| 41Tehuantepec Ship Railway.
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Office 34, [??]
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New York: December 28, 1885
Prof. Charles E. Bessey,
University of Nebraska,
Lincoln, Nebraska:
My Dear Sir:–
Recalling your kind invitation extended to me at Ann
Arbor, to visit your city and explain the Ship Railway, – I can now,
I think, accept the invitation for some time between the 15th and
the last of January. I expect to be in Nebraska on some private
engineering business about that time, and would take the time to go
to Lincoln, if it can be arranged for me to have an audience not only
of the students in the University but of the business men of Lincoln.
We have a proposition now before Congress and are desirous
of obtaining support for it and an endorsement of it by the business
men of the country. Kansas City, St. Paul, St. Louis, New Orleans,
Mobile, Galveston and some other sections of the country [sic.]
have given us a hearty endorsement, and if I could state the case
before your people with this object in view, I would be very glad
to come. Please communicate with me at your early convenience,
and oblige,
Yours truly,
[L?] [Corthell?] | 41Tehuantepec Ship Railway
New York: December 28, 1885
Prof. Charles E. Bessey,
University of Nebraska,
Lincoln, Nebraska:
My Dear Sir:-
Recalling your kind invitation extended to me at Ann
Arbor, to visit your city and explain the Ship Railway,- I can now,
I think, accept the invitation for some time between the 15th and
the last of January. I expect to be in Nebraska on some private
engineering business about that time, and would take the time to go
to Lincoln, if it can be arranged for me to have an audience not on-
ly of the students in the University but of the business men of Lin-
coln. We have a proposition now before Congress and are desirous
of obtaining support for it and an endorsement of it by the busi-
ness men of the country. Kansas City, St. Paul, St. Louis, New Or-
leans, Mobile, Galveston and some other sections of the country [now]
have given us a hearty endorsement, and if I could state the case
before your people with this object in view, I would be very glad
to come. Please communicate with me at your early convenience,
and oblige,
Yours truly,
[So Corthell] |
