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should come before your Board
of Regents, and should the
position be offered to me
with substantially the conditions
you name, I should in
all probability accept it.

And this again is as definite
an answer as I
can give, and should your
Regents require particularls
please to say to them that
unless they are entirely agreed
that they want me to come
I should prefer not to be disturbed
in my present position.

It would also suit me much
better so far as I now see it to
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