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PRESIDENT'S ROOM,
COLUMBIA COLLEGE.

New York, April 17th, 1890.

Mr. Charles E. Bessey, LL. D.
Acting Chancellor,
University of Nebraska.
Lincoln, Neb.

Dear Sir:

Please accept my thanks for your cordial invitation to deliever the university oration on next commencement day for the University of Nebraska. Unhappily the date which you name is also our own commencement day, and you can readily perceive
that it would not be possible for me to be away from New York at that time. Again thanking you for the compliment, I am,

Yours sincerely,
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