Boston.com and The Boston Globe received dozens and dozens of letters from students at Purchase College in New York, one of the SUNY colleges. Students at the Purchase, N.Y. institution expressed their support for the people in Boston as the city grappled with a terrorist bombing at the Boston Marathon followed by a week-long manhunt that culminated in the death of one suspect, and the injury and capture of another.

Here is a sampling of some of the cards we received at Boston.com.