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Amherst, Mass.
June 7, '79

My dear Professor,
A stray number
of your college paper in
our reading room leads
a student _ Mr Casparian,
a native Armenian from
Nicomedia in Asiatic Turkey,
_ to inquire through me
what prospect he could
have of supporting himself
in your college (which
takes his fancy because
among other attractions, the
expenses are less than here).
by his four years' experience
as a printer,
his considerable accomplishments
as an engraver,
his several months' work
in our college plant-house
and, in fact, by any labor