yale people at once made him at home, giving him the nominal position of assistant to Professor Gibbs, the Hebrew scholar, who was then librarian, in order that the young Greek might be entitled to a room in the chapel building where the library was kept. Soon some of the tutors formed a class, to enjoy his reading and exposition of Aristophanes. Then a Hartford publisher got his grammar printed at the Cambridge Press, and at last Professor Felton drew him to Harvard and kept him there.