personal relations with him
have been altogether pleasant
and his estimable wife was
a pupil of mine when she
was a girl. I have no doubt
I should fare well under
this last phase of the "Methodist"
movement, altho. I have
been the special butt of this
movement since it began.
And then I cannot reckon
him on the same list with
the two arch-fiends that
have just passed away – for
I doubt whether anywhere in
all the country it would
be possible to find such
consummate scoundrels as
Knapp and Hunt – only that
Hunt is so black in all
the Devil's arts that Knapp
whitens somewhat by the
contrast. Still I think the
selection of Akers would be
a great and fatal mistake
because he has none of
the qualifications we specially
need here. Aside from him
I think the B. will most
incline to Mr Chamberlain
of Columbus, whom you so
favorably mentioned. I confess
I have not the confidence
in the B. of Trustees that would
inspire hope that they will
at all select the proper man.
Than cannot do it. They ask
nobody's advice, and their
standard being wholly political
is a false one. I
am looking toward the
vacancy recently announced
in the Chair of Eng. Lit. in
the Kansas University at
Lawrence — cant you give
me a ift. I must make
a change in any event; we
are never safe here, and
our isolation is more than
my wife at her age can
