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State Agricultural College,
Lansing, Mich., Aug 9, 1881
My dear professor
The article
you ask for was written in 1879
while the Legislature was in Session.
A Mr. Stanchfield (G.O.) [???] was a
member and a bitter opponent of
the college. He has been a member
of your Board and always ????
any slighting by of Michigan as
compared to the Iowa Agricultural
College. So the Lansing Republican
goes to every member of the
House. I took occasion to
put an account of your college
where they ???? be likely to see
it. I wrote wholly as a friend.
I regret that I cannot
send you a copy. I sent the
last I had and the last I
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https://www.loc.gov/resource/lhbum.7004b/?sp=317, Biographical Sketches, page 318 (shows "Image 317 of Volume 2")... quoted from the link provided here, to provide other transcribers background information about Mr. Stanchfield, and may help in other transcriptions... "OLIVER O. STANCHFIELD
Representative from Mason and Lake counties, 1877-8 and 1879-80. Was born in Washington County, Me., Aug. 16, 1836. He was educated in the academies of his native county, and studied law in the office of Hon. F. A. Pike, in Calais, Me. In 1857 he came West and located at Cedar Rapids, Ia., and was admitted to practice by the Linn County District Court, of Iowa, in 1860. In 1861 he was appointed Sheriff and was subsequently re-elected twice to the same position. In 1871 he was a member of the Iowa Legislature from Linn County, and was appointed one of the trustees of the Iowa State Agricultural College, which office he held until his removal to Michigan in 1874. In politics he was a Republican."