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[illegible] Ind.

Nov 11th 1880

Prof C. E. Bessey

My Dear Sir:

Thanks for [illegible]
of commencement exercises [illegible]
received. I should have been [illegible]
to be [illegible] especially as my Brother
[illegible] his course. I hope he
has been successful in his studies.
He writes me that he intends to
return next year and study for
the M. S. degree. I am much
[illegible] to know he desires to go
on. I have to regret every day
that my career as a student was
not prolonged. I have now to work
of alone what should have been
bone in the school [illegible].
I have cherished the hope that I might
be able to spend some time at the
Scientific Center under the guidance
of some of our [illegible] but each
year [illegible] field of [illegible]
that demand all my time.