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James T. White & Co.
PUBLISHERS

765 BROADWAY

Dear Sir:--
We have not heard from you in reply to our communications relative to the preperation of sketches of your college presidents for the National/Cyclopedia of American Biography. We are proposing to group these biographies so as to give, through the lives of its presidents, the history of the foundation, rise and progress of each college. We do not ask so much to have you do the work, as to have you revise and edit it to ensure accuracy, and aid us in the matter of data, and in procuring photographs and older portraits and views to embllish the combined sketches.

Almost all of the college presidents have consented to do this, and we beg to ask your consent to undertake this revision, so that we may make the announcement as being universal, and thus attract attention to the care with which we compile our work. The revision and proper editing of this, submitted to you in typewritten form, will take but a little of your time, and we beg you to say that you will do it. The colleges will be given such prominance that we believe you will be glad to do all in your power to have yours properly set forth.

This work is calling for so great care and thoroughness that we must ask for, and make use of all the master minds in the revision, if not the editorial work.

Yours truly,
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Managing Editor.