ExtractNancy Kendrick In September 1728 Berkeley left Greenwich, England and set sail for Newport, Rhode Island to make preparations for the college he intended to found in Bermuda. After four months ‘blundering about the ocean’ (Works viii: 190) , he and his wife, Anne Forster Berkeley, landed in Virginia and made their way north to Newport. Berkeley had spent a good part of the period from 1713 to 1720 travelling in Europe, mostly in Italy, and soon after his return to Ireland wrote to his friend John Percival about a plan to found a college for educating British colonists together with Native Americans (Works viii: 127) . He spent much of the next eight years working toward this plan. Though the Percival letter is the first mention of the scheme, it would be a mistake to think that Berkeley came up with the plan suddenly, or that his was the...