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THE GUIDE TO NATURE 



L. L. ARNOLD, EDITOR COTTON MAGA- 

 ZINE, ATLANTA, GEORGIA. 



I shall watch with great interest your 

 campaign for a building fund and may 

 a little later assist you in my own small 

 way with a personal check. 



EARNEST F. COE, PRESIDENT AND TREASUR- 

 ER OF THE ELM CITY NURSERY COM- 

 PANY, NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT. 



We are delighted to know that your 

 Arcadia is to be continued and pros- 

 per under more favorable conditions. 

 You are doing a splendid work. 



MRS. MARY R. LAUDMANN, JAMAICA, NEW 

 YORK. 



Such a work of yours should be 

 world-wide and supported by the 

 masses, and I think the action of your 

 late patron will only tend to strengthen 

 your position. 



REVEREND HERBERT K. JOB, WEST HAVEN, 

 CONNECTICUT. 

 I am exceedingly sorry for the 

 change of plan about Arcadia. I hope 

 the matter will be financed on a good 

 basis and will go on to greater suc- 

 cess than ever. I am interested in 

 your work and sincerely hope it will 

 be maintained and made permanent. 



MR. GEORGE A. KING, ARTIST, ARLINGTON, 

 NEW JERSEY. 

 As you must know my feelings in 

 regard to the great misfortune that has 

 befallen the Agassiz Home (Arcadia) 

 I am not going to say anything on the 

 sympathy line. To my mind that 

 which is most needed now is sinews of 

 war and I am sending herewith $5.00 — 

 not much to be sure but perhaps it will 

 help out a little in the moving opera- 

 tion. I only wish I might be in a po- 

 sition to make it $500 but, as you know, 

 there is more pleasure than profit in 

 art. 



MRS. VERNON MOSHER CADY, "iVYCROFT," 

 CHARLOTTESVILLE, VIRGINIA. 



This dollar would make me happier 

 were it duplicated a thousandfold but 

 where poor teachers start out to build 

 up a little "Arcadia" of their own the 

 plows and mules and practical necessi- 

 ties prove almost overwhelming. It 

 takes a lot of cheery bird songs and 

 bee hums to keep the spirits high at 

 times but we love it all. What a pity 

 you should have this added disap- 

 pointment. 



Your last "Guide" seemed especially 

 beautiful. I take the copy to the book- 

 store and leave it for others to see that 

 it may be known here, and now that 

 the summer school has opened at the 

 University of Virginia I will take it 

 to the library there and see if the 

 teachers will not get interested. 



Mothers especially want something 

 that will help them to know how to 

 teach nature love to their children 

 (this sounds funny to us but they have 

 not learned much themselves yet feel 

 the need of it). Could you not meet 

 this need as no other paper has? 



I wish I could help. Come to Vir- 

 ginia and start the new Arcadia and I 

 will. j 



A PERSONAL WORD OF ENCOURAGEMENT 

 AND APPRECIATION. 



A letter from the Reverend Charles 

 Morris Addison, Rector of St. John's 

 Episcopal Church, Stamford, Connec 

 ticut, Published in The Stamford Ad 

 vocate and The Greenwich News. 



"As a trustee of The Agassiz Asso 

 ciation and a friend of its President 

 Mr. Edward F. Bigelow, I should like 

 to publicly express my confidence in 

 the character and work of both. In this 

 emergency which has arisen, in this 

 deprivation of the Association's head- 

 quarters and loss to the President of 

 his home in which he had hoped to 

 live and work, I believe that all who 

 care for the study of nature, and who 

 approve of the ability and enthusiasm 

 which Mr. Bigelow brings to it, and 

 knows the success which in so many 

 ways has followed his efforts in 'St 

 Nicholas,' in many private and public 

 schools, and in his conduct of the As- 

 sociation since he became its president 

 should rally to his support, and, by 

 sympathy and financial help, enable 

 him to continue his good work. To 

 have it stop would be a real calamity 

 and to drive him from our neighbor- 

 hood would be a loss which I should 

 personally feel." 



