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as to enjoy. But I trust that when years (many 

 happy ones, I hope) have robbed the college of that 

 perfect type, the tradition may abide as a perpetual 

 stimulus. Do me the favor, dear lady, not to notice 

 this missive, as I know that you are buried in similar 

 ones. It is but a weak expression of the affection and 

 admiration which you have had for a half century 

 from me and mine. 



Yours faithfully, 



Sarah B. Wister 



TO MRS. LOUIS AGASSIZ 



95 Irving Street, December 5, 1902. 

 Dear Mrs. Agassiz : With our whole heart we wish 

 you a happy birthday, and a long series more of 

 them to follow. For forty years / have known 

 you, dear Mrs. Agassiz, always the same, spreading 

 benedictions around you by your sympathy, in- 

 telligence, cheerfulness, and activity; and I hate to 

 think that such a presence should ever leave the 

 scene. I am sixty; — let me breathe a prayer that 

 we may both live twenty years longer, in plenary 

 possession of our faculties and expire on the same 

 day! 



With tenderest affection, your old friend, 



Wm. James 



95 Irving Street, December 15, 1902 

 Dear Mrs. Agassiz: I never dreamed of your re- 

 plying to that note of mine [of Dec. 5]. If you are 



