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OBERLIN COLLEGE.
GEOLOGY AND NATURAL HISTORY.
ALBERT A. WRIGHT.

Oberlin. O. [AW]?. 12. 1870

Professor C. E. Bessey

My Dear Sir,

[?] of the 10th in just at [?]. For your information I would say that no candidate has yet been addressed by [?] upon the subject. and we are under no obligation to any one of the number concerning whom we have made inquiries. While I cannot [hold]? hope that Nebraska may still be liberal to her university. still I need not [?] the fact that I should be greatly gratified if the [?] should open for you to [?] a place here. The opening of [?] year has caused a [?] i the work of considering candidates. but we shall